Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 44 > Chapter 9 > Article 8 - Waste Tire Disposal

• 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.
• 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.
• Damage: means any cracking, bubbling, cutting, chunking or separation of the tire sidewall or tread, including exposed body ply or belt material, or any visible deterioration of the tire bead or inner liner. See Arizona Laws 44-1301
• Director: means the director of the securities division of the commission. See Arizona Laws 44-1801
• 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.
• Improper repair: means any puncture repair of damage larger than one-fourth of an inch, any puncture repair to a tire sidewall, the tread shoulder or belt edge area, or a puncture repair that has not been both sealed or patched on the inside and repaired with a cured rubber stem through to the outside. See Arizona Laws 44-1301
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Motor vehicle: means any automobile, motorcycle, truck, trailer, semitrailer, truck tractor and semitrailer combination or other vehicle operated on the roads of this state, used to transport persons or property and propelled by power other than muscular power, but motor vehicle does not include traction engines, vehicles that run only on a track, bicycles or mopeds. See Arizona Laws 44-1301
• Off road motor vehicle: means any automobile, motorcycle, truck, trailer, semitrailer, truck tractor and semitrailer combination, heavy equipment used in mining or metallurgical operations, agriculture, construction or earth moving, airplanes or other vehicles operated off the roads of this state, used to transport persons or property or used for agricultural, construction or earth moving activities and propelled by power other than muscular power, but off road motor vehicle does not include traction engines, vehicles that run only on a track, bicycles or mopeds. See Arizona Laws 44-1301
• 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 public or private corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society of persons, the federal government and any of its departments or agencies, this state or any of its agencies, departments, political subdivisions, counties, towns or municipal corporations, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 44-1301
• 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
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• sell: means a sale or any other disposition of a security or interest in a security for value and includes a contract to make such sale or disposition. See Arizona Laws 44-1801
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Waste tire: means a motor vehicle tire that is no longer suitable for its original intended purpose because of wear, damage, improper repair or manufacturer's recall. See Arizona Laws 44-1301
• Waste tire collection site: means a site where waste tires are collected before being offered for recycling or reuse and where more than five hundred tires are kept on site on any day. See Arizona Laws 44-1301
• Wear: means the reduction of the major groove depth of the tire to two thirty-seconds of an inch. See Arizona Laws 44-1301