2016 New York Laws
ENV - Environmental Conservation
Article 15 - WATER RESOURCES
Title 1 - (15-0101 - 15-0113) SHORT TITLE; STATEMENT OF POLICY; DEFINITIONS; GENERAL PROVISIONS
15-0107 - Definitions as used in this article.

15-0107. Definitions as used in this article.
1. "Person" means any individual, firm, co-partnership, association or
  corporation other than the state and a "public corporation."
2.  "Public  corporation"  means  "public  corporation"  as defined in
  subdivision one of Section 3 of the General Corporation Law and includes
  all public authorities, except the Power Authority of the State  of  New
  York.
3.  "Municipality" or "municipal corporation" includes a county, city,
  town and village.
4. "Waters" shall be construed to include lakes, bays, sounds,  ponds,
  impounding   reservoirs,   springs,   wells,  rivers,  streams,  creeks,
  estuaries, marshes,  inlets,  canals,  the  Atlantic  ocean  within  the
  territorial  limits  of  the  state of New York, and all other bodies of
  surface or underground water, natural or artificial, inland or  coastal,
  fresh  or  salt, public or private, which are wholly or partially within
  or bordering the state or within its jurisdiction.
5. "Water power" shall be  construed  to  mean  power  developed  from
  falling  or flowing water, and all electrical current and other forms of
  energy into which such power may be transformed.
6. The term "comprehensive planning" as  used  in  title  11  of  this
  article shall be deemed to mean multi-purpose planning for at least two,
  and  as  many  more as may be found to be practicable and reasonable, of
  the purposes and uses as provided by this article 15  or  by  any  other
  statute,  the  provisions of which and the procedures authorized thereby
  are to remain in full force and effect.
7. Other  definitions,  applicable  to  this  article,  are  found  in
  sections 15-1301, 15-1703, 15-1973 and 15-2101.