New York Laws
Title 1 - Short Title; Statement of Policy; Definitions; General Provisions
15-0107 - Definitions as Used in This Article.

1. "Person" means any individual, firm, co-partnership, association or
corporation other than the state and a "public corporation."

2. "Public corporation" means "public corporation" as defined in
subdivision one of Section 3 of the General Corporation Law and includes
all public authorities, except the Power Authority of the State of New
York.

3. "Municipality" or "municipal corporation" includes a county, city,
town and village.

4. "Waters" shall be construed to include lakes, bays, sounds, ponds,
impounding reservoirs, springs, wells, rivers, streams, creeks,
estuaries, marshes, inlets, canals, the Atlantic ocean within the
territorial limits of the state of New York, and all other bodies of
surface or underground water, natural or artificial, inland or coastal,
fresh or salt, public or private, which are wholly or partially within
or bordering the state or within its jurisdiction.

5. "Water power" shall be construed to mean power developed from
falling or flowing water, and all electrical current and other forms of
energy into which such power may be transformed.

6. The term "comprehensive planning" as used in title 11 of this
article shall be deemed to mean multi-purpose planning for at least two,
and as many more as may be found to be practicable and reasonable, of
the purposes and uses as provided by this article 15 or by any other
statute, the provisions of which and the procedures authorized thereby
are to remain in full force and effect.

7. Other definitions, applicable to this article, are found in
sections 15-1301, 15-1703, 15-1973 and 15-2101.

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