Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 30 > Chapter 1 - Arizona Power Authority

• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Agency: means an agency licensed by the division to place children for adoption. See Arizona Laws 8-531
• 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.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Authority: means the Arizona power authority. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• Child: means a person less than eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 8-531
• Commission: means Arizona power authority commission. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the department of child safety. See Arizona Laws 8-201
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 8-201
• Division: means the department. See Arizona Laws 8-531
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• juvenile: means an individual who is under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 8-201
• 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}
• legal custody: means a status embodying all of the following rights and responsibilities:

  (a) The right to have physical possession of the child. See Arizona Laws 8-531

• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oath: includes an affirmation or declaration. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Operating units: means districts, state agencies, federal Indian agencies, cities and towns. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• Parent: means the natural or adoptive mother or father of a child. See Arizona Laws 8-531
• Person: means and includes natural persons engaged in the distribution of electric power, mutual and cooperative concerns or organizations by whatever name called, corporations, firms, business trusts and partnerships. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Power: means electric power or electric energy, or both. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• Qualified distributors: means persons and operating units. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• Qualified purchasers: means persons and operating units privileged under this chapter to purchase power developed on the main stream of the Colorado river. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Retail: means sales to others than persons or operating units. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• State: means this state. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Wholesale: means sales to qualified distributors of power. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• works: means each and every facility necessary or convenient for producing, storing, generating, firming or transmitting power, and all rights-of-way, lands or interests in land, the use or occupancy of which are necessary or appropriate in the maintenance and operation of all such facilities. See Arizona Laws 30-101
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215