NY Pub Auth L § 1120-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities Title 6-B - Clifton Park Water Authority 1120-A - Definitions.

§  1120-a. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:   1. "Authority" means the corporation created by section eleven hundred twenty-c of this title.   2. "Board" means the members of the authority constituting and  acting as the governing board of the authority.   3.  "Bonds"  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.   4.  "Civil service commission" shall mean the civil service commission of the county of Saratoga.   5. "Comptroller" means the comptroller of the state of New York.   6.  "Construction"  means  the  negotiation,  acquisition,   erection, building,  alteration,  improvement,  increase,  enlargement, extension, reconstruction, renovation,  interconnection,  or  rehabilitation  of  a water   system;   the   inspection  and  supervision  thereof;  and  the engineering,  architectural,  legal,  appraisal,  fiscal,  economic  and environmental   investigations,  services,  studies,  surveys,  designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures  and  other  actions preliminary or incidental thereto.   7.   "Cost"   as   applied  to  any  project,  includes  the  cost  of construction, the  cost  of  the  acquisition  of  all  property,  real, personal   and   mixed,   and  improved  and  unimproved,  the  cost  of demolishing, removing or relocating any buildings or structures on lands so acquired, 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 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 town, or any municipality, 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.   8. "Distribution system" shall mean the water facility  or  facilities employed  to  deliver water from a transmission facility, or where there is not a transmission facility, from a supply facility, to the  ultimate consumers of water.   9. "District" means the Clifton Park water district created by section eleven hundred twenty-b of this title.   9-a.  "Sewer  district"  means a sewer district created by the town of Clifton Park.   10. "Governing body" means:  (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; or  (b) In the case of a public benefit corporation, the members thereof.   11. "Municipality" means any county, city, town, village,  improvement district  under  the town law, any other such instrumentality, including  any agency or public corporation of the state, or any of  the  foregoing or any combination thereof.   12. "Person" means any natural person, partnership, association, joint venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.   13. "Project" means any water facility.   14.  "Properties"  means the water system or systems of the authority, whether situated  within  or  without  the  territorial  limits  of  the district,  including the plants, works, structures, instrumentalities or part thereof and appurtenances thereto, real property, water  facilities or  any  other  property  incidental  to  and included in such system or systems  or  part  thereof,  and  any   improvements,   extensions   and betterments.   15.  "Real  property"  means lands, structures, franchises, rights and interests in lands, waters, lands underwater, riparian  rights  and  air rights  and  any and all things and rights included within said term 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. "Revenues" means all rates, rents,  fees,  charges,  payments  and other  income  and receipts derived from the operation of the properties of the authority including,  without  limiting  the  generality  of  the foregoing,  investment proceeds and proceeds of insurance, condemnation, and sales or other dispositions of assets, together  with  all  federal, state or municipal aid.   17. "State" shall mean the state of New York.   18. "State agency" means any state office, public benefit corporation, department,  board,  commission,  bureau or division, or other agency or instrumentality of the state.   19. "State sanitary code" means the regulations  adopted  pursuant  to section two hundred twenty-five of the public health law.   20.  "Supply  facility"  means  a  water  facility  employed  to  make groundwater or surface water available for delivery into a  transmission facility or distribution system.   21. "Town" means the town of Clifton Park.   22. "Town board" means the town board of the town.   23. "Town supervisor" means the town supervisor of the town.   24. "Transmission facility" means a water facility used to carry water from a supply facility to a distribution system.   25. "Treasurer" means the treasurer of the authority.   26.  "Water  facility"  or "water facilities" means any plants, works, instrumentalities, structures  and  other  real  and  personal  property acquired,  rehabilitated  or  constructed  or planned for the purpose of accumulating, supplying, transmitting, heating  or  distributing  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, contract  rights,  franchises,  approaches,  connections, permits, water meters, rights of flowage or diversion  and  other  plants,  structures, equipment,  vehicles,  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.    27.  "Watershed  rules"  means  the  rules and regulations made by the department of health pursuant to section eleven hundred  of  the  public health law.