New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION › Chapter X - DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES › Subchapter A - GENERAL › Article 1 - MISCELLANEOUS RULES › Part 651 - STATE AID FOR COLLECTION, TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL OF SEWAGE-COST OF OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS › State Aid for Sewage Collection Systems › Section 651.74 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Construction.
						The building, installation or extension of a sewer system; the inspection and
						supervision thereof; the engineering, legal, fiscal and economic investigation;
						studies, surveys, designs, plants, contract drawings, specifications,
						procedures; and other actions necessary thereto.
(b) Under construction. Work actually in
						progress at the project site after execution of the construction
						contract.
(c) Sewer system.
						Pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, force mains, and all other
						constructions, devices and appliances appurtenant thereto, used for conducting
						sewage (the water-carried human, animal or other treatable wastes from
						residences, buildings, industrial and commercial establishments or other
						places) to a point of connection to the sewage treatment works.
(d) Sewage treatment works. A facility for
						the purpose of treating, neutralizing or stabilizing sewage, including
						treatment or disposal plants, the necessary intercepting, outfall and outlet
						sewers, pumping stations integral to such plants or sewers, equipment and
						furnishings thereof and their appurtenances.
(e) Sewer connection. A connection between a
						building, residence or other structure and a public sewer.
(f) Public sewer. A sewer owned by a
						municipality entirely within a public right-of-way or easement acquired for a
						sewer line, that serves the public.
(g) House connection. That portion of a sewer
						connection extending from the closest public right-of-way or easement boundary
						to the residence. House connections are not eligible for State aid.
(h) Residence. A building or structure which
						is occupied principally as the home of one or more persons; provided, however,
						that such building or structure contain not more than two dwelling units. A
						dwelling unit is any room or group of rooms located within a dwelling and
						forming a single habitable unit with facilities which are used or intended to
						be used for living, sleeping, cooking and eating. Residences containing more
						than two dwelling units, including multi-family dwellings, apartment houses,
						condominiums, motels, hotels, and such other facilities as trailer and mobile
						home parks, migrant labor camps, combined store and owner's dwelling unit,
						etc., are deemed commercial buildings. As an exception, mobile homes on
						isolated lots not part of a mobile home park, may be considered as
						residences.
(i) Municipality. Any
						county, town, village, district corporation, county or town improvement
						district, or any two or more of the foregoing which are acting jointly in
						connection with an eligible project. For purposes of these rules and
						regulations only, an indian reservation located partly or wholly within New
						York State shall be construed as a "municipality". However, only that part of
						the project located wholly within New York State is eligible for State
						aid.
(j) Applicant. Any
						municipality, as defined above, that files an application for State aid
						pursuant to section 12 63-d of the Public Health Law.
(k) Local governing body.
(1) in a county, the county board of
						supervisors or the county legislature;
(2) in a town, the town board;
(3) in a village, the board of
						trustees;
(4) in a district
						corporation or an improvement district, the governing board;
(5) in an indian reservation, the proper
						tribal officials.