§ 1281. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a\ndifferent meaning clearly appears from the context:\n 1. "Corporation" shall mean the corporation continued by section\ntwelve hundred eighty-two of this title.\n 2. "Construction" shall mean the erection, building, acquisition,\nalteration, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement or extension of\nsewage treatment works, sewage collecting systems, solid waste disposal\nfacilities, air pollution control facilities, water management\nfacilities, storm water collecting systems, state park infrastructure\nprojects, or all or any portion of Riverbank Park as the case may be;\nthe inspection and supervision thereof; and the engineering,\narchitectural, legal, fiscal and economic investigations and studies,\nsurveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures,\nand other actions necessary thereto.\n 3. "Governing body" shall mean\n a. In the case of a county, city, town, village, county or town\nimprovement district, the board of supervisors, board of aldermen,\ncommon council, commission, town board, board of trustees or other\nelective board or body now or hereafter vested by state statute, charter\nor other law with jurisdiction to initiate and adopt local laws or\nordinances, whether or not such local laws or ordinances require the\napproval of the chief executive officer or other official or body to\nbecome effective;\n b. In the case of a district corporation, the board vested with the\nmanagement and control of the corporation; and\n c. In the case of a sewer authority now existing in a city, the\nmembers of such authority.\n 4. "Municipal bonds and notes" shall mean the bonds and notes\nauthorized and issued pursuant to the local finance law or other act of\nthe legislature by any municipality for the purposes of financing the\nconstruction of a sewage treatment works, sewage collecting system,\nstorm water collecting system, water management facility, air pollution\ncontrol facility, or solid waste disposal facility.\n 5. "Municipality" shall mean any county, city, town, village, district\ncorporation, county or town improvement district, sewer authority now\nexisting in a city, or any two or more of the foregoing which are acting\njointly in connection with a sewage treatment works, sewage collecting\nsystem, solid waste disposal facility, air pollution control facility,\nwater management facility, or storm water collecting system. For\npurposes of sections twelve hundred eighty-five-j and twelve hundred\neighty-five-m of this title only, a municipality may, in addition to the\nforegoing, include an Indian nation or tribe recognized by the state or\nthe United States with a reservation wholly or partly within the\nboundaries of New York state, any public benefit corporation or public\nauthority established pursuant to the laws of New York or any agency of\nNew York state which is empowered to construct and operate a municipal\nwater pollution control project or water management facility, or any two\nor more of the foregoing which are acting jointly in connection with a\nmunicipal water pollution control project or water management facility.\nFor purposes of section twelve hundred eighty-five-m of this title only,\na municipality may, in addition to the foregoing, include a school\ndistrict.\n 6. "Real property" shall mean lands, structures, franchises and\ninterests in land, waters, lands under water, riparian rights and air\nrights and any and all things and rights included within said term and\nincludes not only fees simple absolute but also any and all lesser\ninterests including but not limited to easements, rights of way, uses,\nleases, licenses and all other incorporeal hereditaments and every\nestate, interest or right, legal or equitable, including terms for years\nand liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages or otherwise.\n 7. "Sewage collecting systems" shall mean systems of underground\nconduits designed to pick
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