Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 28 > Chapter 20 > Article 14 - Telecommunication Facility Installation

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Budget: means the annual highway program prepared by the department. See Arizona Laws 28-6901
• 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.
• Department: means the department of transportation acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Director: means the director of the department of transportation. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• 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.
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way if a part of the way is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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}
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Longitudinal access: means access to or use of any part of a right-of-way of a highway that extends generally parallel to the right-of-way for a total of thirty or more linear meters. See Arizona Laws 28-7381
• Owner: means :

  (a) A person who holds the legal title of a vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101

• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Right-of-way: when used within the context of the regulation of the movement of traffic on a highway means the privilege of the immediate use of the highway. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• State: means a state of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Telecommunication facility: means any cable, line, fiber, wire, conduit, innerduct, access manhole, handhole, tower, hut, pedestal, pole, box, transmitting equipment, receiving equipment or power equipment or any other equipment, system or device that is used to transmit, receive, produce or distribute by wireless, wireline, electronic or optical signal for communication purposes. See Arizona Laws 28-7381