Section 1120-A. 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 eleven hundred
  twenty-c of this title.
    2. "Board" means the members of the authority constituting and  acting
  as the governing board of the authority.
    3.  "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.
    4.  "Civil service commission" shall mean the civil service commission
  of the county of Saratoga.
    5. "Comptroller" means the comptroller of the state of New York.
    6.  "Construction"  means  the  negotiation,  acquisition,   erection,
  building,  alteration,  improvement,  increase,  enlargement, extension,
  reconstruction, renovation,  interconnection,  or  rehabilitation  of  a
  water   system;   the   inspection  and  supervision  thereof;  and  the
  engineering,  architectural,  legal,  appraisal,  fiscal,  economic  and
  environmental   investigations,  services,  studies,  surveys,  designs,
  plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures  and  other  actions
  preliminary or incidental thereto.
    7.   "Cost"   as   applied  to  any  project,  includes  the  cost  of
  construction, the  cost  of  the  acquisition  of  all  property,  real,
  personal   and   mixed,   and  improved  and  unimproved,  the  cost  of
  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,  machinery,  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  lease  guarantee  or
  bond insurance 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 fund from the proceeds of such  bonds  and  the
  financing  of  the  placing  of  any project in operation, including the
  reimbursement to the town, 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.
    8. "Distribution system" shall mean the water facility  or  facilities
  employed  to  deliver water from a transmission facility, or where there
  is not a transmission facility, from a supply facility, to the  ultimate
  consumers of water.
    9. "District" means the Clifton Park water district created by section
  eleven hundred twenty-b of this title.
    9-a.  "Sewer  district"  means a sewer district created by the town of
  Clifton Park.
    10. "Governing body" means:
    (a) In the case of  a  city,  county,  town  or  village  or  district
  corporation,  the  finance  board  as  such term is defined in the local
  finance law; or
    (b) In the case of a public benefit corporation, the members thereof.
    11. "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.
    12. "Person" means any natural person, partnership, association, joint
  venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.
    13. "Project" means any water facility.
    14.  "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,  and  any   improvements,   extensions   and
  betterments.
    15.  "Real  property"  means lands, structures, franchises, rights and
  interests in lands, waters, lands underwater, riparian  rights  and  air
  rights  and  any and all things and rights included within said term and
  includes not only fee 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.
    16. "Revenues" means all rates, rents,  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 sales or other dispositions of assets, together  with  all  federal,
  state or municipal aid.
    17. "State" shall mean the state of New York.
    18. "State agency" means any state office, public benefit corporation,
  department,  board,  commission,  bureau or division, or other agency or
  instrumentality of the state.
    19. "State sanitary code" means the regulations  adopted  pursuant  to
  section two hundred twenty-five of the public health law.
    20.  "Supply  facility"  means  a  water  facility  employed  to  make
  groundwater or surface water available for delivery into a  transmission
  facility or distribution system.
    21. "Town" means the town of Clifton Park.
    22. "Town board" means the town board of the town.
    23. "Town supervisor" means the town supervisor of the town.
    24. "Transmission facility" means a water facility used to carry water
  from a supply facility to a distribution system.
    25. "Treasurer" means the treasurer of the authority.
    26.  "Water  facility"  or "water facilities" means any plants, works,
  instrumentalities, structures  and  other  real  and  personal  property
  acquired,  rehabilitated  or  constructed  or planned for the purpose of
  accumulating, supplying, transmitting, heating  or  distributing  water,
  including  but not limited to surface or groundwater reservoirs, basins,
  dams, canals, aqueducts, 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.

    27.  "Watershed  rules"  means  the  rules and regulations made by the
  department of health pursuant to section eleven hundred  of  the  public
  health law.