Section 119-N. Definitions  


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  • As used herein:
        a. The term "municipal corporation" means a county outside the city of
      New  York, a city, a town, a village, a board of cooperative educational
      services, fire district or a school district.
        b. The term "district" means a county or town improvement district for
      which the county or town or towns in which such district is  located  is
      or  are required to pledge its or their faith and credit for the payment
      of the principal of and interest on all indebtedness  to  be  contracted
      for the purposes of such district.
        c.  The  term  "joint  service" means joint provision of any municipal
      facility,  service,  activity,  project  or  undertaking  or  the  joint
      performance  or  exercise  of  any  function  or power which each of the
      municipal corporations or districts has the power by any  other  general
      or  special  law  to  provide,  perform  or exercise, separately and, to
      effectuate the purposes of this  article,  shall  include  extension  of
      appropriate territorial jurisdiction necessary therefor.
        d.  The  term  "joint water, sewage or drainage project" means a joint
      project to provide for a common supply of water, the common  conveyance,
      treatment  and  disposal  of  sewage  or  a  common  drainage system, as
      described in paragraphs B, D and F of section two-a of article eight  of
      the constitution.
        e.  The  term  "voting  strength"  means the aggregate number of votes
      which all the members  of  the  local  governing  body  of  a  municipal
      corporation or district are entitled to cast.