Arizona Laws > Title 11 > Chapter 2 – Board of Supervisors

		Sections
Article 1	Preliminary Provisions	11-201 – 11-202
Article 2	General Provisions	11-211 – 11-224
Article 3	Clerk of Board	11-241
Article 4	Powers and Duties	11-251 – 11-269.28
Article 5	Public Buildings	11-271 – 11-276
Article 6	Industrial Pursuits	11-281 – 11-284
Article 7	Medical Facilities and Care of Indigents	11-291 – 11-303
Article 7.1	Health Care	11-306 – 11-309
Article 8	Burial of Indigent Veterans	11-311
Article 9	Building Permits	11-321 – 11-323
Article 10	County Employee Merit System	11-351 – 11-357
Article 11	Deferred Prosecution Programs	11-361 – 11-365
Article 12	Street and Highway Improvement Bonds	11-371 – 11-380
Article 13	County Housing Trust Fund	11-381
Article 14	County Long-Term Obligations	11-391
Article 15	Coordinated Reentry Planning Services Programs	11-392

Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 11 > Chapter 2 - Board of Supervisors

ABLE: means the achieving a better life experience act. See Arizona Laws 46-901
Absent parent: means the non-custodial natural or adoptive father or mother of a dependent child. See Arizona Laws 46-402
Abuse: means :
(a) Intentional infliction of physical harm. See Arizona Laws 46-451
Abuse: means the infliction or allowing of physical injury, impairment of bodily function or disfigurement or the infliction of or allowing another person to cause serious emotional damage as evidenced by severe anxiety, depression, withdrawal or untoward aggressive behavior and which emotional damage is diagnosed by a medical doctor or psychologist and is caused by the acts or omissions of an individual who has the care, custody and control of a child. See Arizona Laws 8-201
Accession: means goods that are physically united with other goods in such a manner that the identity of the original goods is not lost. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Account: means any deposit or credit account with a bank, including a demand, time, savings, passbook, share draft or like account, other than an account evidenced by a certificate of deposit. See Arizona Laws 47-4104
Account: means an individual account in the fund established as prescribed in this article for a single designated beneficiary. See Arizona Laws 46-901
Account debtor: means a person obligated on an account, chattel paper or general intangible but does not include persons obligated to pay a negotiable instrument, even if the instrument constitutes part of chattel paper. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
account for: means a right to payment of a monetary obligation, whether or not earned by performance, for property that has been or is to be sold, leased, licensed, assigned or otherwise disposed of, for services rendered or to be rendered, for a policy of insurance issued or to be issued, for a secondary obligation incurred or to be incurred, for energy provided or to be provided, for the use or hire of a vessel under a charter or other contract, arising out of the use of a credit or charge card or information contained on or for use with the card or as winnings in a lottery or other game of chance operated or sponsored by a state, a governmental unit of a state or a person licensed or authorized to operate the game by a state or governmental unit of a state. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Accounting period: means the calendar year, except such other twelve-month period as may be otherwise agreed on by the director and the owner of a farm or a district on behalf of its landowners. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Acquittal:
1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
2. A verdict of "not guilty."
Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Active management area: means a geographical area that has been designated pursuant to article 2 of this chapter as requiring active management of groundwater or, in the case of the Santa Cruz active management area, active management of any water, other than stored water, withdrawn from a well. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Active management area: means an active management area established under chapter 2 of this title. See Arizona Laws 45-1901
Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
adult day health: means services which provide adults with optimal personal care in a group setting during a portion of a twenty-four hour day. See Arizona Laws 46-191
Adult protective services central intake unit: means a unit of specialized staff within adult protective services that is responsible for receiving reports of alleged abuse, neglect or exploitation of vulnerable adults or making the necessary resource referrals. See Arizona Laws 46-451
Adverse claim: means a claim that a claimant has a property interest in a financial asset and that it is a violation of the rights of the claimant for another person to hold, transfer or deal with the financial asset. See Arizona Laws 47-8102
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.
Afternoon: means the period of a day between noon and midnight. See Arizona Laws 47-4104
Agent: includes a bailee, broker, commission merchant, factor, auctioneer, solicitor or consignee and any other person acting on the express or implied authority of another person. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Agent: means a community based organization that is contracted by the department to take applications, determine eligibility and provide short-term services to low income persons through the use of federal and state monies. See Arizona Laws 46-241
Agricultural lien: means an interest, other than a security interest, in farm products:
(a) That secures payment or performance of an obligation for:
(i) Goods or services furnished in connection with a debtor's farming operation; or
(ii) Rent on real property leased by a debtor in connection with its farming operation;
(b) That is created by statute in favor of a person that:
(i) In the ordinary course of its business furnished goods or services to a debtor in connection with a debtor's farming operation; or
(ii) Leased real property to a debtor in connection with the debtor's farming operation; and
(c) Whose effectiveness does not depend on the person's possession of the personal property. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Allegation: something that someone says happened.
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.
Animal industry use: means the production, growing and feeding of livestock, range livestock or poultry, as such terms are defined in section 3-1201. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
Applicant: means a person who has applied for assistance or services under this title, or a person who has applied for assistance or services under this title and who has custody of a dependent child. See Arizona Laws 46-101
Applicant: means a person who is applying for short-term crisis services. See Arizona Laws 46-241
Appraisal: A determination of property value.
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
Aquifer: means a geologic formation that contains sufficient saturated materials to be capable of storing water and transmitting water in usable quantities to a well. See Arizona Laws 45-561
Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
Assistance: means payments in cash or kind to or on behalf of a person or persons in need as provided for in this title. See Arizona Laws 46-101
assistance: means any money payments made by the department that are paid to or for the benefit of any dependent child as provided in chapter 2, article 5 of this title. See Arizona Laws 46-402
Assistance unit: means those members of a needy family, as prescribed by the department in rule, or a child only case, that meets the nonfinancial eligibility criteria for cash assistance and whose needs and other circumstances are considered as a whole to determine a cash assistance benefit amount. See Arizona Laws 46-101
Associate director: means the associate director of the division. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
Attendant care: means a service which provides a trained attendant to provide assistance with homemaking, general supervision and personal care. See Arizona Laws 46-191
Augmentation: means to supplement the water supply of an active management area and may include the importation of water into the active management area, storage of water or storage of water pursuant to chapter 3. See Arizona Laws 45-561
Authority: means a county water augmentation authority established under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 45-1901
Authority: means a water authority established under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 45-2201
Authority: means the Arizona power authority created pursuant to Title 30, Chapter 1. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
Authority: means the Arizona water banking authority established by section 45-2421 or its successor. See Arizona Laws 45-2621
Bailee: means a person that by a warehouse receipt, bill of lading or other document of title acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver them. See Arizona Laws 47-7102
Bank: means an organization that is engaged in the business of banking. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Banking day: means the part of a day on which a bank is open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its banking functions. See Arizona Laws 47-4104
Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
Board: means the board of directors of the authority. See Arizona Laws 45-1901
Board: means the board of directors of the authority. See Arizona Laws 45-2201
Board: means the board of supervisors. See Arizona Laws 11-351
Board: means the Arizona early childhood development and health board established by this chapter. See Arizona Laws 8-1152
Broker: means a person defined as a broker or dealer under the federal securities laws, but without excluding a bank acting in that capacity. See Arizona Laws 47-8102
Buyer: means a person who buys or contracts to buy goods. See Arizona Laws 47-2103
Candling: means the visual examination of eggs to establish their quality by the use of transmitted light to determine the cleanliness and soundness of the shell, the size and condition of the aircell and the condition of the yolk, white and germ. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Caretaker relative: means a relative who exercises responsibility for the day-to-day physical care, guidance and support of a child who physically resides with the relative and who is by affinity or consanguinity or by court decree a grandparent, great-grandparent, sibling of the whole or half blood, stepbrother, stepsister, aunt, uncle, great-aunt, great-uncle or first cousin. See Arizona Laws 46-801
Carrier: means a person that issues a bill of lading. See Arizona Laws 47-7102
Carton: means an egg carton as used in commercial practice in the United States. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Case: means a standard thirty-dozen egg case as used in commercial practice in the United States. See Arizona Laws 3-701
case manager: means a person who provides medical or nonmedical case management service including:
(a) Services that are provided by managed care organizations, insurance companies or hospitals. See Arizona Laws 46-341
Cash assistance: means temporary assistance for needy families paid to a recipient for the purpose of meeting basic living expenses as defined by the department. See Arizona Laws 46-101
Cash proceeds: means proceeds that are money, checks, deposit accounts or the like. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Certificate of exemption: means a certificate which was issued by the state land department or Arizona water commission under prior statutory law for the purpose of describing specific uses and amounts of water which could not be enjoined if found to constitute the transfer or transportation of groundwater. See Arizona Laws 45-461
Certificate of title: means a certificate of title with respect to which a statute provides for the security interest in question to be indicated on the certificate as a condition or result of the security interest's obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor with respect to the collateral. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Certificated security: means a security that is represented by a certificate. See Arizona Laws 47-8102
Chambers: A judge's office.
