§ 1115-a. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a\ndifferent meaning clearly appears from the context:\n 1. "Agreement" shall mean any agreement entered into by the city\npursuant to section one thousand one hundred fifteen-g or section one\nthousand one hundred fifteen-h of this title.\n 2. "Authority" shall mean the corporation created by section one\nthousand one hundred fifteen-b of this title.\n 3. "Bonds" shall mean the bonds, notes or other evidences of\nindebtedness issued by the authority pursuant to this title, and the\nprovisions of this title relating to bonds and bondholders shall apply\nwith equal force and effect to notes and noteholders, respectively,\nunless the context otherwise clearly requires.\n 4. "City" shall mean the city of Albany.\n 5. "Common council" or "council" shall mean the common council of the\ncity.\n 6. "Civil service commission" shall mean the civil service commission\nof the city.\n 7. "Comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the state.\n 8. "Construction" shall mean the acquisition, erection, building,\nalteration, improvement, increase, enlargement, extension,\nreconstruction, renovation or rehabilitation of a water, sewerage or\nwater, and sewerage system or project, as the case may be; the\ninspection and supervision thereof; and the engineering, architectural,\nlegal, fiscal and economic and environmental investigations and studies,\nsurveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures\nand other actions preliminary or incidental thereto and claims arising\ntherefrom.\n 9. "Contracting agency" shall mean the authority or the water board,\nas the case may be.\n 10. "Cost", as applied to any project, includes the cost of\nconstruction, the cost of the acquisition of all property, including\nboth real, personal and mixed, the cost of demolishing, removing or\nrelocating any buildings or structures on lands so acquired, including\nthe cost of acquiring any lands to which such buildings or structures\nmay be moved or relocated, the cost of all systems, facilities,\nmachinery, apparatus and equipment, financing charges, interest prior\nto, during and after construction to the extent not paid or provided for\nfrom revenues or other sources, the cost of engineering and\narchitectural surveys, plans and specifications, the cost of consultant\nand legal services, the cost of lease guarantee or bond insurance and\nthe cost of other expenses necessary or incidental to the construction\nof such project and the financing of the construction thereof, including\nthe amount authorized in the resolution of the authority providing for\nthe issuance of bonds to be paid into any reserve or other special fund\nfrom the proceeds of such bonds and the financing of the placing of any\nproject in operation, including reimbursement to the city, or any\nmunicipality, state agency, the state, the United States government, or\nany other person for expenditures that would be costs of the project\nhereunder.\n 11. "Governing body" shall mean the members of the authority or the\nwater board, as the case may be, constituting and acting as the\ngoverning body of the authority or the water board, as the case may be.\n 12. "Mayor" shall mean the mayor of the city.\n 13. "Municipality" shall mean any county, city, town, village,\nimprovement district under the town law, any other such instrumentality,\nincluding any agency, or public corporation of the state, or any of the\nforegoing or any combination thereof.\n 14. "Person" shall mean any natural person or any firm, partnership,\nassociation, joint venture or corporation, exclusive of public\ncorporations as defined pursuant to article two-A of the general\nconstruction law.\n 15. "Project" shall mean any water facility, sewerage facility or\nwater and sewerage facility, including the planning, development,\nfinancing or construction thereof.\n 16. "Properties" shall mean the water supply and distribution system\no
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