Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 49 > Chapter 3 > Article 8 - Travel Reduction Programs

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Administrator: means the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Alternate mode: means any mode of commute transportation other than the single occupancy motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Alternative fuel: means :

  (a) Electricity. See Arizona Laws 1-215

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Approvable travel reduction plan: means a plan that is submitted by a major employer and that meets the requirements set forth in section 49-588. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Board: means the board of supervisors of a county with a population of more than one million two hundred thousand persons according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Commute trip: means a trip taken by an employee to or from a work site located within the county. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Commuter matching service: means a system, whether it uses computer or manual methods, which assists in matching employees for the purpose of sharing rides to reduce the drive alone travel. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• 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
• 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.
• Director: means the director of environmental quality who is also the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 49-101
• Employer: means any sole proprietor, partnership, corporation, unincorporated association, cooperative, joint venture, agency, department, district or other individual or entity, either public or private, that employs workers. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• 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.
• 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.
• Major employer: means an employer with one hundred or more employees working at or reporting to a single work site during any twenty-four hour period for at least three days per week during at least six months of the year, except that in area A the threshold is fifty employees. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Mobile source: means any combustion engine, device, machine or equipment that operates during transport and that emits or generates air contaminants whether in motion or at rest. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Mode: means the type of conveyance used in transportation, including single occupancy motor vehicle, rideshare vehicles, transit, bicycle and walking. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• 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
• Motor vehicle: means any self-propelled vehicle including a car, van, bus or motorcycle and all other motorized vehicles. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• 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
• Planning agency: means an organization designated by the governor pursuant to 42 United States Code § 7504. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Political subdivision: means a city, town or county of this state. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• 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
• Public interest group: means any nonprofit group whose purpose is to further the welfare of the community. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Reduced emission vehicle: means a motor vehicle that is certified by the task force as being substantially lower emitting in actual use than vehicles generally purchased in the area and that shall be counted as less than a single motor vehicle for travel reduction plan purposes. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Reduced emission vehicle factor: means a factor that is applied to the single occupancy vehicle count and the motor vehicle miles traveled count pursuant to section 49-588 to allow a reduced emission vehicle to receive less than the full count of a regular motor vehicle or a mile traveled by a regular motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Regional: means an area which encompasses or overlaps territory within the jurisdiction of two or more political subdivisions of this state. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Regional program: means the combination of all implemented plans within area A which program shall begin in January, 1989. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Ridesharing: means transportation of more than one person for commute purposes in a motor vehicle, with or without the assistance of a commuter matching service. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Staff: means the county staff assigned to the task force. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• State implementation plan: means the accumulated record of enforceable air pollution control measures, programs and plans adopted by the director and submitted to the administrator pursuant to 42 United States Code § 7410. See Arizona Laws 49-401.01
• Task force: means the travel reduction program regional task force in area A which is designated by the board as the responsible agency to implement and enforce this article. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Transit: means a bus or other public conveyance system. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Transportation coordinator: means a person designated by an employer, property manager or transportation management association as the lead person in developing and implementing a travel reduction plan. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Transportation management association: means a group of employers or associations formally organized to seek solutions for transportation problems experienced by the group. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Travel reduction plan: means a written report outlining travel reduction measures. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Travel reduction program: means a program that implements a travel reduction plan by an employer and is designed to achieve a predetermined level of travel reduction through various incentives and disincentives. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• vanpool: means two or more persons traveling in an automobile, truck or van to or from work. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Vehicle miles traveled: means the number of miles traveled by a motor vehicle for commute trips. See Arizona Laws 49-581
• Work site: means a building and any grouping of buildings which are on physically contiguous parcels of land or on parcels separated solely by private or public roadways or rights-of-way and which are owned or operated by the same employer. See Arizona Laws 49-581