Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 28 > Chapter 23 - Highway Beautification

• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• 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.
• Automobile graveyard: means an establishment or place of business maintained, used or operated for storing, keeping, buying or selling wrecked, abandoned, scrapped, ruined or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts. See Arizona Laws 28-7941
• Board: means the transportation board. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Business area: means an area that is outside municipal limits, that embraces all of the land on the same side of the highway on which one or more commercial or industrial activities are conducted, including all land within one thousand feet measured in any direction from the nearest edge of the actual land used or occupied for such activity, its parking, storage and service areas, its driveways and its established front, rear and side yards, that constitutes an integral part of such activity and that is zoned, under authority of law, primarily to permit industrial or commercial activity. See Arizona Laws 28-7901
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Comprehensive development: means an activity if all of the following apply:

  (a) The activity is comprised primarily of individual commercial or industrial activities. See Arizona Laws 28-7901

• Department: means the department of transportation acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• department: means the department of child safety. See Arizona Laws 8-501
• Director: means the director of the department of transportation. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Electronic outdoor advertising: means signs, displays and devices with sign faces that are comprised of matrices of light or light-emitting devices that are static or capable of changing messages electronically by remote or automatic means. See Arizona Laws 28-7901
• Farm: means any lands primarily used for agriculture production. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Foster home: means a home that is maintained by any individual or individuals having the care or control of minor children, other than those related to each other by blood or marriage, or related to such individuals, or who are legal wards of such individuals. See Arizona Laws 8-501
• Freeway: means a divided arterial highway on the interstate or primary system with full control of access and with grade separations at intersections. See Arizona Laws 28-7901
• highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way if a part of the way is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Junk: means :

  (a) Old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris or waste. See Arizona Laws 28-7941

• Junkyard: means an establishment or place of business maintained, used or operated for storing, keeping, buying or selling junk or for maintaining or operating an automobile graveyard, including garbage dumps and sanitary landfills. See Arizona Laws 28-7941
• Outdoor advertising: means any outdoor sign, display, light, device, figure, painting, drawing, message, plaque, poster, billboard or other thing that is designed, intended or used to advertise or inform and the message of which is visible from any place on the main traveled way of the interstate, secondary or primary systems. See Arizona Laws 28-7901
• Owner: means :

  (a) A person who holds the legal title of a vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101

• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• premises: includes :

  (i) Buildings. See Arizona Laws 28-7901

• Primary system: means that portion of connected main highways located in this state that are officially designated by the board and approved by the United States secretary of transportation pursuant to 23 United States Code. See Arizona Laws 28-7901
• Primary system: means that portion of connected main highways located in this state that are officially designated by the board and approved by the United States secretary of transportation pursuant to 23 United States Code. See Arizona Laws 28-7941
• Right-of-way: when used within the context of the regulation of the movement of traffic on a highway means the privilege of the immediate use of the highway. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Safety rest area: means a site established and maintained by or under public supervision or control for the convenience of the traveling public within or adjacent to the right-of-way of the interstate or primary systems. See Arizona Laws 28-7901
• Scheme of common ownership: means an ownership scheme in which the owners have recorded irrevocable rights to use common areas. See Arizona Laws 28-7901
• Secondary system: means that portion of connected highways located in this state that are officially designated by the board and approved by the United States secretary of transportation pursuant to 23 United States Code. See Arizona Laws 28-7901
• State: means a state of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• State route: means a right-of-way whether actually used as a highway or not that is designated by the board as a location for the construction of a state highway. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Unzoned commercial or industrial area: means an area that is not zoned under authority of law and in which land use is characteristic of that generally permitted only in areas that are actually zoned commercial or industrial under authority of state law, that embraces all land on the same side of the highway on which one or more commercial or industrial activities are conducted, including all land within one thousand feet measured in any direction from the nearest edge of the actual land used or occupied by this activity, its parking, storage and service areas, its driveways and its established front, rear and side yards, and that constitutes an integral part of this activity. See Arizona Laws 28-7901
• Unzoned industrial area: means an area that is not zoned under authority of state law and in which the land use is characteristic of that generally permitted only in areas that are actually zoned industrial under authority of state law and that embraces all land on the same side of the highway on which one or more industrial activities are conducted, including all land within one thousand feet measured in each direction parallel to the highway from the nearest edge of the industrial building or activity on the land. See Arizona Laws 28-7941