Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 49 > Chapter 8 > Article 1 - General Provisions

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Authority: means the water infrastructure finance authority of Arizona. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Board: means the water infrastructure finance authority board established by section 49-1206. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Clean water act: means the federal water pollution control act amendments of 1972 (P. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Concession agreement: means any lease, ground lease, franchise, easement, permit or other binding agreement transferring rights for the use or control, in whole or in part, of water-related facilities by the authority to a private partner in accordance with this chapter. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• 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.
• Director: means the director of environmental quality who is also the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 49-101
• 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}
• 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.
• Financial assistance loan repayment agreement: means an agreement to repay a loan provided to design, construct, acquire, rehabilitate or improve water or wastewater infrastructure, related property and appurtenances or a loan provided to finance a water supply development project. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• 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.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Import water: means to make water originating outside of this state available to water users within this state by conveyance, exchange or otherwise through projects that are funded or financed in whole or in part with monies from the long-term water augmentation fund. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Imported water: means any water that originates outside of this state and that is made available to water users within this state by conveyance, exchange or otherwise through projects that are funded or financed in whole or in part with monies from the long-term water augmentation fund. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Indian tribe: means any Indian tribe, band, group or community that is recognized by the United States secretary of the interior and that exercises governmental authority within the limits of any Indian reservation under the jurisdiction of the United States government, notwithstanding the issuance of any patent and including rights-of-way running through the reservation. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• 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}
• Long-term water augmentation bonds: means bonds that are issued by the authority in accordance with article 4 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Long-term water augmentation fund: means the fund established by section 49-1302. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Nonpoint source project: means a project designed to implement a certified water quality management plan. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• 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.
• 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: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Political subdivision: means a county, city, town or special taxing district authorized by law to construct wastewater treatment facilities, drinking water facilities or nonpoint source projects. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Private partner: means a person, entity or organization that is not the federal government, this state or a political subdivision of this state. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Public-private partnership project: means any water supply development project that is the subject of a public-private partnership agreement in accordance with this chapter. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• 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.
• Safe drinking water act: means the federal safe drinking water act of 1974 (P. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Technical assistance loan repayment agreement: means either of the following:

  (a) An agreement to repay a loan provided to develop, plan and design water or wastewater infrastructure, related property and appurtenances. See Arizona Laws 49-1201

• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Wastewater treatment facility: means a treatment works, as defined in section 212 of the clean water act, that is located in this state and that is designed to hold, cleanse or purify or to prevent the discharge of untreated or inadequately treated sewage or other polluted waters for purposes of complying with the clean water act. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Water provider: means any of the following:

  (a) A municipal water delivery system as defined in section 42-5301. See Arizona Laws 49-1201

• Water supply development: means any of the following:

  (a) Acquiring water or rights to or contracts for water to augment the water supply of a water provider, including any environmental or other reviews, permits or plans reasonably necessary for that acquisition. See Arizona Laws 49-1201

• Water-related facilities: means any facility related to the production, delivery, conservation or storage of water, including any canals, pipelines, desalination plants, pumping stations, storage projects, recovery wells, delivery and retention projects, water and wastewater treatment plants, and other equipment and facilities installed for water conservation purposes, together with any land, buildings or other improvements and equipment or personal property related thereto. See Arizona Laws 49-1201