Section 576. Definitions

As  used or referred to in this title, unless a
  different meaning clearly appears from the context:
    1. The term "authority" shall mean the corporation created by  section
  five hundred seventy-seven of this chapter;
    2.  The  term  "supervisors"  shall mean the Jefferson county board of
  supervisors;
    3. The term "bridge complex" shall mean all  bridges  which,  together
  with  their  approaches  and  connecting roads, form a crossing from one
  particular area in the United States across the St. Lawrence river to  a
  particular  area  in Canada, and shall include such approaches and roads
  as well as all buildings, facilities and other  improvements  which  are
  necessary  or  incidental  to  the  operation  and  maintenance  of such
  bridges, approaches and roads or  which  serve  the  traffic  over  such
  bridges;
    4.  The term "bonds" shall mean bonds issued by the authority pursuant
  to this title;
    5. The term "board" shall mean the members of the authority;
    6. The term "treasurer" shall mean the treasurer of the authority;
    7. The term "county" shall mean the county of Jefferson;
    8. The term "state" shall mean the state of New York;
    9. The term "comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the state;
    10. The term "revenues" shall mean all moneys received by  or  due  to
  the  authority from tolls, rentals, user fees, charges or other payments
  derived from the operation  of  the  properties  or  facilities  of  the
  authority,  as  well  as  interest earned on deposits or securities, and
  other income of the authority, from whatever source it may emanate,  but
  shall  not  include  gifts, grants, or the principal of any loan, or the
  proceeds of any bond issue;
    11. The term "political subdivision" shall mean any city, town, front,
  village, riding,  municipality,  water  district,  fire  district,  fire
  protection  district, school district, improvement district, commission,
  bureau, division, agency, instrumentality,  public  corporation,  public
  benefit  corporation,  board  or  department  of  the  governmental body
  indicated, whether the same be in the United States or in Canada;
    12.  The  term  "real  property"   shall   mean   lands,   structures,
  improvements  to  land,  franchises and interests in land, waters, lands
  under water, riparian rights, space rights, air rights, and any and  all
  other  things  and rights usually included within said term and includes
  not only fees simple and absolute but also any and all lesser interests,
  including but not limited to appurtenances thereto, easements, rights of
  way, uses,  leases,  leaseholds,  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 claims for damage to real property;
    13.  The  term  "properties"  shall  mean all the real property of the
  authority and all tangible and intangible personal property  thereof  of
  every  kind,  including  but not limited to vehicles, equipment, plants,
  works, franchises, and contract rights;
    14. The term "facilities" shall mean any  of  the  properties  of  the
  authority  or any other real property or personal property controlled or
  operated by the authority which is used or intended to be  used  in  the
  furtherance of any of its corporate purposes;
    15.  The term "indebtedness" shall mean any obligation for the payment
  of a fixed or determinable amount of money, enforceable by an action  at
  law, including but not limited to bonds, bond anticipation notes, notes,
  contractual  obligations,  rentals  owed  as lessee, and other financial
  liabilities.