Arizona Revised Statutes Title 11 - Counties
Chapter 1 EXTENT AND LOCATION OF COUNTIES AND COUNTY SEATS
Article 1 Boundaries and County Seats
- § 11-101 Division Of State Into Counties
The state is divided into counties, named and bounded as provided in this article.
- § 11-102 Definitions
In the statement of the boundaries in this article: 1. " To, " " on" or " along" a mountain range or mountains means...
- § 11-103 Apache County
Apache county, the county seat of which is St. Johns, is bounded as follows: Commencing at a point where the boundary line between Arizona...
- § 11-104 Cochise County
Cochise county, the county seat of which is Bisbee, is bounded as follows: Commencing at a point six miles south of where the east...
- § 11-105 Coconino County
Coconino county, the county seat of which is Flagstaff, is bounded as follows: Commencing at the point where the boundary line between Utah and...
- § 11-106 Gila County
Gila county, the county seat of which is Globe, is bounded as follows: Commencing at the point where the Mazatzal range of mountains intersects...
- § 11-107 Graham County
Graham county, the county seat of which is Safford, is bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the east line of range eighteen...
- § 11-108 Greenlee County
Greenlee county, the county seat of which is Clifton, is bounded as follows: Commencing at the point of intersection of the first standard parallel...
- § 11-109 Maricopa County
Maricopa county, the county seat of which is Phoenix, is bounded as follows: Commencing at a point where the meridian line one hundred thirteen...
- § 11-110 Mohave County
Mohave county, the county seat of which is Kingman, is bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the boundary line between Utah and...
- § 11-111 Navajo County
Navajo county, the county seat of which is Holbrook, is bounded as follows: Commencing at the northeast corner of Coconino county; thence east following...
- § 11-112 Pima County
Pima county, the county seat of which is Tucson, is bounded as follows: Commencing at the point where the meridian line one hundred thirteen...
- § 11-113 Pinal County
Pinal county, the county seat of which is Florence, is bounded as follows: Commencing at the point where the eastern line of range one...
- § 11-114 Santa Cruz County
Santa Cruz county, the county seat of which is Nogales, is bounded as follows: Commencing on the international boundary line between the United States...
- § 11-115 Yavapai County
Yavapai county, the county seat of which is Prescott, is bounded as follows: Commencing at the point where the thirty-fourth parallel of north latitude,...
- § 11-116 Yuma County
Yuma county, the county seat of which is Yuma, is bounded as follows: Commencing at the point where a meridian line one hundred thirteen...
- § 11-117 La Paz County
La Paz county, the county seat of which is Parker, is bounded as follows: Commencing at the point where the meridian line one hundred...
Article 2 Boundary Disputes
- § 11-121 Action To Determine Boundary
When a dispute arises between two counties respecting the location of the boundary line between such counties, or when the boundary line between two...
- § 11-122 Survey Of Boundary
At any time before the final hearing of the action, the court may order a survey to be made of the disputed boundary line...
- § 11-123 Judgment
The judgment of the court shall define and designate the true boundary between the two counties, and shall direct that it be marked in...
Article 3 Formation of Counties
- § 11-131 Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Affected county" means each existing county affected by a proposed formation of new counties....
- § 11-132 Methods Of Formation; Requirements
A. Counties may be formed or divided either by legislative enactment, by statewide initiative pursuant to article IV, part 1, section 1, Constitution of...
- § 11-133 Petition; Contents
A. The division or formation of counties pursuant to this article shall be initiated by petition. The petition shall be addressed to the secretary...
- § 11-134 Notice Of Intention To Circulate Petitions
A. Before circulating a petition for the formation of new counties, the proponents shall file a notice of intention to do so with the...
- § 11-135 Filing Of Petition; Review; Certification Of Results
A. Completed petitions shall be filed with the secretary of state. All copies and counterparts of the petition shall be filed at the same...
- § 11-136 County Formation Commission
A. Within fifteen days of receipt of certification of the petition pursuant to section 11-135, subsection D, the governor shall appoint a county formation...
- § 11-137 Election On Formation Of New Counties
A. The secretary of state shall call a special election in the affected county or counties for the approval or disapproval of the proposed...
- § 11-138 Report By Campaign Committees
Campaign committees, as defined in section 16-901, promoting or opposing the formation of new counties under this article shall register with and report to...
- § 11-139 Compliance With Federal Law
If the formation of new counties is approved by an election pursuant to section 11-137, the attorney general shall immediately initiate proceedings to determine...
- § 11-140 Election Of County Officers
A. County officers of new counties, except clerk of the superior court, shall be nominated and elected at the next regular primary election and...
- § 11-141 Determination Of Names And County Seats Of New Counties
A. The new county in which the county seat of an affected county is located shall retain the name of the affected county. The...
- § 11-142 Organization Of New County; Powers And Duties Of County Officers Pending Organization
A. A new county approved pursuant to this article is officially organized and exists and the affected county or counties are officially terminated from...
- § 11-143 Distribution Board
A. After the new county or counties are organized a special district governed by a distribution board is established consisting of the territory of...
- § 11-144 Resolution Of Disputes; Appeals; Termination Of Commission
A. After the formation of new counties is approved pursuant to the election held under section 11-137 the commission shall act to resolve disagreements...
- § 11-145 Payment Of Costs Of County Formation
A. All costs of the secretary of state and of the commission under this article are charges against the affected county or counties before...
Article 4 Change of County Seat
Chapter 2 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Article 1 Preliminary Provisions
- § 11-201 Powers Of County
A. The powers of a county shall be exercised only by the board of supervisors or by agents and officers acting under its authority...
- § 11-202 County As Corporate Body; Name
A. Each county is a body politic and corporate, possessing all the powers expressly provided in the constitution or laws of this state and...
Article 2 General Provisions
- § 11-211 Membership; Qualifications; Term
A. There shall be in each county having a population of one hundred seventy-five thousand or more persons a board of supervisors consisting of...
- § 11-212 Supervisorial Districts
The board of supervisors shall meet at the county seat on or before December 1 following the release of the United States decennial census...
- § 11-213 Election; Vacancies
A. At the general election for state and county officers, one supervisor shall be elected from each district from among those nominated at the...
- § 11-214 Regular And Special Meetings
Regular meetings of the board shall be held in the county on a working day or days of each month designated by the board....
- § 11-215 Boards Of Supervisors; Duty Station; Travel Policy
A. The board of supervisors shall establish a duty station for each board member at an appropriate location in the county. For purposes of...
- § 11-216 Chairman; Quorum; Public Sessions
A. The supervisors shall elect a chairman, who, in addition to his other duties, shall sign all orders and warrants of the board. B....
- § 11-217 Minutes Of Proceedings
A. Each board shall cause written minutes of its proceedings to be prepared pursuant to section 38-431.01. B. The clerk of the board shall...
- § 11-218 Subpoena Of Witnesses; Production Of Books And Papers
The board may, by its chairman, issue subpoenas to compel attendance of any person and the production of any records relating to the affairs...
- § 11-219 Authority To Require Services Of Sheriff
The board may direct the sheriff to attend its meetings to preserve order, and serve subpoenas, notices or citations. Neither the officer serving subpoenas...
- § 11-220 Administration Of Oaths By Board Or Clerk
Any member of the board or the clerk may administer oaths, but no fees shall be charged therefor.
- § 11-221 Custody And Inspection Of Records
The books, records and accounts of the board shall be kept at the office of the clerk of the board, and in his care,...
- § 11-222 Pecuniary Interest As Bar To Vote Of Supervisor
A supervisor shall not vote upon any measure in which he, any member of his family or his partner, is pecuniarily interested.
- § 11-223 Misconduct By Supervisor; Penalty
A supervisor who neglects or refuses to perform any duty imposed on him without just cause, or who wilfully violates any law provided for...
- § 11-224 County Website; Required Website Link
Each county shall maintain a website link on the county's website to the Arizona criminal justice commission.
Article 3 Clerk of Board
- § 11-241 Appointment; Duties
The board of supervisors shall appoint a clerk of the board, who shall: 1. Record all proceedings of the board. 2. Make full entries...
Article 4 Powers and Duties
- § 11-251 Powers Of Board
The board of supervisors, under such limitations and restrictions as are prescribed by law, may: 1. Supervise the official conduct of all county officers...
- § 11-251.01 Conveyance To Nonprofit Housing Corporation
The board of supervisors may convey any land and improvements thereon owned by the county directly and without compliance with the provisions of paragraph...
- § 11-251.02 Additional Powers Of The Board
The board of supervisors may: 1. Authorize the use of county personnel, facilities, equipment, supplies and other resources in search or rescue operations involving...
- § 11-251.03 Records Center; Contents; Open To Inspection
A. The board of supervisors may establish a central records center for the preservation, storage and handling of all records required by law to...
