N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 576: Definitions

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

different meaning clearly appears from the context:

1. The term "authority" shall mean the corporation created by section

five hundred seventy-seven of this chapter;

2. The term "supervisors" shall mean the Jefferson county board of

supervisors;

3. The term "bridge complex" shall mean all bridges which, together

with their approaches and connecting roads, form a crossing from one

particular area in the United States across the St. Lawrence river to a

particular area in Canada, and shall include such approaches and roads

as well as all buildings, facilities and other improvements which are

necessary or incidental to the operation and maintenance of such

bridges, approaches and roads or which serve the traffic over such

bridges;

4. The term "bonds" shall mean bonds issued by the authority pursuant

to this title;

5. The term "board" shall mean the members of the authority;

6. The term "treasurer" shall mean the treasurer of the authority;

7. The term "county" shall mean the county of Jefferson;

8. The term "state" shall mean the state of New York;

9. The term "comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the state;

10. The term "revenues" shall mean all moneys received by or due to

the authority from tolls, rentals, user fees, charges or other payments

derived from the operation of the properties or facilities of the

authority, as well as interest earned on deposits or securities, and

other income of the authority, from whatever source it may emanate, but

shall not include gifts, grants, or the principal of any loan, or the

proceeds of any bond issue;

11. The term "political subdivision" shall mean any city, town, front,

village, riding, municipality, water district, fire district, fire

protection district, school district, improvement district, commission,

bureau, division, agency, instrumentality, public corporation, public

benefit corporation, board or department of the governmental body

indicated, whether the same be in the United States or in Canada;

12. The term "real property" shall mean lands, structures,

improvements to land, franchises and interests in land, waters, lands

under water, riparian rights, space rights, air rights, and any and all

other things and rights usually included within said term and includes

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

including but not limited to appurtenances thereto, easements, rights of

way, uses, leases, leaseholds, 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 property;

13. The term "properties" shall mean all the real property of the

authority and all tangible and intangible personal property thereof of

every kind, including but not limited to vehicles, equipment, plants,

works, franchises, and contract rights;

14. The term "facilities" shall mean any of the properties of the

authority or any other real property or personal property controlled or

operated by the authority which is used or intended to be used in the

furtherance of any of its corporate purposes;

15. The term "indebtedness" shall mean any obligation for the payment

of a fixed or determinable amount of money, enforceable by an action at

law, including but not limited to bonds, bond anticipation notes, notes,

contractual obligations, rentals owed as lessee, and other financial

liabilities.