N.Y. General Municipal Law § 119-n: Definitions

§ 119-n. Definitions. As used herein:

a. The term "municipal corporation" means a county outside the city of

New York, a city, a town, a village, a board of cooperative educational

services, fire district or a school district.

b. The term "district" means a county or town improvement district for

which the county or town or towns in which such district is located is

or are required to pledge its or their faith and credit for the payment

of the principal of and interest on all indebtedness to be contracted

for the purposes of such district. The term "district" shall also mean,

for the purposes of joining a municipal cooperative health benefit plan

authorized under article forty-seven of the insurance law, a soil and

water conservation district established under the soil and water

conservation districts law.

c. The term "joint service" means joint provision of any municipal

facility, service, activity, project or undertaking or the joint

performance or exercise of any function or power which each of the

municipal corporations or districts has the power by any other general

or special law to provide, perform or exercise, separately and, to

effectuate the purposes of this article, shall include extension of

appropriate territorial jurisdiction necessary therefor.

d. The term "joint water, sewage or drainage project" means a joint

project to provide for a common supply of water, the common conveyance,

treatment and disposal of sewage or a common drainage system, as

described in paragraphs B, D and F of section two-a of article eight of

the constitution.

e. The term "voting strength" means the aggregate number of votes

which all the members of the local governing body of a municipal

corporation or district are entitled to cast.