NY Pub Auth L § 2702 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities Title 29 - Development Authority of the North Country Act 2702 - Definitions.

§  2702.  Definitions.  As used in this title, the following words and   terms shall have the following meanings  unless  the  context  indicates   another or different meaning or intent:1.  "Authority"  shall  mean the public benefit corporation created by   section  twenty-seven  hundred  three  of  this  title,  known  as   the   development authority of the north country.2.  "Bonds"  shall  means  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.3.  "Construction"  shall  mean  the  acquisition, erection, building,   alteration,    improvement,    increase,     enlargement,     extension,   reconstruction,  renovation  or  rehabilitation  of any project financed   under the provisions of  this  title;  the  inspection  and  supervision   thereof;  and the engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal and economic   investigations and studies, surveys, designs, plans,  working  drawings,   specifications,  procedures  and other actions preliminary or incidental   thereto.4. "Cost" as applied to a project  or  any  portion  thereof  financed   under  the provisions of this title embraces all or any part of the cost   of construction and  acquisition  of  all  lands,  structures,  real  or   personal  property,  rights,  rights-of-way,  franchises,  easements and   interests acquired or used for a project, the  cost  of  demolishing  or   removing  any buildings or structures on land so acquired, including the   costs of relocating tenants  or  other  occupants  of  the  building  or   structures  on  such  land  and the cost of acquiring any lands to which   such buildings or structures may be moved, the cost of all machinery and   equipment, financing  charges,  interest,  reserves  for  principal  and   interest  and  for  extensions,  enlargements,  additions, replacements,   renovations and improvements, cost of engineering, financial  and  legal   services, plans, specifications, studies, surveys, estimates of cost and   of  revenues, administrative expenses, expenses necessary or incident to   determining  the  feasibility  or  practicability  of  constructing  the   project  and  such other expenses as may be necessary or incident to the   construction and acquisition of  the  project,  the  financing  of  such   construction   and  acquisition  and  the  placing  of  the  project  in   operation,  including  all  costs  relating  to   the   refinancing   or   satisfaction  of  existing  indebtedness;  and any reimbursements to any   municipality, state agency, the state, the United States  or  any  other   person or public corporation for expenditures that would be costs of any   project hereunder had they been made directly by the authority.5.  "Existing  sewer system" shall mean all sewers, including, without   limitation, trunk, intercepting, connecting, lateral and  other  sewers,   storm  water  drains,  pumping stations, disposal or treatment plants or   works, structures, appliances, equipment  and  other  adjuncts  thereto,   comprising   the  portion  of  the  system  of  sewerage  owned  by  any   participating county or municipality within a participating  county,  as   delineated  on  a  map  filed  by  the  governing body of such county or   municipality with the secretary of the state of  New  York  pursuant  to   this title.6.  "Municipality"  shall mean any county, city, town, village, refuse   district under the county law, improvement district under the town  law,   any  other  such  instrumentality,  including  any  agency, authority or   public corporation of the  state,  or  any  of  the  foregoing,  or  any   combination thereof.7.  "Participating counties" shall mean the counties of Jefferson, St.   Lawrence and Lewis. 8. "Person" shall mean any natural person,  partnership,  association,   joint venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.9.  "Project"  shall  mean a sewerage facility, solid waste management   facility, water  facility,  or  any  portion  of  which,  the  planning,   development,   financing,   acquisition,   construction,   operation  or   maintenance is authorized to be undertaken in whole or in  part  by  the   authority pursuant to this title.10.   "Real  property"  shall  mean  lands,  structures,  improvements   franchises  and  interests  in  land,  including  lands   under   water,   waterfront  property, marginal streets and riparian rights, space rights   and air rights and any and all other things and rights usually  included   within  said  term  and any fixtures, equipment and articles of personal   property affixed to or used in connection therewith. Real property shall   also mean and include any and all interests in such property  less  than   full  title,  such  as  easements,  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   all claims for damages for such real estate.11.  "Resource  recovery"  shall  mean  the  separation, extraction or   recovery of usable materials, energy or heat from  solid  waste  through   source  separation,  incineration,  recycling centers or other programs,   projects or facilities.12. "Revenues" shall mean all rates, fees, rents,  charges  and  other   income derived by the authority from its operations.13. "Sewerage facility" shall mean a system of trunk, intercepting and   connecting,  lateral  and outlet sewers, storm water drains, pumping and   ventilating stations, disposal or treatment plants or works,  and  other   appliances  and  structures, which in the judgment of the authority will   provide  an  effectual  and  advantageous  means   for   relieving   the   participating  counties  and  municipalities  within  the  participating   counties from pollution created by the sewage and  waste  and  relieving   the  participating  counties and municipalities within the participating   counties from inadequate sanitary and storm water drainage by  providing   for  the  sanitary  disposal or treatment of the sewage thereof, or such   sections or parts of such systems as the authority may from time to time   deem it proper or convenient to construct, consistent  with  purpose  of   this title.14. "Solid waste" shall mean all putrescible and non-putrescible solid   wastes, including, but not limited to, materials or substances discarded   or  rejected, whether as being spent, useless, worthless or in excess to   the owners at the time of such discard or rejection  or  for  any  other   reason,  is  being  accumulated,  stored,  or  physically, chemically or   biologically treated prior to being discarded, has served  its  intended   use,  or  is  a  manufacturing  or mining by-product, including, but not   limited to,  garbage,  refuse,  and  other  discarded  solid  materials,   including  solid  waste materials resulting from industrial, commercial,   mining  and  agricultural  operations  and  from  community  activities,   sludges  from  air or water pollution control facilities or water supply   treatment  facilities,  rubbish,  ashes,  contained  gaseous   material,   incinerator  residue,  demolition and construction debris and offal, but   not including sewage and other highly diluted water-carried materials or   substances and those in gaseous  form,  special  nuclear  or  by-product   material  within  the  meaning  of  the  Atomic  Energy  Act of 1954, as   amended, and  waste  which  appears  on  the  list  of  hazardous  waste   promulgated  by  the commissioner of environmental conservation pursuant   to section 27-0903 of the environmental conservation law.15. "Solid waste management facility" shall mean any facility,  plant,   works,  system,  building, structure, improvement, machinery, equipment,    fixture or other real or personal property which is to be used, occupied   or  employed  for  or  is  incidental  to  the  collecting,   receiving,   transporting,  storage,  processing,  or  disposal of solid waste or the   recovery  by  any  means  of  any material or energy product or resource   therefrom including, but not limited  to,  recycling  centers,  transfer   stations,   shredding  or  baling  facilities,  rail  haul  or  maritime   facilities, collection vehicles, processing systems,  resource  recovery   facilities,  steam  and electric generating and transmission facilities,   including auxiliary facilities to supplement or temporarily replace such   generating   facilities,   steam   distribution   facilities,   sanitary   landfills,  leachate  treatment  facilities,  plants  and facilities for   compacting, composting or pyrolization  of  solid  wastes,  secure  land   burial  facilities,  landspreading  facilities, surface impoundments and   waste oil storage, reprocessing and  refining  facilities,  incinerators   and  other solid waste disposal, reduction or conversion facilities, and   "resource recovery equipment" and "disposal equipment" as such terms are   defined in  subdivisions  four  and  five  of  section  51-0903  of  the   environmental  conservation  law.  Any  such  facility  producing either   electricity  or  shaft  horsepower  and  useful  thermal  energy   shall   constitute  a  co-generation facility as defined in subdivision two-a of   section two of the public service law.16. "Source separation"  shall  mean  the  segregation  of  recyclable   materials  from  the  solid  waste stream at the point of generation for   separate collection, sale or other disposition.17. "State" shall mean the state of New York.18. "United States" shall mean the United States  of  America  or  any   department,  agency  or  instrumentality thereof acting on behalf of the   United States of America.19. "Water facility" shall  mean  any  water  supply  or  distribution   system  or  systems,  including  any plants, works, instrumentalities or   parts thereof and appurtenances thereto,  lands,  easements,  rights  in   land  and  water  rights,  right-of-way,  contract  rights,  franchises,   approaches, connections, dams, reservoirs, water mains and  pipe  lines,   pumping  stations and equipment, or any other property incidental to and   included  in  such  system  or  part  thereof,  and  any   improvements,   extensions and betterments.20.  "Community facility" shall mean any facility in the participating   counties that provides for the health,  education  and  welfare  of  the   residents  of  the  region within such participating counties, including   but not limited to medical facilities, housing  facilities,  educational   facilities, transportation facilities, municipal service facilities, and   cultural and social facilities.