N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 2052-b: Definitions

§ 2052-b. 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 two thousand

fifty-two-c of this title.

2. "Board" means the members of the authority constituting and acting

as the governing body of the authority.

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

4. "Construct", "construction" or "constructed" means the acquisition,

erection, building, alteration, improvement, increase, enlargement,

extension, reconstruction, renovation or rehabilitation of the sports

facility, 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, procedure and other actions preliminary or incidental

thereto.

5. "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, personal and mixed and

improved and unimproved, the cost of the demolishing, removing or

relocating of 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 the sports facility,

machinery, apparatus and equipment, the cost of engineering and

architectural surveys, plans and specifications, the cost of consultant

and legal services, the cost of other expenses necessary or incidental

to the construction of any project and the financing of the construction

thereof 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 a project hereunder had they been

made directly by the authority.

6. "County" means the county of Oneida.

7. "County executive" means the county executive of the county, being

the chief executive officer of the county.

8. "County board of legislators" means the board of legislators of the

county.

9. "Municipality" means any county, city, town, village, or city

school district, union free school district, central school district or

common school district, any other such instrumentality, including any

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

any combination thereof.

10. "Murnane Field" means the stadium commonly known by that name,

located in the city of Utica, as well as the surrounding lands,

including all structures appurtenant thereto, located in the vicinity of

Sunset Avenue and Burrstone Road in the city of Utica, which shall

include all of the property deeded to the city of Utica by deed dated

February third, nineteen hundred eight and thereafter conveyed to the

Utica city school district by deed dated March fourteenth, nineteen

hundred seventy-seven, except for any portions of the said property

which have been appropriated by the state of New York or otherwise

conveyed.

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

venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.

12. "Project" means the sports facility, including the structures or

parts thereof and appurtenances thereto, real property or any other

property incidental to and included in such facility or part thereof,

and any improvements, extensions and betterments.

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

interests in land 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 and also claims for damage to real

estate.

14. "Sports facility" means Murnane Field in the city of Utica.

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

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

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

agency or instrumentality of the state.