Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 48 > Chapter 18 > Article 11 - Financing Flood Protection Facilities

• Acre: means one acre of unsubdivided land. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• assessment roll: means a special assessment made under this article. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• Block: means a parcel of land, whether regular or irregular, that is bounded by streets, or by one or more streets and by one or more boundary lines of the flood protection district. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Board: means the board of directors of the district. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contractor: means a contractor, or a personal representative or assignee of a contractor, and any person or entity procured pursuant to Title 34, Chapter 6, Article 1. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• 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.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Delinquency: means delinquency in the payment of an assessment under this article. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Engineer: means a person who, under any official title, is the civil engineer or surveyor of the district or the person appointed or employed by the board to perform the duties required of an engineer under this article. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• 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.
• Flood protection facility: means dams, levies, diversion works, tunnels, excavations, ditches, drains, conduits, channels, outlets and outfalls of every character, and machinery, apparatus, equipment and all appliances and structures necessary or incidental to the construction, installation or operation of a complete flood protection system. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• improvement: means the construction, reconstruction, replacement, renovation and repair of all or part of a flood protection facility. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Improvement bond: means a bond issued under this article. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Lot: means any portion, piece, parcel or subdivision of land or property. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Owner: means the person who, on the day the action or proceeding is begun or a notice is given, possesses legal title to the lot by deed recorded in the county recorder's office or the person who is in possession of the lot under claim of title or exercising acts of ownership over the lot for the person or as the personal representative of the owner. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Parcel: means an unsubdivided parcel of land that is larger than an acre. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• 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
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• 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.
• secretary: means a member of the board or such other person as may be designated by the board to function as a clerk or secretary. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• Treasurer: means the treasurer of the county in which the district is located. See Arizona Laws 48-2831
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215