Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 48 > Chapter 1 > Article 4 - Issuance of Revenue Bonds by Irrigation and Agricultural Improvement Districts

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Board of directors: means the board having charge of the affairs of the district. See Arizona Laws 48-141
• Bond: means any bond issued pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 48-141
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• District: means any irrigation or agricultural improvement district located in a federal reclamation project, organized pursuant to law. See Arizona Laws 48-141
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Undertaking: means the purchase, construction, leasing or acquisition of any real or personal property, works or facilities which the district is authorized by law to purchase, construct, lease or otherwise acquire, or the improvement, reconstruction, extension or addition to any real or personal property, works or facilities owned or operated by the district, but does not include the purchase or acquisition by the exercise of the right of eminent domain or condemnation of any existing works or facilities, nor the purchase, construction, leasing or acquisition of, or the extension or addition of, works or facilities designed to serve areas or territories outside the boundaries of the federal reclamation project in which the district is located, or areas or territories already being served or which within twelve months past have been served by existing works or facilities belonging to others. See Arizona Laws 48-141
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215