Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 40 > Chapter 2 > Article 6.2 - Power Plant and Transmission Line Siting Committee

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• 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.
• Area of jurisdiction: means the state, a county or an incorporated city or town that exercises concurrent or exclusive jurisdiction over a geographical area. See Arizona Laws 40-360
• Certificate of environmental compatibility: means the certificate that is required by this article and that evidences the approval by the state of the sites for a plant or transmission line, or both. See Arizona Laws 40-360
• Commission: means the corporation commission. See Arizona Laws 40-360
• Committee: means the power plant and transmission line siting committee. See Arizona Laws 40-360
• 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.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• electric service: means electric energy, electric capacity or electric capacity and energy. See Arizona Laws 40-201
• 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.
• Facilities: means a plant or transmission line, or both. See Arizona Laws 40-360
• 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.
• Member: means the state official named herein, the employee designee thereof from the department, agency or governing body of such state official member and the public members designated herein. See Arizona Laws 40-360
• Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
• 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.
• Person: means any state or agency or political subdivision thereof, or any individual, partnership, joint venture, corporation, city or county, whether located within or without this state, or any combination of such entities. See Arizona Laws 40-360
• Plant: means each separate thermal electric, nuclear or hydroelectric generating unit with a nameplate rating of one hundred megawatts or more for which expenditures or financial commitments for land acquisition, materials, construction or engineering exceeding $50,000 have not been made before August 13, 1971. See Arizona Laws 40-360
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Transmission line: means five or more new structures that span more than one mile in length as measured from the first structure outside of the substation, switchyard or generating site to which the line connects to the fifth structure and that are erected above ground and support one or more conductors designed for the transmission of electric energy at nominal voltages of one hundred fifteen thousand volts or more and all new switchyards to be used therewith and related thereto for which expenditures or financial commitments for land acquisition, materials, construction or engineering exceeding $50,000 have not been made before August 13, 1971. See Arizona Laws 40-360
• Utility: means any person engaged in the generation or transmission of electric energy. See Arizona Laws 40-360
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215