Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 3 > Chapter 11 - Ownership, Control and Regulation of Livestock

• Actual malice: means that state of mind arising from personal spite, hatred, or ill will toward the plaintiff, but such a state of mind occasioned by a good faith belief on the part of the defendant in the truth of the libelous publication or broadcast at the time it is published or broadcast shall not constitute actual malice. See Arizona Laws 12-653.01
• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Advance payment: means any money or other thing of value voluntarily paid or provided before trial, as compensation or reimbursement for damages, to or for the benefit of any person having or asserting a claim for damages for personal injuries or for wrongful death or for damage or destruction of property against the person by whom or on whose behalf such payment is made. See Arizona Laws 12-2301
• Adverse possession: means an actual and visible appropriation of the land, commenced and continued under a claim of right inconsistent with and hostile to the claim of another. See Arizona Laws 12-521
• Advisory committee: means a local community punishment advisory committee appointed by the presiding judge of the superior court. See Arizona Laws 12-299
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• agency: means every agency, board, commission, department or officer authorized by law to exercise rule-making powers or to adjudicate contested cases, whether created by constitutional provision or legislative enactment. See Arizona Laws 12-901
• Agricultural pilot program: means the industrial hemp program that is designed to research the growth, cultivation and marketing of industrial hemp, hemp seeds and hemp products as authorized by this article and rules and orders adopted by the director pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 3-311
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Annuity issuer: means an insurer that has issued a contract that is used to fund periodic payments under a structured settlement. See Arizona Laws 12-2901
• 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.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Application process and procedures: means the criteria and guidelines developed by the supreme court for establishing community punishment plans, granting monies for programs authorized by this article and monitoring and reviewing programs funded under this article. See Arizona Laws 12-299
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• 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
• Aquaculture: means the controlled propagation, growth and harvest of aquatic animals or plants, including fish, amphibians, shellfish, mollusks, crustaceans, algae and vascular plants. See Arizona Laws 3-1201
• Arbitration organization: means an association, agency, board, commission or other entity that is neutral and that initiates, sponsors or administers an arbitration proceeding or is involved in the appointment of an arbitrator. See Arizona Laws 12-3001
• Arbitrator: means an individual who is appointed to render an award, alone or with others, in a controversy that is subject to an agreement to arbitrate. See Arizona Laws 12-3001
• 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 division. See Arizona Laws 3-1201
• Associate director: means the associate director of the environmental services division of the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Association: means either of the following:

  (a) The unit owners' association organized under section 33-1241. See Arizona Laws 12-1361

• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Audit report: means an audit report, prepared by an organization, as prescribed by section 12-2322. See Arizona Laws 12-2321
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Beef: includes veal. See Arizona Laws 3-1231
• Beef cattle: means cattle or calves grown primarily for meat production. See Arizona Laws 3-1451
• Beef products: includes veal products. See Arizona Laws 3-1231
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Bodily injury: means bodily harm, sickness, disease or emotional or mental distress, including death resulting from any of these conditions at any time, sustained by a person. See Arizona Laws 12-581
• Brand: means a term, design or trademark used in connection with one or several grades of commercial fertilizer. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Building: means and includes so much of any building or structure of any kind as is or may be entered through the same outside entrance. See Arizona Laws 12-801
• Bulk: means fertilizer materials delivered to the purchaser in the solid or liquid state, in a nonpackaged form to which a label cannot be attached. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Buyer: means a person who buys or hires a motor vehicle under a retail installment contract. See Arizona Laws 12-631
• Cease and desist order: means an administrative order provided by law restraining the sale, use, disposition and movement of a definite amount of seed. See Arizona Laws 3-231
• Claim: means a legal cause of action except for actions relating to health care under sections 12-561 through 12-563 of this title or under Title 46, Chapter 4 or an affirmative defense to which all of the following apply:

  (a) The claim is asserted against a licensed professional in a complaint, answer, cross-claim, counterclaim or third party complaint. See Arizona Laws 12-2601

• Claimant: means a person suffering bodily injury, a person claiming on behalf of or as a result of bodily injury to another person, the representative of the estate of a deceased person or a beneficiary of a wrongful death action. See Arizona Laws 12-581
• Commercial fertilizer: means any substance that contains one or more recognized plant nutrients, that is used for its plant nutrient content and that is designed for use or claimed to have value in promoting plant growth, except unmanipulated animal and vegetable manures, and other products exempted by rule. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• 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 documents: means the declaration, bylaws, articles of incorporation, if any, and rules, if any. See Arizona Laws 12-1361
• Community punishment: means programs for persons placed on supervised probation or intensive probation which are established pursuant to this article and provide for increased conditions of probation and community based programs and services that emphasize supervision, surveillance, control, public protection, community work service, restitution and victims' rights and that provide opportunities for rehabilitation and treatment. See Arizona Laws 12-299
• Construction codes: means the building, plumbing, electrical, fire, mechanical or other codes or ordinances, including the international residential code however denominated, as adopted, amended and enforced by the city, town or county in which the dwelling is located. See Arizona Laws 12-1361
• Construction defect: means a material deficiency in the design, construction, manufacture, repair, alteration, remodeling or landscaping of a dwelling that is the result of one of the following:

