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    "slug": "pool-contract-draw-schedule",
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    "title": "The Payment Schedule Arizona Sets for Pool Contracts",
    "statement": "Arizona wrote the payment schedule for pools into the statute itself. Fifteen percent down at most; then no more than a quarter of the total after excavation, another quarter after the steel, plumbing, and gunite, another after the decking, and the rest only as the job actually finishes. A pool contract that wants more, sooner, wants what the statute does not allow.",
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      "label": "A.R.S. § 32-1158.01",
      "url": "https://www.azleg.gov/ars/32/01158-01.htm"
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    "topic": "Contracts and payment",
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    "updatedOn": "2026-08-11",
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