Sec. 78.1. Definitions

The following terms shall have these 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, rockets, helicopters, gliders, sailplanes, amphibians, and seaplanes.

(b) Airport shall mean Republic Airport, East Farmingdale, Long Island, New York.

(c) Airport operator shall mean the New York State Department of Transportation or its managing agent.

(d) Air operations area shall mean that portion of the airport reserved exclusively for the storage, movement, takeoff, and landing of aircraft.

(e) Commercial activity shall mean and include any and all activity conducted at or out of the airport by any person, copartnership, company, corporation, or any other entity in which any product is exchanged or sold or any service provided for monetary gain or exchange of services.

(f) Fixed base operator shall mean a firm doing business at the airport dedicated to the sale, storage, and hangaring of aircraft, the sale of petroleum, oil and lubricants, the services of maintenance, repair, and modification of aircraft, engines and ancillary equipment, the cleaning and provisioning of aircraft, and the provision of transient and related services.

(g) Flight training shall mean any use of an aircraft to increase or maintain pilot proficiency rather than the use of an aircraft as transportation between two different airports. In addition, flight training shall mean any portion of a flight between two different airports to increase or maintain pilot proficiency..

(h) Fuel shall mean any substance, either solid, liquid, or gaseous, used to operate any engine in an aircraft or vehicle.

(i) Fuel handling shall mean the transporting, delivering, fueling, and draining of fuel or fuel waste products.

(j) Jet aircraft shall mean and include any and all aircraft which are not propeller-driven, and which accomplish motion entirely as a direct reaction to the thrust of any engine, including, but not limited to engines which operate on turbine, ram, rocket, or nuclear principles.

(k) Operator shall mean the owner of an aircraft or any person who has rented or leased such an aircraft for the purpose of operation by himself or his own agents or any person operating an aircraft.

(l) Permission shall mean a right or approval granted by the airport operator.

(m) Person shall mean any individual, firm, copartnership, 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.

(n) Rules and regulations shall mean these rules and regulations as herein set forth in this Part.

(o) Sale shall mean the provision or exchange of goods or services between any person on or off the airport including the use of any goods or services by any lessee, sublessee, concessionaire, permittee or itself, for its own purposes in pursuit of any commercial activity.

(p) Touch-and-go shall mean the act of landing an aircraft on a runway and immediately taking off before coming to a full stop.

(q) Vehicle shall mean and include automobiles, trucks, trailers, 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 or aircraft.