N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 9, § 9976.1 – Definitions.

(a) Annual statement shall mean the annual statement of financial disclosure filed with the commission pursuant to local law, ordinance, or resolution or filed pursuant to General Municipal Law, section 811 or 812.
(b) Appointing authority shall mean that individual or body which has the authority by law, rule, or regulation to appoint a person to a position, or that individual or body to whom that authority may be properly delegated by law, rule, or regulation.
(c) Commission shall mean the Temporary State Commission on Local Government Ethics, established under General Municipal Law, section 813.
(d) Exemption shall mean a waiver of the requirement that an individual file an annual statement.
(e) Local agency shall have the same meaning ascribed to that term by General Municipal Law, section 810(12).
(f) Employee shall mean any municipal officer or employee, as that term is defined in General Municipal Law, section 800(5), who is neither:
1. (1) a local elected official; nor
2. (2) a local officer or employee.
  For purposes of this definition, the terms local elected official and local officer or employee shall have the meanings ascribed to those terms by subdivisions (2) and (3), respectively, of General Municipal Law, section 810.
(g) Title shall mean the name of the position or job in which an employee serves.
(h) Job classification shall mean a series of titles which may be included under one classification standard or may be part of a promotional series which may be considered together for purposes of these regulations.
(i) Employee organization shall mean an employee organization which is recognized or certified pursuant to Civil Service Law, section 204 to represent public employees of a public employer.
(j) Disqualifying duties shall mean duties, performed by an employee, involving the negotiation, authorization, or approval of those matters listed in General Municipal Law, section 813(9)(k)(i)-(iv).