Title 35 — Public Finances

The provisions of this article relating to collateral for deposits of public monies in financial institutions apply to deposits in financial institutions of the funds of cities governed by charter.

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Agency" means any state agency, school district or office or agency established by either title 11 or a county board of supervisors. 2. "Goods" means all personal property purchased, procured or contracted for by an agen…

A. Any agency which purchases or procures goods and services from a nongovernmental entity on account shall pay the account in full within thirty days after receipt of goods or services and correct notice of amount due in writing to the agency or shall pay interest on the outstan…

Warrants that are lawfully issued by a county, city or town, or by a county school superintendent on behalf of a school district, are assignable and shall be accepted at face value with accrued interest in payment of not more than seventy-five percent of any debt or demand, inclu…

Warrants of a city, town or school district accepted in accordance with the provision of section 35-381 by the county treasurer as tax collector, shall in all matters of accounting between the treasurer and such city, town or school district, be treated as money to the face value…

Warrants accepted in payment of debts or demands, including taxes, shall be charged to the respective funds against which they are drawn. In the case of county warrants the board of supervisors shall direct the county treasurer to transfer from the general fund to the funds again…

A. A governmental entity may require that a vendor accept a specific method of payment exclusively for any goods or services provided by the vendor to the governmental entity. If a governmental entity requires a specific method of payment be used exclusively, the governmental ent…

1. The procedure to identify United States companies that are in violation of section 6(j) of the export administration act. 2. The process for communicating with the companies and appropriate federal officials, including this state's congressional delegation, in regard to its fi…

1. "Boycott" means engaging in a refusal to deal, terminating business activities or performing other actions that are intended to limit commercial relations with entities doing business in Israel or in territories controlled by Israel, if those actions are taken either: (a) Base…

A. A public entity may not enter into a contract with a value of $100,000 or more with a company to acquire or dispose of services, supplies, information technology or construction unless the contract includes a written certification that the company is not currently engaged in, …

A. On or before April 1 of each year, each public fund shall prepare a list of restricted companies and shall provide a copy of the list on request. B. In preparing the list of restricted companies, the public fund may consider at least the following: 1. Publicly available inform…

A. This article does not apply to a boycott prohibited by 50 United States Code section 4842 or a regulation issued pursuant to that section. B. If any provision of this article or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect any o…

1. The forced labor of ethnic Uyghurs in the People's Republic of China. 2. Any goods or services produced by the forced labor of ethnic Uyghurs in the People's Republic of China. 3. Any contractors, subcontractors or suppliers that use the forced labor or any goods or services p…

1. The People's Republic of China. 2. A company that is owned by the People's Republic of China. 3. A company that is domiciled, incorporated or headquartered within the People's Republic of China. 4. A company that is controlled by the government of the People's Republic of Chin…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Bonds" means tax anticipation bonds issued pursuant to this article. 2. "Loan commissioners" means the loan commissioners of this state. 3. "Taxes" means state excise taxes levied pursuant to lawful appropriations, which…

When the legislature has made appropriations for any fiscal year as authorized by law, and when ad valorem and excise taxes sufficient to produce funds to pay such appropriations have been levied, if the loan commissioners of the state ascertain that the proceeds of the taxes lev…

A. Tax anticipations bonds shall be signed by the governor, attested by the director of the department of administration and countersigned by the state treasurer, and shall be payable within six months from the date. They shall bear interest at such rate or rates, not exceeding n…

The total amount of tax anticipation bonds, including both principal and interest, shall not exceed fifty per cent of the ad valorem taxes, plus fifty per cent of the state's portion of excise taxes as estimated by the department of revenue, for the years recited in the bonds, un…

The loan commissioners shall by resolution authorize the issuance of the bonds, which shall prescribe the form of the bonds, the form of the interest coupons, the manner in which the coupons shall be signed and the particular taxes upon which the bonds are based, and shall fix th…

A. The tax anticipation bonds shall be sold to the highest bidder that meets the conditions imposed by the loan commissioners, but shall not be sold at less than par. B. When the issuance and sale of any bonds have been completed, the treasurer shall immediately call in and pay f…

When bonds are issued, the taxes upon which they are based and by which they are secured shall, when and as collected, be kept by the treasurer and used solely for payment of the bonds and interest thereon, until all of the bonds, together with the interest, are paid in full. The…

The holder of any tax anticipation bond may, in his own name and on his own behalf, or on behalf of all the holders of the bonds, compel by mandamus the performance of any duty imposed by this article.

