Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 9 > Chapter 4 > Article 8 - Miscellaneous

• Accommodation: means any apartment, condominium or cooperative unit, cabin, lodge, hotel or motel room or other private or commercial structure that contains toilet facilities, that is designed and available for use and occupancy as a residence by one or more individuals and that is included in the offering of a timeshare plan. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Action: includes recoupment, counterclaim, setoff, suit in equity and any other proceeding in which rights are determined, including an action for possession. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Action: includes recoupment, counterclaim, setoff, suit in equity and any other proceeding in which rights are determined, including an action for possession. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Affiliate: means :

  (a) With respect to an individual:

  (i) A companion of the individual. See Arizona Laws 33-2601

• Agency: means any state agency, school district or office or agency established by either title 11 or a county board of supervisors. See Arizona Laws 35-341
• Allotment: means the allocation of an appropriation or other fund source over a full fiscal year within a budget program or expenditure class. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Alternative fuel: means :

  (a) Electricity. See Arizona Laws 1-215

• 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.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Anniversary date: means an annual date applying to all tenants stated in the rental agreement on which the landlord may adjust the amount of rent. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• 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
• Appurtenances: means awnings, sheds, porches and other attachments to the mobile home. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Appurtenances: means awnings, sheds, porches and other attachments to the recreational vehicle. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Architect services: means those professional architect services that are within the scope of architectural practice as provided in title 32, chapter 1. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Assessment: means the share of monies that are required for the payment of common expenses and that the managing entity assesses periodically against each owner, and any other amount required to be paid by owners under a timeshare instrument. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Association: means any organized body consisting solely of the owners of timeshare interests in a timeshare plan. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Authorized agent: means a commercial enterprise that is contracted to process transactions on behalf of a state agency. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• 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.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Board: means the governing body designated in the timeshare instrument to act on behalf of an association. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Board of deposit: means , in the case of a county, the board of supervisors, and in the case of a city or town, the common council. See Arizona Laws 35-321
• Bond: means a bond authorized and issued under this article. See Arizona Laws 35-468
• Bond: means any bond, note, warrant, lease, lease purchase agreement or other interest bearing obligation issued pursuant to any provision of law by this state or any political subdivision. See Arizona Laws 35-511
• Bonds: means tax anticipation bonds issued pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 35-401
• Boycott: means engaging in a refusal to deal, terminating business activities or performing other actions that are intended to limit commercial relations with entities doing business in Israel or in territories controlled by Israel, if those actions are taken either:

  (a) Based in part on the fact that the entity does business in Israel or in territories controlled by Israel. See Arizona Laws 35-393

• Budget estimates: means statements with accompanying explanations, as provided by this chapter, in which a budget unit states its financial requirements and requests appropriations. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Budget program: means functions and activities of a budget unit or within a budget unit that are preplanned to fulfill a distinct mission. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Budget unit: means any department, commission, board, institution or other agency of this state receiving, expending or disbursing state monies or incurring obligations against this state. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Capital structure: means the amount of the capital of the eligible depository shown by the latest call statement of condition as defined by rule of the department of insurance and financial institutions for the purpose of administration of this article. See Arizona Laws 35-321
• Cardholder: means any person:

  (a) Named on the face of a credit card to whom or for whose benefit the credit card is issued by an issuer. See Arizona Laws 35-101

• Change in use: means either of the following:

  (a) A change in the use of land from the rental of mobile home spaces in a mobile home park to some other use. See Arizona Laws 33-1409

• Change in use: means a change in the use of land from the rental of recreational vehicle spaces in a recreational vehicle park to some other use. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Child pornography: means the visual depiction of sexual exploitation of a minor as prescribed in section 13-3553. See Arizona Laws 34-501
• City: means any city incorporated under the laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 35-465
• City: means a city or town incorporated under the laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 35-467
• Claim: means a demand against the state for payment for either:

  (a) Goods delivered or, in the case of highway construction, goods or facilities to be delivered by the federal government. See Arizona Laws 35-101

