§ 1226-b. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a\ndifferent meaning clearly appears from the context:\n 1. "Authority" means the corporation created by section one thousand\ntwo hundred twenty-six-c of this title.\n 2. "Board of water supply" means the board of water supply of the\ncity.\n 3. "Bonds" means the 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 4. "City" means the city of Utica, Oneida county.\n 5. "Civil service commission" means the civil service commission of\nthe county of Oneida.\n 6. "Comptroller" means the comptroller of the state.\n 7. "Construction" or "constructed" means the acquisition, erection,\nbuilding, alteration, improvement, increase, enlargement, extension,\nreconstruction, renovation or rehabilitation of a water facility; the\ninspection and supervision thereof; and the engineering, architectural,\nlegal, fiscal and economic investigations and studies, surveys, designs,\nplans, working drawings, specifications, procedure and other actions\npreliminary or incidental thereto and claims arising therefrom.\n 8. "Cost", as applied to any project, includes the cost of\nconstruction, the cost of the acquisition of all property, including\nreal property and other property, both real, personal and mixed,\nimproved and unimproved, the cost of the 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 water 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 guarantee, bond insurance or other credit support\ndevices and the cost of other expenses necessary or incidental to the\nconstruction of any such project and the financing of the construction\nthereof, including the amount authorized in the resolution of the\nauthority providing for the issuance of bonds to be paid into any\nreserve or other special funds from the proceeds of such bonds and the\nfinancing of the placing of any 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 project hereunder had they been made directly by the\nauthority.\n 9. "Council" means the common council of the city.\n 10. "County" means the county of Oneida, New York.\n 11. "County executive" means the county executive of the county.\n 12. "County legislature" means the county legislature of the county.\n 13. "Governing body" means the members of the authority or the water\nboard, as the case may be, constituting and acting as the governing body\nof the authority or the water board, as the case may be.\n 14. "Mayor" means the mayor of the city.\n 15. "Municipality" means any county, city, town, village, special or\nimprovement district under the town law or the county law, any other\nsuch instrumentality, including any agency, or public corporation of the\nstate and the board of water supply, or any of the foregoing or any\ncombination thereof located or operating within or partly within the\nservice area.\n 16. "Person" means any natural person, firm, partnership, association,\njoint venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation as\ndefined pursuant to article two-A of the general construction law.\n 17. "Project" means any water facility, including the planning,\ndevelopment, financing or construction thereof.\n 18. "Properties" means the water facility or facilities of the water\nboard, whether situated within or without the territorial limits of the\nservice area, including the plants, works, structures, instrumentalities\nor part thereof and appurtenances thereto, real property, or any other\nproperty incidental to and included in such facility or facilities or\npart thereof, and any improvements, extensions and betterments.\n 19. "Real property" means lands, structures, franchises, rights and\ninterests in land, air space, waters, land underwater, riparian rights\nand air rights and any and all things and rights included within said\nterm and includes not only fees simple absolute, but also any and all\nlesser interests including, but not limited to, easements,\nrights-of-way, uses, leases, licenses and all other incorporeal\nhereditaments and every estate, interest or right, legal or equitable,\nincluding terms for years and liens thereon by way of judgments,\nmortgages or otherwise.\n 20. "Revenues" means all rates, fees, charges, payments and other\nincome and receipts derived from the operation of the properties of the\nwater board including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing,\ninvestment proceeds and proceeds of insurance, condemnation, and sale or\nother disposition of assets, together with all federal, state or\nmunicipal aid, if any.\n 21. "Service area" means the area comprising the entirety of each\nmunicipality in which water was provided by the city or the board of\nwater supply on the date on which this title becomes effective, as such\narea shall hereinafter be expanded or decreased, from time to time, by\nspecial act of the state legislature.\n 22. "State" means the state of New York.\n 23. "State agency" means any state officer, public benefit\ncorporation, department, board, commission, bureau or division, or other\nagency or instrumentality of the state.\n 24. "Water board" means the corporation created by special act of the\nstate legislature as provided in section one thousand two hundred\ntwenty-six-e of this title.\n 25. "Water facility" or "water facilities" means any plants,\nstructures and other property, real, personal or mixed, acquired,\nrehabilitated, constructed or planned for the purpose of accumulating,\nsupplying, transmitting, treating or distributing water, including but\nnot limited to surface or groundwater reservoirs, basins, dams, canals,\naqueducts, aqueduct taps, standpipes, conduits, pipelines, mains,\npumping stations, pumps, water distribution systems, compensating\nreservoirs, intake stations, waterworks or sources of water supply,\nwells, purification or filtration plants or other treatment plants and\nworks, contract rights, franchises, approaches, connections, permits,\nwater meters, rights of flowage or diversion and other plants,\nstructures, equipment, vehicles, conveyances, real or personal property\nor rights therein and appurtenances thereto necessary or useful and\nconvenient for the accumulation, supply, transmission, treatment or\ndistribution of water.\n