Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 9 > Chapter 6 - Convention Centers

• Active tuberculosis: means a disease that is caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis or other members of the mycobacterium tuberculosis complex family in any part of the body and that is in an active state as determined by either:

  (a) A smear or culture that is taken from any source in the afflicted person's body and that tests positive for tuberculosis and the afflicted person has not completed a medically successful complete course of antituberculosis treatment. See Arizona Laws 36-711

• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Afflicted person: means a person who has or who based upon reasonable grounds is suspected of having active tuberculosis. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appropriate prescribed course of medication: means a course of medication that is prescribed by a physician and that meets the recommendations of any of the following:

  (a) The tuberculosis control officer. See Arizona Laws 36-711

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Associate director: means the associate director of the citrus, fruit and vegetable division of the department. See Arizona Laws 3-441
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Bank: means a corporation that holds a banking permit issued pursuant to chapter 2 of this title. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Bioterrorism: means the intentional use of any microorganism, virus, infectious substance or biological product that may be engineered as a result of biotechnology or any naturally occurring or bioengineered component of any microorganism, virus, infectious substance or biological product, to cause or attempt to cause death, disease or other biological malfunction in humans. See Arizona Laws 36-781
• By-products: means any product from citrus fruit that is commercially processed or manufactured for resale. See Arizona Laws 3-441
• Certified community health worker: means a community health worker to whom the department has issued a certificate to practice as a certified community health worker in this state. See Arizona Laws 36-765
• citrus fruit: means the fruit of any orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit, tangerine, kumquat or other citrus tree that produces edible citrus fruit suitable for human consumption. See Arizona Laws 3-441
• Commission merchant: means a person that receives on consignment or solicits from the producer any citrus fruit for sale on commission on behalf of the producer or accepts any citrus fruit in trust from the producer for the purpose of resale. See Arizona Laws 3-441
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Community health worker: means a nonmedical health worker who serves as a liaison for health and community service providers and enrollees to facilitate access to services and improve the quality of service delivery, including the coordination of services to improve medical and behavioral health outcomes. See Arizona Laws 36-765
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Cure: means a medically successful complete course of antituberculosis treatment. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dealer: means a person that sells, markets or distributes citrus fruit that the person purchased from a producer or markets as an agent, broker or commission merchant, except at retail. See Arizona Laws 3-441
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-751
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-765
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-766
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-671
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Deputy director: means the deputy director of the financial institutions division of the department. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Directly observed therapy: means an appropriate prescribed course of treatment for active tuberculosis in which the prescribed antituberculosis medications are administered to the afflicted person or taken by the afflicted person under the direct observation of a physician, a physician assistant, a registered nurse, a health care provider or another designated responsible person. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Director: means the director of the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-751
• Director: means the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 36-765
• Director: means the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 36-766
• Director: means the director of the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-781
• Director: means the director of the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-671
• Director: means the director of the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Documentary proof: means written evidence that a pupil has been immunized or has laboratory evidence of immunity which conforms with the standards promulgated pursuant to section 15-872. See Arizona Laws 36-671
• Doula: means a trained nonmedical professional who may provide continuous physical, emotional and informational support to families before, during and after childbirth for a period of one year after birth or in the case of loss and who may serve as a liaison between the birth parents and medical and social services staff to improve the quality of medical, social and behavioral outcomes. See Arizona Laws 36-766
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Escrow: means any transaction in which any escrow property is delivered with or without transfer of legal or equitable title, or both, and irrespective of whether a debtor-creditor relationship is created, to a person not otherwise having any right, title or interest therein in connection with the sale, transfer, encumbrance or lease of real or personal property, to be delivered or redelivered by that person upon the contingent happening or nonhappening of a specified event or performance or nonperformance of a prescribed act, when it is then to be delivered by such person to a grantee, grantor, promisee, promisor, obligee, obligor, bailee or bailor, or any designated agent or employee of any of them. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Escrow agent: means any person engaged in the business of accepting escrows. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Escrow business: means a commercial activity characterized by the regular and continuous carrying on of escrow transactions. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Examination: means conducting tests that include Mantoux tuberculin skin tests, laboratory examination and x-rays as recommended by any of the following:

  (a) The tuberculosis control officer. See Arizona Laws 36-711

• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Food: means a food as defined in section 36-901, food product, food ingredient, dietary ingredient, dietary supplement or beverage for human consumption. See Arizona Laws 36-795
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Health agency: means a local health department or similar governmental agency established pursuant to the laws of another state or country and its officers and employees. See Arizona Laws 36-671
• Immunization: means the process of inoculation with a specific antigen to promote antibody formation in the body. See Arizona Laws 36-671
• Immunized: means the required initial immunization and boosters or reimmunization prescribed pursuant to section 36-672. See Arizona Laws 36-671
• Institution: means any public or private hospital, rest home, sanatorium, health care institution or other facility approved by the department for the care and treatment of afflicted persons. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Intervention: means treatment, monitoring, quarantine or isolation or any combination thereof. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Isolation: means the physical separation of afflicted persons from others in order to limit the transmission of active tuberculosis. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Kratom product: means a food product or dietary ingredient containing any part of the leaf of the plant mitragyna speciosa. See Arizona Laws 36-795
• Laboratory evidence of immunity: means written evidence of serologic confirmation of the presence of specific antibodies against an immunization-preventable disease which is signed by a physician or an authorized representative of a health agency. See Arizona Laws 36-671
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: means a license issued pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Licensee: means a person licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local health authority: means a county health department or public health services district or any person authorized to act on behalf of the county health department or public health services district. See Arizona Laws 36-781
• Local health department: means local health departments established pursuant to chapter 1, article 4 of this title. See Arizona Laws 36-671
• Local health officer: means the health officer and other persons who are designated by the local health officer. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Lot: means a unit of identical or similar items that are grouped or consolidated in one or more containers for packaging or transporting or a cluster of identical or similar items that are included in the same shipping order, bill of lading or other itemized transport order. See Arizona Laws 3-441
• Medical director: means an individual at a receiving facility who is either a licensed physician or a hospital administrator acting upon the advice of a licensed physician who is authorized by the facility to make any decisions concerning afflicted persons as prescribed by this article. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Medically successful complete course of antituberculosis treatment: means that an afflicted person has successfully completed a prescribed course of antituberculosis treatment and has been medically discharged from further medical treatment for tuberculosis by a licensed physician. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Midwife: means a person who delivers a baby or provides health care related to pregnancy, labor, delivery and postpartum care of the mother and her infant. See Arizona Laws 36-751
• Minor: means a child under the age of eighteen years of age, except as provided by the provisions of section 44-132. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Monitoring: means a program of supervision designed to monitor the health and activities of an afflicted person. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Moral turpitude: means an offense, whether a misdemeanor or felony, that is related to extortion, burglary, larceny, bribery, embezzlement, robbery, racketeering, money laundering, forgery, fraud, murder, voluntary manslaughter or a sexual offense that requires the individual to register pursuant to section 13-3821. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: includes an individual, firm, association, partnership, trust or corporation. See Arizona Laws 3-441
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Physician: means a person licensed pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 13, 17 or 29 or a person licensed to practice allopathic or osteopathic medicine under the laws of another state or country. See Arizona Laws 36-671
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Practice as a state-certified doula: means a state-certified doula who provides services in accordance with the core competencies specified by this article and the rules adopted pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 36-766
• Processor: means a person that sells, prepares, manufactures, distributes, wholesales or maintains kratom products or that advertises, represents or holds itself out as selling, preparing or maintaining kratom products. See Arizona Laws 36-795
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Public safety authority: means the department of public safety, a local law enforcement agency or a person authorized to act on behalf of the department of public safety or local law enforcement agency. See Arizona Laws 36-781
• Pupil: means a person who is eligible to receive instruction at a school and includes pre-kindergarten age children receiving either services for children with disabilities or day care on a school campus otherwise exempt from day care rules pursuant to section 36-884. See Arizona Laws 36-671
• Quarantine: means the restriction of activities of persons who have been exposed to an afflicted person. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Retailer: means a person that sells or distributes kratom products or that advertises, represents or holds itself out as selling or maintaining kratom products. See Arizona Laws 36-795
• School: means a public, private or parochial school that offers instruction at any level or grade through twelfth grade, except for day care facilities regulated pursuant to chapter 7. See Arizona Laws 36-671
• School administrator: means the principal or person having general daily control and supervision of the school or that person's designee. See Arizona Laws 36-671
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Shipper: means a person that ships, transports, sells or markets citrus fruit under the person's registered trademark or label or a person that first markets the citrus fruit on behalf of the producer. See Arizona Laws 3-441
• State-certified doula: means a doula to whom the department has issued a certificate to practice as a state-certified doula in this state. See Arizona Laws 36-766
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Treatment: means medication or medical therapy prescribed by a licensed physician to cure a person of active tuberculosis. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Tuberculosis control officer: means a person appointed by the director to be the chief tuberculosis control officer for tuberculosis control in this state and other persons who are designated by the control officer. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Voluntary treatment plan: means a written plan that is developed by a medical authority, that has been approved by the tuberculosis control officer or the local health officer and that prescribes one or more of the following on a voluntary basis:

  (a) Examination. See Arizona Laws 36-711