2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 7-A - Water Authority of Southeastern Nassau County › 1174-B - Definitions.

§  1174-b. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a
different meaning clearly appears from the context:
1. "Authority" shall mean the corporation created  by  section  eleven
hundred seventy-four-d of this title.
2. "Board  of  directors"  shall  mean  the  governing  board  of  the
authority.
3. "Bonds"  shall  mean  the  bonds,  notes  or  other  evidences   of
indebtedness issued by the authority pursuant to this title.
4. "Calendar  year"  shall  mean  the twelve month period from January
first through December thirty-first.
5. "Chief executive officer" when referring to  a  municipality  shall
mean the chief elected official of such municipality and, when referring
to the authority, shall mean the chairperson of the authority.
6. "Civil  service commission" shall mean the civil service commission
of the county of Nassau.
7. "Comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the state of New York.
8. "Construction" shall mean the negotiation,  acquisition,  erection,
building,   alteration,  improvement,  testing,  increase,  enlargement,
extension, reconstruction, interconnection, renovation or rehabilitation
of a water facility as defined herein; the  inspection  and  supervision
thereof;  and  the engineering, architectural, legal, appraisal, fiscal,
economic  and  environmental  investigations,  services   and   studies,
surveys,  designs,  plans,  working drawings, specifications, procedures
and other actions incidental thereto.
9. "Costs", as applied to any  project,  shall  include  the  cost  of
construction,  the  cost  of  the acquisition of all property, including
both real, personal and mixed, the  cost  of  demolishing,  removing  or
relocating  any  buildings  or structures on lands so acquired including
the cost of acquiring any land to which such buildings or structures may
be moved or relocated, the cost of all systems,  facilities,  machinery,
apparatus  and  equipment, financing charges and bond discount, interest
to the extent not paid or provided for from revenues or  other  sources,
the   cost   of   engineering   and  architectural  surveys,  plans  and
specifications, bond insurance, bond  credit  enhancement  arrangements,
other  expenses  necessary  or  incidental  to  the construction of such
project and the financing of the  construction  thereof,  including  the
cost of legal and financial advice and credit arrangements with banks or
other financial institutions, the amount authorized in the resolution of
the  authority  providing  for the issuance of bonds to be paid into any
reserve or special  fund  from  the  proceeds  of  such  bonds  and  the
financing of the placing of any project in operation.
10. "County" shall mean the county of Nassau.
11. "Distribution  system" shall mean the water facility or facilities
employed to deliver water from a transmission facility, or  where  there
is  no  transmission  facility,  from a supply facility, to the ultimate
consumers of water.
12. "District" shall mean the water authority of  Southeastern  Nassau
county district created by section eleven hundred seventy-four-c of this
title.
13. "Governing body" shall mean:
(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.
(b) In the case of a public benefit corporation, the members thereof.
14. "Members" shall mean the members of the board of directors.
15. "Municipality"  shall  mean  any  city,  county,  town, village or
county or town acting on behalf of an improvement district.
16. "Real property"  shall  mean  lands,  structures,  franchises  and
interests  in  land,  waters,  lands  under  water, groundwater riparian
rights and air rights and any and  all  things  and  rights  customarily
included  within  the  term  "real  property"  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.
17. "State sanitary code" shall mean regulations adopted  pursuant  to
section two hundred twenty-five of the public health law.
18. "State" shall mean state of New York.
19. "State  agency"  shall  mean  any  state  office,  public  benefit
corporation, department, board, commission, bureau or division, or other
agency or instrumentality of the state.
20. "Supply facility" shall mean a water  facility  employed  to  make
groundwater  or surface water available for delivery into a transmission
facility or distribution system.
21. "System revenues" shall mean  all  rates,  rents,  fees,  charges,
payments  and  other  income  and  receipts  derived  from  users of the
authority without limiting the generality of the  foregoing,  investment
proceeds  and  proceeds  of  insurance,  condemnation,  sales  or  other
dispositions of assets, together with all federal,  state  or  municipal
aid  as well as any other income derived from the operation of the water
facility of the authority.
22. "Transmission facility" shall mean a water facility used to  carry
water from a supply facility to a distribution system.
23. "Treasurer" shall mean the treasurer of the authority.
24. "Water  facility"  or  "water  facilities"  shall mean any plants,
structures and other real and personal property acquired,  rehabilitated
or  constructed for the purpose of supplying, transmitting, distributing
or treating water, including but not limited to surface  or  groundwater
reservoirs,  basins,  dams,  canals,  aqueducts,  standpipes,  conduits,
pipelines,  mains,  pumping  stations,   water   distribution   systems,
compensating reservoirs, intake stations, waterworks or sources of water
supply,  wells,  purification  or  filtration  plants or other treatment
plants and works,  connections,  water  meters,  rights  of  flowage  or
diversion  and other plants, structures, equipment, towers, 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.
25. "Water project" shall  mean  any  water  facility,  including  the
planning, development, financing or construction thereof.
26. "Watershed rules" shall mean the rules and regulations made by the
department  of  health  pursuant to section eleven hundred of the public
health law.