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Article 1 General Provisions 48-1201 – 48-1214

Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 48 > Chapter 8 - Community Park Maintenance Districts

  • Assessment: means a tax assessment made under this article for the purpose of financing the maintenance and operating costs of the district. See Arizona Laws 48-1201
  • Board: means the district board of directors. See Arizona Laws 48-1201
  • Chairman of the board: means the person designated to preside over meetings of the board of directors. See Arizona Laws 48-1201
  • Community park: means an area of developed or undeveloped land within the boundaries of a district not exceeding one hundred sixty acres in size which has been dedicated for unrestricted public use by a county, city or town or private entity. See Arizona Laws 48-1201
  • 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.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Department: means the parks and recreation department or the agency exercising the functions of a parks and recreation department of the county in which the major portion of the community park maintenance district is located or proposed to be established. See Arizona Laws 48-1201
  • District: means a community park maintenance district established pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 48-1201
  • Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic or similar capabilities. See Arizona Laws 11-487.01
  • 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.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Grantee: includes every person to whom an estate or interest in real property passes, in or by a deed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • 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
  • maintenance: means the maintenance of community parks certified for inclusion within a district by the board. See Arizona Laws 48-1201
  • Operating costs: includes personnel, equipment, necessary capital investments in maintenance of related real property and related costs. See Arizona Laws 48-1201
  • Owner: means the person in whose name legal title appears by recorded deed, or the person in possession under claim of title, as the person exercising acts of ownership for himself or as the personal representative of the owner, including the governing boards of school districts owning property within the district. See Arizona Laws 48-1201
  • Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • 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.
  • Time of delinquency: means the time when assessments become delinquent. See Arizona Laws 48-1201
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.