Title 40 — Public Utilities and Carriers

A. The board of directors of each metropolitan public transit authority, on or before the third Monday in July each year, shall prepare a full and complete statement of the financial affairs for the preceding fiscal year and an estimate of the different amounts which will be requ…

A. The board of directors of each metropolitan public transit authority shall meet on the day designated in the notice provided by subsection D of section 40-1139, and any taxpayer may appear and be heard in favor of or against any proposed expenditure or tax levy. B. When the he…

The board of supervisors of each county where a metropolitan public transit authority has been established shall annually, at the time of levying other taxes, levy a metropolitan public transit authority tax on the property in the area of a public transit authority in which an ad…

The board may, by resolution, order that any of the monies in the funds under its control which are not necessary for current operating expenses be invested in any obligation, bonds or securities in which a city or county could invest such funds, provided that: 1. Any such invest…

The purchase of all supplies, equipment and materials, and construction facilities and works, when the expenditure required exceeds two thousand five hundred dollars shall be by contract let to the lowest responsible bidder. Notice requesting bids shall be published in a newspape…

Every claim against an authority for damages or injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligent act or omission of the authority shall be presented to the board in writing within fifteen days after the happening of such injury, or damage, signed by the claimant or some pers…

A. The board may submit to the attorney general of this state any bonds to be issued under this article after all proceedings for the authorization of such bonds have been taken. Upon the submission of such proceedings to the attorney general, the attorney general shall examine i…

The powers conferred by articles 2, 3 and 4 of this chapter shall be in addition to and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law, general or special. Articles 2, 3 and 4 of this chapter shall, without reference to any other provision in this title, or to any other la…

For the purposes of this article, "public transportation services" means the local transportation of passengers and their incidental baggage by means of a public conveyance, including personalized public transit, jitney buses or conveyances, commuter buses, other such systems and…

A. In addition to other authority granted pursuant to titles 9 and 11 and this title, or city charter, any county or incorporated city or town may provide public transportation services directly or by contract with a private party, motor carrier or public service corporation, wit…

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Commission" means the Arizona corporation commission. 2. "Contractor" means any person who undertakes to or offers to undertake to or purports to have the capacity to undertake to or submits a bid to, or does himself or …

A. No new residential-type gas appliance that is equipped with a pilot light shall be sold or installed in the state after an alternate means has been certified by the commission. This prohibition shall become operative twenty-four months after intermittent ignition devices have …

The commission shall, on or before January 1, 1978, develop in cooperation with affected industry and consumer representatives, who will be designated as such representatives by the commission, the specifications for certification of intermittent ignition devices which shall not …

The commission shall notify all gas appliance manufacturers doing business in the state within ninety days after one or more intermittent ignition devices have been certified by the commission, as to the prohibition of affected pilot lights and shall inform the manufacturers of t…

A. The commission shall create a seal of certification and shall distribute the seal to every manufacturer that complies with this article. The seal shall be affixed to every new appliance sold in the state. B. No person shall cause to be distributed, sold or installed in this st…

A. Any person who violates or proposes to violate this chapter may be enjoined by any court of competent jurisdiction. The court may make such orders or judgments, including the appointment of a receiver, as may be necessary to prevent the use or employment by any person of any p…

A. Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed three hundred dollars for each violation, which shall be assessed and recovered in a civil action brought in the name of the people of the state by the attorney general or b…

1. "Attachor" means any cable television system or provider of telecommunications or broadband communication services that owns or operates equipment that is attached to a pole, duct or conduit or that is otherwise located within a right-of-way that is owned or controlled by an e…

B. Except as otherwise agreed to in writing or established by federal law, this chapter establishes the exclusive means of recovery from an electric utility for claims or damages that result from wildfires. C. This chapter does not establish any additional legal duty that support…

B. Any action by the state forester that approves a wildfire mitigation plan is not considered approval for recovery of the electric utility's costs necessary to implement the wildfire mitigation plan through rates for service charged to the electric utility's customers. C. An el…

B. Notwithstanding subsection A of this section, an electric utility that engages in wilful, intentional or reckless misconduct that causes a wildfire is not deemed to meet the standard of care for a reasonably prudent electric utility. A failure to comply with an approved wildfi…