New York Laws
Title 8-A - New York State Local Water and Sewer Authority Act
1196-B - 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.
(b) In the case of a public benefit corporation, the members thereof.
10. "Municipality" shall mean any city, county, town, village, or
county or town acting on behalf of an improvement district.
11. "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 included within
said term 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.
12. "Sewage" shall mean 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.
13. "Sewerage facility" or "sewerage facilities" shall mean any
plants, structures and other real and personal property acquired,
rehabilitated or constructed or planned for the purpose of collecting,
treating and disposing of sewage, including main, trunk, intercepting,
connecting, lateral, outlet or other sewers, outfall, pumping stations,
treatment and disposal plants, groundwater recharge basins, back-flow
prevention devices, sludge dewatering or disposal equipment and
facilities, clarifiers, filters, phosphorus removal equipment, and other
plants, structures, equipment, vehicles, conveyances, 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.
14. "Sewerage system" shall mean the sewage collection, pumping,
treatment neutralizing, storage and disposal system or systems in the
possession of, or under the jurisdiction and control of, a municipality,
including all additions, increases, enlargements, extensions or
improvements thereto.
15. "State" shall mean the state of New York.
16. "State agency" shall mean any state office, public benefit
corporation, department, board, commission, bureau or division, or other
agency or instrumentality of the state.
17. "Supply facility" shall mean a water facility employed to make
groundwater or surface water available for delivery into a transmission
facility or distribution system.
18. "System revenues" shall mean rates, rents, fees, charges, payments
and other income and receipts derived from users of a water system or
sewerage system of a municipality 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.
19. "Transmission facility" shall mean a water facility used to carry
water from a supply facility to a distribution system.
20. "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, 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.
21. "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.