Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 11 > Chapter 3 > Article 1 - General Provisions

• Accession: means goods that are physically united with other goods in such a manner that the identity of the original goods is not lost. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Account debtor: means a person obligated on an account, chattel paper or general intangible but does not include persons obligated to pay a negotiable instrument, even if the instrument constitutes part of chattel paper. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• account for: means a right to payment of a monetary obligation, whether or not earned by performance, for property that has been or is to be sold, leased, licensed, assigned or otherwise disposed of, for services rendered or to be rendered, for a policy of insurance issued or to be issued, for a secondary obligation incurred or to be incurred, for energy provided or to be provided, for the use or hire of a vessel under a charter or other contract, arising out of the use of a credit or charge card or information contained on or for use with the card or as winnings in a lottery or other game of chance operated or sponsored by a state, a governmental unit of a state or a person licensed or authorized to operate the game by a state or governmental unit of a state. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• accounting for: means a record:

  (a) Authenticated by a secured party;

  (b) Indicating the aggregate unpaid secured obligations as of a date not more than thirty-five days earlier or thirty-five days later than the date of the record; and

  (c) Identifying the components of the obligations in reasonable detail. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Agricultural lien: means an interest, other than a security interest, in farm products:

  (a) That secures payment or performance of an obligation for:

  (i) Goods or services furnished in connection with a debtor's farming operation; or

  (ii) Rent on real property leased by a debtor in connection with its farming operation;

  (b) That is created by statute in favor of a person that:

  (i) In the ordinary course of its business furnished goods or services to a debtor in connection with a debtor's farming operation; or

  (ii) Leased real property to a debtor in connection with the debtor's farming operation; and

  (c) Whose effectiveness does not depend on the person's possession of the personal property. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• 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.
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• 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
• As-extracted collateral: means :

  (a) Oil, gas or other minerals that are subject to a security interest that:

  (i) Is created by a debtor having an interest in the minerals before extraction; and

  (ii) Attaches to the minerals as extracted; or

  (b) Accounts arising out of the sale at the wellhead or minehead of oil, gas or other minerals in which the debtor had an interest before extraction. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
• Bank: means an organization that is engaged in the business of banking. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Board of directors: means the board having charge of the affairs of the district. See Arizona Laws 48-141
• Bond: means any bond issued pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 48-141
• Bonds: includes bonds, notes, temporary notes, temporary bonds, interim receipts, interim certificates, certificates of indebtedness, refunding notes, refunding bonds or other evidences of indebtedness or obligations of the district. See Arizona Laws 48-171
• Cash proceeds: means proceeds that are money, checks, deposit accounts or the like. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Certificate of title: means a certificate of title with respect to which a statute provides for the security interest in question to be indicated on the certificate as a condition or result of the security interest's obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor with respect to the collateral. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Chattel paper: means a record or records that evidence both a monetary obligation and a security interest in specific goods, a security interest in specific goods and software used in the goods, a security interest in specific goods and license of software used in the goods, a lease of specific goods or a lease of specific goods and license of software used in the goods. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Collateral: means the property subject to a security interest or agricultural lien. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Commodity account: means an account maintained by a commodity intermediary in which a commodity contract is carried for a commodity customer. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Commodity contract: means a commodity futures contract, an option on a commodity futures contract, a commodity option or another contract if the contract or option is:

  (a) Traded on or subject to the rules of a board of trade that has been designated as a contract market for such a contract pursuant to federal commodities laws; or

  (b) Traded on a foreign commodity board of trade, exchange or market, and is carried on the books of a commodity intermediary for a commodity customer. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

• Commodity customer: means a person for which a commodity intermediary carries a commodity contract on its books. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Commodity intermediary: means a person that:

  (a) Is registered as a futures commission merchant under federal commodities law; or

  (b) In the ordinary course of its business provides clearance or settlement services for a board of trade that has been designated as a contract market pursuant to federal commodities law. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

• Communicate: means :

  (a) To send a written or other tangible record;

  (b) To transmit a record by any means agreed on by the persons sending and receiving the record; or

  (c) In the case of transmission of a record to or by a filing office, to transmit a record by any means prescribed by filing office rule. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

