Section 1199-BBBB. 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-dddd of this title.
    2.  "Board"  shall  mean the members of the authority constituting and
  acting as 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, 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 Cayuga.
    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, sewerage or water and sewerage facility, as the case may be;
  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 or other  credit
  enhancement associated with bonds of the authority (including notes) 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 Cayuga.
    9. "County legislature" shall mean the legislature of Cayuga county.
    10. "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.
    11.  "District" shall mean the Cayuga county water and sewer authority
  district created by section one thousand one hundred ninety-nine-cccc of
  this title.
    12. "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.

    13. "Members" shall mean the members of the board.
    14.  "Municipality"  shall  mean  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.
    15.  "Person" shall mean any natural person, partnership, association,
  joint venture or corporation,  exclusive  of  a  public  corporation  as
  defined pursuant to article two-A of the general construction law.
    16.  "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.
    17. "State sanitary code" shall mean regulations adopted  pursuant  to
  section two hundred twenty-five of the public health law.
    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, 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, ground water 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.
    20. "State" shall mean the state of New York.
    21. "State  agency"  shall  mean  any  state  office,  public  benefit
  corporation, department, board, commission, bureau or division, or other
  agency or instrumentality of the state.
    22.  "Supply  facility"  shall  mean a water facility employed to make
  groundwater or surface water available for delivery into a  transmission
  facility or distribution system.
    23.  "System  revenues"  shall  mean  all rates, rents, fees, charges,
  payments  and  other  income  and  receipts  derived  by  the  authority
  including,  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.
    24.  "Transmission facility" shall mean a water facility used to carry
  water from a supply facility to a distribution system.
    25. "Treasurer" shall mean the treasurer of the authority.
    26. "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.
    27. "Water project" shall mean any sewerage facility,  water  facility
  or  water  and  sewerage  facility,  as  the  case may be, including the
  planning, development, financing or construction thereof.
    28. "Watershed rules" shall mean the rules and regulations made by the
  department of health pursuant to section eleven hundred  of  the  public
  health law.
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