Section 1.03. Definitions

Whenever used in this chapter, unless a different
  meaning clearly appears from the context:
    1. "Office" shall mean the  state  office  of  parks,  recreation  and
  historic preservation.
    2.   "Commissioner"  shall  mean  the  state  commissioner  of  parks,
  recreation and historic preservation.
    3. "Council" shall mean the state council  of  parks,  recreation  and
  historic preservation.
    4.  "Regional  park,  recreation and historic preservation commission"
  shall  mean  a  regional  park,  recreation  and  historic  preservation
  commission as described in section 7.03.
    5.  "Person" shall mean any individual, partnership, public or private
  corporation,  political  subdivision  (including  a  school   district),
  department,  bureau  or  division  of  the state or a government agency,
  association, firm, trust,  estate,  joint-venture  or  any  other  legal
  entity whatsoever.
    6.  "Region"  or "park region" shall mean a park region as established
  by the provisions of section 7.01.
    7. "Municipality" shall mean a city, county, town or  village,  or  an
  improvement  district  within  a city, county, town or village or within
  any combination thereof.
    8. "Governing body" shall mean:
    (a) in the case of a town, the town board;
    (b) in the case of a county outside the city of New York,  the  county
  board of supervisors or other elective governing body;
    (c) in the case of a city, the local legislative body thereof.
    (d)  in the case of a village, the board of trustees or other elective
  governing body;
    (e) in the case of an improvement district, the official body or board
  having responsibility for the conduct of the affairs of such district.
    9. "Improvement district" shall mean  an  improvement,  assessment  or
  special district.
    10. "Property" shall mean real or personal property.
    11.  "Real  property"  shall  mean  lands, improvements and structures
  thereon, rights, franchises and interests therein, lands under water and
  riparian rights, and any and all  interests  in  lands  less  than  full
  title,  including,  without limitation, temporary or permanent easements
  (including scenic  or  conservation  easements),  divided  or  undivided
  interests,  rights of way, uses, leases, licenses, and any other estate,
  interest or right in lands, legal or equitable.
    12. "Personal property" shall mean any property, or interest  therein,
  other than real property.
    14.  "Historic  site"  shall  mean  any  real  property,  buildings or
  structures acquired or designated by the commissioner  pursuant  to  his
  historic  preservation  powers, functions and duties, and those historic
  sites continued pursuant to the provisions of sections 13.01 and 19.05.
    15. "Traffic" shall mean traffic as defined  in  section  one  hundred
  fifty-two of the vehicle and traffic law.
    16.  "Highway"  shall mean a highway as defined in section one hundred
  eighteen of the vehicle and traffic law.
    17. "Parkway" shall mean a highway heretofore or hereafter acquired or
  constructed by the department, a regional park commission or  any  state
  park  or  parkway  authority  for  the purpose of access to state parks,
  which is listed in the  regulations  of  the  commissioner  pursuant  to
  section 13.03.
    18.  "Vehicle"  shall mean a vehicle as defined in section one hundred
  fifty-nine of the vehicle and traffic law.