• Compensation: means money paid to an employee of a district for services in the form of a fixed salary or wages at the end of established pay periods, which, in the case of employees with fluctuating rates of pay, shall be considered as being the guaranteed rate of pay, and which, in the case of employees with dual rates, shall be for the primary occupation. See Arizona Laws 48-221
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Consignee: means a merchant to which goods are delivered in a consignment. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Consignment: means a transaction, regardless of its form, in which a person delivers goods to a merchant for the purpose of sale and:

  (a) The merchant:

  (i) Deals in goods of that kind under a name other than the name of the person making delivery;

  (ii) Is not an auctioneer; and

  (iii) Is not generally known by its creditors to be substantially engaged in selling the goods of others;

  (b) With respect to each delivery, the aggregate value of the goods is one thousand dollars or more at the time of delivery;

  (c) The goods are not consumer goods immediately before delivery; and

  (d) The transaction does not create a security interest that secures an obligation. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

• Consignor: means a person that delivers goods to a consignee in a consignment. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Consumer goods: means goods that are used or bought for use primarily for personal, family or household purposes. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Consumer obligor: means an obligor who is an individual and who incurred the obligation as part of a transaction entered into primarily for personal, family or household purposes. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Consumer transaction: means a transaction in which an individual incurs an obligation primarily for personal, family or household purposes, a security interest secures the obligation and the collateral is held or acquired primarily for personal, family or household purposes. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Continuation statement: means an amendment of a financing statement that:

  (a) Identifies, by its file number, the initial financing statement to which it relates; and

  (b) Indicates that it is a continuation statement for, or that it is filed to continue the effectiveness of, the identified financing statement. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contribution related to plant for pumping: means an amount computed as follows: There shall be determined a ratio per cent which is the total kilowatt hours sold or used for pumping including all pumping for municipal purposes, but excluding those kilowatt hours not produced by the district or by sources contractually available to the district but which are delivered to the district for transmission and distribution to others, divided by the total kilowatt hours sold or used, such totals to be for the latest five calendar years. See Arizona Laws 48-241
• 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.
• Debtor: means :

  (a) A person having an interest, other than a security interest or other lien, in the collateral, whether or not the person is an obligor;

  (b) A seller of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles or promissory notes; or

  (c) A consignee. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deposit account: means a demand, time, savings, passbook or similar account maintained with a bank. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• District: includes any irrigation district, drainage district, flood control district, agricultural improvement district, electrical district or power district, and in addition thereto any district, political subdivision, governmental agency, corporation or instrumentality of the state having territorial boundaries and created or organized for the purpose of benefiting or performing services for lands in the state. See Arizona Laws 48-171
• District: means any irrigation, drainage, flood control, agricultural improvement, electrical, water conservation or power district organized under the laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 48-201
• District: means an irrigation district, drainage district, flood control district, agricultural improvement district, electrical district, or power district organized pursuant to the laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 48-221
• District: means any irrigation district, power district, electrical district or agricultural improvement district now or hereafter organized under the laws of this state which is directly engaged in the sale of electric power or energy other than for irrigation purposes. See Arizona Laws 48-241
• District: includes any irrigation district, drainage district, flood control district, agricultural improvement district, electrical district, water conservation district or power district organized under the laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 48-121
• District: means any irrigation or agricultural improvement district located in a federal reclamation project, organized pursuant to law. See Arizona Laws 48-141
• District contributions: means sums of money paid by a district to finance a retirement plan. See Arizona Laws 48-221
• Document: means a document of title or a receipt of the type described in section 47-7201, subsection B. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Electronic chattel paper: means chattel paper evidenced by a record or records consisting of information stored in an electronic medium. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Employee: means a person in the service of a district whose customary employment is for an average of not less than thirty hours a week and for twelve months a year. See Arizona Laws 48-221
• Encumbrance: means a right, other than an ownership interest, in real property. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Equipment: means goods other than inventory, farm products or consumer goods. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Farm products: means goods, other than standing timber, with respect to which the debtor is engaged in a farming operation and that are:

  (a) Crops grown, growing or to be grown, including:

  (i) Crops produced on trees, vines and bushes; and

  (ii) Aquatic goods produced in aquacultural operations;

  (b) Livestock, born or unborn, including aquatic goods produced in aquacultural operations;

  (c) Supplies used or produced in a farming operation; or

  (d) Products of crops or livestock in their unmanufactured states. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

