Arizona Elevator & Conveyance Licensing Law

Arizona Code · 17 sections

The following is the full text of Arizona’s elevator & conveyance licensing law statutes as published in the Arizona Code. For the official version, see the Arizona Legislature.

A.R.S. § 11-00817

11-817 - Transfer of development rights; definitions

11-817. Transfer of development rights; definitions

A. The board of supervisors may establish procedures, methods and standards for the transfer of development rights within its jurisdiction.Â Any proposed transfer of all or any portion of the development rights of a sending property to a receiving property is subject to the written approval and consent of the property owners of both the sending property and the receiving property. A county may not condition a change of zone on a property owner's consent to or other participation in a proposed transfer of development rights, except that a change of zone may be required to implement a development agreement if it is voluntarily entered into by a property owner or owners with a county for the transfer of development rights concurrently with the county's approval of the change of zone.Â Before any transfer of development rights, a county shall adopt an ordinance providing for:

The establishment, execution and recordation of instruments to sever development rights transferred from the sending property and to affix the development rights to the receiving property.Â The instruments shall be executed by the property owners of the sending and receiving property and any lienholders.
The preservation of the characteristics of the sending property lending to the transfer of development rights and assurance that any of the prohibitions against particular uses or development of the sending property determined to be necessary to preserve the characteristics shall bind the property owner and every successor in interest to the property.
A delay before transfer of development rights to a receiving property after the severance of transferable development rights from a sending property.
The purchase, sale, exchange or other conveyance of transferable development rights before the rights are affixed to a receiving property.
Procedures for monitoring the severance, ownership and transfer of transferable development rights.
Appropriate public participation procedures for each type of transaction.
Use of development agreements as an option for implementation.

B. The resulting density or intensity of land use of the receiving property shall conform to the adopted comprehensive plan, as amended, if applicable.Â If a plan amendment is required before the transfer, the plan amendment shall not be considered a major plan amendment.

C. A county's area of jurisdiction includes land in a high noise or accident potential zone, in order to facilitate development in the high noise or accident potential zone that conforms to the compatible uses prescribed in section 28-8481, subsection J, the county may approve the transfer of development rights and enter into intergovernmental agreements with any city or town or other county.

D. The board of supervisors may authorize the transfer of development rights from unincorporated areas of a county to a municipality pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement.

E. For the purposes of this section:

"Ancillary military facility" has the same meaning prescribed in section 28-8461.
"Development rights" means the maximum development that would be allowed on the sending property under the adopted comprehensive plan, the specific plan, if any, or the zoning ordinance, whichever provides greater density or intensity of use or, if applicable, both, in effect on the date the county adopts an ordinance pursuant to subsection A of this section, respecting the permissible use, area, bulk or height of improvements made to one or more lots or parcels.Â Development rights may be calculated and allocated pursuant to factors including dwelling units, area, floor area, floor area ratio, height limitations, traffic generation or any other criteria that will quantify a value for the development rights in a manner that will carry out the objectives of this section.
"High noise or accident potential zone" has the same meaning prescribed in section 28-8461.
"Military airport" has the same meaning prescribed in section 28-8461.
"Receiving property" means one or more lots or parcels within which development rights are increased under the adopted comprehensive plan, the specific plan, if any, or the zoning ordinance, whichever provides greater density or intensity of use or, if applicable, both, in effect before a transfer of development rights and an amendment to the adopted comprehensive plan, specific plan or zoning ordinance, or a rezone of the property, whichever is required to implement the increase in development rights. Â The receiving property shall be suitable for development that includes the transferred development rights consistent with the adopted comprehensive plan, as amended, if applicable.Â Receiving property does not include lots or parcels that are partially or wholly located within, or that include, a high noise or accident potential zone of a military airport or an ancillary military facility.
"Sending property" means one or more lots or parcels that are partially or wholly located within, or that include, a high noise or accident potential zone of a military airport or an ancillary military facility, a floodplain, natural habitat, geologic features, recreation area or parkland, or land that has unique aesthetic, architectural or historic value, that a county determines is appropriate and necessary to restrict against particular uses or future development that would impair or preclude preservation of the characteristic or characteristics of the property or to protect the public because of health or safety concerns.
"Transfer of development rights" means the process by which development rights from one or more sending properties are affixed to one or more receiving properties.

A.R.S. § 11-00831

11-831 - Review of land divisions; definitions

11-831. Review of land divisions; definitions

A. The board of supervisors of each county may adopt ordinances and regulations pursuant to this section for staff review and approval of land divisions of five or fewer lots, parcels or fractional interests, any of which is ten acres or smaller in size.Â The county may not deny approval of any land division that meets the requirements of this section.Â If a review of the request is not completed within thirty days after receiving the request, the land division is considered to be approved.Â At its option, the board of supervisors may submit a ballot question to the voters of the county to allow the voters to determine the application of subsections B and C of this section to qualifying land divisions in that county.

B. An application to split a parcel of land shall be approved if:

The lots, parcels or fractional interests each meet the minimum applicable county zoning requirements of the applicable zoning designation.
The applicant provides a standard preliminary title report or other acceptable document that demonstrates legal access to the lots, parcels or fractional interests.
The applicant provides a statement from a licensed surveyor or engineer, or other evidence acceptable to the county, stating whether each lot, parcel or fractional interest has physical access that is traversable by a two-wheel drive passenger motor vehicle.
The applicant reserves the necessary and appropriate utility easements to serve each lot, parcel or fractional interest created by the land division.
The applicant signs an affidavit or similar document under oath acknowledging the following:

(a) The applicant is aware that it is unlawful pursuant to subsection F of this section and section 32-2181, subsection D for a person or group of persons to attempt to avoid these sections or the subdivision laws of this state by acting in concert to divide a parcel of land into six or more lots or parcels.

(b) The applicant is aware that the county where the land division occurred or the state real estate department may investigate and enforce the prohibition against acting in concert to unlawfully divide a parcel of land into six or more lots or parcels.

C. An application to split a parcel of land that does not comply with one or more of the items listed in subsection B of this section shall still be approved if the applicant provides an acknowledgment that is signed by the applicant and that confirms that a building or use permit will not be issued by the county until the lot, parcel or fractional interest has met the requirements of subsection B of this section.Â The county may grant a variance from one or more of the items listed in subsection B of this section.

D. Any approval of a land division under this section may:

Include the minimum statutory requirements for legal and physical on-site access that must be met as a condition to issuing a building or use permit for the lots, parcels or fractional interests.
Identify topographic, hydrologic or other site constraints, requirements or limitations that must be addressed as conditions to the eventual issuance of a building or use permit. These constraints, requirements or limitations may be as noted by the applicant or through county staff review, but there shall be no requirement for independent studies.

E. If the requirements of subsections A through D of this section do not apply, a county may adopt ordinances and regulations pursuant to this chapter for staff review of land divisions of five or fewer lots, parcels or fractional interests but only to determine compliance with minimum applicable county zoning requirements and legal access and may grant waivers from the county zoning and legal access requirements.Â The county may not deny approval of any land division that meets the requirements of this section or if the deficiencies are noticed in the deed.Â A county may not require a public hearing on a request to divide five or fewer lots, parcels or fractional interests.Â If a review of the request is not completed within thirty days after receipt of the request, the land division shall be deemed approved. If legal access is not available, the legal access does not allow access by emergency vehicles or the county zoning requirements are not met, the access or zoning deficiencies shall be noticed in the deed. If a county by ordinance requires a legal access of more than twenty-four feet roadway width, the county is responsible for the improvement and maintenance of the improvement. If the legal access does not allow access to the lots, parcels or fractional interests by emergency vehicles, neither the county nor its agents or employees are liable for damages resulting from the failure of emergency vehicles to reach the lot, parcel or fractional interest.

F. It is unlawful for a person or group of persons acting in concert to attempt to avoid this section or the subdivision laws of this state by acting in concert to divide a parcel of land into six or more lots or sell or lease six or more lots by using a series of owners or conveyances.Â Either the county where the division occurred or the state real estate department pursuant to title 32, chapter 20, but not both, may enforce this prohibition.Â A familial relationship alone is not sufficient to constitute unlawful acting in concert.

G. For any subdivision that consists of ten or fewer lots, tracts or parcels, each of which is of a size as prescribed by the board of supervisors, the board of supervisors of each county may waive the requirement to prepare, submit and receive approval of a preliminary plat as a condition precedent to submitting a final plat and may waive or reduce infrastructure standards or requirements except for improved dust-controlled access and minimum drainage improvements.

H. For the purposes of this section:

"Legal access" means a public right of vehicular ingress and egress between the lots, parcels or fractional interests being created.
"Minimum applicable county zoning requirements" means the minimum acreage and dimensions of the resulting lot, parcel or fractional interest as required by the county's zoning ordinance.
"Utility easement" means an easement of eight feet in width dedicated to the general public to install, maintain and access sewer, electric, gas and water utilities.

A.R.S. § 11-01024

11-1024 - Service animals; rights of individuals with disabilities; violation; classification; fraudulent misrepresentation; civil penalty; definitions

11-1024. Service animals; rights of individuals with disabilities; violation; classification; fraudulent misrepresentation; civil penalty; definitions

A. Any person or entity that operates a public place shall not discriminate against individuals with disabilities who use service animals if the work or tasks performed by the service animal are directly related to the individual's disability. Work or tasks include assisting individuals who are blind or have low vision with navigation and other tasks, alerting individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing to the presence of people or sounds, providing nonviolent protection or rescue work, pulling a wheelchair, assisting an individual during a seizure, alerting individuals to the presence of allergens, retrieving items such as medicine or the telephone, providing physical support and assistance with balance and stability to individuals with mobility disabilities and helping individuals with psychiatric and neurological disabilities by preventing or interrupting impulsive or destructive behaviors. The crime deterrent effects of an animal's presence and the provision of emotional support, well-being, comfort or companionship do not constitute work or tasks.

B. It is not discriminatory to exclude a service animal from a public place if one or more of the following apply:

The animal poses a direct threat to the health or safety of others.
The animal fundamentally alters the nature of the public place or the goods, services or activities provided.
The animal poses an undue burden.
The animal is out of control and the animal's handler does not take effective action to control the animal.
The animal is not housebroken.

C. If a public place asks an individual to remove a service animal pursuant to subsection B of this section, the public place shall give the individual the opportunity to return and obtain goods, services or accommodations without the animal on the premises.

D. Public places may maintain a general no pets policy if it is not used to exclude service animals and if it does not grant rights to any person to bring the person's pet into a public place that otherwise does not permit pets.

E. A service animal must be under the control of the service animal's handler.

F. A service animal's handler is liable for any damage done to a public place by the service animal or service animal in training.

G. Any trainer or individual with a disability may take an animal being trained as a service animal to a public place for purposes of training it to the same extent as provided in subsections A, B and D of this section.

H. A zoo or wild animal park may prohibit a service animal, including a dog guide or service dog, from any area of the zoo or wild animal park where the service animal may come into direct contact with the animals contained in the zoo or wild animal park. Service animals shall not be excluded from public walkways or sidewalks or from any area that allows for physical barriers between the service animals, dog guides or service dogs and the animals in the zoo or wild animal park.Â Any zoo or wild animal park that prohibits dog guides and service dogs shall provide without cost adequate facilities for the temporary confinement of dog guides and service dogs.Â The facilities shall be adequate to accommodate the anticipated attendance of legally blind or deaf persons or persons with physical disabilities, shall be in an area not accessible to the general public, shall provide water for the dog guides and service dogs and shall otherwise be safe, clean and comfortable.Â The zoo or wild animal park on request by a legally blind person who is required to leave that person's dog guide or service dog pursuant to this subsection shall provide a sighted escort if the legally blind person is unaccompanied by a sighted person.

