Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 49 > Chapter 8 > Article 2 - Clean Water Revolving Fund, Drinking Water Revolving Fund and Hardship Grant Fund Financial Provisions

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Authority: means the water infrastructure finance authority of Arizona. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Board: means the water infrastructure finance authority board established by section 49-1206. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Bonds of a political subdivision: means bonds issued by a political subdivision as authorized by law. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Clean water act: means the federal water pollution control act amendments of 1972 (P. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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
• 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
• Indian tribe: means any Indian tribe, band, group or community that is recognized by the United States secretary of the interior and that exercises governmental authority within the limits of any Indian reservation under the jurisdiction of the United States government, notwithstanding the issuance of any patent and including rights-of-way running through the reservation. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Nonpoint source project: means a project designed to implement a certified water quality management plan. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• 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.
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Political subdivision: means a county, city, town or special taxing district authorized by law to construct wastewater treatment facilities, drinking water facilities or nonpoint source projects. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Safe drinking water act: means the federal safe drinking water act of 1974 (P. See Arizona Laws 49-1201
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Wastewater treatment facility: means a treatment works, as defined in section 212 of the clean water act, that is located in this state and that is designed to hold, cleanse or purify or to prevent the discharge of untreated or inadequately treated sewage or other polluted waters for purposes of complying with the clean water act. See Arizona Laws 49-1201