Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 45 > Chapter 11 > Article 3 - Powers and Duties

• Authority: means a county water augmentation authority established under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 45-1901
• Board: means the board of directors of the authority. See Arizona Laws 45-1901
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• County: means the county containing over fifty per cent of the area of the authority. See Arizona Laws 45-1901
• Director: means the director of water resources, who is also the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 45-101
• Groundwater: means water under the surface of the earth regardless of the geologic structure in which it is standing or moving. See Arizona Laws 45-101
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Operating unit: means a county, city, town, water company or political subdivision, this state, the United States, an Indian tribe or any other public or private entity with which an authority has a contractual relationship for the acquisition, delivery, exchange, treatment, storage or recharge of water. See Arizona Laws 45-1901
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Project: means a facility necessary or convenient to obtain, divert, withdraw, transport, exchange, deliver, treat or recharge water, including rights-of-way, real and personal property, interests in property and improvements to property that are necessary or appropriate to maintain and operate the facilities. See Arizona Laws 45-1901
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Surface water: means the waters of all sources, flowing in streams, canyons, ravines or other natural channels, or in definite underground channels, whether perennial or intermittent, floodwater, wastewater or surplus water, and of lakes, ponds and springs on the surface. See Arizona Laws 45-101
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Water company: means either a private water company as defined in section 45-402 or an irrigation district that primarily serves municipal water. See Arizona Laws 45-1901