• 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

• Collecting entity: means the entity from which the treasurer receives general funding including the county for collections performed by a county treasurer, the city for collections performed by a city treasurer or the district for collections performed by a district treasurer. See Arizona Laws 35-321
• Common expenses: means the costs and expenses of and for operating the timeshare plan and timeshare property as set forth in the timeshare instrument. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Community documents: means condominium documents as defined in section 33-1202 or community documents as defined in section 33-1802, including covenants, conditions and restrictions and deed restrictions applicable to the dwelling. See Arizona Laws 33-2001
• Companion: means :

  (a) The spouse of an individual. See Arizona Laws 33-2601

• Company: means an organization, association, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company or other entity or business association, including a wholly owned subsidiary, majority-owned subsidiary, parent company or affiliate, that engages in for-profit activity and that has ten or more full-time employees. See Arizona Laws 35-393
• Compatible: means a recreational vehicle that is in a similar condition as the majority of the other recreational vehicles in the recreational vehicle park, as determined by the maintenance, condition and overall appearance of the recreational vehicle. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Construction services: means either of the following for construction-manager-at-risk, design-build and job-order-contracting project delivery methods:

  (a) Construction, excluding services, through the construction-manager-at-risk or job-order-contracting project delivery methods. See Arizona Laws 34-101

• Construction-manager-at-risk: means a project delivery method in which:

  (a) There is a separate contract for design services and a separate contract for construction services, except that instead of a single contract for construction services, the agent may elect separate contracts for preconstruction services during the design phase, for construction during the construction phase and for any other construction services. See Arizona Laws 34-101

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract: means all types of agent agreements, regardless of what they are called, for the procurement of services pursuant to this title. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Contract: means all types of agent agreements, regardless of what they are called, for the procurement of assayer services, construction services, design services, geologist services or land surveying services. See Arizona Laws 34-601
• Contractor: means any person who has a contract with an agent. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Contractor: means any person who has a contract with an agent for assayer services, construction services, design services, geologist services or land surveying services. See Arizona Laws 34-601
• Convenience fee: means an additional fee that is imposed by an authorized agent on a web-based or voice response portal transaction for the acceptance of a credit card that would not be charged if the same transaction were completed by an alternate method of payment. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• 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.
• Corporation: means any corporation organized as an authority as provided in this chapter. See Arizona Laws 35-701
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• county: means the Arizona finance authority, the Arizona board of regents or any incorporated city or town, including charter cities, or any county in this state in which a corporation may be organized and in which it is contemplated the corporation will function. See Arizona Laws 35-701
• County: means any county now or hereafter in existence in the state. See Arizona Laws 35-465
• Court: means the superior court. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Credit card: means :

  (a) Any instrument or device, whether known as a credit card, charge card, credit plate, courtesy card or identification card or by any other name, that is issued with or without a fee by an issuer for the use of the cardholder in obtaining money, goods, services or anything else of value, either on credit or in possession or in consideration of an undertaking or guaranty by the issuer of the payment of a check drawn by the cardholder, on a promise to pay in part or in full at a future time, whether or not all or any part of the indebtedness represented by this promise to make deferred payment is secured or unsecured. See Arizona Laws 35-101

• Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. ^{Source: OCC}
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Debtor: means an individual whether married or single utilizing property described in this article for personal, family or household use. See Arizona Laws 33-1121
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Default: means the failure to perform on time any obligation or duty set forth in the rental agreement. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the Arizona game and fish department in the case of motorized watercraft and the department of transportation in the case of all other vehicles. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Design professional: means an individual or firm that is registered by the state board of technical registration pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 1 to practice architecture, engineering, geology, landscape architecture or land surveying or any combination of those professions and persons employed by the registered individual or firm. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Design services: means architect services, engineer services or landscape architect services. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Design-bid-build: means a project delivery method in which:

  (a) There is a sequential award of two separate contracts. See Arizona Laws 34-101

• Design-build: means a project delivery method in which:

  (a) There is a single contract for design services and construction services, except that instead of a single contract for design services and construction services, the agent may elect separate contracts for preconstruction services and design services during the design phase, for construction and design services during the construction phase and for any other construction services. See Arizona Laws 34-101

• Developer: means either of the following:

  (a) Any person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust or other entity, other than a sales agent, that creates a timeshare plan. See Arizona Laws 33-2202

• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Direct holdings: means all publicly traded securities of a company that are held directly by the state treasurer or a retirement system in an actively managed account or fund in which the retirement system owns all shares or interests. See Arizona Laws 35-393
• Direct selection: means the selection of a technical registrant without the requirement of advertising or the use of a current register. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Director: means the director of the Arizona department of housing. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Discount fee: means the fee that is calculated and charged by the credit card issuer or a financial institution pursuant to an agreement for the processing of any credit card transaction. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Dwelling: means a newly constructed single family or multifamily unit designed for residential use and property and improvements that are either owned by a homeowners' association or jointly by all of the members of a homeowners' association. See Arizona Laws 33-2001
• Educational program: means a class, workshop or educational convention that primarily instructs attendees on issues dealing with the operation of a mobile home park and that is sponsored by a nonprofit organization whose sole or primary purpose is the advocacy and promotion of the rental mobile home parks industry. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Electronic mail: means an electronic message or an executable program or computer file that contains an image of a message that is transmitted between two or more computers or electronic terminals and includes electronic messages that are transmitted within or between computer networks from which a confirmation of receipt is received. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Eligible depository: means any commercial or savings bank or savings and loan association with its principal place of business in the United States which is insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation or any successor, or any other insuring instrumentality of the United States, in accordance with the applicable law of the United States or credit union which is insured by the national credit union administration. See Arizona Laws 35-310
• Eligible depository: means any:

  (a) Commercial or savings bank or savings and loan association that has either a branch in this state or its principal place of business in this state and that is insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation or its successor or any other insuring instrumentality of the United States according to the applicable federal law. See Arizona Laws 35-321

• Encumbrance: means an obligation in the form of any purchase order, contract or other commitment that is chargeable to an appropriation or any other authorized fund source and for which a part of the fund source is reserved. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Engineer services: means those professional engineer services that are within the scope of engineering practice as provided in title 32, chapter 1. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• 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}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executory contract: means a contract, including a lease, under which each party has an unperformed obligation and the failure of a party to complete performance would constitute a material breach. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Expenditure class: means one of the kinds of expenditure denoting a class of services or commodities purchased or properties acquired as specified in the classification of expenditures prescribed by the director of the department of administration for use in expenditure accounting, in making budget estimates and in the budget reports and budgets. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Finance services: means financing for a construction services project. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• 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.
• Fiscal year: means the period commencing on July 1 of any year and terminating on June 30 of the next succeeding year. See Arizona Laws 35-465
• Fiscal year: means the period commencing on July 1 of any year and terminating on June 30 of the next succeeding year. See Arizona Laws 35-467
• 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}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fund: means the mobile home relocation fund. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Good faith: means honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Good faith: means honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned. See Arizona Laws 33-2001
• Good faith: means honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Goods: means all personal property purchased, procured or contracted for by an agency, including leases of real property or other arrangements for the use of space. See Arizona Laws 35-341
• Governing body: means :

  (a) The board or body in which the general legislative powers of the municipality or the county are vested. See Arizona Laws 35-701

