Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 36 > Chapter 12 > Article 1 - Municipal Housing

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Area of operation: includes all the territory of a city, town or county. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Blighted area: means an area where dwellings predominate that are detrimental to safety, health or morals because they are dilapidated or overcrowded or lack ventilation, light or sanitary facilities. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• Bonds: means bonds, notes, interim certificates, debentures or other obligations issued by a public housing authority, city, town or county pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• Clerk: means the clerk of the board of supervisors, the city or town clerk or the officer charged with the duties customarily imposed on the clerk. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Federal government: includes the United States, the United States department of housing and urban development or any other agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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 of commissioners of a public housing authority, the common council or other legislative body of the city or town or the county board of supervisors. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• housing authority: means an agency of a city, town or county created and controlled pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Mayor: means the mayor of the city or town or the officer thereof charged with the duties customarily imposed on the mayor or executive head of a city or town. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• 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.
• Obligee: includes any holder of bonds issued pursuant to this article, trustee or trustees for such bondholders, or lessor demising to a public housing authority, city, town or county property used in connection with a housing project, or an assignee or assignees of such lessor's interest or any part thereof, and the federal government when it is a party to a contract with a public housing authority, city, town or county in regard to a housing project. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Persons of low income: means persons or families who lack the amount of income that is necessary, as determined by the public housing authority, city, town or county undertaking the housing project, to enable them, without financial assistance, to live in decent, safe and sanitary dwellings without overcrowding. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• 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
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: includes all lands, including improvements and fixtures on the land, and property of any nature appurtenant to the land, or used in connection with the land, and every estate, interest and right, legal or equitable, therein, including terms for years and liens by way of judgment, mortgage or otherwise and the indebtedness secured by such liens. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• State public body: means any public housing authority, county, municipal corporation, commission, district, authority or other subdivision or public body of the state. See Arizona Laws 36-1401
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215