Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 28 > Chapter 22 - Public-Private Partnerships in Transportation

• Administrative charge: means the amount that may be assessed for the costs of processing a notice of payment due or notice of toll evasion, including the costs to collect unpaid tolls and to pursue an administrative hearing to enforce a toll evasion. See Arizona Laws 28-7751
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• 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.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Authorized emergency vehicle: means any of the following:

  (a) A fire department vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101

• Board: means the transportation board. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Bus: means a motor vehicle designed for carrying sixteen or more passengers, including the driver. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Concession: means any lease, ground lease, franchise, easement, permit or other binding agreement transferring rights for the use or control, in whole or in part, of an eligible facility by the department or other unit of government to a private partner in accordance with this chapter. See Arizona Laws 28-7701
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Deliver: means to send, transmit or transfer information or documents, including by United States mail, electronic mail, hand delivery or fax. See Arizona Laws 28-7751
• Department: means the department of transportation acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• department: means the department of child safety. See Arizona Laws 8-501
• 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.
• Director: means the director of the department of transportation. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Director: means the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 8-201
• Driver: means a person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Electronic transaction and payment technology: means a system for recording and paying a toll electronically, including using a transponder, a reader system, automatic vehicle license plate recognition technology, a global positioning system or any other electronic means. See Arizona Laws 28-7751
• Eligible facility: means any facility, whether real or personal property, developed or operated after September 30, 2009 in accordance with this chapter, including any existing, enhanced, upgraded or new facility that is any of the following:

  (a) Used or useful for the safe transport of people, information or goods via one or more modes of transport, whether involving highways, bridges, tunnels, conduits, railways, monorails, transit, bus systems, guided rapid transit, fixed guideways, ferries, boats, vessels, airports, intermodal or multimodal systems or any other mode of transport. See Arizona Laws 28-7701

• 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: includes both of the following:

  (a) A display on a wireless communication device of a department-generated driver license, nonoperating identification license, vehicle registration card or other official record of the department that is presented to a law enforcement officer or in a court or an administrative proceeding. See Arizona Laws 28-101

• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Foster child: means a child placed in a foster home or child welfare agency. See Arizona Laws 8-501
• Foster home: means a home that is maintained by any individual or individuals having the care or control of minor children, other than those related to each other by blood or marriage, or related to such individuals, or who are legal wards of such individuals. See Arizona Laws 8-501
• Foster parent: means any individual or individuals maintaining a foster home. See Arizona Laws 8-501
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Group foster home: means a licensed regular or special foster home that is suitable for placement of more than five minor children but not more than ten minor children. See Arizona Laws 8-501
• highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way if a part of the way is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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.
• Juvenile court: means the juvenile division of the superior court when exercising its jurisdiction over children in any proceeding relating to delinquency, dependency or incorrigibility. See Arizona Laws 8-201
• Notice of payment due: means the written notice to pay the required tolls and administrative charges for vehicular use of a toll facility. See Arizona Laws 28-7751
• Notice of toll evasion: means the second written notice of failure to pay a required payment as described in section 28-7759 that is delivered after notice of payment due is delivered. See Arizona Laws 28-7751
• Operator: means a person who drives a motor vehicle on a highway, who is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle on a highway or who is exercising control over or steering a vehicle being towed by a motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: means :

  (a) A person who holds the legal title of a vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101

• Parent: means the natural or adoptive mother or father of a child. See Arizona Laws 8-501
• Penalties: means penalties imposed pursuant to section 28-7753. See Arizona Laws 28-7751
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Petition: means a written statement of the essential facts that allege delinquency, incorrigibility or dependency. See Arizona Laws 8-201
• Private partner: means a person, entity or organization that is not the federal government, this state, a political subdivision of this state or a unit of government. See Arizona Laws 28-7701
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Public-private agreement: means an agreement entered into pursuant to article 1 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 28-7751
• Referral: means a report that is submitted to the juvenile court and that alleges that a child is dependent or incorrigible or that a juvenile has committed a delinquent or criminal act. See Arizona Laws 8-201
• 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.
• Semitrailer: means a vehicle that is with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer or single-axle tow dolly, that is designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and that is constructed so that some part of its weight and that of its load rests on or is carried by another vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Special foster home: means a licensed foster home that is capable of handling not more than five minor children who require special care for physical, mental or emotional reasons or who have been adjudicated delinquent. See Arizona Laws 8-501
• State: means a state of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Toll evasion: means the failure to pay in full a notice of payment due within the required time. See Arizona Laws 28-7751
• Toll facility: means either of the following:

  (a) Any new highway, roadway, lane, bridge, tunnel or other facility for surface transport of people or goods that is subject to payment of a toll for its use, for which an alternative route exists that accommodates the same type of motor vehicles, except for rail or other fixed guideway transit. See Arizona Laws 28-7751

• Toll nonpayment: means the failure to pay in full an applicable toll for the use of a toll facility. See Arizona Laws 28-7751
• Toll operator: means the department in its capacity of imposing and collecting tolls for the use of a toll facility, any public or quasi-public agency appointed by the department to impose or collect tolls for the use of a toll facility that is owned by the department, any private partner authorized to impose and collect tolls by a public-private agreement or any contractor or vendor retained by the department, public agency or private partner to carry out toll collection and enforcement and related customer service functions. See Arizona Laws 28-7751
• Trailer: means a vehicle that is with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer or single-axle tow dolly, that is designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and that is constructed so that no part of its weight rests on the towing vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Unit of government: means any agency, office or department of this state, city, county, district, commission, authority, entity, port or other public corporation organized and existing under statutory law or under a voter approved charter or initiative, and any intergovernmental entity. See Arizona Laws 28-7701
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215