2023 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. "Animal shelter" shall mean any facility, building,  or  structure,
  where  temporary  or  permanent  housing  and care is provided to stray,
  abandoned, abused, seized,  impounded,  owner-surrendered  or  otherwise
  unwanted animals.
2.  "Animal  management  services"  shall  mean  any  and all services
  provided to promote animal care and to protect public health and safety,
  including, but not limited to the following services: providing  housing
  and    care   for   stray,   abandoned,   abused,   seized,   impounded,
  owner-surrendered or otherwise unwanted animals in  an  animal  shelter;
  the  processing  and  disposal  of  animal  waste;  the disposal of dead
  wildlife removed from roadways  following  wildlife-vehicle  collisions;
  providing animal control; and any other similar service related thereto.
3.  "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 and shall also hereby be known
  as Rockland Green.
4.  "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.
5.  "Construction"  shall  mean  the  acquisition, erection, building,
  alteration,    improvement,    increase,     enlargement,     extension,
  reconstruction, renovation or rehabilitation of a solid waste management
  facility  or animal shelter; 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.
6.  "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.
7. "County" shall mean the county of Rockland.
8.  "Governing  body"  shall  mean  the  members  of   the   authority
  constituting and acting as the governing body of the authority.
9. "Municipality" shall mean any county, city, town, village, district
  or any combination thereof.
10.  "Person" shall mean any natural person, partnership, association,
  joint venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.
11. "Project" shall mean any solid waste management facility or animal
  shelter, 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.
12. "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.
13.  "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.
14. "Revenues" shall mean all rates, fees,  rents,  charges,  receipts
  and other income derived by the authority from its operations.
15. "Solid waste" shall mean all putrescible and non-putrescible 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.
16. "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.
17. "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.
18.  "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.
19. "State" shall mean the state of New York.