§ 2053-b. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a\ndifferent meaning clearly appears from the context:\n 1. "Animal shelter" shall mean any facility, building, or structure,\nwhere temporary or permanent housing and care is provided to stray,\nabandoned, abused, seized, impounded, owner-surrendered or otherwise\nunwanted animals.\n 2. "Animal management services" shall mean any and all services\nprovided to promote animal care and to protect public health and safety,\nincluding, but not limited to the following services: providing housing\nand care for stray, abandoned, abused, seized, impounded,\nowner-surrendered or otherwise unwanted animals in an animal shelter;\nthe processing and disposal of animal waste; the disposal of dead\nwildlife removed from roadways following wildlife-vehicle collisions;\nproviding animal control; and any other similar service related thereto.\n 3. "Authority" shall mean the public benefit corporation created by\nsection two thousand fifty-three-c of this title, known as the Rockland\ncounty solid waste management authority and shall also hereby be known\nas Rockland Green and/or RG Cares.\n 4. "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 and shall\napply with equal force and effect to notes and obligations and\nnoteholders and obligation holders, respectively, unless the context\notherwise clearly requires.\n 5. "Construction" shall mean the acquisition, erection, building,\nalteration, improvement, increase, enlargement, extension,\nreconstruction, renovation or rehabilitation of a solid waste management\nfacility or animal shelter; the inspection and supervision thereof; and\nthe engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal and economic\ninvestigations and studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings,\nspecifications, procedures and other actions incidental thereto subject\nto the provisions of section two thousand fifty-three-f of this title.\n 6. "Cost," as applied to any project, shall mean and include the cost\nof construction, the cost of the acquisition of all property, including\nreal property and other property, both real and personal and improved\nand unimproved, subject to the provisions of section two thousand\nfifty-three-f of this title, the cost of demolishing, removing or\nrelocating any buildings or structures on lands so acquired, including\nthe cost of relocating tenants or other occupants of the buildings or\nstructures on such land, including the cost of acquiring any lands to\nwhich such buildings or structures may be moved or relocated, the cost\nof all systems, facilities, machinery, apparatus and equipment,\nfinancing charges, interest prior to, during and after construction to\nthe extent not paid or provided for from revenues or other sources, the\ncost of engineering and architectural surveys, plans and specifications,\nthe cost of consultant, legal and other professional services, the cost\nof lease guarantee or bond insurance and the cost of other expenses\nnecessary or incidental to the construction thereof, including the\namount authorized in the resolution of the authority providing for the\nissuance of bonds to be paid into any reserve or other special fund from\nthe proceeds of such bonds, the financing of the placing of any project\nin operation and reimbursement to the county, any municipality, any\nstate agency, the state, the United States government or any other\nperson for expenditures that would be costs of the project hereunder had\nthey been made directly by the authority.\n 7. "County" shall mean the county of Rockland.\n 8. "Governing body" shall mean the members of the authority\nconstituting and acting as the governing body of the authority.\n 9. "Municipality" shall mean any county, city, town, village, district\nor any combination thereof.\n 10. "Person" shall mean any natu
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