2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 1-B - North Country Power Authority › 1021-A - Definitions.

§  1021-a. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a
  different meaning clearly appears from the context:
1. "Acquire" means, with respect to any right, title or interest in or
  to any property, either the act of taking by the exercise of  the  power
  of eminent domain, or the acquisition by purchase or otherwise.
2.  "Act"  means  the  North  Country  power authority act, being this
  title.
3. "Authority" means the North Country power authority established  by
  section one thousand twenty-one-b of this title.
4. "Commission" means the Public Service Commission.
5. "Comptroller" means the state comptroller.
6. "Directors" means the board of directors of the authority.
7.  "Federal  government"  means  the United States of America and any
  agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United  States
  of America.
8.  "Final  determination"  or  "finally  determined" means a judicial
  decision (a) by the highest court of competent jurisdiction, or (b) by a
  court of competent jurisdiction from which no appeal has been taken  and
  the time within which to appeal has expired.
9.  "NCPA" means the North Country power authority, and its successors
  and assigns.
10. "Municipality" means any county, city,  town,  village,  municipal
  corporation,  school  district  or  other  political  subdivision of the
  state, including any agency, authority  or  public  corporation  of  the
  state  or  any  of the foregoing, or any combination thereof, other than
  the authority.
11. "Property" means the power distribution system or systems  of  the
  authority,  whether  completed  facilities  or projects in construction,
  whether situated within or without the territorial limits of the service
  area, including the plants, works, structures, poles,  lines,  conduits,
  mains,  systems,  instrumentalities  or  parts thereof and appurtenances
  thereto, lands, franchises and interest in land, including  lands  under
  water and riparian rights, space rights and air rights, contract rights,
  substations,   and   distribution  facilities,  or  any  other  property
  incidental to and included in such  system  or  part  thereof,  and  any
  improvements,  extensions or betterments. The term "property" shall also
  include any and all interests in real property  less  than  full  title,
  such  as  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  all  claims  for  damages
  related to such real estate.
12.  "Revenues"  means  all  rates, rents, fees, charges, payments and
  other income and receipts derived by the authority from the operation of
  the properties of the authority other than the proceeds of the sales  of
  its  securities,  including, but not limited to, investment proceeds and
  proceeds of insurance, condemnation, and sales or other  disposition  of
  assets, together with all federal, state or municipal aid.
13.  "Security" means any bond, note or other obligation issued by the
  authority.
14. "State" means the state of New York.
15. "State agency" means any  board,  authority,  agency,  department,
  commission,  public  corporation, body politic or instrumentality of the
  state.