  (a) A violation of construction codes applicable to the construction of the dwelling. See Arizona Laws 12-1361

• Construction professional: means an architect, contractor, subcontractor, developer, builder, builder vendor, supplier, engineer or inspector performing or furnishing the design, supervision, inspection, construction or observation of the construction of any improvement to real property. See Arizona Laws 12-1361
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contractor: means an agency or service that duplicates medical records on behalf of health care providers. See Arizona Laws 12-2291
• Corporation: means a corporation for profit, including a domestic corporation organized under the laws of this state or a foreign corporation organized under laws other than the laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 12-559
• Costs of health care: means medical, custodial, rehabilitative and related expenses. See Arizona Laws 12-581
• Council: means the Arizona beef council. See Arizona Laws 3-1231
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• Court: means the court in which jurisdiction over proceedings under this article is vested by the provisions of section 12-1142. See Arizona Laws 12-1141
• court: as used in this article , means the superior courts of the state of Arizona, and venue of the appropriate superior court shall be determined as in any other civil action. See Arizona Laws 12-1516
• Court: means a court of competent jurisdiction in this state. See Arizona Laws 12-3001
• Court reporter: A person who makes a word-for-word record of what is said in court and produces a transcript of the proceedings upon request.
• Crop: means any industrial hemp that is grown under a single industrial hemp license issued by the department. See Arizona Laws 3-311
• Dealer: means any person who sells seed. See Arizona Laws 3-231
• Debt scheduling: means counseling and assistance provided to persons by a qualified debt counseling organization if:

  (a) The counseling and assistance are manifested by a written agreement. See Arizona Laws 12-1598

• Decedent: A deceased person.
• decision: means any decision, order or determination of an administrative agency that is rendered in a case, that affects the legal rights, duties or privileges of persons and that terminates the proceeding before the administrative agency. See Arizona Laws 12-901
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: means any party defending against a claim asserted against him by another party to an action. See Arizona Laws 12-2301
• Defense attorney: Represent defendants in criminal matters.
• Deliver: means any of the following:

  (a) To hand deliver. See Arizona Laws 12-1570

• Deliver: means any of the following:

  (a) To hand deliver. See Arizona Laws 12-1598

• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 12-2291
• Department: means the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-101
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Dependents: includes a payee's spouse and minor children and all other family members and other persons for whom the payee is legally obligated to provide support, including alimony. See Arizona Laws 12-2901
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Direct loan agreement: means an agreement between a lender and a purchaser by which the lender has advanced monies pursuant to a loan secured by a motor vehicle which the purchaser has purchased. See Arizona Laws 12-631
• Discounted present value: means the present value of future payments, as determined by discounting the payments to the present using the most recently published applicable federal rate for determining the present value of an annuity, as issued by the United States internal revenue service. See Arizona Laws 12-2901
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Disposable earnings: means that amount remaining from the gross earnings for a pay period after the deductions required by state and federal law. See Arizona Laws 12-1598
• Dispose: means the transfer of property by its return to the owner, sale, conversion or destruction or by any other means of disposal. See Arizona Laws 12-940
• Distributor: means any person who offers for sale, sells, barters, solicits business or otherwise supplies fertilizer materials. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Division: means the animal services division of the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-1201
• Division: means the environmental services division of the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-231
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Dwelling: means a single or multifamily unit designed for residential use and common areas and improvements that are owned or maintained by an association or by members of an association. See Arizona Laws 12-1361
• Dwelling action: means any action involving a construction defect brought by a purchaser against the seller of a dwelling arising out of or related to the design, construction, condition or sale of the dwelling. See Arizona Laws 12-1361
• Earnings: means compensation paid or payable for personal services, whether these payments are called wages, salary, commission, bonus or otherwise. See Arizona Laws 12-1598
• Economic loss: means pecuniary harm for which damages are recoverable. See Arizona Laws 12-581
• Effective agreement: means an agreement under which no act of termination has occurred. See Arizona Laws 12-1598
• Employee: includes an officer, director, employee or servant, whether or not compensated or part time, who is authorized to perform any act or service, except that employee does not include an independent contractor. See Arizona Laws 12-820
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Equine: means horses, mules, burros and asses. See Arizona Laws 3-1201
• Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. ^{Source: OCC}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Evidence: means property that is held for possible presentation in a judicial or administrative proceeding to establish the truth or falsity of an alleged matter of fact. See Arizona Laws 12-940
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Exemplary damages: means damages which may, in the discretion of the court or jury, be recovered in addition to general and special damages for the sake of example and by way of punishing a defendant who has made the publication or broadcast with actual malice. See Arizona Laws 12-653.01
• Exempt earnings: means those earnings or that portion of earnings which pursuant to state or federal law is not subject to judicial process including garnishment. See Arizona Laws 12-1598
• Expert: means a person who is qualified by knowledge, skill, experience, training or education to express an opinion regarding a licensed professional's standard of care or liability for the claim. See Arizona Laws 12-2601
• Extraordinary emergency services: means :