I. The driver of a vehicle approaching a legally blind pedestrian who is carrying a cane that is predominately white or metallic in color, who is using a service animal or who is assisted by a sighted person shall yield the right-of-way and take reasonable precautions to avoid injury to the pedestrian and the service animal.Â The pedestrian has the same rights as any other person whether or not the pedestrian is carrying the cane, using a service animal or being assisted by a sighted person.Â Drivers shall take the same precautions with respect to pedestrians who have a disability other than blindness and their service animals.Â A driver who violates this subsection is liable for damages for any injury caused to the pedestrian or the service animal.

J. Any person or entity that violates subsection A, H or I of this section is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor.

K. A person may not fraudulently misrepresent an animal as a service animal or service animal in training to a person or entity that operates a public place.Â A court or duly appointed hearing officer may impose on the person misrepresenting the animal in violation of this subsection a civil penalty of not more than two hundred fifty dollars for each violation.

L. This section is not intended to affect any civil remedies available for a violation of this section.

M. For the purposes of this section:

"Direct threat to the health or safety of others" means that a significant risk to the health or safety of others exists and cannot be eliminated by modification of policies, practices or procedures or by the provision of auxiliary aids or services.
"Discriminate" means discriminatory actions prescribed in section 41-1492.02 and includes:

(a) Refusing to permit an individual with a disability to enter a public place with a service animal or interfering with the individual's right to enter or use the public place.

(b) Failing to provide an individual with a disability the same services and access to the same areas of the premises as afforded to others.

(c) Attempting to impose a charge, fee or deposit because an individual with a disability is accompanied by a service animal.

(d) Requiring an individual with a disability to disclose disability-related information. However, a public accommodation may ask if the animal is a service animal being used because of a disability or what work or task the service animal has been trained to perform.

(e) Requiring provision of identification for the service animal.

"Individual with a disability" means an individual who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of the individual.
"Public place" means any office or place of business or recreation to which the general public is invited, whether operated by a public or private entity and includes all forms of conveyance, including taxis, tow trucks and ambulances.
"Service animal" means any dog or miniature horse that is individually trained or in training to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual or other mental disability. Service animal does not include other species of animals, whether wild or domestic or trained or untrained.
"Under the control of the service animal's handler" means the service animal has a harness, leash or other tether, unless either the handler is unable because of a disability to use a harness, leash or other tether or the use of the harness, leash or other tether would interfere with the service animal's safe and effective performance of work or tasks, in which case the service animal must be otherwise under the handler's control by voice control, signals or other effective means.
"Wild animal park" means an entity that is open to the public on a regular basis, that is licensed by the United States department of agriculture as an exhibit and that is operating primarily to conserve, propagate and exhibit wild and exotic animals.

A.R.S. § 11-01102

11-1102 - County development fees; imposition by counties; infrastructure improvements plan; advisory committee; annual report; limitation on actions; definitions

11-1102. County development fees; imposition by counties; infrastructure improvements plan; advisory committee; annual report; limitation on actions; definitions

A. A county may assess development fees to offset costs to the county associated with providing necessary public services to a development, including the costs of infrastructure, improvements, real property, engineering and architectural services, financing and professional services required for the preparation or revision of a development fee pursuant to this section, including the relevant portion of the infrastructure improvements plan.

B. Development fees assessed under this section are subject to the following requirements:

Development fees shall result in a beneficial use to the development.
The county shall calculate the development fee based on the infrastructure improvements plan adopted pursuant to this section.
The development fees may not exceed a proportionate share of the cost of necessary public services, based on service units, needed to provide necessary public services to the development.
Costs for necessary public services made necessary by new development shall be based on the same level of service provided to existing development in the service area at the time the infrastructure improvements plan is adopted.Â
Development fees may not be used for any of the following:

(a) Funding a level of service that is higher than the current level of service provided to existing development at the time the infrastructure improvements plan is adopted.

(b) Construction, acquisition or expansion of public facilities or assets other than necessary public services or facility expansions identified in the infrastructure improvements plan.

(d) Upgrading, updating, expanding, correcting or replacing existing necessary public services to serve existing development in order to meet stricter safety, efficiency, environmental or regulatory standards.Â

(e) Upgrading, updating, expanding, correcting or replacing existing necessary public services to provide a higher level of service to existing development.

(f) Administrative, maintenance or operating costs of the county.

Any development for which development fees have been paid is entitled to the use and benefit of the services for which the development fees were imposed and is entitled to receive immediate service from any existing facility with available capacity to serve the new service units if the available capacity has not been reserved or pledged in connection with the construction or financing of the facility.Â
Development fees may be collected if any of the following occurs:

(a) The collection is made to pay for a necessary public service or facility expansion that is identified in the infrastructure improvements plan and the county plans to complete construction and have the service available within the time period established in the infrastructure improvements plan, but not longer than the time period provided in subsection J, paragraph 3 of this section.Â

(b) The county reserves capacity in the infrastructure improvements plan adopted pursuant to this section or otherwise agrees to reserve capacity to serve future development.

(c) The county requires or agrees to allow the owner of a development to construct or finance the necessary public service or facility expansion and any of the following applies:

(i) The costs incurred or monies advanced are credited against or reimbursed from the development fees otherwise due from a development.Â The amount of credits issued shall equal the costs identified by the county in the infrastructure improvements plan associated with the construction of the necessary public services or facility expansions.Â The county shall allow the owner to assign the credits from the development fees otherwise due from a development and any excess credits to other developments for the same category of necessary public services in the same service area.Â

(ii) The county reimburses the owner for those costs from the development fees paid from all developments that will use those necessary public services or facility expansions.Â The county shall allow the owner to assign the reimbursement rights to other developments for the same category of necessary public services in the same service area.Â

Projected interest charges and other finance costs may be included in determining the amount of development fees only if the monies are used for the payment of principal and interest on the portion of the bonds, notes or other obligations issued to finance construction of necessary public services or facility expansions identified in the infrastructure improvements plan.
Monies received from development fees shall be placed in a separate fund and accounted for separately and may only be used for the purposes authorized by this section.Â Monies received from development fees identified in an infrastructure improvements plan adopted or updated pursuant to subsection E of this section shall be used to provide the same category of necessary public services or facilities expansions for which the development fee was assessed and for the benefit of the same service area as defined in the infrastructure improvements plan in which the development fees were assessed. Interest earned on monies in the separate fund shall be credited to the fund.
The county shall prescribe the schedule for paying the development fees. Based on the costs identified in the infrastructure improvements plan, the county shall provide a credit toward the payment of the development fees for the required or agreed to dedication of public sites, improvements and other necessary public services or facility expansions included in the infrastructure improvements plan and for which development fees are assessed, to the extent the public sites, improvements and necessary public services or facility expansions are provided by the developer.Â On request of the developer, instead of providing a credit toward the payment of development fees, the county shall provide for reimbursement from the development fees paid from all development that will use those public sites, improvements or necessary public services or facility expansions of the actual costs of the required or agreed to dedication of public sites, improvements or other necessary public services or facility expansions included in the infrastructure improvements plan and for which development fees are assessed, to the extent the public sites, improvements and necessary public services or facility expansions are provided by the developer.Â The developer of residential dwelling units shall be required to pay the fees when construction permits for the dwelling units are issued, or at a later time if specified in the development agreement pursuant to section 11-1101. If a development agreement provides for development fees to be paid at a time later than the issuance of construction permits, the deferred development fees shall be paid not later than fifteen days after the issuance of a certificate of occupancy. Â The development agreement shall provide for the value of any deferred development fees to be supported by an appropriate security, including a surety bond, letter of credit or cash bond.
If a county requires as a condition of development approval the construction or improvement of, contributions to or dedication of any facilities that were not included in a previously adopted infrastructure improvements plan, the county shall cause the infrastructure improvements plan to be amended to include the facilities and shall provide a credit toward the payment of development fees for the construction, improvement, contribution or dedication of the facilities to the extent that the facilities will substitute for or otherwise reduce the need for other similar facilities in the infrastructure improvements plan for which development fees were assessed. If a county requires as a condition of development approval the set aside of active or passive open space, the county shall issue a credit toward any development fees identified in the infrastructure improvements plan to fund any park facilities or facility expansion.Â On request of the individual or entity seeking development approval, instead of issuing a credit toward the payment of development fees, the county shall provide for reimbursement from the development fees paid from all development that will use those facilities or facility expansions of the actual costs of the construction or improvement of, contributions to or dedication of the public facilities required as a condition of development approval.
The county shall forecast the contribution to be made in the future in cash, taxes, fees, assessments and all other sources of revenue derived from the property owner towards the capital costs of the necessary public service covered by the development fees.
If development fees are assessed against residential development, the county shall also assess development fees against commercial and industrial development.Â The county may distinguish between different categories of residential, commercial and industrial development in assessing the costs to the county of providing necessary public services to new development and in determining the amount of the development fees applicable to the category, except that the county may not distinguish residential developments on the basis of the size of the dwelling unit or number of bedrooms.Â If a county agrees to waive any of the development fees assessed on a development, the county shall reimburse the appropriate development fees accounts for the amount that was waived. The county shall provide notice of any such waiver to the advisory committee established pursuant to subsection I of this section.
In determining and assessing development fees applying to land in a community facilities district established under title 48, chapter 4, article 6, the county shall take into account all public infrastructure provided by the district and capital costs paid by the district for necessary public services and shall not assess a portion of the development fees based on the infrastructure or costs.
The county shall not assess or collect development fees from a school district or charter school, other than fees assessed or collected for streets and water and wastewater utility functions.

C. Before assessing development fees, the county shall:

Give at least thirty days' advance notice of intention to assess new or increased development fees.
Release to the public and post on the county's website a written report of the land use assumptions and infrastructure improvements plan adopted pursuant to subsection E of this section.
Conduct a public hearing on the proposed development fees at any time after the expiration of the thirty-day notice of intention to assess development fees and at least thirty days before the scheduled date of adoption of the development fees.Â Within sixty days after the date of the public hearing on the proposed development fees, the county shall approve or disapprove the imposition of the development fees.Â A county may not adopt an ordinance, order or resolution approving development fees as an emergency measure.

D. Development fees assessed pursuant to this section are not effective for at least ninety days after formal adoption by the board of supervisors.