Chattel paper: means a record or records that evidence both a monetary obligation and a security interest in specific goods, a security interest in specific goods and software used in the goods, a security interest in specific goods and license of software used in the goods, a lease of specific goods or a lease of specific goods and license of software used in the goods. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Child: means a person who is under thirteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 46-801
Child care: means the compensated service that is provided to a child who is unaccompanied by a parent or guardian during a portion of a twenty-four hour day. See Arizona Laws 46-801
Child care assistance: means any money payments for child care services that are paid by the department and that are paid for the benefit of an eligible family. See Arizona Laws 46-801
Child care home provider: means a person who is at least eighteen years of age, who is not the parent, guardian, caretaker relative or noncertified relative provider of a child needing child care and who is certified by the department to care for four or fewer children for compensation with child care assistance monies. See Arizona Laws 46-801
Child care personnel: means any person who supervises children in a day care home or center that receives child care food program monies under this article. See Arizona Laws 46-101
Child care providers: means child care facilities licensed pursuant to Title 36, Chapter 7. See Arizona Laws 46-801
Child only case: means a case in which the eligible dependent child is in the legal custody of the department of child safety, a tribal court or a tribal child welfare agency located in this state and placed in foster care with an unrelated adult or with a nonparent relative who is not receiving cash assistance. See Arizona Laws 46-101
Clearing corporation: means :
(a) A person that is registered as a "clearing agency" under the federal securities laws;
(b) A federal reserve bank; or
(c) Any other person that provides clearance or settlement services with respect to financial assets that would require it to register as a clearing agency under the federal securities laws but for an exclusion or exemption from the registration requirement, if its activities as a clearing corporation, including promulgation of rules, are subject to regulation by a federal or state governmental authority. See Arizona Laws 47-8102
Clearing house: means an association of banks or other payors regularly clearing items. See Arizona Laws 47-4104
Clerk: means the clerk of the board of supervisors. See Arizona Laws 11-351
Collateral: means the property subject to a security interest or agricultural lien. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Colorado river water: means water from the main stream of the Colorado river. See Arizona Laws 45-2201
Commercial tort claim: means a claim arising in tort with respect to which:
(a) The claimant is an organization; or
(b) The claimant is an individual and the claim:
(i) Arose in the course of the claimant's business or profession; and
(ii) Does not include damages arising out of personal injury to or the death of an individual. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Commercial unit: means such a unit of goods as by commercial usage is a single whole for purposes of lease and division of which materially impairs its character or value on the market or in use. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
Commission: means the county employee merit system commission. See Arizona Laws 11-351
Committee: means the achieving a better life experience act oversight committee. See Arizona Laws 46-901
Commodity account: means an account maintained by a commodity intermediary in which a commodity contract is carried for a commodity customer. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Commodity contract: means a commodity futures contract, an option on a commodity futures contract, a commodity option or another contract if the contract or option is:
(a) Traded on or subject to the rules of a board of trade that has been designated as a contract market for such a contract pursuant to federal commodities laws; or
(b) Traded on a foreign commodity board of trade, exchange or market, and is carried on the books of a commodity intermediary for a commodity customer. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Commodity customer: means a person for which a commodity intermediary carries a commodity contract on its books. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Commodity intermediary: means a person that:
(a) Is registered as a futures commission merchant under federal commodities law; or
(b) In the ordinary course of its business provides clearance or settlement services for a board of trade that has been designated as a contract market pursuant to federal commodities law. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
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.
Communicate: means to:
(a) Send a signed writing; or
(b) Transmit information by any mechanism agreed upon by the persons transmitting and receiving the information. See Arizona Laws 47-8102
Communicate: means :
(a) To send a written or other tangible record;
(b) To transmit a record by any means agreed on by the persons sending and receiving the record; or
(c) In the case of transmission of a record to or by a filing office, to transmit a record by any means prescribed by filing office rule. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Conservation: means the preservation and planned management of water resources to ensure the future availability of water resources. See Arizona Laws 45-2201
Conservation district: means a multi-county water conservation district established under Title 48, Chapter 22. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Consignee: means a person named in a bill of lading to which or to whose order the bill promises delivery. See Arizona Laws 47-7102
Consignee: means a merchant to which goods are delivered in a consignment. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Consignment: means a transaction, regardless of its form, in which a person delivers goods to a merchant for the purpose of sale and:
(a) The merchant:
(i) Deals in goods of that kind under a name other than the name of the person making delivery;
(ii) Is not an auctioneer; and
(iii) Is not generally known by its creditors to be substantially engaged in selling the goods of others;
(b) With respect to each delivery, the aggregate value of the goods is one thousand dollars or more at the time of delivery;
(c) The goods are not consumer goods immediately before delivery; and
(d) The transaction does not create a security interest that secures an obligation. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Consignor: means a person named in a bill of lading as the person from which the goods have been received for shipment. See Arizona Laws 47-7102
Consignor: means a person that delivers goods to a consignee in a consignment. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Consumer: means a person who buys eggs for use as food and not for resale in any form. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Consumer goods: means goods that are used or bought for use primarily for personal, family or household purposes. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Consumer goods transaction: means a consumer transaction in which:
(a) An individual incurs an obligation primarily for personal, family or household purposes; and
(b) A security interest in consumer goods secures the obligation. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Consumer lease: means a lease that a lessor regularly engaged in the business of leasing or selling makes to a lessee who is an individual and who takes under the lease primarily for a personal, family or household purpose, if the total payments to be made under the lease contract, excluding payments for options to renew or buy, do not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
Consumer transaction: means a transaction in which an individual incurs an obligation primarily for personal, family or household purposes, a security interest secures the obligation and the collateral is held or acquired primarily for personal, family or household purposes. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Container: means any box, one-half case, basket, flat or other receptacle, excluding a carton and a case. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
Continuation statement: means an amendment of a financing statement that:
(a) Identifies, by its file number, the initial financing statement to which it relates; and
(b) Indicates that it is a continuation statement for, or that it is filed to continue the effectiveness of, the identified financing statement. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
Contract for sale: includes both a present sale of goods and a contract to sell goods at a future time. See Arizona Laws 47-2106
Convey: means to transfer the ownership of a grandfathered right from one person to another. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
Corruptly: means a wrongful design to acquire or cause some pecuniary or other advantage to the person guilty of the act or omission referred to, or to some other person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
County: means the county containing over fifty per cent of the area of the authority. See Arizona Laws 45-1901
Court: means any court in this or any other state having jurisdiction to determine the liability of persons for the support of another person. See Arizona Laws 46-402
Court order: means any judgment or order of any court that orders payment of a set or determinable amount of support money. See Arizona Laws 46-402
Custodian: means a person, other than a parent or legal guardian, who stands in loco parentis to the child or a person to whom legal custody of the child has been given by order of the juvenile court. See Arizona Laws 8-201
Customer: means a person having an account with a bank or for whom a bank has agreed to collect items, including a bank that maintains an account at another bank. See Arizona Laws 47-4104
