2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-I - County of Franklin Solid Waste Management Authority › 2051-B - Definitions.

§  2051-b. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a
  different meaning clearly appears from the context:
1. "Authority" shall mean the public benefit  corporation  created  by
  section  two  thousand fifty-one-c of this title, known as the county of
  Franklin solid waste management authority.
2.  "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  shall  apply
  with  equal  force  and  effect  to notes and noteholders, respectively,
  unless the context otherwise clearly requires.
3. "Construction" shall  mean  the  acquisition,  erection,  building,
  alteration,     improvement,     increase,    enlargement,    extension,
  reconstruction, renovation or rehabilitation of a solid waste management
  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 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, 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  and legal 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,  and  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.
5. "County" shall mean the county of Franklin.
6.   "Governing   body"  shall  mean  the  members  of  the  authority
  constituting and acting as the governing body of the authority.
7. "Municipality" shall mean any county, city, town,  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  facility,  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.
10. "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.
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 authority 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, 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.
14. "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,
  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 source separation equipment and disposal equipment as  defined
  in  subdivisions  four  and five of section 51-0903 of the environmental
  conservation law.
15. "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.
16. "State" shall mean the state of New York.