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Terms Used In Arizona Laws 40-360.51

  • Facilities: means corridors used by a utility to provide service to customers including poles, towers, transformers and lines for the transmission of electric energy at nominal voltages of one hundred fifteen thousand volts or more, natural gas pipelines of twenty-four or more inches in diameter and substations, regulator stations, measurement stations and compressor stations. See Arizona Laws 40-360.51
  • 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.
  • Municipality: means a city or town chartered or incorporated under the laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 40-360.51
  • Utility: means any retail provider of electric or natural gas services. See Arizona Laws 40-360.51

1. "Facilities" means corridors used by a utility to provide service to customers including poles, towers, transformers and lines for the transmission of electric energy at nominal voltages of one hundred fifteen thousand volts or more, natural gas pipelines of twenty-four or more inches in diameter and substations, regulator stations, measurement stations and compressor stations.

2. "Facility plan" means a plan for the future location of facilities developed by a utility.

3. "Municipality" means a city or town chartered or incorporated under the laws of this state.

4. "Planning area" means outside the extraterritorial jurisdiction limits of a municipality described in Section 9-461.11, subsection G.

5. "Utility" means any retail provider of electric or natural gas services.