Terms Used In New York Laws > Public Health > Article 11 > Title 3 - Annual Water Supply Statement

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• water works corporation: shall mean any entity that has one thousand or more water service connections, and comes within the definition in § 2 of the public service law or paragraph (a) of subdivision one of § 120-u of the general municipal law. See N.Y. Public Health Law 1150