• Governing body: means the body constituted by law to be the legislative department of the taxing district. See Arizona Laws 35-465
• Governing body: means the body constituted by law to be the governing board of the issuer. See Arizona Laws 35-466
• Governing body: means the body constituted by law to be the legislative department of the taxing district. See Arizona Laws 35-467
• Governmental agency: includes this state, agencies, boards, commissions, departments, institutions and political subdivisions of this state, municipal corporations and all other public bodies which may enter into contracts for the construction or repair of highways, buildings or structures, or additions or alterations to highways, buildings or structures, or for the furnishing of equipment, labor or materials. See Arizona Laws 34-251
• Governmental unit: means an office, department, division, bureau, board, commission or other agency of this state or a subdivision of this state. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Grant agreement: means any written agreement entered into with the issuer and the United States of America or any of its departments or agencies by which the issuer will receive a grant or subvention for which the funds to be advanced have been appropriated to the department or agency making the grant and by which the issuer incurs no monetary liability to repay the grant or subvention except for the obligation to construct a project or projects. See Arizona Laws 35-466
• Grant anticipation notes: means notes authorized by this article and also notes to refund grant anticipation notes. See Arizona Laws 35-466
• Grant revenues: means any revenues the issuer will receive under a grant agreement, proceeds of grant anticipation notes and income and gain from investment of such revenues and proceeds. See Arizona Laws 35-466
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Guest: means a nonresident, over and above the occupancy limit set for the resident's space under the terms of the rental agreement or by park rules, of a mobile home park who stays at the home of a person with constructive possession of the home with the consent of the resident for one or more nights and not more than thirty days in any twelve-month period. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Guest: means a nonresident of a recreational vehicle park, over and above the limit set for the resident's space under the terms of the rental agreement or by park rules, who stays at the home of a person with constructive possession of the home with the consent of the resident for one or more nights and not more than fourteen days in any twelve month period. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Horizontal construction: means construction of highways, roads, streets, bridges, canals, floodways, earthen dams, landfills, light rail and airport runways, taxiways and aprons. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Income: means gross earnings from wages, salary, commissions, bonuses or tips from all jobs, net earnings from such person's or family's own nonfarm business, professional practice or partnership, and net earnings from such person's or family's own farm. See Arizona Laws 35-701
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Indirect holdings: means all securities of a company that are held in an account or fund, including a mutual fund, that is managed by one or more persons who are not employed by the state treasurer or a retirement system, if the state treasurer or retirement system owns shares or interests either:

  (a) Together with other investors that are not subject to this section. See Arizona Laws 35-393

• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Issuer: means any business organization, state agency or financial institution, or its duly authorized agent, that issues a credit card. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Issuer: means any city, charter city, town, county, sanitary district, electrical district, irrigation district, hospital district, improvement district or any other similar municipal corporation. See Arizona Laws 35-466
• Job-order-contracting: means a project delivery method in which:

  (a) The contract is a requirements contract for indefinite quantities of construction. See Arizona Laws 34-101

• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• 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.
• Landlord: means the owner, lessor, sublessor or operator, or any combination thereof, of a mobile home park and it also means a manager of the premises who fails to disclose as required by section 33-1432. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Landlord: means :

  (a) The owner, lessor, sublessor or operator, or any combination of these persons, of a recreational vehicle park. See Arizona Laws 33-2102

• Landscape architect services: means those professional landscape architect services that are within the scope of landscape architectural practice as provided in Title 32, Chapter 1. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Last known address: means that postal address or electronic address provided by the occupant in the rental agreement or the postal address or electronic address provided by the occupant in a subsequent written notice of a change of address. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Late fee: means a reasonable fee or charge that is assessed by the operator for the failure of the occupant to pay rent when due pursuant to section 33-1703, subsection D. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• 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}
• Leased space: means the storage space or spaces at the self-service storage facility that are rented to an occupant pursuant to a rental agreement. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Lien: means an interest in property that secures payment or performance of an obligation. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Loan commissioners: means the loan commissioners of this state. See Arizona Laws 35-401
• Magistrate: means an officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense and includes the chief justice and justices of the supreme court, judges of the superior court, judges of the court of appeals, justices of the peace and judges of a municipal court. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Maintenance services: means routine maintenance, repair and replacement of existing facilities, structures, buildings or real property. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Managing agent: means a person, corporation, partnership or limited liability company that is authorized by the owner to operate and manage the property. See Arizona Laws 33-1901
• Managing entity: means the association or other person that undertakes the duties, responsibilities and obligations of the management of a timeshare plan. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Manufactured house: means a structure that is manufactured in a factory after June 15, 1976, that is delivered to a homesite in more than one section and that is placed on a permanent foundation. See Arizona Laws 35-701
• Minor: means a person under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Mobile home: means either of the following:

  (a) A residential structure that was manufactured on or before June 15, 1976, that is transportable in one or more sections, eight feet or more in body width, over thirty feet in body length with the hitch, built on an integral chassis, designed to be used as a dwelling when connected to the required utilities and not originally sold as a travel trailer or recreational vehicle and that includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems in the structure. See Arizona Laws 33-2102

