Title 11, Counties

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in section 11-1001 apply.

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 probable cause that the animal is vicious or may be a danger to the safety of any person or other animal, may request a disposition hear…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "At-risk youth" means children who are eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen or eighteen years of age at the time they begin receiving services pursuant to this article and who are one or more of…

A. The board of supervisors or the governing body of a city or town may appropriate monies and take all actions necessary to establish, operate, maintain, coordinate and fund summer youth employment and training programs for at-risk youth. B. From the state appropriation made for…

A. No official or agency of this state or a county, city, town or other political subdivision of this state may limit or restrict the enforcement of federal immigration laws to less than the full extent permitted by federal law. B. For any lawful stop, detention or arrest made by…

A. A county, by resolution or ordinance, may enter into development agreements relating to property located outside the incorporated area of a city or town. B. The development agreement shall be between the county and a landowner or any other person having an interest in real pro…

A. A county may assess development fees to offset costs to the county associated with providing necessary public services to a development, including the costs of infrastructure, improvements, real property, engineering and architectural services, financing and professional servi…

A county may enter into an intergovernmental agreement to accept or disburse development fees for construction of a public facility pursuant to a benefit area plan, including an agreement with a city or special taxing district for the joint establishment of a needs assessment, th…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Department" means the department of revenue. 2. "Value" means: (a) In any case other than a gift, the amount of the full actual consideration that is paid or to be paid, including the amount of any lien or liens. (b) In …

A. Before recording a deed or contract relating to the sale or transfer of real property, the county recorder shall collect a fee of two dollars for the deed or contract. B. The fee prescribed in subsection A of this section is included in the amount charged pursuant to section 1…

A. Each deed evidencing a transfer of title and any contract relating to the sale of real property shall have appended at the time of recording an affidavit of the seller and the buyer to the transaction, or the agent of either the seller or buyer, or both, in a form approved by …

A. The affidavit and fee required by this article do not apply to the following instruments: 1. A deed that represents the payment in full or forfeiture of a recorded contract for the sale of real property. 2. A lease or easement on real property, regardless of the length of the …

A. The county recorder shall: 1. Place the fee or recording number of the deed and the date of recording on the original affidavit. 2. Scan the affidavit and transmit an electronic copy to the department and the Arizona state library, archives and public records, and transmit eit…

A. The department may prescribe rules that are reasonably necessary to facilitate and expedite the imposition, collection and administration of the fee imposed pursuant to this article. B. The department or its authorized agents may: 1. Examine books, papers, records or other dat…

A. A county recorder or employee of the recorder who knowingly records any deed or contract for which a fee is charged by this article without collecting the additional fee is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor. B. Any person who knowingly fails to provide or knowingly falsifies the…

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Landowner" means any owner of a legal or equitable interest in real property, including the heirs, devisees, successors, assigns and personal representative of the owner, or a representative authorized by a landowner to …

A. A county may provide by ordinance or resolution the requirements for a development to be a phased development. If a county does not adopt an ordinance or resolution that includes the requirements for a development to be a phased development, a plan submitted as a protected dev…

A. A protected development right established under a protected development right plan is valid for three years for a nonphased development, five years for a phased development and ten years for a phased development that contains at least one section of land as defined by 43 Unite…

A. A protected development right established under this section precludes the enforcement against the property to which the protected development right applies of any legislative or administrative land use regulation by a county or pursuant to an initiated measure that would chan…

A. A protected development right obtained under this chapter is not a personal right but attaches to and runs with the applicable property. After approval of a protected development right plan, all successors to the original landowner are entitled to exercise the protected develo…

Notwithstanding any other law, a county, for public safety purposes and with the written consent of the owner of property which has been granted a protected development right pursuant to section 11-1202 or the owner of any other residential or commercial development subject to th…

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Adult day health services" has the same meaning prescribed in section 36-401. 2. "Adult foster care services" has the same meaning prescribed in section 36-401. 3. "Ambulance" has the same meaning prescribed in section 3…

A. The board of supervisors of a county with a population of more than one million five hundred thousand persons according to the most recent United States decennial census may enter into an operating agreement as provided by this chapter with a nonprofit corporation for purposes…

A. Before entering into an operating agreement, the board of supervisors shall publish, four times in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, a request for expressions of interest from existing nonprofit corporations and others. The request shall include the date on whi…

A. The board of supervisors shall evaluate expressions of interest that are received and may award the operating agreement to a nonprofit corporation that is best qualified to perform the requirements of this chapter, except that the board of supervisors may agree to waive any or…