• Federal agency: means the United States, the president of the United States, the federal emergency administrator of public works, or any such agencies or instrumentalities as may be designated or created to make grants or loans, or both, pursuant to any act or acts of the Congress. See Arizona Laws 48-121
• Federal government: includes the United States, the president of the United States, the federal emergency administrator of public works, reconstruction finance corporation, or any agency, instrumentality or corporation of the United States, which has been or may be designated, created or authorized by or pursuant to any act or acts of the Congress, or which is owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the United States. See Arizona Laws 48-171
• File number: means the number assigned to an initial financing statement pursuant to section 47-9519, subsection A. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Filing office: means an office designated in section 47-9501 as the place to file a financing statement. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Filing office rule: means a rule adopted pursuant to section 47-9526. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Financing statement: means a record or records composed of an initial financing statement and any filed record relating to the initial financing statement. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• 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.
• Fixture filing: means the filing of a financing statement covering goods that are or are to become fixtures and satisfying section 47-9502, subsections A and B. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Fixtures: means goods that have become so related to particular real property that an interest in them arises under real property law. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• General intangible: means any personal property, including things in action, other than accounts, chattel paper, commercial tort claims, deposit accounts, documents, goods, instruments, investment property, letter-of-credit rights, letters of credit, money and oil, gas or other minerals before extraction. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Good faith: means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Goods: means all things that are movable when a security interest attaches. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Governing body of the district: means the board of directors, board of trustees, district supervisors, or any other name by which the body charged with the administration of the affairs of a district may be known. See Arizona Laws 48-201
• Health-care-insurance receivable: means an interest in or claim under a policy of insurance that is a right to payment of a monetary obligation for health care goods or services provided. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Instrument: means a negotiable instrument or any other writing that evidences a right to the payment of a monetary obligation, is not itself a security agreement or lease and is of a type that in the ordinary course of business is transferred by delivery with any necessary indorsement or assignment. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Inventory: means goods, other than farm products, that:

  (a) Are leased by a person as lessor;

  (b) Are held by a person for sale or lease or to be furnished under a contract of service;

  (c) Are furnished by a person under a contract of service; or

  (d) Consist of raw materials, work in process or materials used or consumed in a business. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

• Investment property: means a security, whether certificated or uncertificated, security entitlement, securities account, commodity contract or commodity account. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• 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.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Letter-of-credit right: means a right to payment or performance under a letter of credit, whether or not the beneficiary has demanded or is at the time entitled to demand payment or performance. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Lien creditor: means :

  (a) A creditor that has acquired a lien on the property involved by attachment, levy or the like;

  (b) An assignee for benefit of creditors from the time of assignment;

  (c) A trustee in bankruptcy from the date of the filing of the petition; or

  (d) A receiver in equity from the time of appointment. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Manufactured home: means a structure that is transportable in one or more sections and that, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or forty body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is three hundred twenty or more square feet, and that is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems contained therein. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Manufactured home transaction: means a secured transaction:

  (a) That creates a purchase money security interest in a manufactured home, other than a manufactured home held as inventory; or

  (b) In which a manufactured home, other than a manufactured home held as inventory, is the primary collateral. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

• Minor: means a person under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Mortgage: means a consensual interest in real property, including fixtures, that secures payment or performance of an obligation. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• New debtor: means a person that becomes bound as debtor under section 47-9203, subsection D by a security agreement previously entered into by another person. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• New value: means money, money's worth in property, services or new credit or release by a transferee of an interest in property previously transferred to the transferee. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Noncash proceeds: means proceeds other than cash proceeds. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Obligor: means a person that, with respect to an obligation secured by a security interest in or an agricultural lien on the collateral, owes payment or other performance of the obligation, has provided property other than the collateral to secure payment or other performance of the obligation or is otherwise accountable in whole or in part for payment or other performance of the obligation. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Participant: means an employee of a district who is eligible under the provisions of section 48-224 for participation in the retirement plan adopted by a district. See Arizona Laws 48-221
• 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.
• Payment intangible: means a general intangible under which the account debtor's principal obligation is a monetary obligation. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, corporation or association. See Arizona Laws 48-201
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality or any other legal or commercial entity. See Arizona Laws 11-487.01
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plan: means a retirement plan authorized by section 48-222. See Arizona Laws 48-221
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Prior service: means service for a district by any employee for any period not exceeding twenty-five years immediately prior to the adoption of a retirement plan. See Arizona Laws 48-221
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• professional services: includes architect services, engineer services, landscape architect services, assayer services, geologist services and land surveying services and any combination of those services. See Arizona Laws 48-281
• Promissory note: means an instrument that evidences a promise to pay a monetary obligation, does not evidence an order to pay and does not contain an acknowledgment by a bank that the bank has received for deposit a sum of money or funds. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Proposal: means a record authenticated by a secured party that includes the terms on which the secured party is willing to accept collateral in full or partial satisfaction of the obligation it secures pursuant to sections 47-9620, 47-9621 and 47-9622. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• Public organic record: means a record that is available to the public for inspection and that is:

