N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 6 § 627.1

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 50, December 11, 2024

Section 627.1 - Definitions

(a) Wetlands restoration project shall mean a municipal project to renovate dikes, levies, ditches, berms and other water level regulation works; to establish vegetation, plants, and shrubs, or such other necessary or desirable work to achieve optimum productivity of wetlands.

(b) Wetlands shall mean lands and lands under water which may be permanently, temporarily or intermittently covered with fresh or saltwater and commonly referred to as flood basins or flats, meadows, marshes, shrub swamps, wooded swamps, swamps or bogs.

(c) Municipality shall mean a city, county, town, village or an improvement district within a city, county, town or village, or any combination thereof.

(d) Cost shall mean the cost of an approved project including engineering and architectural services, plans and specifications, consultant and legal services and other direct expenses incident to such project less any Federal assistance received or to be received.

(e) Commissioner shall mean the Commissioner of Environmental Conservation.

(f) Department shall mean the Department of Environmental Conservation.

(g) Governing body shall mean

(1) in the case of a town, a town board;

(2) in the case of a county outside the City of New York, the county board of supervisors or other elective governing body; or

(3) in the case of a city or village, the local legislative body thereof, as the term is defined in the Municipal Home Rule Law.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 6 § 627.1