Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 11 > Chapter 4 > Article 1 - County Charges, Specific Funds and Warrants for Current Expenses

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Any public transportation purpose: includes any one or more of the following purposes:

  (a) The payment of public transportation obligations. See Arizona Laws 48-5161

• 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 a regional public transportation authority organized under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-5101
• Authority: means a regional transportation authority organized under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-5301
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Board: means the board of directors of a regional public transportation authority. See Arizona Laws 48-5101
• Board: means the board of directors of a regional transportation authority established pursuant to section 48-5303. See Arizona Laws 48-5301
• Bond related expenses: means expenses incurred by the authority to issue and administer its bonds, including underwriting fees and costs, trustee fees, financial consultant fees, printing and advertising costs, paying agent fees, transfer agent fees, legal, accounting, feasibility consultant and other expert fees and expenses, cost of credit enhancement fees, attorney and accounting fees and expenses related to credit enhancement, bond insurance or liquidity enhancement, remarketing fees, rating agency fees and costs, travel and telephone expenses and all other fees deemed necessary by the board in order to market and administer the bonds. See Arizona Laws 48-5161
• Bonds: means bonds of the authority issued pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 48-5161
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• County: means a county with a population of less than one million two hundred thousand persons in which a regional transportation authority is established pursuant to section 48-5302. See Arizona Laws 48-5301
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Fiscal agent: means a bank or trust company authorized to do business in this state or the county treasurer as designated by the board. See Arizona Laws 48-5101
• Fiscal agent: means a bank or trust company authorized to do business in this state or the county treasurer as designated by the board. See Arizona Laws 48-5301
• 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.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• 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.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Medical clinic: means a facility that provides for physical evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of patients and that does not keep patients overnight as bed patients or treat patients under general anesthesia. See Arizona Laws 48-5501
• Medically underserved: means populations that exhibit one or more of the following indicators:

  (a) Limitations on the availability of primary care providers, prenatal care or other health care services. See Arizona Laws 48-5501

• Municipality: means an incorporated city or town. See Arizona Laws 48-5301
• 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.
• Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• physician: means a person licensed pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 13 or 17. See Arizona Laws 48-5501
• Population: means the population determined in the most recent United States decennial census or the most recent special census as provided in section 28-6532. See Arizona Laws 48-5301
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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
• Public agency: includes this state and any county, city, town, district or other public agency or entity established under the laws of this state or the federal government. See Arizona Laws 48-5101
• Public transportation: means local transportation of passengers by means of a public conveyance. See Arizona Laws 48-5101
• Public transportation: means local transportation of passengers by means of a public conveyance, including para-transit. See Arizona Laws 48-5301
• Qualified electors: means persons who are qualified to vote pursuant to title 16. See Arizona Laws 48-5501
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Special payments: means any payments made pursuant to Section 36-2903. See Arizona Laws 48-5501
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• 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}
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215