N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 21 § 1240.1

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 45, November 2, 2024

Section 1240.1 - Explanation of terms

As used in this Subchapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings except that terms and/or definitions which define a specific service for which a charge is made will be found with the item. (Note:For the definition of: dockage, see section 1242.1; wharfage, see section 1243.1; wharf demurrage, see section 1244.10; free time, see section 1244.1)

(a) Business hours.

(1) The hours between 8 a.m. and 12 noon and between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m., exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.

(2) Services performed during other than business hours shall be the subject of special agreement with the Port Authority.

(b) Executive director. The executive director of the Port Authority or his successor in office or duties either personally or through his duly authorized representative.

(c) Explosives, dangerous articles and combustible liquids. The substances so defined in part 146 of title 46 of the Code of Federal Regulations in effect on July 1, 1968 and, as amended from time to time except that the term "dangerous articles" shall also include sisal, hemp and other baled fibers. Other terms appearing in this Subchapter, which are defined in aforesaid part 146, shall have the meanings set forth in the definitions in said part 146.

(d) Manager. The manager of a Port Authority marine terminal or his successor in office or duties acting either personally or through his duly authorized representative.

(e) Marine terminals. Developments operated by the Port Authority consisting of one or more piers, wharves, docks, bulkheads, slips, basins, vehicular roadways, railroad connections, side tracks, sidings or other buildings, structures, facilities or improvements, necessary or convenient to the accommodation of steamships or other vessels and their cargoes or passengers.

(f) Marine terminals department. The marine terminals department of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

(g) Marine terminal highway. Those portions of a marine terminal designated and made available temporarily or permanently by the Port Authority to the public for general or limited highway use.

(h) Public vehicular parking area. Those portions of the terminal designated and made available temporarily or permanently by the Port Authority to the public for the parking of vehicles.

(i) Permission. Permission granted by the manager, unless otherwise specifically provided.

(j) Port Authority. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

(k) Regulations. The rules and regulations set forth in Parts 1241, 1242, 1243, 1244 and 1245 of this Subchapter and any future amendments and supplements.

(l) Schedule of rates. The rates included in FMC No. PA-9 and set forth in Parts 1242, 1243, 1244 and 1245 of this Subchapter adopted by the Port Authority on February 3, 1966 and any future amendments and supplements.

(m) Terminal. Brooklyn-Port Authority Marine Terminal, Elizabeth-Port Authority Marine Terminal, Erie Basin-Port Authority Marine Terminal, Hoboken-Port Authority Marine Terminal, Columbia Street Marine Terminal and Port Newark.

(n) Traffic. Pedestrians, animals and vehicles.

(o) Vehicle. Automobiles, trucks, buses, motorcycles, horse-drawn vehicles, bicycles, push carts and any other device in or upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported, carried or drawn upon land, except railroad rolling equipment or other devices running only on stationary rails or tracks.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 21 § 1240.1