Includes clear descriptions of authority, duties, and responsibilities; updated illustrations, charts and summary capsules; essential legal forms, including new acknowledgement certificates; New hard-to-find New York law, rules and court cases; technical legal terms explained in easy-to-understand language and compiled in an encyclopedic glossary. Also included are 4 exams for review -- complete with answers and study advice.

"While New York's Catskill Mountains region remains a popular destination for snow skiing, hunting, trout fishing and hiking, its history as a booming summer resort, which began in the nineteenth century and continued through a period when a portion of it was known as the Borsch Belt, stimulated the construction of a number of structures that today serve as remnants of an earlier time. While that era is mostly extinct now, railroads that once transported...