New York Laws
Title 13-L - Oneida County Sports Facility Authority Act
2052-B - Definitions.

§ 2052-b. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a
different meaning clearly appears from the context:

1. "Authority" means the corporation created by section two thousand
fifty-two-c of this title.

2. "Board" means the members of the authority constituting and acting
as the governing body of the authority.

3. "Comptroller" means the comptroller of the state.

4. "Construct", "construction" or "constructed" means the acquisition,
erection, building, alteration, improvement, increase, enlargement,
extension, reconstruction, renovation or rehabilitation of the sports
facility, as the case may be; the inspection and supervision thereof;
and the engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal and economic
investigations and studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings,
specifications, procedure and other actions preliminary or incidental
thereto.

5. "Cost" as applied to any project, includes the cost of
construction, the cost of the acquisition of all property, including
real property and other property, both real, personal and mixed and
improved and unimproved, the cost of the demolishing, removing or
relocating of any buildings or structures on lands so acquired,
including the cost of acquiring any lands to which such buildings or
structures may be moved or relocated, the cost of the sports facility,
machinery, apparatus and equipment, the cost of engineering and
architectural surveys, plans and specifications, the cost of consultant
and legal services, the cost of other expenses necessary or incidental
to the construction of any project and the financing of the construction
thereof and the financing of the placing of any project in operation,
including reimbursement to the county or any municipality, state agency,
the state, the United States government or any other person for
expenditures that would be costs of a project hereunder had they been
made directly by the authority.

6. "County" means the county of Oneida.

7. "County executive" means the county executive of the county, being
the chief executive officer of the county.

8. "County board of legislators" means the board of legislators of the
county.

9. "Municipality" means any county, city, town, village, or city
school district, union free school district, central school district or
common school district, any other such instrumentality, including any
agency or public corporation of the state, or any of the foregoing or
any combination thereof.

10. "Murnane Field" means the stadium commonly known by that name,
located in the city of Utica, as well as the surrounding lands,
including all structures appurtenant thereto, located in the vicinity of
Sunset Avenue and Burrstone Road in the city of Utica, which shall
include all of the property deeded to the city of Utica by deed dated
February third, nineteen hundred eight and thereafter conveyed to the
Utica city school district by deed dated March fourteenth, nineteen
hundred seventy-seven, except for any portions of the said property
which have been appropriated by the state of New York or otherwise
conveyed.

11. "Person" means any natural person, partnership, association, joint
venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.

12. "Project" means the sports facility, including the structures or
parts thereof and appurtenances thereto, real property or any other
property incidental to and included in such facility or part thereof,
and any improvements, extensions and betterments.

13. "Real property" means lands, structures, franchises, rights and
interests in land and air rights, and any and all things and rights
included within said term and includes not only fees 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 and also claims for damage to real
estate.

14. "Sports facility" means Murnane Field in the city of Utica.

15. "State" means the state of New York.

16. "State agency" means any state officer, public benefit
corporation, department, board, commission, bureau, division or other
agency or instrumentality of the state.