§ 1045-b. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a\ndifferent meaning clearly appears from the context:\n 1. "Authority" shall mean the public benefit corporation created by\nsection one thousand forty-five-c of this title, known as the New York\ncity municipal water finance authority.\n 2. "Bonds" shall mean bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness\nissued by the authority pursuant to this title and the provisions of\nthis title relating to bonds and bondholders shall apply with equal\nforce and effect to notes and noteholders, respectively, unless the\ncontext otherwise clearly requires.\n 3. "City" shall mean the city of New York.\n 4. "Comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the city.\n 5. "Construction" shall mean the acquisition, erection, building,\nalteration, improvement, increase, enlargement, extension,\nreconstruction, renovation or rehabilitation of a water, sewerage or\nwater and sewerage system or water project, as the case may be, as\ndefined herein; the inspection and supervision thereof; and the\nengineering, architectural, legal, fiscal and economic and environmental\ninvestigations and studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings,\nspecifications, procedures and other actions incidental thereto and\nclaims arising therefrom.\n 6. "Contracting agency" shall mean any municipality, agency, authority\nor board, state agency, public authority or public benefit corporation\nauthorized to award contracts for design, construction, services or\nmaterials for water projects authorized by this title.\n 7. (a) "Cost", as applied to any water project, shall include the cost\nof construction, the cost of the acquisition of all property, including\nboth real, personal and mixed, the cost of demolishing, removing or\nrelocating any buildings or structures on lands so acquired, including\nthe cost of acquiring any lands to which such buildings or structures\nmay be moved or relocated, the cost of all systems, facilities,\nmachinery, apparatus and equipment, financing charges, interest prior\nto, during and after construction to the extent not paid or provided for\nfrom revenues or other sources, the cost of engineering and\narchitectural surveys, plans and specifications, the cost of\nconsultants' and legal services, the cost of lease guarantee or bond\ninsurance, other expenses necessary, reasonably related or incidental to\nthe construction of such water project and the financing of the\nconstruction thereof, including the amount authorized in the resolution\nof the authority providing for the issuance of bonds to be paid into any\nreserve or other special fund from the proceeds of such bonds and the\nfinancing of the placing of any water project in operation, including\nreimbursement to any municipality, state agency, the state, the United\nStates government, or any other person for expenditures that would be\ncosts of the water project hereunder.\n (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this\nsubdivision, with respect to any fund established to support a program\nof water projects in Westchester and Putnam counties from the proceeds\nof bonds issued pursuant to this chapter, "cost" as applied to any water\nproject shall also include any interest paid after January twenty-first,\nnineteen hundred ninety-seven, without any other limitation as to when\npaid and without regard to the availability of any other sources of\npayment therefor, on bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness\nissued by any local governmental entity after January twenty-first,\nnineteen hundred ninety-seven to finance expenditures that would\notherwise be costs of such water projects.\n 8. "Mayor" shall mean the mayor of the city of New York.\n 9. "Municipal bond" shall mean a bond, note or other evidence of\nindebtedness lawfully issued by the city pursuant to the local finance\nlaw or any other law applicable thereto.\n 10. "Person" shall mean any person, firm, partnership, association, or\ncorporation organized or existing under the laws of the state or any\nother state, exclusive of public corporations as defined pursuant to\narticle two-A of the general construction law.\n 11. "Real property" shall mean lands, structures, franchises and\ninterests in land, waters, lands under water, groundwater riparian\nrights and air rights and any and all things and rights included within\nsaid term and includes not only fees simple absolute, but also any and\nall lesser interests including, but not limited to, easements, rights of\nway, uses, leases, licenses and all other incorporeal hereditaments and\nevery estate, interest or rights, legal or equitable, including terms\nfor years and liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages or otherwise.\n 12. "Sewage" shall mean the water-carried human or animal wastes from\nresidences, buildings, industrial establishments or other places,\ntogether with such groundwater infiltration and surface water as may be\npresent. The admixture with sewage of industrial or other waste also\nshall be considered "sewage" within the meaning of this title.\n 13. "Sewerage facility" or "sewerage facilities" shall mean any\nplants, structures and other real and personal property acquired,\nrehabilitated or constructed or planned for the purpose of collecting,\ntreating and disposing of sewage, including main, trunk, intercepting,\nconnecting, lateral, outlet or other sewers, outfall, pumping stations,\ntreatment and disposal plants, groundwater recharge basins, back-flow\nprevention devices, sludge dewatering or disposal equipment and\nfacilities, clarifiers, filters, phosphorous removal equipment, and\nother plants, structures, equipment, vehicles, conveyances, real or\npersonal property or rights therein and appurtenances thereto necessary\nor useful and convenient for the collection, conveyance, pumping,\ntreatment, neutralizing, storing and disposing of sewage.\n 14. "Sewerage system" shall mean the sewage collection, pumping,\ntreatment neutralizing, storage and disposal system or systems in the\npossession of, or under the jurisdiction and control of, the city or the\nwater board, including all additions, increases, enlargements,\nextensions or improvements thereto.\n 15. "State" shall mean the state of New York.\n 16. "State agency" shall mean any state office, department, board,\ncommission, bureau or division, or other agency or instrumentality of\nthe state.\n 17. "System revenues" shall mean rents, fees, charges, payments and\nother income and receipts derived from users of a water system or\nsewerage system of the city or the water board including, without\nlimiting the generality of the foregoing, investment proceeds and\nproceeds of insurance, condemnation, sale or other disposition of any\npart thereof, together with all federal or state aid therefor.\n 18. "Water board" shall mean the water board or a sewer and water\nboard, as the case may be, created by a special act of the state\nlegislature, for the city as a body corporate and politic, constituting\na public benefit corporation, and having the powers and duties as\nprovided in this title.\n 19. "Water facility" or "water facilities" shall mean any plants,\nstructures and other real and personal property acquired, rehabilitated,\nor constructed or planned for the purpose of supplying, distributing or\ntreating water, including but not limited to surface or groundwater\nreservoirs, basins, dams, canals, aqueducts, standpipes, conduits,\npipelines, mains, pumping stations, water distribution systems,\ncompensating reservoirs, intake stations, water-works or sources of\nwater supply, wells, purification or filtration plants or other\ntreatment plants and works, connections, water meters, rights of flowage\nor division and other plants, structures, equipment, conveyances, real\nor personal property or rights therein and appurtenances thereto\nnecessary or useful and convenient for the accumulation, supply,\ntreatment or distribution of water.\n 20. "Water project" shall mean any sewerage facility, water facility\nor water and sewerage facility, as the case may be, including the\nplanning, development, financing or construction thereof.\n 21. "Water system" shall mean the water supply and distribution system\nor systems owned by, in the possession of the city or the water board or\nunder the jurisdiction, control and regulation of the city, including\nall additions, increases, enlargements, extensions or improvements\nthereto.\n