§ 2047-b. Definitions. As used or to refer to in this title, unless a\ndifferent meaning clearly appears from the context:\n 1. "Agency" means the public benefit corporation created by section\ntwo thousand forty-six-c of this title, known as the Dutchess County\nResource Recovery Agency.\n 2. "Area of operation" means the county of Dutchess.\n 3. "Bonds" means the bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness\nissued by the agency pursuant to this title and the provisions of this\ntitle relating to bonds and bondholders shall apply with equal force and\neffect to notes and noteholders, respectively, unless the context\notherwise clearly requires.\n 4. "Cost" as applied to any project, includes the cost of\nconstruction, the cost of the acquisition of all property, including\nreal
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§ 2047-b. Definitions. As used or to refer to in this title, unless a\ndifferent meaning clearly appears from the context:\n 1. "Agency" means the public benefit corporation created by section\ntwo thousand forty-six-c of this title, known as the Dutchess County\nResource Recovery Agency.\n 2. "Area of operation" means the county of Dutchess.\n 3. "Bonds" means the bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness\nissued by the agency pursuant to this title and the provisions of this\ntitle relating to bonds and bondholders shall apply with equal force and\neffect to notes and noteholders, respectively, unless the context\notherwise clearly requires.\n 4. "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 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 5. "County" means the county of Dutchess.\n 6. "Construction" means 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 7. "Governing body" means the members of the agency constituting and\nacting as the governing body of the agency.\n 8. "Municipality" means any county, city, town, village, improvement\ndistrict, or public corporation of the state, or any combination\nthereof.\n 9. "Person" means any natural person, partnership, association, joint\nventure or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.\n 10. "Project" means 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 11. "Real property" means lands, structures, franchises and interests\nin land, waters, lands underwater, riparian rights and air rights and\nany and all things and rights included within said term and includes not\nonly fees simple absolute, but also any and all lesser interests\nincluding, but not limited to easements, rights-of-way, uses, leases,\nlicenses and all other incorporeal hereditaments and every estate,\ninterest or right, legal or equitable, including terms for years and\nliens thereon by way of judgment, mortgages or otherwise.\n 12. "Resource recovery" means the separation, extraction and recovery\nof usable materials, energy or heat from solid waste through source\nseparation, recycling centers or other programs, projects or facilities.\n 13. "Revenues" means all rates, fees, rents, charges and other income\nderived by the agency from its operations.\n 14. "Solid waste" means 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 15. "Solid waste management-resource recovery facility" or "facility"\nmeans 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 for the collecting,\nreceiving, transporting, storage, processing, or disposal of solid waste\nor the recovery by any means of any material or energy product or\nresource therefrom including but not limited to recycling centers,\ntransfer stations, baling facilities, rail haul or maritime facilities,\ncollection vehicles processing systems, resource recovery facilities,\nsteam and electric generating and transmission facilities, including\nauxiliary 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 16. "State" means the state of New York.\n 17. "Source separation" means the segregation of recyclable materials\nfrom the solid waste stream at the point of generation for separate\ncollection, sale or other disposition.\n