§ 534-b. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms\nshall have the following meanings:\n 1. "Act" shall mean this article and rules or regulations lawfully\npromulgated thereunder and shall include any amendments or supplements\nto this article to implement the purposes thereof.\n 2. "Bi-state commission" shall mean the Waterfront Commission of New\nYork Harbor established by the state of New York pursuant to P.L. 1953,\nc.882 (NY Unconsol. Ch.307, s.1) and by the state of New Jersey pursuant\nto its agreement thereto under P.L.1953, c.202 (C.32:23-1 et seq.).\n 3. "Carrier of freight by water" shall mean any person who may be\nengaged or who may hold oneself out as willing to be engaged, whether as\na common carrier, as a contract carrier or otherwise (except for\ncarriage of liquid cargoes in bulk in tank vessels designed for use\nexclusively in such service or carriage by barge of bulk cargoes\nconsisting of only a single commodity loaded or carried without wrappers\nor containers and delivered by the carrier without transportation mark\nor count) in the carriage of freight by water between any point in the\nport of New York district and a point outside said district.\n 4. "Container" shall mean any receptacle, box, carton or crate which\nis specifically designed and constructed so that it may be repeatedly\nused for the carriage of freight by a carrier of freight by water.\n 5. "Checker" shall mean a longshore worker who is employed to engage\nin direct and immediate checking of waterborne freight or of the\ncustodial accounting therefor or in the recording or tabulation of the\nhours worked at piers or other waterfront terminals by natural persons\nemployed by carriers of freight by water or stevedores.\n 6. "Commission" shall mean the New York waterfront commission\nestablished by section five hundred thirty-four-c of this article.\n 7. "Career offender" shall mean a person whose behavior is pursued in\nan occupational manner or context for the purpose of economic gain\nutilizing such methods as are deemed criminal violations against the\npublic policy of the state of New York.\n 8. "Career offender cartel" shall mean a number of career offenders\nacting in concert, and may include what is commonly referred to as an\norganized crime group.\n 9. "Court of the United States" shall mean all courts enumerated in\nsection four hundred fifty-one of title twenty-eight of the United\nStates Code and the courts-martial of the armed forces of the United\nStates.\n 10. "Freight" shall mean freight which has been, or will be, carried\nby or consigned for carriage by a carrier of freight by water.\n 11. "Hiring agent" shall mean any natural person, who on behalf of a\ncarrier of freight by water or a stevedore or any other person shall\nselect any longshore worker for employment.\n 12. "Longshore worker" shall mean: (a) a natural person, other than a\nhiring agent, who is employed for work at a pier or other waterfront\nterminal, either by a carrier of freight by water or by a stevedore to:\n (1) physically move waterborne freight on vessels berthed at piers, on\npiers or at other waterfront terminals; or\n (2) engage in direct and immediate checking of any such freight or of\nthe custodial accounting therefor or in the recording or tabulation of\nthe hours worked at piers or other waterfront terminals by natural\npersons employed by carriers of freight by water or stevedores; or\n (3) supervise directly and immediately others who are employed as in\nsubparagraph one of this paragraph; or\n (4) physically perform labor or services incidental to the movement of\nwaterborne freight on vessels berthed at piers, on piers or at other\nwaterfront terminals, including, but not limited to, cargo repair\npersonnel, coopers, general maintenance personnel, mechanical and\nmiscellaneous workers, horse and cattle fitters, grain ceilers and\nmarine carpenters; or\n (b) a natural person, other than a hiring agent, w
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