Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 41 > Chapter 4 > Article 7 - Management of State Properties

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Alternative fuel: means :

  (a) Electricity. See Arizona Laws 1-215

• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• 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
• Building renewal: means major activities that involve the repair or reworking of a building and the supporting infrastructure that will result in maintaining a building's expected useful life. See Arizona Laws 41-790
• Building system: means a group of buildings that together constitute a single unit for purposes of planning, land acquisition, construction or building renewal. See Arizona Laws 41-790
• Capital projects: means buildings, structures, facilities and areas constructed for the use or benefit of this state. See Arizona Laws 41-790
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the department of administration. See Arizona Laws 41-701.01
• Director: means the director of the department of administration. See Arizona Laws 41-701.01
• Employee: means all officers and employees of this state, whether in covered service or uncovered service, unless otherwise prescribed. See Arizona Laws 41-741
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Infrastructure: means nonbuilding improvements that directly support operating a facility that is listed in the annual building system such as utility delivery systems, roadway systems, external lighting systems, irrigation systems, sidewalks and parking lots. See Arizona Laws 41-790
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• 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.
• Land acquisition: means the procurement of real property by gift, grant, purchase, lease purchase, condemnation or other lawful means. See Arizona Laws 41-790
• 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}
• 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.
• Peace officers: means sheriffs of counties, constables, marshals, policemen of cities and towns, commissioned personnel of the department of public safety, personnel who are employed by the state department of corrections and the department of juvenile corrections and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a multicounty water conservation district and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by community college district governing boards and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the Arizona board of regents and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the governing body of a public airport pursuant to section 28-8426 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a private postsecondary institution pursuant to section 15-1897 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board and special agents from the office of the attorney general, or of a county attorney, and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Rules: means rules adopted by the department of administration, human resources division. See Arizona Laws 41-741
• Security: means security services related to building operation and maintenance functions provided by the department. See Arizona Laws 41-790
• State agency: means a department, board, office, authority, commission or other governmental budget unit of this state and includes an agency assigned to a department for administrative purposes. See Arizona Laws 41-741
• State capitol building: means :

  (a) The original 1898 statehouse known as the state capitol museum. See Arizona Laws 41-790

• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215