N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 15-0107: Definitions as used in this article

§ 15-0107. Definitions as used in this article.

1. "Person" means any individual, firm, co-partnership, association or

corporation other than the state and a "public corporation."

2. "Public corporation" means "public corporation" as defined in

subdivision one of Section 3 of the General Corporation Law and includes

all public authorities, except the Power Authority of the State of New

York.

3. "Municipality" or "municipal corporation" includes a county, city,

town and village.

4. "Waters" shall be construed to include lakes, bays, sounds, ponds,

impounding reservoirs, springs, wells, rivers, streams, creeks,

estuaries, marshes, inlets, canals, the Atlantic ocean within the

territorial limits of the state of New York, and all other bodies of

surface or underground water, natural or artificial, inland or coastal,

fresh or salt, public or private, which are wholly or partially within

or bordering the state or within its jurisdiction.

5. "Water power" shall be construed to mean power developed from

falling or flowing water, and all electrical current and other forms of

energy into which such power may be transformed.

6. The term "comprehensive planning" as used in title 11 of this

article shall be deemed to mean multi-purpose planning for at least two,

and as many more as may be found to be practicable and reasonable, of

the purposes and uses as provided by this article 15 or by any other

statute, the provisions of which and the procedures authorized thereby

are to remain in full force and effect.

7. Other definitions, applicable to this article, are found in

sections 15-1301, 15-1703, 15-1973 and 15-2101.