Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 11 > Chapter 3 - County Officers

• 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 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
• accounting for: means a record:

  (a) Authenticated by a secured party;

  (b) Indicating the aggregate unpaid secured obligations as of a date not more than thirty-five days earlier or thirty-five days later than the date of the record; and

  (c) Identifying the components of the obligations in reasonable detail. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

• Acre: means one acre of unsubdivided land. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Active management area: means an active management area established under Title 45, Chapter 2, Article 2. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• Active management area: means an active management area established under Title 45, Chapter 2, Article 2. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Active management area: means an active management area established under Title 45, Chapter 2. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Actual surface water supply: means for any year the total amount of surface water, other than central Arizona project water, that is delivered to the district member for non-irrigation use during the year by irrigation districts and water users' associations. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Adjusted groundwater: means the number computed by subtracting the excluded groundwater withdrawn in the district by a district member from all groundwater withdrawn in the district by the district member for non-irrigation use. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Administrative costs: means the compensation and employment related expenses of the officers and administrative employees of the district, the compensation and reimbursements of members of the board of directors, operation and maintenance expenses and acquisition costs of property, equipment and other materials that the district acquires for administrative purposes. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Agricultural land: means property that has a current agricultural use designation from the county assessor. See Arizona Laws 48-2101
• 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.
• Alternate medical examiner: means a physician who has training and competence in the principles of death investigation and who performs or directs the conduct of death investigations. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• 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.
• 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.
• Appliance: means any article, thing or conveyance used in growing, handling or processing of crops. See Arizona Laws 48-401
• 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
• Area of jurisdiction: means the incorporated and unincorporated areas of the county, including public lands, excluding those incorporated areas of cities or towns which have elected to assume floodplain management powers and duties pursuant to section 48-3610. See Arizona Laws 48-3601
• As-extracted collateral: means :

  (a) Oil, gas or other minerals that are subject to a security interest that:

  (i) Is created by a debtor having an interest in the minerals before extraction; and

  (ii) Attaches to the minerals as extracted; or

  (b) Accounts arising out of the sale at the wellhead or minehead of oil, gas or other minerals in which the debtor had an interest before extraction. See Arizona Laws 47-9102

• Assessment: means a tax assessment made under this article for the purpose of financing the maintenance and operating costs of the district. See Arizona Laws 48-1201
• assessment roll: means a special assessment made under this article. See Arizona Laws 48-901
• assessment roll: means a special assessment made under the provisions of this article. See Arizona Laws 48-571
• assessment roll: means a special assessment made under this article. See Arizona Laws 48-2041
• assessment roll: means a special assessment made under this article. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• Authority: means a regional public transportation authority organized under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-5101
• Authorized purpose: includes any one or more of the following purposes:

  (a) The payment of district obligations. See Arizona Laws 48-1061

• Autopsy: means a surgical procedure in which internal organs are exposed, removed or examined for the identification of trauma or natural disease. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• Bank: means an organization that is engaged in the business of banking. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• 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.
• base flood: means a flood that has a one per cent chance of being equalled or exceeded in a one year period, based on the criteria established by the director of water resources. See Arizona Laws 48-3601
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Block: means a parcel of ground, regular or irregular, bounded by streets or by streets and district boundary lines. See Arizona Laws 48-901
• Block: means any parcel of ground, whether regular or irregular, which is bounded by streets, or by one or more streets and by one or more boundary lines of the city or town. See Arizona Laws 48-571
• Block: means a parcel of land, whether regular or irregular, which is bounded by streets, or by one or more streets and by one or more boundary lines of the sanitary district. See Arizona Laws 48-2041
• Block: means a parcel of land, whether regular or irregular, that is bounded by streets, or by one or more streets and by one or more boundary lines of the flood protection district. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• board: means the board of directors of the district, which shall be comprised of the members of the county board of supervisors, ex officio. See Arizona Laws 48-1031
• Board: means the board of directors of a district. See Arizona Laws 48-1301
• Board: means a county board of supervisors. See Arizona Laws 48-2101
• Board: means the board of directors of a multi-county water conservation district. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• Board: means the district board of directors. See Arizona Laws 48-1201
• Board: means the board of directors of the district or the board of supervisors acting as the board of directors pursuant to section 48-2010. See Arizona Laws 48-2041
• Board: means the board of directors of any district established under section 48-4202, subsection A, B or C. See Arizona Laws 48-4201
• Board: means the board of directors of a groundwater replenishment district. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Board: means the board of directors of the district. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Board: means the board of directors of a flood control district organized under this article. See Arizona Laws 48-3601
• Board: means either the initial board of directors or the permanent board of directors of a district. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Board: means the board of directors of a regional public transportation authority. See Arizona Laws 48-5101
• Board of directors: means the board having charge of the affairs of the district. See Arizona Laws 48-141
• Bond: means any obligation authorized and issued pursuant to this chapter, including bonds, lease-purchase and installment purchase agreements, certificates of participation in a lease-purchase or installment purchase agreement and obligations that are authorized and issued to refund or refinance obligations that are authorized and issued pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-4201
• Bond: means any bond issued pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 48-141
• Bond related expenses: means any expenses incurred by the district to issue and administer its bonds, including underwriting fees and costs, trustee fees, financial consultant fees, printing and advertising costs, fiscal agent fees, paying agent fees, registrar fees, transfer agent fees, legal, accounting, feasibility consultant and other expert fees and expenses, cost of credit enhancement fees, attorney and accounting fees and expenses related to credit enhancement, bond insurance or liquidity enhancement, remarketing fees, rating agency fees and costs, travel and telephone expenses and all other fees deemed necessary by the board of directors in order to market and administer the bonds. See Arizona Laws 48-1061
• Bond related expenses: means any expenses incurred by the district to issue and administer its bonds including underwriting fees and costs, trustee fees, financial consultant fees, printing and advertising costs, paying agent fees, transfer agent fees, legal, accounting, feasibility consultant and other expert fees and expenses, cost of credit enhancement fees, attorney and accounting fees and expenses related to credit enhancement, bond insurance or liquidity enhancement, remarketing fees, rating agency fees and costs, travel and telephone expenses and all other fees deemed necessary by the board in order to market and administer the bonds. See Arizona Laws 48-4541
• Bonds: means bonds of the district issued pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 48-1061
• Bonds: means revenue bonds and includes notes where applicable. See Arizona Laws 48-2462
• Bonds: means revenue bonds and includes notes if applicable. See Arizona Laws 48-3212
• Bonds: means bonds of the district issued pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 48-4541
• Bonds: includes bonds, notes, temporary notes, temporary bonds, interim receipts, interim certificates, certificates of indebtedness, refunding notes, refunding bonds or other evidences of indebtedness or obligations of the district. See Arizona Laws 48-171
• 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
• Capacity costs: means the cost of acquiring, constructing or leasing replenishment facilities, including any necessary land, any facilities that are necessary to treat water and facilities that are required to transport water to a treatment facility or replenishment area that is operated, owned or leased by a district, including interest on any amount that was borrowed to acquire, lease or construct the facilities. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• 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
• Cash proceeds: means proceeds that are money, checks, deposit accounts or the like. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• CERCLA: means the comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and liability act of 1980, as amended (P. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• 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
• Chairman of the board: means the person designated to preside over meetings of the board of directors. See Arizona Laws 48-901
• Chairman of the board: means the person designated to preside over meetings of the board of directors. See Arizona Laws 48-1201
• 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
• city: includes incorporated cities and towns. See Arizona Laws 48-571
• city: includes counties, incorporated cities and towns and other corporations organized for municipal purposes. See Arizona Laws 48-501
• Clerk: includes any person or official who performs the duties of clerk of the municipality or county or any person appointed by the district board to be the district clerk pursuant to section 48-711. See Arizona Laws 48-701
• Clerk: includes any person or official who performs the duties of clerk of the city or town. See Arizona Laws 48-571
• Clerk: means the person appointed by the board of directors to act as the clerk for the district and to perform the duties otherwise prescribed for a clerk pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-1011
• Clerk: means the clerk of the board of supervisors. See Arizona Laws 48-1031
• Clerk: means the person appointed by the board of directors to act as the clerk for the district and to perform the duties otherwise prescribed for a clerk pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-1081
• Clerk: means the person appointed by the board of directors to act as the clerk for the district and to perform the duties otherwise prescribed for a clerk pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-1091
• Clerk: means a member of the board or such other person as may be designated by the board to function as a clerk for purposes of this article. See Arizona Laws 48-2041
• Collateral: means the property subject to a security interest or agricultural lien. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Commercial farming: means the intensive cultivation of arable land by the raising of agricultural or horticultural products as a principal source of the owner's livelihood. See Arizona Laws 48-901
• Commercial stock raising: means the breeding, raising and care of domestic animals as a principal source of the owner's livelihood. See Arizona Laws 48-901
• 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

