Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 45 > Chapter 10 > Article 1 - In General

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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
• Authority: means the Arizona power authority created pursuant to Title 30, Chapter 1. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• 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.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the department of water resources. See Arizona Laws 45-101
• Director: means the director of water resources, who is also the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 45-101
• District: means any irrigation district, power district, electrical district, agricultural improvement district or water users association now or hereafter organized under the laws of this state that is directly engaged in the sale, distribution or delivery of municipal, industrial or irrigation water or in the sale, distribution or use of electric power or energy. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• 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.
• Groundwater: means water under the surface of the earth regardless of the geologic structure in which it is standing or moving. See Arizona Laws 45-101
• 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}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Municipality: means any incorporated city or town or other corporation organized for municipal purposes. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• notes: means bonds and notes, respectively, of the authority issued pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• 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.
• 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
• Power: means electric power or electric energy or both. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Public utility: means any person, corporation, district, electric cooperative, public agency or political subdivision of the state that provides electrical service to the public by means of electric facilities or provides water for municipal, industrial, irrigation, recreation and fish and wildlife purposes to the public. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Real property: means lands, rights in lands, interests in land, including lands under water, appurtenances, improvements and any and all other things and rights usually included within the term and includes also any and all interest in such property less than full title, such as easements, permanent or temporary rights-of-way, uses, leases, licenses and other such incorporeal hereditaments. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• State: means the state of Arizona. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• State water and power development fund: means the fund by that name established by section 45-1711. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• State water and power plan: means the plan established pursuant to section 45-1703. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Wholesale: means sales to municipalities, districts or public utilities for resale or distribution. See Arizona Laws 45-1702