1122 - Definitions.

NY Pub Auth L § 1122 (2019) (N/A)
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(a) In the case of a city, county, town or village or district corporation, the finance board as such term is defined in the local finance law; or

(b) In the case of a public benefit corporation, the members thereof. 11. "Municipality" means any county, city, town, village, improvement district under the town law, any other such instrumentality, including any agency or public corporation of the state, or any of the foregoing or any combination thereof. 12. "Person" means any natural person, partnership, association, joint venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation. 13. "Project" means any water, sewerage and water and sewerage facility. 14. "Properties" means the water system or systems of the authority, whether situated within or without the territorial limits of the district, including the plants, works, structures, instrumentalities or part thereof and appurtenances thereto, real property, water facilities, sewerage facilities or any other property incidental to and included in such system or systems or part thereof, and any improvements, extensions and betterments. 15. "Real property" means lands, structures, franchises, rights and interests in lands, waters, lands underwater, riparian rights and air rights and any and all things and rights included within said term and includes not only fee simple absolute, but also any and all lesser interests including, but not limited to, easements, rights-of-way, uses, leases, licenses and all other incorporeal hereditaments and every estate, interest or right, legal or equitable, including terms for years and liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages or otherwise. 16. "Revenues" means all rates, rents, fees, charges, payments and other income and receipts derived from the operation of the properties of the authority including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, investment proceeds and proceeds of insurance, condemnation, and sales or other dispositions of assets, together with all federal, state or municipal aid. 17. "Sewerage" means the water-carried human or animal wastes from residences, buildings, industrial establishments or other places, together with such groundwater infiltration and surface water as may be present. The admixture with sewage of industrial or other wastes also shall be considered "sewage" within the meaning of this title. 18. "Sewerage facility" or "sewerage facilities" means any plants, structures and other real and personal property acquired, rehabilitated or constructed or planned for the purpose of collecting, conveying, pumping, treating, neutralizing, storing and disposing of sewerage, including but not limited to main, truck, intercepting, connecting, lateral, outlet or other sewers, outfalls, pumping stations, treatment and disposal plants, groundwater recharge basins, back-flow prevention devices, sludge dewatering or disposal equipment and facilities, clarifies, filters, phosphorus removal equipment and other plants, works, structures, equipment, vehicles, conveyances, contract rights, franchises, approaches, connections, permits, real or personal property or rights therein and appurtenances thereto necessary or useful and convenient for the collection, conveyance, pumping, treatment, neutralizing, storing and disposing of sewage. 19. "State" shall mean the state of New York. 20. "State agency" means any state office, public benefit corporation, department, board, commission, bureau or division, or other agency or instrumentality of the state. 21. "State sanitary code" means the regulations adopted pursuant to section two hundred twenty-five of the public health law. 22. "Supply facility" means a water facility employed to make groundwater or surface water available for delivery into a transmission facility or distribution system. 23. "Town" means the town of Wilton. 24. "Town board" means the town board of the town. 25. "Town supervisor" means the town supervisor of the town. 26. "Transmission facility" means a water facility used to carry water from a supply facility to a distribution system. 27. "Treasurer" means the treasurer of the authority. 28. "Water facility" or "water facilities" means any plants, works, instrumentalities, structures and other real and personal property acquired, rehabilitated or constructed or planned for the purpose of accumulating, supplying, transmitting, heating or distributing water, including but not limited to surface or groundwater reservoirs, basins, dams, canals, aqueducts, standpipes, conduits, pipelines, mains, pumping stations, pumps, water distribution systems, compensating reservoirs, intake stations, waterworks or sources of water supply, wells, purification or filtration plants or other treatment plants and works, contract rights, franchises, approaches, connections, permits, water meters, rights of flowage or diversion and other plants, structures, equipment, vehicles, conveyances, real or personal property or rights therein and appurtenances thereto necessary or useful and convenient for the accumulation, supply, transmission, treatment or distribution of water. 29. "Watershed rules" means the rules and regulations made by the department of health pursuant to section eleven hundred of the public health law. * NB There are 2 § 1122's