Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 11 > Chapter 14 > Article 2 - Local Licenses

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Agreement: means any agreement or contract. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• 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.
• boundaries: means all of the area of the county that is not within the corporate limits of any city or town, including unincorporated territory that is surrounded on all sides by a combination of one or more cities, towns or Indian reservations. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Highway: means all roads, streets and alleys and other dedicated public rights-of-way that are operated and maintained by the county. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Holder: means a video service provider that has been issued a uniform video service license pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Holdover cable operator: means an incumbent cable operator that elects under sections 11-1912 and 11-1913 to continue to operate within its service area pursuant to its local license. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Incumbent cable operator: means a cable operator or other video service provider that on December 31, 2019 is providing video service in this state pursuant to a local license. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• 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.
• License: means a franchise as defined in 47 United States Code § 522. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Local license: means any license, agreement, permit or similar authorization that meets all of the following:

  (a) Allows a person to construct or operate a video service network within the boundaries of a county. See Arizona Laws 11-1901

• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. 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.
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Service area: means that part of the boundaries of a county within which a video service provider is authorized to provide video service pursuant to a uniform video service license or a local license. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• Uniform video service license: means a license that is issued by a county in the form of a uniform video service license agreement as adopted pursuant to section 11-1911. See Arizona Laws 11-1901
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215