NY Pub Auth L § 1197-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities Title 8-B - Water Authority of Great Neck North 1197-B - Definitions.

§  1197-b. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:   1. "Authority" shall mean the corporation created  by  section  eleven hundred ninety-seven-d of this title.   2.  "Board  of  directors"  shall  mean  the  governing  board  of the authority.   3.  "Bonds"  shall  mean  the  bonds,  notes  or  other  evidences  of indebtedness issued by the authority pursuant to this title.   4.  "Calendar  year"  shall  mean the twelve month period from January first through December thirty-first.   5. "Chief executive officer" when referring to  a  municipality  shall mean the chief elected official of such municipality and, when referring to the authority, shall mean the chairperson of the authority.   6.  "Civil service commission" shall mean the civil service commission of the county of Nassau.   7. "Comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the state of New York.   8. "Construction" shall mean the negotiation,  acquisition,  erection, building,   alteration,  improvement,  testing,  increase,  enlargement, extension, reconstruction, interconnection, renovation or rehabilitation of a water facility as defined herein; the  inspection  and  supervision thereof;  and  the engineering, architectural, legal, appraisal, fiscal, economic  and  environmental  investigations,  services   and   studies, surveys,  designs,  plans,  working drawings, specifications, procedures and other actions incidental thereto.   9. "Costs", as applied to any  project,  shall  include  the  cost  of construction,  the  cost  of  the acquisition of all property, including both real, personal and mixed, the  cost  of  demolishing,  removing  or relocating  any  buildings  or structures on lands so acquired including the cost of acquiring any land to which such buildings or structures may be moved or relocated, the cost of all systems,  facilities,  machinery, apparatus  and  equipment, financing charges and bond discount, interest to the extent not paid or provided for from revenues or  other  sources, the   cost   of   engineering   and  architectural  surveys,  plans  and specifications, bond insurance, bond  credit  enhancement  arrangements, other  expenses  necessary  or  incidental  to  the construction of such project and the financing of the  construction  thereof,  including  the cost  of  legal and financial advices and credit arrangements with banks or other financial institutions, the amount authorized in the resolution of the authority providing for the issuance of bonds to be paid into any reserve or special  fund  from  the  proceeds  of  such  bonds  and  the financing  of  the  placing  of  any project in operation, including the reimbursement to any municipality, state agency, the state,  the  United States  government,  or  any  other person for expenditures made by them that would be costs of the project hereunder, notwithstanding  the  fact that  such  expenditures  may  have been incurred prior to the effective date of this act, so long as such expenditures were not  incurred  prior to January first, nineteen hundred eighty-two, and were expended through the water consortium of the villages of Great Neck.   10. "County" shall mean the county of Nassau.   11.  "Distribution system" shall mean 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 water.   12. "District" shall mean the water  authority  of  Great  Neck  north district created by section eleven hundred ninety-seven-c of this title.   13. "Governing body" shall mean:  (a)  In  the  case  of  a  city,  county,  town or village or district corporation the finance board as such  term  is  defined  in  the  local finance law.  (b) In the case of a public benefit corporation, the members thereof.   14. "Members" shall mean the members of the board of directors.   15.  "Municipality"  shall  mean  any  city,  county, town, village or county or town acting on behalf of an improvement district.   16. "Real property"  shall  mean  lands,  structures,  franchises  and interests in land, waters, lands under water, goundwater riparian rights and  air  rights  and any and all things and rights customarily included within the term  "real  property"  and  includes  not  only  fee  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.   17.  "State  sanitary code" shall mean regulations adopted pursuant to section two hundred twenty-five of the public health law.   18. "State" shall mean state of New York.   19. "State  agency"  shall  mean  any  state  office,  public  benefit corporation, department, board, commission, bureau or division, or other agency or instrumentality of the state.   20.  "Supply  facility"  shall  mean a water facility employed to make groundwater or surface water available for delivery into a  transmission facility or distribution system.   21.  "System  revenues"  shall  mean  all rates, rents, fees, charges, payments and other  income  and  receipts  derived  from  users  of  the authority  without  limiting the generality of the foregoing, investment proceeds  and  proceeds  of  insurance,  condemnation,  sales  or  other dispositions  of  assets,  together with all federal, state or municipal aid as well as any other income derived from the operation of the  water facility of the authority.   22.  "Transmission facility" shall mean a water facility used to carry water from a supply facility to a distribution system.   23. "Treasurer" shall mean the treasurer of the authority.   24. "Water facility" or "water  facilities"  shall  mean  any  plants, structures  and other real and personal property acquired, rehabilitated or constructed for the purpose of supplying, transmitting,  distributing or  treating  water, including but not limited to surface or groundwater reservoirs,  basins,  dams,  canals,  aqueducts,  standpipes,  conduits, pipelines,   mains,   pumping   stations,  water  distribution  systems, compensating reservoirs, intake stations, waterworks or sources of water supply, wells, purification or  filtration  plants  or  other  treatment plants  and  works,  connections,  water  meters,  rights  of flowage or diversion and other plants, structures, equipment, towers,  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.   25.  "Water  project"  shall  mean  any  water facility, including the planning, development, financing or construction thereof.   26. "Watershed rules" shall mean the rules and regulations made by the department of health pursuant to section eleven hundred  of  the  public health law.