2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 8-E* - Orange County Water Authority › 1199-BB*2 - Definitions.

* § 1199-bb. 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 one thousand
  one hundred ninety-nine-dd of this title.
2. "Bonds" means 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. "Civil service commission" means the civil  service  commission  of
  the county.
4. "Comptroller" means the comptroller of the state.
5.   "Construction"   means   the   acquisition,  erection,  building,
  alteration,    improvement,    increase,     enlargement,     extension,
  reconstruction,  renovation  or  rehabilitation  of  a water system; 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.
6.  "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 and  personal  and  improved
  and  unimproved, the cost of the demolishing, removing or relocating 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 all systems, facilities,  machines,  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  guarantee,  bond insurance, other credit support device and the cost
  of 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 authority providing  for  the
  issuance  of  bonds  to  be paid into any reserve or other special funds
  from the proceeds of such bonds 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 the project
  hereunder had they been made directly by the authority.
7. "County" means the county of Orange.
8. "County executive" means the county executive of the county.
9. "County legislature" means the county legislature of the county.
10. "District" means the  Orange  county  water  district  created  by
  section one thousand one hundred ninety-nine-cc of this title.
11.  "Distribution  system"  means  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 such water.
12. "Governing body" means the members of the  authority  constituting
  and acting as the governing body of the authority.
13.  "Municipality" means any county, city, town, village, improvement
  district under the town law, any other such  instrumentality,  including
  any  agency, or public corporation of the state, or any of the foregoing
  or any combination thereof.
14. "Person" means any natural person, partnership, association, joint
  venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.
15. "Project" means any water facility.
16. "Properties" means the water system or systems of  the  authority,
  whether  situated  within  or  without  the  territorial  limits  of the
  district, including the plants, works, structures, instrumentalities  or
  part thereof and appurtenances thereto, real property, water facilities,
  or  any  other  property  incidental  to  and included in such system or
  systems or part thereof, any improvements, extensions and betterments.
17. "Real property" means lands,  structures,  franchise,  rights  and
  interests  in  land,  waters,  land 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.
18.  "Revenues"  means  all  rates,  fees, charges, payments and other
  income and receipts derived from the operation of the properties of  the
  authority  including,  without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
  investment proceeds and proceeds of insurance, condemnation, and sale or
  other disposition  of  assets,  together  with  all  federal,  state  or
  municipal aid, if any.
19. "State" means the state of New York.
20.   "State   agency"   means   any  state  officer,  public  benefit
  corporation, department, board, commission, bureau or division, or other
  agency or instrumentality of the state.
21.  "Supply  facility"  means  a  water  facility  employed  to  make
  groundwater, surface water or water to be purchased from the city of New
  York, the New York city municipal water finance authority, New York city
  water  board  or  any  agency  or instrumentality thereof, available for
  delivery into a transmission facility or distribution system.
22. "Transmission facility" means a water facility used to carry water
  from a supply facility to a distribution system.
23.  "Water  facility"  or  "water  facilities"  means   any   plants,
  structures  and other real and personal property acquired, rehabilitated
  or constructed or planned for the purpose  of  accumulating,  supplying,
  transmitting,  treating or distributing water, including but not limited
  to surface or groundwater reservoirs, basins, dams,  canals,  aqueducts,
  aqueduct taps, standpipes, conduits, pipelines, mains, pumping stations,
  pumps,  water  distribution  systems,  compensating  reservoirs,  intake
  stations, waterworks or sources of water supply, wells, purification  or
  filtration  plants or other treatment plants and works, contract rights,
  franchises, approaches, connections, permits, water  meters,  rights  of
  flowage  or diversion and other plants, structures, equipment, vehicles,
  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.
* NB There are 2 § 1199-bb's