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* § 1199-bb. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless
a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
  1.  "Authority"  shall  mean  the  corporation  created by section one
thousand one hundred ninety-nine-dd of this title.
  2. "Board" shall mean the members of the  authority  constituting  and
acting as the governing board of the authority.
  3. "Board of supervisors" shall mean the board of supervisors of Wayne
county.
  4.  "Bonds"  shall  mean  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.
  5.  "Civil service commission" shall mean the civil service commission
of the county of Wayne.
  6. "Comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the state of New York.
  7. "Construction" shall mean the negotiation,  acquisition,  erection,
building,   alteration,  improvement,  testing,  increase,  enlargement,
extension, reconstruction, interconnection, renovation or rehabilitation
of a water, sewerage or water and sewerage facility, as the case may be;
the  inspection  and   supervision   thereof;   and   the   engineering,
architectural,  legal,  appraisal,  fiscal,  economic  and environmental
investigations, services and studies, surveys, designs,  plans,  working
drawings,  specifications,  procedures  and other actions preliminary or
incidental thereto.
  8. "Costs", as applied to any  project,  shall  include  the  cost  of
construction,  the  cost  of  the acquisition of all property, including
both real, personal and mixed, the  cost  of  demolishing,  removing  or
relocating  any  buildings or structures on lands so acquired, including
the cost of acquiring any land to which such buildings or structures may
be moved or relocated, the cost of all systems,  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 lease guarantee or bond insurance and the cost of
other expenses necessary or  incidental  to  the  construction  of  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 fund from
the  proceeds  of  such  bonds  and  the financing of the placing of any
project in operation, including the reimbursement to the county, or  any
municipality,  state agency, the state, the United States government, or
any other person for expenditures made by them that would  be  costs  of
the project hereunder.
  9. "County" shall mean the county of Wayne.
  10.  "Distribution system" shall mean the water facility or facilities
employed to deliver water from a transmission facility, or  where  there
is  no  transmission  facility,  from a supply facility, to the ultimate
consumers of water.
  11. "District" shall mean the Wayne county water and  sewer  authority
district  created  by section one thousand one hundred ninety-nine-cc of
this title.
  12. "Governing body" shall mean:

(a) In the case of a city, county, town or village or district corporation the finance board as such term is defined in the local finance law;

(b) In the case of a public benefit corporation, the members thereof. 13. "Members" shall mean the members of the board. 14. "Municipality" shall mean any county, city, town, village, improvement district under the town law, any other such instrumentality, including any agency or public corporation of the state, or any of the foregoing or any combination thereof. 15. "Person" shall mean any natural person, partnership, association, joint venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation. 16. "Real property" shall mean lands, structures, franchises, rights and interests in land, waters, lands underwater, groundwater, riparian rights and air rights and any and all things and rights included within said term "real property" and includes not only fee 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. 17. "State sanitary code" shall mean regulations adopted pursuant to section two hundred twenty-five of the public health law. 18. "Sewage" means the water-carried human or animal wastes from residences, buildings, industrial establishments or other places, together with such groundwater infiltration and surface water as may be present. The admixture with sewage of industrial or other waste also shall be considered "sewage" within the meaning of this title. 19. "Sewerage facility" or "sewerage facilities" means any plants, structures and other real and personal property acquired, rehabilitated or constructed or planned for the purpose of collecting, conveying, pumping, treating, neutralizing, storing and disposing of sewage, including but not limited to main, trunk, intercepting, connecting, lateral, outlet or other sewers, outfalls, pumping stations, treatment and disposal plants, ground water recharge basins, back-flow prevention devices sludge dewatering or disposal equipment and facilities, clarifiers, filters, phosphorus removal equipment and other plants, works, structures, equipment, vehicles, conveyances, contract rights, franchises, approaches, connections, permits, real or personal property or rights therein and appurtenances thereto necessary or useful and convenient for the collection, conveyance, pumping, treatment, neutralizing, storing and disposing of sewage. 20. "State" shall mean the state of New York. 21. "State agency" shall mean any state office, public benefit corporation, department, board, commission, bureau or division, or other agency or instrumentality of the state. 22. "Supply facility" shall mean a water facility employed to make groundwater or surface water available for delivery into a transmission facility or distribution system. 23. "System revenues" shall mean all rates, rents, fees, charges, payments and other income and receipts derived by the authority including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, investment proceeds and proceeds of insurance, condemnation, sales or other dispositions of assets, together with all federal, state or municipal aid as well as any other income derived from the operation of the water facility of the authority. 24. "Transmission facility" shall mean a water facility used to carry water from a supply facility to a distribution system. 25. "Treasurer" shall mean the treasurer of the authority. 26. "Water facility" or "water facilities" shall mean any plants, structures or other real and personal property acquired, rehabilitated or constructed or planned for the purpose of accumulating, supplying, transmitting, distributing or treating water, including but not limited to surface or groundwater reservoirs, basins, dams, canals, aqueducts, 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, approaches, connections, water meters, rights of flowage or diversion and other plants, structures, equipment, vehicles, towers, 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. 27. "Water project" shall mean any sewerage facility, water facility or water and sewerage facility, as the case may be, including the planning, development, financing or construction thereof. 28. "Watershed rules" shall mean the rules and regulations made by the department of health pursuant to section eleven hundred of the public health law. * NB There are 2 § 1199-bb's