§ 2652 — Definitions

§ 2652. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a\ndifferent meaning clearly appears from the context:\n 1. The term "authority" shall mean the public benefit corporation\ncreated by section twenty-six hundred fifty-three of this title.\n 2. The term "board" shall mean the members of the authority created in\nsection twenty-six hundred fifty-three of this title.\n 3. The term "person" shall mean any natural person, partnership,\nlimited liability company, association, joint venture or corporation,\nexclusive of a public corporation.\n 4. The term "service district" shall mean the Schenectady metroplex\nservice district created by section twenty-six hundred fifty-four of\nthis title.\n 5. The term "bonds" shall mean bonds and notes issued by the authority\npursuant to this title.\n 6. The term "state" shall mean the state of New York.\n 7. The term "governor" shall mean the governor of the state of New\nYork.\n 8. The term "comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the state of\nNew York.\n 9. The term "director of the budget" shall mean the director of the\nbudget of the state of New York.\n 10. The term "municipality" shall mean a county, town, city, or\nvillage.\n 11. The term "county" shall mean the county of Schenectady.\n 12. The term "county legislature" shall mean the Schenectady county\nlegislature.\n 13. The term "city" shall mean the city of Schenectady.\n 14. The term "mayor" shall mean the mayor of the city of Schenectady.\n 15. The term "city council" shall mean the city council of the city of\nSchenectady.\n 16. The term "metroplex facility" shall mean any facility, building,\nstructure, park or other real property owned, leased, constructed,\ncreated, designed, developed, planned, financed, operated, renovated,\nadministered, managed and/or maintained by the authority.\n 17. The term "park district" shall mean any area designated by the\nauthority, within the service district, to be an historic preservation\ndistrict, a special entertainment district, an educational entertainment\ndistrict, or a recreational park district.\n 18. The term "construction" shall mean the acquisition, erection,\nbuilding, alteration, improvement, increase, enlargement, extension,\nreconstruction, renovation or rehabilitation of any project financed\nunder the provisions of this title; 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 preliminary or incidental\nthereto.\n 19. The term "real property" shall mean lands, waters, rights in lands\nor waters, structures, franchises and interests in land, including lands\nunder water, riparian rights, property rights in air space and/or\nsubsurface space and any and all other things and rights usually\nincluded within such term and includes also any and all interests in\nsuch property less than full title, such as easements permanent or\ntemporary, rights-of-way, uses, leases, licenses and all other\nincorporeal hereditaments and every estate, interest or right legal or\nequitable.\n 20. The term "personal property" shall mean chattels and other\ntangible things of a movable or removable nature.\n 21. The term "cost" as applied to any project, includes the cost of\nconstruction, the cost of the acquisition of all property, rights in\nproperty, rights-of-way, easements, franchises, and interests, including\nreal property and other property, both real, personal and mixed,\nimproved and unimproved, the cost of demolishing, removing or relocating\nany buildings 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 machinery, apparatus and equipment,\nfinancing charges, interest prior to, during and after construction to\nthe extent not paid or provided for from revenues or other sources, the\ncost of engineering and architectural surveys, plans and specifications,\nthe cost of consultant and legal services, the cost of guarantee, bond\ninsurance or other credit support devices and the cost of other expenses\nnecessary or incidental to the construction of any such project and the\nfinancing of the construction thereof, including the amount authorized\nin the resolution of the authority providing for the issuance of bonds\nto be paid into any reserve or other special funds from the proceeds of\nsuch bonds and the financing of the placing of any project in operation,\nincluding reimbursement to any municipality, state agency, the state,\nthe United States government, or any other person for expenditures that\nwould be costs of the project hereunder had they been made directly by\nthe authority.\n 22. The term "project" shall mean a facility, building, structure,\npark or other real property, or any portion thereof, which the\nownership, lease, transfer, design, development, planning, financing,\ncreation, siting, construction, renovation, administration, operation,\nmanagement and/or maintenance is authorized to be undertaken, in whole\nor in part, by the authority pursuant to this title.\n 23. The term "revenues" shall mean all monies, funds, rates, fees,\ntolls, rents, charges or other income derived by the authority from its\nplanning, development, financing, construction, operation, management,\nor maintenance functions, or any monies or funds appropriated to the\nauthority from the state or a municipality, or any monies or funds\nobtained from public or private donations to the authority or the tax\nrevenues payable to the authority pursuant to section twelve hundred\nten-C of the tax law.\n 24. The term "United States" shall mean the United States of America\nor any department, agency or instrumentality thereof acting on behalf of\nthe United States of America.\n