Section 2652. Definitions

As  used or referred to in this title, unless a
  different meaning clearly appears from the context:
    1. The term "authority" shall  mean  the  public  benefit  corporation
  created by section twenty-six hundred fifty-three of this title.
    2. The term "board" shall mean the members of the authority created in
  section twenty-six hundred fifty-three of this title.
    3.  The  term  "person"  shall  mean  any natural person, partnership,
  limited liability company, association, joint  venture  or  corporation,
  exclusive of a public corporation.
    4.  The  term  "service district" shall mean the Schenectady metroplex
  service district created by section  twenty-six  hundred  fifty-four  of
  this title.
    5. The term "bonds" shall mean bonds and notes issued by the authority
  pursuant to this title.
    6. The term "state" shall mean the state of New York.
    7.  The  term  "governor"  shall mean the governor of the state of New
  York.
    8. The term "comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the  state  of
  New York.
    9.  The  term  "director of the budget" shall mean the director of the
  budget of the state of New York.
    10. The term "municipality"  shall  mean  a  county,  town,  city,  or
  village.
    11. The term "county" shall mean the county of Schenectady.
    12.  The  term  "county legislature" shall mean the Schenectady county
  legislature.
    13. The term "city" shall mean the city of Schenectady.
    14. The term "mayor" shall mean the mayor of the city of Schenectady.
    15. The term "city council" shall mean the city council of the city of
  Schenectady.
    16. The term "metroplex facility" shall mean any  facility,  building,
  structure,  park  or  other  real  property  owned, leased, constructed,
  created, designed, developed, planned,  financed,  operated,  renovated,
  administered, managed and/or maintained by the authority.
    17.  The  term  "park  district" shall mean any area designated by the
  authority, within the service district, to be an  historic  preservation
  district, a special entertainment district, an educational entertainment
  district, or a recreational park district.
    18.  The  term  "construction"  shall  mean the acquisition, erection,
  building, alteration,  improvement,  increase,  enlargement,  extension,
  reconstruction,  renovation  or  rehabilitation  of any project financed
  under the provisions of  this  title;  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.
    19. The term "real property" shall mean lands, waters, rights in lands
  or waters, structures, franchises and interests in land, including lands
  under water, riparian  rights,  property  rights  in  air  space  and/or
  subsurface  space  and  any  and  all  other  things  and rights usually
  included within such term and includes also any  and  all  interests  in
  such  property  less  than  full  title,  such as easements permanent or
  temporary,  rights-of-way,  uses,  leases,  licenses   and   all   other
  incorporeal  hereditaments  and every estate, interest or right legal or
  equitable.
    20. The  term  "personal  property"  shall  mean  chattels  and  other
  tangible things of a movable or removable nature.

    21.  The  term  "cost" as applied to any project, includes the cost of
  construction, the cost of the acquisition of  all  property,  rights  in
  property, rights-of-way, easements, franchises, and interests, including
  real  property  and  other  property,  both  real,  personal  and mixed,
  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  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  guarantee,  bond
  insurance or other credit support devices and the cost of other expenses
  necessary  or incidental to the construction of any 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 funds from the proceeds  of
  such bonds and the financing of the placing of any project in operation,
  including  reimbursement  to  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.
    22. The term "project" shall mean  a  facility,  building,  structure,
  park  or  other  real  property,  or  any  portion  thereof,  which  the
  ownership, lease, transfer, design,  development,  planning,  financing,
  creation,  siting,  construction, renovation, administration, operation,
  management and/or maintenance is authorized to be undertaken,  in  whole
  or in part, by the authority pursuant to this title.
    23.  The  term  "revenues"  shall mean all monies, funds, rates, fees,
  tolls, rents, charges or other income derived by the authority from  its
  planning,  development,  financing, construction, operation, management,
  or maintenance functions, or any monies or  funds  appropriated  to  the
  authority  from  the  state  or  a  municipality, or any monies or funds
  obtained from public or private donations to the authority  or  the  tax
  revenues  payable  to  the  authority pursuant to section twelve hundred
  ten-C of the tax law.
    24. The term "United States" shall mean the United States  of  America
  or any department, agency or instrumentality thereof acting on behalf of
  the United States of America.