Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 45 > Chapter 8 - Flood Control

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• 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
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Design flood: means a selected flood against which protection is provided, or eventually will be provided, by means of flood protective or control works. See Arizona Laws 45-1441
• Designated floodway: means the channel of a stream and that portion of the adjoining flood plain required to reasonably provide for the construction of a project for passage of the design flood, including lands necessary for construction of project levees. See Arizona Laws 45-1441
• Director: means the director of water resources, who is also the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 45-101
• 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.
• Flood control project: means any project for flood control purposes on which construction commences after April 19, 1973 and which either:

  (a) Is authorized under federal law and requires local participation. See Arizona Laws 45-1441

• Flood warning system: means a project or series of projects to detect floods and develop flood preparedness plans and may include the system known as the automatic local evaluation in real time system. See Arizona Laws 45-1501
• Groundwater: means water under the surface of the earth regardless of the geologic structure in which it is standing or moving. See Arizona Laws 45-101
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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}
• 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.
• Local entity: means a city, town, county, political subdivision or drainage and flood control district organized under Title 48, Chapter 18 or 21 or any other special taxing district organized under title 48. See Arizona Laws 45-1501
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Public agency: means any state agency or political subdivision of the state. See Arizona Laws 45-1441
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215