§ 1199-BBB — Definitions

§ 1199-bbb. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless\na different meaning clearly appears from the context:\n 1. "Authority" shall mean the corporation created by section one\nthousand one hundred ninety-nine-ddd 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\nSaratoga 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 4-a. "Civil service commission" shall mean the personnel officer of\nthe county of Saratoga or any other person or entity acting as the civil\nservice commission of the county of Saratoga.\n 5. "Comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the state of New York.\n 6. "Construction" shall mean the negotiation, acquisition, erection,\nbuilding, alteration, improvement, testing, increase, enlargement,\nextension, reconstruction, interconnection, renovation or rehabilitation\nof a water facility as defined herein; the inspection and supervision\nthereof; and the engineering, architectural, legal, appraisal, fiscal,\neconomic and environmental investigations, services and studies,\nsurveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures\nand other actions preliminary or incidental thereto.\n 7. "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 and the cost of\nother expenses necessary or incidental to the construction of such\nproject and the financing of the construction thereof, including the\namount authorized in the resolution of the authority providing for the\nissuance of bonds to be paid into any reserve or other special fund from\nthe 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 8. "County" shall mean the county of Saratoga.\n 9. "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 such water.\n 10. "District" shall mean the Saratoga county water authority district\ncreated by section one thousand one hundred ninety-nine-ccc of this\ntitle.\n 11. "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 12. "Members" shall mean the members of the board.\n 13. "Municipality" shall mean any county, city, town, village, or\ncounty or town acting on behalf of an improvement district, any other\ninstrumentality, including any agency, or public corporation of the\nstate, or any of the foregoing or any combination thereof.\n 14. "Person" shall mean any natural person, partnership, association,\njoint venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.\n 15. "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 16. "Personnel officer" shall mean the personnel officer of the county\nof Saratoga.\n 17. "State sanitary code" shall mean regulations adopted pursuant to\nsection two hundred twenty-five of the public health law.\n 18. "State" shall mean the state of New York.\n 19. "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 20. "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 21. "System revenues" shall mean all rates, rents, fees, charges,\npayments and other income and receipts derived by the authority together\nwith all federal, state or municipal aid as well as any other income\nderived from the operation of the water facility of the authority but in\nno event shall "system revenues" mean an ad valorem levy on real or\npersonal property within the authority or any part thereof.\n 22. "Transmission facility" shall mean a water facility used to carry\nwater from a supply facility to a distribution system.\n 23. "Treasurer" shall mean the treasurer of the authority.\n 24. "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 25. "Water project" shall mean any water facility, including the\nplanning, development, financing or construction thereof.\n 26. "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