- § 11-251.04 Authority To Set Rates For Private Towing Carrier; Definition; Violation; Classification
A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, the board of supervisors may regulate the maximum rate and charge for towing, transporting...
- § 11-251.05 Ordinances
A. The board of supervisors may: 1. In the conduct of county business, adopt, amend and repeal all ordinances necessary or proper to carry...
- § 11-251.06 Reimbursement For County Services To Special Districts
A. Notwithstanding any other statute, the board of supervisors may require the following special districts to reimburse the county for the cost of services...
- § 11-251.07 Report Of Special Taxing Districts In The County
A. On or before October 1 of each year the board of supervisors shall compile a report of all special taxing districts existing under...
- § 11-251.08 County Fee For Service Authority; Alternate Fee Schedule; Fee Limits; Adoption Procedures
A. In addition to any other county power or authority the board of supervisors may adopt fee schedules for any specific products and services...
- § 11-251.09 Enforcement Of Water Conservation Plumbing Requirements
A. The board of supervisors may designate an appropriate official to enforce, in unincorporated areas of the county, all or a portion of title...
- § 11-251.10 Conveyance Or Lease; Affordable Housing; Agreement; Recording
A. If a board of supervisors determines that any real property or interest in the real property owned, or to be purchased, by a...
- § 11-251.11 Appointed County Officers; Severance Pay
The board of supervisors may provide severance pay for appointed county officers by ordinance or by contract with an individual officer.
- § 11-251.12 County Islands; Fire And Emergency Services Protection; Intergovernmental Agreement With Municipalities; Definition
A. A county that has a population of more than one million five hundred thousand persons and that has a county island that does...
- § 11-251.13; Version 2 Proposed County Taxes And Fees; Notification Required; Exception
(L15, Ch. 128, sec. 1. Eff. 1/1/16) A. A board of supervisors may not levy or assess any new taxes or fees or increase...
- § 11-251.13 Proposed County Taxes And Fees; Notification Required; Exception
(L10, Ch. 316, sec. 2. Eff. until 1/1/16) A. A board of supervisors may not levy or assess any new taxes or fees or...
- § 11-251.14 Federal Monies; Prohibition; Union Labor Preference
A board of supervisors is prohibited from accepting federal monies for a construction project if as a condition of accepting the federal monies the...
- § 11-251.15 Prisoner Home Detention Program; Eligibility; Monitoring; Procedures; Continuous Alcohol Monitoring Program; Home Detention For Persons Sentenced For Driving Under The Influence Of Alcohol Or Drugs
A. A county may establish a home detention program for eligible sentenced prisoners, which shall be treated the same as confinement in jail. The...
- § 11-251.16 Federal Patent Easements; County Abandonment; Exception
A. A county, at the request of a property owner, may abandon a federal patent easement established by the small tract act of 1938...
- § 11-251.17 Use Of County Seal Restricted; Cease And Desist Order; Violation; Classification
A. A person may use, display or otherwise employ any facsimile, copy, likeness, imitation or other resemblance of the county seal only after obtaining...
- § 11-251.18 Adoption Of Rules; Procedures; Exemptions; Definitions
A. The board of supervisors shall adopt procedures for the adoption, amendment, repeal and enforcement of rules. B. The procedures shall contain at least...
- § 11-252 Membership In Organizations
In addition to the powers granted to the board of supervisors by the provisions of this chapter, and not in limitation thereof, the board...
- § 11-253 Reports And Bonds Of County Officers
A. The board may require any county officer to make reports under oath on any matter connected with the duties of his office, and...
- § 11-254 Contribution For Economic Development
In addition to any other provision of law, the board of supervisors may appropriate from the general fund each year up to one million...
- § 11-254.01 County Purchasing Procedures; Purchases To Be Based On Competitive Bids; Content And Issuance Of Invitations And Specifications; Basis Of Awards And Rejection Of Bids; Professional Services; Buildings
A. All purchases of supplies, materials, equipment and contractual services, except professional services, made by the county having an estimated cost in excess of...
- § 11-254.02 Contribution For Sports Economic Development And Stadium Development; Limitation; Definition
A. The board of supervisors of a county having a population of more than one million five hundred thousand persons according to the most...
- § 11-254.03 Board Powers; Hospitals
In addition to the provisions of section 11-251, paragraph 5, if a board maintains a hospital or health care facility for the sick of...
- § 11-254.04 Expenditures For Economic Development; Definition
A. In addition to the authority granted under section 11-254, a board of supervisors may appropriate and spend public monies for and in connection...
- § 11-254.05 Purchase Or Lease Of Development Rights; Definition
A. The board of supervisors, by resolution, may purchase or lease the development rights of private land in the county with monies from any...
- § 11-254.06 County Infill Incentive Districts
A. The board of supervisors may designate an infill incentive district in any unincorporated area of the county that meets at least three of...
- § 11-254.07 Renewable Energy Incentive Districts; Definition
A. The board of supervisors may designate a renewable energy incentive district in any unincorporated area of the county if all of the following...
- § 11-254.08 Energy And Water Savings Accounts
A. The board of supervisors may establish an energy and water savings account that consists of a designated pool of capital investment monies to...
- § 11-255 Annual Contract For Advertising And Printing
A. The board shall contract annually for all advertising, publications and printing required to be done or made by all departments of county government....
- § 11-256 Lease Or Sublease Of County Lands And Buildings; Exceptions
A. The board may lease or sublease, for a term not to exceed twenty-five years plus an option to renew for an additional period...
- § 11-256.01 Lease Or Sublease Of County Lands And Buildings To Governmental Entity, County Fair Association Or Nonprofit Corporation; Exception
A. Notwithstanding section 11-256, the board may lease or sublease any land or building owned by or under the control of the county to...
- § 11-256.02 Lease, Sublease Or Sale Of County Hospital Property To Hospital District; Exception
Notwithstanding any other statute, the board of supervisors of a county having a population of less than two hundred fifty thousand persons as determined...
- § 11-256.03 Conveyance Of Property For Health Care Institution To Nonprofit Corporation; Powers And Duties Of County And Nonprofit Corporation; Reports; Definitions
A. The board of supervisors of any county that has a population greater than one million but less than two million persons and that...
- § 11-256.04 Home Equity Conversion Program; Authorization; Use Of Proceeds
A. A county, by resolution, may offer a home equity conversion program for persons sixty years of age or older. B. A county shall...
- § 11-257 Flood Water Control Works; Tax Levy
A. When flood waters of a river, creek, channel or canyon injure or threaten to injure a public road or highway, or public property,...
- § 11-258 County Fair Fund; District Fairs; Operation Of Fair By Corporation; County And State Appropriations
A. The board may appropriate each year from the general fund a sum, which shall be known as a county fair fund, as follows:...
- § 11-259 County Immigration Commissioner
A. The board may appoint a county commissioner of immigration who shall hold office for two years and shall receive an annual salary not...
- § 11-260 Payment Of Outstanding Taxes, Penalties And Interest On Acquiring Property
A. If a county acquires real or personal property, whether by purchase, exchange, condemnation, gift or otherwise, the board of supervisors shall pay to...
- § 11-261 Authority To Procure Liability And Errors And Omissions Insurance Covering Officers, Agents And Employees
A. Counties may expend public funds to procure liability insurance covering their officers, agents, and employees while engaged in governmental or proprietary capacities. B....
- § 11-262 Contribution To Arts Organizations
The board of supervisors of a county may appropriate monies each year from the general fund to support an arts support fund. The board...
- § 11-263 Authorization To Procure Insurance For County Employees And Dependents; Expenditure Of Public Funds; Employee Payments; Retired County Employees; Group Health And Accident Coverage
A. The board of supervisors may adopt a system of insurance for the benefit of county elected officials and employees. The board may procure...
- § 11-264 Authority To Operate A Sewage System; Liens; Sewage System User Fees
A. Any county with a population between one million and two million persons may purchase, construct or operate a sewage system, including the collection,...
- § 11-264.01 Additional Bonding Authority; Security For Payment; Definition
A. In addition to other bonding authority of the board of supervisors the board of any county authorized to operate a sewerage system pursuant...
- § 11-264.02 Bonds; Legal Investments
Bonds issued pursuant to this article are legal investments for all banks, trust companies and insurance companies organized and operating under the laws of...
- § 11-264.03 Exemptions
A. Bonds issued pursuant to this article are exempt from any and all statutory debt limitations and budget requirements applicable to a county. B....
- § 11-264.04 Security For Payment
Revenues, proceeds and receipts derived from the operation of the county sewerage system are the security for the payments of the bonds issued under...
- § 11-264.05 Issuance Of Bonds
Except as otherwise expressly provided, the bonds authorized pursuant to section 11-264.01 shall be issued in accordance with the provisions of sections 9-530, 9-531,...
