§ 120-w. Contracts and agreements for solid waste management,\ncollection and disposal. 1. Definitions. As used in this section:\n (a) "Municipality" means a town, city, county, or village or any\ndesignated public agency thereof, or a garbage or sanitary district\nestablished under the Nassau county civil divisions act; or any two or\nmore of the foregoing which are acting jointly in connection with a\nsolid waste management facility, or a public authority.\n (b) "Solid waste management-resource recovery facility" or "facility"\nor "project" means any facility, plant, works, system, building,\nstructure, improvement machinery, equipment, fixture or other real or\npersonal property which is to be used, occupied or employed beyond the\ninitial solid waste collection process for the storage, processing, or\ndisposal of solid waste or the recovery by any means of any material or\nenergy product or resource therefrom including but not limited to\nrecycling centers, transfer stations, baling facilities, rail haul or\nbarge haul facilities, processing systems, resource recovery facilities\nor other facilities for reducing solid waste volume, sanitary landfills,\nplants and facilities for compacting, composting or pyrolization of\nsolid wastes, incinerators, and other solid waste disposal, reduction or\nconversion facilities. For the purpose of this section, solid waste\nmanagement-resource recovery facilities include solid waste recovery and\nmanagement projects as defined in subdivision two of section 51-0903 of\nthe environmental conservation law.\n (c) "Resource recovery" means the separation, extraction and recovery\nof useable materials or energy from solid waste through source\nseparation, recycling centers or other programs, projects or facilities.\n (d) "Person" means a municipality or other governmental body, public\ncorporation or authority, private corporation, partnership or\nindividual.\n (e) "Source separation" means the segregation of recyclable materials\nfrom the solid waste stream at the point of generation for separate\ncollection, sale or other disposition.\n 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, general, special\nor local relating to the length, duration and terms of contracts which a\nmunicipality may enter into, any municipality may enter into a contract\nwith any person, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon,\nfor the design, construction, operation, financing, ownership or\nmaintenance of a solid waste management-resource recovery facility, for\nthe processing or disposal of solid waste or for a system of collection\nand disposal of municipal solid waste through resource recovery which\nmay include source separation, for a period not to exceed twenty-five\nyears, and, except in a city having a population of one million or more,\nfor collection and disposal of municipal solid wastes by means other\nthan resource recovery for a period not to exceed five years as provided\nfor in this section.\n 3. The share of the cost to be paid by municipalities acting jointly\nshall be determined in any manner which may be agreed upon, and such\nshare shall be included in the annual budget of the participating\nmunicipality as an expense and levied against the taxable real property\nin the municipality or municipalities.\n 4. Construction, financing and operation of solid waste\nmanagement-resource recovery facilities. (a) Notwithstanding the\nprovisions of any other law, general, special or local relating to the\nlength, duration and terms of contracts a municipality may enter into,\nany county, city, town or village, or any combination thereof, is hereby\nauthorized and empowered from time to time to enter into contracts,\nleases or rental agreements, with, or grant licenses, permits,\nconcessions or any other authorizations, to any person, upon such terms\nand conditions for such consideration and for such term or duration, not\nto exceed twenty-five years, as may be agreed upon by an
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