Arizona SB 1016: physicians; naturopathic medicine

Bill Text

SB1016 - 572R - H Ver 

 House Engrossed 
 Senate Bill

 employers; 
 medical products; religious exemption

 (now: municipal 
 improvement districts; petitions)

 State of Arizona

 Senate

 Fifty-seventh Legislature

 Second Regular Session

 2026

 SENATE BILL 1016

AN 
ACT

amending sections 48-571, 48-574, 
48-575, 48-576 and 48-577, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating 
to municipal improvement districts.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: 

Section 1. Section 48-571, Arizona Revised 
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE48-571. Definitions; appointment of officer

A. In this article and article 1 of this chapter, 
unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Assessment" or "assessment 
roll" means a special assessment made under the provisions of this 
article.

2. "Block" means any parcel of ground, 
whether regular or irregular, which that 
is bounded by streets, or by one or more streets and by one or more boundary 
lines of the city or town.

3. "Clerk" includes any person or official 
who performs the duties of clerk of the city or town.

4. "Contractor" includes the contractor's 
personal representative or assignee.

5. "Council" or "governing body" 
includes and means the body or board which that by law is constituted the legislative department of an 
incorporated city or town.

6. "Delinquency" means delinquency in the 
payment of an assessment made under the provisions of this article.

7. "Designated area" means an area of the 
municipality which that is either 
designated pursuant to section 36-1479 as a slum or blighted area or 
designated as a pocket of poverty or a neighborhood strategy area by the United 
States department of housing and urban development, pursuant to title I of the 
housing and community development act of 1977, as amended 
(p.l. 95-128; 42 United States Code sections 5301 
through 5320) and the department of housing and urban development act (p.l. 89-174; 42 United States Code section 3535(d)).

8. "Engineer" includes any person who, 
under whatever official name, is the civil engineer or surveyor of the city or 
town, and where there is no elected or appointed official, then the engineer is 
the person who may be appointed or employed by the council to perform the 
duties required of an engineer under the provisions of this article.

9. "Improvement bond" means a bond issue 
under the provisions of this article.

10. "Lighting plants" includes electric 
light plants, electric power plants, gas plants, distribution systems, poles, 
parts, pipes, conduits, wires, tanks, reservoirs, generators for gas or 
electricity, transmission lines, towers, lamps, transformers of every 
character, machinery, apparatus, equipment and all appliances and structures 
necessary or incidental to the construction, installation or operation of a 
complete municipal electric light, power and gas plant and distribution system, 
placed on the streets improved, though extended beyond.

11. "Lot" includes any portion, piece, 
parcel or subdivision of land, and includes property owned or controlled by any 
person as a railroad right-of-way.

12. "Mayor" includes the chairman or 
president of the governing body.

13. "Municipality" or "city" 
includes incorporated cities and towns.

14. "Owner" means the person in whom, on 
the day the action or proceeding is commenced, appears the legal title to the 
lot by deed recorded in the recorder's office, or the person in possession of 
the lot under claim of title, or exercising acts of ownership over the lot for 
the person, or as the personal representative of the owner.

15. "Railroad" includes street railroad 
and interurban railroad.

16. "Sewers" includes tunnels, 
excavations, ditches, drains, conduits, channels, outlets, outfalls, cesspools, 
manholes, catch basins, flush tanks, septic tanks, connecting sewers of every 
character, machinery, apparatus, equipment and all appliances and structures 
necessary or incidental to the construction, installation or operation of a 
complete sewer system, for either sanitary or drainage purposes.

17. "Street" includes avenues, alleys, 
highways, lanes, crossings, intersections, courts, places and grounds now open 
or dedicated or hereafter opened or dedicated to public use, including 
on-street parking, and public ways.

18. "Street superintendent" or 
"superintendent" includes any person who, under whatever official 
name, is charged with the care or supervision of the streets of the city or 
town.

19. "Time of delinquency" means the time 
fixed when assessments become delinquent.

20. "Treasurer" includes any person who, 
under whatever official name, is the custodian of the funds of the city or 
town.

21. "Waterworks" includes pipes, hydrants, 
reservoirs, wells, pumps, pumping plants, conduits, settling basins, filtering 
plants of every character, machinery, apparatus, equipment and all appliances 
and structures necessary or incident