Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 37 > Chapter 7 > Article 1 - General Provisions

• Bed: means the land lying between the ordinary high watermarks of a watercourse. See Arizona Laws 37-1101
• commission: means the Arizona navigable stream adjudication commission established by section 37-1121. See Arizona Laws 37-1101
• Commissioner: means the state land commissioner. See Arizona Laws 37-101
• Highway for commerce: means a corridor or conduit within which the exchange of goods, commodities or property or the transportation of persons may be conducted. See Arizona Laws 37-1101
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Man-made water conveyance system: means :

  (a) An irrigation or drainage canal, lateral canal, ditch or flume. See Arizona Laws 37-1101

• navigable watercourse: means a watercourse that was in existence on February 14, 1912, and at that time was used or was susceptible to being used, in its ordinary and natural condition, as a highway for commerce, over which trade and travel were or could have been conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water. See Arizona Laws 37-1101
• Ordinary high watermark: means the line on the banks of a watercourse established by fluctuations of water and indicated by physical characteristics, such as a clear natural line impressed on the bank, shelving, changes in the character of the soil, destruction of terrestrial vegetation or the presence of litter and debris, or by other appropriate means that consider the characteristics of the surrounding areas. See Arizona Laws 37-1101
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Public trust land: means the portion of the bed of a watercourse that is located in this state and that is determined to have been a navigable watercourse as of February 14, 1912. See Arizona Laws 37-1101
• Riparian area: means a geographically delineated area with distinct resource values, that is characterized by deep-rooted plant species that depend on having roots in the water table or its capillary zone and that occurs within or adjacent to a natural perennial or intermittent stream channel or within or adjacent to a lake, pond or marsh bed maintained primarily by natural water sources. See Arizona Laws 37-1101
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Watercourse: means the main body or a portion or reach of any lake, river, creek, stream, wash, arroyo, channel or other body of water. See Arizona Laws 37-1101