Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 45 > Chapter 1 > Article 14 - Community Water System Planning and Reporting Requirements

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Community water system: means a public water system that serves at least fifteen service connections used by year-round residents of the area served by the system or that regularly serves at least twenty-five year-round residents of the area served by the system. See Arizona Laws 45-341
• 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.
• 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
• Effluent: means water that has been collected in a sanitary sewer for subsequent treatment in a facility that is regulated pursuant to Title 49, Chapter 2. See Arizona Laws 45-101
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Large community water system: means a community water system that serves water to more than one thousand eight hundred fifty persons. See Arizona Laws 45-341
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Public water system: means an entity that distributes or sells water and that qualifies as a public water system under section 49-352, subsection B. See Arizona Laws 45-341
• Small community water system: means a community water system that does not qualify as a large community water system. See Arizona Laws 45-341
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215