§ 621. Definitions. For the purposes of this article:\n 1. "Office" shall mean the office of victim services.\n 2. "Claimant" shall mean the person filing a claim pursuant to this\narticle.\n 3. "Crime" shall mean (a) an act committed in New York state which\nwould, if committed by a mentally competent criminally responsible\nadult, who has no legal exemption or defense, constitute a crime as\ndefined in and proscribed by law, regardless of whether any suspect was\narrested, charged, apprehended or prosecuted for the commission of the\nact or whether the claimant has interacted with a criminal justice\nagency investigating such act; or\n (b) an act committed outside the state of New York against a resident\nof the state of New York which would be compensable had it occurred\nwithin the state of New York and which occurred in a state which does\nnot have an eligible crime victim compensation program as such term is\ndefined in the federal victims of crime act of 1984; or\n (c) an act of terrorism, as defined in section 2331 of title 18,\nUnited States Code, committed outside of the United States against a\nresident of New York state.\n 4. "Family", when used with reference to a person, shall mean (a) any\nperson related to such person within the third degree of consanguinity\nor affinity, (b) any person maintaining a sexual relationship with such\nperson, or (c) any person residing in the same household with such\nperson.\n 5. "Victim" shall mean (a) a person who suffers personal physical\ninjury as a direct result of a crime; (b) a person who is the victim of\neither the crime of (1) unlawful imprisonment in the first degree as\ndefined in section 135.10 of the penal law, (2) kidnapping in the second\ndegree as defined in section 135.20 of the penal law, (3) kidnapping in\nthe first degree as defined in section 135.25 of the penal law, (4)\nmenacing in the first degree as defined in section 120.13 of the penal\nlaw, (5) criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation as\ndefined in section 121.11 of the penal law, (6) harassment in the second\ndegree as defined in section 240.26 of the penal law, (7) harassment in\nthe first degree as defined in section 240.25 of the penal law, (8)\naggravated harassment in the second degree as defined in subdivision\nthree or five of section 240.30 of the penal law, (9) aggravated\nharassment in the first degree as defined in subdivision two of section\n240.31 of the penal law, (10) criminal contempt in the first degree as\ndefined in subdivision (b) or subdivision (c) of section 215.51 of the\npenal law, (11) stalking in the fourth, third, second or first degree as\ndefined in sections 120.45, 120.50, 120.55 and 120.60 of the penal law,\n(12) labor trafficking as defined in section 135.35 of the penal law,\n(13) sex trafficking as defined in section 230.34 of the penal law; or\n(14) sex trafficking of a child as defined in section 230.34-a of the\npenal law; a vulnerable elderly person or an incompetent or physically\ndisabled person as defined in section 260.31 of the penal law who incurs\na loss of savings as defined in subdivision twenty-four of this section;\nor a person who has had a frivolous lawsuit filed against them.\n 6. "Representative" shall mean one who represents or stands in the\nplace of another person, including but not limited to an agent, an\nassignee, an attorney, a guardian, a committee, a conservator, a\npartner, a receiver, an administrator, an executor or an heir of another\nperson, or a parent of a minor.\n 7. "Good samaritan" shall mean a person who, other than a law\nenforcement officer, acts in good faith (a) to apprehend a person who\nhas committed a crime in his presence or who has in fact committed a\nfelony, (b) to prevent a crime or an attempted crime from occurring, or\n(c) to aid a law enforcement officer in effecting an arrest.\n 8. "Essential personal property" shall mean articles of personal\nproperty necessary and essential to the healt
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