Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 11 > Chapter 1 > Article 4 - Change of County Seat

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• 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
• Appropriator: means the person or persons initiating or perfecting the right to use appropriable water based on state law, or the person's successor or successors in interest. See Arizona Laws 45-101
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Community water system: means a public water system that serves at least fifteen service connections used by year-round residents of the area served by the system or that regularly serves at least twenty-five year-round residents of the area served by the system. See Arizona Laws 45-341
• Consumptive use: means , for any water user for any program year, the consumptive use as recorded in the final accounting for the most recent calendar year for which a final accounting is available, or if none is recorded, the amount of diversions so recorded. See Arizona Laws 45-331
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the department of water resources. See Arizona Laws 45-101
• Director: means the director of water resources, who is also the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 45-101
• Domestic use: means a single appropriative water right serving a residence, or multiple residences up to a maximum of three residential connections, for household purposes with associated irrigation of lawns, gardens or landscape in an amount of not more than one-half acre per residence. See Arizona Laws 45-251
• Effluent: means water that has been collected in a sanitary sewer for subsequent treatment in a facility that is regulated pursuant to Title 49, Chapter 2. See Arizona Laws 45-101
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Final accounting: means , for any calendar year, the United States bureau of reclamation's final compilation of records of Colorado river diversions, return flows and consumptive uses for the year, compiled pursuant to article V(b) of the decree of the United States supreme court in Arizona v. See Arizona Laws 45-331
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• General adjudication: means an action for the judicial determination or establishment of the extent and priority of the rights of all persons to use water in any river system and source. See Arizona Laws 45-251
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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.
• Large community water system: means a community water system that serves water to more than one thousand eight hundred fifty persons. See Arizona Laws 45-341
• Law clerk: Assist judges with research and drafting of opinions.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means an individual, a partnership, a corporation, a municipal corporation, the state of Arizona or any political subdivision, the United States of America, an Indian tribe or a community or any other legal entity, public or private. See Arizona Laws 45-251
• person: means an individual, public or private corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, society, estate, trust, any other private organization or enterprise, the United States, any state, territory or country or a governmental entity, political subdivision or municipal corporation organized under or subject to the constitution and laws of the United States, this state or any other state. See Arizona Laws 45-291
• Person: means an individual, public or private corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, society, estate or trust, any other private organization or enterprise, the United States, any state, territory or country or a governmental entity, political subdivision or municipal corporation organized under or subject to the constitution and laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 45-311
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Plumbing fixture: means a lavatory faucet, lavatory faucet replacement aerator, kitchen faucet, kitchen faucet replacement aerator, shower head, urinal, water closet, evaporative cooler or decorative fountain. See Arizona Laws 45-311
• Potential claimant: means all persons claiming water rights or on whose behalf claims to water rights are asserted. See Arizona Laws 45-251
• Prior decree: means any judgment or decree that is entered by a court of competent jurisdiction and that applies to the water right claim or use that is subject to adjudication. See Arizona Laws 45-251
• Prior filing: means a notice of appropriation recorded with the county recorder or the recorder's predecessor, an application to appropriate filed pursuant to section 45-152, a statement of claim filed pursuant to article 7 of this chapter or a claim of water right filed pursuant to article 10 of this chapter, any or all of which reasonably relate to the water right claim or use that is subject to adjudication. See Arizona Laws 45-251
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• program: means the cooperative effort among agencies of the federal government and agencies and political subdivisions of the states of Arizona, California and Nevada and other local public and private parties with a common interest in the water and related resources of the lower Colorado river, including the historic floodplain and reservoirs to the full pool elevations, to provide the basis for compliance with sections 7 and 10(a)(1)(B) of the endangered species act of 1973 (P. See Arizona Laws 45-331
• Program year: means the twelve month period beginning October 1 of any calendar year and ending September 30 of the following calendar year. See Arizona Laws 45-331
• PSI: means pounds per square inch of water pressure. See Arizona Laws 45-311
• Public water system: means an entity that distributes or sells water and that qualifies as a public water system under section 49-352, subsection B. See Arizona Laws 45-341
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Registered mail: includes certified mail. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• residential dwelling: means buildings used for temporary or permanent human habitation, including single family residences and accessory guest houses, multi-family dwellings, townhouses, condominiums, apartments, the sleeping quarters of hotels and motels, dormitories and group housing units. See Arizona Laws 45-311
• River system and source: means all water appropriable under section 45-141 and all water subject to claims based on federal law. See Arizona Laws 45-251
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Small community water system: means a community water system that does not qualify as a large community water system. See Arizona Laws 45-341
• Small water use claim: means any claim for a stockpond, stock watering use or water well that is identified in a statement of claimant filed in the adjudication pursuant to section 45-254 and the claim is for any of the following specific conditions:

  (a) A stockpond having a capacity of not more than fifteen acre feet that is used solely for watering livestock or wildlife and that contains water that is appropriable under section 45-141, subsection A. See Arizona Laws 45-251

• Stock watering use: means the consumption of water by livestock and wildlife, either:

  (a) Directly from a naturally occurring body of water, such as an undeveloped spring, cienega, seep, bog, lake, depression, sink or stream. See Arizona Laws 45-251

• Stockpond: means an on-channel or off-channel impoundment of any size that stores water that is appropriable under section 45-141, subsection A and that is for the sole purpose of watering livestock and wildlife. See Arizona Laws 45-251
• stockpond: means a pond having a capacity of not more than fifteen acre feet that is used solely for watering livestock or wildlife. See Arizona Laws 45-271
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Urinal: means a fixture that consists of a water flushed bowl, and any associated flush valve, and that is used for the disposal of human urine. See Arizona Laws 45-311
• Water closet: means a fixture that consists of a water flushed bowl, and any associated flush valve, and that is used for the disposal of all wastes from the human body. See Arizona Laws 45-311
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215