E. Before the adoption or amendment of development fees or amendment of the boundaries of a service area, the board of supervisors shall adopt or update the land use assumptions and infrastructure improvements plan for the designated service area.Â The county shall conduct a public hearing on the land use assumptions and infrastructure improvements plan at least thirty days before the adoption or update of the infrastructure improvements plan.Â The county shall release the infrastructure improvements plan to the public, post the infrastructure improvements plan on the county's website, including in the posting the land use assumptions, the time period of the projections, a description of the necessary public services included in the infrastructure improvements plan and a map of the service area to which the land use assumptions apply, make available to the public the documents used to prepare the land use assumptions and infrastructure improvements plan and provide public notice at least sixty days before the public hearing, subject to the following:

The land use assumptions and infrastructure improvements plan shall be approved or disapproved within sixty days after the public hearing on the land use assumptions and infrastructure improvements plan and at least thirty days before the public hearing on the report required by subsection C of this section.Â A county may not adopt an ordinance, order or resolution approving the land use assumptions or infrastructure improvements plan as an emergency measure.
An infrastructure improvements plan shall be developed by qualified professionals using generally accepted engineering and planning practices pursuant to subsection F of this section.
A county shall update the land use assumptions and infrastructure improvements plan at least every five years.Â The initial five-year period begins on the day the infrastructure improvements plan is adopted.Â The county shall review and evaluate the current land use assumptions and shall cause an update of the infrastructure improvements plan to be prepared pursuant to this section.
Within sixty days after completion of the updated land use assumptions and infrastructure improvements plan, the county shall schedule and provide notice of a public hearing to discuss and review the update and shall determine whether to amend the land use assumptions and infrastructure improvements plan.
A county shall hold a public hearing to discuss the proposed amendments to the land use assumptions, the infrastructure improvements plan or the development fees.Â The land use assumptions and the infrastructure improvements plan, including the amount of any proposed changes to the development fees per service unit, shall be made available to the public on or before the date of the first publication of the notice of the hearing on the amendments.
The hearing procedures prescribed in paragraph 1 of this subsection apply to a hearing on the amendment of land use assumptions, an infrastructure improvements plan or development fees.Â Within sixty days after the date of the public hearing on the amendments, a county shall approve or disapprove the amendments to the land use assumptions, infrastructure improvements plan or development fees.Â A county may not adopt an ordinance, order or resolution approving the amended land use assumptions, infrastructure improvements plan or development fees as an emergency measure.
The advisory committee established under subsection I of this section shall file its written comments on any proposed or updated land use assumptions, infrastructure improvements plan and development fees before the fifth business day before the date of the public hearing on the proposed or updated land use assumptions, infrastructure improvements plan and development fees.
If, at the time an update as prescribed in paragraph 3 of this subsection is required, the county determines that no changes to the land use assumptions, infrastructure improvements plan or development fees are needed, the county, as an alternative to the updating requirements of this subsection, may publish notice of the determination on the county's website that includes the following:

(a) A statement that the county has determined that no change to the land use assumptions, infrastructure improvements plan or development fees is necessary.

(b) A description and map of the service area in which an update has been determined to be unnecessary.

(c) A statement that by a specified date, which shall be at least sixty days after the date of publication of the first notice, a person may request to the county in writing that the county update the land use assumptions, infrastructure improvements plan or development fees.

(d) A statement identifying the person or entity to whom the written request for an update should be sent.

If, by the date specified pursuant to paragraph 8 of this subsection, a person requests in writing that the county update the land use assumptions, infrastructure improvements plan or development fees, the county shall cause, accept or reject an update of the land use assumptions, infrastructure improvements plan or development fees to be prepared pursuant to this section.Â
Notwithstanding the notice and hearing requirements for adoption of an infrastructure improvements plan, the county may amend an infrastructure improvements plan without a public hearing if the amendment addresses only elements of necessary public services in the existing infrastructure improvements plan and the changes to the plan will not, individually or cumulatively with other amendments adopted pursuant to this subsection, increase the level of service in the service area or cause an increase inÂ development fees that is greater than five percent when new or modified development fees are assessed pursuant to this section.Â The county shall provide notice of the amendment at least thirty days before adoption, shall post the amendment on the county's website and shall provide notice to the advisory committee established pursuant to subsection I of this section that the amendment complies with this subsection.

F. For each necessary public service that is the subject of development fees, the infrastructure improvements plan shall include:

A description of the existing necessary public services in the service area and the costs to upgrade, update, improve, expand, correct or replace those necessary public services to meet existing needs and usage and stricter safety, efficiency, environmental or regulatory standards. The description shall be prepared by qualified professionals who are licensed in this state, as applicable.
An analysis of the total capacity, the level of current usage and commitments for usage of capacity of the existing necessary public services. The analysis shall be prepared by qualified professionals who are licensed in this state, as applicable.
A description of all or the parts of the necessary public services or facility expansions and their costs necessitated by and attributable to new development in the service area based on the approved land use assumptions, including a forecast of the cost of infrastructure, improvements, real property, financing, engineering and architectural services.Â The description shall be prepared by qualified professionals who are licensed in this state, as applicable.
A table that establishes the specific level or quantity of use, consumption, generation or discharge of a service unit for each category of necessary public services or facility expansions and an equivalency or conversion table that establishes the ratio of a service unit to various types of land uses, including residential, commercial and industrial.
A description of all the costs necessitated by ongoing maintenance and operations of the necessary public services once construction is completed and a description of the source of revenue to be used to fund the maintenance and operations.
The total number of projected service units necessitated by and attributable to new development in the service area based on the approved land use assumptions and calculated pursuant to generally accepted engineering and planning criteria.
The projected demand for necessary public services or facility expansions required by new service units for a period of not more than ten years.
A forecast of revenues generated by new service units other than development fees, including estimated state shared revenue, highway user revenue, federal revenue, ad valorem property taxes, construction contracting or similar excise taxes and the capital recovery portion of utility fees attributable to development based on the approved land use assumptions, and a plan to include these contributions in determining the extent of the burden imposed by the development as required in subsection B, paragraph 12 of this section.

G. A county's infrastructure improvements plan may identify necessary public services or facility expansions that the county plans to construct beyond the time period provided for in subsection J, paragraph 3 of this section but may not include the costs of those necessary public services or facility expansions in the calculation of development fees.

H. A county's development fees ordinance shall provide:

That new development fees or an increased portion of modified development fees may not be assessed against a development for twenty-four months after the date that the county issues the final approval for a commercial, industrial or multifamily development or the date that the first building permit is issued for a residential development pursuant to an approved site plan or subdivision plat, only if subsequent changes are not made to the approved site plan or subdivision plat that would increase the number of service units. If the number of service units increases, the new or increased portion of modified development fees shall be limited to the amount attributable to the additional service units.Â The period is not extended by a renewal or amendment of the site plan or the final subdivision plat that was the subject of the final approval.Â The county shall issue, on request, a written statement of the development fees schedule applicable to the development.Â If, after the date of the county's final approval of a development, the county reduces the development fees assessed on development, the reduced fees shall apply to the development.
A process for a development to request an alternative development fee calculation or change in category of development that appears on an adopted development fee schedule based on a projection that the actual burdens and costs associated with the county's provision of necessary public services or facility expansions to the development that are to be paid by development fees will differ substantially from those costs projected by the county or will be substantially less than the amount projected to be paid by development fees.Â The county manager or the county manager's designee shall review the request and make a determination as to the development fee to be assessed.Â The assessed development fee shall have a substantial nexus to the actual burdens and costs associated with providing the necessary public services or facility expansions to that development that are to be funded by development fees.Â The determination of the county manager is appealable to the board of supervisors.

I. A county shall do one of the following:

Before the adoption of the proposed or updated land use assumptions, infrastructure improvements plan and development fees as prescribed in subsection E of this section, appoint an infrastructure improvements advisory committee, subject to the following requirements:

(a) The advisory committee shall be composed of at least five members who are appointed by the board of supervisors.Â At least fifty percent of the members of the advisory committee must be representatives of the real estate, development or building industries, of which at least one member of the committee must be from the home building industry.Â Members may not be employees or officials of the county.

(b) The advisory committee shall serve in an advisory capacity and shall:

(i) Advise the county in adopting land use assumptions and in determining whether the assumptions are in conformance with the general plan of the county.

(ii) Review the infrastructure improvements plan and file written comments.

(iii) Monitor and evaluate implementation of the infrastructure improvements plan.

(iv) Every year file reports with respect to the progress of the infrastructure improvements plan and the collection and expenditures of development fees and report to the county any perceived inequities in implementing the infrastructure improvements plan or assessing the development fees.

(v) Advise the county of the need to update or revise the land use assumptions, infrastructure improvements plan and development fees.

(c) The county shall make available to the advisory committee any professional reports with respect to developing and implementing the infrastructure improvements plan.

(d) The county shall adopt procedural rules for the advisory committee to follow in carrying out the advisory committee's duties.

Provide for a biennial certified audit of the county's land use assumptions, infrastructure improvements plan and development fees.Â An audit pursuant to this paragraph shall be conducted by one or more qualified professionals who are not employees or officials of the county and who did not prepare the infrastructure improvements plan.Â The audit shall review the progress of the infrastructure improvements plan, including the collection and expenditures of development fees for each project in the infrastructure improvements plan, and evaluate any inequities in implementing the infrastructure improvements plan or imposing the development fees. The county shall post the findings of the audit on the county's website and shall conduct a public hearing on the audit within sixty days after the release of the audit to the public.Â

J. On written request, an owner of real property for which development fees have been paid after December 31, 2020 is entitled to a refund of the development fees or any part of the development fees if:

Pursuant to subsection B, paragraph 6 of this section, existing facilities are available and service is not provided.
The county, after collecting the fees to construct a facility when service is not available, has failed to complete construction within the time period identified in the infrastructure improvements plan, but in no event later than the time period specified in paragraph 3 of this subsection.
For development fees other than development fees for water or wastewater facilities, any part of the development fees is not spent as authorized by this section within ten years after the fees have been paid or, for development fees for water or wastewater facilities, any part of the development fees is not spent as authorized by this section within fifteen years after the development fees have been paid.

K. If the development fees were collected for the construction of all or a portion of a specific item of infrastructure, and on completion of the infrastructure the county determines that the actual cost of construction was less than the forecasted cost of construction on which the development fees were based and the difference between the actual and estimated cost is greater than ten percent, the current owner may receive a refund of the portion of the development fees equal to the difference between the development fees paid and the development fees that would have been due if the development fees had been calculated at the actual construction cost.

L. A refund shall include any interest earned by the county from the date of collection to the date of refund on the amount of the refunded fees. All refunds shall be paid to the owner of record of the property at the time the refund is paid.Â If the development fees are paid by a governmental entity, the refund shall be paid to the governmental entity.

M. Development fees that were adopted before January 1, 2017 may continue to be assessed only to the extent that the development fees will be used to provide a necessary public service for which development fees can be assessed pursuant to this section and shall be replaced by development fees imposed under this section on or before January 1, 2021. Any county having development fees that have not been replaced under this section on or before January 1, 2021 may not collect development fees until the development fees have been replaced with fees that comply with this section.Â Development fees adopted or amended by a county after January 1, 2017 shall comply with this section.Â Any development fees monies collected before January 1, 2017 remaining in a development fees account:

Shall be used towards the same category of necessary public services as authorized by this section.
And collected for a purpose not authorized by this section shall be used for the purpose for which the development fees were collected on or before January 1, 2024, and after which, if not spent, shall be distributed equally among the categories of necessary public services authorized by this section.

N. A moratorium may not be placed on development for the sole purpose of awaiting completion of all or any part of the process necessary to develop, adopt or update development fees.

O. In any judicial action interpreting this section all powers conferred on a county by this section shall be narrowly construed to ensure that development fees are not used to impose on new residents a burden all taxpayers of a county should bear equally.

