Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 11 > Chapter 14 - Video Service

• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Affiliate: means a person that directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a video service provider. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Agreement: means any agreement or contract. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• Commercial mobile service provider: means a person that provides commercial mobile service as defined in 47 United States Code § 332(d) or commercial mobile radio service as described in 47 C. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Day: means a calendar day, except a Saturday or Sunday or a holiday prescribed in section 1-301. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Department: means the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-101
• 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.
• Highway: means all roads, streets and alleys and other dedicated public rights-of-way that are operated and maintained by the county. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Holder: means a video service provider that has been issued a uniform video service license pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Holdover cable operator: means an incumbent cable operator that elects under sections 11-1912 and 11-1913 to continue to operate within its service area pursuant to its local license. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Incumbent cable operator: means a cable operator or other video service provider that on December 31, 2019 is providing video service in this state pursuant to a local license. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
• License: means a franchise as defined in 47 United States Code § 522. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• License fee: means a license fee imposed by a county on a video service provider for using the highways to provide and for the privilege of providing video service. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Local law: means any code, ordinance, resolution, regulation or other law of a county. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Local license: means any license, agreement, permit or similar authorization that meets all of the following:

  (a) Allows a person to construct or operate a video service network within the boundaries of a county. See Arizona Laws 11-1901

• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Service area: means that part of the boundaries of a county within which a video service provider is authorized to provide video service pursuant to a uniform video service license or a local license. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• 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
• Telecommunications service: means the offering of telecommunications for a fee directly to the public, or to such users as to be effectively available directly to the public, regardless of the equipment, facilities or technology used. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Uniform video service license: means a license that is issued by a county in the form of a uniform video service license agreement as adopted pursuant to section 11-1911. See Arizona Laws 11-1901