2652 - Definitions.

§ 2652.  Definitions.  As  used or referred to in this title, unless a  different meaning clearly appears from the context:    1. The term "authority" shall  mean  the  public  benefit  corporation  created by section twenty-six hundred fifty-three of this title.    2. The term "board" shall mean the members of the authority created in  section twenty-six hundred fifty-three of this title.    3.  The  term  "person"  shall  mean  any natural person, partnership,  limited liability company, association, joint  venture  or  corporation,  exclusive of a public corporation.    4.  The  term  "service district" shall mean the Schenectady metroplex  service district created by section  twenty-six  hundred  fifty-four  of  this title.    5. The term "bonds" shall mean bonds and notes issued by the authority  pursuant to this title.    6. The term "state" shall mean the state of New York.    7.  The  term  "governor"  shall mean the governor of the state of New  York.    8. The term "comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the  state  of  New York.    9.  The  term  "director of the budget" shall mean the director of the  budget of the state of New York.    10. The term "municipality"  shall  mean  a  county,  town,  city,  or  village.    11. The term "county" shall mean the county of Schenectady.    12.  The  term  "county legislature" shall mean the Schenectady county  legislature.    13. The term "city" shall mean the city of Schenectady.    14. The term "mayor" shall mean the mayor of the city of Schenectady.    15. The term "city council" shall mean the city council of the city of  Schenectady.    16. The term "metroplex facility" shall mean any  facility,  building,  structure,  park  or  other  real  property  owned, leased, constructed,  created, designed, developed, planned,  financed,  operated,  renovated,  administered, managed and/or maintained by the authority.    17.  The  term  "park  district" shall mean any area designated by the  authority, within the service district, to be an  historic  preservation  district, a special entertainment district, an educational entertainment  district, or a recreational park district.    18.  The  term  "construction"  shall  mean the acquisition, erection,  building, alteration,  improvement,  increase,  enlargement,  extension,  reconstruction,  renovation  or  rehabilitation  of any project financed  under the provisions of  this  title;  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.    19. The term "real property" shall mean lands, waters, rights in lands  or waters, structures, franchises and interests in land, including lands  under water, riparian  rights,  property  rights  in  air  space  and/or  subsurface  space  and  any  and  all  other  things  and rights usually  included within such term and includes also any  and  all  interests  in  such  property  less  than  full  title,  such as easements permanent or  temporary,  rights-of-way,  uses,  leases,  licenses   and   all   other  incorporeal  hereditaments  and every estate, interest or right legal or  equitable.    20. The  term  "personal  property"  shall  mean  chattels  and  other  tangible things of a movable or removable nature.21.  The  term  "cost" as applied to any project, includes the cost of  construction, the cost of the acquisition of  all  property,  rights  in  property, rights-of-way, easements, franchises, and interests, including  real  property  and  other  property,  both  real,  personal  and mixed,  improved and unimproved, the cost of demolishing, removing or relocating  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  all  machinery,  apparatus and equipment,  financing charges, interest prior to, during and after  construction  to  the  extent not paid or provided for from revenues or other sources, the  cost of engineering and architectural surveys, plans and specifications,  the cost of consultant and legal services, the cost of  guarantee,  bond  insurance or other credit support devices and the cost of other expenses  necessary  or incidental to the construction of any such project and the  financing of the construction thereof, including the  amount  authorized  in  the  resolution of the authority providing for the issuance of bonds  to be paid into any reserve or other special funds from the proceeds  of  such bonds and the financing of the placing of any project in operation,  including  reimbursement  to  any municipality, state agency, the state,  the United States government, or any other person for expenditures  that  would  be  costs of the project hereunder had they been made directly by  the authority.    22. The term "project" shall mean  a  facility,  building,  structure,  park  or  other  real  property,  or  any  portion  thereof,  which  the  ownership, lease, transfer, design,  development,  planning,  financing,  creation,  siting,  construction, renovation, administration, operation,  management and/or maintenance is authorized to be undertaken,  in  whole  or in part, by the authority pursuant to this title.    23.  The  term  "revenues"  shall mean all monies, funds, rates, fees,  tolls, rents, charges or other income derived by the authority from  its  planning,  development,  financing, construction, operation, management,  or maintenance functions, or any monies or  funds  appropriated  to  the  authority  from  the  state  or  a  municipality, or any monies or funds  obtained from public or private donations to the authority  or  the  tax  revenues  payable  to  the  authority pursuant to section twelve hundred  ten-C of the tax law.    24. The term "United States" shall mean the United States  of  America  or any department, agency or instrumentality thereof acting on behalf of  the United States of America.