Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 30 > Chapter 1 > Article 6 - Financial Provisions

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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: means the Arizona power authority. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• Commission: means Arizona power authority commission. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• 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.
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Power: means electric power or electric energy, or both. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• State: means this state. See Arizona Laws 30-101