2052-b. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
1. "Authority" means the corporation created by section two thousand fifty-two-c of this title.
2. "Board" means the members of the authority constituting and acting as the governing body of the authority.
3. "Comptroller" means the comptroller of the state.
4. "Construct", "construction" or "constructed" means the acquisition, erection, building, alteration, improvement, increase, enlargement, extension, reconstruction, renovation or rehabilitation of the sports facility, as the case may be; the inspection and supervision thereof; and the engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal and economic investigations and studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedure and other actions preliminary or incidental thereto.
5. "Cost" as applied to any project, includes the cost of construction, the cost of the acquisition of all property, including real property and other property, both real, personal and mixed and improved and unimproved, the cost of the demolishing, removing or relocating of any buildings or structures on lands so acquired, including the cost of acquiring any lands to which such buildings or structures may be moved or relocated, the cost of the sports facility, machinery, apparatus and equipment, the cost of engineering and architectural surveys, plans and specifications, the cost of consultant and legal services, the cost of other expenses necessary or incidental to the construction of any project and the financing of the construction thereof and the financing of the placing of any project in operation, including reimbursement to the county or any municipality, state agency, the state, the United States government or any other person for expenditures that would be costs of a project hereunder had they been made directly by the authority.
6. "County" means the county of Oneida.
7. "County executive" means the county executive of the county, being the chief executive officer of the county.
8. "County board of legislators" means the board of legislators of the county.
9. "Municipality" means any county, city, town, village, or city school district, union free school district, central school district or common school district, any other such instrumentality, including any agency or public corporation of the state, or any of the foregoing or any combination thereof.
10. "Murnane Field" means the stadium commonly known by that name, located in the city of Utica, as well as the surrounding lands, including all structures appurtenant thereto, located in the vicinity of Sunset Avenue and Burrstone Road in the city of Utica, which shall include all of the property deeded to the city of Utica by deed dated February third, nineteen hundred eight and thereafter conveyed to the Utica city school district by deed dated March fourteenth, nineteen hundred seventy-seven, except for any portions of the said property which have been appropriated by the state of New York or otherwise conveyed.
11. "Person" means any natural person, partnership, association, joint venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.
12. "Project" means the sports facility, including the structures or parts thereof and appurtenances thereto, real property or any other property incidental to and included in such facility or part thereof, and any improvements, extensions and betterments.
13. "Real property" means lands, structures, franchises, rights and interests in land and air rights, and any and all things and rights included within said term and includes not only fees simple absolute, but also any and all lesser interests including, but not limited to, easements, rights-of-way, uses, leases, licenses and all other incorporeal hereditaments and every estate, interest or right, legal or equitable, including terms for years and liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages or otherwise and also claims for damage to real estate.
14. "Sports facility" means Murnane Field in the city of Utica.
15. "State" means the state of New York.
16. "State agency" means any state officer, public benefit corporation, department, board, commission, bureau, division or other agency or instrumentality of the state.
Last modified: February 3, 2019