Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 35 > Chapter 6 - Pollution Control Financing

• 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.
• Area of jurisdiction: means that part of a city or town, or that part of the unincorporated area of a county, or both when applied to a cable television system within parts of more than one jurisdiction, for which a license is issued. See Arizona Laws 9-505
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Cable operator: means a person that is issued a license by the licensing authority to construct, operate and maintain a cable television system in public streets, roads and alleys. See Arizona Laws 9-505
• Cable service: means the transmission to subscribers of video programming or other programming service and subscriber interaction, if any, that is required for the selection or use of the video programming or other programming service. See Arizona Laws 9-505
• Cable television system: means any facility consisting of a set of closed transmission paths and associated signal generation, reception and control equipment that is designed to provide cable service that includes video programming and that is provided to multiple subscribers within a community. See Arizona Laws 9-505
• 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.
• Corporation: means any pollution control corporation incorporated by a municipality or county pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 35-801
• County: means any county in this state in which a corporation may be organized and in which it is contemplated the corporation will function. See Arizona Laws 35-801
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• 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.
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governing body: means the board or body in which the general powers of the municipality or the county are vested. See Arizona Laws 35-801
• Gross revenues: means all cash, credits, property of any kind or nature, or other consideration, less related bad debt not to exceed one and one-half per cent annually, that is received directly or indirectly by the cable operator, its affiliates, subsidiaries or parent or any person, firm or corporation in which the cable operator has a financial interest or that has a financial interest in the cable operator and that is derived from the cable operator's operation of its cable system to provide cable service in the area of jurisdiction. See Arizona Laws 9-505
• 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}
• License: means that ordinance or resolution which contains the right, authority or grant, given by a licensing authority enabling a person to construct, operate and maintain a cable television system. See Arizona Laws 9-505
• Licensing authority: means the board of supervisors of a county or the governing body of an incorporated city, including a charter city, or town. See Arizona Laws 9-505
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Municipality: means any incorporated city or town, including charter cities, in this state in which a corporation may be organized and in which it is contemplated the corporation will function. See Arizona Laws 35-801
• 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.
• Other programming service: means information that a cable operator makes available to all subscribers generally. See Arizona Laws 9-505
• Pollution control facilities: means real and personal properties including but not limited to machinery and equipment, whether or not now in existence or under construction, which are used in whole or in part to control, prevent, abate, alter, dispose or store, solid waste, thermal, noise, atmospheric or water pollutants, contaminants or products therefrom, whether such facilities serve one or more purposes or functions in addition to controlling, preventing, abating, altering, disposing or storing such pollutants, contaminants or the products therefrom. See Arizona Laws 35-801
• 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
• Video programming: means programming that is provided by, or generally comparable to programming provided by, a broadcast television station. See Arizona Laws 9-505