§ 2045-b. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a\ndifferent meaning clearly appears from the context:\n 1. "Agency" shall mean the public benefit corporation created by\nsection two thousand forty-five-c of this title, known as the Onondaga\ncounty resource recovery agency.\n 2. "Bonds" shall mean the bonds, notes or other evidences of\nindebtedness issued by the agency 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 3. "Cost", as applied to any project, shall include the cost of\nconstruction, the cost of the acquisition of all property, including\nreal property and other property, both real
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§ 2045-b. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a\ndifferent meaning clearly appears from the context:\n 1. "Agency" shall mean the public benefit corporation created by\nsection two thousand forty-five-c of this title, known as the Onondaga\ncounty resource recovery agency.\n 2. "Bonds" shall mean the bonds, notes or other evidences of\nindebtedness issued by the agency 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 3. "Cost", as applied to any project, shall include the cost of\nconstruction, the cost of the acquisition of all property, including\nreal property and other property, both real and personal and improved\nand unimproved, the cost of demolishing, removing or relocating any\nbuildings or structures on lands so acquired, including the cost of\nacquiring any lands to which such buildings or structures may be moved\nor relocated, the cost of all systems, facilities, machinery, apparatus\nand equipment, financing charges, interest prior to, during and after\nconstruction to the extent not paid or provided for from revenues or\nother sources, the cost of engineering and architectural surveys, plans\nand specifications, the cost of consultants' and legal services, the\ncost of lease guarantee or bond insurance, other expenses necessary or\nincidental to the construction of such project and the financing of the\nconstruction thereof, including the amount authorized in the resolution\nof the agency 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 agency.\n 4. "County" shall mean the county of Onondaga.\n 5. "Construction" shall mean the acquisition, erection, building,\nalteration, improvement, increase, enlargement, extension,\nreconstruction, renovation or rehabilitation of a solid waste\nmanagement-resource recovery facility; the inspection and supervision\nthereof; and the engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal and economic\ninvestigations and studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings,\nspecifications, procedures and other actions incidental thereto.\n 6. "Governing body" shall mean the members of the agency constituting\nand acting as the governing body of the agency.\n 7. "Municipality" shall mean any county, city, town or village or any\ncombination thereof.\n 8. "Person" shall mean any natural person, partnership, association,\njoint venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.\n 9. "Project" shall mean any solid waste management-resource recovery\nfacility, the planning, development, financing, construction, operation,\nor maintenance of which is authorized to be undertaken in whole or in\npart by the agency pursuant to this title.\n 10. "Real property" shall mean lands, structures, franchises and\ninterests in land, waters, lands under water, 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 11. "Resource recovery" shall mean the separation, extraction and\nrecovery of usable materials, energy or heat from solid waste through\nsource separation, recycling centers or other programs, projects or\nfacilities.\n 12. "Revenues" shall mean all rates, fees, rents, charges and other\nincome derived by the agency from its operations.\n 13. "Solid waste" shall mean all materials or substances discarded or\nrejected as being spent, useless, worthless, or in excess to the owners\nat the time of such discard or rejection, including but not limited to\ngarbage, refuse, industrial and commercial waste, sludges from air or\nwater pollution control facilities or water supply treatment facilities,\nrubbish, ashes, contained gaseous material, incinerator residue,\ndemolition and construction debris and offal, but not including sewage\nand other highly diluted water-carried materials or substances and those\nin gaseous form, source, special nuclear or by-product material within\nthe meaning of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and waste\nwhich appears on the list of hazardous waste promulgated by the\ncommissioner of environmental conservation pursuant to section 27-0903\nof the environmental conservation law.\n 14. "Solid waste management-resource recovery facility" or "facility"\nshall mean any facility, plant, works, system, building, structure,\nimprovement, machinery, equipment, fixture or other real or personal\nproperty which is to be used, occupied or employed beyond the initial\nsolid waste collection process for the receiving, transporting, storage,\nprocessing, or disposal of solid waste or the recovery by any means of\nany material or energy product or resource therefrom including but not\nlimited to recycling centers, transfer stations, baling facilities, rail\nhaul or maritime facilities, processing systems, resource recovery\nfacilities, steam and electric generating and transmission facilities,\nincluding auxiliary facilities to supplement or temporarily replace such\ngenerating facilities, steam distribution facilities, sanitary\nlandfills, plants and facilities for compacting, composting or\npyrolization of solid wastes, incinerators, and other solid waste\ndisposal, reduction or conversion facilities and resource recovery\nequipment and disposal equipment as defined in subdivisions four and\nfive of section 51-0903 of the environmental conservation law.\n 15. "State" shall mean the state of New York.\n 16. "Source separation" shall mean the segregation of recyclable\nmaterials from the solid waste stream at the point of generation for\nseparate collection, sale or other disposition.\n