Dam: means any artificial barrier, including appurtenant works for the impounding or diversion of water, twenty-five feet or more in height or the storage capacity of which will be more than fifty acre-feet but does not include:
(a) Any barrier that is or will be less than six feet in height, regardless of storage capacity. See Arizona Laws 45-1201
Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
Date of the designation of the active management area: means :
(a) With respect to an initial active management area, June 12, 1980. See Arizona Laws 45-402
De facto conservator: means any person who takes possession of the estate of a vulnerable adult, without right or lawful authority. See Arizona Laws 46-451
De facto guardian: means any person who takes possession of the person of a vulnerable adult, without right or lawful authority. See Arizona Laws 46-451
Dealer: means any person who contracts for or obtains from the producer, or any producer-dealer, dealer or manufacturer, possession or control of any eggs or egg products for the purpose of candling, grading, selling, peddling, distributing, dealing in or trading in eggs or egg products for resale to an egg dealer within this state, producer-dealer, manufacturer, retailer or consumer for human consumption within this state. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Debtor: means :
(a) A person having an interest, other than a security interest or other lien, in the collateral, whether or not the person is an obligor;
(b) A seller of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles or promissory notes; or
(c) A consignee. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Decedent: A deceased person.
Deceptive: means any arrangement of the contents of any case, container, subcontainer, lot, load or display in which the eggs in the outer layer or in any portion exposed to view are in grade, size, condition or any other respect so superior to those in the interior or unexposed portion as to materially misrepresent the contents or any part of the contents as to size, grade, condition or any other respects. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
Delivery order: means a record that contains an order to deliver goods directed to a warehouse, carrier or other person that in the ordinary course of business issues warehouse receipts or bills of lading. See Arizona Laws 47-7102
department: means the department of economic security. See Arizona Laws 46-101
Department: means the Arizona department of economic security. See Arizona Laws 46-402
Department: means the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-101
Department: means the department of economic security. See Arizona Laws 46-341
Department: means the department of economic security. See Arizona Laws 46-901
Department: means the department of child safety. See Arizona Laws 8-201
Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
Dependent child: means a needy child who has been deprived of parental support or care by reason of the death, unemployment of the supporting parent as defined and prescribed by the rules of the department, continued absence from the home, or physical or mental incapacity of a parent, and whose relatives who are responsible under the law for the child's support are not able to provide adequate care and support of the child without public assistance, and who is living with his father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew or cousin in a place of residence maintained by one or more of such relatives as his or their own home or who is in the legal custody of the department of child safety and placed in a foster home or with an unrelated adult as a recipient of temporary assistance for needy families. See Arizona Laws 46-101
Dependent child: means a person under the age of eighteen who is eligible for temporary assistance for needy families as provided in chapter 2, article 5 of this title. See Arizona Laws 46-402
Deposit account: means a demand, time, savings, passbook or similar account maintained with a bank. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Design flood: means a selected flood against which protection is provided, or eventually will be provided, by means of flood protective or control works. See Arizona Laws 45-1441
Designated beneficiary: means the eligible individual who establishes an account and who is the owner of the account. See Arizona Laws 46-901
Designated floodway: means the channel of a stream and that portion of the adjoining flood plain required to reasonably provide for the construction of a project for passage of the design flood, including lands necessary for construction of project levees. See Arizona Laws 45-1441
Development plan: means a plan for the non-irrigation use of land in connection with which land has been or will be retired from irrigation for the bona fide purpose of conserving or using water for such non-irrigation use which would otherwise be used to irrigate the retired land. See Arizona Laws 45-461
Devise: To gift property by will.
Director: means the director of water resources, who is also the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 45-101
Director: means the director of the department of economic security. See Arizona Laws 46-101
Director: means the director of the department of economic security or the director's designee or authorized representative. See Arizona Laws 46-402
Director: means the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 46-341
Director: means the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 8-201
Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
District: means a groundwater replenishment district established under Title 48, Chapter 27. See Arizona Laws 45-701
District: means any irrigation district, power district, electrical district, agricultural improvement district or water users association now or hereafter organized under the laws of this state that is directly engaged in the sale, distribution or delivery of municipal, industrial or irrigation water or in the sale, distribution or use of electric power or energy. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
District member: means a member of the district as provided by Title 48, Chapter 27. See Arizona Laws 45-701
Division: means the animal services division of the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
Document: means a document of title or a receipt of the type described in section 47-7201, subsection B. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Documentary draft: means a draft to be presented for acceptance or payment if specified documents, certificated securities (section 47-8102) or instructions for uncertificated securities (section 47-8102) or other certificates, statements or the like are to be received by the drawee or other payor before acceptance or payment of the draft. See Arizona Laws 47-4104
Domestic violence: means battered or subject to extreme cruelty as defined in section 408(a)(7)(C)(iii) of the social security act. See Arizona Laws 46-101
Donor: The person who makes a gift.
Draft: means a draft as defined in section 47-3104 or an item, other than an instrument, that is an order. See Arizona Laws 47-4104
Drawee: means a person ordered in a draft to make payment. See Arizona Laws 47-4104
Early childhood development and health programs: means programs and services provided to children prior to kindergarten and their families for the purpose of assisting child development by providing education and other support, including parent and family support programs, child care, preschool, health screenings and access to preventive health services. See Arizona Laws 8-1152
Effluent: means water that has been collected in a sanitary sewer for subsequent treatment in a facility that is regulated pursuant to Title 49, Chapter 2. See Arizona Laws 45-101
Effluent: means water that has been collected in a sanitary sewer for subsequent treatment in a facility that is regulated pursuant to Title 49, Chapter 2. See Arizona Laws 45-2201
Eggs: means eggs that are in the shell and that are from chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese or any other species of fowl. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Electronic chattel paper: means chattel paper evidenced by a record or records consisting of information stored in an electronic medium. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
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}
Eligible adult: means either of the following:
(a) A person who is sixty-five years of age or older. See Arizona Laws 46-471
Eligible family: means citizens or legal residents of the United States or individuals who are otherwise lawfully present in the United States and who are parents, legal guardians or caretaker relatives with legal residence in this state and children in their care who meet the eligibility requirements for child care assistance. See Arizona Laws 46-801
Eligible individual: means an individual who is entitled to benefits based on blindness or disability under title II or XVI of the social security act, and such blindness or disability occurred before the date on which the individual attained twenty-six years of age or a disability certification with respect to such individual is filed with the United States secretary of the treasury for such taxable year as stipulated in 26 United States Code § 529A. See Arizona Laws 46-901
Emergency shelter: means temporary shelter in a hotel, motel or licensed homeless shelter facility. See Arizona Laws 46-241
Emotional abuse: means a pattern of ridiculing or demeaning a vulnerable adult, making derogatory remarks to a vulnerable adult, verbally harassing a vulnerable adult or threatening to inflict physical or emotional harm on a vulnerable adult. See Arizona Laws 46-451
Employment plan: means an agreement between the department and the cash assistance recipient regarding the participant's work activities and services provided by the department. See Arizona Laws 46-101
Encumbrance: means a right, other than an ownership interest, in real property. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
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.
