Arizona Laws 42-14101. Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 42-14101
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Gas: means :
(a) Natural gas, including casinghead gas. See Arizona Laws 42-14101
- Gross production: means all oil, gas or geothermal resources that are produced and saved except:
(a) Any interest of the United States or this state or of any other person or entity that is exempt under the laws of the United States or the constitution or laws of this state in any oil, gas or geothermal resources or in the proceeds of oil, gas or geothermal resources. See Arizona Laws 42-14101
- including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- 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
- Oil: means crude petroleum oil and other hydrocarbons regardless of gravity that are produced at the well in liquid form by ordinary production methods and that are not the result of condensation of gas after it leaves the reservoir. See Arizona Laws 42-14101
- 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
- Producer: means a person who owns, controls or leases, either as lessor or lessee, or who has any other interest in oil, gas or geothermal resource lands or oil, gas or geothermal resource wells on January 1 of each year if any person produced any oil, gas or geothermal resource in any manner from the lands or wells during the preceding calendar year. See Arizona Laws 42-14101
- production: means any taking of oil or gas from any land in this state that is under the state's jurisdiction. See Arizona Laws 42-14101
- Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
1. "Gas" means:
(a) Natural gas, including casinghead gas.
(b) All other hydrocarbons that are not defined as oil by this section.
(c) Helium and other nonhydrocarbon substances of a gaseous nature.
2. "Geothermal resource" has the same meaning prescribed in section 27-651.
3. "Gross production" means all oil, gas or geothermal resources that are produced and saved except:
(a) Any interest of the United States or this state or of any other person or entity that is exempt under the laws of the United States or the constitution or laws of this state in any oil, gas or geothermal resources or in the proceeds of oil, gas or geothermal resources.
(b) Oil, gas or geothermal resources that are used in producing operations or for repressuring or recycling purposes to develop and operate the producer’s interests in oil, gas or geothermal resource wells in this state.
4. "Gross yield" means the amount for which the gross production is sold in the immediate vicinity of the well or, if not sold on the property, the field or posted price or representative market price at the well of oil, gas or geothermal resources that are transported from the property.
5. "Oil" means crude petroleum oil and other hydrocarbons regardless of gravity that are produced at the well in liquid form by ordinary production methods and that are not the result of condensation of gas after it leaves the reservoir.
6. "Produced", "producing" or "production" means any taking of oil or gas from any land in this state that is under the state’s jurisdiction.
7. "Producer" means a person who owns, controls or leases, either as lessor or lessee, or who has any other interest in oil, gas or geothermal resource lands or oil, gas or geothermal resource wells on January 1 of each year if any person produced any oil, gas or geothermal resource in any manner from the lands or wells during the preceding calendar year. Producer includes any person who owns any royalty or other interest in any oil, gas or geothermal resources, or its value, whether produced by that person or by another person on that person’s behalf, either by lease, contract or otherwise.