New York Laws
Title 8-G - Cayuga County Water and Sewer Authority
1199-BBBB - 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.

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 as
defined pursuant to article two-A of the general construction law.
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.
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