• 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

• Community park: means an area of developed or undeveloped land within the boundaries of a district not exceeding one hundred sixty acres in size which has been dedicated for unrestricted public use by a county, city or town or private entity. See Arizona Laws 48-1201
• Compensation: means money paid to an employee of a district for services in the form of a fixed salary or wages at the end of established pay periods, which, in the case of employees with fluctuating rates of pay, shall be considered as being the guaranteed rate of pay, and which, in the case of employees with dual rates, shall be for the primary occupation. See Arizona Laws 48-221
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• 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 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 obligor: means an obligor who is an individual and who incurred the obligation as part of a transaction entered into primarily for personal, family or household purposes. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• 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.
• Contractor: includes personal representatives or assignee of the contractor. See Arizona Laws 48-901
• Contractor: includes the contractor's personal representative or assignee. See Arizona Laws 48-571
• Contractor: means a contractor or a personal representative or assignee of a contractor. See Arizona Laws 48-2041
• Contractor: means a contractor, or a personal representative or assignee of a contractor, and any person or entity procured pursuant to Title 34, Chapter 6, Article 1. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Contribution related to plant for pumping: means an amount computed as follows: There shall be determined a ratio per cent which is the total kilowatt hours sold or used for pumping including all pumping for municipal purposes, but excluding those kilowatt hours not produced by the district or by sources contractually available to the district but which are delivered to the district for transmission and distribution to others, divided by the total kilowatt hours sold or used, such totals to be for the latest five calendar years. See Arizona Laws 48-241
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Council: means the cotton research and protection council established by Title 3, Chapter 10. See Arizona Laws 48-1301
• council: includes any body or board in which is vested by law the legislative power of a municipality. See Arizona Laws 48-501
• County: means a county that forms a community facilities district pursuant to this article in an unincorporated area or in an incorporated area with the municipality's consent. See Arizona Laws 48-701
• Court reporter: A person who makes a word-for-word record of what is said in court and produces a transcript of the proceedings upon request.
• Credits: means any groundwater in addition to the amount of groundwater that may be used at a member land or delivered within a member service area for use within the member service area pursuant to the applicable assured water supply rules adopted by the department of water resources. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• Credits: means any groundwater in addition to the amount of groundwater that may be used at a water district member land or delivered within a water district member service area for use within the water district member service area pursuant to the applicable assured water supply rules adopted by the department of water resources. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Crop: means any similar forage crop, tree fruit crop, vegetable crop or field and includes any appliance used in the handling thereof. See Arizona Laws 48-401
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• 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
• Death investigation: means the investigation directed by a county medical examiner or alternate medical examiner into the circumstances surrounding a death occurring as prescribed in section 11-593. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• Debt service: means the principal of, interest on and premium, if any, on the bonds, when due, whether at maturity or prior redemption and fees and costs of registrars, trustees, paying agents or other agents necessary to handle the bonds and the costs of credit enhancement or liquidity support. See Arizona Laws 48-701
• Debt service: means the principal of, interest on and premium, if any, on the bonds, when due, whether at maturity or prior redemption and costs of registrars, trustees, paying agents or other agents necessary to handle the bonds and the costs of credit enhancement or liquidity support. See Arizona Laws 48-1031
• 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.
• Declaration: means an instrument recorded against real property and conforming to the requirements prescribed by section 48-3774, subsection A, paragraph 5. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• Declaration: means an instrument recorded against real property and conforming to the requirements stated in section 48-4975, subsection A, paragraph 4. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Delinquency: means delinquency in the payment of an assessment. See Arizona Laws 48-901
• Delinquency: means delinquency in the payment of an assessment made under the provisions of this article. See Arizona Laws 48-571
• Delinquency: means delinquency in the payment of an assessment under this article. See Arizona Laws 48-2041
• Delinquency: means delinquency in the payment of an assessment under this article. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Department: means the parks and recreation department or the agency exercising the functions of a parks and recreation department of the county in which the major portion of the community park maintenance district is located or proposed to be established. See Arizona Laws 48-1201
• Department: means the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-101
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deposit account: means a demand, time, savings, passbook or similar account maintained with a bank. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Designated area: means an area of the municipality which is either designated pursuant to section 36-1479 as a slum or blighted area or designated as a pocket of poverty or a neighborhood strategy area by the United States department of housing and urban development, pursuant to title I of the housing and community development act of 1977 as amended (42 United States Code §§ 5301 through 5320) and the department of housing and urban development act (42 United States Code § 3535(d)). See Arizona Laws 48-571
• Development: means any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations or storage of equipment or materials. See Arizona Laws 48-3601
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means one or all of the board of directors of a pest abatement district established pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-2101
• Director: means the director of water resources. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Director: means one or all the board of directors of a pest control district established pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 48-401
• 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 tax levying community facilities district formed pursuant to this article by a municipality or formed pursuant to this article by a county in an unincorporated area or in an incorporated area with the municipality's consent. See Arizona Laws 48-701
• District: means a tax levying rural road improvement district formed pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 48-1031
• District: means a cotton pest control district established pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-1301
• District: means a county improvement district that operates or is formed for the purpose of operating a domestic water delivery system or a wastewater system within the district, whether or not the district is governed in the manner described in article 4 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-1061
• District: means a pest abatement district established pursuant to this chapter and includes the governing body of the district and all its authorized personnel. See Arizona Laws 48-2101
• District: means an agricultural improvement district. See Arizona Laws 48-2301
• District: means a multi-county water conservation district organized under the authority of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• District: means a community park maintenance district established pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 48-1201
• District: means any county stadium district established pursuant to section 48-4202, subsection A, B or C. See Arizona Laws 48-4201
• District: means a groundwater replenishment district established under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• District: means a flood control district organized pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 48-3601
• District: means an active management area water district established under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• District: means a district organized pursuant to article 1 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-3641
• District: includes any irrigation district, drainage district, flood control district, agricultural improvement district, electrical district, water conservation district or power district organized under the laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 48-121
• District: means any irrigation or agricultural improvement district located in a federal reclamation project, organized pursuant to law. See Arizona Laws 48-141
• District: includes any irrigation district, drainage district, flood control district, agricultural improvement district, electrical district or power district, and in addition thereto any district, political subdivision, governmental agency, corporation or instrumentality of the state having territorial boundaries and created or organized for the purpose of benefiting or performing services for lands in the state. See Arizona Laws 48-171
• District: means any irrigation, drainage, flood control, agricultural improvement, electrical, water conservation or power district organized under the laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 48-201
• District: means an irrigation district, drainage district, flood control district, agricultural improvement district, electrical district, or power district organized pursuant to the laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 48-221
• District: means any irrigation district, power district, electrical district or agricultural improvement district now or hereafter organized under the laws of this state which is directly engaged in the sale of electric power or energy other than for irrigation purposes. See Arizona Laws 48-241
• District: means a pest control district established pursuant to the provisions of this article and includes the governing body of the district and all its authorized personnel. See Arizona Laws 48-401
• District board: means the board of directors of the district. See Arizona Laws 48-701
• District contributions: means sums of money paid by a district to finance a retirement plan. See Arizona Laws 48-221
• district engineer: means a person designated or employed by the board of directors of a district to perform any or all of the engineering work authorized to be done by the district under this article. See Arizona Laws 48-901
• District water: means water that a district acquires in a calendar year and that exceeds the amount that is necessary to fulfill its contracts for replenishment pursuant to section 48-4470, demand services pursuant to section 48-4472 and replenishment pursuant to section 48-4501. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• 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 information that is both of the following:

  (a) Inscribed on a tangible medium or stored in an electronic or other medium, and retrievable in perceivable form. See Arizona Laws 11-487.01

• Document: means a document of title or a receipt of the type described in section 47-7201, subsection B. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Domestic wastewater improvement district: means a county improvement district that is formed for the purpose of constructing a domestic wastewater treatment facility or purchasing an existing domestic wastewater treatment facility within the district and, if necessary, making improvements to the system or that is converted pursuant to section 48-1018. See Arizona Laws 48-1011
• Domestic water improvement district: means a county improvement district that is formed for the purpose of constructing or improving a domestic water delivery system or purchasing an existing domestic water delivery system and, if necessary, making improvements to the system or a district that is converted pursuant to section 48-1018. See Arizona Laws 48-1011
• Drought year: means :

  (a) A year in which the district member's actual central Arizona project water supply is less than eighty per cent of the district member's normal central Arizona project water supply, if the district member's actual central Arizona project water supply is also less than the amount of central Arizona project water ordered by the district member from a multi-county water conservation district. See Arizona Laws 48-4401

• 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: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic or similar capabilities. See Arizona Laws 11-487.01
• 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}
• Electronic signature: means an electronic sound, symbol or process attached to or logically associated with a document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document. See Arizona Laws 11-487.01
• Emergency: means a situation that creates an immediate threat to the health or safety of a person or property caused by flood, earthquake, hurricane, tornado, explosion, fire or other catastrophe. See Arizona Laws 48-3641
• Employee: means a person in the service of a district whose customary employment is for an average of not less than thirty hours a week and for twelve months a year. See Arizona Laws 48-221
• Encumbrance: means a right, other than an ownership interest, in real property. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Engineer: includes any person who, under whatever official name, is the civil engineer or surveyor of the city or town, and where there is no elected or appointed official, then the engineer is the person who may be appointed or employed by the council to perform the duties required of an engineer under the provisions of this article. See Arizona Laws 48-571
• Engineer: means a person who, under any official title, is the civil engineer or surveyor of the district or the person appointed or employed by the board to perform the duties required of the engineer under this article. See Arizona Laws 48-2041
• Engineer: means a person who, under any official title, is the civil engineer or surveyor of the district or the person appointed or employed by the board to perform the duties required of an engineer under this article. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Enhanced municipal services: means public service provided by a county or municipality within the district at a higher level or to a greater degree than provided in the remainder of the county or municipality, including such services as public safety, fire protection, street or sidewalk cleaning or landscape maintenance in public areas. See Arizona Laws 48-701
• 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.
• Entity: means any of the following:

  (a) A corporation. See Arizona Laws 48-701

• Equipment: means goods other than inventory, farm products or consumer goods. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Excess groundwater: means an amount of groundwater equal to that amount of groundwater delivered to a member land in a calendar year or delivered within a member service area by the municipal provider for that member service area in a calendar year in excess of the amount of groundwater that may be used at the member land in that calendar year or that may be delivered by the municipal provider for use within the member service area in that calendar year and consistent with the applicable assured water supply rules adopted by the department of water resources for the active management area where the member land or the member service area is located. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• Excess groundwater: means an amount of groundwater equal to that amount of groundwater delivered to a water district member land in a calendar year or delivered within a water district member service area by the municipal provider for that water district member service area in a calendar year in excess of the amount of groundwater that may be used at the water district member land in that calendar year or may be delivered by the municipal provider for use within the water district member service area in that calendar year consistent with the applicable assured water supply rules adopted by the department of water resources pursuant to section 45-576, subsection H for the active management area where the water district member land or the water district member service area is located. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Excess groundwater increment: means the amount by which excess groundwater reported for a member service area under section 48-3775, subsection B in any year exceeds the maximum amount of excess groundwater reported for that member service area in any prior year. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• Excluded groundwater: means the amount of groundwater that is withdrawn in the district by a district member and that is excluded from the replenishment tax pursuant to section 48-4502, paragraph 1, subdivisions (b) through (e). See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• External examination: means an external inspection of a body. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
• 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 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

• Federal act: means the hospital survey and construction act, Public Law 725 of the 79th Congress, and amendments thereof. See Arizona Laws 48-1901
• Federal agency: means the United States, the president of the United States, the federal emergency administrator of public works, or any such agencies or instrumentalities as may be designated or created to make grants or loans, or both, pursuant to any act or acts of the Congress. See Arizona Laws 48-121
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. ^{Source: OCC}
• Federal government: includes the United States, the president of the United States, the federal emergency administrator of public works, reconstruction finance corporation, or any agency, instrumentality or corporation of the United States, which has been or may be designated, created or authorized by or pursuant to any act or acts of the Congress, or which is owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the United States. See Arizona Laws 48-171
• Federal public defender: An attorney employed by the federal courts on a full-time basis to provide legal defense to defendants who are unable to afford counsel. The judiciary administers the federal defender program pursuant to the Criminal Justice Act. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• 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
• 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 agent: means a bank or trust company authorized to do business in this state or the county treasurer as designated by the board. See Arizona Laws 48-5101
• 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 protection facility: means dams, levies, diversion works, tunnels, excavations, ditches, drains, conduits, channels, outlets and outfalls of every character, and machinery, apparatus, equipment and all appliances and structures necessary or incidental to the construction, installation or operation of a complete flood protection system. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Floodplain: means any areas in a watercourse which have been or may be covered partially or wholly by floodwater from the one hundred-year flood. See Arizona Laws 48-3601
• Floodplain regulations: means the codes, ordinances and other regulations adopted pursuant to this article relating to the use of land and construction within the floodway and floodplain areas. See Arizona Laws 48-3601
• floodwaters: means a temporary rise in water level including groundwater or overflow of water onto lands not normally covered by water. See Arizona Laws 48-3601
• Floodway: means the area of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas necessary in order to discharge the one hundred-year flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one foot. See Arizona Laws 48-3601
• 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}
• Forensic pathologist: means a physician who has successfully completed a pathology residency and a forensic fellowship or has extensive experience performing forensic autopsies in an official capacity. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• 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 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
• General obligation bond: means a bond that is issued pursuant to section 48-719 and that is secured by a pledge of ad valorem taxes levied by the district. See Arizona Laws 48-701
• General obligation bond: means a general obligation bond issued under section 48-1045. See Arizona Laws 48-1031
• General plan: means the general plan described in section 48-702, subsection D, as the plan may be amended. See Arizona Laws 48-701
• General plan: means a municipal statement of land development policies, that may include maps, charts, graphs and text that set forth objectives, principles and standards for local growth and redevelopment enacted under the provisions of this article or any prior statute. See Arizona Laws 9-461
• Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
• Good faith: means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Goods: means all things that are movable when a security interest attaches. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Governing body: means the body or board that by law is constituted as the legislative department of the municipality or county. See Arizona Laws 48-701
• governing body: includes and means the body or board which by law is constituted the legislative department of an incorporated city or town. See Arizona Laws 48-571
• Governing body of the district: means the board of directors, board of trustees, district supervisors, or any other name by which the body charged with the administration of the affairs of a district may be known. See Arizona Laws 48-201
• 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,
• Grantee: includes every person to whom an estate or interest in real property passes, in or by a deed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Grantor: includes every person from or by whom an estate or interest in real property passes, in or by a deed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Groundwater replenishment obligation: means , for each active management area in which member lands or member service areas are or may be located, the total of the cumulative parcel replenishment obligation of all parcels of member land in that active management area for a particular calendar year plus the cumulative service area replenishment obligation of all member service areas in that active management area for a particular calendar year. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• 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
• 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
• Historic annual net natural recharge: means the average annual net natural recharge of the groundwater basin beneath a groundwater replenishment district during a thirty year period, as established by the director in the most recent management plan for the active management area in which the district is located pursuant to Title 45, Chapter 2, Article 9, or a proportionate share established by the director, if the groundwater basin is partially located beneath a district. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Historic annual per acre surface water deliveries: means , for any year, the total amount of surface water, other than central Arizona project water, delivered by an irrigation district or water users' association during the thirty year period ending with the preceding calendar year for use on surface water right acres that are currently in a district divided by the product obtained by multiplying the number of such surface water right acres times thirty, as established by the district. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Housing: means any structure suitable for residence by an individual or family. See Arizona Laws 9-441
• Housing development area: means an area within a municipality that is declared by the local governing body to be in serious need of housing and that is declared to be in need of the expenditure of public monies to assist the development of housing in the area. See Arizona Laws 9-441
• Housing development project: means any undertaking related to real property, structures or improvements in a housing development area, for the purpose of establishing housing and other facilities necessary or incidental to the housing and primarily for the use of those residing in the housing. See Arizona Laws 9-441
• improvement: includes any of the improvements mentioned and authorized to be made in this article, the construction, reconstruction and repair of all or any portion of any such improvement, and labor, services, expenses and material necessary or incidental thereto. See Arizona Laws 48-901
• improvement: includes any or all of the improvements mentioned and authorized to be made in this and article 1 of this chapter and the construction, reconstruction and repair of all or any portion of the improvements, and all labor, services, incidental expenses and material necessary or incidental to the construction, reconstruction or repair. See Arizona Laws 48-571
• improvement: means opening, widening, planning, designing, constructing, reconstructing or acquiring a rural road including any necessary or incidental improvements, labor, services, expenses and materials. See Arizona Laws 48-1031
• improvement: means any of the improvements authorized to be made by this article, the construction, reconstruction and repair of all or part of the improvements and labor, services, incidental expenses and material necessary or incidental to the improvements. See Arizona Laws 48-2041
• improvement: means the construction, reconstruction, replacement, renovation and repair of all or part of a flood protection facility. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Improvement: includes all the improvements mentioned in this article, and the term or terms "street opening or widening" and "opening or widening" include all improvements mentioned in this article. See Arizona Laws 48-501
• Improvement bond: means a bond issue under the provisions of this article. See Arizona Laws 48-571
• Improvement bond: means a bond issued under this article. See Arizona Laws 48-2041
• Improvement bond: means a bond issued under this article. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Initial board: means the initial board of directors of a district organized under section 48-4803 for the purpose of establishing and managing the district preliminary to its permanent establishment under article 2 of this chapter or its dissolution under section 48-4806, subsection B, paragraph 2. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• 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
• 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
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• 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

