A.R.S. § 27-201.01: Definitions

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Commissioner" means the state land commissioner.

2. "Commodity type":

(a) Includes any of the following:

(i) Minerals.

(ii) Common variety mineral.

(iii) Oil as defined in section 27-501.

(iv) Gas as defined in section 27-501.

(v) Geothermal resources as defined in section 27-651.

(vi) Any other tangible natural product of the land, not including native plants, timber or water, that may be explored and produced in the future.

(b) Except for heat and other forms of energy associated with geothermal resources as defined in section 27-651, does not include nontangible natural products of the land, including wind, solar or electricity generated by nontangible natural products of the land.

3. "Common variety mineral":

(a) Includes:

(i) A deposit of petrified wood, stone, pumice, pumicite, cinders, decomposed granite, sand, gravel, boulders, common clay, fill dirt and waste rock.

(ii) A deposit that, although the deposits may have value for use in trade, manufacturing, construction, landscape and decorative rock industries, does not possess a distinct, special economic value for those uses beyond the normal uses of the deposit.

(iii) A material that is used as road base material, riprap, ballast, borrow, fill, facing stone, landscape or ornamental uses and other similar uses.

(b) Does not include limestone that is suitable for use in producing cement, metallurgical or chemical grade limestone or gypsum.

4. "Mineral" means a metallic ore mineral or industrial mineral other than a common variety mineral.

5. "Production lease" means a lease for the purposes of the extraction, sale or processing or any other processes of a commodity type.

6. "State land" means any land that is owned or held in trust, or otherwise, by this state, including leased school or university land.