Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 9 > Chapter 5 > Article 1.1 - Cable Television Systems

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. 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.
• Area of jurisdiction: means that part of a city or town, or that part of the unincorporated area of a county, or both when applied to a cable television system within parts of more than one jurisdiction, for which a license is issued. See Arizona Laws 9-505
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Authority: means the Arizona finance authority established by Title 41, Chapter 53, Article 2. See Arizona Laws 35-901
• 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 board of directors of the authority. See Arizona Laws 35-901
• Bond: means any obligation that is subject to the provisions of section 146 of the code, excluding obligations that received a carry-forward allocation in a prior year. See Arizona Laws 35-901
• Bribe: means anything of value or advantage, present or prospective, asked, offered, given, accepted or promised with a corrupt intent to influence, unlawfully, the person to whom it is given in that person's action, vote or opinion, in any public or official capacity. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Business day: means between the hours of 8:00 a. See Arizona Laws 35-901
• Cable operator: means a person that is issued a license by the licensing authority to construct, operate and maintain a cable television system in public streets, roads and alleys. See Arizona Laws 9-505
• Cable service: means the transmission to subscribers of video programming or other programming service and subscriber interaction, if any, that is required for the selection or use of the video programming or other programming service. See Arizona Laws 9-505
• Cable television system: means any facility consisting of a set of closed transmission paths and associated signal generation, reception and control equipment that is designed to provide cable service that includes video programming and that is provided to multiple subscribers within a community. See Arizona Laws 9-505
• Certificate of closing: means the certificate of closing adopted for use by and to be filed with the authority declaring that bonds were issued or that a qualified mortgage credit certificate program has been established. See Arizona Laws 35-901
• Code: means the United States internal revenue code of 1986, as amended, and its applicable regulations. See Arizona Laws 35-901
• Confirmation: means the allocation confirmation that confirms an allocation to a project in the form adopted for use by the authority. See Arizona Laws 35-901
• 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.
• Corporation: means any pollution control corporation incorporated by a municipality or county pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 35-801
• County: means 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 35-801
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Director: means the director of the authority. See Arizona Laws 35-901
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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}
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governing body: means the board or body in which the general powers of the municipality or the county are vested. See Arizona Laws 35-801
• Governmental entity: means this state, any county, city, town, municipality or other political subdivision of this state or any department, agency, board, commission, authority, political subdivision, public corporation or other public entity of any of the foregoing or controlled by any of the foregoing, provided that each of the foregoing must comprise a geographical area with a population of at least three hundred thousand persons according to the most recent United States decennial census or special census. See Arizona Laws 35-1001
• Gross revenues: means all cash, credits, property of any kind or nature, or other consideration, less related bad debt not to exceed one and one-half per cent annually, that is received directly or indirectly by the cable operator, its affiliates, subsidiaries or parent or any person, firm or corporation in which the cable operator has a financial interest or that has a financial interest in the cable operator and that is derived from the cable operator's operation of its cable system to provide cable service in the area of jurisdiction. See Arizona Laws 9-505
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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}
• Issued: means , with respect to a bond or bonds, either of the following:

  (a) The bond or bonds have been delivered and paid for in full. See Arizona Laws 35-901

• Issuer: means an entity or person issuing bonds. See Arizona Laws 35-901
• 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}
• License: means that ordinance or resolution which contains the right, authority or grant, given by a licensing authority enabling a person to construct, operate and maintain a cable television system. See Arizona Laws 9-505
• Licensing authority: means the board of supervisors of a county or the governing body of an incorporated city, including a charter city, or town. See Arizona Laws 9-505
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgage credit certificate: means a certificate as described in section 25(c)(1) of the code. See Arizona Laws 35-901
• Municipality: means any incorporated city or town, including charter cities, in this state in which a corporation may be organized and in which it is contemplated the corporation will function. See Arizona Laws 35-801
• Notice of intent: means the notice of intent to be filed with the authority in the form adopted for use by the authority. See Arizona Laws 35-901
• 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.
• Obligations: means bonds, notes, bond anticipation notes, commercial paper or other evidences of indebtedness or lease, installment purchase or other agreements or purchasing programs or certificates of participation. See Arizona Laws 35-1001
• Other programming service: means information that a cable operator makes available to all subscribers generally. See Arizona Laws 9-505
• 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
• Project: means a qualified mortgage credit certificate program or any construction, acquisition, planned expenditure or other activity, including all phases of a multiphased project that requests allocations in the same year and including costs of issuance, capitalized interest and discounts, financed with bonds and located in this state or directly benefiting residents of this state. See Arizona Laws 35-901
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Qualified mortgage credit certificate program: means a qualified mortgage credit certificate program as described in section 25(c)(2) of the code. See Arizona Laws 35-901
• Qualified mortgage revenue bonds: means an issue of bonds as described in section 143(a) of the code. See Arizona Laws 35-901
• Qualified student loan project: means an issue of bonds as described in section 144(b) of the code. See Arizona Laws 35-901
• 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}
• Request: means the request for allocation to be filed with the authority in the form adopted for use by the authority. See Arizona Laws 35-901
• Security deposit: means cash, a bank cashier's check, a surety bond, a letter of credit or any other form of security approved by the director in favor of the authority that is received by the authority from an issuer or user to secure or extend an allocation. See Arizona Laws 35-901
• State ceiling: means the dollar limit of the aggregate amount of private activity bonds that may be issued in this state pursuant to section 146 of the code for each calendar year, beginning in 1988. See Arizona Laws 35-901
• Swap agreement: means an agreement, between a governmental entity and a financial institution, including an insurance company, bank indemnity company or a company related to a financial institution, pursuant to which payments are to be made by the governmental entity to the financial institution and are also to be made by the financial institution to the governmental entity, and which is entered into in order to manage interest rate risk, investment risk, or commodity prices or is entered into in connection with carrying or securing of obligations of a governmental entity. See Arizona Laws 35-1001
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Urban city: means a city having a population of not less than one hundred thousand persons according to the most recent United States decennial or special census. See Arizona Laws 35-901
• Video programming: means programming that is provided by, or generally comparable to programming provided by, a broadcast television station. See Arizona Laws 9-505
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Year: means the calendar year. See Arizona Laws 35-901