Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 9 > Chapter 5 > Article 1 - Franchise by Municipality

• 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.
• 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.
• Corporation: means any pollution control corporation incorporated by a municipality or county pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 35-801
• County: means any county in this state in which a corporation may be organized and in which it is contemplated the corporation will function. See Arizona Laws 35-801
• 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}
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governing body: means the board or body in which the general powers of the municipality or the county are vested. See Arizona Laws 35-801
• 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
• 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}
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Municipality: means any incorporated city or town, including charter cities, in this state in which a corporation may be organized and in which it is contemplated the corporation will function. See Arizona Laws 35-801
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Pollution control facilities: means real and personal properties including but not limited to machinery and equipment, whether or not now in existence or under construction, which are used in whole or in part to control, prevent, abate, alter, dispose or store, solid waste, thermal, noise, atmospheric or water pollutants, contaminants or products therefrom, whether such facilities serve one or more purposes or functions in addition to controlling, preventing, abating, altering, disposing or storing such pollutants, contaminants or the products therefrom. See Arizona Laws 35-801
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215