NY Pub Auth L § 2046-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities Title 13-C - Town of Islip Resource Recovery Agency 2046-B - Definitions.

§  2046-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-six-c  of this title and shall be deemed a   public authority.2. "Bonds and notes" shall mean the bonds, notes or other  obligations   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.  "Construction"  shall  mean  the  erection, building, acquisition,   alteration, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement or extension  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.4.  "Cost",  as  applied  to  any  project,  shall include the cost of   acquisition of any project, the cost of construction of the project, the   cost of 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   land so acquired, including the cost of acquiring any land to which such   buildings   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  or   note   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 or notes to be paid into any reserve   or  other  special fund from the proceeds of such bonds or notes and the   financing  of  the  placing  of  any  project  in  operation,  including   reimbursement  to the town for expenditures made with the prior approval   of the agency, that would be costs of the  project  hereunder  had  they   been made directly by the agency.5. "Governing body" shall mean the directors of the agency.6.  "Municipality"  shall mean any county, city, town, village, school   district, fire district or a county or  town  acting  on  behalf  of  an   improvement district.7.  "Person"  shall mean any natural person, partnership, association,   joint venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.8. "Project" shall mean any solid waste  management-resource  recovery   facility,   the   planning,   financing,   construction,   operation  or   maintenance of which is authorized to be  undertaken,  in  whole  or  in   part,  by the agency pursuant to this title, including any real property   required in connection therewith.9. "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. 10.  "Revenues"  shall  mean all rates, fees, rents, charges and other   income derived by the agency from its operations.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. "Solid waste" shall mean all putrescible and non-putrescible solid   wastes, including, but not limited to, 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 nineteen hundred   fifty-four, 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.13.  "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   facilities,   including   auxiliary   facilities   to   supplement  or  temporarily  replace  such   generating   facilities,   steam   distribution   facilities,   sanitary   landfills,   plants   and   facilities  for  compacting,  composting  or   pyrolyzation 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.14.  "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.15. "State" shall mean the state of New York.16. "Town" shall mean the town of Islip.17. "Town board" shall mean the town board of the town of Islip.