Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 42 > Chapter 14 > Article 7 - Valuation and Taxation of Private Car Companies

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• 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.
• Department: means the department of revenue. See Arizona Laws 42-1001
• Director: means the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 42-1001
• Entire receipts: means , as applied to a private car company operating partly in and partly outside this state, all earnings on business beginning and ending in this state, and a proportion based on the proportion of mileage in this state to the entire mileage over which the business is done, of earnings on all trans-state and interstate business passing through, into or out of this state. See Arizona Laws 42-14301
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Person: means a natural person, individual, proprietor, proprietorship, company, corporation, organization, association, joint venture, partner, partnership, trust, estate or limited liability company, the federal or state government, a political subdivision of a state or any other legal entity or combination of entities that owns, controls or has possession of real or personal property. See Arizona Laws 42-11001
• Private car company: means a person who is engaged in the business of operating, furnishing or leasing cars, whether or not owned by the person and regardless of what name is applied to the cars, to be used for transporting or accommodating persons or freight over railroad lines that are located wholly or partially in this state and that are not owned, leased or operated by that person. See Arizona Laws 42-14301
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Secondary property taxes: means :

  (a) Ad valorem taxes or special property assessments that are used to pay the principal of and the interest and redemption charges on bonded indebtedness or other lawful long-term obligations that are issued or incurred for a specific capital purpose by a municipality, county or taxing district. See Arizona Laws 42-11001

• state board: means either the state board of tax appeals or the state board of equalization, as applicable. See Arizona Laws 42-1001
• Valuation: means the full cash value or limited property value that is determined for real or personal property, as applicable. See Arizona Laws 42-11001
• Valuation year: means :

  (a) For real property and property valued by the department, the calendar year preceding the year in which the taxes are levied. See Arizona Laws 42-11001

• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215