2006 New York Code - Definitions.

 
    §  2680-b. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a
  different meaning clearly appears from the context:
    1. "Authority" means the corporation  created  by  section  twenty-six
  hundred eighty-c of this title.
    2.  "Board" means the members of the authority constituting and acting
  as the governing body of the authority.
    3. "Bonds" means the bonds, notes or other evidences  of  indebtedness
  issued  by  the  authority  pursuant to this title relating to bonds and
  bondholders and shall apply with equal force and  effect  to  notes  and
  noteholders,   respectively,   unless   the  context  otherwise  clearly
  requires.
    4. "Comptroller" means the comptroller of the state.
    5. "Construct", "construction" or "constructed" means the acquisition,
  erection,  building,  alteration,  improvement,  increase,  enlargement,
  extension,  reconstruction,  renovation  or  rehabilitation of a sports,
  recreation or cultural facility, as the case may be; the inspection  and
  supervision  thereof;  and the engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal
  and  economic  investigations  and  studies,  surveys,  designs,  plans,
  working   drawings,   specifications,   procedures   and  other  actions
  preliminary or incidental thereto.
    6. "Cost" as applied to any project, means and includes  the  cost  of
  construction,  the  cost  of  the acquisition of all property, including
  real property and other property, real, personal and mixed and  improved
  and  unimproved,  the cost of demolishing, removing or relocating of any
  buildings or structures on lands so  acquired,  including  the  cost  of
  acquiring  any  lands to which such buildings or structures may be moved
  or relocated, the cost of the sports, recreation or  cultural  facility,
  machinery,   apparatus  and  equipment,  the  cost  of  engineering  and
  architectural surveys, plans and specifications, the cost of  consultant
  and  legal  services, the cost of other expenses necessary or incidental
  to the construction of any project and the financing of the construction
  thereof and the financing of the placing of any  project  in  operation,
  including reimbursement to the county or any municipality, state agency,
  the  state,  the  United  States  government  or  any  other  person for
  expenditures that would be costs of a project hereunder  had  they  been
  made directly by the authority.
    7. "County" means the county of Chautauqua.
    8.  "Municipality"  means any county, city, town, village, city school
  district, union free school district, central  school  district,  common
  school district, any other such instrumentality, including any agency or
  public  corporation  of  the  state,  or  any  of  the  foregoing or any
  combination thereof.
    9. "Person" means any natural person, partnership, association,  joint
  venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.
    10.  "Project"  means  the  sports,  recreation  or cultural facility,
  including the structures or parts  thereof  and  appurtenances  thereto,
  real  property  or any other property incidental to and included in such
  facility  or  part  thereof,  and  any  improvements,   extensions   and
  betterments.
    11.  "Real  property"  means lands, structures, franchises, rights and
  interests in land and air rights, and any  and  all  things  and  rights
  included  within  such  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 and also claims  for  damage  to  real
  estate.
    12.  "Revenues"  means  all  fees,  charges, tolls, rentals, rates and
  other income and receipts derived from  the  operation  of  any  of  the
  sports,  recreation  or  cultural facilities including, without limiting
  the generability of the foregoing, investment proceeds and  proceeds  of
  insurance,  condemnation,  and  sale  or  other  disposition  of assets,
  together with old federal, state or municipal aid if any.
    13. "Service area" means the area comprising Chautauqua county.
    14. "Sports, recreation and cultural facilities" means  real  property
  and  improvements  and  structures  thereon in the county, used or to be
  used primarily for the conduct of sports, recreation  events,  meetings,
  exhibitions,  cultural  events  and other events of civic, community and
  interest to the general public, including a sports complex,  stadium  or
  arena  and  other structures or related facilities, suitable for holding
  athletic,  sports,  recreation  or  cultural  events  or  the  foregoing
  described events, including parking therefor.
    15. "State" means the state of New York.
    16.   "State   agency"   means   any  state  officer,  public  benefit
  corporation, department, board, commission, bureau,  division  or  other
  agency or instrumentality of the state.