N.Y. General Municipal Law § 401: Definitions

§ 401. Definitions. Whenever used in this article, unless a different

meaning clearly appears from the context:

(a) The term "undertaking" shall include the following

revenue-producing undertakings, whether now existing or hereafter

acquired or constructed: Causeways, tunnels, viaducts, bridges and other

crossings; highways, parkways, airports, docks, piers and wharves;

systems, plants, works, instrumentalities and properties used or useful

in connection with (i) the obtaining of a water supply and the

collection, treatment and disposal of water for public and private uses,

(ii) the collection, treatment and disposal of sewage, waste and storm

water, and (iii) resource recovery from municipal solid waste through

the use of structures, machinery or devices involving the separation,

extraction and recovery of useable materials, energy or heat; together

with all parts of any such undertaking and all appurtenances thereto

including lands, easements, rights of way, contract rights, franchises,

approaches, connections, dams, reservoirs, sewage disposal plants,

intercepting sewers, trunk, connecting and other sewer and water mains,

filtration works, pumping stations and equipment.

(b) The term "municipality" shall mean a county, town, city or

village.

(c) The term "governing body" shall mean the board of supervisors of a

county, the town board of a town, the board of estimate and

apportionment or other board performing similar functions in any city

now or hereafter having a population of more than eight hundred

thousand, except that in the city of New York the term governing body

shall mean the officer or agency vested with power under the charter of

such city or by other law, to act pursuant to this chapter; the city

council, the common council, the municipal assembly or other legislative

body of any other city, and the board of trustees of a village.