Terms Used In New York Laws > Public Buildings > Article 4-D - Decarbonization of State-owned Facilities

• 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
• Authority: shall mean the power authority of the state of New York established under title one of Article 5 of the public authorities law. See N.Y. Public Buildings Law 90
• 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.
• decarbonize: means eliminating all on-site combustion of fossil-fuels and associated co-pollutants with the exception of back-up emergency generators and redundant systems needed to address public health, safety and security, providing heating and cooling through thermal energy, and thermal energy networks, from non-combustion sources, and to the greatest extent feasible producing on-site electricity that is one hundred percent renewable. See N.Y. Public Buildings Law 90
• facilities: includes "building" as defined by section eighty-one of this chapter, "dormitory" as defined by § 370 of the education law, and "facility" as defined by § 370 of the education law. See N.Y. Public Buildings Law 90
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• State energy research and development authority: shall mean the New York state energy research and development authority established under title nine of Article 8 of the public authorities law. See N.Y. Public Buildings Law 90