- § 11-264.06 Acquisition Of Sewerage System From Municipality; Retirement Of Related Bonds Of Municipality
If a county authorized to operate a sewerage system pursuant to section 11-264 acquires all or any portion of a sewerage system from any...
- § 11-265 Authority To Provide Allowances
Counties may expend public funds to provide clothing allowances for county officers, agents and employees who are engaged in public safety work, when such...
- § 11-266 Immunity From Personal Liability
Members of boards of supervisors are immune from personal liability with respect to all acts done and actions taken in good faith within the...
- § 11-267 Services To Persons With Disabilities And Aged Individuals
A. Any county may implement programs to provide services to persons with disabilities or persons sixty years of age or older, and may contract...
- § 11-268 Removal Of Rubbish, Trash, Weeds, Filth, Debris And Dilapidated Buildings; Removal By County; Costs Assessed; Collection; Priority Of Lien; Definitions
A. The board of supervisors, by ordinance, shall compel the owner, lessee or occupant of buildings, grounds or lots located in the unincorporated areas...
- § 11-269 Recycling And Waste Reduction
A county shall provide its residents with an opportunity to engage in recycling and waste reduction.
- § 11-269.01 Compensation For Loss Of Property Value
In addition to the procedures established for the taking of property by eminent domain under title 12, chapter 8, article 2, a board of...
- § 11-269.02 Public Facilities; Voter Approval; Exemptions
A. Notwithstanding any other law, a county with a population of more than one million five hundred thousand persons according to the most recent...
- § 11-269.03 Acceleration Agreements; Loan Repayment Agreements
A. A county may enter into agreements with the department of transportation for the acceleration of right-of-way acquisition, design or construction of an eligible...
- § 11-269.04 Condemnation Actions; Interest
Interest on a judgment in a condemnation proceeding instituted by the county, including interest that is payable pursuant to section 12-1123, subsection B, shall...
- § 11-269.05 Vehicle Refueling Apparatus
Notwithstanding any other law and because the legislature finds it is a matter of statewide concern, a county shall not effectively prohibit the installation...
- § 11-269.07 Annexation To City Or Town; Small County Islands
A board of supervisors may require annexation to a city or town of any territory of the county that consists of an entire parcel...
- § 11-269.08 Work Centers; Aliens; Prohibition
A county shall not construct or maintain a work center if any part of the center is to facilitate the knowing employment of an...
- § 11-269.09 Federal And State Regulations; Local Coordination; Standing; Definitions
A. If a county has laws, regulations, plans or policies that are less restrictive than a federal or state regulation, rule, plan or policy,...
- § 11-269.10 Parking; Public Service And Public Safety Emergency Vehicles; Definition
A. Notwithstanding any provision in rule or ordinance, a county shall not prohibit a resident from parking a motor vehicle on a street or...
- § 11-269.11 Prohibition On Adopting Landlord Tenant Bedbug Control Requirements
A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section the board of supervisors and any other person under the authority of the board...
- § 11-269.12 Food Handler Training And Certificate
A. If a county requires food handler training and a certificate for employment in the food service industry, the food handler certificate training course...
- § 11-269.13 Prohibition On Retail Business Security Requirements; State Preemption
A. A board of supervisors may not adopt an ordinance or resolution that requires a retail business to comply with specific security requirements, including...
- § 11-269.14 Prohibition On Requirement Of Energy Measuring And Reporting; Prohibition On Regulation Of Auxiliary Containers; State Preemption; Legislative Findings; Definition
A. A county may not: 1. Require an owner, operator or tenant of a business, commercial building or multifamily housing property to measure and...
Article 5 Public Buildings
- § 11-271 Authority To Erect County Buildings; Bond Issue; Limitation
When the aggregate indebtedness of a county does not exceed six per cent of the value of the taxable property within the county as...
- § 11-272 Bonds; Interest Limitation; Form
A. The bonds authorized to be issued by section 11-271 shall bear interest at a rate or rates set forth in the accepted bid,...
- § 11-273 Sale Of Bonds; Disposition Of Proceeds
A. When the bonds are executed, numbered consecutively and sealed, they shall be delivered to the county treasurer, and his receipt taken therefor, and...
- § 11-274 Bond Register
A. The treasurer shall keep a register of all bonds sold by number, date of sale, amount, date of maturity and the name and...
- § 11-275 Tax Levy To Pay Bonds And Interest; Debt Service Fund
A. The board shall cause to be assessed and levied each year upon the taxable property of the county, in addition to the levy...
- § 11-276 Redemption Of Bonds; Notice; Effect Of Failure To Present Bonds
When, after setting aside the amount required to pay the interest maturing before the next levy, the debt service fund is sufficient to redeem...
Article 6 Industrial Pursuits
Article 7 Medical Facilities and Care of Indigents
- § 11-291 Hospitalization And Medical Care Of The Sick
A. Except as provided in sections 11-293 and 36-183.01 and title 36, chapter 29, the board of supervisors may provide for the hospitalization and...
- § 11-292 Medical Care; Definition
A. The board of supervisors, subject to the applicable provisions of title 42, chapter 17, articles 2 and 3, shall include in its annual...
- § 11-293 Long-Term Care; Counties; Duties; Requirements For Payment; Home Health Care
A. From and after October 1, 1989, each county shall provide nursing care institution services, supervisory care services or adult foster care services for...
- § 11-293.01 Adult Foster Care Program For The Indigent Sick; Specifications
A. Each county shall establish an adult foster care program for the indigent sick within the department charged with the delivery of hospitalization and...
- § 11-294 Bond Of Contractor; Contents Of Contract
The person to whom a contract for the operation of a county hospital is awarded shall give to the county a bond of not...
- § 11-295 Use Of County Hospital And Equipment By Contractor; Inventory Of Equipment
A. The contractor may use any building used for a hospital which is owned by the county together with the county furniture and appliances...
- § 11-296 Record Of Indigent Care
A. The contractor, or the person in charge, shall keep an accurate written account of: 1. The names of all persons admitted into the...
- § 11-297 Seriously Mentally Ill; County Responsibility; Definition
(L01, Ch. 344, sec. 13. Eff. until 7/1/16) A. Notwithstanding section 11-291: 1. A county that has a population of less than six hundred...
- § 11-297; Version 2 Seriously Mentally Ill; County Responsibility; Definition
(L15, Ch. 195, sec. 2. Eff. 7/1/16) A. Notwithstanding section 11-291: 1. A county that has a population of less than six hundred thousand...
- § 11-299 Contagious Cases
A contractor or person having charge of the county hospital shall not be required to admit and care for any person afflicted with cholera,...
- § 11-300 Tobacco Settlement Agreement; Decreased Payments; County Contribution
A. If the total of the initial payment, annual payment and strategic contribution payment, as these terms are prescribed by sections IX(b) and IX(c)...
- § 11-301 Discharge Of Patient Capable Of Self-Support; Violation; Classification
A. A person admitted to the hospital shall be permitted to remain there so long as he is sick or has a disability or...
- § 11-302 County Tuberculosis Sanitarium; Admission Of Patients
A. The board may provide, equip and maintain a separate building or separate part of a building for the exclusive use and treatment of...
- § 11-303 Disposition Of Body Of Deceased Indigent
A. Upon the death of an indigent, the board shall use reasonable efforts to find a relative or friend of the deceased or an...
Article 7.1 Health Care
- § 11-306 Authority To Construct, Acquire, Lease Or Sell Health Care Institutions
Counties, cities, including charter cities, and towns of this state may construct, purchase, own, lease, either as lessor or lessee, and sell either for...
- § 11-307 Issuance Of Bonds; Negotiability; Investment; Definition
A. A governing body of any county, city or town may issue bonds for and on behalf of the county, city or town to...
- § 11-309 Hospital Enterprise; Accounting; Fund; Administration; Budget
A. A county with a population of more than five hundred thousand persons as shown by the most recent United States decennial census may...
Article 8 Burial of Indigent Veterans
Article 9 Building Permits
Article 10 County Employee Merit System
Article 11 Deferred Prosecution Programs
Article 12 Street and Highway Improvement Bonds
- § 11-371 Borrowing Power Of Counties
A county, in addition to other powers conferred upon it by law, may borrow money and issue bonds for the purpose of improvement, construction,...
- § 11-372 Vote On Bond Issues
When the board of supervisors of a county determines to borrow money under the provisions of this article, the question of issuing bonds under...
- § 11-373 Election Resolution; Contents; Publication
A. The board of supervisors shall adopt a resolution calling an election upon the question of the issuance of bonds. The resolution shall state...
- § 11-374 Ballots
At the election the ballot shall contain the words " for the bonds" and " against the bonds" and to the right of and...
- § 11-375 Canvass Of Returns
The board of supervisors shall canvass the returns and declare the result of the election. If it is found by the board of supervisors...