P. Each county that assesses development fees shall submit an annual report accounting for the collection and use of the fees for each service area.Â The annual report shall include the following:

The amount assessed by the county for each type of development fee.
The balance of each fund maintained for each type of development fee assessed as of the beginning and end of the fiscal year.
The amount of interest or other earnings on the monies in each fund as of the end of the fiscal year.
The amount of development fee monies used to repay:

(a) Bonds issued by the county to pay the cost of a necessary public service that is the subject of a development fees assessment, including the amount needed to repay the debt service obligations on each facility for which development fees have been identified as the source of funding and the time frames in which the debt service will be repaid.

(b) Monies advanced by the county from funds other than the funds established for development fees in order to pay the cost of a necessary public service that is the subject of a development fees assessment, the total amount advanced by the county for each facility, the source of the monies advanced and the terms under which the monies will be repaid to the county.

The amount of development fees monies spent on each necessary public service or facility expansion that is the subject of a development fees assessment and the physical location of each capital improvement project.
The amount of development fees monies spent for each purpose other than a necessary public service or facility expansion that is the subject of a development fees assessment.

Q. Within ninety days following the end of each fiscal year, each county shall submit a copy of the annual report to the clerk of the board of supervisors and post the annual report on the county's website.Â Copies shall be made available to the public on request.Â The annual report may contain financial information that has not been audited.

R. A county that fails to file the report and post the annual report on the county's website as required by this section shall not collect development fees until the report is filed and posted.

S. Any action to collect development fees shall be commenced within two years after the obligation to pay the development fees accrues.

T. A county may continue to assess development fees adopted before January 1, 2017 for any facility that was financed before June 1, 2016 if:

Development fees were pledged to repay debt service obligations related to the construction of the facility.
After January 1, 2018, any development fees collected under this subsection are used solely for the payment of principal and interest on the portion of the bonds, notes or other debt service obligations issued before June 1, 2016 to finance construction of the facility.

U. Through January 1, 2018, development fees adopted before January 1, 2017 may be used to finance construction of a facility and may be pledged to repay debt service obligations if:

The facility that is being financed is a facility that is described under subsection V, paragraph 7, subdivision (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) of this section.
The facility was included in an infrastructure improvements plan adopted before June 1, 2016.
The development fees are used for the payment of principal and interest on the portion of the bonds, notes or other debt service obligations issued to finance construction of the necessary public services or facility expansions identified in the infrastructure improvements plan.

V. For the purposes of this section:

"Dedication" means the actual conveyance date or the date an improvement, facility or real or personal property is placed into service, whichever occurs first.
"Development" means:

(a) The subdivision of land.

(b) The construction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration, relocation or enlargement of any structure that adds or increases the number of service units.

"Facility expansion" means the expansion of the capacity of an existing facility that serves the same function as an otherwise new necessary public service in order that the existing facility may serve new development. Facility expansion does not include the repair, maintenance, modernization or expansion of an existing facility to better serve existing development.
"Final approval" means, for nonresidential or multifamily development, the approval of a site plan or, if no site plan is submitted for the development, the approval of a final subdivision plat.
"Infrastructure improvements plan" means a written plan that identifies each necessary public service or facility expansion that is proposed to be the subject of development fees and otherwise complies with the requirements of this section and may be the county's capital improvements plan.
"Land use assumptions" means projections of changes in land uses, densities, intensities and population for a specified service area over a period of at least ten years and pursuant to the general plan of the county.
"Necessary public service" means any of the following facilities that have a life expectancy of three or more years and that are owned and operated by or on behalf of the county:

(a) Water facilities, including the supply, transportation, treatment, purification and distribution of water, and any appurtenances for those facilities.

(b) Wastewater facilities, including collection, interception, transportation, treatment and disposal of wastewater, and any appurtenances for those facilities.

(c) Street facilities located in the service area, including arterial or collector streets or roads that have been designated on an officially adopted plan of the county, traffic signals and rights-of-way and improvements thereon. Improvements to rights-of-way do not include streetcars, railways or other forms of transportation and their corresponding tracks.

(d) Public safety facilities, including all appurtenances, equipment and vehicles.Â Public safety facilities do not include a facility or portion of a facility that is used to replace services that were once provided elsewhere in the county, vehicles and equipment used to provide administrative services, helicopters or airplanes, paramilitary vehicles, court and judicial facilities, facilities that are used for training firefighters or officers from more than one station or substation or jail, correctional or detention facilities.

(e) Neighborhood parks and recreational facilities on real property up to thirty acres in area, or parks and recreational facilities larger than thirty acres if the facilities provide a direct benefit to the development. Parks and recreational facilities do not include vehicles, equipment of that portion of any facility that is used for amusement parks, aquariums, aquatic centers, auditoriums, arenas, arts and cultural facilities, bandstand and orchestra facilities, bathhouses, boathouses, clubhouses, community centers greater than three thousand square feet in floor area, environmental education centers, equestrian facilities, trails, golf course facilities, greenhouses, lakes, museums, theme parks, water reclamation or riparian areas, wetlands, zoo facilities or similar recreational facilities, but may include swimming pools and equipment or improvements constituting accessory or incidental amenities to a park or recreational facility allowed under this section.

(f) Any facility that was financed and that meets all of the requirements prescribed in subsection T of this section.

"Qualified professional" means a professional engineer, surveyor, financial analyst or planner providing services within the scope of the person's license, education or experience.
"Service area" means any specified area within the boundaries of a county in which development will be served by necessary public services or facility expansions and within which a substantial nexus exists between the necessary public services or facility expansions and the development being served as prescribed in the infrastructure improvements plan.
"Service unit" means a standardized measure of consumption, use, generation or discharge attributable to an individual unit of development calculated using data specific to the service area in which the facility will be located and pursuant to generally accepted engineering or planning standards for a particular category of necessary public services or facility expansions.

A.R.S. § 11-01134

11-1134 - Exemptions

11-1134. Exemptions

A. The affidavit and fee required by this article do not apply to the following instruments:

A deed that represents the payment in full or forfeiture of a recorded contract for the sale of real property.
A lease or easement on real property, regardless of the length of the term.
A deed, patent or contract for the sale or transfer of real property in which an agency or representative of the United States, this state, a county, city or town of this state or any political subdivision of this state is the named grantor, and authorized seller, or purchaser.
A quitclaim deed to quiet title as described in section 12-1103, subsection B or otherwise executed for no monetary consideration.
A conveyance of real property that is executed pursuant to a court order.
A deed to an unpatented mining claim.
A deed of gift.

B. The affidavit and fee required by this article do not apply to a transfer of title:

Solely in order to provide or release security for a debt or obligation, including a trustee's deed pursuant to power of sale under a deed of trust.
That confirms or corrects a deed that was previously recorded.
When the transfer of title has only nominal actual consideration for the transfer of residential property between:

(a) Husband and wife or ancestor of the husband and wife.

(b) Parent and child, including natural or adopted children and their descendants.

(d) Natural or adopted siblings.

On a sale for delinquent taxes or assessments.
On partition.
Pursuant to a merger.
For no consideration or nominal consideration:

(a) By a subsidiary to its parent or from a parent to a subsidiary.

(b) Among commonly controlled entities.

(d) From a partner to its partnership.

(e) From a partnership to a partner.

(f) From a joint venturer to its joint venture.

(g) From a joint venture to a joint venturer.

(h) From a trust beneficiary to its trustee.

(i) From a trustee to its trust beneficiary.

(j) From any of the entities in subdivisions (a) through (i) of this paragraph to a single purpose entity in order to obtain financing.

From a person to a trustee or from a trustee to a trust beneficiary with only nominal actual consideration for the transfer.
To and from an intermediary for the purpose of creating a joint tenancy estate or some other form of ownership.
From a husband and wife or one of them to both husband and wife to create an estate in community property with right of survivorship.
From two or more persons to themselves to create an estate in joint tenancy with right of survivorship.
Pursuant to a beneficiary deed with only nominal actual consideration for the transfer.
From an owner to itself or a related entity for no or nominal consideration solely for the purpose of consolidating or splitting parcels.
Due to a legal name change.

C. Any instrument that describes a transaction that is exempt under this section shall note the exemption on the face of the instrument at the time of recording, indicating the specific exemption that is claimed.

A.R.S. § 12-00552

12-552 - Actions involving development of real property design, engineering and construction of improvements

12-552. Actions involving development of real property design, engineering and construction of improvements

A. Notwithstanding any other statute, an action or arbitration based in contract may not be instituted or maintained against a person who develops or develops and sells real property, or performs or furnishes the design, specifications, surveying, planning, supervision, testing, construction or observation of construction of an improvement to real property more than eight years after substantial completion of the improvement to real property.

B. Notwithstanding any other statute, a municipality or a county may not institute or maintain an action or arbitration against a person who develops or develops and sells real property or performs or furnishes the design, specifications, surveying, planning, supervision, testing, construction or observation of construction of an improvement to real property that is dedicated to the municipality or county more than eight years after the improvement to real property has been accepted by the municipality or county for ownership, operation and maintenance if the action or arbitration is based on either:

A municipal or county code, ordinance or other legal requirement.
A permit that is required as a condition of development.

C. The limitations of subsection B of this section do not apply to an action or arbitration that is based on a claim of a wilful, reckless or concealed violation of a municipal or county requirement.

D. Subsection B of this section does not limit any immunity or defense that is available to a municipality or county pursuant to chapter 7, article 2 of this title.

E. Notwithstanding subsection A or B of this section, in the case of injury to real property or an improvement to real property, if the injury occurred during the eighth year after the substantial completion or, in the case of a latent defect, was not discovered until the eighth year after substantial completion, an action to recover damages for injury to the real property may be brought within one year after the date on which the injury to real property or an improvement to real property occurred or a latent defect was discovered, but an action may not be brought more than nine years after the substantial completion of the improvement.

F. The limitations in subsections A, B and E of this section include any action based on implied warranty arising out of the contract or the construction, including implied warranties of habitability, fitness or workmanship.

G. This section does not apply to actions for personal injury or death or shorten the period of warranty provided in an express written warranty.

H. For the purposes of subsections A, E and F of this section, an improvement to real property is considered substantially complete when any of the following first occurs:

It is first used by the owner or occupant of the improvement.
It is first available for use after having been completed according to the contract or agreement covering the improvement, including agreed changes to the contract or agreement.
Final inspection, if required, by the governmental body that issued the building permit for the improvement.

I. In this section an action based in contract is an action based on a written real estate contract, sales agreement, construction agreement, conveyance or written agreement for construction or for the services set forth in subsection A of this section. This section does not extend the period prescribed by the laws of this state for bringing any action. If a shorter period of limitation is prescribed for a specific action, the shorter period governs.

J. With respect to an improvement to real property that was substantially complete on or before September 15, 1989, the eight and nine-year periods established in subsections A and E of this section shall begin to run on September 15, 1989. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection H of this section and section 12-505, subsection A, this subsection applies to claims that accrued before May 14, 1992.

A.R.S. § 15-00101

15-101 - Definitions

15-101. Definitions

In this title, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Accommodation school" means either:

(a) A school that is operated through the county board of supervisors and the county school superintendent and that the county school superintendent administers to serve a military reservation or territory that is not included within the boundaries of a school district.

(b) A school that provides educational services to homeless children or alternative education programs as provided in section 15-308, subsection B.

(c) A school that is established to serve a military reservation, the boundaries of which are coterminous with the boundaries of the military reservation on which the school is located.

