Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 34 > Chapter 6 > Article 1 - General Provisions

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Architect services: means those professional architect services that are within the scope of architectural practice as provided in title 32, chapter 1. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Construction services: means either of the following for construction-manager-at-risk, design-build and job-order-contracting project delivery methods:

  (a) Construction, excluding services, through the construction-manager-at-risk or job-order-contracting project delivery methods. See Arizona Laws 34-101

• Construction-manager-at-risk: means a project delivery method in which:

  (a) There is a separate contract for design services and a separate contract for construction services, except that instead of a single contract for construction services, the agent may elect separate contracts for preconstruction services during the design phase, for construction during the construction phase and for any other construction services. See Arizona Laws 34-101

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract: means all types of agent agreements, regardless of what they are called, for the procurement of assayer services, construction services, design services, geologist services or land surveying services. See Arizona Laws 34-601
• Contractor: means any person who has a contract with an agent for assayer services, construction services, design services, geologist services or land surveying services. See Arizona Laws 34-601
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Design services: means architect services, engineer services or landscape architect services. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Design-bid-build: means a project delivery method in which:

  (a) There is a sequential award of two separate contracts. See Arizona Laws 34-101

• Design-build: means a project delivery method in which:

  (a) There is a single contract for design services and construction services, except that instead of a single contract for design services and construction services, the agent may elect separate contracts for preconstruction services and design services during the design phase, for construction and design services during the construction phase and for any other construction services. See Arizona Laws 34-101

• Engineer services: means those professional engineer services that are within the scope of engineering practice as provided in title 32, chapter 1. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• 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.
• Finance services: means financing for a construction services project. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Horizontal construction: means construction of highways, roads, streets, bridges, canals, floodways, earthen dams, landfills, light rail and airport runways, taxiways and aprons. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Job-order-contracting: means a project delivery method in which:

  (a) The contract is a requirements contract for indefinite quantities of construction. See Arizona Laws 34-101

• Landscape architect services: means those professional landscape architect services that are within the scope of landscape architectural practice as provided in Title 32, Chapter 1. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Maintenance services: means routine maintenance, repair and replacement of existing facilities, structures, buildings or real property. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• 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.
• Operations services: means routine operation of existing facilities, structures, buildings or real property. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Person: means any corporation, business, individual, union, committee, club, other organization or group of individuals. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Preconstruction services: means services and other activities during the design phase. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• 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
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subcontractor: means a person who contracts to perform work or render service to a contractor or to another subcontractor as a part of a contract with an agent. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215