Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 48 > Chapter 27 > Article 1 - General Provisions

• 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
• Board: means the board of directors of a groundwater replenishment district. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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

• Excluded groundwater: means the amount of groundwater that is withdrawn in the district by a district member and that is excluded from the replenishment tax pursuant to section 48-4502, paragraph 1, subdivisions (b) through (e).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
• 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
• Irrigation district: means a political subdivision, however designated, established pursuant to chapter 17 or 19 of this title. See Arizona Laws 48-4401
• 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}
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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
• 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
• 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