"Assessed valuation" means the valuation derived by applying the applicable percentage as provided in title 42, chapter 15, article 1 to the full cash value or limited property value, whichever is applicable, of the property.
"Charter holder" means a person that enters into a charter with the state board for charter schools. For the purposes of this paragraph, "person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, association or public or private organization of any kind.
"Charter school" means a public school established by contract with the state board of education, the state board for charter schools, a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents, a community college district or a group of community college districts pursuant to article 8 of this chapter to provide learning that will improve pupil achievement.
"Child with a disability" means a child with a disability as defined in section 15-761.
"Class A bonds" means general obligation bonds approved by a vote of the qualified electors of a school district at an election held on or before December 31, 1998.
"Class B bonds" means general obligation bonds approved by a vote of the qualified electors of a school district at an election held from and after December 31, 1998.
"Competency" means a demonstrated ability in a skill at a specified performance level.
"Course" means organized subject matter in which instruction is offered within a given period of time and for which credit toward promotion, graduation or certification is usually given. A course consists of knowledge selected from a subject for instructional purposes in the schools.
"Course of study" means a list of required and optional subjects to be taught in the schools.
"Dual enrollment course" means a college-level course that is conducted on the campus of a high school or on the campus of a career technical education district, that is applicable to an established community college academic degree or certificate program and that is transferable to a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents.Â A dual enrollment course that is applicable to a community college occupational degree or certificate program may be transferable to a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents.
"Elementary grades" means kindergarten programs and grades one through eight.
"Fiscal year" means the year beginning July 1 and ending June 30.
"Governing board" means a body organized for the government and management of the schools within a school district or a county school superintendent in the conduct of an accommodation school.
"Lease" means an agreement for conveyance and possession of real or personal property.
"Limited property value" means the value determined pursuant to title 42, chapter 13, article 7. Limited property value shall be used as the basis for assessing, fixing, determining and levying primary property taxes.
"Nontest" means not relating to knowledge or skills in reading, writing, mathematics, social studies, science or any other course.
"Parent" means the natural or adoptive parent of a child or a person who has custody of a child.
"Person who has custody" means a parent or legal guardian of a child, a person to whom custody of the child has been given by order of a court or a person who stands in loco parentis to the child.
"Primary property taxes" means all ad valorem taxes except for secondary property taxes.
"Private school" means a nonpublic institution where instruction is imparted.
"School" or "public school" means any public institution established for the purposes of offering instruction to pupils in programs for preschool children with disabilities, kindergarten programs or any combination of elementary grades or secondary grades one through twelve.
"School district" means a political subdivision of this state with geographic boundaries organized for the purpose of the administration, support and maintenance of the public schools or an accommodation school.
"Secondary grades" means grades nine through twelve.
"Secondary property taxes" means ad valorem taxes used to pay the principal of and the interest and redemption charges on any bonded indebtedness or other lawful long-term obligation issued or incurred for a specific purpose by a school district or a community college district and amounts levied pursuant to an election to exceed a budget, expenditure or tax limitation.
"Subject" means a division or field of organized knowledge, such as English or mathematics, or a selection from an organized body of knowledge for a course or teaching unit, such as the English novel or elementary algebra.

A.R.S. § 16-00971

16-971 - Definitions

16-971. Definitions

(Caution:Â 1998 Prop. 105 applies)

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Business income" means:

(a) Monies received by a person in commercial transactions in the ordinary course of the person's regular trade, business or investments.

(b) Membership or union dues that do not exceed $5,000 from any one person in a calendar year.

"Campaign media spending":

(a) Means spending monies or accepting in-kind contributions to pay for any of the following:

(i) A public communication that expressly advocates for or against the nomination, or election of a candidate.

(ii) A public communication that promotes, supports, attacks or opposes a candidate within six months preceding an election involving that candidate.

(iii) A public communication that refers to a clearly identified candidate within ninety days before a primary election until the time of the general election and that is disseminated in the jurisdiction where the candidate's election is taking place.

(iv) A public communication that promotes, supports, attacks or opposes the qualification or approval of any state or local initiative or referendum.

(v) A public communication that promotes, supports, attacks or opposes the recall of a public officer.

(vi) An activity or public communication that supports the election or defeat of candidates of an identified political party or the electoral prospects of an identified political party, including partisan voter registration, partisan get-out-the-vote activity or other partisan campaign activity.

(vii) Research, design, production, polling, data analytics, mailing or social media list acquisition or any other activity conducted in preparation for or in conjunction with any of the activities described in items (i) through (vi) of this subdivision.

(b) Does not include spending monies or accepting in-kind contributions for any of the following:

(i) A news story, commentary or editorial by any broadcasting station, cable television operator, video service provider, programmer or producer, newspaper, magazine, website or other periodical publication that is not owned or operated by a candidate, a candidate's spouse or a candidate committee, political party or political action committee.

(ii) A nonpartisan activity intended to encourage voter registration and turnout.

(iii) Publishing a book or producing a documentary, if the publication or production is for distribution to the general public through traditional distribution mechanisms or if a fee is required to purchase the book or view the documentary.

(iv) Primary or nonpartisan debates between candidates or between proponents and opponents of a state or local initiative or referendum and announcements of those debates.

"Candidate" has the same meaning as in section 16-901.
"Candidate committee" has the same meaning as in section 16-901.
"Commission" means the citizens clean elections commission.
"Contribution" means money, donation, gift, loan or advance or other thing of value, including goods and services.
"Covered person"

(a) Means any person whose total campaign media spending or acceptance of in-kind contributions to enable campaign media spending, or a combination of both, in an election cycle is more than $50,000 in statewide campaigns or more than $25,000 in any other type of campaigns. For the purposes of this chapter, the amount of a person's campaign media spending includes campaign media spending made by entities established, financed, maintained or controlled by that person.

(b) Does not include:

(i) Individuals who spend only their own personal monies for campaign media spending.

(ii) Organizations that spend only their own business income for campaign media spending.

(iii) A candidate committee.

(iv) A political action committee or political party that receives not more than $20,000 in contributions, including in-kind contributions, from any one person in an election cycle.

"Election cycle" means the time beginning the day after general election day in even-numbered years and continuing through the end of general election day in the next even-numbered year.
"Expressly advocates" has the same meaning as in section 16-901.01.
"Identity" means:

(a) In the case of an individual, the name, mailing address, occupation and employer of the individual

(b) In the case of any other person, the name, mailing address, federal tax status and state of incorporation, registration or partnership, if any.

"In-kind contribution" means a contribution of goods, services or anything of value that is provided without charge or at less than the usual and normal charge.
"Original monies" means business income or an individual's personal monies.
"Person" includes both a natural person and an entity such as a corporation, limited liability company, labor organization, partnership or association, regardless of legal form.
"Personal monies"

(a) Means any of the following:

(i) Any asset of an individual that, at the time the individual engaged in campaign media spending or transferred monies to another person for such spending, the individual had legal control over and rightful title to.

(ii) Income received by an individual or the individual's spouse, including salary and other earned income from bona fide employment, dividends and proceeds from the individual's personal investments or bequests to the individual, including income from trusts established by bequests.

(iii) A portion of assets that are jointly owned by the individual and the individual's spouse equal to the individual's share of the asset under the instrument of conveyance or ownership. If no specific share is indicated by an instrument of conveyance or ownership, the value is one-half the value of the property or asset.

(b) Does not mean any asset or income received from any person for the purpose of influencing any election.

"Political action committee" has the same meaning as in section 16-901.
"Political party" has the same meaning as in section 16-901.
"Public communication"

(a) Means a paid communication to the public by means of broadcast, cable, satellite, internet or another digital method, newspaper, magazine, outdoor advertising facility, mass mailing or another mass distribution, telephone bank or any other form of general public political advertising or marketing, regardless of medium.

(b) Does not include communications between an organization and its employees, stockholders or bona fide members.

"Traceable monies" means:

(a) Monies that have been given, loaned or promised to be given to a covered person and for which no donor has opted out of their use or transfer for campaign media spending pursuant to section 16-972.

(b) Monies used to pay for in-kind contributions to a covered person to enable campaign media spending.

"Transfer records" means a written record of the identity of each person that directly or indirectly contributed or transferred more than $2,500 of original monies used for campaign media spending, the amount of each contribution or transfer and the person to whom those monies were transferred.

A.R.S. § 17-00101

17-101 - Definitions

17-101. Definitions

A. In this title, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Angling" means taking fish by one line and not more than two hooks, by one line and one artificial lure, which may have attached more than one hook, or by one line and not more than two artificial flies or lures.
"Bag limit" means the maximum limit, in number or amount, of wildlife that any one person may lawfully take during a specified period of time.
"Closed season" means the time during which wildlife may not be lawfully taken.
"Commission" means the Arizona game and fish commission.
"Department" means the Arizona game and fish department.
"Device" means any net, trap, snare, salt lick, scaffold, deadfall, pit, explosive, poison or stupefying substance, crossbow, firearm, bow and arrow, or other implement used for taking wildlife. Device does not include a raptor or any equipment used in the sport of falconry.
"Domicile" means a person's true, fixed and permanent home and principal residence. Proof of domicile in this state may be shown as prescribed by rule by the commission.
"Falconry" means the sport of hunting or taking quarry with a trained raptor.
"Fishing" means to lure, attract or pursue aquatic wildlife in such a manner that the wildlife may be captured or killed.
"Fur dealer" means any person engaged in the business of buying for resale the raw pelts or furs of wild mammals.
"Guide" means a person who meets any of the following:

(a) Advertises for guiding services.

(b) Holds himself out to the public for hire as a guide.

(d) Accepts compensation in any form commensurate with the market value in this state for guiding services in exchange for aiding, assisting, directing, leading or instructing a person in the field to locate and take wildlife.

(e) Is not a landowner or lessee who, without full fair market compensation, allows access to the landowner's or lessee's property and directs and advises a person in taking wildlife.

"License classification" means a type of license, permit, tag or stamp authorized under this title and prescribed by the commission by rule to take, handle or possess wildlife.
"License year" means the twelve-month period between January 1 and December 31, inclusive, or a different twelve-month period as prescribed by the commission by rule.
"Nonresident", for the purposes of applying for a license, permit, tag or stamp, means a citizen of the United States or an alien who is not a resident.
"Open season" means the time during which wildlife may be lawfully taken.
"Possession limit" means the maximum limit, in number or amount of wildlife, that any one person may possess at one time.
"Resident", for the purposes of applying for a license, permit, tag or stamp, means a person who is:

(a) A member of the armed forces of the United States on active duty and who is stationed in:

(i) This state for a period of thirty days immediately preceding the date of applying for a license, permit, tag or stamp.

(ii) Another state or country but who lists this state as the person's home of record at the time of applying for a license, permit, tag or stamp.

(b) Domiciled in this state for six months immediately preceding the date of applying for a license, permit, tag or stamp and who does not claim residency privileges for any purpose in any other state or jurisdiction.

