Section 1199-BBB. 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  one
  thousand one hundred ninety-nine-ddd of this title.
    2.  "Board"  shall  mean the members of the authority constituting and
  acting as the governing board of the authority.
    3. "Board of supervisors" shall  mean  the  board  of  supervisors  of
  Saratoga county.
    4.  "Bonds"  shall  mean  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-a.  "Civil  service  commission" shall mean the personnel officer of
  the county of Saratoga or any other person or entity acting as the civil
  service commission of the county of Saratoga.
    5. "Comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the state of New York.
    6. "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 preliminary or incidental thereto.
    7. "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, 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 county, or  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.
    8. "County" shall mean the county of Saratoga.
    9.  "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 such water.
    10. "District" shall mean the Saratoga county water authority district
  created by section one thousand  one  hundred  ninety-nine-ccc  of  this
  title.
    11. "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.

    12. "Members" shall mean the members of the board.
    13.  "Municipality"  shall  mean  any  county, city, town, village, or
  county or town acting on behalf of an improvement  district,  any  other
  instrumentality,  including  any  agency,  or  public corporation of the
  state, or any of the foregoing or any combination thereof.
    14. "Person" shall mean any natural person, partnership,  association,
  joint venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.
    15.  "Real  property" shall mean lands, structures, franchises, rights
  and interests in land, waters, lands underwater,  groundwater,  riparian
  rights  and air rights and any and all things and rights included within
  said 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.
    16. "Personnel officer" shall mean the personnel officer of the county
  of Saratoga.
    17. "State sanitary code" shall mean regulations adopted  pursuant  to
  section two hundred twenty-five of the public health law.
    18. "State" shall mean the 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 by the authority 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 but in
  no event shall "system revenues" mean an ad  valorem  levy  on  real  or
  personal property within the authority or any part thereof.
    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  or  other real and personal property acquired, rehabilitated
  or constructed or planned for the purpose  of  accumulating,  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, 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, approaches, connections,
  water  meters,  rights  of  flowage  or  diversion  and  other   plants,
  structures,  equipment,  vehicles, 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.