NY Pub Auth L § 1199-BBB (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities Title 8-F - Saratoga County Water Authority 1199-BBB - Definitions.

§  1199-bbb. 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  one thousand one hundred ninety-nine-ddd of this title.   2.  "Board"  shall  mean the members of the authority constituting and acting as the governing board of the authority.   3. "Board of supervisors" shall  mean  the  board  of  supervisors  of Saratoga county.   4.  "Bonds"  shall  mean  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.   4-a.  "Civil  service  commission" shall mean the personnel officer of the county of Saratoga or any other person or entity acting as the civil service commission of the county of Saratoga.   5. "Comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the state of New York.   6. "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 preliminary or incidental thereto.   7. "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, 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 the reimbursement to the county, or  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.   8. "County" shall mean the county of Saratoga.   9.  "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 such water.   10. "District" shall mean the Saratoga county water authority district created by section one thousand  one  hundred  ninety-nine-ccc  of  this title.   11. "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.    12. "Members" shall mean the members of the board.   13.  "Municipality"  shall  mean  any  county, city, town, village, or county or town acting on behalf of an improvement  district,  any  other instrumentality,  including  any  agency,  or  public corporation of the state, or any of the foregoing or any combination thereof.   14. "Person" shall mean any natural person, partnership,  association, joint venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.   15.  "Real  property" shall mean lands, structures, franchises, rights and interests in land, waters, lands underwater,  groundwater,  riparian rights  and air rights and any and all things and rights included within said 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.   16. "Personnel officer" shall mean the personnel officer of the county of Saratoga.   17. "State sanitary code" shall mean regulations adopted  pursuant  to section two hundred twenty-five of the public health law.   18. "State" shall mean the 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 by the authority 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 but in no event shall "system revenues" mean an ad  valorem  levy  on  real  or personal property within the authority or any part thereof.   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  or  other real and personal property acquired, rehabilitated or constructed or planned for the purpose  of  accumulating,  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, 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, approaches, connections, water  meters,  rights  of  flowage  or  diversion  and  other   plants, structures,  equipment,  vehicles, 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.