2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-L - Oneida County Sports Facility Authority Act › 2052-B - Definitions.

§  2052-b. 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  two  thousand
  fifty-two-c of this title.
2.  "Board" means the members of the authority constituting and acting
  as the governing body of the authority.
3. "Comptroller" means the comptroller of the state.
4. "Construct", "construction" or "constructed" means the acquisition,
  erection,  building,  alteration,  improvement,  increase,  enlargement,
  extension,  reconstruction,  renovation  or rehabilitation of the sports
  facility, as the case may be; the inspection  and  supervision  thereof;
  and   the   engineering,   architectural,  legal,  fiscal  and  economic
  investigations and studies, surveys, designs, plans,  working  drawings,
  specifications,  procedure  and  other actions preliminary or incidental
  thereto.
5.  "Cost"  as  applied  to  any  project,  includes   the   cost   of
  construction,  the  cost  of  the acquisition of all property, including
  real property and other property, both  real,  personal  and  mixed  and
  improved  and  unimproved,  the  cost  of  the  demolishing, removing or
  relocating  of  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 the  sports  facility,
  machinery,   apparatus  and  equipment,  the  cost  of  engineering  and
  architectural surveys, plans and specifications, the cost of  consultant
  and  legal  services, the cost of other expenses necessary or incidental
  to the construction of any project and the financing of the construction
  thereof 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 a project hereunder  had  they  been
  made directly by the authority.
6. "County" means the county of Oneida.
7.  "County executive" means the county executive of the county, being
  the chief executive officer of the county.
8. "County board of legislators" means the board of legislators of the
  county.
9. "Municipality" means any  county,  city,  town,  village,  or  city
  school  district, union free school district, central school district or
  common school district, any other such  instrumentality,  including  any
  agency  or  public  corporation of the state, or any of the foregoing or
  any combination thereof.
10. "Murnane Field" means the stadium commonly  known  by  that  name,
  located  in  the  city  of  Utica,  as  well  as  the surrounding lands,
  including all structures appurtenant thereto, located in the vicinity of
  Sunset Avenue and Burrstone Road in  the  city  of  Utica,  which  shall
  include  all  of  the property deeded to the city of Utica by deed dated
  February third, nineteen hundred eight and thereafter  conveyed  to  the
  Utica  city  school  district  by  deed dated March fourteenth, nineteen
  hundred seventy-seven, except for any  portions  of  the  said  property
  which  have  been  appropriated  by  the  state of New York or otherwise
  conveyed.
11. "Person" means any natural person, partnership, association, joint
  venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.
12. "Project" means the sports facility, including the  structures  or
  parts  thereof  and  appurtenances  thereto,  real property or any other
  property incidental to and included in such facility  or  part  thereof,
  and any improvements, extensions and betterments.
13.  "Real  property"  means lands, structures, franchises, rights and
  interests in land 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 and also claims  for  damage  to  real
  estate.
14. "Sports facility" means Murnane Field in the city of Utica.
15. "State" means the state of New York.
16.   "State   agency"   means   any  state  officer,  public  benefit
  corporation, department, board, commission, bureau,  division  or  other
  agency or instrumentality of the state.