Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 23 > Chapter 3 - Employment Services

• Administrative fee: means the fee that is charged to a client by a professional employer organization for professional employer services. See Arizona Laws 23-561
• Annual percentage rate: The cost of credit at a yearly rate. It is calculated in a standard way, taking the average compound interest rate over the term of the loan so borrowers can compare loans. Lenders are required by law to disclose a card account's APR. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Bank: means a corporation that holds a banking permit issued pursuant to chapter 2 of this title. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Client: means a person who contracts with a professional employer organization under a professional employer agreement. See Arizona Laws 23-561
• Co-employer: means a professional employer organization or a client. See Arizona Laws 23-561
• Co-employment relationship: means all of the following:

  (a) A relationship between co-employers if the rights, duties and obligations of an employer that arise out of an employment relationship are allocated between co-employers subject to a professional employer agreement and this article, and the relationship is intended to be an ongoing relationship and not a temporary or project specific relationship. See Arizona Laws 23-561

• Day labor: means labor or employment that is under a contract between a day labor service agency and a third party employer, that is occasional or irregular and that is for a limited time period. See Arizona Laws 23-551
• Day labor service agency: means an entity that provides day laborers to third party employers and that charges the third party employers for this service. See Arizona Laws 23-551
• Day laborer: means an individual who contracts for day labor employment with a day labor service agency. See Arizona Laws 23-551
• Department: means the department of economic security. See Arizona Laws 23-501
• Director: means the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 23-501
• Division: means the department of economic security. See Arizona Laws 23-501
• Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Insured: means any person covered under an insurance contract or other evidence of insurance coverage subject to regulation under title 20. See Arizona Laws 6-1401
• 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}
• Maintenance: means money payments not to exceed the estimated cost of subsistence during vocational rehabilitation. See Arizona Laws 23-501
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company or other legally recognized entity. See Arizona Laws 23-561
• Person with a disability: means any individual who has a physical or mental disability and a substantial disadvantage to employment, which is of such a nature that vocational rehabilitation services may reasonably be expected to render the person fit to engage in a gainful occupation, including a gainful occupation which is more consistent with the person's capacities and abilities, or for whom vocational rehabilitation services are necessary for the purpose of extended evaluation to determine rehabilitation potential. See Arizona Laws 23-501
• Physical restoration: means medical, surgical or therapeutic treatment necessary to correct or reduce the employment disadvantage of a person with a disability and includes medical, psychiatric, dental and surgical treatment, nursing service, hospital care not to exceed ninety days, convalescent home care, drugs, medical and surgical supplies and prosthetic appliances and other related services as defined in the vocational rehabilitation act, as amended. See Arizona Laws 23-501
• Premium finance agreement: means a written agreement by which an insured or prospective insured agrees to pay to a premium finance company the amount advanced or to be advanced under the written agreement to an insurance producer in payment of premiums of an insurance contract together with interest or discount and a service charge as authorized and limited by this article. See Arizona Laws 6-1401
• Premium finance company: means a person engaged in whole or in part in the business of financing insurance premiums, entering into premium finance agreements with insureds or otherwise acquiring premium finance agreements from insurance producers or other premium finance companies. See Arizona Laws 6-1401
• Professional employer agreement: means a written contract between a professional employer organization and a client that provides for:

  (a) The co-employment of covered employees. See Arizona Laws 23-561

• Professional employer services: means the service of entering into a co-employment relationship under this article in which all or a majority of the employees who provide services to a client or to a division or work unit of the client are covered employees. See Arizona Laws 23-561
• Registrant: means a professional employer organization that is registered under this article. See Arizona Laws 23-561
• Third party employer: means a person that contracts with a day labor service agency for the employment of day laborers. See Arizona Laws 23-551
• vocational rehabilitation service: means a service determined by the director to be necessary to enable a person with a disability to engage in a remunerative occupation and includes medical and vocational diagnosis, vocational guidance, counsel and placement, rehabilitation, training, physical restoration, transportation, occupational licenses, customary occupational tools and equipment, maintenance and training books and materials, follow up, evaluation and work adjustment and other related services as defined in the vocational rehabilitation act, as amended. See Arizona Laws 23-501
• Wilfully: 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 1-215