- § 11-376 Application Of Election Laws
Except as otherwise provided in this article, the manner of conducting the registration and election, keeping the poll lists, the returns, declaring the results...
- § 11-377 Form Of Bonds; Interest Rates; Redemption; Payment Of Principal And Interest; Additional Security; Definition
A. Bonds issued under this article shall be fully negotiable within the meaning and for all purposes provided by title 47. They may be...
- § 11-378 Issuance Of Bonds For Public Improvements; Limitations Of Amount; Successive Borrowings; Annual Interest
A. No county may issue bonds under this article unless the aggregate amount of the revenues received by it from highway user taxes, including...
- § 11-379 Expansion Of Pledge; Effect On Prior Elections; Refunding Bonds; Conflict Of Interest
A. All bonds issued pursuant to this article, whether before or after October 24, 1981, shall be paid from, and may hereafter be secured...
- § 11-380 Separate Fund To Pay Interest And Principal On Maturing Installment
After any indebtedness is incurred under the provisions of this article, the treasurer of the county, during each year such indebtedness continues, shall set...
Article 13 County Housing Trust Fund
Article 14 County Long-Term Obligations
Chapter 3 COUNTY OFFICERS
Article 1 General Provisions
- § 11-401 Enumeration Of Officers
A. The officers of the county are: 1. Sheriff. 2. Recorder. 3. Treasurer. 4. School superintendent. 5. County attorney. 6. Assessor. 7. Supervisors. 8....
- § 11-402 Qualifications
A person shall not be eligible for a county office, whether elective or appointive, nor shall a certificate of election or commission issue to...
- § 11-403 Practice Of Law Prohibited To Certain Officers; Exceptions
A. The sheriff and constable and their deputies are prohibited from practicing law, or forming a partnership with an attorney-at-law. B. In a county...
- § 11-404 Residence Of County Officers
The following officers shall reside within the county: 1. Judge of the superior court. 2. Treasurer and ex officio tax collector. 3. Clerk of...
- § 11-405 Limitations On Absence Of Officer From State
A county officer shall not absent himself from the state for more than thirty days without the consent of the board of supervisors.
- § 11-406 Term Of Office
A. County and precinct officers for whose election and term of office no other provision is made, shall be elected at the regular general...
- § 11-407 Duties Of Successors To Office
A. When the term of office for which an officer has been elected or appointed is terminated by operation of law, death, resignation or...
- § 11-408 Consolidation Of Offices
Where offices are consolidated, the person elected or appointed to fill the offices consolidated shall take the oath of office and give the bond...
- § 11-409 Deputies And Employees; Appointment
The county officers enumerated in section 11-401, by and with the consent of, and at salaries fixed by the board, may appoint deputies, stenographers,...
- § 11-410 Use Of County Resources Or Employees To Influence Elections; Prohibition; Civil Penalty; Definitions
A. A county shall not spend or use its resources, including the use or expenditure of monies, accounts, credit, facilities, vehicles, postage, telecommunications, computer...
- § 11-411 Performance Of Duties At Place Other Than County Seat; Record Filing
When, in the opinion of the chief officer of any county office, the public interest requires the performance of any duties of the office...
- § 11-412 Seals For Certain Officers
The board of supervisors, treasurer and recorder shall each have a seal of office bearing the name of the county and the office.
- § 11-413 County Offices; Business Periods
A. Every county officer, except the sheriff, shall keep the officer's office open for at least forty hours each week or at least thirty-two...
- § 11-414 Monthly Statement Of Fees Earned; Disposition Of Fees
A. County and precinct officers entitled to receive or collect fees, except notaries public, shall file on the first day of the month an...
- § 11-416 Liability For Failure To Collect And Remit Fees
Every salaried county or precinct officer failing to collect the prescribed fees and pay them into the county treasury is liable to the county
- § 11-419 County Salaries
A. In counties having a population of five hundred thousand or more persons, as determined by the latest preceding federal decennial census, the following...
- § 11-422 Salary Of Clerk Of The Board
A. The board of supervisors in each county shall appoint a clerk and determine his salary. B. A clerk of a board of supervisors...
- § 11-424.01 Salaries Of Precinct Officers Other Than Justices Of The Peace; Definition
A. At the regular June meeting of the several boards of supervisors preceding a general election, the boards shall fix the salaries of all...
- § 11-424.02 Receipt Of Salary By Justices Of The Peace; Affidavit; Pending And Undetermined Causes; Violation; Classification
A. A justice of the peace or a justice of the peace pro tempore shall not receive his salary unless such justice either certifies...
Article 2 Sheriff
- § 11-441 Powers And Duties
A. The sheriff shall: 1. Preserve the peace. 2. Arrest and take before the nearest magistrate for examination all persons who attempt to commit...
- § 11-442 Ranger Deputies; Appointment And Compensation
By and with the advice and consent of the board of supervisors, the sheriff may appoint ranger deputies whose compensation shall be fixed by...
- § 11-443 Vacancy In Office
When a vacancy occurs in the office of sheriff the chief deputy shall execute the office until the vacancy is filled.
- § 11-444 Expenses Of Sheriff As County Charge; Expense Fund
A. The sheriff shall be allowed actual and necessary expenses incurred by the sheriff in pursuit of criminals, for transacting all civil or criminal...
- § 11-445 Fees Chargeable In Civil Actions By Sheriffs And Constables; Constables' Logs
A. The sheriff shall receive the following fees in civil actions: 1. For serving each true copy of the original summons in a civil...
- § 11-446 Payment Of Fees Into County Treasury
The sheriff shall pay into the county treasury, on the first Monday of each month, all fees and mileage earned and collected by him.
- § 11-447 Service Of Process Regular On Its Face
A sheriff or other ministerial officer is justified in the execution of, and shall execute all process and orders regular on their face and...
- § 11-448 Duty To Show Process
The officer executing process shall then, and so long as he retains it, upon request, show a conformed copy of the process, with all...
- § 11-449 Liability Relating To Writs, Levies Or Sales
If a sheriff neglects to make due return of a writ or paper delivered to him to be served or executed, or is guilty...
- § 11-450 Effect Of Directions Of Party Upon Liability Of Sheriff In Execution Of Process
No direction or authority by a party to a sheriff in respect to the execution of process or return thereof, or to any act...
- § 11-451 Proceedings Upon Failure To Pay Over Money
If a sheriff or deputy fails to pay over to the county, according to law, any money collected or received by the sheriff or...
- § 11-452 Survival Of Action Against Deceased Sheriff
Any action for the malfeasance, misfeasance or nonfeasance of a sheriff or his deputies may be prosecuted against the personal representative of the sheriff...
- § 11-454 Service On Sheriff
Service of a paper, other than process, upon the sheriff may be made by delivering it to him or to one of his deputies,...
- § 11-455 Employment Of Prisoners; Work Projects
The sheriff may employ prisoners, inside or outside the county jail, who have been sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail to such labor...
- § 11-456 Delivery Of Property And Papers To Successor; Return Of Executed Process
A. The sheriff shall deliver to his successor in office: 1. The jail of the county, or of a county jail district, with all...
- § 11-457 Refusal To Deliver Property Or Papers To Successor
If a former sheriff neglects or refuses to deliver to his successor the jail, process, documents and prisoners in his charge, as required by...
- § 11-458 Refusal By Sheriff To Pay Or Disburse Fine Or Forfeiture Received; Classification
A sheriff who receives a fine or forfeiture and knowingly fails or refuses to pay or disburse it according to law within thirty days...
- § 11-459 Prisoner Work, Community Restitution Work And Home Detention Program; Eligibility; Monitoring; Procedures; Continuous Alcohol Monitoring Program; Home Detention For Persons Sentenced For Driving Under The Influence Of Alcohol Or Drugs; Community Restitution Work Committee; Members; Duties
A. The sheriff may establish a prisoner work, community restitution work and home detention program for eligible sentenced prisoners, which shall be treated the...
- § 11-459.01 County Prisoner Complaints To Entities; Procedure
A. If a county operates a facility that provides medical and health services to inmates and the facility has been accredited by the national...
Article 3 Recorder
- § 11-461 Recording Instruments; Keeping Records; Identification; Location; Social Security Numbers; Definition
A. The recorder shall have custody of and shall keep all records, maps and papers deposited in the recorder's office. B. The recorder shall...
- § 11-462 Enumeration Of Indices
A. Every recorder shall keep indices to the instruments that have been recorded. There shall be at least one entry in the indices for...
- § 11-463 Manner Of Keeping Indices
A. The recorder may keep single or multiple indices of official records. The indices may be kept in distinctly marked volumes or may be...
- § 11-464 Master Forms
A. On presentation, the recorder shall record master forms in the official records, indexing the forms in such manner that they can be easily...