  (a) The actual and related costs of additional police, fire fighting, public works, paramedic and medical personnel utilized other than those who are normally on duty; and

  (b) The actual costs of rented or leased equipment reasonably needed by the state or political subdivision in responding to the emergency; and

  (c) The actual or replacement costs of chemicals or disposable materials utilized in responding to the emergency; and

  (d) Costs incurred in the evacuation or reasonable temporary housing of persons displaced from their property by the emergency. See Arizona Laws 12-971

• Federal agency: means the United States, the federal emergency administration of public works or any other agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States. See Arizona Laws 12-1141
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Feed lot: means either of the following:

  (a) A beef cattle feed lot, or feed yard, having more than five hundred head of beef cattle at one time during the licensed year. See Arizona Laws 3-1451

• Fertilizer material: means any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used for promoting or stimulating the growth of plants, increasing the productiveness of plants, improving the quality of crops or producing any chemical or physical change in the soil. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Food product: means any product that is grown, prepared, provided, served or sold and that is primarily intended for human consumption and nourishment. See Arizona Laws 12-681
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Foreign country: means a government other than:

  (a) The United States. See Arizona Laws 12-3251

• Foreign judgment: means any judgment, decree, or order of a court of the United States or of any other court which is entitled to full faith and credit in this state. See Arizona Laws 12-1701
• foreign law: means any law, rule or legal code or system other than the constitution, laws and ratified treaties of the United States and the territories of the United States, or the constitution and laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 12-3101
• Foreign-country judgment: means a judgment of a court of a foreign country. See Arizona Laws 12-3251
• Found property: means recovered, lost, surrendered, abandoned or otherwise received property that is turned over to a public agency where the owner may or may not be known and that is not classified as evidence. See Arizona Laws 12-940
• Future damages: means economic loss and noneconomic loss arising from bodily injury that accrues after trial of a claim under this article. See Arizona Laws 12-581
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Good faith: means honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned. See Arizona Laws 12-1570
• Good faith: means honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned. See Arizona Laws 12-1598
• Governmental entity: means a county, municipality, school district, chartered unit or subdivision, a governmental unit or other special district or similar entity or any association, authority, board, commission, division, office, officer, task force or other agency of this state. See Arizona Laws 12-981
• Grade: means the percentage of total nitrogen, available phosphate or soluble potash stated in whole numbers in the same terms, order and percentages as in the guaranteed analysis. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Grantee: includes every person to whom an estate or interest in real property passes, in or by a deed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Gross advance amount: means the sum payable to the payee or for the payee's account as consideration for a transfer of structured settlement payment rights before any reductions for transfer expenses or other deductions to be made from the consideration. See Arizona Laws 12-2901
• Grower: means an individual, partnership, company or corporation that propagates industrial hemp under this article and rules and orders adopted by the director pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 3-311
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
• Harvester: means an individual, partnership, company or corporation that is licensed by the department to harvest industrial hemp for a licensed grower. See Arizona Laws 3-311
• Hazardous waste: means any material that is subject to the hazardous waste manifest of the department of health services or the United States environmental protection agency. See Arizona Laws 12-971
• Health care decision maker: means an individual who is authorized to make health care treatment decisions for the patient, including a parent of a minor or an individual who is authorized pursuant to Section 8-514. See Arizona Laws 12-2291
• Health care decision maker: means a person who is authorized to make health care treatment decisions for the patient, including a parent of a minor and a person who is authorized to make these decisions pursuant to Title 14, Chapter 5, Article 2 or 3 or Section 8-514. See Arizona Laws 12-2801
• Health care provider: means :

  (a) A person who is licensed pursuant to title 32 and who maintains medical records. See Arizona Laws 12-2291

