2006 New York Code - 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 Waterford with the Niagara river at Tonawanda.
    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.