- § 11-465 Discharge Papers Of Service Personnel
The recorder shall record without fee the discharge papers of officers and enlisted personnel of the military and naval forces of the United States....
- § 11-466 Certified Copies Of Judgments Affecting Real Property
The recorder shall file and record with the record of deeds, grants and transfers, certified copies of final judgments partitioning or affecting the title...
- § 11-468 Place Of Recording Instrument
When any instrument is authorized or required by law to be recorded, it shall be recorded, unless otherwise expressly provided, in the office of...
- § 11-469 Time Instrument Deemed Recorded; Certificate; Copies
A. An instrument shall be considered recorded from the time it is accepted for record, as provided by sections 11-461 and 11-480. The recorder...
- § 11-470 Receipt For Instrument
When an instrument authorized by law to be recorded is deposited in the recorder's office for record, the recorder shall give to the person...
- § 11-471 Manner Of Recording
The recorder shall, without delay, record each instrument authorized to be recorded which is deposited with him for record, except where otherwise provided, with...
- § 11-473 Inspection Of Records
All books of record and indices in the recorder's office, and all instruments and papers on file therein, shall during office hours be open...
- § 11-474 Copies Of Records; Certification
A. The recorder shall, upon the application and payment of the fees provided therefor, make copies of instruments recorded or filed in his office...
- § 11-475 Fees; Exemption
A. The county recorder shall receive the following fees: 1. For recording papers required or authorized by law to be recorded, if the fee...
- § 11-475.01 Document Storage And Retrieval Conversion And Maintenance Fund; Purpose
A. A document storage and retrieval conversion and maintenance fund is established in each county consisting of monies received pursuant to subsection C. B....
- § 11-476 Preservation Of County Records; Transcription And Certification
A. When county records or indexes become defaced, worn or in a condition endangering their preservation, the board of supervisors shall procure appropriate books...
- § 11-477 Liability For Neglect Or Misfeasance
If an instrument, proved or acknowledged according to law, or a paper or notice which may by law be recorded, is delivered to the...
- § 11-478 Reproduction And Microphotography Of Records
The county recorder may cause any or all files or records in his official custody to be microphotographed or otherwise reproduced on film as...
- § 11-479 Destruction Of Records; Requirements; Exception
A. The county recorder may destroy, under sections 41-151.09, 41-151.11, 41-151.12, 41-151.13, 41-151.14, 41-151.15, 41-151.16, 41-151.17, 41-151.18 and 41-151.19, all of the filed papers...
- § 11-480 Requirements For Form Of Instruments
A. Only an instrument which upon presentation to a county recorder for recordation fails to meet any of the following conditions may be rejected...
- § 11-481 Title And Size Prerequisites For Recording Maps And Plats; Recording Fee; Exception
A. All maps or plats presented for recording shall have a title that at least indicates the type of map or plat, the name...
- § 11-482 Incorporation By Reference; Legal Descriptions
A. Any recorded instrument may be incorporated by reference in any subsequent instrument. The reference shall specify the record location of the referenced instrument...
- § 11-483 Records Maintained By County Recorder; Confidentiality; Definitions
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, in any county an eligible person may request that the general public be prohibited from accessing...
- § 11-484 Records Maintained By County Assessor And County Treasurer; Redaction; Definitions
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, in any county an eligible person may request that the general public be prohibited from accessing...
Article 3.1 Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
Article 4 Treasurer
- § 11-491 Custodian Of Public Monies
The treasurer shall keep all money belonging to the state, or to the county, in his possession until disbursed according to law. He shall...
- § 11-492 Apportionment Of County Monies
All taxes collected upon real and personal property of the county, and all public monies arising from any source, or accruing under the provisions...
- § 11-493 Duties
The county treasurer shall: 1. Receive all money of the county, and other money directed by law to be paid to him, safely keep...
- § 11-494 Receipts For Monies Received; Violation; Classification
A. The treasurer shall issue a receipt for all monies the treasurer receives as treasurer or as tax collector except tax payments made by...
- § 11-495 Taxpayers' Information Fund
A. A taxpayers' information fund is established in each county treasury consisting of monies collected from the public records copy surcharge imposed pursuant to...
- § 11-496 Public Records Copy; Proceeds Of Sale; Agent Duties; Surcharge; Special District Assessments; Deposit
A. In addition to the fee prescribed by section 39-121.01, subsection D, paragraph 1 or section 39-121.03, subsection A, the county treasurer may impose...
- § 11-497 Disbursement Of Forest Reserve Monies
The treasurer shall notify the clerk of the board of supervisors and the county school superintendent of the amount received from the state treasurer...
- § 11-498 Inspection Of Records
The books, accounts and vouchers of the treasurer shall at all times be subject to inspection and examination by the auditor general, the board...
- § 11-499 Issuance Of County Bonds; Liability
The board of supervisors and not the county treasurer is the official issuer of county bonds, and the board of supervisors shall assume all...
- § 11-501 Monthly And Annual Reports To The Board
A. The treasurer shall report accounts of collection, custody and disbursement of public revenue to the board of supervisors on the fifteenth day of...
- § 11-502 Transmittal Of Money To State Treasurer
Upon receipt of an order from the state treasurer requiring the money in the county treasury belonging to the state or collected for it...
- § 11-503 Failure To Make Settlement Or Report; Penalty
If the treasurer neglects or refuses to settle or report as required by law, he shall forfeit and pay to the county the sum...
- § 11-504 Correction Of Errors
When an error appearing in the accounts of the county treasurer, excepting the tax rolls, comes to the notice of the treasurer he shall,...
- § 11-505 Disclosure Of Confidential Information; Violation; Classification; Definition
A. A person, including a former employee or agent of the treasurer, who has received confidential information while an employee or agent of the...
Article 5 County School Superintendent
- § 11-511 Powers And Duties
The county school superintendent shall have such powers and perform such duties as prescribed by section 15-302 and as otherwise prescribed by law.
Article 6 County Attorney
Article 7 Assessor
Article 9 County Engineer
- § 11-561 Qualifications; Salary
A. The board of supervisors may appoint a county engineer, who shall be a competent civil engineer and road builder. B. The county engineer...
- § 11-562 Duties
A. The county engineer shall be custodian of the records and property of the county relating to surveying, engineering and road construction. B. Except...
- § 11-563 Private Work Prohibited
The county engineer shall not during his term of office engage in private engineering or surveying, except by permission of the board of supervisors,...
Article 10 County Forest Fire Wardens
Article 11 County Public Defenders
- § 11-581 Public Defender; Appointment
In any county the board of supervisors may establish the office of public defender and appoint a suitable person to hold that office.
- § 11-582 Qualifications; Salary
A. No person shall be eligible for the office of public defender or deputy public defender unless he is an attorney at law, licensed...
- § 11-583 Private Practice Of Civil And Criminal Law Prohibited; Exception; Limitation
A. The public defender and his full-time deputies shall not engage in the private practice of law, except: 1. Such prohibition shall not apply...
- § 11-584 Public Defender; Duties; Reimbursement
A. The public defender shall, on order of the court, defend, advise and counsel any person who is entitled to counsel as a matter...
- § 11-585 Provision For Office And Supplies; Reimbursement From Other Agencies
A. In each county where the office of public defender is established, the board of supervisors shall provide suitable rooms, office furniture and supplies...
- § 11-586 Provision For Deputies, Assistants And Employees
A. The public defender, with the consent and at salaries fixed by the board of supervisors, may appoint those full-time and part-time deputies, and...
- § 11-587 Withdrawal Of Public Defender
The public defender shall petition the court to withdraw as attorney of record, and the court may grant such petition, whenever private counsel is...
- § 11-588 State Aid To Indigent Defense Fund
A. The state aid to indigent defense fund is established consisting of monies appropriated to the fund and monies allocated to the fund pursuant...
Article 12 County Medical Examiner
- § 11-591 Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Alternate medical examiner" means a physician who has training and competence in the principles...
- § 11-592 County Medical Examiner; Alternate Medical Examiners; Fund; Notification
A. The board of supervisors of each county may appoint a forensic pathologist to the position of medical examiner. The medical examiner shall receive...
- § 11-593 Reporting Of Certain Deaths; Failure To Report; Classification
A. Any person having knowledge of the death of a human being including a fetal death shall promptly notify the nearest peace officer of...
- § 11-594 Powers And Duties Of County Medical Examiner
A. The county medical examiner or alternate medical examiner shall direct a death investigation, shall determine whether an external examination or autopsy is required...
- § 11-595 Right To Enter Premises; Right To Seize Articles
A. The county medical examiner or alternate medical examiner may enter any room, dwelling, building or other place in which the body or evidence...
- § 11-596 Removal Or Disturbance Of Body Or Effects Or Weapons Without Consent Prohibited
A. A human body or body suspected of being human shall not be removed from the place where the death occurred, if the death...
