§ 19-0107. Definitions.\n When used in this article:\n 1. "Person" means any individual, public or private corporation,\npolitical subdivision, agency, board, department or bureau of the state,\nmunicipality, partnership, association, firm, trust, estate or any other\nlegal entity whatsoever which is recognized by law as the subject of\nrights and duties.\n 2. "Air contaminant" means a dust, fume, gas, mist, odor, smoke,\nvapor, pollen, noise or any combination thereof.\n 3. "Air pollution" means the presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one\nor more air contaminants in quantities, of characteristics and of a\nduration which are injurious to human, plant or animal life or to\nproperty or which unreasonably interfere with the comfortable enjoyment\nof life and property throughout the state or throughout such areas of\nthe state as shall be affected thereby; excluding however all conditions\nsubject to the requirements of the Labor Law and Industrial Code.\n 4. "Air contamination" means the presence in the outdoor atmosphere of\none or more air contaminants which contribute or which are likely to\ncontribute to a condition of air pollution.\n 5. "Air contamination source" means any source at, from or by reason\nof which there is emitted into the atmosphere any air contaminant,\nregardless of who the person may be who owns or operates the building,\npremises or other property in, at or on which such source is located or\nthe facility, equipment or other property by which the emission is\ncaused or from which the emission comes. Without limiting the generality\nof the foregoing, this term includes all types of commercial and\nindustrial plants and works, heating and power plants and stations,\nshops and stores; buildings and other structures of all types, including\nsingle and multiple family residences, apartment houses, office\nbuildings, public buildings, hotels, restaurants, schools, hospitals,\nchurches, and other institutional buildings; automobiles, trucks,\ntractors, buses and other motor vehicles (hereinafter called "motor\nvehicles"); garages; vending and service locations and stations;\nrailroad locomotives; ships, boats and other waterborne craft; aircraft;\nportable fuel-burning equipment; incinerators of all types, indoor and\noutdoor; and refuse dumps and piles.\n 6. "Air cleaning installation" means any method, process or equipment\nwhich removes, reduces or renders less noxious air contaminants\ndischarged into the atmosphere.\n 7. "Area of the state" means any county, city, town, village, or other\ngeographical area of the state as may be designated by the department.\n 8. "The Act" means the Federal Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 7401\net seq., as amended by Public Law 101-549, November fifteenth, nineteen\nhundred ninety.\n 9. "Administrator" means the administrator of the United States\nenvironmental protection agency.\n 10. "Affected source" or "affected unit" shall have the meaning given\nto it in the regulations promulgated under Title IV of the Act.\n 11. "Clean alternative fuels" means fuels, for use in motor vehicles\nwhich meet the requirements of section 7511a(c)(4) of the Act.\n 12. "Clean fuel vehicle" means a vehicle in a class or category of\nvehicles which has been certified to meet, for any model year, the clean\nfuel vehicle standards for clean fuel vehicles specified in this article\npursuant to section 7583 of the Act.\n 13. "Covered fleet" means ten or more motor vehicles which are owned\nor operated by a single person in an area designated as being a severe\nozone non-attainment area by the administrator pursuant to Title I of\nthe Act. In determining the number of motor vehicles owned or operated\nby a single person for the purposes of this article, all motor vehicles\nowned or operated, leased or otherwise controlled by such person, by any\nperson who controls such person, by any person controlled by such\nperson, and by any person under common control with such person shal
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