A. The governor, the director of the department of administration and the state treasurer shall constitute the loan commissioners of the state of Arizona. B. The loan commissioners shall provide for payment of state indebtedness. For the purpose of paying, redeeming and refunding…

A. The bonds provided for in section 35-421 shall be issued as nearly as practicable in denominations of one thousand dollars, but bonds of a lower denomination not less than one hundred dollars may be issued when necessary. The bonds shall bear interest at a rate fixed by the co…

A. Coupons for interest shall be attached to each bond, shall be consecutively numbered and bear the same number as the bond to which it is attached, shall bear the facsimile signature of the state treasurer and shall cover the interest expressed in the bond from the date of issu…

A. When the loan commissioners are authorized to issue bonds, or decide to refund or redeem all or any of the existing indebtedness of the state, they shall direct the state treasurer to advertise the sale of the bonds to be issued for that purpose by causing a notice of such sal…

A. When the sale is awarded, the loan commissioners shall procure the necessary bonds, and, after signing the bonds, deliver them to the state treasurer, taking his receipt for the bonds, and charging him therewith. The treasurer shall deliver the bonds to the purchaser for cash,…

A. The state treasurer shall apply monies received to redeem the indebtedness of the bonds issued and shall give notice in the same manner as for paying and redeeming state warrants, checks and substitute checks, and electronic funds transfer vouchers. After the state treasurer r…

A. There shall be levied annually upon the taxable property in this state, in addition to other levies, an amount sufficient to pay the interest on all bonds issued under the provisions of this article, to be placed in the state treasury in the interest fund. Each year after such…

A. When, after the expiration of fifteen years from the date of issuance of any bonds, there is in the redemption fund a surplus of ten thousand dollars or more, the state treasurer shall advertise, in the same manner as required for bids for the sale of bonds, stating the amount…

A. The board of supervisors of each county and the proper municipal or school authority shall report to the state loan commissioners the bonded and outstanding indebtedness of the county, municipality or school district, and, upon demand of such authorities, the loan commissioner…

A. When the state treasurer pays or redeems any indebtedness, the treasurer shall endorse, by writing or stamping in ink, on the face of the paper evidencing such indebtedness so paid or redeemed, the words "redeemed and canceled" with the date of cancellation. B. The state treas…

When the owner of a bond authorized to be issued by this article presents it to the director of the department of administration with a request for its conversion into a registered bond, the director of the department of administration shall detach and cancel the coupons, and sta…

A. The aggregate indebtedness of a county, city, town or similar municipal corporation may be increased above six percent of the net assessed value of the full cash value of the property in such a political subdivision only as provided in this article. B. A multi-county water con…

A. All outstanding authorizations permitting the issuance of bonds, as provided in this article, or the incurring of debt by a common school district or a high school district at the time either such district becomes part of a unified school district, shall remain in full force a…

A. The governing body or board of a political subdivision enumerated in section 35-451 may, and upon petition signed by fifteen per cent of the qualified electors shall, order an election by such electors to determine whether such indebtedness shall be authorized. The election sh…

A. The governing body or board of the political subdivision shall order the election to be held at the regular voting places within the limits of such subdivision on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November as prescribed by section 16-204, subsection B, paragraph …

A. The governing body or board of the political subdivision shall: 1. At least thirty-five days before the bond election, mail a copy of an informational pamphlet to every household within the political subdivision that contains a registered voter. The pamphlet shall contain info…

A. When the political subdivision designated in this article desires to issue bonds or other evidences of indebtedness, the governing body or board thereof, with the assent of a majority of the qualified electors therein voting at the election held as provided by section 35-454, …

A. The governing body or board shall cause the bonds to be prepared in the amount and denominations authorized, or whole multiples of such denominations, bearing the date of issuance and numbered in a convenient manner. Bonds voted at one or more elections, for one or more differ…

Wherever any statute requires that any bond issued by a public body be signed manually by two or more officers or other individuals, all such signatures and counter signatures may be printed, lithographed, engraved, or otherwise mechanically reproduced, except that one of the sig…

A. Any or all of the bonds may be sold at public sale or through an online bidding process in a manner prescribed by the governing body or board that includes the following: 1. If sold by public sale before the sale of any bonds the governing body or board shall meet and enter on…

A. After the bonds are issued, the governing body or board shall enter on its minutes a record of the bonds sold and their numbers and dates, and shall annually levy and cause to be collected a tax, at the same time and in the same manner as other taxes are levied and collected o…

A. Bonds issued by a city or town may bear interest at any rate or rates not in excess of the maximum voted rate, payable at the times determined by the governing body, provided that each such bond may be evidenced by one instrument, or if commercial paper by a succession of inst…

A. When any bonds mature, the county treasurer, when the bonds have been issued by the county, the city or town treasurer, when the bonds have been issued by a city or town, or the fiscal officer of other political subdivisions shall give notice for four weeks in a newspaper publ…

If bonds for the purpose of erecting and furnishing a public building are authorized at the election, the board of supervisors for a county and the governing body of a city, town or other municipal corporation shall authorize the design and construction of the building in accorda…

The expenses of the proceedings provided for in this article shall be borne by the political subdivision instituting the proceedings. If the bonds authorized by this article are sold, the expenses thereof shall be deducted from the proceeds of the sale.

B. The governing body or board shall order the election to be held and the election notice and procedures to be conducted in the manner prescribed by this article. An election called to change the purposes for which the monies may be spent may be held only on the first Tuesday fo…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "City" means any city incorporated under the laws of this state. "City" also includes any town incorporated under the laws of this state. 2. "County" means any county now or hereafter in existence in the state. 3. "Fiscal…

After a taxing district has adopted a budget for the current fiscal year as provided by law and the governing body thereof ascertains that the taxes to be received by such district will not be received in time to pay the district's projected expenses, as set forth in such budget,…