Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 11 > Chapter 7 - Intergovernmental Operations

• Acquiring agency: means the state, any department, agency, board or commission of the state, counties, school districts, cities, towns, all municipal corporations, any other political subdivision of the state and any other person or entity with the power of eminent domain. See Arizona Laws 11-961
• 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.
• Animal: means any animal of a species that is susceptible to rabies, except man. See Arizona Laws 11-1001
• 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
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• At large: means being neither confined by an enclosure nor physically restrained by a leash. See Arizona Laws 11-1001
• At-risk youth: means children who are eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen or eighteen years of age at the time they begin receiving services pursuant to this article and who are one or more of the following:

  (a) Identified by a law enforcement agency or juvenile court as in need of services provided pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 11-1041

• 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}
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Business: means any lawful activity, excepting a farm operation, conducted primarily by or for any of the following:

  (a) For the purchase, sale, lease and rental of personal and real property and for the manufacture, processing or marketing of products, commodities or any other personal property. See Arizona Laws 11-961

• Comparable replacement dwelling: means a dwelling that is all of the following:

  (a) Decent, safe and sanitary. See Arizona Laws 11-961

• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• County board of health: means the duly constituted board of health of each county. See Arizona Laws 11-1001
• County enforcement agent: means that person in each county who is responsible for enforcing this article and the rules adopted under this article. See Arizona Laws 11-1001
• County pound: means any establishment that is authorized by the county board of supervisors to confine, maintain, safekeep and control dogs and other animals that come into the custody of the county enforcement agent in the performance of the county enforcement agent's official duties. See Arizona Laws 11-1001
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-101
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 11-1001
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Displaced person: means :

  (a) A person who moves from real property or moves his personal property from real property either:

  (i) As a direct result of a written notice of intent to acquire, the initiation of negotiations for or the acquisition of such real property in whole or in part for a program or project undertaken by a displacing agency. See Arizona Laws 11-961

• Displacing agency: means the state or state agency and any political subdivision or person carrying out a program or project with federal financial assistance, or with the approval of the governing body of the acquiring agency, state or local financial assistance, which causes a person to be a displaced person. See Arizona Laws 11-961
• Division: means the environmental services division of the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-901
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• 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.
• Farm operation: means any activity conducted primarily for the production of one or more agricultural products or commodities for sale and home use, and customarily producing such products or commodities in sufficient quantity to be capable of contributing materially to the operator's support. See Arizona Laws 11-961
• Federal financial assistance: means a grant, loan or contribution in any form whatsoever provided by the United States to an acquiring agency, except any federal guarantee or insurance, and any interest reduction payment to a person in connection with the purchase and occupancy of a residence by that person. See Arizona Laws 11-961
• 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}
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governing body: means the board of supervisors of a county, or the council or other governing body of a municipality, as the case may be. See Arizona Laws 11-931
• Impound: means the act of taking or receiving into custody by the county enforcement agent any dog or other animal for the purpose of confinement in a county pound in accordance with this article. See Arizona Laws 11-1001
• Initiation of negotiations: means the delivery of the initial written offer by the acquiring agency to the owner or the owner's representative to purchase real property for a project for the amount determined to be proper compensation or other actions to serve this purpose as determined by the lead agency. See Arizona Laws 11-961
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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.
• Kennel: means an enclosed, controlled area, inaccessible to other animals, in which a person keeps, harbors or maintains five or more dogs under controlled conditions. See Arizona Laws 11-1001
• Lead agency: means the acquiring agency except as required by federal law. See Arizona Laws 11-961
• 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.
• Livestock: means neat animals, horses, sheep, goats, swine, mules and asses. See Arizona Laws 11-1001
• Magistrate: means an officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense and includes the chief justice and justices of the supreme court, judges of the superior court, judges of the court of appeals, justices of the peace and judges of a municipal court. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Mobile food unit: means a food establishment that is licensed by this state, that is readily movable and that dispenses food or beverages for immediate service and consumption and other incidental retail items from any vehicle as defined in section 28-101. See Arizona Laws 9-485
• Mobile food vendor: means any person who owns, controls, manages or leases a mobile food unit or contracts with a person to prepare foods and vend from, drive or operate a mobile food unit. See Arizona Laws 9-485
• Municipality: means an incorporated city or town. See Arizona Laws 11-931
• 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.
• Peace officers: means sheriffs of counties, constables, marshals, policemen of cities and towns, commissioned personnel of the department of public safety, personnel who are employed by the state department of corrections and the department of juvenile corrections and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a multicounty water conservation district and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by community college district governing boards and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the Arizona board of regents and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the governing body of a public airport pursuant to section 28-8426 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a private postsecondary institution pursuant to section 15-1897 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board and special agents from the office of the attorney general, or of a county attorney, and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Person: means any individual, family, partnership, corporation or association. See Arizona Laws 11-961
• 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
• Petty offense: A federal misdemeanor punishable by six months or less in prison. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• 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
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Public park: means a park, parkway, trail, recreational area or playground established, maintained or administered by a county, city or town. See Arizona Laws 11-931
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Rabies quarantine area: means any area in which a state of emergency has been declared to exist due to the occurrence of rabies in animals in or adjacent to this area. See Arizona Laws 11-1001
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Small business: means a business as defined in paragraph 2 of this section if the number of employees of the business at the affected site is five hundred or less. See Arizona Laws 11-961
• State land: includes land owned by this state or by a state agency. See Arizona Laws 3-901
• Stray dog: means any dog three months of age or older running at large that is not wearing a valid license tag or microchipped. See Arizona Laws 11-1001
• Summer youth employment and training programs: means programs to enhance the basic skills of youth and prepare them for participation in the labor force and includes activities consistent with the summer youth employment program of the federal job training partnership act (P. See Arizona Laws 11-1041
• 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.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• 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}
• 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.
• Vaccination: means the administration of an antirabies vaccine to animals by a veterinarian or by a rabies vaccinator who is certified pursuant to Section 32-2240. See Arizona Laws 11-1001
• Veterinary hospital: means any establishment that is operated by a veterinarian licensed to practice in this state and that provides clinical facilities and houses animals or birds for dental, medical or surgical treatment. See Arizona Laws 11-1001
• Vicious animal: means any animal of the order carnivora that has a propensity to attack, to cause injury to or to otherwise endanger the safety of human beings without provocation or that has been so declared after a hearing before a justice of the peace or a city magistrate. See Arizona Laws 11-1001