§ 48-901 Definitions
§ 48-902 Authorization for improvement district; areas and lands excluded
§ 48-903 Petition to establish district; elected board; verification; plat
§ 48-904 Bond of petitioners; additional bond
§ 48-905 Hearing on petition; summary establishment; notice
§ 48-906 Establishment of district; dismissal of proceedings; costs; addition or elimination of certain areas
§ 48-907 Review of action of supervisors
§ 48-908 Board of directors; expenses
§ 48-909 Purposes for which public improvements may be undertaken; powers incidental to public improvements
§ 48-909.01 Wastewater treatment facility; waterworks; sewer collection system and nonpoint source projects; financial assistance loan repayment agreements; definition
§ 48-909.02 Multijurisdictional entities; limitation of district liability and responsibility
§ 48-910 Domestic water and domestic wastewater services; authority to set fees; liens; foreclosure
§ 48-911 Rights of way within district; improvements and maintenance
§ 48-912 Resolution of intention to order improvement
§ 48-913 District engineer; appointment; compensation
§ 48-914 Preliminary plans; estimate of cost; limitation on assessment
§ 48-915 Petition to incur expense; sufficiency
§ 48-916 Notice of resolution
§ 48-917 Protest against proposed improvement; protest as bar to improvement proceedings; objection to extent of assessment district
§ 48-918 Procedure for making and hearing protests and objections
§ 48-919 Resolution ordering improvement; notice; bids
§ 48-920 Assessment of public property; no rescission
§ 48-921 Payment of costs from other sources
§ 48-922 Bids; bond; award of contract
§ 48-923 Notice of award; objection to proceedings; entering into contract; liability on bond
§ 48-924 Form and execution of contract; supervision of performance; default; new bids; delivery of assessment
§ 48-925 Bonds required from contractor
§ 48-926 Cost of publications
§ 48-927 Diagrams of property affected; estimate of benefits; assessment; warrant; lien
§ 48-928 Delivery of warrant and assessment to contractor or treasurer; demand for payment; release of assessments; review of assessment; hearing
§ 48-929 Action against property owner to collect assessment
§ 48-930 Invalidity of liens and bonds; extent of validity; means to secure interest of persons damaged
§ 48-931 Proportionate assessment; collection or issuance of bonds
§ 48-932 Correction of assessment; reallocation of assessment
§ 48-933 Issuance of improvement bonds; fund for payment of bonds
§ 48-934 Description of improvement bonds in resolution and notices
§ 48-935 List of unpaid assessments; issuance of bonds; denominations; coupons; due date; funds
§ 48-936 Form of bonds
§ 48-937 Certification of unpaid assessments; payments by installment; interest; payments in advance
§ 48-938 Collection of assessment installments; notice; delinquent installments
§ 48-939 List of delinquent installments; publication of notice; sale of delinquent property
§ 48-940 Payment after delinquency and before sale
§ 48-940.01 Notice to lien claimants; loans
§ 48-941 Sale procedure; district as purchaser
§ 48-942 Certificate of sale; lien
§ 48-943 Redemption
§ 48-944 Deed to purchaser; notice to owner; redemption after notice; effect of deed
§ 48-945 Collections from sales; disposition of sale proceeds
§ 48-946 Resolution for collection of assessment by taxation
§ 48-947 Deficiency in collections; liability of district
§ 48-948 Failure to meet and adjourn scheduled hearing; provision for subsequent hearing
§ 48-949 Void assessments; new assessment; partial deficit
§ 48-950 Proof of notice; definition
§ 48-951 Public records; duties of engineer
§ 48-952 General obligations of district
§ 48-953 Irrigation assessments; collection
§ 48-954 Annual statements and estimates
§ 48-955 Levy and collection of district taxes
§ 48-956 Maintenance of roads by county; cooperative expenditures
§ 48-957 Charges for services of county employees
§ 48-958 Disposition of surplus funds
§ 48-959 Dissolution of district
§ 48-960 Improvement districts for purchasing energy for lighting public streets and parks
§ 48-961 Special provisions relating to improvement districts for purchasing energy for lighting public streets or parks
§ 48-961.01 Transfer of county improvement district to purchase energy for lighting public streets and parks to municipal jurisdiction
§ 48-962 Bond anticipation notes; form; procedures applicable
§ 48-963 Revolving fund; lapsing provisions; separate fund
§ 48-964 District revenues; payment for certain improvements
§ 48-965 Reimbursement for county services
§ 48-966 Refunding bonds
§ 48-967 Alternate project delivery method; construction projects; definitions

Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 48 > Chapter 6 > Article 1 - In General

  • Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. 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.
  • 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
  • assessment roll: means a special assessment made under this article. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
  • 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.
  • Block: means a parcel of ground, regular or irregular, bounded by streets or by streets and district boundary lines. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • Chairman of the board: means the person designated to preside over meetings of the board of directors. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • Commercial farming: means the intensive cultivation of arable land by the raising of agricultural or horticultural products as a principal source of the owner's livelihood. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • Commercial stock raising: means the breeding, raising and care of domestic animals as a principal source of the owner's livelihood. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Contractor: includes personal representatives or assignee of the contractor. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • 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.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Delinquency: means delinquency in the payment of an assessment. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • district engineer: means a person designated or employed by the board of directors of a district to perform any or all of the engineering work authorized to be done by the district under this article. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Grantee: includes every person to whom an estate or interest in real property passes, in or by a deed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • improvement: includes any of the improvements mentioned and authorized to be made in this article, the construction, reconstruction and repair of all or any portion of any such improvement, and labor, services, expenses and material necessary or incidental thereto. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Lighting plants: includes electric light plants, electric power plants, gas plants, distribution systems, poles, parts, pipes, conduits, wires, tanks, reservoirs, generators for gas or electricity, transmission lines, towers, lamps, transformers of every character, machinery, apparatus, equipment and all appliances and structures necessary or incidental to the construction, installation or operation of a complete electric light, power and gas plant and distribution system placed on the streets improved, though extended beyond. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • Lot: includes any portion, piece, parcel or subdivision of land, but not property owned or controlled by any person as a railroad right of way. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • 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.
  • Owner: means the person in whom legal title appears by recorded deed, or the person in possession under claim or title, or the person exercising acts of ownership for himself or as the personal representative of the owner, including the boards of trustees of school districts and the boards of education of high school districts owning property within the proposed improvement district. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
  • 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.
  • Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
  • Sewers: includes wastewater treatment facilities, tunnels, excavations, ditches, drains, conduits, channels, outlets, outfalls, cesspools, manholes, catch basins, flush tanks, septic tanks, connecting sewers of every character, machinery, apparatus, equipment and all appliances and structures necessary or incidental to the construction, installation or operation of a complete sewer system for either sanitary or drainage purposes. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
  • Street: includes avenues, alleys, highways, lanes, crossings, intersections, courts, places and grounds opened or dedicated to public use and public ways. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • superintendent: means a county employee designated by the board of supervisors to perform the duties of street superintendent for all the districts organized under this article in any county. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Unincorporated area: means any portion of a county not within the limits of an incorporated city or town, so situated that any of the improvements provided for in this article might reasonably or properly be made or constructed for the benefit of the inhabitants of the area under existing special assessment statutes if the area were situated within an incorporated city or town. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
  • Wastewater systems: means sewers and other wastewater treatment facilities. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • Waterworks: means works for the storage or development of water for domestic uses, including drinking water treatment facilities, wells, pumping machinery, power plants, pipelines and all equipment necessary for those purposes. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215