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The Arizona justice courts are nonrecord courts of limited jurisdiction in each county, presided over by a justice of the peace who is elected for a four-year term, that have jurisdiction over civil lawsuits where the amount in dispute is $10,000 or less, landlord and tenant controversies, small claims cases and the full range of civil and ...
The power of the executive to act independently depends on the county charter. The administrator or executive usually has the authority over the day-to-day operations of the county's departments. Many boards independently appoint department heads, while other boards delegate that authority to the administrator or executive.
An administrative law judge (ALJ) in the United States is a judge and trier of fact who both presides over trials and adjudicates claims or disputes involving administrative law, thus involving administrative units of the executive branch of government.
The Arizona Association of Counties (AACo) was established in 1968 as a member association for all elected officials of Arizona's 15 counties. AACo represents each Arizona county and its elected officials by serving as a liaison to the Arizona State Legislature , United States Congress, other governmental agencies, the media and the public.
On June 23, 2006, the first anniversary of the Kelo decision, President George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13406, which stated in Section I that the federal government must limit its use of taking private property to "public use" with "just compensation" (both of which are phrases used in the U.S. Constitution) for the "purpose of benefiting ...
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Thursday that it will change a rule that counts service-related disability benefits as income, often excluding veterans from housing ...
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development administers programs that provide housing and community development assistance in the United States. [4] Adequate housing is recognized as human right in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. [5]
A county formation commission is required to be formed to evaluate the feasibility of the proposed county. [5] A proposal to divide a county must be approved by a majority of the votes cast in each proposed new county. [6] Under the Arizona Constitution, counties are politically and legally creatures of the state, and do not have charters of ...