Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 3 > Chapter 8 > Article 1 - General Provisions

• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• Affiliate: means a person that directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a video service provider. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• agreement: means an agreement between the sponsoring county and a nonprofit corporation under this chapter for the corporation to assume the health care responsibilities previously performed by the county, including all arrangements and understandings, including a lease agreement, between the county and corporation. See Arizona Laws 11-1401
• Agreement: means any agreement or contract. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• 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.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Antenna: means communications equipment that transmits or receives electromagnetic radio frequency signals and that is used in providing wireless services. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• 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.
• Applicable codes: means uniform building, fire, electrical, plumbing or mechanical codes that are adopted by a recognized national code organization or local amendments to those codes that are enacted to address threats of destruction of property or injury to persons and to an extent that is not inconsistent with this article. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Applicant: means any person that submits an application and that is a wireless provider. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Application: means a request that is submitted by an applicant to a county on a form provided by the county for a permit to collocate small wireless facilities or to approve the installation, modification or replacement of a utility pole. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• 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
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Bailiff: a court officer who enforces the rules of behavior in courtrooms.
• board: means the board of directors of a nonprofit corporation that operates a community health system pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 11-1401
• Board of supervisors: means the board of supervisors of the sponsoring county. See Arizona Laws 11-1401
• Bonds: means any bonds, refunding bonds, notes or other debt instrument issued by a nonprofit corporation under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 11-1401
• boundaries: means all of the area of the county that is not within the corporate limits of any city or town, including unincorporated territory that is surrounded on all sides by a combination of one or more cities, towns or Indian reservations. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Building code: means the construction codes that were in force at the time of building construction, including plumbing and mechanical codes, electric codes, residential construction codes, energy conservation codes and existing building construction codes, and includes any property maintenance codes, neighborhood preservation codes, anti-blight codes or other similar codes, however denominated. See Arizona Laws 11-1701
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
• collocation: means to install, mount, maintain, modify, operate or replace wireless facilities on, within or adjacent to a wireless support structure or utility pole. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Commercial mobile service provider: means a person that provides commercial mobile service as defined in 47 United States Code § 332(d) or commercial mobile radio service as described in 47 C. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Communications service: means cable service as defined in 47 United States Code section 522(6), information service as defined in 47 United States Code section 153(24), telecommunications service as defined in 47 United States Code section 153(53) or wireless service. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Community health system: means the health system maintained, owned or operated by a nonprofit corporation after the transfer date under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 11-1401
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• corporation: means a nonprofit corporation that is organized under title 10 and that is qualified or will qualify under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. See Arizona Laws 11-1401
• 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.
• County health system: means the health system maintained, owned or operated by the sponsoring county immediately before the transfer date. See Arizona Laws 11-1401
• County utility pole: means a utility pole that is owned or operated by a county and that is in a right-of-way. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Countywide residential rental property inspection program: means any program that includes systematic or periodic inspections of a majority of rental properties in the county that have not been previously found to meet the requirements of section 11-1702. See Arizona Laws 11-1701
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Day: means a calendar day, except a Saturday or Sunday or a holiday prescribed in section 1-301. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-101
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Design-build: means a construction project delivery system in which the design and construction aspects are contracted for with a single entity known as the design-builder or design-build contractor, and in which the system is used to minimize the project risk for an owner and to reduce the delivery schedule by overlapping the design phase and construction phase of a project entity. See Arizona Laws 11-1601
