Section 2577. Definitions  


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  • As used or referred to in this title, unless a
      different meaning clearly appears from the context, the following  terms
      shall mean and include:
        1.  "Authority".  The corporation created by section two thousand five
      hundred seventy-eight of this title.
        2. "City". The City of Rochester.
        3. "Board". The members of the authority constituting  and  acting  as
      the governing body of the authority.
        4. "Bonds". 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.
        5.  "Construct",  "construction"  or  "constructed".  The acquisition,
      erection,  building,  alteration,  improvement,  increase,  enlargement,
      extension,   reconstruction,   renovation   or   rehabilitation   of   a
      professional soccer stadium; 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, means and includes the cost of
      construction, the cost of the acquisition  of  all  property,  including
      real  property and other property, real, personal and mixed and improved
      and unimproved, the cost of demolishing, removing or relocating  of  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 the professional soccer stadium, machinery,
      apparatus and equipment,  the  cost  of  engineering  and  architectural
      surveys,  plans  and  specifications,  the  cost of consultant and legal
      services, the cost of other expenses  necessary  or  incidental  to  the
      construction of any project or facility for the purposes of professional
      soccer  and  the financing of the construction thereof and the financing
      of the placing of any  such  project  or  such  facility  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 a project hereunder  had  they  been
      made directly by the authority.
        7. "Controller". The controller of the county of Monroe.
        8. "County". The county of Monroe.
        9. "County legislature". The Monroe county legislature.
        10. "Notes". The notes authorized by the title.
        11.  "Person".  Any  natural  person,  partnership, association, joint
      venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.
        12. "Project". Any real property or improvements  located  within  the
      state  of  New  York  and  within  Monroe  county, whether or not now in
      existence or under construction, which shall be  necessary  or  suitable
      for  use  as  a  sports  facility  or  for  a use incidental to a sports
      facility, including, but not limited to, machinery, equipment and  other
      facilities  deemed  necessary  or  desirable in connection therewith, or
      incidental thereto.
        13. "Real property". Lands, including air and  subsurface  rights  and
      lands under water, structures, franchises and interests in lands and any
      and  all  things  usually  included within the said terms, including not
      only fees simple absolute but also any and all lesser interests, such as
      easements,  rights  of  way,  uses,  leases,  licenses,  and  all  other
      incorporeal  hereditaments and every estate, interest or right, legal or
      equitable, including terms  of  years,  and  liens  thereon  by  way  of
    
      judgments,  mortgages  or  otherwise, and also claims for damage to real
      estate.
        14.  "Revenues".  All  fees,  charges, tolls, rentals, rates and other
      income and receipts derived from the operation of  any  sports  facility
      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
      if any.
        15.  "Sports  facility". Real property and improvements and structures
      thereon in the county, constituting a professional  soccer  stadium  and
      other  structures  or  related  facilities,  suitable for the holding of
      professional soccer events, including parking therefor.
        16. "State". The state of New York.
        17. "State agency". Any  state  office,  public  benefit  corporation,
      department,  board,  commission,  bureau,  division  or  other agency or
      instrumentality of the state.