NY Pub Auth L § 2045-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities Title 13-B - Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency 2045-B - Definitions.

§  2045-b. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a   different meaning clearly appears from the context:1. "Agency" shall mean  the  public  benefit  corporation  created  by   section  two  thousand forty-five-c of this title, known as the Onondaga   county resource recovery agency.2.  "Bonds"  shall  mean  the  bonds,  notes  or  other  evidences  of   indebtedness  issued  by  the  agency  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. "Cost", as applied to  any  project,  shall  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,  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 consultants'  and  legal  services,  the   cost  of  lease guarantee or bond insurance, 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 agency 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   reimbursement  to  the  county,  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 agency.4. "County" shall mean the county of Onondaga.5. "Construction" shall  mean  the  acquisition,  erection,  building,   alteration,     improvement,     increase,    enlargement,    extension,   reconstruction,  renovation  or  rehabilitation   of   a   solid   waste   management-resource  recovery  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.6. "Governing body" shall mean the members of the agency  constituting   and acting as the governing body of the agency.7.  "Municipality" shall mean any county, city, town or village 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-resource recovery   facility, the planning, development, financing, construction, operation,   or maintenance of which is authorized to be undertaken in  whole  or  in   part by the agency pursuant to this title.10.  "Real  property"  shall  mean  lands,  structures, franchises and   interests in land, waters, lands under water, 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  or  other  programs,  projects  or   facilities.12.  "Revenues"  shall  mean all rates, fees, rents, charges and other   income derived by the agency from its operations.13. "Solid waste" shall mean all materials or substances discarded  or   rejected  as being spent, useless, worthless, or in excess to the owners   at the time of such discard or rejection, including but not  limited  to   garbage,  refuse,  industrial  and commercial 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, source, 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.14. "Solid waste management-resource recovery 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, 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, 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,  incinerators,  and  other  solid  waste   disposal,  reduction  or  conversion  facilities  and  resource recovery   equipment and disposal equipment as defined  in  subdivisions  four  and   five of section 51-0903 of the environmental conservation law.15. "State" shall mean the state of New York.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.