• Investigative information: means information received by a medical examiner or alternate medical examiner from law enforcement, witnesses, family members, health care personnel or medical death investigators concerning cause and manner of death. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• Investment property: means a security, whether certificated or uncertificated, security entitlement, securities account, commodity contract or commodity account. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Irrigation district: means a political subdivision, however designated, established pursuant to chapter 17 or 19 of this title. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Joint meeting: An occasion, often ceremonial, when the House and Senate each adopt a unanimous consent agreement
• Landowner: means a person who owns land within the boundaries of a proposed or existing district. See Arizona Laws 48-2101
• 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}
• 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.
• License: includes the whole or part of any district permit, certificate, approval, registration, charter or similar form of permission required by law. See Arizona Laws 48-3641
• Licensing: includes the district process respecting the grant, denial, renewal, revocation, suspension, annulment, withdrawal or amendment of a license. See Arizona Laws 48-3641
• 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

• Lighting plants: includes electric light plants, electric power plants, gas plants, distribution systems, poles, parts, pipes, conduits, wires, tanks, reservoirs, generators for gas or electricity, transmission lines, towers, lamps, transformers of every character, machinery, apparatus, equipment and all appliances and structures necessary or incidental to the construction, installation or operation of a complete electric light, power and gas plant and distribution system placed on the streets improved, though extended beyond. See Arizona Laws 48-901
• Lighting plants: includes electric light plants, electric power plants, gas plants, distribution systems, poles, parts, pipes, conduits, wires, tanks, reservoirs, generators for gas or electricity, transmission lines, towers, lamps, transformers of every character, machinery, apparatus, equipment and all appliances and structures necessary or incidental to the construction, installation or operation of a complete municipal electric light, power and gas plant and distribution system, placed on the streets improved, though extended beyond. See Arizona Laws 48-571
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local governing body: means the council or legislative body charged with governing the municipality. See Arizona Laws 9-441
• Lot: includes any portion, piece, parcel or subdivision of land, but not property owned or controlled by any person as a railroad right of way. See Arizona Laws 48-901
• Lot: includes any portion, piece, parcel or subdivision of land, and includes property owned or controlled by any person as a railroad right-of-way. See Arizona Laws 48-571
• Lot: means any portion, piece, parcel or subdivision of land or property, or property owned or controlled by any person as a railroad right-of-way. See Arizona Laws 48-2041
• Lot: means any portion, piece, parcel or subdivision of land or property. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• maintenance: means the maintenance of community parks certified for inclusion within a district by the board. See Arizona Laws 48-1201
• 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
• Mayor: includes the chairman or president of the governing body. See Arizona Laws 48-571
• Medical death investigator: means a person trained in the principles of death investigation. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• Medical examiner: means a forensic pathologist who performs or directs the conduct of death investigations. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• member: means a municipality that contains a service area and petitions for the formation of the district or petitions for the expansion of the district pursuant to this title. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Member land: means any real property that meets the requirements of section 48-3774. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• Member service area: means the service area of a municipal provider that qualifies as a member service area under section 48-3780, including any additions to or extensions of the service area. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• Minor: means a person under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Mortgage: means a consensual interest in real property, including fixtures, that secures payment or performance of an obligation. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Multi-county water conservation district: means a district composed of three or more counties that have joined together for the creation of a district. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• Multi-county water conservation district: means a political subdivision established pursuant to chapter 22 of this title. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Multipurpose facility: means any facility or facilities that include:

  (a) A primary component that is located in the district on the multipurpose facility site and on lands that are adjacent to each other or separated by public rights-of-way, that the district owns or leases and that is used to accommodate sporting, entertainment, cultural, civic, meeting, trade show or convention events or activities, fire, police or other public safety facilities and tourism offices. See Arizona Laws 48-4201

