NYSentencing

§ 240.00  Offenses against public order; definitions of terms.
  The following definitions are applicable to this article:
  1.  "Public  place" means a place to which the public or a substantial
group of persons has access, and includes, but is not limited to,  high-
ways,  transportation  facilities,  schools, places of amusement, parks,
playgrounds, community centers, and hallways, lobbies and other portions
of apartment houses and hotels  not  constituting  rooms  or  apartments
designed for actual residence.
  2.  "Transportation  facility" means any conveyance, premises or place
used for or in connection with public passenger transportation,  whether
by  air,  railroad,  motor  vehicle  or  any  other  method. It includes
aircraft, watercraft, railroad cars, buses, school buses as  defined  in
section  one  hundred forty-two of the vehicle and traffic law, and air,
boat, railroad and bus terminals  and  stations  and  all  appurtenances
thereto.
  3. "School grounds" means in or on or within any building,  structure,
school  bus  as  defined in section one hundred forty-two of the vehicle
and traffic law, athletic playing field, playground  or  land  contained
within  the real property boundary line of a public or private elementa-
ry, parochial, intermediate, junior high, vocational or high school.
  4. "Hazardous substance" shall mean any physical,  chemical,  microbi-
ological or radiological substance or matter which, because of its quan-
tity,  concentration,  or  physical,  chemical  or infectious character-
istics,  may  cause  or  significantly  contribute  to  an  increase  in
mortality  or  an  increase    in serious irreversible or incapacitating
reversible illness, or pose  a substantial present or  potential  hazard
to human health.