§ 1149-a. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a\ndifferent meaning clearly appears from the context:\n 1. "Authority" shall mean the corporation created by section one\nthousand one hundred forty-nine-c of this title.\n 2. "Board" shall mean the members of the authority constituting and\nacting as the governing board of the authority.\n 3. "Board of supervisors" shall mean the board of supervisors of\nSeneca county.\n 4. "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 5. "Civil service commission" shall mean the civil service commission\nof the county of Seneca.\n 6. "Comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the state of New York.\n 7. "Construction" shall mean the negotiation, acquisition, erection,\nbuilding, alteration, improvement, testing, increase, enlargement,\nextension, reconstruction, interconnection, renovation or rehabilitation\nof a water, sewerage or water and sewerage facility, as the case may be;\nthe inspection and supervision thereof; and the engineering,\narchitectural, legal, appraisal, fiscal, economic and environmental\ninvestigations, services and studies, surveys, designs, plans, working\ndrawings, specifications, procedures and other actions preliminary or\nincidental thereto.\n 8. "Costs", as applied to any project, shall include 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 land to which such buildings or structures may\nbe moved or relocated, the cost of all systems, facilities, machinery,\napparatus and equipment, financing charges, interest prior to, during\nand after construction to the extent not paid or provided for from\nrevenues or other sources, the cost of engineering and architectural\nsurveys, plans and specifications, the cost of consultant and legal\nservices, the cost of lease guarantee or bond insurance or other credit\nenhancement associated with bonds of the authority (including notes) 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 the reimbursement to the county, or any\nmunicipality, state agency, the state, the United States government, or\nany other person for expenditures made by them that would be costs of\nthe project hereunder.\n 9. "County" shall mean the county of Seneca.\n 10. "Distribution system" shall mean the water facility or facilities\nemployed to deliver water from a transmission facility, or where there\nis no transmission facility, from a supply facility, to the ultimate\nconsumers of water.\n 11. "District" shall mean the Seneca county water and sewer authority\ndistrict created by section eleven hundred forty-nine-b of this title.\n 12. "Governing body" shall mean:\n (a) In the case of a city, county, town or village or district\ncorporation the finance board as such term is defined in the local\nfinance law;\n (b) In the case of a public benefit corporation, the members thereof.\n 13. "Members" shall mean the members of the board.\n 14. "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 15. "Person" shall mean any natural person, partnership, association,\njoint venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.\n 16. "Real property" shall mean lands, structures, franchises, rights\nand interests in land, waters, lands underwater, groundwater, riparian\nrights and air rights and any and all things and rights included within\nsaid term "real property" and includes not only fee simple absolute, but\nalso any and all lesser interests including, but not limited to,\neasements, rights-of-way, uses, leases, licenses and all other\nincorporeal hereditaments and every estate, interest or right, legal or\nequitable, including terms for years and liens thereon by way of\njudgments, mortgages or otherwise.\n 17. "State sanitary code" shall mean regulations adopted pursuant to\nsection two hundred twenty-five of the public health law.\n 18. "Sewage" means 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 19. "Sewerage facility" or "sewerage facilities" means any plants,\nstructures and other real and personal property acquired, rehabilitated\nor constructed or planned for the purpose of collecting, conveying,\npumping, treating, neutralizing, storing and disposing of sewage,\nincluding but not limited to main, trunk, intercepting, connecting,\nlateral, outlet or other sewers, outfalls, pumping stations, treatment\nand disposal plants, groundwater recharge basins, back-flow prevention\ndevices, sludge dewatering or disposal equipment and facilities,\nclarifiers, filters, phosphorus removal equipment and other plants,\nworks, structures, equipment, vehicles, conveyances, contract rights,\nfranchises, approaches, connections, permits, real or personal property\nor rights therein and appurtenances thereto necessary or useful and\nconvenient for the collection, conveyance, pumping, treatment,\nneutralizing, storing and disposing of sewage.\n 20. "State" shall mean the state of New York.\n 21. "State agency" shall mean any state office, public benefit\ncorporation, department, board, commission, bureau or division, or other\nagency or instrumentality of the state.\n 22. "Supply facility" shall mean a water facility employed to make\ngroundwater or surface water available for delivery into a transmission\nfacility or distribution system.\n 23. "System revenues" shall mean all rates, rents, fees, charges,\npayments and other income and receipts derived by the authority\nincluding, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, investment\nproceeds and proceeds of insurance, condemnation, sales or other\ndispositions of assets, together with all federal, state or municipal\naid as well as any other income derived from the operation of the water\nfacility of the authority.\n 24. "Transmission facility" shall mean a water facility used to carry\nwater from a supply facility to a distribution system.\n 25. "Treasurer" shall mean the treasurer of the authority.\n 26. "Water facility" or "water facilities" shall mean any plants,\nstructures or other real and personal property acquired, rehabilitated\nor constructed or planned for the purpose of accumulating, supplying,\ntransmitting, distributing or treating 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, approaches, connections,\nwater meters, rights of flowage or diversion and other plants,\nstructures, equipment, vehicles, towers, conveyances, real or personal\nproperty or rights therein and appurtenances thereto necessary or useful\nand convenient for the accumulation, supply, transmission, treatment or\ndistribution of water.\n 27. "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 28. "Watershed rules" shall mean the rules and regulations made by the\ndepartment of health pursuant to section eleven hundred of the public\nhealth law.\n