Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 13 > Chapter 11 - Homicide

• Act: means a bodily movement. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Adequate provocation: means conduct or circumstances sufficient to deprive a reasonable person of self-control. See Arizona Laws 13-1101
• Assistant director: means the assistant director of the office of agricultural safety in the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-3101
• Conduct: means an act or omission and its accompanying culpable mental state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Criminal negligence: means , with respect to a result or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person fails to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the result will occur or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Dangerous drug: means dangerous drug as defined in section 13-3401. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• De minimis violation: means a condition or practice which, although undesirable, has no direct or immediate relationship to safety or health. See Arizona Laws 3-3101
• Deadly physical force: means force that is used with the purpose of causing death or serious physical injury or in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of creating a substantial risk of causing death or serious physical injury. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-101
• Employee: means any person performing agricultural services for an employer. See Arizona Laws 3-3101
• Employer: means any individual or type of organization, including this state and its political subdivisions, which has in its employ one or more individuals performing agricultural services for it in employment, including self-employed persons. See Arizona Laws 3-3101
• escape: means :

  (i) A departure from custody or from a juvenile secure care facility, a juvenile detention facility or an adult correctional facility in which the person is held or detained, with knowledge that the departure is not allowed, or the failure to return to custody or detention following a temporary leave granted for a specific purpose or for a limited period. 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
• Homicide: means first degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter or negligent homicide. See Arizona Laws 13-1101
• 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
• Office: means the office of agricultural safety in the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-3101
• Person: means a human being. See Arizona Laws 13-1101
• Physical injury: means the impairment of physical condition. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Premeditation: means that the defendant acts with either the intention or the knowledge that he will kill another human being, when such intention or knowledge precedes the killing by any length of time to permit reflection. See Arizona Laws 13-1101
• 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
• Rule: means a written rule of agricultural safety and health governing places of agricultural employment which is adopted pursuant to section 3-3106 or 3-3108, exclusive of standards. See Arizona Laws 3-3101
• Serious physical injury: includes physical injury that creates a reasonable risk of death, or that causes serious and permanent disfigurement, serious impairment of health or loss or protracted impairment of the function of any bodily organ or limb. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Standard: means any agricultural safety and health standard which has been adopted and promulgated by a nationally recognized standards-producing organization or the federal government and has the same meaning as and includes the term "code". See Arizona Laws 3-3101
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Trainer: means a person who is certified by the department pursuant to section 3-3125 for training individuals in agricultural health and safety standards. See Arizona Laws 3-3101
• Unlawful: means contrary to law or, where the context so requires, not allowed by law. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Vehicle: means a device in, upon or by which any person or property is, may be or could have been transported or drawn upon a highway, waterway or airway, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See Arizona Laws 13-105