Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 5 > Chapter 3 > Article 6 - Uniform Waterway Marking System

• Act: means a bodily movement. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Commission: means the Arizona game and fish commission. See Arizona Laws 5-301
• Conduct: means an act or omission and its accompanying culpable mental state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Dangerous instrument: means anything that under the circumstances in which it is used, attempted to be used or threatened to be used is readily capable of causing death or serious physical injury. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Deadly weapon: means anything designed for lethal use, including a firearm. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Felony: means an offense for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment in the custody of the state department of corrections is authorized by any law of this state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Government: means the state, any political subdivision of the state or any department, agency, board, commission, institution or governmental instrumentality of or within the state or political subdivision. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Knowingly: means , with respect to conduct or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware or believes that the person's conduct is of that nature or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Misdemeanor: means an offense for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment other than to the custody of the state department of corrections is authorized by any law of this state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Peace officer: means any person vested by law with a duty to maintain public order and make arrests and includes a constable. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Person: includes any individual, firm, corporation, partnership or association, and any agent, assignee, trustee, executor, receiver or representative thereof. See Arizona Laws 5-301
• Person: means a human being and, as the context requires, an enterprise, a public or private corporation, an unincorporated association, a partnership, a firm, a society, a government, a governmental authority or an individual or entity capable of holding a legal or beneficial interest in property. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Physical injury: means the impairment of physical condition. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Possession: means a voluntary act if the defendant knowingly exercised dominion or control over property. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Property: means anything of value, tangible or intangible. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Public: means affecting or likely to affect a substantial group of persons. See Arizona Laws 13-2901
• Recklessly: means , with respect to a result or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware of and consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the result will occur or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Unlawful: means contrary to law or, where the context so requires, not allowed by law. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Waterway: means any body of water, public or private, on which a watercraft can be navigated. See Arizona Laws 5-301