NYSentencing

§ 210.00  Perjury and related offenses; definitions of terms.
    The following definitions are applicable to this article:
    1.   "Oath"  includes  an  affirmation  and  every other mode
authorized by law of attesting to the  truth  of  that  which  is
stated.
    2.  "Swear" means to state under oath.
    3.   "Testimony" means an oral statement made under oath in a
proceeding before any court,  body,  agency,  public  servant  or
other  person authorized by law to conduct such proceeding and to
administer the oath or cause it to be administered.
    4.   "Oath  required  by  law."   An affidavit, deposition or
other subscribed written instrument is one for which an "oath  is
required  by  law"  when,  absent an oath or swearing thereto, it
does not or  would  not,  according  to  statute  or  appropriate
regulatory  provisions,  have legal efficacy in a court of law or
before any public or governmental body, agency or public  servant
to whom it is or might be submitted.
    5.   "Swear  falsely."   A  person  "swears  falsely" when he
intentionally makes a false statement which he does  not  believe
to  be  true  (a)  while giving testimony, or (b) under oath in a
subscribed written instrument.  A false swearing in a  subscribed
written  instrument  shall  not  be  deemed  complete  until  the
instrument is delivered by its subscriber, or by  someone  acting
in  his  behalf, to another person with intent that it be uttered
or published as true.
    6.   "Attesting  officer"  means  any  notary public or other
person authorized by law to administer oaths in  connection  with
affidavits, depositions and other subscribed written instruments,
and to certify that the subscriber  of  such  an  instrument  has
appeared  before  him  and has sworn to the truth of the contents
thereof.
    7.   "Jurat"  means  a  clause  wherein  an attesting officer
certifies, among other matters, that the subscriber has  appeared
before him and sworn to the truth of the contents thereof.