• Multipurpose facility site: means the geographic area within the district which is depicted in the publicity pamphlet for an election held pursuant to section 48-4237. See Arizona Laws 48-4201
• Municipal provider: means a city, town or private water company or an irrigation district that supplies water for non-irrigation use. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• Municipal provider: means a city, town or private water company. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Municipality: means an incorporated city or town. See Arizona Laws 48-701
• Municipality: means a city or town that is incorporated or chartered under the constitution and laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 48-4201
• Municipality: means a city or town incorporated or chartered under the constitution and laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Municipality: means an incorporated city or town. See Arizona Laws 48-5101
• Municipality: means an incorporated city or town. See Arizona Laws 9-441
• municipality: means an incorporated city or town. See Arizona Laws 9-461
• Net natural recharge: means the amount of water added to a groundwater basin during a definite period of time through natural underground inflow, natural infiltration through mountain fronts and natural infiltration through streambeds or other natural channels, except for water released into streambeds or other natural channels as effluent, less the amount of water that left the groundwater basin during the same period of time through natural outflow. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Net premium: means the difference between the par amount of the general obligation bond issue and the general obligation bond issue price that is determined pursuant to United States department of the treasury regulations. See Arizona Laws 48-701
• 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
• Non-irrigation use: means any use of water, other than 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 those terms are defined in section 3-1201. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Noncash proceeds: means proceeds other than cash proceeds. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Normal surface water supply: means for any year an amount of surface water that is measured by multiplying any surface water right acres for which the district member received surface water, other than central Arizona project water, for non-irrigation use during the year from an irrigation district or water users' association times the historic annual per acre surface water deliveries of the irrigation district or water users' association. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Nurse practitioner: means a person licensed and certified pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 15. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• Oath: includes an affirmation or declaration. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Obligee: includes any bondholder, any agents or trustees for any bondholders or any lessor demising to the municipality property used in connection with a housing development project, or any assignee or assignees of such lessor's interest or any part of the lessor's interest, and the federal government when it is a party to any contract with the municipality. See Arizona Laws 9-441
• 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 costs: includes personnel, equipment, necessary capital investments in maintenance of related real property and related costs. See Arizona Laws 48-1201
• 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 a district has a contractual relationship for the acquisition, delivery, exchange, treatment, storage or recharge of water. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Organ procurement organization: means an organization located within this state that meets the requirements of 42 United States Code § 273. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• 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 the person or entity that, on the day the action, election or proceeding is begun or held, appears to be the owner of real property as shown on the property tax assessment roll. See Arizona Laws 48-701
• Owner: means the person in whom legal title appears by recorded deed, or the person in possession under claim or title, or the person exercising acts of ownership for himself or as the personal representative of the owner, including the boards of trustees of school districts and the boards of education of high school districts owning property within the proposed improvement district. See Arizona Laws 48-901
• Owner: means the person who, on the day the action or proceeding is begun, appears to be the owner of property as shown on the most recently certified property tax assessment roll. See Arizona Laws 48-1031
• Owner: means the person in whom, on the day the action or proceeding is commenced, appears the legal title to the lot by deed recorded in the recorder's office, or the person in possession of the lot under claim of title, or exercising acts of ownership over the lot for the person, or as the personal representative of the owner. See Arizona Laws 48-571
• owner: means the person who appears upon the records of the office of the county recorder as the holder of legal title in fee simple to land within the district. See Arizona Laws 48-3401
• Owner: means the person in whose name legal title appears by recorded deed, or the person in possession under claim of title, as the person exercising acts of ownership for himself or as the personal representative of the owner, including the governing boards of school districts owning property within the district. See Arizona Laws 48-1201
• Owner: means the person who, on the day the action or proceeding is begun, possesses legal title to the lot by deed recorded in the county recorder's office or the person in possession of the lot under claim of title or exercising acts of ownership over the lot for himself or as the personal representative of the owner. See Arizona Laws 48-2041
• Owner: means the person who, on the day the action or proceeding is begun or a notice is given, possesses legal title to the lot by deed recorded in the county recorder's office or the person who is in possession of the lot under claim of title or exercising acts of ownership over the lot for the person or as the personal representative of the owner. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Parcel: means an unsubdivided parcel of land that is larger than an acre. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Parcel of member land: means any portion of member land for which the tax assessor for the county in which the member land is located has issued a separate county parcel number. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• Parcel of water district member land: means any portion of water district member land for which the county assessor for the county in which the water district member land is located has issued a separate tax parcel number. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Parcel replenishment obligation: means , with respect to any particular parcel of member land, an amount of groundwater that is equal to the amount of groundwater delivered to the parcel of member land in a calendar year multiplied by the percentage that the excess groundwater of the applicable member land for that year bears to the total amount of groundwater delivered to the applicable member land during that year. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• Participant: means an employee of a district who is eligible under the provisions of section 48-224 for participation in the retirement plan adopted by a district. See Arizona Laws 48-221
• 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.
• Pathologist assistant: means a person certified as a pathologist assistant who has graduated from a pathologist assistant training program approved by a national accrediting agency for clinical laboratory sciences. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• Payment intangible: means a general intangible under which the account debtor's principal obligation is a monetary obligation. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Permanent board: means the permanent board of directors of a district organized under section 48-4831. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality or any other legal or commercial entity. See Arizona Laws 11-487.01
• 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 public 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 48-4401
• Person: means an individual or the individual's agent, a firm, partnership, association or corporation, or an agent of the aforementioned groups, or this state or its agencies or political subdivisions. See Arizona Laws 48-3601
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental subdivision or unit of a governmental subdivision or a public or private organization of any character. See Arizona Laws 48-3641
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, corporation or association. See Arizona Laws 48-201
• 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
• Pest: means any form of animal or plant life that is detrimental to cotton production. See Arizona Laws 48-1301
• Pest: means any arthropods, rats and mice that the district determines to be a public nuisance to persons or property. See Arizona Laws 48-2101
• Pest: means any form of animal or plant life detrimental to agriculture. See Arizona Laws 48-401
• Petit jury: A group of citizens who hear the evidence presented by both sides at trial and determine the facts in dispute. Federal criminal juries consist of 12 persons. Federal civil juries consist of six persons.
• Petition: means the petition to the board of supervisors made pursuant to this article for formation or dissolution of a pest control district. See Arizona Laws 48-401
• Petty offense: A federal misdemeanor punishable by six months or less in prison. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Physician: means a person licensed pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 13 or 17. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plan: means a retirement plan authorized by section 48-222. See Arizona Laws 48-221
• Planning agency: means the official body designated by local ordinance to carry out the purposes of this article and may be a planning department, a planning commission, a hearing officer, the legislative body itself, or any combination thereof. See Arizona Laws 9-461
• 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 determined in the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• Population: means the population determined in the most recent United States decennial census or the most recent special census as provided in section 28-6532. See Arizona Laws 48-5101
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• 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.
• Prior service: means service for a district by any employee for any period not exceeding twenty-five years immediately prior to the adoption of a retirement plan. See Arizona Laws 48-221
• 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
• Processed: means that the shell has been treated with oil or another preservative preparation. See Arizona Laws 3-701
• Producer: means a person who farms and produces cotton in a district or proposed district. See Arizona Laws 48-1301
• 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
• professional services: includes architect services, engineer services, landscape architect services, assayer services, geologist services and land surveying services and any combination of those services. See Arizona Laws 48-281
• Project: means a facility necessary or convenient to obtain, divert, withdraw, transport, exchange, deliver, treat or store 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 48-4801
• Projected replenishment obligation: means for each active management area, the district's total projected annual groundwater replenishment obligation for each of the one hundred years following submission of the district plan of operation. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• 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
• Public agency: includes this state and any county, city, town, district or other public agency or entity established under the laws of this state or the federal government. See Arizona Laws 48-5101
• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• Public infrastructure: means all improvements listed in this paragraph that will result in a beneficial use principally to land within the geographical limits of the district and may include a district's share of any improvements listed in this paragraph if the district board determines such share is proportionate to the beneficial use of such improvements to land within the geographical limits of the district, improvements within or outside the geographical limits of the district, necessary or incidental work, whether newly constructed, renovated or existing, and all necessary or desirable appurtenances. See Arizona Laws 48-701
• Public infrastructure purpose: means :

  (a) Planning, design, engineering, construction, acquisition or installation of public infrastructure. See Arizona Laws 48-701

