Section 1200. Definitions

Unless  expressly otherwise provided, whenever
  used in this title, the following terms  shall  mean  or  include:    1.
  "Authority."  The corporation created by section eighteen hundred one of
  this title.
    2. "Board." The members of the authority.
    3. "Board of estimate." The board of estimate of the city.
    4. "City." The city of New York.
    5. "Comptroller." The comptroller of the city.
    6. "Devices  and  appurtenances."  Devices  and  appurtenances  deemed
  necessary  by  the  authority, to secure the greatest efficiency, public
  convenience and safety, including the number, location, description  and
  plans  and specifications for the stations, suitable supports, turnouts,
  switches, sidings, connections, landing places, garages,  repair  shops,
  buildings,   structures,  platforms,  stairways,  elevators,  telephone,
  telegraph and signal devices, facilities for access to the surface,  and
  other   suitable  appliances  incidental  and  requisite  to  what  such
  authority may approve as the best and most  efficient  system  of  rapid
  transit  in  view of the public needs and requirements, including in its
  discretion, operation of a transit facility or some portion  thereof  by
  any  device  or  means,  other  than  separate  cars  or  trains, in the
  construction of which stationary means for guiding  a  conveyance  in  a
  definite  path  and  means  for propelling such conveyance are necessary
  elements.
    7. "Equipment." Rolling stock, omnibuses, vehicles,  motors,  boilers,
  engines,   wires,  ways,  conduits  and  mechanisms,  machinery,  tools,
  implements, materials, supplies and devices of every  nature  whatsoever
  used  for  the  generation or transmission of motive power and including
  all power houses, and all apparatus and all devices for  signalling  and
  ventilation as may be required for the operation of a transit facility.
    8. "Facilities." Routes, tracks, extensions, connections, terminals or
  facilities.
    9. "Fiscal year." A period commencing the first day of January in each
  year and ending on the succeeding December thirty-first of such year.
    10. "Governor." The governor of the state of New York.
    11. "Mayor." The mayor of the city.
    12. "Person." A natural person, firm or corporation.
    13.  "Property"  or  "property  rights."  Real  estate, real property,
  lands, rights, terms, interests, privileges, franchises or easements  of
  owners, abutting owners or others.
    14.   "Revenues."   All  monies  received  by  the  authority  or  its
  subsidiaries from whatever source, derived directly or  indirectly  from
  or in connection with their operations.
    15.  "Transit facility." A rapid transit railroad, omnibus line or any
  other facility or any railroad in the city used for local service in the
  transportation of passengers as common  carriers  for  hire  or  in  the
  transportation  of  the United States mail or personal property, and any
  portion thereof and the rights, leaseholds or other  interests  therein,
  together  with  the  devices and appurtenances, facilities and equipment
  thereof and power plants and  other  instrumentalities  used  or  useful
  therefor or in connection therewith.
    16.  "Street." A public street, marginal street, avenue, road, bridge,
  viaduct, highway, boulevard, driveway, park, parkway, dock, wharf, pier,
  ground, river, water, square, place or land within the city.
    17. "Metropolitan transportation authority." The  corporation  created
  by section twelve hundred sixty-three of this chapter.
    18.  "Triborough bridge and tunnel authority." The corporation created
  by section five hundred fifty-two of this chapter.