Entitlement holder: means a person identified in the records of a securities intermediary as the person having a security entitlement against the securities intermediary. See Arizona Laws 47-8102
Entitlement order: means a notification communicated to a securities intermediary directing transfer or redemption of a financial asset to which the entitlement holder has a security entitlement. See Arizona Laws 47-8102
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}
Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
Exempt well: means a well that has a pump with a maximum capacity of not more than thirty-five gallons per minute and that is used to withdraw groundwater pursuant to section 45-454. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Existing well: means a well which was drilled before June 12, 1980 and which is not abandoned or sealed or a well which was not completed on June 12, 1980 but for which a notice of intention to drill was on file with the Arizona water commission on such date. See Arizona Laws 45-591
Expanded animal industry use: means increased water use by an animal industrial enterprise on the land in use by the enterprise on June 12, 1980 or on immediately adjoining land, excluding irrigation uses. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Expiration date: means :
(a) For eggs that are marked grade AA, the words "sell by" or "buy thru" followed by a date, including the month and day, that is not more than twenty-four days after the eggs were candled and includes the date the eggs were candled. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Exploitation: means the illegal or improper use of a vulnerable adult or the vulnerable adult's resources for another's profit or advantage. See Arizona Laws 46-451
Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
Farm: means an area of irrigated land that is under the same ownership, that is served by a water distribution system common to the irrigated land and to which can be applied common conservation, water measurement and water accounting procedures. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Farm products: means goods, other than standing timber, with respect to which the debtor is engaged in a farming operation and that are:
(a) Crops grown, growing or to be grown, including:
(i) Crops produced on trees, vines and bushes; and
(ii) Aquatic goods produced in aquacultural operations;
(b) Livestock, born or unborn, including aquatic goods produced in aquacultural operations;
(c) Supplies used or produced in a farming operation; or
(d) Products of crops or livestock in their unmanufactured states. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Farm unit: means :
(a) With respect to areas outside an active management area and with respect to an active management area other than the Santa Cruz active management area, one or more farms that are irrigated with groundwater and that are contiguous or in proximity to each other with similar soil conditions, crops and cropping patterns. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Farming operation: means raising, cultivating, propagating, fattening, grazing or any other farming, livestock or aquacultural operation. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Fault: means wrongful act, omission, breach or default. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
Federal poverty guidelines: means the poverty guidelines as updated annually in the federal register by the United States department of health and human services. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Federal poverty level: means the poverty guidelines that are issued by the United States department of health and human services pursuant to section 673(2) of the omnibus budget reconciliation act of 1981 and that are reported annually in the federal register. See Arizona Laws 46-101
Federal poverty level: means the poverty guidelines that are issued by the United States department of health and human services pursuant to section 673(2) of the omnibus budget reconciliation act of 1981 and that are reported annually in the federal register. See Arizona Laws 46-801
Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
File number: means the number assigned to an initial financing statement pursuant to section 47-9519, subsection A. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Filing office: means an office designated in section 47-9501 as the place to file a financing statement. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Filing office rule: means a rule adopted pursuant to section 47-9526. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Finance lease: means a lease with respect to which:
(a) The lessor does not select, manufacture or supply the goods;
(b) The lessor acquires the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods in connection with the lease; and
(c) One of the following occurs:
(i) The lessee receives a copy of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods before signing the lease contract;
(ii) The lessee's approval of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods is a condition to effectiveness of the lease contract;
(iii) The lessee, before signing the lease contract, receives an accurate and complete statement designating the promises and warranties, and any disclaimers of warranties, limitations or modifications of remedies, or liquidated damages, including those of a third party, such as the manufacturer of the goods, provided to the lessor by the person supplying the goods in connection with or as part of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods; or
(iv) If the lease is not a consumer lease, the lessor, before the lessee signs the lease contract, informs the lessee in writing of the identity of the person supplying the goods to the lessor, unless the lessee has selected that person and directed the lessor to acquire the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods from that person, that the lessee is entitled under this chapter to the promises and warranties, including those of any third party, provided to the lessor by the person supplying the goods in connection with or as part of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods, and that the lessee may communicate with the person supplying the goods to the lessor and receive an accurate and complete statement of those promises and warranties, including any disclaimers and limitations of them or of remedies. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
Financial asset: except as otherwise provided in section 47-8103, means:
(a) A security;
(b) An obligation of a person or a share, participation or other interest in a person or in property or an enterprise of a person, which is, or is of a type, dealt in or traded on financial markets, or which is recognized in any area in which it is issued or dealt in as a medium for investment; or
(c) Any property that is held by a securities intermediary for another person in a securities account if the securities intermediary has expressly agreed with the other person that the property is to be treated as a financial asset under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 47-8102
Financial exploitation: means either of the following:
(a) The wrongful or unauthorized taking, withholding, appropriating or use of money, assets or property of an eligible adult. See Arizona Laws 46-471
Financial institution: means any bank, commercial bank, national bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, insurance company, brokerage firm or other similar entity that is authorized to do business in this state. See Arizona Laws 46-901
Financing statement: means a record or records composed of an initial financing statement and any filed record relating to the initial financing statement. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
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.
Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
- You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
- The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
- The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
Fixture filing: means the filing of a financing statement covering goods that are or are to become fixtures and satisfying section 47-9502, subsections A and B. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Fixtures: means goods that have become so related to particular real property that an interest in them arises under real property law. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Flood control project: means any project for flood control purposes on which construction commences after April 19, 1973 and which either:
(a) Is authorized under federal law and requires local participation. See Arizona Laws 45-1441
Flood warning system: means a project or series of projects to detect floods and develop flood preparedness plans and may include the system known as the automatic local evaluation in real time system. See Arizona Laws 45-1501
Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
Fund: means the ABLE program fund. See Arizona Laws 46-901
Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
General industrial use: means a non-irrigation use of groundwater except those subject to permits issued pursuant to sections 45-513 and 45-514 and those for which a certificate of assured water supply is required pursuant to section 45-576. See Arizona Laws 45-511
General intangible: means any personal property, including things in action, other than accounts, chattel paper, commercial tort claims, deposit accounts, documents, goods, instruments, investment property, letter-of-credit rights, letters of credit, money and oil, gas or other minerals before extraction. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (section 47-2A309), but the term does not include money, documents, instruments, accounts, chattel paper, general intangibles or minerals or the like, including oil and gas, before extraction. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
Goods: means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation. See Arizona Laws 47-7102
Goods: means all things that are movable when a security interest attaches. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Governmental unit: means a subdivision, agency, department, county, parish, municipality or other unit of the government of the United States, a state or a foreign country. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Grade: means classified as to quality and applies to a dozen, case, lot or load of eggs. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
Grandfathered right: means a right to withdraw and use groundwater pursuant to article 5 of this chapter based on the fact of lawful withdrawals and use of groundwater before the date of the designation of an active management area. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Grantee: includes every person to whom an estate or interest in real property passes, in or by a deed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Groundwater: means water under the surface of the earth regardless of the geologic structure in which it is standing or moving. See Arizona Laws 45-101
Groundwater basin: means an area that, as nearly as known facts allow as determined by the director pursuant to this chapter, may be designated so as to enclose a relatively hydrologically distinct body or related bodies of groundwater, which shall be described horizontally by surface description. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Groundwater withdrawal permit: means a permit issued by the director pursuant to article 7 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
Half case: means a fifteen-dozen container or one-half standard thirty-dozen egg case as used in commercial practice in the United States. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Head of household: means a dependent child's parent or the spouse of the parent, or the dependent child's nonparent relative or spouse of the nonparent relative, who receives cash assistance for himself and on behalf of the dependent child or only on behalf of the dependent child. See Arizona Laws 46-101
Health-care-insurance receivable: means an interest in or claim under a policy of insurance that is a right to payment of a monetary obligation for health care goods or services provided. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Height: means the vertical distance from the lowest elevation of the outside limit of the barrier at its intersection with the natural ground surface to the spillway crest elevation. See Arizona Laws 45-1201
Home health aid: means services which provide intermittent health maintenance, continued treatment or monitoring of a health condition and supportive care for activities of daily living within the individual's place of residence. See Arizona Laws 46-191
Homeless: means the participant has no permanent place of residence where a lease or mortgage agreement between the participant and the owner exists. See Arizona Laws 46-241
In-home intervention: means a program of services provided pursuant to article 14 of this chapter while the child is still in the custody of the parent, guardian or custodian. See Arizona Laws 8-801
In-home provider: means a provider who is certified by the department to care for a child of an eligible family in the child's own home and is compensated with child care assistance monies. See Arizona Laws 46-801
Incidental recharge: means the percolation of water to an aquifer after the water has been withdrawn, diverted or received for delivery by a municipal provider for use within its service area, except water that is added to an aquifer pursuant to chapter 3. See Arizona Laws 45-561
Incidental recharge factor: means the ratio of the amount of incidental recharge attributable to a municipal provider during a calendar year to the amount of water withdrawn, diverted or received for delivery by the municipal provider for use within its service area during the year. See Arizona Laws 45-561
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}
Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
Indorsement: means a signature that alone or accompanied by other words is made on a security certificate in registered form or on a separate document for the purpose of assigning, transferring or redeeming the security or granting a power to assign, transfer or redeem it. See Arizona Laws 47-8102
Industrial use: means a non-irrigation use of water not supplied by a city, town or private water company, including animal industry use and expanded animal industry use. See Arizona Laws 45-561
Initial active management area: means the Phoenix, Prescott or Pinal active management area established by section 45-411, the Tucson active management area established by section 45-411 and modified by Section 45-411. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
Inspector: means an egg inspector who is appointed or assigned pursuant to section 3-709. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Installment lease contract: means a lease contract that authorizes or requires the delivery of goods in separate lots to be separately accepted, even though the lease contract contains a clause "each delivery is a separate lease" or its equivalent. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
Instruction: means a notification communicated to the issuer of an uncertificated security which directs that the transfer of the security be registered or that the security be redeemed. See Arizona Laws 47-8102
Instrument: means a negotiable instrument or any other writing that evidences a right to the payment of a monetary obligation, is not itself a security agreement or lease and is of a type that in the ordinary course of business is transferred by delivery with any necessary indorsement or assignment. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Integrated farming operation: means :
(a) With respect to land within an irrigation non-expansion area, more than ten acres of land that are contiguous or in close proximity, that may be irrigated pursuant to section 45-437, that are not under the same ownership and that are farmed as a single farming operation. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
Intermediate water duty: means an irrigation water duty, as defined in section 45-402, which is established by the director during a management period to apply for a specific number of years during the management period. See Arizona Laws 45-561
Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
Inventory: means goods, other than farm products, that:
(a) Are leased by a person as lessor;
(b) Are held by a person for sale or lease or to be furnished under a contract of service;
(c) Are furnished by a person under a contract of service; or
(d) Consist of raw materials, work in process or materials used or consumed in a business. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Investment adviser: means a person who is licensed or exempt from licensure as an investment advisor pursuant to Title 44, Chapter 13. See Arizona Laws 46-471
Investment property: means a security, whether certificated or uncertificated, security entitlement, securities account, commodity contract or commodity account. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Irrigate: means to apply water to two or more acres of land to produce plants or parts of plants for sale or human consumption, or for use as feed for livestock, range livestock or poultry, as such terms are defined in section 3-1201. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Irrigation acre: means an acre of land, as determined in section 45-465, subsection B, to which an irrigation grandfathered right is appurtenant. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Irrigation district: means a political subdivision, however designated, established pursuant to Title 48, Chapter 17 or 19. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Irrigation grandfathered right: means a grandfathered right determined pursuant to section 45-465. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Irrigation non-expansion area: means a geographical area that has been designated pursuant to article 3 of this chapter as having insufficient groundwater to provide a reasonably safe supply for the irrigation of the cultivated lands at the current rate of withdrawal. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Irrigation use: means :
(a) With respect to areas outside an active management area and with respect to an active management area other than the Santa Cruz active management area, the use of groundwater on two or more acres of land to produce plants or parts of plants for sale or human consumption, or for use as feed for livestock, range livestock or poultry, as such terms are defined in section 3-1201. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Issuer: means a bailee that issues a document of title or, in the case of an unaccepted delivery order, the person that orders the possessor of goods to deliver. See Arizona Laws 47-7102
Item: means an instrument or a promise or order to pay money handled by a bank for collection or payment. See Arizona Laws 47-4104
Jobs program: means services established by the department to ensure that participants comply with work requirements as prescribed in Public Law 104-193. See Arizona Laws 46-101
Joint session: When both chambers of a legislature adopt a concurrent resolution to meet together.
Large untreated water provider: means a municipal provider that as of January 1, 1990 was serving untreated water to at least five hundred persons or supplying at least one hundred acre-feet of untreated water during a calendar year. See Arizona Laws 45-561
Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
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}
Lease agreement: means the bargain, with respect to the lease, of the lessor and the lessee in fact as found in their language or by implication from other circumstances including course of dealing or usage of trade or course of performance as provided in this article. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
Lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this chapter and any other applicable rules of law. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
Leasehold interest: means the interest of the lessor or the lessee under a lease contract. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
Letter-of-credit right: means a right to payment or performance under a letter of credit, whether or not the beneficiary has demanded or is at the time entitled to demand payment or performance. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
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.
Lien: means a charge against or interest in goods to secure payment of a debt or performance of an obligation, but the term does not include a security interest. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
Lien creditor: means :
(a) A creditor that has acquired a lien on the property involved by attachment, levy or the like;
(b) An assignee for benefit of creditors from the time of assignment;
(c) A trustee in bankruptcy from the date of the filing of the petition; or
(d) A receiver in equity from the time of appointment. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
Lifespan respite care: means a coordinated system of accessible, community-based respite care services for family caregivers of children or adults with special needs. See Arizona Laws 46-171
Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors.
Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
Local entity: means a city, town, county, political subdivision or drainage and flood control district organized under Title 48, Chapter 18 or 21 or any other special taxing district organized under title 48. See Arizona Laws 45-1501
Lot: means a parcel or a single article that is the subject matter of a separate lease or delivery, whether or not it is sufficient to perform the lease contract. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
Management period: means a period of years prescribed by sections 45-564 through 45-568 during which a prescribed management plan applies. See Arizona Laws 45-561
Manufactured home: means a structure that is transportable in one or more sections and that, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or forty body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is three hundred twenty or more square feet, and that is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems contained therein. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Manufactured home transaction: means a secured transaction:
(a) That creates a purchase money security interest in a manufactured home, other than a manufactured home held as inventory; or
(b) In which a manufactured home, other than a manufactured home held as inventory, is the primary collateral. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Manufacturer: means a person that is engaged in the business of operating or controlling the operation of one or more breaking plants producing liquid eggs, dried eggs, frozen eggs or other egg products for human consumption. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Marked: means plainly, legibly and conspicuously labeled, stamped, stenciled, printed, typed, lettered or branded. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Member land: means real property that qualifies as a member land of a conservation district as provided by Title 48, Chapter 22. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Member service area: means the service area of a city, town or private water company that qualifies as a member service area of a conservation district as provided by Title 48, Chapter 22. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Merchant lessee: means a lessee that is a merchant with respect to goods of the kind subject to the lease. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
Mined groundwater: means the amount of groundwater withdrawn or received by a municipal provider from within an active management area during a calendar year for use in its service area, minus both of the following, as applicable:
(a) An amount of water computed by multiplying the amount of water supplied by the municipal provider for use within its service area during the calendar year by the incidental recharge factor established for the municipal provider pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 45-561
Minor: means a person under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
monetary obligation: means a monetary obligation secured by the goods or owed under a lease of the goods and includes a monetary obligation with respect to software used in the goods. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
Multi-county water conservation district: means a multi-county district established under Title 48, Chapter 22, which has contracted with the United States for the repayment of the cost and for the delivery of the water supply in accordance with P. See Arizona Laws 45-2201
Municipal provider: means a city, town, private water company or irrigation district that supplies water for non-irrigation use. See Arizona Laws 45-561
Municipal use: means all non-irrigation uses of water supplied by a city, town, private water company or irrigation district, except for uses of water, other than Colorado river water, released for beneficial use from storage, diversion or distribution facilities to avoid spilling that would otherwise occur due to uncontrolled surface water inflows that exceed facility capacity. See Arizona Laws 45-561
Municipality: means any incorporated city or town or other corporation organized for municipal purposes. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
Neglect: means the deprivation of food, water, medication, medical services, shelter, supervision, cooling, heating or other services necessary to maintain a vulnerable adult's minimum physical or mental health. See Arizona Laws 46-451
Nest run eggs: means eggs that are packed as they come from the production facilities without having been washed, sized or candled for quality, regardless of whether some undergrades have been removed. See Arizona Laws 3-701
New debtor: means a person that becomes bound as debtor under section 47-9203, subsection D by a security agreement previously entered into by another person. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
New value: means money, money's worth in property, services or new credit or release by a transferee of an interest in property previously transferred to the transferee. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
New well: means a well for which a notice of intention to drill or a permit is required pursuant to this article or which is drilled pursuant to a permit issued under Section 45-834. See Arizona Laws 45-591
Non-irrigation grandfathered right: means a grandfathered right determined pursuant to section 45-463, 45-464, 45-469 or 45-472. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Non-irrigation use: means :
(a) With respect to areas outside an active management area and with respect to an active management area other than the Santa Cruz active management area, a use of groundwater other than an irrigation use. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Noncash proceeds: means proceeds other than cash proceeds. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Noncertified relative provider: means a person who is at least eighteen years of age, who provides child care services to an eligible child, who is by affinity or consanguinity or by court decree the grandparent, great-grandparent, sibling not residing in the same household, aunt, great-aunt, uncle or great-uncle of the eligible child and who meets the department's requirements to be a noncertified relative provider. See Arizona Laws 46-801
Nonparent relative: means a dependent child's grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew or cousin and includes a permanent guardian who is appointed pursuant to section 8-872. See Arizona Laws 46-101
notes: means bonds and notes, respectively, of the authority issued pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
Oath: includes an affirmation or declaration. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
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.
Obligor: means a person that, with respect to an obligation secured by a security interest in or an agricultural lien on the collateral, owes payment or other performance of the obligation, has provided property other than the collateral to secure payment or other performance of the obligation or is otherwise accountable in whole or in part for payment or other performance of the obligation. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Operating unit: means a county, city, town, water company or political subdivision, this state, the United States, an Indian tribe or any other public or private entity with which an authority has a contractual relationship for the acquisition, delivery, exchange, treatment, storage or recharge of water. See Arizona Laws 45-1901
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.
Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
Owner: means :
(a) With respect to an irrigation grandfathered right or a type 1 non-irrigation grandfathered right, the owner of the land to which the right is appurtenant. See Arizona Laws 45-461
Owner: includes any person or entity that owns, controls, operates, maintains, manages or proposes to construct or modify a dam. See Arizona Laws 45-1201
parents: means the natural or adoptive parents of a child. See Arizona Laws 46-801
Participant: means a recipient of cash assistance engaged in work activities through the JOBS program. See Arizona Laws 46-101
Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
Payment intangible: means a general intangible under which the account debtor's principal obligation is a monetary obligation. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
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
Permit: means a permit to withdraw groundwater which is issued by the director pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 45-511
Person: includes an individual, household, firm, corporation, company or association. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Person: means an individual, public or private corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, society, estate or trust, any other private organization or enterprise, the United States, any state, territory or country or a governmental entity, political subdivision or municipal corporation organized under or subject to the constitution and laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 45-402
person: means an individual, public or private corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, society, estate, trust, any other private organization or enterprise, the United States, any state, territory or country or a governmental entity, political subdivision or municipal corporation organized under or subject to the constitution and laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 45-631
Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, company or district. See Arizona Laws 45-1201
Person aggrieved: means any person who has not been permitted freedom of choice of a practitioner in eye care services when he is entitled to receive such eye care services, or the holder of a license or a certificate to practice in this state in the field of eye care who has been discriminated against in violation of the provisions of this article. See Arizona Laws 46-301
Personal care: means assistance to meet essential personal physical needs. See Arizona Laws 46-191
Personal property: All property that is not real property.
Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Personal responsibility declaration: means a document that is prescribed by the department and in which the applicant acknowledges understanding of the applicant's personal responsibility. See Arizona Laws 46-101
Petition: means a written statement of the essential facts that allege delinquency, incorrigibility or dependency. See Arizona Laws 8-201
Petty offense: A federal misdemeanor punishable by six months or less in prison. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Power: means electric power or electric energy or both. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
present sale: means a sale which is accomplished by the making of the contract. See Arizona Laws 47-2106
Present value: means the amount as of a date certain of one or more sums payable in the future, discounted to the date certain. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
Prevention: means the creation of conditions, opportunities and experiences that encourage and develop healthy, self-sufficient children and that occur before the onset of problems. See Arizona Laws 8-201
Private water company: means :
(a) With respect to areas outside an active management area and with respect to an active management area other than the Santa Cruz active management area, any entity that distributes or sells groundwater, except a political subdivision or an entity that is established pursuant to title 48 and that is not regulated as a public service corporation by the Arizona corporation commission under a certificate of public convenience and necessity. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Private water company: means any entity that distributes or sells groundwater, except a political subdivision or any entity that is established pursuant to title 48 and that is not regulated as a public service corporation by the Arizona corporation commission under a certificate of public convenience and necessity. See Arizona Laws 45-2201
Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Producer: means a person that is engaged in the business of operating or controlling the operation of one or more ranches producing eggs within this state. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Producer-dealer: means a person that is engaged in the business of operating or controlling the operation of one or more egg ranches producing eggs within the state, and that, while in possession or control of any additional eggs other than the person's own production, candles, grades, sells, peddles, distributes, deals in or trades in eggs for resale to dealers, producer-dealers, manufacturers or retailers. See Arizona Laws 3-701
program: means a special supervision program in which the county attorney of a participating county may divert or defer, before a guilty plea or a trial, the prosecution of a person who is accused of committing a crime. See Arizona Laws 11-361
Program: means the qualified ABLE program that is established under this article and as defined in 26 United States Code § 529A. See Arizona Laws 46-901
Project: means a facility necessary or convenient to obtain, divert, withdraw, transport, exchange, deliver, treat or recharge water, including rights-of-way, real and personal property, interests in property and improvements to property that are necessary or appropriate to maintain and operate the facilities. See Arizona Laws 45-1901
Project permits: means permits obtained under articles 2 and 3 of this chapter for the purposes of operating a state demonstration project. See Arizona Laws 45-892.01
Promissory note: means an instrument that evidences a promise to pay a monetary obligation, does not evidence an order to pay and does not contain an acknowledgment by a bank that the bank has received for deposit a sum of money or funds. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Proposal: means a record authenticated by a secured party that includes the terms on which the secured party is willing to accept collateral in full or partial satisfaction of the obligation it secures pursuant to sections 47-9620, 47-9621 and 47-9622. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
Protected farmland: means land that has been designated by the director as protected farmland pursuant to section 45-483, subsection A and for which the designation has not been revoked by the director pursuant to section 45-483, subsection C. See Arizona Laws 45-461
Protective services: means a program of identifiable and specialized social services that may offer social services appropriate to resolve problems of abuse, exploitation or neglect of a vulnerable adult. See Arizona Laws 46-451
Protective services worker: means a person who has been selected by and trained under the requirements prescribed by the department to provide protective services. See Arizona Laws 46-451
Public agency: means any state agency or political subdivision of the state. See Arizona Laws 45-1441
Public debt: Cumulative amounts borrowed by the Treasury Department or the Federal Financing Bank from the public or from another fund or account. The public debt does not include agency debt (amounts borrowed by other agencies of the Federal Government). The total public debt is subject to a statutory limit.
Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
Public organic record: means a record that is available to the public for inspection and that is:
(a) A record consisting of the record initially filed with or issued by a state or the United States to form or organize an organization and any record filed with or issued by the state or the United States that amends or restates the initial record;
(b) An organic record of a business trust consisting of the record initially filed with a state and any record filed with the state that amends or restates the initial record, if a statute of the state governing business trusts requires that the record be filed with the state; or
(c) A record consisting of legislation enacted by the legislature of a state or the Congress of the United States that forms or organizes an organization, any record amending the legislation and any record filed with or issued by the state or the United States that amends or restates the name of the organization. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Public utility: means any person, corporation, district, electric cooperative, public agency or political subdivision of the state that provides electrical service to the public by means of electric facilities or provides water for municipal, industrial, irrigation, recreation and fish and wildlife purposes to the public. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
Purchase: includes taking by sale, lease, mortgage, security interest, pledge, gift or any other voluntary transaction creating an interest in goods. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
Qualified disability expenses: means any expenses that are related to the eligible individual's blindness or disability and that are for the benefit of an eligible individual who is the designated beneficiary of an account, including education, housing, transportation, employment training and support, assistive technology and personal support services, health care, prevention and wellness, financial management and administrative services, legal fees, expenses for oversight and monitoring and funeral and burial expenses and any other expenses that are approved by the United States secretary of the treasury as required by 26 United States code section 529A. See Arizona Laws 46-901
Qualified individual: means a broker-dealer, investment adviser or person who serves in a supervisory, compliance, legal or senior investor protection capacity for a broker-dealer or investment adviser. See Arizona Laws 46-471
Qualifying family member: means an individual who meets all of the following requirements:
(a) Is at least eighteen years of age during the calendar year. See Arizona Laws 46-341
Quality: means the inherent properties of any product that determine its relative degree of excellence. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
Real property: means lands, rights in lands, interests in land, including lands under water, appurtenances, improvements and any and all other things and rights usually included within the term and includes also any and all interest in such property less than full title, such as easements, permanent or temporary rights-of-way, uses, leases, licenses and other such incorporeal hereditaments. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
Recipient: means a person who receives assistance or services under the provisions of this title. See Arizona Laws 46-101
record owner: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
Referral: means a report that is submitted to the juvenile court and that alleges that a child is dependent or incorrigible or that a juvenile has committed a delinquent or criminal act. See Arizona Laws 8-201
Registered mail: includes certified mail. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Registered organization: means an organization formed or organized solely under the law of a single state or the United States by the filing of a public organic record with, the issuance of a public organic record by or the enactment of legislation by the state or the United States. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Release-contained barrier: means any artificial barrier and appurtenant works that comply with both of the following:
(a) Has a storage capacity that in the event of failure would be contained within property that the release-contained barrier owner owns, controls, operates, maintains or manages. See Arizona Laws 45-1201
Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
replenishment district: means a district that is established pursuant to Title 48, Chapter 27. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
Respite care: means short-term care and supervision services that are provided to an individual to relieve the individual's caregiver. See Arizona Laws 46-171
Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
Retailer: means a person that buys candled and graded eggs or egg products from a producer, licensed manufacturer, licensed producer-dealer or licensed dealer for resale to a consumer only, or that buys egg products to use in the preparation of other consumer foods for resale. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
Safe-yield: means a groundwater management goal which attempts to achieve and thereafter maintain a long-term balance between the annual amount of groundwater withdrawn in an active management area and the annual amount of natural and artificial recharge in the active management area. See Arizona Laws 45-561
Same ownership: means ownership by the same person or entity or by successor persons or entities as a result of succession to heirs and personal representatives, corporate and partnership reorganizations, mergers, dissolutions, divestitures, partnerships, partitions, joint ventures, foreclosures, receivership or bankruptcy, purchase of capital stock, sale pursuant to United States Code, title 11, or similar succession, but not by outright sale to a bona fide purchaser for value where no portion of or beneficial interest in the successor in interest is retained by the original owner, its shareholders, partners, limited partners or beneficiaries. See Arizona Laws 45-461
Sanitary sewer: means any pipe or other enclosed conduit that carries, among other substances, any water-carried wastes from the human body from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants or institutions. See Arizona Laws 45-101
Secondary obligor: means an obligor to the extent that:
(a) The obligor's obligation is secondary; or
(b) The obligor has a right of recourse with respect to an obligation secured by collateral against the debtor, another obligor or property of either. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Secured party: means :
(a) A person in whose favor a security interest is created or provided for under a security agreement, whether or not any obligation to be secured is outstanding;
(b) A person that holds an agricultural lien;
(c) A consignor;
(d) A person to which accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles or promissory notes have been sold;
