Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 48 > Chapter 28 > Article 7 - Replenishment

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Active management area: means an active management area established under Title 45, Chapter 2. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• 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.
• Board: means either the initial board of directors or the permanent board of directors of a district. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Credits: means any groundwater in addition to the amount of groundwater that may be used at a water district member land or delivered within a water district member service area for use within the water district member service area pursuant to the applicable assured water supply rules adopted by the department of water resources. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Declaration: means an instrument recorded against real property and conforming to the requirements stated in section 48-4975, subsection A, paragraph 4. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• District: means an active management area water district established under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• 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.
• Excess groundwater: means an amount of groundwater equal to that amount of groundwater delivered to a water district member land in a calendar year or delivered within a water district member service area by the municipal provider for that water district member service area in a calendar year in excess of the amount of groundwater that may be used at the water district member land in that calendar year or may be delivered by the municipal provider for use within the water district member service area in that calendar year consistent with the applicable assured water supply rules adopted by the department of water resources pursuant to section 45-576, subsection H for the active management area where the water district member land or the water district member service area is located. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• 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}
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Municipal provider: means a city, town or private water company. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• 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.
• Parcel of water district member land: means any portion of water district member land for which the county assessor for the county in which the water district member land is located has issued a separate tax parcel number. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Project: means a facility necessary or convenient to obtain, divert, withdraw, transport, exchange, deliver, treat or store water, including rights-of-way, real and personal property, interests in property and improvements to property that are necessary or appropriate to maintain and operate the facilities. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• 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.
• Replenish: means to increase the amount of groundwater in an aquifer through water storage pursuant to Title 45, Chapter 3. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Resolution: means a resolution, adopted by the governing body of a city or town, by the board of directors of a private water company that is a corporation, by the general partners of a private water company that is a partnership or by the individual owners of a private water company that is individually owned. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Water district groundwater replenishment obligation: means , for the active management area in which water district member lands or water district member service areas are or may be located, the total of the cumulative water district parcel replenishment obligation of all parcels of water district member land in that active management area for a particular calendar year plus the cumulative water district service area replenishment obligation of all water district member service areas in that active management area for a particular calendar year. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Water district member land: means any real property that meets the requirements of section 48-4975. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Water district member service area: means the service area of a municipal provider that is located in the active management area in which the district is located and that qualifies as a water district member service area under section 48-4981, including any additions to or extensions of the service area. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Water district parcel replenishment obligation: means , with respect to any particular parcel of water district member land, an amount of groundwater equal to the amount of groundwater delivered to the parcel of water district member land in a calendar year, multiplied by the percentage that the excess groundwater of the applicable water district member land for that year bears to the total amount of groundwater delivered to the applicable water district member land during that year. See Arizona Laws 48-4801
• Water district service area replenishment obligation: means , with respect to any particular water district member service area, the excess groundwater of that water district member service area in a particular calendar year reduced by the replenishment credits, if any, applied by the municipal provider with respect to the water district member service area under section 48-4973, subsection I. See Arizona Laws 48-4801