  (a) A record consisting of the record initially filed with or issued by a state or the United States to form or organize an organization and any record filed with or issued by the state or the United States that amends or restates the initial record;

  (b) An organic record of a business trust consisting of the record initially filed with a state and any record filed with the state that amends or restates the initial record, if a statute of the state governing business trusts requires that the record be filed with the state; or

  (c) A record consisting of legislation enacted by the legislature of a state or the Congress of the United States that forms or organizes an organization, any record amending the legislation and any record filed with or issued by the state or the United States that amends or restates the name of the organization. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• record owner: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Registered organization: means an organization formed or organized solely under the law of a single state or the United States by the filing of a public organic record with, the issuance of a public organic record by or the enactment of legislation by the state or the United States. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Secondary obligor: means an obligor to the extent that:

  (a) The obligor's obligation is secondary; or

  (b) The obligor has a right of recourse with respect to an obligation secured by collateral against the debtor, another obligor or property of either. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

• Secured party: means :

  (a) A person in whose favor a security interest is created or provided for under a security agreement, whether or not any obligation to be secured is outstanding;

  (b) A person that holds an agricultural lien;

  (c) A consignor;

  (d) A person to which accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles or promissory notes have been sold;

  (e) A trustee, indenture trustee, agent, collateral agent or other representative in whose favor a security interest or agricultural lien is created or provided for; or

  (f) A person that holds a security interest arising under section 47-2401, 47-2505, 47-2711, 47-2A508, 47-4210 or 47-5118. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

• Security agreement: means an agreement that creates or provides for a security interest. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Software: means a computer program and any supporting information provided in connection with a transaction relating to the program. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Arizona Laws 11-487.01
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supporting obligation: means a letter-of-credit right or secondary obligation that supports the payment or performance of an account, chattel paper, a document, a general intangible, an instrument or investment property. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Tangible chattel paper: means chattel paper evidenced by a record or records consisting of information that is inscribed on a tangible medium. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Termination of service: means the cessation of employment of an employee by a district, but service shall not be deemed terminated by reason of any military absence, or any leave of absence or furlough granted by the district. See Arizona Laws 48-221
• Termination statement: means an amendment of a financing statement that:

  (a) Identifies, by its file number, the initial financing statement to which it relates; and

  (b) Indicates either that it is a termination statement or that the identified financing statement is no longer effective. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Total water costs: means one-third of the total sums of the following items for the latest three calendar years:

  (a) The operating and maintenance expense attributable to watershed maintenance and protection, water production and development, storage, transmission, distribution or conservation, including administrative and general and related costs, but excluding depreciation. See Arizona Laws 48-241

• Transmitting utility: means a person primarily engaged in the business of:

  (a) Operating a railroad, subway, street railway or trolley bus;

  (b) Transmitting communications electrically, electromagnetically or by light;

  (c) Transmitting goods by pipeline or sewer; or

  (d) Transmitting or producing and transmitting electricity, steam, gas or water. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Undertaking: means the purchase, construction, leasing or acquisition of any real or personal property, works or facilities which the district is authorized by law to purchase, construct, lease or otherwise acquire, or the improvement, reconstruction, extension or addition to any real or personal property, works or facilities owned or operated by the district, but does not include the purchase or acquisition by the exercise of the right of eminent domain or condemnation of any existing works or facilities, nor the purchase, construction, leasing or acquisition of, or the extension or addition of, works or facilities designed to serve areas or territories outside the boundaries of the federal reclamation project in which the district is located, or areas or territories already being served or which within twelve months past have been served by existing works or facilities belonging to others. See Arizona Laws 48-141
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Wilfully: means , with respect to conduct or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware or believes that the person's conduct is of that nature or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215