- § 11-597 Autopsies; Reports; Exemption From Liability
A. The county medical examiner or alternate medical examiner shall conduct a death investigation to determine whether or not the public interest requires an...
- § 11-597.01 Duty To Conduct Identification Meeting; Exception; Immunity; Definitions
A. On receipt of notification from an immediate family member of a decedent in the physical possession of the medical examiner, the medical examiner...
- § 11-597.02 Autopsy Photographs, Digital Images, X-Rays And Video Recordings; In Camera Review; Exceptions; Procedures; Immunity
A. Notwithstanding title 39, chapter 1, photographs, digital images, x-rays and video recordings of human remains that are created by a medical examiner, alternate...
- § 11-598 Exhumation; Court Order
If in any case of sudden, violent or suspicious death a body is buried without any inquiries by the county medical examiner or alternate...
- § 11-599 Cremation
When a funeral director or embalmer is requested to cremate or prepare for cremation the body of a dead person, the funeral director or...
- § 11-600 Burial Of Indigent Deceased; Disposal Of Property
A. When a death investigation has been completed by the county medical examiner or alternate medical examiner and no other person takes charge of...
Chapter 4 FISCAL PROVISIONS
Article 1 County Charges, Specific Funds and Warrants for Curent Expenses
Article 2 Claims and Warrants
- § 11-621 Payments From Treasury On Demand; Exception; Duty Of Auditor General; Payment Of Loss; Alternative Procedure
A. A payment exceeding five hundred dollars may be made from the treasury of the county upon demand duly presented and allowed, but compensation...
- § 11-622 Demand; Time Limit For Presentation Of Claim
A. A person having a claim against a county shall present to the board of supervisors of the county against which the demand is...
- § 11-623 Record Of Demands And Warrants
The board shall cause to be entered separately in the minute book of the board: 1. The number of each demand allowed. 2. By...
- § 11-624 Audit Of Nonprofit Corporations Receiving County Monies; Definition
A. All county contracts with nonprofit corporations for assistance shall include requirements concerning financial and compliance audits. B. Each nonprofit corporation that receives in...
- § 11-624.01 Procedure For Payment Of Obligations After Close Of Fiscal Year
A. Annually on or before June 30, each county department or agency having outstanding liabilities attributable to the budgetary allotments of the fiscal year...
- § 11-625 Consideration Of Claim
A demand shall not be considered by the board unless prepared as prescribed in section 11-622 and filed by the clerk at least one...
- § 11-626 Claims By Supervisors
A claim against the county presented by a member of the board of supervisors shall be verified as other claims, and shall bear the...
- § 11-627 Effect Of Personal Interest Of County Officer
A demand in which a county officer is personally interested, or arising out of a contract to which a county officer while in office...
- § 11-628 Allowance Of Demands; Limitation; Hearing
A. A demand shall not be allowed by the board in favor of a person indebted to the county without first deducting such indebtedness,...
- § 11-629 Rejection Or Partial Allowance Of Demand
When the board finds that a demand is not a proper county charge, it shall reject the demand. If the demand is a proper...
- § 11-630 Action Upon Rejected Or Partially Allowed Demand
A. A claimant dissatisfied with the rejection of his demand, or with the amount allowed thereon, may sue the county therefor at any time...
- § 11-631 Warrants; Record
A. Warrants on the county treasury shall be drawn and signed by the chairman and either the clerk of the board or the finance...
- § 11-632 Issuance Of Duplicate Warrant
A. When it appears to the satisfaction of the board or county school superintendent by affidavit or otherwise that a warrant on the county...
- § 11-633 Warrants Receivable For Debt Or Taxes Due County
Warrants issued by the board shall be receivable in payment of debts to the county, and taxes assessed against property in the county. Upon...
- § 11-634 Payment Of Warrants And Substitute Checks; Definitions
A. When the board of supervisors, the county superintendent of schools or a special district presents a warrant or substitute check for payment, the...
- § 11-635 Warrants And Substitute Checks Unpaid For Lack Of Funds; Interest; Definitions
A. If a revolving line of credit has not been obtained for a political subdivision or if the revolving line of credit has been...
- § 11-636 Effect Upon Interest Of Notice Of Readiness To Pay Unpaid Warrants
A. When there is sufficient money in the treasury to pay the warrants drawing interest, the treasurer shall give notice thereof by publication in...
- § 11-637 Effect Of Priority Of Presentment On Preference Of Payment
Warrants are entitled to preference of payment from money applicable to the warrants according to priority of presentment. The treasurer, upon receipt of money...
- § 11-638 Application Of Funds When Unpaid Warrants Not Presented
If an unpaid warrant is not presented for payment within ten days from publication or posting of notice as provided by section 11-636, then...
- § 11-639 Redemption Of Unpaid Warrants
As monies become available and are in amounts sufficient to justify redeeming unpaid warrants, the county treasurer shall redeem these unpaid warrants in the...
- § 11-640 Record Of Interest Paid
When the treasurer pays a warrant on which interest is due, he shall record the amount of interest paid in the register or call...
- § 11-641 Money Illegally Paid; Liability; Recovery
A. When a board of supervisors, without authority of law, orders any money paid from the county treasury, the board and the party in...
- § 11-642 Action By Taxpayer To Recover Money Illegally Paid
If a county attorney fails for twenty days after written request made by a taxpayer of the county to institute an action as provided...
- § 11-643 Nonliability Of Dissenting Supervisor
A supervisor may relieve himself from liability under sections 11-641 and 11-642 by dissenting from the order, and having his dissent entered on the...
- § 11-644 Failure To Present County Check Or Warrant For Payment
A. A check that is drawn by the county treasurer in the treasurer's official capacity or a warrant that is drawn on the county...
- § 11-645 Warrants And Substitute Checks Unpaid For Lack Of Funds; Interest; Notice; Reissued Warrants; Definitions
A. Notwithstanding sections 11-635, 11-636 and 11-638, this section applies to each county treasurer of a county in this state that has a population...
Article 2.1 Lease-Purchase Agreements
Article 3 Auditing Provisions
Article 4 Financial Assistance from the Water Infrastructure Finance Authority of Arizona
Article 5 County Judgment Bonds
- § 11-681 Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Board" means the county board of supervisors. 2. " Bond related expenses" means any...
- § 11-681.01 Authorization Of County Judgment Bonds
A. The board of supervisors may issue negotiable bonds pursuant to this article in such principal amount as, in the opinion of the board...
- § 11-681.02 Issuance And Sale Of Bonds; Notice
A. The board shall issue the bonds in the manner, method, number and amount provided in the resolution. B. The board shall provide notice...
- § 11-681.03 Bond Proceeds Fund; Debt Service Fund
A. If the county issues bonds under this article, the board shall establish a bond proceeds fund consisting of the net proceeds received from...
- § 11-681.04 Securing Principal And Interest
In connection with issuing bonds authorized by this article and to enhance the security of the bonds, the board by resolution may: 1. Segregate...
- § 11-681.05 Lien Of Pledge
A. Any pledge made under this article is valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made. B. The monies pledged and...
- § 11-681.06 Bond Purchase; Cancellation
The board may purchase bonds for cancellation, using any available monies, at a price not exceeding the following: 1. If the bonds are redeemable...
- § 11-681.07 Payment Of Bonds
A. The bonds shall be paid solely from monies from the debt service fund. B. The county treasurer shall cancel all bonds when paid.
- § 11-681.08 Use Of Surplus Monies
A. If a balance remains in the bond proceeds fund after all county judgment purposes have been paid, the remaining balance shall be used...
- § 11-681.09 Investment Of Monies In The Bond Proceeds Fund And The Debt Service Fund
A. The board may authorize the county treasurer to invest monies in the bond proceeds fund in the manner prescribed by this section. The...
- § 11-681.10 Characteristics Of Bonds; Negotiable; Obligation; Legal Investments; Exemption From Taxation
A. Subject to any registration requirements, the bonds issued under this article are fully negotiable within the meaning and for all purposes of the...
- § 11-681.11 Effect Of Changing Circumstances On Bonds; Agreement Of State
A. Bonds issued under this article remain valid and binding obligations of the county notwithstanding that before the delivery of the bonds any of...
- § 11-681.12 Validity Of Bonds; Legal Opinion
A. This article constitutes full authority for authorizing and issuing county judgment bonds without reference to any other law of this state. No other...
Chapter 5 COUNTY AUTHORITIES
Article 1 County Sports Authority
Article 2 Authority Bonds
Article 3 Municipal Jurisdiction
Chapter 6 COUNTY PLANNING AND ZONING
Article 1 County Planning
- § 11-801 Definitions
In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Aggregate" means cinder, crushed rock or stone, decomposed granite, gravel, pumice, pumicite and sand....
