2006 New York Code - Definitions.

 
    §  2642-b. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a
  different meaning appears from the context:
    1.  "Authority"  shall  mean  the  corporation  created   by   section
  twenty-six hundred forty-two-c of this title.
    2.   "Authority   facilities"  shall  mean  the  authority's  railroad
  facilities and operations pursuant  to  joint  service  arrangements  as
  defined in subdivision eight of this section.
    3. "Commonwealth" shall mean the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
    4.  "Commonwealth  agency"  or "agency of the Commonwealth" shall mean
  any officer, department, board, commissioner, bureau,  division,  public
  benefit  corporation,  agency  or instrumentality of the Commonwealth of
  Pennsylvania.
    5. "Comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the state of New York.
    6. "Equipment" shall mean rolling stock,  vehicles,  motors,  boilers,
  engines,   wires,  ways,  conduits  and  mechanisms,  machinery,  tools,
  implements, materials, supplies, instruments and devices of every nature
  whatsoever used  or  useful  for  railroad  and  related  transportation
  purposes or for the generation or transmission of motive power including
  but  not  limited to all power houses, and all apparatus and all devices
  for signaling, communications  and  ventilation  as  may  be  necessary,
  convenient  or  desirable  for  the  operation  of a railroad or related
  transportation facility.
    7. "Federal government" shall mean the United States of  America,  and
  any   officer,   department,   board,   commission,   bureau,  division,
  corporation, agency or instrumentality thereof.
    8. "Joint service arrangements" shall mean agreements between or among
  the authority and any common carrier or freight  forwarder,  the  state,
  the  Commonwealth,  any  state agency or agency of the Commonwealth, the
  federal government,  any  other  state  or  Commonwealth  or  agency  or
  instrumentality  thereof,  any  public  authority  of  this or any other
  state,  any  participating  county,  or  any  political  subdivision  or
  municipality   of  this  or  any  other  state,  relating  to  property,
  buildings,   structures,    facilities,    services,    rates,    fares,
  classifications,   divisions,   allowances   or  charges,  or  rules  or
  regulations pertaining thereto, for or in connection with or  incidental
  to  transportation in part in or upon railroad facilities located within
  the counties of Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany  and  Steuben  and  in
  part in or upon railroad facilities located outside said counties.
    9. "Legislative body" or "legislative bodies" shall mean any or all of
  the  governing  boards  of  the  counties  of  Chautauqua,  Cattaraugus,
  Allegany and Steuben.
    10. "Municipality" shall mean any county, including  the  counties  of
  Chautauqua,  Cattaraugus,  Allegany  and  Steuben,  city, town, village,
  school district, improvement district, any other  such  instrumentality,
  including  an  agency or public benefit corporation of the state, or any
  of the foregoing, or any combination thereof.
    11. "Participating counties" shall  mean  those  of  the  counties  of
  Chautauqua,  Cattaraugus, Allegany and Steuben that shall have appointed
  members of the authority.
    12.  "Railroad  facilities"  shall  mean  right-of-way   and   related
  trackage,  rails, cars, locomotives, other rolling stock, signal, power,
  fuel, communication and ventilation  systems,  power  plants,  stations,
  terminals,  parking lots, garages, warehouses, storage yards, intermodal
  facilities, repair and maintenance shops, yards,  equipment  and  parts,
  offices  and  other  real  estate  or  personalty  used  or  held for or
  incidental to  the  operation,  rehabilitation  or  improvement  of  any
  railroad  operating  or to operate between points within the counties of
  Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany  and  Steuben  or  pursuant  to  joint
  service   arrangements,   including   but   not  limited  to  buildings,
  structures, and areas notwithstanding that portions thereof may  not  be
  devoted  to  any  railroad purpose other than the production of revenues
  available  for  the  costs  and expenses of all or any facilities of the
  authority.
    13. "Real property"  shall  mean  lands,  structures,  franchises  and
  interests  in  land,  waters, lands under water, riparian rights and air
  rights and any and all things and rights included within said  term  and
  includes  not  only  fees  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.
    14. "State" shall mean the state of New York.
    15.  "State  agency"  shall  mean  any  officer,  department,   board,
  commissioner,  bureau,  division,  public benefit corporation, agency or
  instrumentality of the state of New York.
    16. "Southern tier extension railroad line" shall  mean  the  railroad
  line  generally  described  as  located between the city of Hornell, New
  York (Cass street interlocking, at approximately milepost 331.8) and the
  New York-Pennsylvania state line in the county of Chautauqua.