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• 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.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Exterior inspection: means the visual inspection of any portion of a residential dwelling unit that can be seen from a public street or other right-of-way, or that can be seen from an adjacent property if a complaint or consent is received from the adjacent property owner, lawful resident or lawful tenant. See Arizona Laws 11-1701
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Fee: means a onetime charge to process an application and inspect any work performed by an applicant pursuant to a permit issued by the county. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Fire and life safety inspection: means an inspection of a regulated person or facility conducted to ensure fire safety compliance. See Arizona Laws 11-1601
• 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.
• Food and swimming pool inspection: means an inspection of a regulated person conducted to ensure the safety of food services, swimming pools and other bathing places. See Arizona Laws 11-1601
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Grantee: includes every person to whom an estate or interest in real property passes, in or by a deed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Grantor: includes every person from or by whom an estate or interest in real property passes, in or by a deed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Health system: means any health care institution and all related real and personal property including, without limitation, all clinics, rehabilitation centers, therapy facilities, outpatient clinics, nursing homes, blood banks, ambulance facilities, extended care facilities, dispensaries, pharmacies, parking facilities, laundry facilities, dormitories, offices and administration buildings, cafeterias and food service facilities, research, laboratory and diagnostic facilities, libraries, information systems and data bases, ambulances, stretcher vans and other medical transportation equipment, education facilities, school-based clinics, equipment, tools, machinery, accounts receivable and other intangible assets, health maintenance organizations, health care services organizations and health insurance plans, including all related reserves, deposits, prepayments, risk pools and similar assets of these organizations and plans, graduate medical and other health care professional educational programs, public health education programs and business operations, in each case maintained, owned or operated for the payment and delivery of medical services, nursing services, home health services, home delivery services, emergency medical services, behavioral health services, long-term care services, health-related services and health screening services, adult day health services, adult foster care services, hospice services, personal care services, respite care services, supervisory care services and medical equipment services. See Arizona Laws 11-1401
• Health system assets: means all real, personal, tangible and intangible property and rights in property that are used by or accruing to the county health system. See Arizona Laws 11-1401
• Highway: means all roads, streets and alleys and other dedicated public rights-of-way that are operated and maintained by the county. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Holder: means a video service provider that has been issued a uniform video service license pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Holdover cable operator: means an incumbent cable operator that elects under sections 11-1912 and 11-1913 to continue to operate within its service area pursuant to its local license. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Incumbent cable operator: means a cable operator or other video service provider that on December 31, 2019 is providing video service in this state pursuant to a local license. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Interior inspection: means a physical or visual inspection of the interior of a residential rental dwelling unit and other portions of a residential rental dwelling unit that are not visible from a public street, right-of-way or neighboring property that is made for the purpose of looking for building code violations. See Arizona Laws 11-1701
• 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.
• Law: means any federal, state or local law, statute, common law, code, rule, regulation, order or ordinance. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• 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}
• Lease agreement: means any agreement providing for the lease and conveyance, if any, of health system assets to a nonprofit corporation under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 11-1401
• Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: means a franchise as defined in 47 United States Code § 522. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• License: includes the whole or part of any county permit, certificate, approval, registration, charter or similar form of permission required by law. See Arizona Laws 11-1601
• License fee: means a license fee imposed by a county on a video service provider for using the highways to provide and for the privilege of providing video service. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Licensing: includes the county process respecting the grant, denial, renewal, revocation, suspension, annulment, withdrawal or amendment of a license. See Arizona Laws 11-1601
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local law: means any code, ordinance, resolution, regulation or other law of a county. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Local license: means any license, agreement, permit or similar authorization that meets all of the following:

  (a) Allows a person to construct or operate a video service network within the boundaries of a county. See Arizona Laws 11-1901

• Magistrate: means an officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense and includes the chief justice and justices of the supreme court, judges of the superior court, judges of the court of appeals, justices of the peace and judges of a municipal court. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
• Owner: means the person, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, limited partnership, trust or real estate investment trust shown on the lawfully recorded title to the property. See Arizona Laws 11-1701
• 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.
• Peace officers: means sheriffs of counties, constables, marshals, policemen of cities and towns, commissioned personnel of the department of public safety, personnel who are employed by the state department of corrections and the department of juvenile corrections and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a multicounty water conservation district and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by community college district governing boards and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the Arizona board of regents and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the governing body of a public airport pursuant to section 28-8426 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a private postsecondary institution pursuant to section 15-1897 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board and special agents from the office of the attorney general, or of a county attorney, and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Permit: means written permission issued by a county to install, mount, maintain, modify, operate or replace a utility pole or to collocate a small wireless facility on a utility pole or wireless support structure. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental subdivision or unit of a governmental subdivision, or a public or private organization of any character. See Arizona Laws 11-1601
• Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, trust or other entity or organization, including a county. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• 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
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Private easement: means an easement or other real property right that is only for the benefit of the grantor and grantee and the grantor's or grantee's successors and assigns. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• 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 defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Rate: means a onetime charge for the granting of a right to use a portion of a right-of-way as specified in a permit or to collocate a small wireless facility on or adjacent to a utility pole or to install, modify or replace a utility pole as specified in a permit. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Request for corrections: means a request for technical or clarifying corrections from an applicant who has submitted an administratively complete application for a license. See Arizona Laws 11-1601
• Residential dwelling unit: means a building or structure or part of a building or structure that is used for a home or residence by one or more persons who maintain a household, including a mobile home regardless of ownership of the land. See Arizona Laws 11-1701
• Residential rental dwelling unit: means a dwelling unit that is leased or rented to one or more tenants. See Arizona Laws 11-1701
• Residential rental licensing requirement: means a requirement established by a county that property owners or property managers obtain a license or permit from the county, with or without an associated fee, before they can legally engage in the rental of dwelling units in the county. See Arizona Laws 11-1701
• Residential rental registration requirement: means any requirement established by a county for rental housing owners or managers to submit information to the county as already required to be submitted to the county assessor under section 33-1902. See Arizona Laws 11-1701
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Right-of-way: means the area on, below or above a county roadway, highway, street, sidewalk, alley or utility easement. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Service area: means that part of the boundaries of a county within which a video service provider is authorized to provide video service pursuant to a uniform video service license or a local license. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Small wireless facility: means a wireless facility that meets both of the following qualifications:

  (a) All antennas are located inside an enclosure of not more than six cubic feet in volume or, in the case of an antenna that has exposed elements, the antenna and all of the antenna's exposed elements could fit within an imaginary enclosure of not more than six cubic feet in volume. See Arizona Laws 11-1801

• Special taxing district: means a special district formed pursuant to Title 48, Chapter 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20 or 22. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Sponsoring county: means a county that enters into an operating agreement under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 11-1401
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• subscription: includes a mark, if a person cannot write, with the person's name written near it and witnessed by a person who writes the person's own name as witness. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Substantive policy statement: means a written expression that is only advisory and that informs the general public of a county's current approach to, or opinion of, the requirements of the ordinances or regulations, including, if appropriate, the county's current practice, procedure or method of action based on that approach or opinion. See Arizona Laws 11-1601
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Telecommunications provider: means a person that is required to obtain from the corporation commission a certificate of public convenience and necessity to provide telecommunications service. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Telecommunications service: means the offering of telecommunications for a fee directly to the public, or to such users as to be effectively available directly to the public, regardless of the equipment, facilities or technology used. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Transfer date: means a date, agreed to by the sponsoring county and a nonprofit corporation, for the lease of any health system assets and the assumption of all or part of the health system liabilities by the corporation. See Arizona Laws 11-1401
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Uniform video service license: means a license that is issued by a county in the form of a uniform video service license agreement as adopted pursuant to section 11-1911. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Utility pole: means a pole or similar structure that is used in whole or in part for communications services, electric distribution, lighting or traffic signals or a similar function. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Wireless infrastructure provider: means any person that is authorized to provide telecommunications service in this state and that builds or installs wireless communications transmission equipment, wireless facilities or utility poles but that is not a wireless services provider. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Wireless provider: means a cable operator, wireless infrastructure provider or wireless services provider. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Wireless services: means any services that are provided to the public and that use licensed or unlicensed spectrum, whether at a fixed location or mobile, using wireless facilities. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Wireless services provider: means a person that provides wireless services. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Working day: means a twenty-four hour period excluding weekends and legal holidays. See Arizona Laws 11-1601
• Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215