New York Laws
Title 5-A*2 - North Shore Water Authority
1114-B*2 - Definitions.

(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; or
(b) in the case of a public benefit corporation, the members thereof.

14. "Members" shall mean the members of the board of directors.
15. "Municipality" shall mean any city, county, town, village or
county or town acting on behalf of an improvement district.
16."Real property" shall mean lands, structures, franchises and
interests in land, waters, lands under water, groundwater riparian
rights and air rights and any and all things and rights customarily
included within the 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. "State" shall mean state of New York.
19. "State agency" shall mean any state office, public benefit
corporation, department, board, commission, bureau or division, or other
agency or instrumentality of the state.
20. "Supply facility" shall mean a water facility employed to make
groundwater or surface water available for delivery into a transmission
facility or distribution system.
21. "System revenues" shall mean all rates, rents, fees, charges,
payments and other income and receipts derived from users of the
authority 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.
22. "Transmission facility" shall mean a water facility used to carry
water from a supply facility to a distribution system.
23. "Treasurer" shall mean the treasurer of the authority.
24. "Water facility" or "water facilities" shall mean any plants,
structures and other real and personal property acquired, rehabilitated
or constructed for the purpose of 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, water distribution systems,
compensating reservoirs, intake stations, waterworks or sources of water
supply, wells, purification or filtration plants or other treatment
plants and works, connections, water meters, rights of flowage or
diversion and other plants, structures, equipment, 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.
25. "Water project" shall mean any water facility, including the
planning, development, financing or construction thereof.
26. "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 § 1114-b's

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