(a) The New York State Canal Corporation (the Canal Corporation) shall mean the corporate subsidiary of the New York State Thruway Authority, created by section 382 of the Public Authorities Law. The New York State Thruway Authority (the Authority) shall mean the public corporation created by title 9 of article 2 of the Public Authorities Law.

(b) Canal Recreationway Commission shall mean the advisory body created pursuant to article 13-A of the Canal Law, consisting of State, local and private citizens representative of diverse canal interests and geographic areas of the canal system.

(c) The Canal Recreationway Plan shall mean the comprehensive plan for development of the New York State Canal System formulated pursuant to article 13-A of the Canal Law.

(d) Division director shall mean the administrative head of a designated area constituting a division of the Canal Corporation.

(e) The New York State canal or the canal system shall each mean all the canals, canal lands, feeder canals, reservoirs, canal terminals and canal terminal lands of the State transferred to the jurisdiction of the authority and operated by the Canal Corporation pursuant to chapter 766 of the Laws of 1992, as hereinafter defined.

(f) Canals or canal shall mean the channel and adjacent State-owned banks of the inland waterways of the State constructed, improved, or designated by authority of the Legislature as canals and shall include canalized rivers and lakes, canal water supply reservoirs, canal water supply feeder channels and all appertaining structures including locks, dams, bridges, etc., necessary for the proper maintenance and operation of the canals.

(g) Canal terminal shall mean the facilities which have been constructed or acquired under authority of the Legislature in connection with the canal system for loading, unloading, and/or temporarily storing commodities transported upon the canals and shall include docks, dock walls, bulkheads, wharves, piers, slips, basins, harbors, buildings, equipment, tracks and roadways together with the lands now owned or as may hereafter be acquired by the State or the Canal Corporation for the proper maintenance and operation of the canal terminals.

(h) Erie Canal shall mean the portion of the canal system connecting the Hudson River at Waterford with the Niagara River at Tonawanda.

(i) Oswego Canal shall mean the portion of the canal system connecting the Erie Canal at Three Rivers with Lake Ontario at Oswego.

(j) Champlain Canal shall mean the portion of the canal system connecting the easterly end of the Erie Canal at Waterford with Lake Champlain at Whitehall.

(k) Cayuga and Seneca Canals shall mean the portions of the canal system connecting the Erie Canal at a point near Montezuma with Cayuga and Seneca Lakes and through Cayuga Lake and Cayuga inlet to the southerly side of State Street in the City of Ithaca and through Seneca Lake with Montour Falls.

(l) Canal lands shall mean all lands and waters forming a part of the canal system, title to which was originally vested in the State, acquired by the State or which may in the future be acquired by the State or the Canal Corporation for canal purposes.

(m) Permit shall mean a revocable agreement granting temporary occupancy or use of lands, facilities, or structures of the canal system.

(n) Float shall mean every boat, vessel, raft or floating thing navigated on the canals or moved thereupon under the direction of some person having the charge thereof.

(o) Master shall mean every person having for the time, the charge, control or direction of any float.

(p) Person shall mean an individual, partnership, corporation or association.

(q) Mooring shall mean the making fast of a float to a structure. This may be by direct attachment to the structure or through other floats.

(r) Dockage shall mean the charges which are established for the mooring of a vessel at a terminal.

(s) Wharfage shall mean the charges which are established for the privilege of moving commodities from or into floats while moored at a terminal.

(t) Storage shall mean the temporary occupancy, by commodities, of space on a canal terminal. Storage carries no responsibility by the State, the authority or the Canal Corporation for damage or loss of commodities.

(u) Canal freight shall mean commodities moved or to be moved via the New York State canals.

(v) Day shall mean a period of 24 hours or fraction thereof.

(w) Area occupied shall mean driveways, passageways, etc., which are monopolized by the commodity to the exclusion of other shippers.

(x) Outgoing canal freight shall mean freight delivered on a canal terminal for transportation on the canal system.

(y) Incoming canal freight shall mean freight delivered on a canal terminal after transportation on the canal system.

(z) Owner of a vessel, operating on the canals, shall mean the person so declared and filed with the United States Treasury Department (Bureau of Customs), and who is also required to file proper certificate of registry with the Canal Corporation.