§ 1232-b. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a\ndifferent meaning clearly appears from the context:\n 1. "Attorney general" means the state attorney general.\n 2. "Authority" means the public benefit corporation created by section\ntwelve hundred thirty-two-c of this title.\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. "Comptroller" means the state comptroller.\n 5. "Construction" means the negotiation, acquisition, erection,\nbuilding, alteration, improvement, testing, increase, enlargement,\nextension, reconstruction, interconnection, renovation or rehabilitation\nof storm water resources facility, sewerage facility or storm water\nresources and sewerage facility as the case may be; the inspection and\nsupervision thereof; and the engineering, architectural, legal,\nappraisal, fiscal, environmental and economic investigations, services\nand studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications,\nprocedures and other actions preliminary or incidental thereto.\n 6. "Cost" as applied to any project, includes the cost of\nconstruction, the cost of the acquisition of all property both real and\npersonal, and improved and unimproved; the cost of demolishing, removing\nor relocating any buildings or structures on lands so acquired,\nincluding the cost of acquiring any lands to which such buildings or\nstructures may be moved or relocated; the cost of all systems,\nfacilities, machinery, apparatus, fixtures and equipment; financing\ncharges, interest prior to, during and after construction to the extent\nnot paid or provided for from revenues or other sources; the cost of\nengineering and architectural surveys, plans and specifications; the\ncost of consultant and legal services; the cost of lease guarantee or\nbond insurance; and the cost of other expenses necessary or incidental\nto the construction of such 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 project in operation, including\nreimbursement to the county, or any municipality, state agency, the\nstate, the United States government, or any other person for\nexpenditures that would be costs of the project hereunder had they been\nmade directly by the authority.\n 7. "County" means the county of Nassau.\n 8. "County charter" or "charter of the county" means the county\ngovernment law of Nassau county.\n 9. "County executive" means the county executive of the county.\n 10. "County legislature" means the county legislature of the county.\n 11. "District" means the Nassau county sewer and storm water resources\ndistrict created by the chapter of the laws of two thousand three that\nadded this title.\n 12. "Facility" or "facilities" means collectively a sewerage facility\nor sewerage facilities and storm water resources facility or storm water\nresources facilities.\n 13. "Governing body" means the members of the authority constituting\nand acting as the governing body of the authority.\n 14. "Municipality" means any county, city, town, village, improvement\ndistrict under the town law, commissioner-run district, any other such\ninstrumentality, including any agency, or public corporation of the\nstate, or any of the foregoing or any combination thereof.\n 15. "Person" means any natural person, partnership, association, joint\nventure, limited liability company or corporation, exclusive of a public\ncorporation as defined pursuant to article two-A of the general\nconstruction law.\n 16. "Prior districts" means the twenty-seven county sewage collection\ndistricts and three county sewage disposal districts heretofore\nestablished by the county pursuant to the county charter and existing on\nthe day immediately prior to the effective date of this title.\n 17. "Project" means any storm water resources facility, sewerage\nfacility or storm water resources and sewerage facility, as the case may\nbe, including the acquisition, planning, development, financing or\nconstruction thereof.\n 18. "Properties" means the storm water resources, sewerage and storm\nwater resources and sewerage system or systems of the authority, whether\nsituated within or without the territorial limits of the district,\nincluding the plants, works, structures, instrumentalities or parts\nthereof and appurtenances thereto, real property, storm water resources\nfacilities, sewerage facilities or any other property incidental to and\nincluded in such system or systems or part thereof, and any\nimprovements, extensions and betterments.\n 19. "Real property" means lands, structures, franchises, rights and\ninterests in lands, waters, lands underwater, riparian rights and air\nrights, and any and all things and rights included within said term and\nincludes not only fees simple absolute, but also any and all lesser\ninterests including, but not limited to, easements, rights-of-way, uses,\nleases, licenses and all other incorporeal hereditaments and every\nestate, interest or right, legal or equitable, including terms for years\nand liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages or otherwise.\n 20. "Revenues" means all payments and other income and receipts\nderived by the authority including, without limiting the generality of\nthe foregoing, investment proceeds and proceeds of insurance and\ncondemnation, together with all federal, state or municipal aid.\n 21. "Sewage" means the water-carried human or animal wastes from\nresidences, buildings, industrial establishments or other places,\ntogether with such ground water infiltration and surface water as may be\npresent. The admixture of sewage with industrial or other waste also\nshall be considered "sewage" within the meaning of this title.\n 22. "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, ground water 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 and to the extent not\ncovered by the foregoing, any facilities operated and maintained by the\nprior districts.\n 23. "Sewerage services" means the collection, treatment and disposal\nof sewage, any services provided by a sewerage facility and any other\nservice related thereto.\n 24. "State" means the state of New York.\n 25. "State agency" means any state officer, public benefit\ncorporation, department, board, commission, bureau or division, or any\nother agency or instrumentality of the state.\n 26. "Storm water resources facility" or "storm water resources\nfacilities" means any plants, structures and other real and personal\nproperty acquired, rehabilitated, constructed or planned for the purpose\nof providing storm water resources services, including but not limited\nto accumulating, transmitting or treating surface water, storm water or\nground water, including but not limited to surface water, storm water or\nground water reservoirs, basins, dams, canals, aqueducts, standpipes,\noutfalls, conduits, pipelines, mains, pumping stations, pumps, ditches,\nwells, injection wells, treatment plants and works, contract rights,\nfranchises, approaches, connections, permits, meters, rights of flowage\nor diversion and other plants, structures, equipment, vehicles,\nconveyances, real or personal property or rights therein and\nappurtenances thereto necessary or useful and convenient for the\naccumulation, transmission, or treatment of surface water or ground\nwater; provided, however, that such facilities shall not include any\nfacility for the provision of potable water.\n 27. "Storm water resources services" means the collection, treatment\nand disposal of storm water and contaminated surface water or ground\nwater; the development, implementation and monitoring of insect control\nprograms; the monitoring and testing of surface and ground water\nquality; the development and implementation of hazardous waste testing\nprograms; the development and implementation of hydro-geological studies\nand reports of the territory encompassing the district; and any services\nprovided by a storm water resources facility and any other service\nrelated thereto; provided, however, that such services shall not include\nthe provision of potable water; provided further that in no way shall\nthe provisions of this title be construed to expand storm water related\nservices for which the authority is authorized to provide beyond such\nservices provided by the county department of public works prior to the\neffective date of this title.\n