In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 48-6001

  • Assessment: means a tax assessment made under this chapter for the purpose of financing the maintenance and operating costs of the district. See Arizona Laws 48-6001
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • District: means a recreational corridor channelization district established pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-6001
  • including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Owner: means the person in whose name legal title appears by recorded deed, or the person in possession under claim of title, as the person exercising acts of ownership for himself or as the personal representative of the owner, including the governing boards of school districts owning property within the district. See Arizona Laws 48-6001
  • Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215

1. "Assessment" means a tax assessment made under this chapter for the purpose of financing the maintenance and operating costs of the district.

2. "Chairman of the board" means the person designated to preside over meetings of the board of directors of the district.

3. "District" means a recreational corridor channelization district established pursuant to this chapter.

4. "Owner" means the person in whose name legal title appears by recorded deed, or the person in possession under claim of title, as the person exercising acts of ownership for himself or as the personal representative of the owner, including the governing boards of school districts owning property within the district.

5. "Watercourse master plan" means a hydraulic plan for a watercourse that is prepared by a county flood control district, that examines the cumulative impacts of existing development and future encroachment in the floodplain and future development in the watershed on potential flood damages and that establishes technical criteria for subsequent development so as to minimize potential flood damages for all flood events up to and including the one hundred-year flood.