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Terms Used In Arizona Laws 11-1903

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • boundaries: means all of the area of the county that is not within the corporate limits of any city or town, including unincorporated territory that is surrounded on all sides by a combination of one or more cities, towns or Indian reservations. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Telecommunications provider: means a person that is required to obtain from the corporation commission a certificate of public convenience and necessity to provide telecommunications service. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215

1. Prevent a telecommunications provider from exercising any rights or authority that the telecommunications provider has as a public utility under federal or state law.

2. Affect any authority of a county, an agricultural improvement district, any special taxing district or any other person that controls utility poles on the highways to deny, limit, restrict or determine the rates, terms and conditions for the use of or attachment by a video service provider to utility or other poles owned by the county or other person. For the purposes of this paragraph, "authority of a county" includes police powers.

3. Vest in the corporation commission any authority or jurisdiction over video service, video service providers or video service networks or over the rates, terms and conditions of pole attachments under 47 United States Code § 224.

4. Affect or preempt any generally applicable local laws, including a county’s police power, to manage use and occupancy of the highways within the county’s boundaries or to exercise the county’s police powers if the county applies the local laws and exercise of police powers to all users of the highways in a nondiscriminatory manner.