Title 9 — Cities and Towns
12 chapters · 460 sections in this title.
A.R.S. § 9-1101 Entry at federal land office of land for townsites
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When the governing body of an incorporated city or town, or the board of supervisors of the county in which an unincorporated town is located, hereinafter designated trustee, has entered at the proper land office the land or any part of the land, settled and occupied as the site …
A.R.S. § 9-1102 Trustee's bond; keeping of accounts and records
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A. Before entering on the discharge of the trustee's duties, the trustee shall execute a bond to the state, with sureties in the sum of $2,000, which shall be filed with the county recorder of the county in which the townsite is located, conditioned to account for all money that …
A.R.S. § 9-1103 Survey and plat of townsite; recording
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Within three months after the entry, the trustee shall cause the land to be surveyed and platted into blocks, lots, streets and alleys and a plat thereof made, conforming as near as possible to existing rights and claims of occupants. The plat shall be recorded in the office of t…
A.R.S. § 9-1104 Notice of entry of land as townsite; statement and filing of claims to land
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A. The trustee shall then cause a notice to be published in all the newspapers published in the city or town, or if no newspaper is published therein, then by posting the notice in five public places in the city or town for sixty days successively, giving notice of the entry of t…
A.R.S. § 9-1105 Financial statement of trustee; disposition of funds
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A. Within sixty days after the first publication provided for by this article, the trustee shall make a full and true statement in writing of all monies expended by the trustee, and the trustee's reasonable charges for time and services in the administration of the trust to that …
A.R.S. § 9-1106 Index of claimants and property
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The trustee shall keep an index of the name of every person filing a claim or contest in which the name shall be entered at the time of filing the statement or contest. When the statement is recorded, the trustee shall add to the index the number of the page of the record. The tr…
A.R.S. § 9-1107 Limitations on claims of land
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A. The number of lots which one claimant may enter shall not exceed in the aggregate fourteen thousand square feet, and such additional lots not exceeding seven thousand square feet to the lot, upon which the claimant shall have substantial improvements of a value of not less tha…
A.R.S. § 9-1108 Proof of nonconflicting claims; execution of deed
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After the expiration of the period for filing statements, the trustees shall hear the proofs on nonconflicting claims, as near as possible in the order in which filed, of such claimants as appear and offer to make proof. If the proof complies with the legal requirements, the trus…
A.R.S. § 9-1109 Referral to court of conflicting claims; trial; appeal
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A. When conflicting claims have been filed, the trustee shall transmit the statement of the claimant and the adverse claim, and all papers pertaining thereto, to the clerk of the superior court of the county in which the property is located, and give notice thereof to the respect…
A.R.S. § 9-1110 Payment of purchase price by claimants
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Each claimant or contestant shall, with his statement or contest, pay the trustee the sum of ten dollars for each lot claimed, not exceeding seven thousand square feet per lot, as the purchase price therefor. Such money shall be refunded to the claimant by the trustee if it is fi…
A.R.S. § 9-1111 Trustee as claimant
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If the trustee is possessed or entitled to any part of the lands, the trustee shall make a verified statement of the trustee's claim and record it, and if no adverse claim thereto is filed within the time allowed, the trustee shall be deemed to be possessed and seized of the titl…
A.R.S. § 9-1112 Selection and conveyance of sites for public purposes
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A. After the plat of the townsite has been recorded and on petition of at least ten resident house-holders of the city or town, the trustee, by and with the advice of the board of school trustees of the district, shall set apart a site for a district school house, and the trustee…
A.R.S. § 9-1113 Execution of deed to cemetery association
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The trustee may deed to a cemetery association, organized as provided by law for the incorporation of nonprofit corporations, an amount of land, not exceeding two blocks, as may be necessary for the purposes of the association. The deed shall be executed upon petition of the offi…
A.R.S. § 9-1114 Rights of lienholders
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No lien against the interests of a claimant shall be affected by the deed of the trustee to the claimant. The holder of a lien or certificate of sale, upon proof by affidavit of such fact, may file a statement in behalf of the claimant or contest claims in conflict with the right…
A.R.S. § 9-1115 Claims against trustee or municipality
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Within the time provided for filing statements of claims, every person having a claim against the trustee or the city or town for money advanced or services rendered in obtaining a patent, or the execution of the trust thereunder, shall file an itemized statement thereof with the…
A.R.S. § 9-1116 Obtaining funds to pay expenses
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A. If the money paid to the trustee for the purchase of lots is insufficient to pay expenses, the trustee shall sell at public auction so many of the remaining lots, the title to which remains in the trustee and against which no claim or contest is pending, as is necessary to rai…
A.R.S. § 9-1117 Disposal of unclaimed lots
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A. The grounds undisposed of within the townsite, the title of which remains in the trustee, may be sold at public auction when the trustee deems it advisable. The trustee shall appoint three persons to appraise the lots the trustee desires to sell, and they shall take oath to fa…
A.R.S. § 9-1118 Accounting by trustee to successor
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On termination of the trustee's term of office, the trustee shall deliver to the trustee's successor in office all books and papers of the trustee's office, together with all money in the trustee's possession as trustee, and shall accompany them with an itemized written statement…
A.R.S. § 9-1131 Disposal of unclaimed lots acquired prior to statehood
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A. Every trustee of lands acquired before February 14, 1912, under the act of Congress entitled "an act for the relief of inhabitants of cities and towns upon the public lands," approved March 2, 1867, or the trustee's successor in office, may sell at public auction to the highes…
A.R.S. § 9-1132 Procedure to establish right of preference
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A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who, together with the person's predecessors in interest, for a period of five years immediately preceding the application provided for in this article, has been in actual or constructive possession of and paid taxes on a pa…
A.R.S. § 9-1133 Disposition of proceeds from sale
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The proceeds of sales made as provided in this article shall be applied first to the payment of costs and expenses of sale. Any surplus shall be paid to the governing body of the city or town, if incorporated, to be placed in the general fund, or, if unincorporated, for making su…
A.R.S. § 9-1141 Procedure for subdivision of private lands into townsite
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A. An owner of a tract of land desiring to plat or subdivide it into tracts of twenty acres or less for the purpose of townsites, shall first have it surveyed and platted, showing lots, blocks or subdivisions, size of each lot, name and width of each street and width of alleys, a…