New York Laws
Title 8-F - Saratoga County Water Authority
1199-BBB - 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.

12. "Members" shall mean the members of the board.
13. "Municipality" shall mean any county, city, town, village, or
county or town acting on behalf of an improvement district, any other
instrumentality, including any agency, or public corporation of the
state, or any of the foregoing or any combination thereof.
14. "Person" shall mean any natural person, partnership, association,
joint venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.
15. "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.
16. "Personnel officer" shall mean the personnel officer of the county
of Saratoga.
17. "State sanitary code" shall mean regulations adopted pursuant to
section two hundred twenty-five of the public health law.
18. "State" shall mean the 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 by the authority 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 but in
no event shall "system revenues" mean an ad valorem levy on real or
personal property within the authority or any part thereof.
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 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.
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.