2010 New York Code
CAL - Canal
Article 1 - (1 - 2) SHORT TITLE AND DEFINITIONS
2 - Definitions.

§  2.  Definitions.  The  following  terms  when used in this chapter,
  unless otherwise expressly stated  or  unless  the  context  or  subject
  matter requires otherwise, shall have the following meanings:
    1.  "New  York  State  Canal  System",  "Canal System" or "Barge Canal
  System" shall each mean all the  canals,  canal  lands,  feeder  canals,
  reservoirs,  canal  terminals  and  canal terminal lands of the state as
  hereinafter defined. All general references herein to "canal"  shall  be
  deemed to mean the New York state canal system.
    2.  "Canals"  shall mean the channel and adjacent state-owned banks of
  the inland waterways of the state constructed, improved,  or  designated
  by  authority  of  the legislature as canals and shall include canalized
  rivers and lakes, canal water  supply  reservoirs,  canal  water  supply
  feeder channels and all appertaining structures necessary for the proper
  maintenance and operation of the canals.
    3.  "Canal  Terminal"  or  "Barge  Canal Terminal" shall each mean the
  facilities which have been constructed or acquired  under  authority  of
  the  legislature  in  connection  with  the  canal  system  for loading,
  unloading, and/or temporarily storing commodities transported  upon  the
  canals  and  shall include docks, dock walls, bulkheads, wharves, piers,
  slips, basins, harbors, grain elevators,  buildings,  equipment,  tracks
  and  roadways  together  with the lands now owned or as may hereafter be
  acquired by the state for the proper maintenance and  operation  of  the
  canal terminals.
    4.  "Erie Canal" shall mean the portion of the canal system connecting
  the Hudson river at Albany with the Niagara river at  Buffalo,  and  for
  the   purposes  of  article  thirteen-A  of  this  chapter  and  section
  ninety-two-u of the state finance law and  subdivision  ten  of  section
  three  hundred  fifty-one of the public authorities law, shall be deemed
  to include the historic Erie Canal and its western terminus in the  city
  of Buffalo and historic lock number 1 in the city of Albany.
    5.  "Oswego  Canal"  shall  mean  the  portion  of  the  canal  system
  connecting the Erie canal at Three Rivers with Lake Ontario at Oswego.
    6. "Champlain Canal" shall  mean  the  portion  of  the  canal  system
  connecting  the  easterly  end  of the Erie canal at Waterford with Lake
  Champlain at Whitehall.
    7. "Cayuga and Seneca Canals" shall mean the  portions  of  the  canal
  system  connecting  the Erie canal at a point near Montezuma with Cayuga
  and Seneca lakes and  through  Cayuga  lake  and  Cayuga  inlet  to  the
  southerly  side of State Street in the city of Ithaca and through Seneca
  lake with Montour Falls.
    8. "Canal Lands" shall mean all lands and waters forming a part of the
  canal system title to which was originally vested in the state, acquired
  by the state or which may in the future be acquired  by  the  state  for
  canal purposes.
    9.  "Blue  Line"  shall  mean the boundary of canal lands owned by the
  state previous to the approval of chapter one hundred forty-seven,  laws
  of nineteen hundred three.
    10.  "Old  Canal  Lands"  shall mean canal lands lying within the blue
  line.
    11. "Barge Canal Lands" shall mean canal lands acquired subsequent  to
  the  approval  of  chapter  one  hundred  forty-seven,  laws of nineteen
  hundred three, except barge canal  terminal  lands  acquired  under  the
  provisions  of chapter seven hundred forty-six, laws of nineteen hundred
  eleven, and acts amendatory thereto.
    12. "Canal Terminal Lands" or "Barge Canal Terminal Lands" shall  each
  mean  canal lands acquired under the provisions of chapter seven hundred
  forty-six, laws of nineteen hundred eleven, and amendatory laws.

13. "Permit" shall  mean  a  revocable  agreement  granting  temporary
  occupancy or use of lands or structures of the canal system.
    14.  "Float"  shall  mean  every  boat, vessel, raft or floating thing
  navigated on the canals or moved thereupon under the direction  of  some
  person having the charge thereof.
    15.  "Master"  shall mean every person having for the time the charge,
  control or direction of any float.
    16. "Person" shall mean an  individual,  partnership,  corporation  or
  association.
    17. "Great Lakes-Hudson River waterway" shall mean that section of the
  Erie  canal  from  Waterford  to Three Rivers Point and the Oswego canal
  thence to the port of Oswego as such waterway was designated by acts  of
  congress  authorizing  the federal aid improvement project for the Great
  Lakes-Hudson River waterway.
    18. "Authority" shall mean the New York  state  thruway  authority,  a
  body corporate and politic constituting a public corporation created and
  constituted  pursuant  to  title  nine  of  article  two  of  the public
  authorities law.
    19. "Adirondack park" shall have the same  meaning  as  set  forth  in
  section 9-0101 of the environmental conservation law.
    20. "Commission" shall mean the canal recreationway commission created
  pursuant to section one hundred thirty-eight-a of this chapter.
    21.  "Corporation"  shall mean the New York state canal corporation, a
  subsidiary of the New York state thruway authority, created pursuant  to
  section three hundred eighty-two of the public authorities law.
    22.   "Canal  fund"  shall  mean  the  New  York  state  canal  system
  development fund established pursuant to  section  ninety-two-u  of  the
  state finance law.
    23.  "Canalway  trail"  shall  mean  any  multi-use recreational trail
  located on lands under the jurisdiction of the  corporation.  The  exact
  boundaries  and  location  of  such  trail  and any portions or sections
  thereof  shall  be  determined  by  the  corporation  except  that   the
  boundaries  and  location  of  such  trail shall be determined in such a
  manner that no portion thereof shall be within the Adirondack Park.