- § 11-802 County Planning And Zoning Commissions
A. The board of supervisors of a county, in order to conserve and promote the public health, safety, convenience and general welfare and pursuant...
- § 11-803 Consultants; Employees; Use Of Services By City Or Town
A. The board may contract with consultants for services as may be required, employ those persons and provide monies as it deems necessary to...
- § 11-804 Comprehensive Plan; Contents
A. The commission shall formulate and the board of supervisors shall adopt or readopt a long-term comprehensive plan for the development of the area...
- § 11-805 Comprehensive Plan Adoption; Notice; Hearing; Amendment; Expiration; Readoption
A. The board shall adopt a comprehensive plan and subsequently amend or extend the adopted plan as provided by this article. On adoption or...
- § 11-806 Rural Planning Areas; Rural Planning Zones; Formation
A. In counties with a population of less than four hundred thousand persons, the board of supervisors shall receive petitions to form a rural...
- § 11-807 Specific Zoning Plans; Adoption; Administration; Contents
A. The board or commission of a county with a population of less than two million persons may prepare specific zoning plans for designated...
- § 11-808 Infrastructure Service Area Boundaries; Notice; Hearing; Adoption
A. The county planning and zoning commission may prepare a plan and provide regulations determining the location of infrastructure service area boundaries consistent with...
- § 11-809 Public Works Project Planning; Utility Input; Definitions
A. A county in the design phase of a public works project shall provide notice and opportunity for comment to all utilities the county...
- § 11-810 Requirement Of Planned Community Prohibited
A. A county planning and zoning commission in exercising its authority pursuant to this title shall not require as part of a subdivision approval...
Article 2 County Zoning
Article 3 County Subdivision Regulation
Article 4 Land Divisions; Appeals; Moratorium
Article 5 Building Codes
Article 6 Air Quality
- § 11-871 Emissions Control; No Burn; Exemptions; Penalty
A. A county that contains any part of area A, as defined in section 49-541, shall develop, implement and enforce in area A, as...
- § 11-872 Control Techniques; Rules; Schedule For Adoption
A. If the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency makes a finding relating to area A, as defined in section 49-541, pursuant...
- § 11-873 Rules; Industry Sectors; Enhanced Enforcement
A county with a population of more than one million two hundred thousand persons as determined by the most recent United States decennial census...
- § 11-874 Control Of Area Sources; Rules; Industry Sectors
A county with a population of more than one million two hundred thousand persons as determined by the most recent United States decennial census...
- § 11-875 Clean Burning Fireplace Ordinance
A. By December 31, 1998, a county that contains any portion of area A as defined in section 49-541 shall adopt, implement and enforce...
- § 11-876 Engine Idling Restrictions; Exemptions; Applicability; Civil Penalty; Definition
A. By July 1, 2002, a county that contains any portion of area A as defined in section 49-451 shall adopt, implement and enforce...
- § 11-877 Air Quality Control Measures
A. In order to reduce particulate matter in ambient air, the board of supervisors of any county that contains any portion of area A,...
Chapter 7 INTERGOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
Article 1 Public Libraries
- § 11-901 Establishment And Maintenance Of Libraries
The board of supervisors may establish and maintain, within the county, a county free library district in the manner and with the powers prescribed...
- § 11-903 City Or Town Joining Or Withdrawing From County Library District
A. After the establishment of a free county library district as provided in this article and title 48, chapter 24, article 1, the governing...
- § 11-904 Contracts For City Or Town Library To Assume Function Of County Free Library; Termination
Instead of establishing a separate county free library, the board of supervisors may enter into a contract under the provisions of this section with...
- § 11-906 Board Of Library Examiners; Membership; Compensation; Powers And Duties
A. The board of library examiners shall consist of the director of the Arizona state library, archives and public records, who shall be ex...
- § 11-908 County Librarian; Certificate
A. Upon establishment of a county free library, the board of supervisors shall appoint a county librarian to serve at the pleasure of the...
- § 11-909 General Supervision; Branch Libraries; Employees
A. The county free library shall be under the general supervision of the board of supervisors, which may make general rules and regulations regarding...
- § 11-910 Supervision By Director Of The Arizona State Library, Archives And Public Records; Semiannual Convention Of County Librarians
A. All county free libraries established under this article shall be under the general supervision of the director of the Arizona state library, archives...
- § 11-911 Reports By County Librarian
The county librarian shall, on or before July 31 of each year, report to the board of supervisors and to the director of the...
- § 11-913 County Free Library District Fund; Custody
Funds of the county free library district, whether derived from taxation or otherwise, shall be deposited with the county treasurer. They shall constitute a...
- § 11-914 Gift, Bequest Or Devise To County Free Library; Title To Property
A. The board of supervisors acting as the board of directors of the county free library district may receive, on behalf of the county,...
Article 2 Public Parks
- § 11-931 Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Governing body" means the board of supervisors of a county, or the council or...
- § 11-932 Acquisition Of Property For Park Purposes; Dedication; Eminent Domain; Authority To Make Improvements
A. Notwithstanding the ten-year limitation prescribed in section 11-256, a county or municipality may purchase, enter into contracts to purchase, acquire by lease or...
- § 11-933 Cooperative Agreements Between Governing Bodies; Prohibitions; Agreement With United States Or Others
A. The governing body of a county or municipality may enter into a cooperative agreement with the United States, a state, the governing body...
- § 11-934 Parks And Recreation Commission; Appointment; Meetings
A. A county may establish a parks and recreation department. The board of supervisors may establish a county parks commission or may supervise and...
- § 11-935 Powers And Duties
A. The commission shall supervise and control all county parks and all county recreational programs and establish and supervise law enforcement training programs for...
- § 11-935.01 Open Space Land Acquisition
The acquisition of interests or rights in real property for the preservation of open spaces or areas constitutes a public purpose for which public...
- § 11-936 Rules; Notice
Prior to final adoption, amendment or repeal by the commission of any rule, the commission shall hold a public hearing thereon for the purpose...
- § 11-937 Tax Levy; Appropriations
The governing body of a county or municipality may levy a tax for the acquisition and maintenance of public parks in the manner provided...
- § 11-938 Agreement To Appear In Court
County parks rangers are authorized to take any person before a magistrate within the county in which the offense is committed for a violation...
- § 11-939 Powers Of Park Rangers
Park rangers, in addition to the duties imposed by the parks commission, shall have authority to execute all warrants issued for a violation of...
- § 11-940 Violations; Classification
A person who violates any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to this article is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor.
- § 11-941 County Parks Operation And Enhancement Fund; Publication And Souvenir Revolving Fund; Investment; Transfer
A. A county through its board of supervisors or through a duly authorized and established parks and recreation department pursuant to section 11-934 may...
Article 3 Joint Exercise of Powers
- § 11-951 Definition Of Public Agency
For the purposes of this article, " public agency" includes the federal government or any federal department or agency, Indian tribes, this state, any...
- § 11-952 Intergovernmental Agreements And Contracts
A. If authorized by their legislative or other governing bodies, two or more public agencies or public procurement units by direct contract or agreement...
- § 11-952.01 Public Agency Pooling Of Property, Fidelity, Liability, Workers' Compensation, Life, Health, Accident And Disability Coverage; Exemptions; Board Of Trustees; Contract; Termination; Audit; Insolvency; Definition
A. In addition to other authority granted pursuant to this title, two or more public agencies may enter into contracts or agreements pursuant to...
- § 11-952.02 Separate Legal Entities; Joint Exercise Of Powers
A. If public agencies identified in subsection B of this section form a separate legal entity pursuant to section 11-952, the entity has the...
- § 11-953 Appropriations
Any public agency entering into an agreement or contract pursuant to this article may appropriate funds and may sell, lease, give or otherwise supply...
- § 11-954 Limitation Of Powers
Except for the right of joint exercise of powers granted in this article, the provisions of this article shall be cumulative and supplemental and...
- § 11-955 Joint Powers Public Safety Committee; Powers And Duties
A. The chief law enforcement officer or the officer's designee from two or more cities, towns, Indian tribes or counties in this state may...
Article 4 Relocation Assistance
- § 11-961 Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Acquiring agency" means the state, any department, agency, board or commission of the state,...
- § 11-962 Relocation Assistance Advisory Services
A. Programs or projects undertaken by an acquiring agency shall be planned in a manner that both: 1. Recognizes, at an early stage in...
- § 11-963 Payment Of Moving And Related Expenses; Substitute Payments
A. The displacing agency, as a part of the cost of the project, shall make a payment to a displaced person, business or farm...
- § 11-964 Replacement Housing For Homeowners
A. In addition to payments otherwise authorized by this article, the displacing agency shall make an additional payment of not more than thirty-one thousand...
