N.Y. Canal Law § 2: Definitions

§ 2. Definitions. The following terms when used in this chapter,

unless otherwise expressly stated or unless the context or subject

matter requires otherwise, shall have the following meanings:

1. "New York State Canal System", "Canal System" or "Barge Canal

System" shall each mean all the canals, canal lands, feeder canals,

reservoirs, canal terminals and canal terminal lands of the state as

hereinafter defined. All general references herein to "canal" shall be

deemed to mean the New York state canal system.

2. "Canals" shall mean the channel and adjacent state-owned banks of

the inland waterways of the state constructed, improved, or designated

by authority of the legislature as canals and shall include canalized

rivers and lakes, canal water supply reservoirs, canal water supply

feeder channels and all appertaining structures necessary for the proper

maintenance and operation of the canals.

3. "Canal Terminal" or "Barge Canal Terminal" shall each mean the

facilities which have been constructed or acquired under authority of

the legislature in connection with the canal system for loading,

unloading, and/or temporarily storing commodities transported upon the

canals and shall include docks, dock walls, bulkheads, wharves, piers,

slips, basins, harbors, grain elevators, buildings, equipment, tracks

and roadways together with the lands now owned or as may hereafter be

acquired by the state for the proper maintenance and operation of the

canal terminals.

4. "Erie Canal" shall mean the portion of the canal system connecting

the Hudson river at Albany with the Niagara river at Buffalo, and for

the purposes of article thirteen-A of this chapter and section

ninety-two-u of the state finance law and subdivision ten of section

three hundred fifty-one of the public authorities law, shall be deemed

to include the historic Erie Canal and its western terminus in the city

of Buffalo and historic lock number 1 in the city of Albany.

5. "Oswego Canal" shall mean the portion of the canal system

connecting the Erie canal at Three Rivers with Lake Ontario at Oswego.

6. "Champlain Canal" shall mean the portion of the canal system

connecting the easterly end of the Erie canal at Waterford with Lake

Champlain at Whitehall.

7. "Cayuga and Seneca Canals" shall mean the portions of the canal

system connecting the Erie canal at a point near Montezuma with Cayuga

and Seneca lakes and through Cayuga lake and Cayuga inlet to the

southerly side of State Street in the city of Ithaca and through Seneca

lake with Montour Falls.

8. "Canal Lands" shall mean all lands and waters forming a part of the

canal system title to which was originally vested in the state, acquired

by the state or which may in the future be acquired by the state for

canal purposes.

9. "Blue Line" shall mean the boundary of canal lands owned by the

state previous to the approval of chapter one hundred forty-seven, laws

of nineteen hundred three.

10. "Old Canal Lands" shall mean canal lands lying within the blue

line.

11. "Barge Canal Lands" shall mean canal lands acquired subsequent to

the approval of chapter one hundred forty-seven, laws of nineteen

hundred three, except barge canal terminal lands acquired under the

provisions of chapter seven hundred forty-six, laws of nineteen hundred

eleven, and acts amendatory thereto.

12. "Canal Terminal Lands" or "Barge Canal Terminal Lands" shall each

mean canal lands acquired under the provisions of chapter seven hundred

forty-six, laws of nineteen hundred eleven, and amendatory laws.

13. "Permit" shall mean a revocable agreement granting temporary

occupancy or use of lands or structures of the canal system.

14. "Float" shall mean every boat, vessel, raft or floating thing

navigated on the canals or moved thereupon under the direction of some

person having the charge thereof.

15. "Master" shall mean every person having for the time the charge,

control or direction of any float.

16. "Person" shall mean an individual, partnership, corporation or

association.

17. "Great Lakes-Hudson River waterway" shall mean that section of the

Erie canal from Waterford to Three Rivers Point and the Oswego canal

thence to the port of Oswego as such waterway was designated by acts of

congress authorizing the federal aid improvement project for the Great

Lakes-Hudson River waterway.

18. "Authority" shall mean the power authority of the state of New

York, a body corporate and politic constituting a political subdivision

of the state created and constituted pursuant to title one of article

five of the public authorities law.

19. "Adirondack park" shall have the same meaning as set forth in

section 9-0101 of the environmental conservation law.

20. "Commission" shall mean the canal recreationway commission created

pursuant to section one hundred thirty-eight-a of this chapter.

21. "Corporation" and "canal corporation" shall mean the New York

state canal corporation, a public benefit corporation created pursuant

to chapter seven hundred sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred

ninety-two and continued and reconstituted as a subsidiary corporation

of the power authority of the state of New York pursuant to subdivision

one of section one thousand five-b of the public authorities law.

22. "Canal fund" shall mean the New York state canal system

development fund established pursuant to section ninety-two-u of the

state finance law.

23. "Canalway trail" shall mean any multi-use recreational trail

located on lands under the jurisdiction of the corporation. The exact

boundaries and location of such trail and any portions or sections

thereof shall be determined by the corporation except that the

boundaries and location of such trail shall be determined in such a

manner that no portion thereof shall be within the Adirondack Park.

24. "Thruway authority" shall mean the New York state thruway

authority, a body corporate and politic constituting a public

corporation created and constituted pursuant to title nine of article

two of the public authorities law.