§ 2702. Definitions. As used in this title, the following words and\nterms shall have the following meanings unless the context indicates\nanother or different meaning or intent:\n 1. "Authority" shall mean the public benefit corporation created by\nsection twenty-seven hundred three of this title, known as the\ndevelopment authority of the north country.\n 2. "Bonds" shall means the bonds, notes or other evidences of\nindebtedness issued by the authority 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. "Construction" shall mean the acquisition, erection, building,\nalteration, 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 4. "Cost" as applied to a project or any portion thereof financed\nunder the provisions of this title embraces all or any part of the cost\nof construction and acquisition of all lands, structures, real or\npersonal property, rights, rights-of-way, franchises, easements and\ninterests acquired or used for a project, the cost of demolishing or\nremoving any buildings or structures on land so acquired, including the\ncosts of relocating tenants or other occupants of the building or\nstructures on such land and the cost of acquiring any lands to which\nsuch buildings or structures may be moved, the cost of all machinery and\nequipment, financing charges, interest, reserves for principal and\ninterest and for extensions, enlargements, additions, replacements,\nrenovations and improvements, cost of engineering, financial and legal\nservices, plans, specifications, studies, surveys, estimates of cost and\nof revenues, administrative expenses, expenses necessary or incident to\ndetermining the feasibility or practicability of constructing the\nproject and such other expenses as may be necessary or incident to the\nconstruction and acquisition of the project, the financing of such\nconstruction and acquisition and the placing of the project in\noperation, including all costs relating to the refinancing or\nsatisfaction of existing indebtedness; and any reimbursements to any\nmunicipality, state agency, the state, the United States or any other\nperson or public corporation for expenditures that would be costs of any\nproject hereunder had they been made directly by the authority.\n 5. "Existing sewer system" shall mean all sewers, including, without\nlimitation, trunk, intercepting, connecting, lateral and other sewers,\nstorm water drains, pumping stations, disposal or treatment plants or\nworks, structures, appliances, equipment and other adjuncts thereto,\ncomprising the portion of the system of sewerage owned by any\nparticipating county or municipality within a participating county, as\ndelineated on a map filed by the governing body of such county or\nmunicipality with the secretary of the state of New York pursuant to\nthis title.\n 6. "Municipality" shall mean any county, city, town, village, refuse\ndistrict under the county law, improvement district under the town law,\nany other such instrumentality, including any agency, authority or\npublic corporation of the state, or any of the foregoing, or any\ncombination thereof.\n 7. "Participating counties" shall mean the counties of Jefferson, St.\nLawrence and Lewis.\n 8. "Person" shall mean any natural person, partnership, association,\njoint venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.\n 9. "Project" shall mean a sewerage facility, solid waste management\nfacility, water facility, or any portion of which, the planning,\ndevelopment, financing, acquisition, construction, operation or\nmaintenance is authorized to be undertaken in whole or in part by the\nauthority pursuant to this title.\n 10. "Real property" shall mean lands, structures, improvements\nfranchises and interests in land, including lands under water,\nwaterfront property, marginal streets and riparian rights, space rights\nand air rights and any and all other things and rights usually included\nwithin said term and any fixtures, equipment and articles of personal\nproperty affixed to or used in connection therewith. Real property shall\nalso mean and include any and all interests in such property less than\nfull title, such as easements, 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, and also\nall claims for damages for such real estate.\n 11. "Resource recovery" shall mean the separation, extraction or\nrecovery of usable materials, energy or heat from solid waste through\nsource separation, incineration, recycling centers or other programs,\nprojects or facilities.\n 12. "Revenues" shall mean all rates, fees, rents, charges and other\nincome derived by the authority from its operations.\n 13. "Sewerage facility" shall mean a system of trunk, intercepting and\nconnecting, lateral and outlet sewers, storm water drains, pumping and\nventilating stations, disposal or treatment plants or works, and other\nappliances and structures, which in the judgment of the authority will\nprovide an effectual and advantageous means for relieving the\nparticipating counties and municipalities within the participating\ncounties from pollution created by the sewage and waste and relieving\nthe participating counties and municipalities within the participating\ncounties from inadequate sanitary and storm water drainage by providing\nfor the sanitary disposal or treatment of the sewage thereof, or such\nsections or parts of such systems as the authority may from time to time\ndeem it proper or convenient to construct, consistent with purpose of\nthis title.\n 14. "Solid waste" shall mean all putrescible and non-putrescible solid\nwastes, including, but not limited to, materials or substances discarded\nor rejected, whether as being spent, useless, worthless or in excess to\nthe owners at the time of such discard or rejection or for any other\nreason, is being accumulated, stored, or physically, chemically or\nbiologically treated prior to being discarded, has served its intended\nuse, or is a manufacturing or mining by-product, including, but not\nlimited to, garbage, refuse, and other discarded solid materials,\nincluding solid waste materials resulting from industrial, commercial,\nmining and agricultural operations and from community activities,\nsludges from air or water pollution control facilities or water supply\ntreatment facilities, rubbish, ashes, contained gaseous material,\nincinerator residue, demolition and construction debris and offal, but\nnot including sewage and other highly diluted water-carried materials or\nsubstances and those in gaseous form, special nuclear or by-product\nmaterial within the meaning of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as\namended, and waste which appears on the list of hazardous waste\npromulgated by the commissioner of environmental conservation pursuant\nto section 27-0903 of the environmental conservation law.\n 15. "Solid waste management facility" shall mean any facility, plant,\nworks, system, building, structure, improvement, machinery, equipment,\nfixture or other real or personal property which is to be used, occupied\nor employed for or is incidental to the collecting, receiving,\ntransporting, storage, processing, or disposal of solid waste or the\nrecovery by any means of any material or energy product or resource\ntherefrom including, but not limited to, recycling centers, transfer\nstations, shredding or baling facilities, rail haul or maritime\nfacilities, collection vehicles, 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, leachate treatment facilities, plants and facilities for\ncompacting, composting or pyrolization of solid wastes, secure land\nburial facilities, landspreading facilities, surface impoundments and\nwaste oil storage, reprocessing and refining facilities, incinerators\nand other solid waste disposal, reduction or conversion facilities, and\n"resource recovery equipment" and "disposal equipment" as such terms are\ndefined in subdivisions four and five of section 51-0903 of the\nenvironmental conservation law. Any such facility producing either\nelectricity or shaft horsepower and useful thermal energy shall\nconstitute a co-generation facility as defined in subdivision two-a of\nsection two of the public service law.\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 17. "State" shall mean the state of New York.\n 18. "United States" shall mean the United States of America or any\ndepartment, agency or instrumentality thereof acting on behalf of the\nUnited States of America.\n 19. "Water facility" shall mean any water supply or distribution\nsystem or systems, including any plants, works, instrumentalities or\nparts thereof and appurtenances thereto, lands, easements, rights in\nland and water rights, right-of-way, contract rights, franchises,\napproaches, connections, dams, reservoirs, water mains and pipe lines,\npumping stations and equipment, or any other property incidental to and\nincluded in such system or part thereof, and any improvements,\nextensions and betterments.\n 20. "Community facility" shall mean any facility in the participating\ncounties that provides for the health, education and welfare of the\nresidents of the region within such participating counties, including\nbut not limited to medical facilities, housing facilities, educational\nfacilities, transportation facilities, municipal service facilities, and\ncultural and social facilities.\n