Section 1199-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  one  thousand
  one hundred ninety-nine-c 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.
    4. "Comptroller" means the comptroller of the state.
    5.  "Construction"  means   the   acquisition,   erection,   building,
  alteration,     improvement,     increase,    enlargement,    extension,
  reconstruction, renovation or rehabilitation of  a  water,  sewerage  or
  water  and  sewerage  system,  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,   procedures   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 and personal 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  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 Rensselaer.
    8. "County executive" means the county executive of the county.
    9. "County legislature" means the county legislature of the county.
    10.  "District"  means  the Rensselaer county water and sewer district
  created by section one thousand one hundred ninety-nine-b of this title.
    11. "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 such water.
    12.  "Governing  body" means the members of the authority constituting
  and acting as the governing body of the authority.
    13. "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.
    14. "Person" means any natural person, partnership, association, joint
  venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.

    15. "Project" means any water facility, sewerage facility or water and
  sewerage facility.
    16.  "Properties"  means  the  water,  sewerage and water and sewerage
  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,  sewerage  facilities  or  any  other
  property  incidental  to  and included in such system or systems or part
  thereof, and any improvements, extensions and betterments.
    17. "Real property" means lands, structures,  franchises,  rights  and
  interests  in  land,  waters,  lands underwater, 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.
    18.  "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  sale  or  other  disposition  of assets, together with all federal,
  state or municipal aid.
    19. "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.
    20. "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,  conveying,
  pumping,  treating,  neutralizing,  storing  and  disposing  of  sewage,
  including but not limited  to  main,  trunk,  intercepting,  connecting,
  lateral,  outlet  or other sewers, outfalls, 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,
  works,  structures,  equipment,  vehicles, conveyances, contract rights,
  franchises, approaches, connections, permits, 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.
    21. "State" means the state of New York.
    22.   "State   agency"   means   any  state  officer,  public  benefit
  corporation, department, board, commission, bureau or division, or other
  agency or instrumentality of the state.
    23.  "Supply  facility"  means  a  water  facility  employed  to  make
  groundwater  or surface water available for delivery into a transmission
  facility or distribution system.
    24. "Transmission facility" means a water facility used to carry water
  from a supply facility to a distribution system.
    25.  "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,
  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.