§ 1115-a. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a\ndifferent meaning clearly appears from the context:\n 1. "Agreement" shall mean any agreement entered into by the city\npursuant to section one thousand one hundred fifteen-g or section one\nthousand one hundred fifteen-h of this title.\n 2. "Authority" shall mean the corporation created by section one\nthousand one hundred fifteen-b of this title.\n 3. "Bonds" shall mean the bonds, notes or other evidences of\nindebtedness issued by the authority pursuant to this title, and the\nprovisions of this title relating to bonds and bondholders shall apply\nwith equal force and effect to notes and noteholders, respectively,\nunless the context otherwise clearly requires.\n 4. "City" shall mean the city of Albany.\n 5. "Common council" or "council" shall mean the common council of the\ncity.\n 6. "Civil service commission" shall mean the civil service commission\nof the city.\n 7. "Comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the state.\n 8. "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 project, as the case may be; the\ninspection and supervision thereof; and the engineering, architectural,\nlegal, fiscal and economic and environmental investigations and studies,\nsurveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures\nand other actions preliminary or incidental thereto and claims arising\ntherefrom.\n 9. "Contracting agency" shall mean the authority or the water board,\nas the case may be.\n 10. "Cost", as applied to any project, includes the cost of\nconstruction, 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 consultant\nand legal services, the cost of lease guarantee or bond insurance and\nthe cost of other expenses necessary or incidental to the construction\nof such project and the financing of the construction thereof, including\nthe amount authorized in the resolution of the authority providing for\nthe issuance of bonds to be paid into any reserve or other special fund\nfrom the proceeds of such bonds and the financing of the placing of any\nproject in operation, including reimbursement to the city, or any\nmunicipality, state agency, the state, the United States government, or\nany other person for expenditures that would be costs of the project\nhereunder.\n 11. "Governing body" shall mean the members of the authority or the\nwater board, as the case may be, constituting and acting as the\ngoverning body of the authority or the water board, as the case may be.\n 12. "Mayor" shall mean the mayor of the city.\n 13. "Municipality" shall mean any county, city, town, village,\nimprovement district under the town law, any other such instrumentality,\nincluding any agency, or public corporation of the state, or any of the\nforegoing or any combination thereof.\n 14. "Person" shall mean any natural person or any firm, partnership,\nassociation, joint venture or corporation, exclusive of public\ncorporations as defined pursuant to article two-A of the general\nconstruction law.\n 15. "Project" shall mean any water facility, sewerage facility or\nwater and sewerage facility, including the planning, development,\nfinancing or construction thereof.\n 16. "Properties" shall mean the water supply and distribution system\nor systems of the water board, and sewerage system or systems of the\nwater board, whether situated within or without the territorial limits\nof the city, including the plants, works, structures, instrumentalities\nor part thereof and appurtenances thereto, real property, water\nfacilities, sewerage facilities or any other property incidental to and\nincluded in such system or part thereof, and any improvements,\nextensions and betterments.\n 17. "Real property" shall mean lands, structures, franchises and\ninterests in land, waters, lands underwater, ground water, 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 right, legal or equitable, including terms for\nyears and liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages or otherwise.\n 18. "Revenues" shall mean rates, 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, state or municipal aid\ntherefor.\n 19. "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 20. "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 but not limited to main,\ntrunk, intercepting, connecting, lateral, outlet or other sewers,\noutfalls, pumping stations, treatment and disposal plants, groundwater\nrecharge basins, back-flow prevention devices, sludge dewatering or\ndisposal equipment and facilities, clarifiers, filters, phosphorus\nremoval equipment, and other plants, structures, equipment, vehicles,\nconveyances, real or personal property or rights therein and\nappurtenances thereto necessary or useful and convenient for the\ncollection, conveyance, pumping, neutralizing, storing and disposing of\nsewage.\n 21. "Sewerage system" shall mean the sewage collection, pumping,\ntreatment, neutralizing, storage and disposal system or systems owned\nby, in the possession of, or under the jurisdiction and control of the\ncity or the water board, including all additions, increases,\nenlargements, extensions or improvements thereto.\n 22. "State" shall mean the state of New York.\n 23. "State agency" shall mean any state office, department, board,\ncommission, bureau or division, or other agency or instrumentality of\nthe state.\n 24. "Water board" shall mean the corporation created by a special act\nof the state legislature at the request of the city as provided in\nsection one thousand one hundred fifteen-e of this title.\n 25. "Water facility" or "water facilities" shall mean any plants,\nstructures and other real and personal property acquired, rehabilitated,\nconstructed or planned for the purpose of accumulating, supplying,\ntransmitting, treating or distributing water, including but not limited\nto surface or groundwater reservoirs, basins, dams, canals, aqueducts,\nstandpipes, conduits, pipelines, mains, pumping stations, pumps, water\ndistribution systems, compensating reservoirs, intake stations,\nwaterworks or sources of water supply, wells, purification or filtration\nplants or other treatment plants and works, connections, water meters,\nrights of flowage or diversion and other plants, structures, equipment,\nvehicles, conveyances, real or personal property or rights therein and\nappurtenances thereto necessary or useful and convenient for the\naccumulation, supply, transmission, treatment or distribution of water.\n 26. "Water system" shall mean the water supply and distribution system\nor systems owned by, in the possession of, or under the jurisdiction,\ncontrol and regulation of the city or the water board, including all\nadditions, increases, enlargements, extensions or improvements thereto.\n