Section 1198-B. Definitions

As used or referred to in this title, unless a
  different meaning clearly appears from the context:
    1. "Authority" shall mean the corporation created  by  section  eleven
  hundred ninety-eight-d of this title.
    2.  "Board  of  directors"  shall  mean  the  governing  board  of the
  authority.
    3.  "Bonds"  shall  mean  the  bonds,  notes  or  other  evidences  of
  indebtedness issued by the authority pursuant to this title.
    4.  "Calendar  year"  shall  mean the twelve month period from January
  first through December thirty-first.
    5. "Chief executive officer" when referring to  a  municipality  shall
  mean the chief elected official of such municipality and, when referring
  to the authority, shall mean the chairperson of the authority.
    6.  "Civil service commission" shall mean the civil service commission
  of the county of Nassau.
    7. "Comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the state of New York.
    8. "Construction" shall mean the negotiation,  acquisition,  erection,
  building,   alteration,  improvement,  testing,  increase,  enlargement,
  extension, reconstruction, interconnection, renovation or rehabilitation
  of a water facility as defined herein; the  inspection  and  supervision
  thereof;  and  the engineering, architectural, legal, appraisal, fiscal,
  economic  and  environmental  investigations,  services   and   studies,
  surveys,  designs,  plans,  working drawings, specifications, procedures
  and other actions incidental thereto.
    9. "Costs", as applied to any  project,  shall  include  the  cost  of
  construction,  the  cost  of  the acquisition of all property, including
  both real, personal and mixed, the  cost  of  demolishing,  removing  or
  relocating  any  buildings  or structures on lands so acquired including
  the cost of acquiring any land to which such buildings or structures may
  be moved or relocated, the cost of all systems,  facilities,  machinery,
  apparatus  and  equipment, financing charges and bond discount, interest
  to the extent not paid or provided for from revenues or  other  sources,
  the   cost   of   engineering   and  architectural  surveys,  plans  and
  specifications, bond insurance, bond  credit  enhancement  arrangements,
  other  expenses  necessary  or  incidental  to  the construction of such
  project and the financing of the  construction  thereof,  including  the
  cost  of  legal and financial advices and credit arrangements with banks
  or other financial institutions, the amount authorized in the resolution
  of the authority providing for the issuance of bonds to be paid into any
  reserve or special  fund  from  the  proceeds  of  such  bonds  and  the
  financing  of  the  placing  of  any project in operation, including the
  reimbursement to any municipality, state agency, the state,  the  United
  States  government,  or  any  other person for expenditures made by them
  that would be costs of the project hereunder, notwithstanding  the  fact
  that  such  expenditures  may  have been incurred prior to the effective
  date of this title.
    10. "County" shall mean the county of Nassau.
    11. "Distribution system" shall mean 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.
    12. "District" shall mean the water authority of Western Nassau county
  district created by section eleven hundred ninety-eight-c of this title.
    13. "Governing body" shall mean:
    (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.
    (b) In the case of a public benefit corporation, the members thereof.

    14. "Members" shall mean the members of the board of directors.
    15.  "Municipality"  shall  mean  any  city,  county, town, village or
  county or town acting on behalf of an improvement district.
    16. "Real property"  shall  mean  lands,  structures,  franchises  and
  interests in land, waters, lands under water, goundwater riparian rights
  and  air  rights  and any and all things and rights customarily included
  within the term  "real  property"  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.
    17.  "State  sanitary code" shall mean regulations adopted pursuant to
  section two hundred twenty-five of the public health law.
    18. "State" shall mean state of New York.
    19. "State  agency"  shall  mean  any  state  office,  public  benefit
  corporation, department, board, commission, bureau or division, or other
  agency or instrumentality of the state.
    20.  "Supply  facility"  shall  mean a water facility employed to make
  groundwater or surface water available for delivery into a  transmission
  facility or distribution system.
    21.  "System  revenues"  shall  mean  all rates, rents, fees, charges,
  payments and other  income  and  receipts  derived  from  users  of  the
  authority  without  limiting the generality of the foregoing, investment
  proceeds  and  proceeds  of  insurance,  condemnation,  sales  or  other
  dispositions  of  assets,  together with all federal, state or municipal
  aid as well as any other income derived from the operation of the  water
  facility of the authority.
    22.  "Transmission facility" shall mean a water facility used to carry
  water from a supply facility to a distribution system.
    23. "Treasurer" shall mean the treasurer of the authority.
    24. "Water facility" or "water  facilities"  shall  mean  any  plants,
  structures  and other real and personal property acquired, rehabilitated
  or constructed for the purpose of supplying, transmitting,  distributing
  or  treating  water, including but not limited to surface or groundwater
  reservoirs,  basins,  dams,  canals,  aqueducts,  standpipes,  conduits,
  pipelines,   mains,   pumping   stations,  water  distribution  systems,
  compensating reservoirs, intake stations, waterworks or sources of water
  supply, wells, purification or  filtration  plants  or  other  treatment
  plants  and  works,  connections,  water  meters,  rights  of flowage or
  diversion and other plants, structures, equipment, towers,  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.
    25.  "Water  project"  shall  mean  any  water facility, including the
  planning, development, financing or construction thereof.
    26. "Watershed rules" shall mean the rules and regulations made by the
  department of health pursuant to section eleven hundred  of  the  public
  health law.