Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 48 > Chapter 27 - Groundwater Replenishment Districts

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Active management area: means an active management area established under Title 45, Chapter 2, Article 2. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Actual surface water supply: means for any year the total amount of surface water, other than central Arizona project water, that is delivered to the district member for non-irrigation use during the year by irrigation districts and water users' associations. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Adjusted groundwater: means the number computed by subtracting the excluded groundwater withdrawn in the district by a district member from all groundwater withdrawn in the district by the district member for non-irrigation use. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Administrative costs: means the compensation and employment related expenses of the officers and administrative employees of the district, the compensation and reimbursements of members of the board of directors, operation and maintenance expenses and acquisition costs of property, equipment and other materials that the district acquires for administrative purposes. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Alternate medical examiner: means a physician who has training and competence in the principles of death investigation and who performs or directs the conduct of death investigations. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• 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
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Autopsy: means a surgical procedure in which internal organs are exposed, removed or examined for the identification of trauma or natural disease. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• Board: means the board of directors of a groundwater replenishment district. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Bond related expenses: means any expenses incurred by the district to issue and administer its bonds including underwriting fees and costs, trustee fees, financial consultant fees, printing and advertising costs, paying agent fees, transfer agent fees, legal, accounting, feasibility consultant and other expert fees and expenses, cost of credit enhancement fees, attorney and accounting fees and expenses related to credit enhancement, bond insurance or liquidity enhancement, remarketing fees, rating agency fees and costs, travel and telephone expenses and all other fees deemed necessary by the board in order to market and administer the bonds. See Arizona Laws 48-4541
• Bonds: means bonds of the district issued pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 48-4541
• Capacity costs: means the cost of acquiring, constructing or leasing replenishment facilities, including any necessary land, any facilities that are necessary to treat water and facilities that are required to transport water to a treatment facility or replenishment area that is operated, owned or leased by a district, including interest on any amount that was borrowed to acquire, lease or construct the facilities. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• CERCLA: means the comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and liability act of 1980, as amended (P. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• 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.
• Death investigation: means the investigation directed by a county medical examiner or alternate medical examiner into the circumstances surrounding a death occurring as prescribed in section 11-593. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the director of water resources. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• District: means a groundwater replenishment district established under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• District water: means water that a district acquires in a calendar year and that exceeds the amount that is necessary to fulfill its contracts for replenishment pursuant to section 48-4470, demand services pursuant to section 48-4472 and replenishment pursuant to section 48-4501. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Drought year: means :

  (a) A year in which the district member's actual central Arizona project water supply is less than eighty per cent of the district member's normal central Arizona project water supply, if the district member's actual central Arizona project water supply is also less than the amount of central Arizona project water ordered by the district member from a multi-county water conservation district. See Arizona Laws 48-4401

• 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.
• Excluded groundwater: means the amount of groundwater that is withdrawn in the district by a district member and that is excluded from the replenishment tax pursuant to section 48-4502, paragraph 1, subdivisions (b) through (e). See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• External examination: means an external inspection of a body. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• 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.
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Forensic pathologist: means a physician who has successfully completed a pathology residency and a forensic fellowship or has extensive experience performing forensic autopsies in an official capacity. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Historic annual net natural recharge: means the average annual net natural recharge of the groundwater basin beneath a groundwater replenishment district during a thirty year period, as established by the director in the most recent management plan for the active management area in which the district is located pursuant to Title 45, Chapter 2, Article 9, or a proportionate share established by the director, if the groundwater basin is partially located beneath a district. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Historic annual per acre surface water deliveries: means , for any year, the total amount of surface water, other than central Arizona project water, delivered by an irrigation district or water users' association during the thirty year period ending with the preceding calendar year for use on surface water right acres that are currently in a district divided by the product obtained by multiplying the number of such surface water right acres times thirty, as established by the district. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Investigative information: means information received by a medical examiner or alternate medical examiner from law enforcement, witnesses, family members, health care personnel or medical death investigators concerning cause and manner of death. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• Irrigation district: means a political subdivision, however designated, established pursuant to chapter 17 or 19 of this title. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• 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}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Medical death investigator: means a person trained in the principles of death investigation. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• Medical examiner: means a forensic pathologist who performs or directs the conduct of death investigations. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• member: means a municipality that contains a service area and petitions for the formation of the district or petitions for the expansion of the district pursuant to this title. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Multi-county water conservation district: means a political subdivision established pursuant to chapter 22 of this title. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Municipality: means a city or town incorporated or chartered under the constitution and laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Net natural recharge: means the amount of water added to a groundwater basin during a definite period of time through natural underground inflow, natural infiltration through mountain fronts and natural infiltration through streambeds or other natural channels, except for water released into streambeds or other natural channels as effluent, less the amount of water that left the groundwater basin during the same period of time through natural outflow. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Non-irrigation use: means any use of water, other than on two or more acres of land to produce plants or parts of plants for sale or human consumption or for use as feed for livestock, range livestock or poultry, as those terms are defined in section 3-1201. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Normal surface water supply: means for any year an amount of surface water that is measured by multiplying any surface water right acres for which the district member received surface water, other than central Arizona project water, for non-irrigation use during the year from an irrigation district or water users' association times the historic annual per acre surface water deliveries of the irrigation district or water users' association. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Nurse practitioner: means a person licensed and certified pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 15. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• 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.
• Organ procurement organization: means an organization located within this state that meets the requirements of 42 United States Code § 273. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• 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.
• Pathologist assistant: means a person certified as a pathologist assistant who has graduated from a pathologist assistant training program approved by a national accrediting agency for clinical laboratory sciences. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality or any other legal or commercial entity. See Arizona Laws 11-487.01
• Person: means an individual, public or private corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, society, estate or trust, any other public organization or enterprise, the United States, any state, territory or country or a governmental entity, political subdivision or municipal corporation organized under or subject to the constitution and laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Physician: means a person licensed pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 13 or 17. See Arizona Laws 11-591
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. 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.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Replenish: means to increase the amount of groundwater in a district either incidentally or through water storage undertaken pursuant to Title 45, Chapter 3. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Replenishment tax: means the taxes imposed by sections 48-4470, 48-4472 and 48-4501 on district members for the privilege of withdrawing groundwater. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Arizona Laws 11-487.01
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Total water used: means all water that a district member uses or delivers to its customers for non-irrigation use. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Unavailable surface water: means an amount of water computed by subtracting a district member's actual surface water supply in a drought year from eighty per cent of the district member's normal surface water supply for that year. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Water acquisition costs: means the cost of acquiring water for use by the district in fulfilling its replenishment obligations pursuant to sections 48-4470, 48-4472 and 48-4501, including costs of purchase or lease of water, energy costs for transporting water, operation costs, maintenance costs, withdrawal or severance taxes paid in connection with the water, capital costs for headworks, well or transmission facilities constructed at a water source and interest on monies that are borrowed to acquire water. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215