Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 9 > Chapter 7 > Article 4 - Municipal Regulations

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• 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.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Approved smoke detector: means an electronic device powered by batteries or alternating current that is capable of sensing visible or invisible products of combustion, that sounds an alarm audible in all sleeping areas of a residential housing unit and that meets the standards prescribed by the office of the state fire marshal pursuant to section 37-1383. See Arizona Laws 36-1636
• Approved smoke detector: means an electronic device powered by batteries or alternating current that is capable of sensing visible or invisible products of combustion, that sounds an alarm audible in all sleeping areas of a guest unit and that meets the standards prescribed by the office of the state fire marshal pursuant to section 37-1383. See Arizona Laws 36-1645
• Area of operation: includes all the territory of a city, town or county. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• Area of operation: means the area within the territorial boundaries of the municipality. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Automatic fire extinguishing equipment: means a mechanical system that puts out fires by ejecting chemicals or water. See Arizona Laws 36-1645
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Blighted area: means an area where dwellings predominate that are detrimental to safety, health or morals because they are dilapidated or overcrowded or lack ventilation, light or sanitary facilities. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• Blighted area: means an area, other than a slum area, where sound municipal growth and the provision of housing accommodations is substantially retarded or arrested in a predominance of the properties by any of the following:

  (a) A dominance of defective or inadequate street layout. See Arizona Laws 36-1471

• Bonds: means bonds, notes, interim certificates, debentures or other obligations issued by a public housing authority, city, town or county pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• Bonds: means any bonds, including refunding bonds, notes, interim certificates, debentures or other obligations. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Clerk: means the clerk of the board of supervisors, the city or town clerk or the officer charged with the duties customarily imposed on the clerk. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• Clerk: means the clerk or other official of the municipality who is the custodian of the official records of the municipality. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Consumer firework: means small firework devices that contain restricted amounts of pyrotechnic composition designed primarily to produce visible or audible effects by combustion and that comply with the construction, chemical composition and labeling regulations prescribed in 49 Code of Federal Regulations parts 172 and 173, regulations of the United States consumer product safety commission as prescribed in 16 Code of Federal Regulations parts 1500 and 1507 and the APA 87-1. See Arizona Laws 36-1601
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Discriminate: means taking or threatening any adverse action, including any of the following:

  (a) Termination of employment. See Arizona Laws 36-1321

• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Display firework: means large firework devices that are explosive materials intended for use in fireworks displays and designed to produce visible or audible effects by combustion, deflagration or detonation as prescribed by Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 172, regulations of the United States consumer product safety commission as prescribed in 16 Code of Federal Regulations parts 1500 and 1507 and the APA 87-1. See Arizona Laws 36-1601
• Eligible facility: means a health care institution that operates under a federalwide assurance for the protection of human subjects pursuant to Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 46 and that is subject to the federal federalwide assurance regulations, policies and guidelines, including renewals or updates. See Arizona Laws 36-1331
• Eligible patient: means a person to whom all of the following apply:

  (a) The person has a terminal illness as determined by the person's physician and a consulting physician. See Arizona Laws 36-1311

• Eligible patient: means a patient who meets all of the following conditions:

  (a) Has a life-threatening disease or condition or a severely debilitating illness, attested to by the patient's physician. See Arizona Laws 36-1331

• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Federal government: includes the United States, the United States department of housing and urban development or any other agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• Federal government: includes the United States or any agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fire and life safety inspection: means an inspection of a regulated person or facility conducted to ensure fire safety compliance. See Arizona Laws 9-831
• Food and swimming pool inspection: means an inspection of a regulated person or facility conducted to ensure the safety of food services, swimming pools and other bathing places. See Arizona Laws 9-831
• 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 of commissioners of a public housing authority, the common council or other legislative body of the city or town or the county board of supervisors. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• Governing body: means the board of supervisors of a county as to the area within the county but without the corporate limits of an incorporated city or town and means the governing body of an incorporated city or town as to the area within its corporate limits. See Arizona Laws 36-1601
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Guest unit: means a room in a motel or hotel that is offered for lodging. See Arizona Laws 36-1645
• Health care entity: means any of the following or an employee of any of the following:

  (a) A health care institution as defined in section 36-401. See Arizona Laws 36-1321

• housing authority: means an agency of a city, town or county created and controlled pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: includes the whole or part of any municipal permit, certificate, approval, registration, charter or similar form of permission required by law. See Arizona Laws 9-831
• Licensing: includes the municipal process respecting the grant, denial, renewal, revocation, suspension, annulment, withdrawal or amendment of a license. See Arizona Laws 9-831
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Life-threatening disease or condition: means a disease or condition that both:

  (a) Has a high likelihood of death unless the course of the disease or condition is interrupted. See Arizona Laws 36-1331