A. Unless this requirement is waived under section 11-1404, subsection A, the nonprofit corporation with which the board of supervisors enters into an operating agreement shall be governed by a board of directors consisting of eleven voting members including: 1. The chief executi…

Section 38-511 does not apply to this chapter, the nonprofit corporation or an operating agreement entered into under this chapter unless a person who was directly responsible for reaching a settlement of terms or making a recommendation for action to the board of supervisors wit…

A nonprofit corporation that is organized as provided by this article and that enters into an operating agreement with a sponsoring county: 1. Is considered to: (a) Exercise its powers for the benefit of the people, to improve their health and welfare and to increase their prospe…

This chapter does not restrict, limit or preclude the nonprofit corporation from exercising any rights or powers or performing any duties provided or prescribed by any other law of this state. This chapter provides a complete, additional and alternative method for doing the thing…

This chapter does not relieve a county of its statutory residual responsibility relating to the indigent sick pursuant to section 11-291.

The board of supervisors may enter into an operating agreement only with a nonprofit corporation with articles of incorporation or bylaws that provide that the primary purposes of the corporation under this chapter are to: 1. Provide quality, cost-effective health care services f…

A. As part of the operating agreement, the board of supervisors of the sponsoring county may agree to lease health system assets to the nonprofit corporation for purposes prescribed in section 11-1402. B. If the board of supervisors leases the health system assets to the corporat…

A. The nonprofit corporation may acquire, by purchase, lease or otherwise, and operate the community health system, other health care institutions and real and personal property, both in and outside the sponsoring county. B. Acquiring or operating other health care institutions a…

A. An operating agreement under this chapter shall include the following provisions: 1. The nonprofit corporation's assumption of responsibility for managing, maintaining and operating the health system assets that are leased or transferred pursuant to the lease agreement. 2. The…

A. The board of directors of the nonprofit corporation has all of the powers that are necessary to perform or comply with the obligations of the board of supervisors or the sponsoring county under an operating agreement under this chapter. B. The operating agreement, and all amen…

A. The operating agreement shall provide that: 1. If the state or federal government amends, modifies, alters or changes the law to reduce the county's financial or programmatic responsibility for health care for the indigent sick of the county, any agreement for compensation or …

A. The operating agreement: 1. Shall include provisions to ensure that all employees of the county health system are considered for employment by the nonprofit corporation. 2. May include provisions with respect to the transfer of county health system employees, including appropr…

The nonprofit corporation shall assume and agree to pay the sponsoring county the amounts remaining to be paid on all uncompleted construction contracts entered into by the county before the transfer date for constructing additions to or improvements or modifications of the healt…

A. Debts and other liabilities of the nonprofit corporation are not liabilities or responsibilities of the sponsoring county. Unless expressly authorized by this chapter: 1. Public monies of the county shall not be appropriated to pay the debts or obligations of the corporation. …

A. The nonprofit corporation may issue its corporate bonds in principal amounts as the board of directors determines to be necessary to provide sufficient monies for purposes of the community health system. B. Bonds issued by the nonprofit corporation: 1. Are entitled to all of t…

A. The operating agreement entered into pursuant to this chapter shall require the nonprofit corporation to: 1. Honor all covenants and obligations made by the sponsoring county pursuant to title 35, chapter 3, article 7 with respect to the county health system. 2. Assume and per…

The operating agreement entered into pursuant to this chapter shall require: 1. The board of directors to cause an audit to be made of the funds, revenues and expenditures of the nonprofit corporation. The audit shall be conducted within sixty days after the close of the corporat…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Design-build" means a construction project delivery system in which the design and construction aspects are contracted for with a single entity known as the design-builder or design-build contractor, and in which the sys…

To ensure fair and open regulation by counties, a person: 1. Is eligible for reimbursement of fees and other expenses if the person prevails by adjudication on the merits against a county in a court proceeding regarding a county decision as provided in section 12-348. 2. Is entit…

A. A county inspector or regulator who enters any premises of a regulated person for the purpose of conducting an inspection shall: 1. Present photo identification on entry of the premises. 2. On initiation of the inspection, state the purpose of the inspection and the legal auth…

A. A county shall not base a licensing decision in whole or in part on a licensing requirement or condition that is not specifically authorized by statute, rule, ordinance or delegation agreement. A general grant of authority does not constitute a basis for imposing a licensing r…