N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 1199-a: Definitions

§ 1199-a. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a

different meaning clearly appears from the context:

1. "Authority" means the corporation created by section one thousand

one hundred ninety-nine-c of this title.

2. "Bonds" means the bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness

issued by the authority pursuant to this title, and the provisions of

this title relating to bonds and bondholders shall apply with equal

force and effect to notes and noteholders, respectively, unless the

context otherwise clearly requires.

3. "Civil service commission" means the civil service commission of

the county.

4. "Comptroller" means the comptroller of the state.

5. "Construction" means the acquisition, erection, building,

alteration, improvement, increase, enlargement, extension,

reconstruction, renovation or rehabilitation of a water, sewerage or

water and sewerage system, as the case may be; the inspection and

supervision thereof; and the engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal

and economic investigations and studies, surveys, designs, plans,

working drawings, specifications, procedures and other actions

preliminary or incidental thereto.

6. "Cost" as applied to any project, includes the cost of

construction, the cost of the acquisition of all property, including

real property and other property, both real and personal and improved

and unimproved, the cost of demolishing, removing or relocating any

buildings or structures on lands so acquired, including the cost of

acquiring any lands to which such buildings or structures may be moved

or relocated, the cost of all systems, facilities, machinery, apparatus

and equipment, financing charges, interest prior to, during and after

construction to the extent not paid or provided for from revenues or

other sources, the cost of engineering and architectural surveys, plans

and specifications, the cost of consultant and legal services, the cost

of lease guarantee or bond insurance and the cost of other expenses

necessary or incidental to the construction of such project and the

financing of the construction thereof, including the amount authorized

in the resolution of the authority providing for the issuance of bonds

to be paid into any reserve or other special fund from the proceeds of

such bonds and the financing of the placing of any project in operation,

including reimbursement to the county, or any municipality, state

agency, the state, the United States government, or any other person for

expenditures that would be costs of the project hereunder had they been

made directly by the authority.

7. "County" means the county of Rensselaer.

8. "County executive" means the county executive of the county.

9. "County legislature" means the county legislature of the county.

10. "District" means the Rensselaer county water and sewer district

created by section one thousand one hundred ninety-nine-b of this title.

11. "Distribution system" means the water facility or facilities

employed to deliver water from a transmission facility, or where there

is no transmission facility, from a supply facility, to the ultimate

consumers of such water.

12. "Governing body" means the members of the authority constituting

and acting as the governing body of the authority.

13. "Municipality" means any county, city, town, village, improvement

district under the town law, any other such instrumentality, including

any agency, or public corporation of the state, or any of the foregoing

or any combination thereof.

14. "Person" means any natural person, partnership, association, joint

venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.

15. "Project" means any water facility, sewerage facility or water and

sewerage facility.

16. "Properties" means the water, sewerage and water and sewerage

system or systems of the authority, whether situated within or without

the territorial limits of the district, including the plants, works,

structures, instrumentalities or part thereof and appurtenances thereto,

real property, water facilities, sewerage facilities or any other

property incidental to and included in such system or systems or part

thereof, and any improvements, extensions and betterments.

17. "Real property" means lands, structures, franchises, rights and

interests in land, waters, lands underwater, riparian rights and air

rights and any and all things and rights included within said term and

includes not only fees simple absolute, but also any and all lesser

interests including, but not limited to, easements, rights-of-way, uses,

leases, licenses and all other incorporeal hereditaments and every

estate, interest or right, legal or equitable, including terms for years

and liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages or otherwise.

18. "Revenues" means all rates, rents, fees, charges, payments and

other income and receipts derived from the operation of the properties

of the authority including, without limiting the generality of the

foregoing, investment proceeds and proceeds of insurance, condemnation,

and sale or other disposition of assets, together with all federal,

state or municipal aid.

19. "Sewage" means the water-carried human or animal wastes from

residences, buildings, industrial establishments or other places,

together with such groundwater infiltration and surface water as may be

present. The admixture with sewage of industrial or other waste also

shall be considered "sewage" within the meaning of this title.

20. "Sewerage facility" or "sewerage facilities" means any plants,

structures and other real and personal property acquired, rehabilitated

or constructed or planned for the purpose of collecting, conveying,

pumping, treating, neutralizing, storing and disposing of sewage,

including but not limited to main, trunk, intercepting, connecting,

lateral, outlet or other sewers, outfalls, pumping stations, treatment

and disposal plants, groundwater recharge basins, back-flow prevention

devices, sludge dewatering or disposal equipment and facilities,

clarifiers, filters, phosphorus removal equipment and other plants,

works, structures, equipment, vehicles, conveyances, contract rights,

franchises, approaches, connections, permits, real or personal property

or rights therein and appurtenances thereto necessary or useful and

convenient for the collection, conveyance, pumping, treatment,

neutralizing, storing and disposing of sewage.

21. "State" means the state of New York.

22. "State agency" means any state officer, public benefit

corporation, department, board, commission, bureau or division, or other

agency or instrumentality of the state.

23. "Supply facility" means a water facility employed to make

groundwater or surface water available for delivery into a transmission

facility or distribution system.

24. "Transmission facility" means a water facility used to carry water

from a supply facility to a distribution system.

25. "Water facility" or "water facilities" means any plants,

structures and other real and personal property acquired, rehabilitated

or constructed or planned for the purpose of accumulating, supplying,

transmitting, treating or distributing water, including but not limited

to surface or groundwater reservoirs, basins, dams, canals, aqueducts,

standpipes, conduits, pipelines, mains, pumping stations, pumps, water

distribution systems, compensating reservoirs, intake stations,

waterworks or sources of water supply, wells, purification or filtration

plants or other treatment plants and works, contract rights, franchises,

approaches, connections, permits, water meters, rights of flowage or

diversion and other plants, structures, equipment, vehicles,

conveyances, real or personal property or rights therein and

appurtenances thereto necessary or useful and convenient for the

accumulation, supply, transmission, treatment or distribution of water.