• 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 transportation: means local transportation of passengers by means of a public conveyance. See Arizona Laws 48-5101
• Qualified elector: means a person who is qualified to vote at an election under this article without any additional qualifications. See Arizona Laws 48-1031
• 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.
• Railroad: includes street railroad and interurban railroad. See Arizona Laws 48-571
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• 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}
• 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
• Regulatory flood elevation: means the elevation which is one foot above the base flood elevation for a watercourse for which the base flood elevation has been determined and shall be as determined by the criteria developed by the director of water resources for all other watercourses. See Arizona Laws 48-3601
• 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.
• Replenish: means to increase the amount of groundwater in an aquifer through water storage pursuant to Title 45, Chapter 3. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• Replenish: means to increase the amount of groundwater in a district either incidentally or through water storage undertaken pursuant to Title 45, Chapter 3. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Replenish: means to increase the amount of groundwater in an aquifer through water storage pursuant to Title 45, Chapter 3. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Replenishment tax: means the taxes imposed by sections 48-4470, 48-4472 and 48-4501 on district members for the privilege of withdrawing groundwater. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Request for corrections: means seeking a technical or clarifying correction from an applicant who has submitted an administratively complete application for a license. See Arizona Laws 48-3641
• Reserve target: means the volume calculated for each active management area as prescribed by section 48-3772, subsection E. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• Resolution: means a resolution adopted by the governing body of a city or town, by the board of directors of a private water company that is a corporation, by the general partners of a private water company that is a partnership or by the individual owners of a private water company that is individually owned. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• Resolution: means a resolution, adopted by the governing body of a city or town, by the board of directors of a private water company that is a corporation, by the general partners of a private water company that is a partnership or by the individual owners of a private water company that is individually owned. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Revenue bonds: means those bonds that are issued pursuant to section 48-720 and that are secured by a pledge of revenues of the district or revenues collected by the county or municipality and returned to the district. See Arizona Laws 48-701
• Revenues: includes any charge, income or receipt by the district of money or any other thing of value except that revenues shall not include monies paid to or for the account of the district for the levy of any tax or assessment or the sale of any property by the district to satisfy or pay any delinquent tax or assessment. See Arizona Laws 48-1061
• revenues: means all income and profits received by a district from all sales of electrical power and energy to its customers, all investment income received on that income and profits and on revenue bond proceeds but does not include any income or monies derived from taxes or assessments authorized by this chapter or the proceeds or investment income of any bonds issued as prescribed by article 4 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-1811
• Right-of-way: means any public right-of-way and includes any area required for public use pursuant to any general or specific plan. See Arizona Laws 9-461
• road enhancement improvement district: means a county improvement district that is formed for the purpose of enhancing one or more roads or highways and providing for ongoing maintenance of the enhancements or a district that is converted pursuant to section 48-1098. See Arizona Laws 48-1091
• road improvement and maintenance district: means a county improvement district that is formed for the purpose of improving one or more roads to less than the county standard and providing for ongoing maintenance of the improved road or a district that is converted pursuant to section 48-1088. See Arizona Laws 48-1081
• Rural road: means a county highway that is included in the county regional transportation plan and that connects two state highways one of which leads to a hazardous waste facility contracted for, owned or operated by the state, any of its agencies, instrumentalities or political subdivisions. See Arizona Laws 48-1031
• Same general system of irrigation works: means any system of irrigation works of whatever character, combination or construction, by whatever means operated, and whether located within or without the boundaries of an agricultural improvement district or whether consisting of one or more connected or disconnected parts or portions and having one or more sources of supply or having one or more diversions or distribution systems. See Arizona Laws 48-2301
• same general system of works: means any system of drainage works, of whatever character, combination or construction and by whatever means operated, consisting of one or more connected or disconnected parts or portions, and having one or more outlets or other means of disposing of the water collected or controlled by the works. See Arizona Laws 48-2601
• 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

• Secretary: means the secretary of the interior of the United States of America. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• secretary: means a member of the board or such other person as may be designated by the board to function as a clerk or secretary. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• 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

• Security agreement: means an agreement that creates or provides for a security interest. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• 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
• Service area replenishment obligation: means , with respect to any particular member service area, the excess groundwater of that member service area in a particular calendar year reduced by the replenishment credits, if any, applied by the municipal provider with respect to the member service area under section 48-3772, subsection H. See Arizona Laws 48-3701
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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.
• Sewers: includes wastewater treatment facilities, tunnels, excavations, ditches, drains, conduits, channels, outlets, outfalls, cesspools, manholes, catch basins, flush tanks, septic tanks, connecting sewers of every character, machinery, apparatus, equipment and all appliances and structures necessary or incidental to the construction, installation or operation of a complete sewer system for either sanitary or drainage purposes. See Arizona Laws 48-901
• Sewers: includes tunnels, excavations, ditches, drains, conduits, channels, outlets, outfalls, cesspools, manholes, catch basins, flush tanks, septic tanks, connecting sewers of every character, machinery, apparatus, equipment and all appliances and structures necessary or incidental to the construction, installation or operation of a complete sewer system, for either sanitary or drainage purposes. See Arizona Laws 48-571
• Sewers: means tunnels, excavations, ditches, drains, conduits, channels, outlets, outfalls, cesspools, manholes, catch basins, flush tanks, septic tanks, connecting sewers of every character, machinery, apparatus, equipment and all appliances and structures necessary or incidental to the construction, installation or operation of a complete sewer system for either sanitary or drainage purposes. See Arizona Laws 48-2041
• Size: means classified as to weight. See Arizona Laws 3-701
• Software: means a computer program and any supporting information provided in connection with a transaction relating to the program. See Arizona Laws 47-9102
• Specific plan: means a detailed element of the general plan enacted under the provisions of this article or a prior statute. See Arizona Laws 9-461
• Stadium: means a sports facility or facilities located in the district and designed to accommodate, but not be limited to, major league baseball events or intercollegiate athletic events. See Arizona Laws 48-4201
• 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: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Arizona Laws 11-487.01
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Street: includes avenues, alleys, highways, lanes, crossings, intersections, courts, places and grounds opened or dedicated to public use and public ways. See Arizona Laws 48-901
• Street: includes avenues, alleys, highways, lanes, crossings, intersections, courts, places and grounds now open or dedicated or hereafter opened or dedicated to public use, and public ways. See Arizona Laws 48-571
• Street superintendent: includes any officer or board who, by law, has charge of streets or the improvement thereof in a city or town. See Arizona Laws 48-501
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• subscription: includes a mark, if a person cannot write, with the person's name written near it and witnessed by a person who writes the person's own name as witness. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Substantive policy statement: means a written expression that is only advisory and that informs the general public of a district's current approach to, or opinion of, the requirements of the ordinances or regulations, including, if appropriate, the district's current practice, procedure or method of action based on that approach or opinion. See Arizona Laws 48-3641
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• superintendent: includes any person who, under whatever official name, is charged with the care or supervision of the streets of the city or town. See Arizona Laws 48-571
• superintendent: means a county employee designated by the board of supervisors to perform the duties of street superintendent for all the districts organized under this article in any county. See Arizona Laws 48-901
• Superintendent: means the person employed by the board of directors to perform the duties otherwise prescribed for a superintendent pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-1011
• Superintendent: means the person employed by the board of directors to perform the duties otherwise prescribed for a superintendent pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-1081
• Superintendent: means the person employed by the board of directors to perform the duties otherwise prescribed for a superintendent pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-1091
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent
• Termination of service: means the cessation of employment of an employee by a district, but service shall not be deemed terminated by reason of any military absence, or any leave of absence or furlough granted by the district. See Arizona Laws 48-221
• 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

• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Time of delinquency: means the time when assessments become delinquent. See Arizona Laws 48-1201
• 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.
• Total water costs: means one-third of the total sums of the following items for the latest three calendar years:

  (a) The operating and maintenance expense attributable to watershed maintenance and protection, water production and development, storage, transmission, distribution or conservation, including administrative and general and related costs, but excluding depreciation. See Arizona Laws 48-241

• Total water used: means all water that a district member uses or delivers to its customers for non-irrigation use. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• 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

• Treasurer: includes any person or official who performs the duties of treasurer of the municipality or county or any person appointed by the district board as the district treasurer pursuant to section 48-711. See Arizona Laws 48-701
• Treasurer: includes any person who, under whatever official name, is the custodian of the funds of the city or town. See Arizona Laws 48-571
• Treasurer: means a person who, under any official title, is the custodian of the monies of the sanitary district. See Arizona Laws 48-2041
• Treasurer: means the treasurer of the county in which the district is located. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• 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.
• Unavailable surface water: means an amount of water computed by subtracting a district member's actual surface water supply in a drought year from eighty per cent of the district member's normal surface water supply for that year. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Undertaking: means the purchase, construction, leasing or acquisition of any real or personal property, works or facilities which the district is authorized by law to purchase, construct, lease or otherwise acquire, or the improvement, reconstruction, extension or addition to any real or personal property, works or facilities owned or operated by the district, or any program of development involving real or personal property, works or facilities which the district is authorized by law to purchase, construct, lease or otherwise acquire or the improvement, reconstruction, extension or addition to such program. See Arizona Laws 48-2462
• Undertaking: means for the purpose of this article the purchase, construction, leasing or acquisition of any real or personal property, works or facilities which the district is authorized by law to purchase, construct, lease or otherwise acquire, or the improvement, reconstruction, extension or addition to any real or personal property, works or facilities owned or operated by the district, or any program of development involving real or personal property, works or facilities which the district is authorized by law to purchase, construct, lease or otherwise acquire or the improvement, reconstruction, extension or addition to such program, but does not include the acquisition by the exercise of the right of eminent domain or condemnation of any existing electrical works or electrical facilities. See Arizona Laws 48-3212
• Undertaking: means the purchase, construction, leasing or acquisition of any real or personal property, works or facilities which the district is authorized by law to purchase, construct, lease or otherwise acquire, or the improvement, reconstruction, extension or addition to any real or personal property, works or facilities owned or operated by the district, but does not include the purchase or acquisition by the exercise of the right of eminent domain or condemnation of any existing works or facilities, nor the purchase, construction, leasing or acquisition of, or the extension or addition of, works or facilities designed to serve areas or territories outside the boundaries of the federal reclamation project in which the district is located, or areas or territories already being served or which within twelve months past have been served by existing works or facilities belonging to others. See Arizona Laws 48-141
• 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}
• Unincorporated area: means any portion of a county not within the limits of an incorporated city or town, so situated that any of the improvements provided for in this article might reasonably or properly be made or constructed for the benefit of the inhabitants of the area under existing special assessment statutes if the area were situated within an incorporated city or town. See Arizona Laws 48-901
• 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.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
• Wastewater systems: means sewers and other wastewater treatment facilities. See Arizona Laws 48-901
• Water acquisition costs: means the cost of acquiring water for use by the district in fulfilling its replenishment obligations pursuant to sections 48-4470, 48-4472 and 48-4501, including costs of purchase or lease of water, energy costs for transporting water, operation costs, maintenance costs, withdrawal or severance taxes paid in connection with the water, capital costs for headworks, well or transmission facilities constructed at a water source and interest on monies that are borrowed to acquire water. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• 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 48-4801
• Water district groundwater replenishment obligation: means , for the active management area in which water district member lands or water district member service areas are or may be located, the total of the cumulative water district parcel replenishment obligation of all parcels of water district member land in that active management area for a particular calendar year plus the cumulative water district service area replenishment obligation of all water district member service areas in that active management area for a particular calendar year. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Water district member land: means any real property that meets the requirements of section 48-4975. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Water district member service area: means the service area of a municipal provider that is located in the active management area in which the district is located and that qualifies as a water district member service area under section 48-4981, including any additions to or extensions of the service area. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Water district parcel replenishment obligation: means , with respect to any particular parcel of water district member land, an amount of groundwater equal to the amount of groundwater delivered to the parcel of water district member land in a calendar year, multiplied by the percentage that the excess groundwater of the applicable water district member land for that year bears to the total amount of groundwater delivered to the applicable water district member land during that year. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Water district service area replenishment obligation: means , with respect to any particular water district member service area, the excess groundwater of that water district member service area in a particular calendar year reduced by the replenishment credits, if any, applied by the municipal provider with respect to the water district member service area under section 48-4973, subsection I. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Watercourse: means a lake, river, creek, stream, wash, arroyo, channel or other topographic feature on or over which waters flow at least periodically. See Arizona Laws 48-3601
• Waterworks: includes pipes, hydrants, reservoirs, wells, pumps, pumping plants, conduits, settling basins, filtering plants of every character, machinery, apparatus, equipment and all appliances and structures necessary or incidental to the construction, installation or operation of a complete municipal waterworks system, for fire protection, or for domestic irrigation, mechanical or power purposes, placed on the streets improved, though extended beyond. See Arizona Laws 48-571
• Waterworks: means works for the storage or development of water for domestic uses, including drinking water treatment facilities, wells, pumping machinery, power plants, pipelines and all equipment necessary for those purposes. See Arizona Laws 48-901
• 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
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Writ: means an order or precept in writing issued in the name of the state or by a court or judicial officer. See Arizona Laws 1-215