§ 2041-a. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a\ndifferent meaning clearly appears from the context:\n 1. "Area of operation" shall mean any or all of the participating\ncounties.\n 2. "Authority" shall mean the public benefit corporation created by\nsection two thousand forty-one-b of this title, known as the Montgomery,\nOtsego, Schoharie solid waste management authority.\n 2-a. "Authorities budget office" shall mean the independent entity\nwithin the department of state established pursuant to section four of\nthis chapter.\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 which shall\napply with equal force and effect to notes and noteholders,\nrespectively, unless the context otherwise clearly requires.\n 4. "Construction" shall mean the acquisition, erection, building,\nalteration, repair, improvement, increase, enlargement, extension,\nreconstruction, renovation or rehabilitation of a solid waste management\nresource recovery facility including any appurtenances thereto which may\nbe necessary or desirable to promote the efficiency or effectiveness of\na project; the 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 incidental thereto.\n 5. "Cost", as applied to any contract, means and includes the cost of\nconstruction, the cost of the acquisition of all property, including\nreal property and other property, both real and personal and improved\nand unimproved, the cost of demolishing, removing or relocating any\nbuildings or structures on lands so acquired, including the cost of\nrelocating tenants or other occupants of the buildings or structures on\nsuch land and the cost of acquiring any lands to which such buildings or\nstructures may be moved or relocated, the cost of all systems,\nfacilities, machinery, apparatus and equipment, financing charges,\ninterest prior to, during and after construction to the extent not paid\nor provided for from revenues or other sources, the cost of engineering\nand architectural surveys, plans and specifications, the cost of\nconsultants' and legal services, the cost of lease guarantee or bond\ninsurance, other expenses necessary or incidental to the construction of\nsuch 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 a county, any\nmunicipality, state authority, the state, the United States government\nor any other person for expenditures that would be costs of the project\nhereunder had they been made directly by the authority.\n 6. "Governing body" shall mean the members of the authority\nconstituting and acting as the governing body of the authority.\n 7. "Legislative body" or "legislative bodies" shall mean any or all of\nthe boards of supervisors of the counties of Montgomery and Schoharie\nand the board of representatives of the county of Otsego.\n 8. "Municipality" shall mean any county, including any participating\ncounty, city, town, village, refuse district under the county law,\nimprovement district under the town law, any other such instrumentality,\nincluding an agency or public corporation of the state, or any of the\nforegoing, or any combination thereof.\n 9. "Participating counties" shall mean those of the counties of\nMontgomery, Otsego and Schoharie that shall have appointed members of\nthe authority and shall have filed a certificate in accordance with\nsection two thousand forty-one-b of this title.\n 10. "Person" shall mean any natural person,
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