Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 30 > Chapter 1 - Arizona Power Authority

• Adult: means a person who is eighteen years of age or older. See Arizona Laws 8-201
• Agency: means an agency licensed by the division to place children for adoption. See Arizona Laws 8-531
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• 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
• Authority: means the Arizona power authority. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• Child: means a person less than eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 8-531
• Commission: means Arizona power authority commission. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Division: means the department. See Arizona Laws 8-531
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• 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.
• 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.
• legal custody: means a status embodying all of the following rights and responsibilities:

  (a) The right to have physical possession of the child. See Arizona Laws 8-531

• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Oath: includes an affirmation or declaration. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Operating units: means districts, state agencies, federal Indian agencies, cities and towns. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• Parent: means the natural or adoptive mother or father of a child. See Arizona Laws 8-531
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Person: means and includes natural persons engaged in the distribution of electric power, mutual and cooperative concerns or organizations by whatever name called, corporations, firms, business trusts and partnerships. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• Power: means electric power or electric energy, or both. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• Qualified distributors: means persons and operating units. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• Qualified purchasers: means persons and operating units privileged under this chapter to purchase power developed on the main stream of the Colorado river. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Retail: means sales to others than persons or operating units. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• State: means this state. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Wholesale: means sales to qualified distributors of power. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• works: means each and every facility necessary or convenient for producing, storing, generating, firming or transmitting power, and all rights-of-way, lands or interests in land, the use or occupancy of which are necessary or appropriate in the maintenance and operation of all such facilities. See Arizona Laws 30-101