2015 New York Laws
PBA - Public Authorities
Article 5 - PUBLIC UTILITY AUTHORITIES
Title 10 - (1226-A - 1226-Z) UPPER MOHAWK VALLEY REGIONAL WATER FINANCE AUTHORITY
1226-B - Definitions.

  1226-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  one  thousand
  two hundred twenty-six-c of this title.
2.  "Board  of  water  supply"  means the board of water supply of the
  city.
3. "Bonds" means the bonds, notes or other evidences  of  indebtedness
  issued  by  the  authority pursuant to this title, and the provisions of
  this title relating to bonds and  bondholders  shall  apply  with  equal
  force  and  effect  to  notes  and noteholders, respectively, unless the
  context otherwise clearly requires.
4. "City" means the city of Utica, Oneida county.
5. "Civil service commission" means the civil  service  commission  of
  the county of Oneida.
6. "Comptroller" means the comptroller of the state.
7.  "Construction"  or  "constructed" means the acquisition, erection,
  building, alteration,  improvement,  increase,  enlargement,  extension,
  reconstruction,  renovation  or  rehabilitation of a water facility; the
  inspection and supervision thereof; and the engineering,  architectural,
  legal, fiscal and economic investigations and studies, surveys, designs,
  plans,  working  drawings,  specifications,  procedure and other actions
  preliminary or incidental thereto and claims arising therefrom.
8.  "Cost",  as  applied  to  any  project,  includes  the   cost   of
  construction,  the  cost  of  the acquisition of all property, including
  real property  and  other  property,  both  real,  personal  and  mixed,
  improved  and  unimproved,  the  cost  of  the  demolishing, removing or
  relocating 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 all water facilities,  machinery,
  apparatus  and  equipment,  financing charges, interest prior to, during
  and after construction to the extent  not  paid  or  provided  for  from
  revenues  or  other  sources,  the cost of engineering and architectural
  surveys, plans and specifications, the  cost  of  consultant  and  legal
  services,  the cost of guarantee, bond insurance or other credit support
  devices and the cost of other expenses necessary or  incidental  to  the
  construction  of  any such project and the financing of the construction
  thereof, including the  amount  authorized  in  the  resolution  of  the
  authority  providing  for  the  issuance  of  bonds  to be paid into any
  reserve or other special funds from the proceeds of such bonds  and  the
  financing  of  the  placing  of  any  project  in  operation,  including
  reimbursement to any municipality, state agency, the state,  the  United
  States  government,  or  any other person for expenditures that would be
  costs of the project hereunder  had  they  been  made  directly  by  the
  authority.
9. "Council" means the common council of the city.
10. "County" means the county of Oneida, New York.
11. "County executive" means the county executive of the county.
12. "County legislature" means the county legislature of the county.
13.  "Governing  body" means the members of the authority or the water
  board, as the case may be, constituting and acting as the governing body
  of the authority or the water board, as the case may be.
14. "Mayor" means the mayor of the city.
15. "Municipality" means any county, city, town, village,  special  or
  improvement  district  under  the  town law or the county law, any other
  such instrumentality, including any agency, or public corporation of the
  state and the board of water supply, or any  of  the  foregoing  or  any
  combination  thereof  located  or  operating within or partly within the
  service area.

16. "Person" means any natural person, firm, partnership, association,
  joint venture or corporation,  exclusive  of  a  public  corporation  as
  defined pursuant to article two-A of the general construction law.
17.  "Project"  means  any  water  facility,  including  the planning,
  development, financing or construction thereof.
18. "Properties" means the water facility or facilities of  the  water
  board,  whether situated within or without the territorial limits of the
  service area, including the plants, works, structures, instrumentalities
  or part thereof and appurtenances thereto, real property, or  any  other
  property  incidental  to  and included in such facility or facilities or
  part thereof, and any improvements, extensions and betterments.
19. "Real property" means lands, structures,  franchises,  rights  and
  interests  in  land, air space, waters, land underwater, 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.
20. "Revenues" means all rates,  fees,  charges,  payments  and  other
  income  and receipts derived from the operation of the properties of the
  water board including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
  investment proceeds and proceeds of insurance, condemnation, and sale or
  other disposition  of  assets,  together  with  all  federal,  state  or
  municipal aid, if any.
21.  "Service  area"  means  the  area comprising the entirety of each
  municipality in which water was provided by the city  or  the  board  of
  water  supply on the date on which this title becomes effective, as such
  area shall hereinafter be expanded or decreased, from time to  time,  by
  special act of the state legislature.
22. "State" means the state of New York.
23.   "State   agency"   means   any  state  officer,  public  benefit
  corporation, department, board, commission, bureau or division, or other
  agency or instrumentality of the state.
24. "Water board" means the corporation created by special act of  the
  state  legislature  as  provided  in  section  one  thousand two hundred
  twenty-six-e of this title.
25.  "Water  facility"  or  "water  facilities"  means   any   plants,
  structures  and  other  property,  real,  personal  or  mixed, acquired,
  rehabilitated, constructed or planned for the purpose  of  accumulating,
  supplying,  transmitting,  treating or distributing water, including but
  not limited to surface or groundwater reservoirs, basins, dams,  canals,
  aqueducts,   aqueduct  taps,  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.