Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 41 > Chapter 25 - State Government Competition With Private Enterprise

• Competitive government process: means the process, as developed by the governor's office of management and budget, designed to standardize the methodology for how the state identifies and evaluates state functions to determine if future competitive contracting with the private sector and other state agencies is in the best interest of this state. See Arizona Laws 41-2771
• Competitive government program: means the program, as developed by the governor's office of management and budget, designed to manage the process of introducing private sector and interagency competition into the delivery of state goods and services. See Arizona Laws 41-2771
• 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.
• 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.
• Electric utility: means any corporation, governmental agency, political subdivision or other entity or combination of such entities that produces, generates, purchases, sells, transmits or distributes electricity to another electric utility or to a user of electricity. See Arizona Laws 10-2121
• Entity: includes a corporation, foreign corporation, not for profit corporation, profit and not for profit unincorporated association, nonprofit corporation, close corporation, corporation sole or limited liability company, a professional corporation, association or limited liability company, a business trust, estate, partnership, registered limited liability partnership, trust or joint venture, two or more persons having a joint or common economic interest, any person other than an individual and a state, the United States and a foreign government. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Function: means a good or service that is provided through the direct efforts of state employees. See Arizona Laws 41-2771
• Governing board: means the Arizona board of regents for the universities or any community college district governing board. See Arizona Laws 41-2751
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Invited guests: means persons who enter onto a campus for an educational, research or public service activity and not primarily to purchase or receive goods and services not related to the educational, research or public service activity for which such persons enter onto the campus. See Arizona Laws 41-2751
• 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}
• Office: means the governor's office of management and budget, established by executive order, or its successor. See Arizona Laws 41-2771
• 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 a natural person, firm, association, corporation, business trust or partnership or any agency or political subdivision of the United States or of this state or any other political body. See Arizona Laws 10-2121
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Private enterprise: means an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, corporation, association or any other legal entity engaging in the manufacturing, processing, sale, offering for sale, rental, leasing, delivery, dispensing, distributing or advertising of goods or services for profit. See Arizona Laws 41-2751
• Privatization: means the utilization of a private sector entity in the delivery of goods and services currently provided by a state function or program. See Arizona Laws 41-2771
• 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 service: means an activity that is normally and generally associated with community colleges and universities in this state, a purpose or significant result of which is not to engage in competition with private enterprise. See Arizona Laws 41-2751
• Relevant costs: means those costs that relate to a target function that can be eliminated if the target function is transferred to another agency or the private sector. See Arizona Laws 41-2771
• State agency: means a department, office, commission, institution, board or other agency of state organization regardless of whether monies are appropriated to the agency. See Arizona Laws 41-2751
• State agency: means any executive department, office, commission, institution, board or other executive agency of state organization regardless of whether monies are appropriated to the agency. See Arizona Laws 41-2771
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Target function: means a current state function that has been identified for review through the competitive government process. See Arizona Laws 41-2771
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• trustees: means individuals, designated in the articles of incorporation or bylaws or elected by the incorporators, and their successors and individuals elected or appointed by any other name or title to act as members of the board. See Arizona Laws 10-3140
• United States: includes a district, authority, bureau, commission and department and any other agency of the United States. See Arizona Laws 10-140