- § 11-965 Expenses Incidental To Transfer Of Property
A. In addition to the payments authorized by sections 11-963 and 11-964, the acquiring agency as a part of the cost of the project,...
- § 11-966 Replacement Housing For Tenants
A. In addition to amounts otherwise authorized by this article, a displacing agency shall make a payment to or for any person who is...
- § 11-967 Application Review By The Chief Executive Officer Of The Acquiring Agency
Any displaced person aggrieved by a determination as to eligibility for a payment authorized by this article, or the amount of a payment, may...
- § 11-968 Relocation Assistance Rules
A. The state and its departments, agencies, boards and commissions as acquiring agencies shall adopt rules implementing this article by compliance with title 41,...
- § 11-969 Payments Not Income Or Resource; Welfare Assistance
No payment received by a displaced person under this article shall be considered as income for the purposes of the provisions of title 43...
- § 11-970 Effect On Eminent Domain Proceedings
Nothing contained in this article shall be construed as creating in any condemnation proceedings brought under the power of eminent domain any element of...
- § 11-971 Assurance Of Availability Of Housing
A. If a program or project undertaken by a displacing agency cannot proceed on a timely basis because comparable replacement dwellings are not available...
- § 11-972 Litigation Expenses
A. The court having jurisdiction of a proceeding instituted by an acquiring agency to acquire real property by condemnation shall award the owner of...
- § 11-973 Buildings, Structures And Improvements
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the acquiring agency acquires any interest in real property, it shall also acquire the same interest...
- § 11-974 When Provisions And Benefits Available
A. This article shall apply to all acquiring, displacing or lead agencies when real property or improvements thereon are acquired or are to be...
Article 5 City, Town or County Employee Benefits, Property Loss and Liability Claim Coverage
Article 6 Animal Control
- § 11-1001 Definitions
In section 13-1208 and in this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Animal" means any animal of a species that is susceptible...
- § 11-1002 Powers And Duties Of The State Veterinarian And The Arizona Department Of Agriculture
A. The state veterinarian, employed pursuant to section 3-1211, shall designate the type or types of anti-rabies vaccines that may be used for vaccination...
- § 11-1003 Powers And Duties Of Department Of Health Services
A. The department of health services shall regulate the handling and disposition of animals other than livestock that have been bitten by a rabid...
- § 11-1005 Powers And Duties Of Board Of Supervisors
A. Each county board of supervisors may: 1. Designate or employ a county enforcement agent. If such designation or employment is not made, the...
- § 11-1006 Hearing Officer; Hearing On Civil Violations; Additional Remedies
A. A county board of supervisors that establishes a civil penalty for violating an animal statute or ordinance may appoint one or more hearing...
- § 11-1007 Powers And Duties Of County Enforcement Agent
A. The county enforcement agent shall: 1. Enforce the provisions of this article, county ordinances adopted under this article and municipal ordinances which the...
- § 11-1008 License Fees For Dogs; Issuance Of Dog Tags; Exception; Violation; Classification
A. The board of supervisors of each county may set a license fee that shall be paid for each dog three months of age...
- § 11-1009 Kennel Permit; Fee; Denial; Inspection; Violation; Classification
A. A person operating a kennel shall obtain a permit issued by the board of supervisors of the county where the kennel is located...
- § 11-1010 Anti-Rabies Vaccination; Vaccination And License Stations
A. Before a license is issued for any dog, the owner or a veterinarian must present a paper or electronic copy or telefacsimile of...
- § 11-1011 Rabies Control Fund
A. The board of supervisors shall transmit the monies collected under the provisions of this article to the county treasurer for deposit in a...
- § 11-1012 Dogs Not Permitted At Large; Wearing Licenses
A. Neither a female dog during her breeding or mating season nor a vicious dog shall be permitted at large. B. In a rabies...
- § 11-1013 Establishment Of County Pounds; Impounding And Disposing Of Dogs And Cats; Reclaiming Impounded Dogs And Cats; Pound Fees
A. The board of supervisors in each county may provide or authorize a county pound or pounds or enter into a cooperative agreement with...
- § 11-1014 Biting Animals; Reporting; Handling And Destruction; Exception
A. An unvaccinated dog or cat that bites any person shall be confined and quarantined in a county pound or, on request of and...
- § 11-1014.01 Aggressive Dogs; Reasonable Care Requirements; Violation; Classification; Definitions
A. A person who owns or who is responsible for the care of an aggressive dog shall take reasonable care to: 1. Prohibit the...
- § 11-1015 Unlawful Interference With County Enforcement Agent
It is unlawful for any person to interfere with the county enforcement agent in the performance of his duties.
- § 11-1016 Removing Impounded Animals
No person may remove or attempt to remove an animal which has been impounded or which is in the possession of the county enforcement...
- § 11-1017 Unlawful Keeping Of Dogs
It is unlawful for a person to keep, harbor or maintain a dog within the state of Arizona except as provided by the terms...
- § 11-1018 Exemption Of Cities, Towns And Counties
A. The provisions of this article shall not apply to incorporated cities or towns that impose a license fee and vaccination on dogs by...
- § 11-1019 Violation; Classification
Any person who fails to comply with the requirements of this article, or violates any of its provisions, is guilty of a class 2...
- § 11-1020 Dogs; Liability
Injury to any person or damage to any property by a dog while at large shall be the full responsibility of the dog owner...
Article 6.1 Handling of Animals
- § 11-1021 Proper Care, Maintenance And Destruction Of Impounded Animals
A. Any animal impounded in a county, city or town pound shall be given proper and humane care and maintenance. B. Any animal destroyed...
- § 11-1022 Sterilization Of Impounded Dogs And Cats; Definitions
A. A dog or cat shall not be released for adoption from a county, city or town pound or from an animal shelter unless...
- § 11-1023 Unauthorized Release Of Animals; Classification; Damages
A person who intentionally releases an animal that is lawfully confined for scientific, research, commercial, educational or for public event, display or exhibition purposes...
- § 11-1024 Service Animals; Rights Of Individuals With Disabilities; Violation; Classification; 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...
- § 11-1025 Liability For Dog Bites
A. The owner of a dog which bites a person when the person is in or on a public place or lawfully in or...
- § 11-1026 Lawful Presence On Private Property Defined
A person is lawfully in or on the private property of the owner of a dog within the meaning of this article when an...
- § 11-1027 Reasonable Provocation As Defense
Proof of provocation of the attack by the person injured shall be a defense to the action for damages. The issue of provocation shall...
- § 11-1028 Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in section 11-1001 apply.
- § 11-1029 Hearing On Disposition Of Vicious Animals; Forfeiture; Exception
A. A peace officer, county enforcement agent or animal control officer who has impounded an animal pursuant to section 11-1014, on a showing of...
Article 7 Summer Youth Employment and Training
Article 8 Enforcement of Immigration Laws
Chapter 8 DEVELOPMENT FEES
Article 1 General Provisions
Article 2 Real Estate Transfer Affidavit and Fee
Chapter 9 PROTECTED DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS
Article 1 General Provisions
Chapter 10 COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEM
Article 1 Organization
Article 2 Operation
Chapter 11 COUNTY REGULATIONS
Article 1 General Provisions
- § 11-1601 Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Design-build" means a construction project delivery system in which the design and construction aspects...
- § 11-1602 Regulatory Bill Of Rights
To ensure fair and open regulation by counties, a person: 1. Is eligible for reimbursement of fees and other expenses if the person prevails...
- § 11-1603 Inspections; Applicability
A. A county inspector or regulator who enters any premises of a regulated person for the purpose of conducting an inspection shall: 1. Present...
- § 11-1604 Prohibited Acts By County And Employees; Enforcement; Notice
A. A county shall not base a licensing decision in whole or in part on a licensing requirement or condition that is not specifically...
- § 11-1605 Licensing Time Frames; Compliance; Consequence For Failure To Comply With Time Frame; Exemptions; Definitions
A. For any new ordinance or code requiring a license, a county shall have in place an overall time frame during which the county...
- § 11-1606 License Application Process
A county that issues licenses shall provide the following information to an applicant at the time the applicant obtains an application for a license:...
- § 11-1607 Directory Of Documents
The county shall publish, or prominently place on the county website, at least annually a directory summarizing the subject matter of all currently applicable...
- § 11-1608 Complaints; Procedures
A. The board of supervisors shall establish a procedure for receiving complaints from an adversely affected person concerning ordinances, rules, regulations, substantive policy statements...
- § 11-1609 Clarification Of Interpretation
A. An applicant for a license subject to this article may request a county to clarify its interpretation or application of a statute, ordinance,...
- § 11-1610 Exemptions
This article does not apply to: 1. A county function, power or duty to the extent that it is subject to title 49, chapter...
Chapter 12 RESIDENTIAL RENTAL INSPECTION PROGRAMS
Article 1 General Provisions
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