• Mobile home park: means any parcel of land that contains four or more mobile home spaces. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Mobile home park: means any parcel of land that contains four or more mobile home spaces and two or more recreational vehicle spaces. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Mobile home space: means a parcel of land for rent that has been designed to accommodate a mobile home and provide the required sewer and utility connections. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgage: means a record, however denominated, that creates or provides for a consensual lien on real property or rents, even if it also creates or provides for a lien on personal property. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagee: means a person entitled to enforce an obligation secured by a mortgage. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• Mortgagor: means a person that grants a mortgage or a successor in ownership of the real property described in the mortgage. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Moving expenses: means the cost incurred by the tenant whose mobile home is moved for taking down, transporting and setting up the mobile home with the identical, or substantially similar, improvements as were attached to the tenant's mobile home on the mobile home space from which it was removed but does not include the cost of landscaping or the cost of utility lines, trenching or utility connections located in excess of twenty-five feet from the point of hookup on the mobile home. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Municipal corporation: means any sanitary district, electrical district, irrigation district, hospital district or any other similar municipal corporation which is required by law to adopt a budget. See Arizona Laws 35-465
• Municipal corporation: means a sanitary district, electrical district, irrigation district or hospital district or any other similar municipal corporation which is required by law to adopt a budget. See Arizona Laws 35-467
• National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) ^{Source: OCC}
• negligently: import a want of such attention to the nature or probable consequence of the act or omission as a prudent man ordinarily bestows in acting in his own concerns. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Net proceeds: means the total proceeds received from the lien sale minus the total amount of the lien. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Notice: means delivery by hand or mailed by registered or certified mail to the last known address of the landlord or tenant. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• 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.
• Occupant: means a person or the person's sublessee, successor or assign that is entitled to the use of the leased space at a self-service storage facility under a rental agreement, to the exclusion of others. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Operating monies: means those treasury monies the interest from which is paid to the state general fund. See Arizona Laws 35-310
• Operations services: means routine operation of existing facilities, structures, buildings or real property. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Operator: means the owner, operator, lessor or sublessor of a self-service storage facility, an agent or any other person authorized to manage the facility. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Organization: includes a corporation, limited liability company, government, governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest and any other legal or commercial entity that is a landlord, owner, manager or designated agent pursuant to section 33-1432. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Organization: includes a corporation, government, governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest and any other legal or commercial entity that is a landlord, owner, manager or designated agent. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: means one or more persons, jointly or severally, in whom is vested all or part of the legal title to property or all or part of the beneficial ownership and a right to present use and enjoyment of the premises. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Owner: means the owners of a timeshare interest in a timeshare plan, other than as security for an obligation. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Owner: means the person for whose property a receiver is appointed. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Park manager: means the person who is primarily responsible for the day-to-day operation of a mobile home park. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• 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.
• Peace officers: means sheriffs of counties, constables, marshals, policemen of cities and towns, commissioned personnel of the department of public safety, personnel who are employed by the state department of corrections and the department of juvenile corrections and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a multicounty water conservation district and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by community college district governing boards and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the Arizona board of regents and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the governing body of a public airport pursuant to section 28-8426 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a private postsecondary institution pursuant to section 15-1897 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board and special agents from the office of the attorney general, or of a county attorney, and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Permanent endowment funds: means those funds or any part of a fund, established by law, to retain trust monies, not wholly expendable by the beneficiary on a current basis. See Arizona Laws 35-310
• Permissible rate of interest: means a rate of interest that an eligible financial institution is permitted to pay by state or federal law or valid state rules or federal regulations. See Arizona Laws 35-321
• Person: means any corporation, business, individual, union, committee, club, other organization or group of individuals. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Person: includes a company, partnership or firm as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Person: includes a company, partnership or firm as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Person: means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal entity. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association or other entity formed for the purpose of doing business as a contractor, subcontractor or supplier. See Arizona Laws 34-251
• 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: means movable property that is not affixed to land and includes goods, wares, merchandise, household items and furnishings and vehicles. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Persons of low and moderate income: means , for the purposes of financing owner-occupied single family dwelling units in areas that the municipality has found, pursuant to section 36-1479, to be slum or blighted areas, as defined in section 36-1471, persons and families whose income does not exceed two and one-half times the median family income of this state. See Arizona Laws 35-701
• Petty offense: A federal misdemeanor punishable by six months or less in prison. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Political subdivision: means any county, school district, community college district or special taxing district organized under title 48 in which remote municipal property, as defined in section 42-15251, is located. See Arizona Laws 35-468
• Political subdivision: means city, town, county, school district, community college district, multi-county water conservation district, agriculture improvement district, industrial development authority, pollution control corporation, special taxing district in title 48 and any other agency, instrumentality, municipal corporation or other entity created by a law of this state which has the power to issue bonds. See Arizona Laws 35-511
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Preconstruction services: means services and other activities during the design phase. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Premises: means the mobile home park and its existing facilities and appurtenances, including furniture and utilities where applicable, and grounds, areas and existing facilities held out for the use of tenants generally or whose use is promised to the tenant. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Premises: means the recreational vehicle park and existing facilities and appurtenances in the park, including furniture and utilities, if applicable, and grounds, areas and existing facilities held out for the use of tenants generally or whose use is promised to the tenant. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Prepayment: means the payment of a claim before receiving the goods or services. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Proceeds: means the following property:

  (a) Whatever is acquired on the sale, lease, license, exchange or other disposition of receivership property. See Arizona Laws 33-2601

• Process: means execution, attachment, garnishment, replevin, sale or any final process issued from any court or any other judicial remedy provided for collection of debts. See Arizona Laws 33-1121
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Processing fee: means a fee that is charged by an entity other than a credit card issuer or the processing financial institution to process a credit card transaction. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Project: means any land, any building or any other improvement and all real and personal properties, including machinery and equipment whether or not now in existence or under construction and whether located within or without this state or the municipality or county approving the formation of the corporation, that are suitable for any of the following:

  (a) With respect to a corporation formed with the permission of the Arizona finance authority, a municipality or a county other than the Arizona board of regents:

  (i) Any enterprise for the manufacturing, processing or assembling of any agricultural or manufactured products. See Arizona Laws 35-701

• Property: means all of a person's right, title and interest, both legal and equitable, in real and personal property, tangible and intangible, wherever located and however acquired. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Property: means any land, improvements thereon, buildings and any improvements thereto, machinery and equipment of any and all kinds necessary to a project and any other personal properties deemed necessary in connection with a project. See Arizona Laws 35-701
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Prospective tenant: means a person who desires to become a tenant. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Prospective tenant: means a person who expresses an interest to a landlord in becoming a tenant. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Protected property: means personal property for which the sale or disposal is regulated by state or federal law and that is one of the following:

  (a) Documents, files or electronic data that contains personal information relating to clients, customers, patients or others in connection with the occupant's business. See Arizona Laws 33-1701

• Public access computer: means a computer that is all of the following:

  (a) Located in a public school or public library. See Arizona Laws 34-501

• Public competition: means a competitive procurement process pursuant to section 34-103, subsection G that includes advertising in a public newspaper and a qualification-based selection process. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Public fund: means the state treasurer or a retirement system. See Arizona Laws 35-393
• Public monies: includes subdivision monies. See Arizona Laws 35-321
• Purchase order: means a document that is signed by the appropriate agency authorized signatory, that requests a vendor to deliver described goods or services at a specific price and that on delivery and acceptance of the goods or services by this state becomes an obligation of this state. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Rebate: means the payment of monies to the federal government pursuant to any law enacted by the Congress of the United States in consideration of retaining any exemption from federal income taxes for the interest income on an issuer's bonds. See Arizona Laws 35-511
• Receiver: means a person who is appointed by the court as the court's agent and, subject to the court's direction, to take possession of, manage, and, if authorized by this chapter or court order, transfer, sell, lease, license, exchange, collect or otherwise dispose of receivership property. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Receivership: means a proceeding in which a receiver is appointed. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Receivership property: means the property of an owner that is described in the order appointing a receiver or a subsequent order. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• 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}
• Recreational vehicle: means a vehicular type unit that is any of the following:

  (a) A portable camping trailer mounted on wheels and constructed with collapsible partial sidewalls that fold for towing by another vehicle and unfold for camping. See Arizona Laws 33-2102

• Recreational vehicle space: means a parcel of land for rent that has been designed to accommodate a recreational vehicle and provide the required sewer and utility connections. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Redevelopment of the mobile home park: means that the spaces being redeveloped shall remain vacant for at least one hundred eighty days after the effective date of all change in use notices that are given to the tenants and either of the following applies:

  (a) A minimum of twenty-five percent of the spaces in the park, in groups of at least five contiguous spaces, are being changed into an upgraded mobile home park. See Arizona Laws 33-1409

• Registered mail: includes certified mail. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Registered owner: means an owner of a vehicle as stated in the official records of the department. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Rent: means payments to be made to the landlord or designated agent in full consideration for the rented premises. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Rent: means payments to be made to the landlord or designated agent in full consideration for the rented premises. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Rental agreement: means leases or agreements and valid rules adopted under section 33-1452 embodying the terms and conditions concerning the use and occupancy of a mobile home space and premises, and includes month-to-month tenancies that arise out of the expiration of a written rental agreement pursuant to section 33-1413. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Rental agreement: means oral or written leases or agreements and valid rules embodying the terms and conditions concerning the use and occupancy of a recreational vehicle space. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Rental agreement: means any written agreement provided to the occupant that establishes or modifies the terms, conditions or rules concerning the use and occupancy of leased space at a self-service storage facility. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Rents: means :

  (a) Sums payable for the right to possess or occupy, or for the actual possession or occupation of, real property of another person. See Arizona Laws 33-2601

• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Research park: means an area of land that has been designated by the Arizona board of regents as a research park for a university and that, at the date of designation, is owned by this state or by the Arizona board of regents. See Arizona Laws 35-701
• Resident: means a person entitled under a rental agreement to occupy a mobile home space to the exclusion of others and does not include a person rendering necessary care or services under Section 33-1413. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Resident: means a person entitled under a rental agreement to occupy a recreational vehicle space to the exclusion of others. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Residential rental property: means property that is used solely as leased or rented property for residential purposes. See Arizona Laws 33-1901
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Restricted companies: means companies that boycott Israel. See Arizona Laws 35-393
• Retirement system: means a retirement plan or system that is established by or pursuant to title 38. See Arizona Laws 35-393
• Revenue: means any monies derived other than from grants, ad valorem taxes, sales taxes or transaction privilege taxes or from this state. See Arizona Laws 35-467
• School district: means any school district now or hereafter in existence in the state. See Arizona Laws 35-465
• Secured obligation: means an obligation the payment or performance of which is secured by a security agreement. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Security agreement: means an agreement that creates or provides for a lien. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• security deposit: means any refundable money or property given to assure payment or performance under a rental agreement. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Security deposit: means money or property given to assure payment or performance under a rental agreement. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Self-service storage facility: means any real property used for renting or leasing storage spaces in which the occupants themselves customarily store and remove their own personal property on a self-service basis. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Seller: means any of the following:

  (a) Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association or other organization that is engaged in the business of building or selling dwellings. See Arizona Laws 33-2001

• Service fee or surcharge: means a fee, whether fixed or variable, that is in addition to the transaction amount, that is charged by a state agency when the state agency accepts a credit card for payment and that is necessary for the state agency to process the payment. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Services: means all services purchased, procured or contracted for by an agency, including construction services. See Arizona Laws 35-341
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Single family dwelling unit: includes any new, used or manufactured house that meets the insuring requirements of the federal housing administration, the United States department of veterans affairs or any other insuring entity of the United States government or any private mortgage insurance or surety company that is approved by the federal home loan mortgage corporation or the federal national mortgage association. See Arizona Laws 35-701
• Slum property: means residential rental property that has deteriorated or is in a state of disrepair and that manifests one or more of the following conditions that are a danger to the health or safety of the public:

  (a) Structurally unsound exterior surfaces, roof, walls, doors, floors, stairwells, porches or railings. See Arizona Laws 33-1901

• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• State: means the state of Arizona. See Arizona Laws 35-465
• State: means this state or any of its departments, agencies or authorities. See Arizona Laws 35-466
• State monies: means all monies in the treasury of this state or coming lawfully into the possession or custody of the state treasurer. See Arizona Laws 35-321
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Subcontractor: means a person who contracts to perform work or render service to a contractor or to another subcontractor as a part of a contract with an agent. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Subdivision: means any county, noncharter city or town. See Arizona Laws 35-321
• Subdivision monies: means all monies in the treasury of a subdivision or coming lawfully into the possession or custody of the treasurer. See Arizona Laws 35-321
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• substitute check: means a paper reproduction of an original warrant or check that is created from an electronic image of the original warrant or check and that meets all of the following:

