Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 36 > Chapter 12 > Article 3 - Slum Clearance and Redevelopment

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. 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.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Area of operation: means the area within the territorial boundaries of the municipality. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Blighted area: means an area, other than a slum area, where sound municipal growth and the provision of housing accommodations is substantially retarded or arrested in a predominance of the properties by any of the following:

  (a) A dominance of defective or inadequate street layout. See Arizona Laws 36-1471

• Bonds: means any bonds, including refunding bonds, notes, interim certificates, debentures or other obligations. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Clerk: means the clerk or other official of the municipality who is the custodian of the official records of the municipality. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• 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.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• 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.
• Federal government: includes the United States or any agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Local governing body: means the council or other legislative body charged with governing the municipality. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Mayor: means the mayor of a municipality or other officer or body having the duties customarily imposed upon the executive head of a municipality. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Municipality: means any incorporated city or town in the state. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• 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.
• Obligee: includes any bondholder, agents or trustees for any bondholders, or lessor demising to the municipality property used in connection with a redevelopment project, or any assignee or assignees of a lessor's interest or any part thereof, and the federal government when it is a party to any contract with the municipality. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• 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: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company association, joint stock association or body politic, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee or other similar representative thereof. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• 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
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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
• Public body: means the state or any municipality, county, village, board, commission, authority, district or any other subdivision or public body of the state. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: includes all lands, including improvements and fixtures on the land, and property of any nature appurtenant to the land, or used in connection with the land, and every estate, interest and right, legal or equitable therein, including terms for years and liens by way of judgment, mortgage or otherwise and the indebtedness secured by the liens. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Redeveloper: means any person, partnership or public or private corporation or agency which enters or proposes to enter into a redevelopment contract. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Redevelopment contract: means a contract entered into between a municipality and a redeveloper for the redevelopment of an area in conformity with a redevelopment plan. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Redevelopment plan: means a plan, other than a preliminary or tentative plan, for the acquisition, clearance, reconstruction, rehabilitation or future use of a redevelopment project area. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Slum area: means an area in which both of the following are true:

  (a) There is a predominance of buildings or improvements, whether residential or nonresidential. See Arizona Laws 36-1471

• slum clearance and redevelopment commission: means an agency of a municipality created pursuant to section 36-1476. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215