Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 11 > Chapter 13 > Article 1 - General Provisions

• Antenna: means communications equipment that transmits or receives electromagnetic radio frequency signals and that is used in providing wireless services. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Applicable codes: means uniform building, fire, electrical, plumbing or mechanical codes that are adopted by a recognized national code organization or local amendments to those codes that are enacted to address threats of destruction of property or injury to persons and to an extent that is not inconsistent with this article. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Applicant: means any person that submits an application and that is a wireless provider. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Application: means a request that is submitted by an applicant to a county on a form provided by the county for a permit to collocate small wireless facilities or to approve the installation, modification or replacement of a utility pole. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• collocation: means to install, mount, maintain, modify, operate or replace wireless facilities on, within or adjacent to a wireless support structure or utility pole. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Communications service: means cable service as defined in 47 United States Code section 522(6), information service as defined in 47 United States Code section 153(24), telecommunications service as defined in 47 United States Code section 153(53) or wireless service. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• 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.
• County utility pole: means a utility pole that is owned or operated by a county and that is in a right-of-way. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Fee: means a onetime charge to process an application and inspect any work performed by an applicant pursuant to a permit issued by the county. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Grantee: includes every person to whom an estate or interest in real property passes, in or by a deed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Grantor: includes every person from or by whom an estate or interest in real property passes, in or by a deed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Law: means any federal, state or local law, statute, common law, code, rule, regulation, order or ordinance. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• 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.
• Permit: means written permission issued by a county to install, mount, maintain, modify, operate or replace a utility pole or to collocate a small wireless facility on a utility pole or wireless support structure. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, trust or other entity or organization, including a county. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Private easement: means an easement or other real property right that is only for the benefit of the grantor and grantee and the grantor's or grantee's successors and assigns. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Rate: means a onetime charge for the granting of a right to use a portion of a right-of-way as specified in a permit or to collocate a small wireless facility on or adjacent to a utility pole or to install, modify or replace a utility pole as specified in a permit. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Right-of-way: means the area on, below or above a county roadway, highway, street, sidewalk, alley or utility easement. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Small wireless facility: means a wireless facility that meets both of the following qualifications:

  (a) All antennas are located inside an enclosure of not more than six cubic feet in volume or, in the case of an antenna that has exposed elements, the antenna and all of the antenna's exposed elements could fit within an imaginary enclosure of not more than six cubic feet in volume. See Arizona Laws 11-1801

• Special taxing district: means a special district formed pursuant to Title 48, Chapter 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20 or 22. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Utility pole: means a pole or similar structure that is used in whole or in part for communications services, electric distribution, lighting or traffic signals or a similar function. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Wireless infrastructure provider: means any person that is authorized to provide telecommunications service in this state and that builds or installs wireless communications transmission equipment, wireless facilities or utility poles but that is not a wireless services provider. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Wireless provider: means a cable operator, wireless infrastructure provider or wireless services provider. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Wireless services: means any services that are provided to the public and that use licensed or unlicensed spectrum, whether at a fixed location or mobile, using wireless facilities. See Arizona Laws 11-1801
• Wireless services provider: means a person that provides wireless services. See Arizona Laws 11-1801