N.Y. Transportation Law § 481: Definitions

§ 481. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall

have the following meanings:

1. "Transportation infrastructure project" shall mean a project

undertaken with funds provided in whole or in part by the rebuild and

renew New York transportation bond act of two thousand five, for those

transportation programs set forth in paragraph (a) of subdivision one of

section four hundred eighty of this article.

2. "Municipality" shall mean a city; a county not wholly contained

within a city; a town; a village; a public benefit corporation or other

public authority or corporation, or two or more of the foregoing acting

jointly. Provided, however, that "municipality" shall not include the

port authority of New York and New Jersey.

3. "Commissioner" shall mean the commissioner of transportation of the

state of New York.

4. "Department" shall mean the department of transportation of the

state of New York.

5. "Federal assistance" shall mean funds available from the federal

government for any municipal transportation infrastructure project.

6. "Municipal transportation infrastructure project" shall mean a

transportation infrastructure project undertaken by a municipality with

funds provided in whole or in part by the rebuild and renew New York

transportation bond act of two thousand five, for those transportation

programs set forth in subdivision two of section four hundred seventy of

this article, pursuant to an agreement between such municipality and the

commissioner.

7. "Municipal project cost" shall mean the actual cost of a municipal

transportation infrastructure project or the estimated reasonable cost

thereof as determined by the commissioner, whichever is less, and less

any federal assistance received or to be received for such project.

8. "Bond proceeds" shall mean moneys received by the state from the

sale of bonds and/or notes sold pursuant to the rebuild and renew New

York transportation bond act of two thousand five for uses set forth in

subdivision a of section four of the rebuild and renew New York

transportation bond act of two thousand five.

9. "Canal corporation" shall mean the New York state canal corporation

created as a subsidiary corporation of the New York state thruway

authority pursuant to chapter seven hundred sixty-six of the laws of

nineteen hundred ninety-two and continued and reconstituted as a

subsidiary corporation of the power authority of the state of New York

pursuant to subdivision one of section one thousand five-b of the public

authorities law.

10. "Canal system" shall mean the "New York state canal system" shall

mean all of the canals, canal lands, feeder canals, reservoirs, canal

terminals, canal terminal lands and other property under the

jurisdiction of the canal corporation of the state of New York pursuant

to article one-A of the canal law.

11. "Metropolitan transportation authority" shall mean the corporation

created by section twelve hundred sixty-three of the public authorities

law.

12. "New York city transit authority" shall mean the corporation

created by section twelve hundred one of the public authorities law.

13. "Triborough bridge and tunnel authority" shall mean the

corporation created by section five hundred fifty-two of the public

authorities law.

14. "Port Authority of New York and New Jersey" shall mean that body

corporate and politic created pursuant to article three of chapter one

hundred fifty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred twenty-one, and

designated as "The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey" by such

chapter.