New York Laws
Title 27-A - Greater Rochester Sports Authority
2577 - Definitions.

§ 2577. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a
different meaning clearly appears from the context, the following terms
shall mean and include:

1. "Authority". The corporation created by section two thousand five
hundred seventy-eight of this title.

2. "City". The City of Rochester.

3. "Board". The members of the authority constituting and acting as
the governing body of the authority.

4. "Bonds". The bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued
by the authority pursuant to this title, and the provisions of this
title relating to bonds and bondholders shall apply with equal force and
effect to notes and noteholders, respectively, unless the context
otherwise clearly requires.

5. "Construct", "construction" or "constructed". The acquisition,
erection, building, alteration, improvement, increase, enlargement,
extension, reconstruction, renovation or rehabilitation of a
professional soccer stadium; the inspection and supervision thereof; and
the engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal and economic
investigations and studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings,
specifications, procedures and other actions preliminary or incidental
thereto.

6. "Cost". As applied to any project, means and includes the cost of
construction, the cost of the acquisition of all property, including
real property and other property, real, personal and mixed and improved
and unimproved, the cost of 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 professional soccer stadium, 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 or facility for the purposes of professional
soccer and the financing of the construction thereof and the financing
of the placing of any such project or such facility 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.

7. "Controller". The controller of the county of Monroe.

8. "County". The county of Monroe.

9. "County legislature". The Monroe county legislature.

10. "Notes". The notes authorized by the title.

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

12. "Project". Any real property or improvements located within the
state of New York and within Monroe county, whether or not now in
existence or under construction, which shall be necessary or suitable
for use as a sports facility or for a use incidental to a sports
facility, including, but not limited to, machinery, equipment and other
facilities deemed necessary or desirable in connection therewith, or
incidental thereto.

13. "Real property". Lands, including air and subsurface rights and
lands under water, structures, franchises and interests in lands and any
and all things usually included within the said terms, including not
only fees simple absolute but also any and all lesser interests, such as
easements, rights of way, uses, leases, licenses, and all other
incorporeal hereditaments and every estate, interest or right, legal or
equitable, including terms of years, and liens thereon by way of

judgments, mortgages or otherwise, and also claims for damage to real
estate.

14. "Revenues". All fees, charges, tolls, rentals, rates and other
income and receipts derived from the operation of any sports facility
including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, investment
proceeds and proceeds of insurance, condemnation, and sale or other
disposition of assets, together with all federal, state or municipal aid
if any.

15. "Sports facility". Real property and improvements and structures
thereon in the county, constituting a professional soccer stadium and
other structures or related facilities, suitable for the holding of
professional soccer events, including parking therefor.

16. "State". The state of New York.

17. "State agency". Any state office, public benefit corporation,
department, board, commission, bureau, division or other agency or
instrumentality of the state.