(e) A trustee, indenture trustee, agent, collateral agent or other representative in whose favor a security interest or agricultural lien is created or provided for; or
(f) A person that holds a security interest arising under section 47-2401, 47-2505, 47-2711, 47-2A508, 47-4210 or 47-5118. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Securities intermediary: means :
(a) A clearing corporation; or
(b) A person, including a bank or broker, that in the ordinary course of its business maintains securities accounts for others and is acting in that capacity. See Arizona Laws 47-8102
Security: except as otherwise provided in section 47-8103, means an obligation of an issuer or a share, participation or other interest in an issuer or in property or an enterprise of an issuer:
(a) Which is represented by a security certificate in bearer or registered form, or the transfer of which may be registered upon books maintained for that purpose by or on behalf of the issuer;
(b) Which is one of a class or series or by its terms is divisible into a class or series of shares, participations, interests or obligations; and
(c) Which:
(i) Is, or is of a type, dealt in or traded on securities exchanges or securities markets; or
(ii) Is a medium for investment and by its terms expressly provides that it is a security governed by this chapter. See Arizona Laws 47-8102
Security agreement: means an agreement that creates or provides for a security interest. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Security certificate: means a certificate representing a security. See Arizona Laws 47-8102
Security entitlement: means the rights and property interest of an entitlement holder with respect to a financial asset specified in article 5 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 47-8102
Sell: includes to offer for sale, to expose for sale or to have in possession for sale, exchange, barter or trade. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Seller: means a person who sells or contracts to sell goods. See Arizona Laws 47-2103
Service area: means :
(a) With respect to a city or town, the area of land actually being served water, for a non-irrigation use, by the city or town plus:
(i) Additions to such area that contain an operating distribution system owned by the city or town primarily for the delivery of water for a non-irrigation use. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
Services: includes social casework, rehabilitation counseling and similar services rendered to a person or persons in need as provided for in this title. See Arizona Laws 46-101
Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
Shipper: means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier. See Arizona Laws 47-7102
Short-term crisis: means an unplanned incident that causes the loss of monies and that makes the applicant unable to meet the applicant's financial obligations. See Arizona Laws 46-241
Size: means classified as to weight. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Small municipal provider: means a municipal provider that supplies two hundred fifty acre-feet or less of water for non-irrigation use during a calendar year. See Arizona Laws 45-561
Software: means a computer program and any supporting information provided in connection with a transaction relating to the program. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Southside replenishment obligation: means a replenishment obligation calculated under section 45-2622. See Arizona Laws 45-2621
Standard: means the quality specifications for a single egg. See Arizona Laws 3-701
State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
State: includes a state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Arizona Laws 46-402
State: means the state of Arizona. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
State demonstration project: means a project for the storage of excess central Arizona project water at an underground storage facility pursuant to permits issued under this chapter and in accordance with this article. See Arizona Laws 45-892.01
State water and power development fund: means the fund by that name established by section 45-1711. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
State water and power plan: means the plan established pursuant to section 45-1703. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
Storage capacity: means the maximum volume of water that can be impounded by the reservoir when there is no discharge of water. See Arizona Laws 45-1201
Stored water: means water that is stored underground for the purpose of recovery pursuant to a permit issued under chapter 3. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Subbasin: means an area that, as nearly as known facts allow as determined by the director pursuant to this chapter, may be designated so as to enclose a relatively hydrologically distinct body of groundwater within a groundwater basin, which shall be described horizontally by surface description. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Subcontainer: means a container that is used within another container. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Sublease: means a lease of goods the right to possession and use of which was acquired by the lessor as a lessee under an existing lease. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
Subsequent active management area: means an active management area established after June 12, 1980 pursuant to article 2 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Subsidence: means the settling or lowering of the surface of land that results from the withdrawal of groundwater. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
Supervisor: means the supervisor of egg inspection or the supervisor's authorized representative. See Arizona Laws 3-701
Supplier: means a person from whom a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased under a finance lease. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
Supply contract: means a contract under which a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased. See Arizona Laws 47-2A103
Supporting obligation: means a letter-of-credit right or secondary obligation that supports the payment or performance of an account, chattel paper, a document, a general intangible, an instrument or investment property. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Surface water: means the waters of all sources, flowing in streams, canyons, ravines or other natural channels, or in definite underground channels, whether perennial or intermittent, floodwater, wastewater or surplus water, and of lakes, ponds and springs on the surface. See Arizona Laws 45-101
Tangible chattel paper: means chattel paper evidenced by a record or records consisting of information that is inscribed on a tangible medium. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Temporarily deferred: means the postponement of work activities. See Arizona Laws 46-101
Temporary assistance for needy families: means assistance granted under section 403 of title IV of the social security act as it exists after August 21, 1996. See Arizona Laws 46-101
Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
Tentatively allocated: means water of the main stem of the Colorado river water that has been recommended by the director to the secretary of the interior for allocation, but for which a contract with the secretary for delivery has not been signed. See Arizona Laws 45-2201
Termination statement: means an amendment of a financing statement that:
(a) Identifies, by its file number, the initial financing statement to which it relates; and
(b) Indicates either that it is a termination statement or that the identified financing statement is no longer effective. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Testify: includes every manner of oral statement under oath or affirmation. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Testify: Answer questions in court.
Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
town: means a city or town incorporated or chartered under the constitution and laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
Transmitting utility: means a person primarily engaged in the business of:
(a) Operating a railroad, subway, street railway or trolley bus;
(b) Transmitting communications electrically, electromagnetically or by light;
(c) Transmitting goods by pipeline or sewer; or
(d) Transmitting or producing and transmitting electricity, steam, gas or water. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
Transportation: means the movement of groundwater from the point of withdrawal to the point of use. See Arizona Laws 45-402
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.
Uncertificated security: means a security that is not represented by a certificate. See Arizona Laws 47-8102
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: means the secretary of the interior, acting for the United States department of interior, or his duly authorized representative. See Arizona Laws 45-2201
Untreated water: means water that is not treated to improve its quality and that is supplied by a municipal provider through a distribution system other than a potable water distribution system. See Arizona Laws 45-561
User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
Vendor payment: means any payment to a person other than the recipient on his behalf. See Arizona Laws 46-101
Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
Visiting nurse services: means services which provide intermittent skilled nursing services in the individual's place of residence. See Arizona Laws 46-191
Vulnerable adult: means an individual who is eighteen years of age or older and who is unable to protect himself from abuse, neglect or exploitation by others because of a physical or mental impairment. See Arizona Laws 46-451
Warehouse: means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. See Arizona Laws 47-7102
Water company: means either a private water company as defined in section 45-402 or an irrigation district that primarily serves municipal water. See Arizona Laws 45-1901
Water district: means an active management area water district that is established under Title 48, Chapter 28 and that has adopted an ordinance or resolution to undertake water district groundwater replenishment obligations as defined and used in Title 48, Chapter 28, Article 7. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Water district member land: means real property that qualifies as water district member land of a water district as provided by Title 48, Chapter 28. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Water district member service area: means the service area of the city, town or private water company that qualifies as a water district member service area of a water district as provided by title 48, chapter 28. See Arizona Laws 45-402
water duty: means the amount of water in acre-feet per acre that is reasonable to apply to irrigated land in a farm unit during the accounting period, as determined by the director pursuant to sections 45-564 through 45-568 or as prescribed in section 45-483. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Water duty acres: means the acres of land in a farm, as determined pursuant to section 45-465, subsection B, which are used in calculating the maximum amount of groundwater which may be used pursuant to an irrigation grandfathered right. See Arizona Laws 45-461
Well: means a man-made opening in the earth through which water may be withdrawn or obtained from beneath the surface of the earth except as provided in Section 45-591. See Arizona Laws 45-402
Wholesale: means sales to municipalities, districts or public utilities for resale or distribution. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
Wilfully: means , with respect to conduct or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware or believes that the person's conduct is of that nature or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Work activities: means the following activities that are countable toward the federal work participation rate as prescribed in Public Law 104-193, section 407 (1996):
(a) Unsubsidized employment. See Arizona Laws 46-101
Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215

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