"Road" means any maintained right-of-way for public conveyance.
"Statewide" means all lands except those areas lying within the boundaries of state and federal refuges, parks and monuments, unless specifically provided differently by commission order.
"Take" means pursuing, shooting, hunting, fishing, trapping, killing, capturing, snaring or netting wildlife or placing or using any net or other device or trap in a manner that may result in capturing or killing wildlife.
"Taxidermist" means any person who engages for hire in mounting, refurbishing, maintaining, restoring or preserving any display specimen.
"Traps" or "trapping" means taking wildlife in any manner except with a gun or other implement in hand.
"Wild" means, in reference to mammals and birds, those species that are normally found in a state of nature.
"Wildlife" means all wild mammals, wild birds and the nests or eggs thereof, reptiles, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans and fish, including their eggs or spawn.
"Youth" means a person who is under eighteen years of age.
"Zoo" means a commercial facility open to the public where the principal business is holding wildlife in captivity for exhibition purposes.

B. The following definitions of wildlife shall apply:

"Aquatic wildlife" means fish, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans and soft-shelled turtles.
"Big game" means wild turkey, deer, elk, pronghorn (antelope), bighorn sheep, bison (buffalo), peccary (javelina), bear and mountain lion.
"Fur-bearing animals" means muskrats, raccoons, otters, weasels, bobcats, beavers, badgers and ringtail cats.
"Game fish" means trout of all species, bass of all species, catfish of all species, sunfish of all species, northern pike, walleye and yellow perch.
"Game mammals" means deer, elk, bear, pronghorn (antelope), bighorn sheep, bison (buffalo), peccary (javelina), mountain lion, tree squirrel and cottontail rabbit.
"Migratory game birds" means wild waterfowl, including ducks, geese and swans, sandhill cranes, all coots, all gallinules, common snipe, wild doves and bandtail pigeons.
"Nongame animals" means all wildlife except game mammals, game birds, fur-bearing animals, predatory animals and aquatic wildlife.
"Nongame birds" means all birds except upland game birds and migratory game birds.
"Nongame fish" means all the species of fish except game fish.
"Predatory animals" means foxes, skunks, coyotes and bobcats.
"Raptors" means birds that are members of the order of falconiformes or strigiformes and includes falcons, hawks, owls, eagles and other birds that the commission may classify as raptors.
"Small game" means cottontail rabbits, tree squirrels, upland game birds and migratory game birds.
"Trout" means all species of the family salmonidae, including grayling.
"Upland game birds" means quail, partridge, grouse and pheasants.

A.R.S. § 20-00873

20-873 - Consolidation or merger

20-873. Consolidation or merger

A. A domestic fraternal benefit society may consolidate or merge with any other society if it complies with this section. The society shall file the following with the director:

A certified copy of the written contract that contains in full the terms and conditions of the consolidation or merger.
A sworn statement by the president and secretary or other corresponding officers of each society that shows the financial condition of each society on a date designated by the director. The date shall not be earlier than December 31 next preceding the date of the contract.
A verified certificate of the president and secretary or other corresponding officers of each society stating that the consolidation or merger has been approved by a two-thirds vote of the supreme governing body of each society and that the vote was conducted at a regular or special meeting of each society, or if allowed by the laws of the society, by mail.
Evidence that at least sixty days before the action of the supreme governing body of each society the text of the contract was furnished to all members of each society either by mail or publication in full in the official publication of each society.Â The affidavit of any officer of the society or of any person who is authorized by the society to mail any notice or document stating that the notice or document was addressed and mailed is prima facie evidence that the notice or document was furnished to the addressees.

B. The director shall approve the consolidation or merger and shall issue a certificate of approval if the director finds that the contract conforms with the requirements of this section, that the financial statements are correct and that the consolidation or merger is just and equitable to the members of each society. On the director's approval, the contract is in full force and effect, except that if one of the parties to the contract is incorporated under the laws of any other state or territory, the consolidation or merger does not become effective until the consolidation or merger is approved pursuant to the laws of that state or territory and a certificate of approval is filed with the director of the department of insurance and financial institutions in this state. If the laws of the other state or territory do not provide for consolidation or merger, the consolidation or merger does not become effective until it has been approved by and a certificate of approval is filed with the insurance director in that state or territory.

C. After the consolidation or merger becomes effective, all of the rights, franchises and interests of the consolidated or merged societies in and to real, personal and mixed property are vested in the society resulting from or remaining after the consolidation or merger. No other instrument is necessary to convey any property interests, except that conveyances of real property shall be evidenced by proper deeds. The title to any real estate or any interest in real estate that is vested under the laws of this state in any of the societies that are consolidated or merged does not revert or is not impaired in any way by reason of the merger or consolidation but vests absolutely in the society that results from or remains after the consolidation or merger.

A.R.S. § 23-00230

23-230 - Definitions

23-230. Definitions

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Automatic elevator" means a passenger or freight lift operated by push buttons so that the starting, moving, leveling, holding and opening and closing of the doors is entirely automatic.
"Clay construction product" means brick, hollow structural tile, sewer pipe, refractories, architectural terra cotta, glazed structural tile, roofing tile, stove lining, chimney pipes and tops, wall coping and drain tile.
"Construction" means building, altering, repairing, adding to, subtracting from, improving, moving, wrecking or demolishing a building, highway, road, railroad, excavation or other structure, project, development or improvement, including the erection and use of scaffolding or a similar structure and providing mechanical or structural service for a structure, project, development or improvement.
"Elevator" means a power-driven hoisting or lowering mechanism equipped with a car or platform which moves in guides in a substantially vertical direction. Elevator does not include dumbwaiters.
"Explosive" means ammunition, black powder, blasting caps, fireworks or any substance or combination of substances commonly used for the purpose of detonation and which, on exposure to any external force or condition, is capable of a relatively instantaneous release of gas and heat.
"Hazardous agricultural chemicals" means any substance that has a toxicity level that requires manufacturer or distributor labeling as category I, category II and category III toxicity in accordance with the regulations adopted by the administrator pursuant to the federal environmental pesticide control act of 1972, as amended.
"Logging" means felling timber, bucking or converting timber into logs, poles, piles, ties, bolts, pulpwood, chemical wood, excelsior wood, cordwood, fence posts or similar products, collecting, skidding, yarding, loading, transporting and unloading such products, constructing, repairing and maintaining roads, railroads, flumes or camps used in connection with logging, moving, installing, rigging and maintenance of machinery or equipment used in logging, operation of a sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill or cooperage stock mill in connection with the storing of logs and bolts, converting logs or bolts into sawed lumber, laths, shingles or cooperage stock and storing, drying and shipping lumber, laths, shingles and cooperage stock or other products of such mills.
"Manufacturing" means designing, assembling, fabricating, producing, constructing or preparing a product or part of a product before sale or use.
"Mine or quarry" means an underground or surface rock or mineral extracting, placer, dredging or bore-hole operation including all grinding and metal mills, washer plants and any other cutting, crushing, grinding, screening, sizing, washing or cleaning operation performed on extracted rocks or minerals.
"Motor vehicle" means an automobile, truck, truck tractor, trailer, semitrailer, motorcycle or similar vehicle propelled or drawn by mechanical power and designed for use as a means of transportation. Motor vehicle does not include a vehicle operated exclusively on rails.
"Outside helper" means a person who rides on a motor vehicle other than in the driver or passenger compartment for the purpose of transporting, loading or unloading items.
"Power-driven bakery machine" means a horizontal or vertical dough mixer, batter mixer, bread dividing, rounding or molding machine, dough brake, dough sheeter, combination bread slicing and wrapping machine, cake cutting band saw, cookie machine or cracker machine.
"Power-driven hoist" means an apparatus for raising or lowering a load by the application of a pulling or pushing force including a crane, derrick or forklift. Power-driven hoist does not include an elevator or an automatic elevator.
"Power-driven meat processing machine" means a meat patty forming machine, meat and bone cutting saw or knife, head splitter, guillotine cutter, snout puller, jaw puller, skinning machine, horizontal rotary washing machine, casing cleaning machine, grinding, mixing, chopping and hashing machines and meat presses.
"Power-driven metal working, forming, punching or shearing machine" means a machine, other than machine tools, which changes the shape of or cuts metal by means of dies, rolls, knives or similar tools which are mounted on rams, plungers or other moving parts.
"Power-driven paper products machine" means a platen die-cutting press, platen printing press, punch press which involves hand feeding of the machine, arm-type wirestitcher or stapler, circular or band saw, corner cutter or mitering machine, corrugating and single or double-lacing machine, envelope die-cutting press, guillotine paper cutter or shear, horizontal bar scorer, laminating or combining machine, sheeting machine, scrap paper baler or vertical slotter or other machine used in the remanufacture or conversion of paper or pulp into a finished product.
"Power-driven woodworking machine" means a fixed or portable machine or tool driven by power and used or designed for cutting, shaping, forming, surfacing, nailing, stapling, wire stitching, fastening, assembling, pressing or printing wood or veneer.
"Processing" means an activity involving an addition to, subtraction from, change in or cleaning of any food or foodstuff including filleting fish, dressing poultry or cracking nuts.
"Radiation" means ionizing radiation including gamma rays, x-rays, alpha and beta particles, high speed electrons, neutrons, protons and other nuclear particles or rays.
"Radioactive substance" means a solid, liquid or gaseous material or materials that spontaneously emit radiation.
"Roofing" means all work performed in connection with the application of weatherproofing materials and substances, including tar, pitch, asphalt, prepared paper, tile, slate, metal, translucent materials and shingles of asbestos, asphalt or wood, to roofs of buildings and other structures. Roofing includes all work performed in connection with installation of roofs, including related metal work, and alterations, additions, maintenance and repair including painting and coating of roofs.
"Silica refractory products" means items produced from raw materials and containing free silica as their main constituent.
"Warehousing" means loading, unloading, storing or otherwise moving any item or items to and from trucks, railroad cars, conveyors and buildings.
"Wrecking, demolition and shipbreaking" means all work, including cleanup and salvage work, performed on or at the site of the total or partial razing, demolishing or dismantling of a building, bridge, steeple, tower, chimney, other structure, motor vehicle, ship or other vessel.

A.R.S. § 23-00231

23-231 - Prohibited employments of persons under the age of eighteen

23-231. Prohibited employments of persons under the age of eighteen

A. Unless a variance is granted pursuant to section 23-241, a person shall not employ or allow a person under the age of eighteen years to work in, about or in connection with:

An establishment manufacturing or storing explosives, except a retail establishment if the employment does not include any handling of explosives other than prepackaged small arms ammunition. In this paragraph "small arms ammunition" means ammunition not exceeding .60 caliber in size, shotgun shells or blasting caps.
Occupations as a motor vehicle driver or outside helper, except for driving incidental to employment if the person has a valid license for operation of the vehicle and either:

(a) The total driving time does not exceed two hours per day or twenty-five per cent of the work period per day.

(b) The total mileage driven is fewer than fifty miles per day.

Mine or quarry occupations.
Logging occupations.
Occupations involving the operation, setup, repair, adjustment, oiling or cleaning of a power-driven woodworking machine.
Occupations involving exposure to radioactive substances and to radiation in excess of 0.5 rem per year.
Occupations involving the operation or assistance in the operation of a power-driven hoist with a capacity exceeding one ton or an elevator, except operation of an automatic elevator incidental to employment.
Occupations involving the operation of a power-driven metal working, forming, punching or shearing machine.
Occupations involving slaughtering, meat packing, processing or rendering of meat or the operation, setup, repair, adjustment, oiling or cleaning of a power-driven meat processing machine.
Occupations involving the operation of a power-driven bakery machine.
Occupations involving the operation of a power-driven paper products machine.
Occupations involving the manufacture of clay construction products or silica refractory products.
Occupations involving the operation of a power-driven saw.
Occupations involving wrecking, demolition and ship-breaking operations.
Occupations involving roofing operations or equipment attached to or placed on roofs.
Occupations in excavation or tunnel operations, except manual excavation, backfilling or working in trenches or other penetrations of the ground surface that do not exceed two feet in depth at any point.

