NY Pub Auth L § 1174-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities Title 7-A - Water Authority of Southeastern Nassau County 1174-B - Definitions.

§  1174-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 seventy-four-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 advice 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.   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  Southeastern  Nassau county district created by section eleven hundred seventy-four-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, groundwater 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.