Section 1122. 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-three of this title.
    2. "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.
    3. "Civil service commission" means the civil  service  commission  of
  the county of Dutchess.
    4. "Comptroller" means the comptroller of the state.
    5. "Construct", "construction" or "constructed" means the acquisition,
  erection,  building,  alteration,  improvement,  increase,  enlargement,
  extension, reconstruction, renovation  or  rehabilitation  of  a  water,
  sewerage  or  water  and  sewerage  facility,  as  the  case may be; the
  inspection and supervision thereof; and the engineering,  architectural,
  legal, fiscal and economic investigations and studies, surveys, designs,
  plans,  working  drawings,  specifications,  procedure and other actions
  preliminary or incidental thereto.
    6. "Cost"  as  applied  to  any  project,   includes   the   cost   of
  construction,  the  cost  of  the acquisition of all property, including
  real property and other property, both  real,  personal  and  mixed  and
  improved  and  unimproved,  the  cost  of  the  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  water  facilities,  sewerage
  facilities,  water  and  sewerage  facilities,  machines,  apparatus and
  equipment, financing charges  and  bond  discount,  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 bond or lease guarantee, bond  insurance
  or  any  other  credit  support  device  and  the cost of other expenses
  necessary or incidental to the  construction  of  any  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 funds from the proceeds of
  such bonds and the financing of the placing of any project in operation,
  including reimbursement  to  the  county,  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.
    7. "County" means the county of Dutchess.
    8. "County executive" means the county executive of the county,  being
  the chief executive officer of the county.
    9. "County legislature" means the county legislature of the county.
    10. "Distribution  system"  means  the  water  facility  or facilities
  employed to deliver water from a transmission facility, or  where  there
  is  no  transmission  facility,  from a supply facility, to the ultimate
  consumers of water.
    11. "Governing body" means the members of the  authority  constituting
  and acting as the governing body of the authority.
    12. "Municipality"   means   any   county,  city,  town,  village,  or
  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.

    13. "Person" means any natural person, partnership, association, joint
  venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.
    14. "Project"   means  any  water,  sewerage  or  water  and  sewerage
  facility, as the case may be.
    15. "Properties" means water, sewerage or water and sewerage  facility
  or    facilities,    including    the    plants,    works,   structures,
  instrumentalities  or  part  thereof  and  appurtenances  thereto,  real
  property,  or  any  other  property  incidental  to and included in such
  facility or facilities or part thereof, and any improvements, extensions
  and betterments.
    16. "Real property" means lands,  structures,  franchise,  rights  and
  interests  in  land,  waters, lands under water, riparian rights and air
  rights and any and all things and rights included within said  term  and
  includes  not  only  fees  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.
    17. "Revenues"  means  all  rates,  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 sale or
  other disposition  of  assets,  together  with  all  federal,  state  or
  municipal aid, if any.
    18.  "Sewage"  means  the  water-carried  human  or animal wastes from
  residences,  buildings,  industrial  establishments  or  other   places,
  together  with such groundwater infiltration and surface water as may be
  present. The admixture with sewage of industrial  or  other  waste  also
  shall be considered "sewage" within the meaning of this title.
    19. "Sewerage  facility"  or  "sewerage  facilities" means any plants,
  structures and other real and personal property acquired,  rehabilitated
  or  constructed  or  planned for the purpose of collecting, treating and
  disposing of sewage, including main,  trunk,  intercepting,  connecting,
  lateral,  outlet  or  other sewers, outfall, pumping stations, treatment
  and disposal plants, groundwater recharge basins,  back-flow  prevention
  devices,   sludge  dewatering  or  disposal  equipment  and  facilities,
  clarifiers, filters, phosphorus removal  equipment,  and  other  plants,
  structures,  equipment, vehicles, conveyances, real or personal property
  or rights therein and appurtenances  thereto  necessary  or  useful  and
  convenient   for   the   collection,   conveyance,  pumping,  treatment,
  neutralizing, storing and disposing of sewage.
    20. "State" means the state of New York.
    21. "State  agency"  means   any   state   officer,   public   benefit
  corporation, department, board, commission, bureau or division, or other
  agency or instrumentality of the state.
    22. "Supply   facility"  means  a  water  facility  employed  to  make
  groundwater or surface water available for delivery into a  transmission
  facility or distribution system.
    23. "Transmission facility" means a water facility used to carry water
  from a supply facility to a distribution system.
    24. "Water   facility"   or   "water  facilities"  means  any  plants,
  structures and other real and personal property acquired,  rehabilitated
  or  constructed  or  planned for the purpose of accumulating, supplying,
  transmitting, treating or distributing water, including but not  limited
  to  surface  or groundwater reservoirs, basins, dams, canals, aqueducts,
  aqueduct taps, 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.
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