B. The industrial commission may by regulation declare other occupations to be dangerous to lives or limbs or injurious to the health and morals of persons under the age of eighteen years and prohibit the employment or allowance to work in, about or in connection with the occupations by such persons unless a variance is granted.

A.R.S. § 3-00233

3-233 - Powers and duties; fees; penalty

3-233. Powers and duties; fees; penalty

A. For the purpose of carrying out this article, the director may:

In order to have access to seeds and the records pertaining to seeds subject to this article and the rules adopted under this article, enter upon:

(a) Any established plant, warehouse or place of business during customary business hours.

(b) Any truck or other conveyance operated on land, on water or in the air on probable cause or reasonable suspicion to believe that a violation of this article has occurred.

Issue and enforce a writtenÂ cease and desist order to the owner or custodian of any lot of agricultural, vegetable or ornamental plant seed that the director finds is in violation of this article, as provided in section 3-238, and any lot or lots of seed sold, or transported for sale, that do not meet all requirements of the plant variety protection act (P.L. 91-577; 84 Stat. 1542; 7 United States Code sections 2321 through 2582).
Provide through the state agricultural laboratory for seed testing facilities, employ qualified persons and incur expenses necessary to comply with this article.
Through the state agricultural laboratory:

(a) Provide for making purity, germination, noxious weed, tetrazolium and pathology tests of seeds for farmers and dealers on request pursuant to rules prescribed by the director governing such testing.

(b) Collect charges for the tests as prescribed by the director.

Cooperate with the United States department of agriculture and other agencies in seed law enforcement.
Revoke, suspend, restrict, deny or choose not to renew a license issued under this article or fix periods and terms of probation for a license holder after a hearing at which the license holder is found by a preponderance of the evidence to have violated this article or any of the rules adopted under this article.
Establish by rule fees that are sufficient to cover the costs of interstate and international exportation inspection activities under section 3-232, subsection A, paragraph 1, but annually not more than one dollar fifty cents per acre. Monies received under this paragraph shall be deposited in the seed law trust fund pursuant to section 3-234.

B. For the purposes of this article, the director, after an opportunity for a hearing, shall establish and collect the following fees:

For a seed dealer's license, not more than fifty dollars per year.
For a labeler's license, not more than five hundred dollars per year.

C. The director shall assess a license holder who does not submit the annual license renewal fees to the department by July 1 a penalty of ten per cent of the amount of the license fee per month for not more than three months.Â Penalties collected under this subsection shall be deposited in the seed law trust fund pursuant to section 3-234.

A.R.S. § 3-00458

3-458 - Interstate shipments; requirements; outofstate inspection certificates; irregular containers

3-458. Interstate shipments; requirements; out-of-state inspection certificates; irregular containers

A. It is unlawful for a person, firm, company, organization or corporation to import from another state for sale, to transport for delivery or to deliver for sale or to sell within this state a load or lot of citrus fruit unless it conforms to the grades and standards of maturity, condition and pack established pursuant to this article and rules adopted pursuant to this article.

B. The associate director shall examine each load or lot of citrus fruit entering the state to ascertain whether the fruit conforms to the established standards.

C. Citrus fruit grown in states that enforce grading standards equivalent to those established in this state may be permitted to enter this state when accompanied by an inspection certificate issued by the state or county enforcement authority in which the citrus fruit was grown disclosing that the load or lot conforms to the legally established standards in that state. The certificates shall be surrendered to the associate director.

D. Citrus fruit that enters the state in carload lots shall be accompanied by an inspection certificate, which shall be surrendered to the associate director by the receiver thereof.Â All shipments coming into the state by truck or other conveyance shall be inspected at the point of regular inspection by the associate director, and the certificates shall there be taken up by the associate director, and when coming in by railroad shall be inspected and the certificate taken up by the inspector at the point of destination.

E. When a motor vehicle is detained and its contents are found not to conform to the standards established pursuant to this article, the associate director or the associate director's duly authorized inspectors shall refuse entry of the citrus fruit into this state, but any load or lot of citrus fruit while in transit and consigned to a destination not within this state is exempt from these requirements when complying with the state quarantine requirements.

F. Citrus fruit may be offered for sale, sold or transported in, into or through this state in irregular containers, other than standard packages, when the irregular containers are so marked as to clearly indicate that they are not standard packages prescribed pursuant to this article.

A.R.S. § 3-00710

3-710 - Powers and duties; state preemption; egg promotion program

3-710. Powers and duties; state preemption; egg promotion program

A. The department may acquire and distribute to interested persons useful information relative to preparing for market, handling, purchasing, transporting, storing and marketing eggs and egg products, including demonstrating how to classify eggs and egg products in accordance with the uniform standards and grades prescribed pursuant to this chapter.

B. The department may issue in booklet form copies of this article containing complete descriptive terms as to shell, aircell, white, yolk and germ, and may change definitions of terms and grades as they are made and promulgated by the United States department of agriculture.

C. On request of the United States government, and others, the director may negotiate and sign cooperative agreements to provide inspection and grading services and charge and receive payment for the reasonable cost of such services. The monies received for such services shall be deposited in the state egg inspection trust fund established by section 3-717.

D. When the production of papers, books and records relating to any matter under investigation is deemed advisable, the director may apply to the superior court in any county for an order requiring the production of the papers, books and records. If the court is satisfied that the papers, books and records are pertinent to the matter under investigation, their production shall be ordered.

E. A complaint filed with the department charging a noncompliance with or violation of any provision of this article shall be in writing and signed by the complainant.

F. The supervisor and inspectors shall enforce this article in conformity with rules adopted by the director.Â The refusal of an officer authorized under this article to carry out the orders and directions of the director in the enforcement of this article or prosecutions under this article is neglect of duty. The director shall make and enforce such rules as the director deems necessary to carry out this article.

G. An inspector may enter and inspect any place or conveyance within this state over which the inspector has supervision where eggs are produced, candled, incubated, stored, packed, delivered for shipment, loaded, shipped, transported or sold, and may inspect all invoices and eggs and the cases and containers of the eggs and equipment found in the places or conveyances, and may take for inspection representative samples of the invoices, eggs and cases or containers for the purpose of determining whether or not any provision of this article has been violated.

H. An inspector, while enforcing this article, may seize and hold as evidence an advertisement, sign, placard, invoice, case or container of eggs or egg products or all or any part of any pack, load, lot consignment or shipment of eggs or egg products packed, stored, delivered for shipment, loaded, shipped, transported or sold in violation of any provisions of this article.

I. The department may prescribe minimum standards for egg processing plants and sanitary standards for processing shell eggs. The department shall establish these standards by rule. Chemicals used in egg processing plants, sanitizers used in egg processing, egg soaps, egg oil and other substances used in processing shell eggs are subject to the approval of the director.

J. The director shall adopt rules for poultry husbandry and the production of eggs sold in this state.Â This subsection does not apply to egg producers operating or controlling the operation of an egg ranch that has fewer than twenty thousand egg-laying hens producing eggs.

K. Consistency of poultry husbandry practices for the production of eggs is a statewide matter.Â The regulation of poultry husbandry practices related to the production of eggs is not subject to further regulation by a county, city, town or other political subdivision of this state.

L. The director may:

Establish an egg promotion program to provide certification, inspection and grading services and may prescribe, by rule, fees for those services. Except as provided in paragraph 3 of this subsection, monies collected from the fees shall be deposited, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, in the state egg inspection trust fund established by section 3-717.
Adopt rules to administer the egg promotion program, including participation guidelines, use requirements for department trademarks and certification marks and other rules the director deems necessary.
Conduct inspections to ensure compliance with the trademark and certification mark rules adopted pursuant to this subsection.Â The monies collected from fees for an inspection conducted pursuant to this paragraph shall be deposited, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, in the state egg inspection trust fund established by section 3-717.

A.R.S. § 4-00209

4-209 - Fees for license, application, issuance, renewal and transfer; late renewal penalty; seasonal operation; surcharges

4-209. Fees for license, application, issuance, renewal and transfer; late renewal penalty; seasonal operation; surcharges

A. A fee shall accompany an application for an original license or transfer of a license, or in case of renewal, shall be paid in advance.Â Every license expires annually, except that a license may be renewed for a two-year period pursuant to subsection M of this section if no compliance penalties have been issued to that location during the year before the renewal. A licensee who fails to renew the license on or before the due date shall pay a penalty of $150, which the licensee shall pay with the renewal fee. A license renewal that is deposited, properly addressed and postage prepaid in an official depository of the United States mail on or before the due date shall be deemed filed and received by the department on the date shown by the postmark or other official mark of the United States postal service stamped on the envelope.Â If the due date falls on a Saturday, Sunday or other legal holiday, the renewal shall be considered timely if it is received by the department on the next business day. The director may waive a late renewal penalty if good cause is shown by the licensee.Â A licensee who fails to renew the license on or before the due date may not sell, purchase or otherwise deal in spirituous liquor until the license is renewed. A license that is not renewed within sixty days after the due date is deemed terminated. The director may renew the terminated license if good cause is shown by the licensee. Except an application fee for a permit pursuant to section 4-203.07 and section 4-205.02, subsection K and leases pursuant to sections 4-203.06 and 4-203.07, an application fee for an original license or the transfer of a license shall be $100, which shall be retained by this state.

B. Issuance fees for original licenses shall be:

For an in-state producer's license to manufacture or produce spirituous liquor in this state, $1,500.
Except as provided in paragraph 15 of this subsection, for an out-of-state producer's, exporter's, importer's or rectifier's license, $200.
For a microbrewery license, $300.
For a wholesaler's license to sell spirituous liquors, $1,500.
For a government license issued in the name of a state agency, state commission, state board, county, city, town, community college or state university or the national guard, $100.
For a bar license, which is an on-sale retailer's license to sell all spirituous liquors primarily by individual portions and in the original containers, $1,500.
For a beer and wine bar license, which is an on-sale retailer's license to sell beer and wine primarily by individual portions and in the original containers, $1,500.
For a conveyance license issued to an operating railroad company, to sell all spirituous liquors in individual portions or in the original containers on all passenger trains operated by the railroad company, or to an operating airline company, to sell or serve spirituous liquors solely in individual portions on all passenger planes operated by the airline company, or to a boat operating in the waters of this state, to sell all spirituous liquors in individual portions or in the original containers for consumption on the boat, $1,500.
For a liquor store license, which is an off-sale retailer's license to sell all spirituous liquors, $1,500.
For a beer and wine store license, which is an off-sale retailer's license to sell beer and wine, $1,500.
For a hotel-motel license issued as such, to sell and serve spirituous liquors solely for consumption on the licensed premises of the hotel or motel, $1,500.
For a restaurant license issued as such, to sell and serve spirituous liquors solely for consumption on the licensed premises of the restaurant, $1,500. For a permit issued under section 4-205.02, subsection H allowing for the sale of beer for the consumption off the licensed premises pursuant to section 4-244, paragraph 32, subdivision (c), the director may charge a fee. For an application for a permit pursuant to section 4-203.07 and section 4-205.02, subsection K, the director may charge a fee.Â The director may establish and charge fees for lease applications pursuant to sections 4-203.06 and 4-203.07.
For a farm winery license, $100. The director may charge a licensed farm winery a fee pursuant to section 4-205.04, subsection K.
For a club license issued in the name of a bona fide club qualified under this title to sell all spirituous liquors on-sale, $1,000.
For an out-of-state winery that sells not more than two hundred forty gallons of wine in this state in a calendar year, $25.
The department may charge a fee for a craft distiller license.
The department may charge a fee for registering an alcohol delivery contractor pursuant to section 4-205.13.

