Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 11 > Chapter 6 > Article 2 - County Zoning

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Aggregate: means cinder, crushed rock or stone, decomposed granite, gravel, pumice, pumicite and sand. See Arizona Laws 11-801
• 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.
• 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.
• Area of jurisdiction: means that part of the county outside the corporate limits of any municipality. See Arizona Laws 11-801
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Audit report: means an audit report prescribed by section 49-1402. See Arizona Laws 49-1401
• Authority: means the water infrastructure finance authority of Arizona. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Board: means the board of supervisors. See Arizona Laws 11-801
• Board: means the water infrastructure finance authority board established by section 49-1206. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Commission: means the county planning and zoning commission. See Arizona Laws 11-801
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Director: means the director of environmental quality who is also the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 49-101
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Eligible entity: means any of the following:

  (a) A water provider that distributes or sells water outside of the boundaries of an initial active management area in which part of the central Arizona project aqueduct is located. See Arizona Laws 49-1270

• Eligible entity: means any of the following:

  (a) A water provider. See Arizona Laws 49-1301

• 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.
• Environmental law: means a federal, state or local law, rule, regulation or ordinance, or a permit issued under a federal, state or local law, rule, regulation or ordinance, relating to protection of the environment. See Arizona Laws 49-1401
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Financial assistance: means loans provided by the authority to eligible entities and credit enhancements purchased for an eligible entity's bonds or other forms of indebtedness pursuant to section 49-1307. See Arizona Laws 49-1301
• 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.
• fund: means the water supply development revolving fund established by section 49-1271. See Arizona Laws 49-1270
• Import water: means to make water originating outside of this state available to water users within this state by conveyance, exchange or otherwise through projects that are funded or financed in whole or in part with monies from the long-term water augmentation fund. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Imported water: means any water that originates outside of this state and that is made available to water users within this state by conveyance, exchange or otherwise through projects that are funded or financed in whole or in part with monies from the long-term water augmentation fund. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Inspector: means the county zoning inspector. See Arizona Laws 11-801
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• 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}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Loan: means leases, loans or other evidence of indebtedness for water supply development purposes issued from the water supply development revolving fund. See Arizona Laws 49-1270
• Loan: means a bond, lease, loan or other evidence of indebtedness pertaining to financial assistance for water supply development projects issued from the long-term water augmentation fund. See Arizona Laws 49-1301
• Loan repayment agreement: means an agreement to repay a loan issued from the water supply development revolving fund entered into by an eligible entity. See Arizona Laws 49-1270
• Loan repayment agreement: means an agreement to repay a loan that is issued from the long-term water augmentation fund and that is entered into by an eligible entity. See Arizona Laws 49-1301
• Long-term water augmentation bonds: means bonds that are issued by the authority in accordance with article 4 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Long-term water augmentation fund: means the fund established by section 49-1302. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• natural gas storage facility: means a facility that is either underground or above ground with a capacity of at least five hundred thousand cubic feet and that is used primarily for the storage of natural gas, excluding liquefied natural gas. See Arizona Laws 49-1501
• Newspaper of general circulation in the county seat: means a daily or weekly newspaper if any is published in the county seat. See Arizona Laws 11-801
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Organization: means a company, corporation, political subdivision, firm, enterprise or institution, or any part or combination thereof, whether incorporated or not, public or private, that has its own functions and administration. See Arizona Laws 49-1401
• 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.
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Pledged revenues: means any monies to be received by an eligible entity, including property taxes, other local taxes, fees, assessments, rates or charges that are pledged by the eligible entity as a source of repayment for a loan repayment agreement. See Arizona Laws 49-1301
• Political subdivision: means a county, city, town or special taxing district authorized by law to construct wastewater treatment facilities, drinking water facilities or nonpoint source projects. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Private partner: means a person, entity or organization that is not the federal government, this state or a political subdivision of this state. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Regulated facility or operation: means a facility or operation that is regulated under an environmental law. See Arizona Laws 49-1401
• Rezoning: means a change in the zoning ordinance changing the zoning district boundaries within an area previously zoned. See Arizona Laws 11-801
• Testify: includes every manner of oral statement under oath or affirmation. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Water provider: means any of the following:

  (a) A municipal water delivery system as defined in section 42-5301. See Arizona Laws 49-1201

• Water supply development: means any of the following:

  (a) Acquiring water or rights to or contracts for water to augment the water supply of a water provider, including any environmental or other reviews, permits or plans reasonably necessary for that acquisition. See Arizona Laws 49-1201

• Water-related facilities: means any facility related to the production, delivery, conservation or storage of water, including any canals, pipelines, desalination plants, pumping stations, storage projects, recovery wells, delivery and retention projects, water and wastewater treatment plants, and other equipment and facilities installed for water conservation purposes, together with any land, buildings or other improvements and equipment or personal property related thereto. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Zoning district: means any portion of a county in which the same set of zoning regulations applies. See Arizona Laws 11-801
• Zoning ordinance: means an ordinance that is adopted by the board of supervisors and that contains zoning regulations together with a map setting forth the precise boundaries of zoning districts within which the various zoning regulations are effective. See Arizona Laws 11-801
• Zoning regulations: means provisions that govern the use of land or buildings, or both, the height and location of buildings, the size of yards, courts and open spaces, the establishment of setback lines and such other matters as may otherwise be authorized under this chapter and that the board deems suitable and proper. See Arizona Laws 11-801
• Zoning regulations amendment: means a change in the zoning ordinance that modifies, adds to, transfers or repeals one or more zoning regulations or that adds one or more zoning regulations. See Arizona Laws 11-801