N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 21 § 1270.1

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 51, December 18, 2024
Section 1270.1 - Definitions

The following terms as used in the rules and regulations set forth in this Article shall have the following meanings:

(a) Aircraft shall mean and include any and all contrivances now or hereafter used for the navigation of or flight in air or space, including but not limited to airplanes, airships, dirigibles, helicopters, gliders, amphibians and seaplanes.
(b) Fuel handling shall mean the transporting, delivering, fueling and draining of fuel or fuel waste products.
(c) Fuel storage area shall mean and include those portions of the air terminal designated temporarily or permanently by the airport operator as areas in which gasoline or any other type of fuel may be stored, including but not limited to gasoline tank farms at which fuel is loaded.
(d) Jet aircraft shall mean and include any and all aircraft which are not propeller-driven, and which accomplish motion entirely as a direct reaction of the thrust of any engine, including but not limited to engines which operate on turbine, ram, rocket or nuclear principles.
(e) Manager shall mean the airport manager, or his duly authorized representative, appointed by the airport operator.
(f) Operational area shall mean any place on the air terminal not leased to anyone for exclusive use and not an air terminal highway, public vehicular parking area, public landing area, public ramp and apron area, public passenger ramp and apron area, public cargo ramp and apron area, public aircraft parking and storage area or fuel storage area.
(g) Operator shall mean the owner of an aircraft or any person who has rented such aircraft for the purpose of operation by himself or his own agents.
(h) Permission shall mean permission granted by the manager, unless otherwise specifically provided.
(i) Person shall mean any individual, firm, co-partnership, corporation, association, or company (including any assignee, receiver, trustee or similar representative thereof) or the United States of America or any foreign government or any State or political subdivision thereof, or the United Nations.
(j) Port Authority shall mean The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
(k) Port Authority rules and regulations shall mean the rules and regulations set forth in this Article.
(l) Public aircraft parking and storage areas shall mean and include those portions of the air terminal designated and made available temporarily or permanently to the public for the parking or storage of aircraft.
(m) Public cargo ramp and apron area shall mean and include those portions of the air terminal designated and made available temporarily or permanently to the public for the loading or unloading of cargo (but not passengers) on and from aircraft.
(n) Public landing area shall mean and include those portions of the air terminal including runways, and taxiways designated and made available temporarily or permanently to the public for the landing and taking off of aircraft and other areas between and adjacent to said runways and taxiways.
(o) Public passenger ramp and apron area shall mean and include those portions of the air terminal designated and made available temporarily or permanently to the public for the loading or unloading of passengers to and from aircraft (but not cargo except to the extent that cargo is loaded or unloaded on or from passenger aircraft).
(p) Public ramp and apron area shall mean and include those portions of the air terminal designated and made available temporarily or permanently to the public for loading or unloading of both passengers and cargo on and from aircraft.
(q) Public vehicular parking area shall mean and include those portions of the air terminal designated and made available temporarily or permanently to the public for the parking of vehicles.
(r) Turbo-prop aircraft shall mean and include any and all aircraft which accomplish motion by means of a jet engine having a turbine driven propeller whose thrust may or may not be supplemented by that of hot exhaust gases issuing in a jet from the engine itself.
(s) Vehicle shall mean and include 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, and except aircraft.
(t) Air terminal as used in the rules and regulations set forth in this Article shall mean Teterboro Airport.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 21 § 1270.1