Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 49 > Chapter 3 > Article 5 - Annual Emissions Inspection of Motor Vehicles

• Alternative fuel: means :

  (a) Electricity. 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
• Attainment area: means any area in this state that has been identified in regulations promulgated by the administrator as being in compliance with national ambient air quality standards. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Certificate of inspection: means a serially numbered device or symbol, as may be prescribed by the director, indicating that a vehicle has been inspected pursuant to the provisions of section 49-546 and has passed inspection. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• Certificate of waiver: means a uniquely numbered device or symbol, as may be prescribed by the director, indicating that the requirement of passing reinspection has been waived for a vehicle pursuant to the provisions of this article. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• Clean air act: means the clean air act of 1963 (P. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Clean burning fuel: means :

  (a) An emulsion of water-phased hydrocarbon fuel that contains not less than twenty percent water by volume and that complies with any of the following:

  (i) Is used in an engine that is certified to meet at a minimum the United States environmental protection agency low emission vehicle standard pursuant to 40 C. See Arizona Laws 1-215

• Commence: means , as applied to construction of a source:

  (a) For purposes other than title IV of the clean air act, that the owner or operator has obtained all necessary preconstruction approval or permits required by federal law and this chapter and has done either of the following:

  (i) Begun or caused to begin a continuous program of physical on-site construction of the source to be completed within a reasonable time. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01

• Conditioning mode: means either a fast idle test or a loaded test. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• Construction: means any physical change in a source or change in the method of operation of a source including fabrication, erection, installation or demolition of a source that would result in a change in actual emissions. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Curb idle test: means an exhaust emissions test conducted with the engine of a vehicle running at the manufacturer's specified idle speed plus or minus one hundred revolutions per minute but without pressure exerted on the accelerator. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Director: means the director of environmental quality who is also the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 49-101
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Emissions inspection station permit: means a certificate issued by the director authorizing the holder to perform vehicular inspections pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• 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.
• Fast idle test: means an exhaust emissions test conducted with the engine of the vehicle running under an accelerated condition to an extent prescribed by the director. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• 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.
• Fleet emissions inspection station: means any inspection facility operated under a permit issued to a qualified fleet owner or lessee as determined by the director. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• Golf cart: means a motor vehicle which has not less than three wheels in contact with the ground, has an unladen weight of less than thirteen hundred pounds, is designed to be and is operated at not more than fifteen miles an hour and is designed to carry golf equipment and persons. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Independent contractor: means any person, business, firm, partnership or corporation with which the director may enter into an agreement providing for the construction, equipment, maintenance, personnel, management and operation of official emissions inspection stations pursuant to section 49-545. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• 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}
• Loaded test: means an exhaust emissions test conducted at cruise or transient conditions as prescribed by the director. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• modify: means a physical change in or change in the method of operation of a source that increases the emissions of any regulated air pollutant emitted by such source by more than any relevant de minimis amount or that results in the emission of any regulated air pollutant not previously emitted by more than such de minimis amount. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• 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.
• Official emissions inspection station: means an inspection facility, other than a fleet emissions inspection station, whether placed in a permanent structure or in a mobile unit for conveyance among various locations within this state, for the purpose of conducting emissions inspections of all vehicles required to be inspected pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Source: means any building, structure, facility or installation that may cause or contribute to air pollution or the use of which may eliminate, reduce or control the emission of air pollution. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Tampering: means removing, defeating or altering an emissions control device which was installed at the time a vehicle was manufactured. See Arizona Laws 49-541
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Vehicle: means any automobile, truck, truck tractor, motor bus or self-propelled or motor-driven vehicle registered or to be registered in this state and used upon the public highways of this state for the purpose of transporting persons or property, except implements of husbandry, road rollers or road machinery temporarily operated upon the highway. See Arizona Laws 49-541