NY Pub Auth L § 2053-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities Title 13-M - Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority 2053-B - Definitions.

§  2053-b. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a   different meaning clearly appears from the context:1. "Authority" shall mean the public benefit  corporation  created  by   section  two thousand fifty-three-c of this title, known as the Rockland   county solid waste management authority.2.  "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  and  shall   apply  with  equal  force  and  effect  to  notes  and  obligations  and   noteholders and obligation holders,  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 a solid waste management   facility;  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  incidental  thereto  subject  to  the  provisions  of   section two thousand fifty-three-f of this title.4.  "Cost," as applied to any project, shall mean and include the cost   of construction, the cost of the acquisition of all property,  including   real  property  and  other property, both real and personal and improved   and unimproved, subject  to  the  provisions  of  section  two  thousand   fifty-three-f  of  this  title,  the  cost  of  demolishing, removing or   relocating any buildings or structures on lands so  acquired,  including   the  cost  of  relocating tenants or other occupants of the buildings or   structures on such land, including the cost of acquiring  any  lands  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, legal and other professional services, the cost   of lease guarantee or bond insurance and  the  cost  of  other  expenses   necessary  or  incidental  to  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, the financing of the placing of any project   in operation and reimbursement to  the  county,  any  municipality,  any   state  agency,  the  state,  the  United  States government or any other   person for expenditures that would be costs of the project hereunder had   they been made directly by the authority.5. "County" shall mean the county of Rockland.6.  "Governing  body"  shall  mean  the  members  of   the   authority   constituting and acting as the governing body of the authority.7. "Municipality" shall mean any county, city, town, village, district   or any combination thereof.8.  "Person"  shall mean any natural person, partnership, association,   joint venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.9. "Project" shall mean  any  solid  waste  management  facility,  the   planning, development, financing, construction, operation or maintenance   of  which  is  authorized  to  be  undertaken in whole or in part by the   authority pursuant to this title.10. "Real property"  shall  mean  lands,  structures,  franchises  and   interests  in  land,  waters,  lands underwater, riparian rights and air   rights and any and all things and rights included within said  term  and   includes  not  only  fees  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.11.  "Resource  recovery"  shall  mean  the separation, extraction and   recovery of usable materials, energy or heat from  solid  waste  through   source  separation,  recycling  centers, composting, combustion or other   programs, projects or facilities.12. "Revenues" shall mean all rates, fees,  rents,  charges,  receipts   and other income derived by the authority from its operations.13.  "Solid waste" shall mean all putrescible and nonputrescible solid   wastes, including, but not limited to, materials or substances which are   discarded or rejected as being spent, useless, worthless, or  in  excess   to  the  owners  at  the time of such discard or rejection, or which are   being accumulated, stored, or  physically,  chemically  or  biologically   treated  prior  to  being  discarded  or  rejected,  having served their   intended use, or which are manufacturing by-products, including, but not   limited to, garbage, refuse,  industrial,  commercial  and  agricultural   waste  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,   or   waste  which  appears  on  the  list  or  satisfies  the   characteristics of hazardous waste promulgated by  the  commissioner  of   environmental   conservation   pursuant   to   section  27-0903  of  the   environmental conservation law or any scrap or other material  of  value   held for purposes of materials recycling other than materials designated   as recyclables, pursuant to section one hundred twenty-aa of the general   municipal law.14.  "Solid  waste  management  facility" or "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  beyond  the  initial  solid  waste   collection process for the receiving, transporting, storage, processing,   treatment,  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, material recovery facilities, mixed waste   processing facilities, household hazardous  waste  facilities,  transfer   stations, shredding facilities, baling facilities, rail haul or maritime   facilities,  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,  plants   and  facilities  for  compacting,  composting  or  pyrolization of solid   wastes  or  manufacturing  or  enhancing  the  value  of  materials   or   commodities  recovered  from  solid  waste, incinerators and other solid   waste disposal, reduction or conversion facilities and resource recovery   equipment, source separation equipment and disposal equipment as defined   in subdivisions four and five of section 51-0903  of  the  environmental   conservation law.15.  "Solid  waste  management  plan"  shall  mean the Rockland county   integrated solid waste management plan as it may be adopted, amended and   supplemented from time to time in accordance with section 27-0107 of the   environmental conservation 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.