• Liquefied petroleum gas: means any hydrocarbon or mixture of hydrocarbons composed predominantly of propane, propylene, butanes, normal butane, isobutane or butylenes. See Arizona Laws 36-1621
• Local governing body: means the council or other legislative body charged with governing the municipality. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Mayor: means the mayor of the city or town or the officer thereof charged with the duties customarily imposed on the mayor or executive head of a city or town. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• Mayor: means the mayor of a municipality or other officer or body having the duties customarily imposed upon the executive head of a municipality. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Minor: means a person under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• municipality: means an incorporated city or town. See Arizona Laws 9-831
• Municipality: means any incorporated city or town in the state. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• 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.
• Obligee: includes any holder of bonds issued pursuant to this article, trustee or trustees for such bondholders, or lessor demising to a public housing authority, city, town or county property used in connection with a housing project, or an assignee or assignees of such lessor's interest or any part thereof, and the federal government when it is a party to a contract with a public housing authority, city, town or county in regard to a housing project. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• Obligee: includes any bondholder, agents or trustees for any bondholders, or lessor demising to the municipality property used in connection with a redevelopment project, or any assignee or assignees of a lessor's interest or any part thereof, and the federal government when it is a party to any contract with the municipality. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Panels immediately adjacent to: means the first fixed glazed panel on either or both sides of a door in a hazardous location, whether or not on the same plane and whether or not divided by a horizontal mullion, eighteen inches to forty-eight inches in width, the nearest vertical edge of which is located within three feet horizontally of the nearest vertical edge of the door and the bottom edge is less than eighteen inches above the floor level. See Arizona Laws 36-1631
• 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.
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental subdivision or unit of a governmental subdivision or a public or private organization of any character. See Arizona Laws 9-831
• Person: includes this state and any agency or political subdivision of this state. See Arizona Laws 36-1321
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company association, joint stock association or body politic, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee or other similar representative thereof. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Person: includes an individual, partnership, firm or corporation. See Arizona Laws 36-1601
• Person: means a natural person, a corporation, partnership, firm, receiver or trustee or any organized group of persons. See Arizona Laws 36-1621
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Persons of low income: means persons or families who lack the amount of income that is necessary, as determined by the public housing authority, city, town or county undertaking the housing project, to enable them, without financial assistance, to live in decent, safe and sanitary dwellings without overcrowding. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• Physician: means the physician who is providing medical care or treatment to the eligible patient for the terminal illness but does not include a primary care physician. See Arizona Laws 36-1311
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Public body: means the state or any municipality, county, village, board, commission, authority, district or any other subdivision or public body of the state. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Public buildings: means hotels, motels, dormitories, health care institutions, theatres, stadiums, gymnasiums, amusement park buildings, schools and other buildings used for educational purposes, museums, restaurants, bars, places of worship and other buildings of public assembly. See Arizona Laws 36-1631
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: includes all lands, including improvements and fixtures on the land, and property of any nature appurtenant to the land, or used in connection with the land, and every estate, interest and right, legal or equitable, therein, including terms for years and liens by way of judgment, mortgage or otherwise and the indebtedness secured by such liens. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• Real property: includes all lands, including improvements and fixtures on the land, and property of any nature appurtenant to the land, or used in connection with the land, and every estate, interest and right, legal or equitable therein, including terms for years and liens by way of judgment, mortgage or otherwise and the indebtedness secured by the liens. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Redeveloper: means any person, partnership or public or private corporation or agency which enters or proposes to enter into a redevelopment contract. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Redevelopment contract: means a contract entered into between a municipality and a redeveloper for the redevelopment of an area in conformity with a redevelopment plan. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Redevelopment plan: means a plan, other than a preliminary or tentative plan, for the acquisition, clearance, reconstruction, rehabilitation or future use of a redevelopment project area. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• Request for corrections: means a request for technical or clarifying corrections from an applicant who has submitted an administratively complete application for a license. See Arizona Laws 9-831
• Residential housing unit: means a one or two family dwelling unit, including a detached, semi-detached or duplex unit, or a multi-family dwelling unit including an apartment or condominium. See Arizona Laws 36-1636
• Safety glazing material: means any glazing material, including, but not limited to, tempered glass, laminated glass, wire glass or rigid plastic which meets the test requirements of the American national standards institute (ANSI) standard Z-97. See Arizona Laws 36-1631
• Severely debilitating illness: means a disease or condition that causes major irreversible morbidity. See Arizona Laws 36-1331
• Sleeping area: means any area of a residential housing unit in which bedrooms or sleeping rooms are located. See Arizona Laws 36-1636
• Slum area: means an area in which both of the following are true:

  (a) There is a predominance of buildings or improvements, whether residential or nonresidential. See Arizona Laws 36-1471

• slum clearance and redevelopment commission: means an agency of a municipality created pursuant to section 36-1476. See Arizona Laws 36-1471
• State public body: means any public housing authority, county, municipal corporation, commission, district, authority or other subdivision or public body of the state. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Substantive policy statement: means a written expression that is only advisory and that informs the general public of a municipality's current approach to, or opinion of, the requirements of the ordinances or codes, including, if appropriate, the municipality's current practice, procedure or method of action based on that approach or opinion. See Arizona Laws 9-831
• Terminal illness: means a disease that, without life-sustaining procedures, will result in death in the near future or a state of permanent unconsciousness from which recovery is unlikely. See Arizona Laws 36-1311
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Working day: means a twenty-four hour period excluding weekends and legal holidays. See Arizona Laws 9-831
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Written informed consent: means a written document that is signed by a patient, the patient's parent if the patient is a minor, the patient's legal guardian or the patient's advocate designated by the patient, that is attested to by the patient's physician and a witness and that, at a minimum, includes all of the following:

  (a) An explanation of the currently approved products and treatments for the disease or condition from which the patient suffers. See Arizona Laws 36-1331