C. The department may issue licenses with staggered renewal dates to distribute the renewal workload as uniformly as practicable throughout the twelve months of the calendar year.Â If a license is issued less than six months before the scheduled renewal date of the license, as provided by the department's staggered license renewal system, one-half of the annual license fee shall be charged.

D. The annual fees for licenses shall be:

For an in-state producer's license to manufacture or produce spirituous liquors in this state, $350.
Except as provided in paragraph 15 of this subsection, for an out-of-state producer's, exporter's, importer's or rectifier's license, $50.
For a microbrewery license, $300.
For a wholesaler's license, to sell spirituous liquors, $250.
For a government license issued to a county, city or town, community college or state university or the national guard, $100.
For a bar license, which is an on-sale retailer's license to sell all spirituous liquors primarily by individual portions and in the original containers, $150.
For a beer and wine bar license, which is an on-sale retailer's license to sell beer and wine primarily by individual portions and in the original containers, $75.
For a conveyance license issued to an operating railroad company, to sell all spirituous liquors in individual portions or in the original containers on all passenger trains operated by the railroad company, or to an operating airline company, to sell or serve spirituous liquors solely in individual portions on all passenger planes operated by the airline company, or to a boat operating in the waters of this state, to sell all spirituous liquor in individual portions or in the original containers for consumption on the boat, $225.
For a liquor store license, which is an off-sale retailer's license to sell all spirituous liquors, $50.
For a beer and wine store license, which is an off-sale retailer's license to sell beer and wine, $50.
For a hotel-motel license issued as such, to sell and serve spirituous liquors solely for consumption on the licensed premises of the hotel or motel, $500.
For a restaurant license issued as such, to sell and serve spirituous liquors solely for consumption on the licensed premises of the restaurant, $500, and for a restaurant license that is allowed to continue operating as a restaurant pursuant to section 4-213, subsection E, an additional amount established by the director. The department shall transfer this amount to the state treasurer for deposit in the state general fund. The director may establish an annual fee for a permit pursuant to section 4-203.07 and section 4-205.02, subsection K. The director may charge annual lease amounts pursuant to sections 4-203.06 and 4-203.07.
For a farm winery license, $100. The director may charge a licensed farm winery an annual fee pursuant to section 4-205.04, subsection K.
For a club license issued in the name of a bona fide club qualified under this title to sell all spirituous liquors on-sale, $150.
For an out-of-state winery that sells not more than two hundred forty gallons of wine in this state in a calendar year, $25.
The director may charge a fee for the annual renewal of a craft distiller license.
The department may charge a fee for the annual registration renewal of a registered alcohol delivery contractor pursuant to section 4-205.13.

E. Where the business of an on-sale retail licensee is seasonal, not extending over periods of more than six months in any calendar year, the licensee may designate the periods of operation and a license may be granted for those periods only, on payment of one-half of the fee prescribed in subsection D of this section.

F. Transfer fees from person to person for licenses transferred pursuant to section 4-203, subsection C shall be $300.

G. Transfer fees from location to location, as provided for in section 4-203, shall be $100.

H. Assignment fees for a change of agent, as provided for in section 4-202, subsection A, an acquisition of control, as provided for in section 4-203, subsection F, or a restructuring, as provided for in section 4-203, subsection H, shall be $100, except that where a licensee holds multiple licenses and requests multiple, simultaneous changes, the change of agent, acquisition of control or restructuring fee for the first license shall be $100 and the fee for all remaining licenses shall be $50 each, except that the aggregate fees shall not exceed $1,000 for all change of agents, $1,000 for all acquisitions of control and $1,000 for all restructurings.

I. No fee shall be charged by the department for an assignment of a liquor license in probate or an assignment pursuant to the provisions of a will or pursuant to a judicial decree in a domestic relations proceeding that assigns ownership of a business that includes a spirituous liquor license to one of the parties in the proceeding. In the case of nontransferable licenses, no fee shall be charged by the department for the issuance of a license for a licensed business pursuant to a transfer of the business in probate or pursuant to the provisions of a will or pursuant to a judicial decree in a domestic relations proceeding that assigns ownership of the business to one of the parties in the proceeding.

J. The director shall assess a surcharge of $30 on all licenses prescribed in subsection D, paragraphs 6, 7 and 12 of this section.Â Monies from the surcharge shall be used by the department exclusively for the costs of an auditor and support staff to review compliance by applicants and licensees with the requirements of section 4-205.02, subsection E. The department shall assess the surcharge as part of the annual license renewal fee.

K. The director shall assess a surcharge of $35 on all licenses prescribed in this section. Monies from the surcharge shall be used by the department exclusively for the costs of an enforcement program to investigate licensees who have been the subject of multiple complaints to the department. The enforcement program shall respond to complaints against licensees by neighborhood associations, by neighborhood civic groups and from municipal and county governments. The department shall assess the surcharge as part of the annual license renewal fee.

L. The director shall assess a surcharge of $20 on all licenses prescribed in subsection D, paragraphs 11 and 12 of this section and $35 on all other licenses prescribed in this section. Monies from the surcharge and from surcharges imposed pursuant to subsection K of this section shall be used by the department exclusively for the costs of a neighborhood association interaction and liquor enforcement management unit. The unit shall respond to complaints from neighborhood associations, neighborhood civic groups and local governing authorities regarding liquor violations. The director shall report the unit's activities and the use of monies from the surcharge or surcharges imposed pursuant to subsection K of this section to the board at each board meeting or as the board may direct.

M. Licenses may be renewed every two years with payment of license fees that are twice the amount designated in subsection D of this section and other applicable fees.Â Licensees renewing every two years must comply with annual reporting requirements. The director may adopt reasonable rules to allow licensees to renew every two years.

N. The department shall use all monies received from application fees for permits issued pursuant to section 4-205.02, subsection K, leases pursuant to sections 4-203.06 and 4-203.07 and registrations pursuant to section 4-205.13 for administrative costs associated with the permit, registration or lease and enforcement of this chapter.

A.R.S. § 6-00588

6-588 - Conversion of credit union

6-588. Conversion of credit union

A. A credit union incorporated under the laws of this state may be converted to a credit union organized under the laws of the United States, or it may be converted to a credit union organized under the laws of another state if the principal office has relocated to another state or jurisdiction, in the following manner:

On recommendations of the board of directors, the members of a credit union incorporated under the laws of this state, by an affirmative majority vote of all members voting in a meeting called for that purpose or by written ballot filed within fifteen days, may resolve to convert the credit union into a federal credit union or a credit union organized under the laws of another state.
Within twenty days after the meeting at which the members determine to so convert, the credit union shall file with the deputy director a certificate verified by the affidavit of the president or the chairman and the secretary of the credit union. The certificate shall contain a copy of the minutes of the meeting and a statement that the members have approved the determination to convert the credit union into a federal credit union or a credit union organized under the laws of another state.
The filing of the certificate required in paragraph 2 of this subsection with the deputy director is presumptive proof or evidence of the holding of the meeting and the action taken.
After the meeting of the members, the credit union shall take such action as is necessary under the federal law or the state law to which it is converting as a credit union. It shall also liquidate in a manner approved by the deputy director any assets or liabilities that are not by reason of law capable of being transferred to the converted credit union. Within ten days after the receipt of the new charter or certificate of incorporation, the credit union shall file with the deputy director and the corporation commission a copy of the instrument. On this filing, the credit union ceases to be a credit union incorporated under the laws of this state and is converted to one under its new jurisdiction.
At the time the conversion becomes effective, the credit union ceases to be supervised by this state and all of the property of the credit union, including all of its right, title and interest in and to all property of every kind and character, immediately by operation of law and without any conveyance or transfer and without any further act or deed is vested in the converted credit union under its new name and structure and under its new jurisdiction.
The converted credit union shall have, hold and enjoy the property prescribed in paragraph 5 of this subsection in its own right as fully and to the same extent as the property was possessed, held and enjoyed by it as a credit union under the laws of this state. The converted credit union continues to be responsible for all of the obligations of the former credit union to the same extent as though the conversion had not taken place. The converted credit union is merely a continuation of the former credit union under a new name and new jurisdiction and the revision of its corporate structure as is necessary for its proper operation under the new jurisdiction.

B. A credit union organized under the laws of the United States or of any other state may convert to a credit union incorporated under the laws of this state in the following manner:

To effect such a conversion a credit union shall first comply with all of the requirements of the jurisdiction under which it is organized and file proof of the compliance with the deputy director.
The converting credit union through its proper officers and officials shall sign and acknowledge in quintuplicate a certificate of organization as required in sections 6-506 and 6-507 in which they bind themselves to comply with the requirements of the certificate and with all the laws and rules applicable to a state credit union. The application for a certificate of organization in quintuplicate, the bylaws in duplicate and the required charter fee and examination assessment shall be submitted to the deputy director who shall make or cause to be made an appropriate investigation for the purpose of determining the advisability of such a conversion. On receipt of theÂ deputy director's certificate of organization in quadruplicate, with the certificate of approval, the applicants shall file the certificate of approval attached in quadruplicate with the corporation commission and record a certified copy of the filing under the seal of the commission with the county recorder of the county or counties in which the credit union is to do business. On proof of the recording, the corporation commission shall issue a certificate of incorporation to the credit union. The credit union shall forward a certified copy of the certificate of organization showing the filing and recording to the deputy director. The credit union shall also file with the corporation commission the appointment of an agent on whom service of process may be made.
Within ten days after the receipt of the certified copy of the certificate of incorporation by the credit union, the credit union shall file two certified copies of the certificate with its present supervisory agency and a copy of the transmittal letter with the deputy director.
On filing the certified copy of the certificate of organization with the deputy director, the converting credit union ceases to be a credit union under its former jurisdiction and is a credit union under the laws of this state. All of the property of the credit union, including all of its right, title and interest in and to all property of every kind and character, immediately, by operation of law and without any conveyance or transfer and without any further act or deed, is vested in the credit union under its new name and style as a state credit union and under its new jurisdiction.
The converted credit union shall have, hold and enjoy the property prescribed in paragraph 4 of this subsection in its own right as fully and to the same extent as the property was possessed, held and enjoyed by it as a credit union under its former jurisdiction and the converted credit union continues to be responsible for all of the obligations of the former credit union to the same extent as though conversion had not taken place. The converted credit union is merely a continuation of the former credit union under a new name and new jurisdiction and the revision of its corporate structure as is considered necessary for its proper operation under the new jurisdiction.

C. A credit union incorporated under the laws of this state may be converted into an association, as defined in section 6-401, that is incorporated under the laws of this state or of the United States if the credit union complies with both of the following:

The provisions established by the national credit union administration as prescribed by 12 Code of Federal Regulations part 708a.
Any rules that the deputy director adopts to implement this subsection.

The law belongs to the people. Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 590 U.S. (2020)