  1. See Arizona Laws 35-101.01

• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supplemental appropriation: Budget authority provided in an appropriations act in addition to regular or continuing appropriations already provided. Supplemental appropriations generally are made to cover emergencies, such as disaster relief, or other needs deemed too urgent to be postponed until the enactment of next year's regular appropriations act.
• Taxes: means state excise taxes levied pursuant to lawful appropriations, which are due or will become due prior to the end of the fiscal year but which remain uncollected, in anticipation of which bonds may be issued. See Arizona Laws 35-401
• Taxes: means ad valorem taxes levied or to be levied by the taxing district in the fiscal year, sales taxes and transaction privilege taxes levied by the taxing district and all amounts returned to the taxing district by the state. See Arizona Laws 35-465
• Taxing district: means any city, county, school district or municipal corporation having the power to levy ad valorem taxes. See Arizona Laws 35-465
• Taxing district: means a city, county, school district or municipal corporation having the power to levy ad valorem taxes. See Arizona Laws 35-467
• Technical registrant: means a person who provides any of the professional services listed in Title 32, Chapter 1. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Technology protection measure: means a technology that blocks or filters internet access to visual depictions. See Arizona Laws 34-501
• Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent
• Tenant: means a person signing a rental agreement or otherwise agreeing with a landlord for the occupancy of a mobile home space. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Tenant: means a person signing a rental agreement or otherwise agreeing with a landlord for the occupancy of a recreational vehicle space for more than one hundred eighty days. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Timeshare estate: means the right of occupancy in a timeshare property that is coupled with an estate in real property. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Timeshare instrument: means one or more documents creating or governing the operation of a timeshare plan. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Timeshare interest: means either a timeshare estate or a timeshare use. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Timeshare plan: means any arrangement, plan or similar device, other than an exchange program, whether by membership agreement, or sales, lease, deed, license or right-to-use agreement or by any other means, in which an owner, in exchange for consideration, receives ownership rights in or the right to use accommodations for a period of time that is less than a full year during any given year, but not necessarily for consecutive years, if the use rights extend for at least three years. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Timeshare property: means one or more accommodations that are subject to the same timeshare instrument, together with any other property or rights to property appurtenant to those accommodations. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Timeshare use: means the right to occupy a timeshare property that is not coupled with an estate in real property. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Transaction amount: means the total amount due to the state for any goods, service or license or anything else of value. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Treasurer: includes the treasurer or officer exercising the functions of treasurer of any subdivision but excludes the state treasurer. See Arizona Laws 35-321
• Treasurer: means state treasurer. See Arizona Laws 35-401
• Treasurer: means the treasurer of the taxing district or the ex officio tax collector of the taxing district. See Arizona Laws 35-465
• Treasurer: means the treasurer, finance director or other person acting in the capacity of the treasurer of this state or any political subdivision. See Arizona Laws 35-511
• Treasury monies: means all monies in the treasury of this state or coming lawfully into the possession or custody of the state treasurer. See Arizona Laws 35-310
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Trust funds: means those monies entrusted to a public body or official for preservation and investment, as prescribed by the instrument establishing such funds. See Arizona Laws 35-321
• Trust monies: means treasury monies, other than operating monies, that are entrusted to the state treasurer for preservation and investment. See Arizona Laws 35-310
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Trustor: The person who makes or creates a trust. Also known as the grantor or settlor.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
• Vehicle: means a motor vehicle, a trailer or a semitrailer as defined in section 28-101 and a motorized watercraft as defined in section 5-301. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Verified mail: means any method of mailing that is offered by the United States postal service and that provides evidence of mailing. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Water transportation revenues: means monies received by a political subdivision pursuant to section 9-433. See Arizona Laws 35-468
• Wilfully: means , with respect to conduct or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware or believes that the person's conduct is of that nature or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Writ: means an order or precept in writing issued in the name of the state or by a court or judicial officer. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215