• Health care provider: means physicians licensed pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 13, 14 or 17, physician assistants licensed pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 25, registered nurse practitioners licensed pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 15, health care institutions as defined in section 36-401 and clinical laboratories licensed pursuant to title 36, chapter 4. See Arizona Laws 12-2801
• Health or safety law: means a federal, state or local statute, rule, regulation or ordinance, or a permit issued under a federal, state or local statute, rule, regulation or ordinance, that relates to occupational health, health or safety. See Arizona Laws 12-2321
• Hemp products: means all products made from industrial hemp, including cloth, cordage, fiber, fuel, grain, paint, paper, construction materials, plastics and by-products derived from sterile hemp seed or hemp seed oil. See Arizona Laws 3-311
• Hemp seed: means any viable cannabis sativa L. See Arizona Laws 3-311
• Hospital: means a health care facility, whether organized for profit or not, which provides medical services, nursing services, health screening services, other health-related services or supervisory care services. See Arizona Laws 12-981
• Immigration or naturalization matter: includes all matters implicating any law, action, filing or proceeding related to a person's immigration or citizenship status in the United States. See Arizona Laws 12-2701
• Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Independent professional advice: means the advice of an attorney, certified public accountant, actuary or other licensed professional adviser. See Arizona Laws 12-2901
• Industrial hemp: means the plant cannabis sativa L. See Arizona Laws 3-311
• Industrial hemp site: means the location in which a grower, harvester, transporter or processor possesses a crop, a harvested crop or hemp seed. See Arizona Laws 3-311
• Injury: means death, injury to a person, damage to or loss of property or any other injury that a person may suffer that would be actionable if inflicted by a private person. See Arizona Laws 12-820
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• 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}
• Interested parties: means , with respect to any structured settlement, the payee, any beneficiary irrevocably designated under the annuity contract to receive payments following the payee's death, the annuity issuer, the structured settlement obligor and any other party that has continuing rights or obligations under the structured settlement. See Arizona Laws 12-2901
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Judgment creditor: means a person or entity that has a money judgment or an order for support of a person that is due and unpaid or an order pursuant to chapter 14 of this title allowing him to garnish monies, personal property or shares of stock before final judgment on the underlying action. See Arizona Laws 12-1570
• Judgment creditor: means a party who has a money judgment or an order for support of a person that is due and unpaid. See Arizona Laws 12-1598
• Judgment debtor: means a person or entity against which a money judgment has been awarded or against which an order for support of a person is due and unpaid or against which an order pursuant to chapter 14 of this title has been entered. See Arizona Laws 12-1570
• Judgment debtor: means a party against whom a money judgment or order for support of a person has been awarded. See Arizona Laws 12-1598
• Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
• Juror: A person who is on the jury.
• Kind: means one or more related species or subspecies which singly or collectively are known by one common name, such as corn, oats, alfalfa and timothy. See Arizona Laws 3-231
• Knowledge: means actual knowledge. See Arizona Laws 12-3001
• Label: means any label or other written, printed or graphic representations, in any form whatsoever, accompanying or pertaining to any seed whether in bulk or in containers and includes representations or invoices. See Arizona Laws 3-231
• Labeler: means any person whose name and address appear on the label pertaining to or attached to a lot or container of agricultural, vegetable or ornamental plant seed sold, offered for sale, exposed for sale or transported for sowing purposes. See Arizona Laws 3-231
• land: means all lands, including improvements and fixtures thereon, lands under water, all easements and hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, and every estate, interest and right, legal or equitable, in lands or water, and all rights, interests, privileges, easements, encumbrances and franchises relating thereto, including terms for years and liens of judgment, mortgage or otherwise. See Arizona Laws 12-1141
• Land use law: means any statute, rule, ordinance, resolution or law enacted by this state or a political subdivision of this state that regulates the use or division of land or any interest in land or that regulates accepted farming or forestry practices. See Arizona Laws 12-1136
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• Lease contract: means a contract for or in contemplation of the lease for the use of a motor vehicle, and the purchase of services incidental to the lease, by a natural person for a term exceeding four months primarily for personal, family, household, business or commercial purposes, whether or not it is agreed that the lessee bears the risk of the motor vehicle's depreciation. See Arizona Laws 12-631
• Lessee: includes a bailee and means a natural person who leases, offers to lease or is offered the lease of a motor vehicle under a lease contract. See Arizona Laws 12-631
• Lessor: includes a bailor and means a person who is engaged in the business of leasing, offering to lease or arranging the lease of a motor vehicle under a lease contract. See Arizona Laws 12-631
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: means an Arizona state seed license that is obtained from the department. See Arizona Laws 3-231
• License: means the authorization that is granted by the department to propagate, harvest, transport or process industrial hemp in this state under this article and rules and orders adopted by the director pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 3-311
• Licensed health care provider: means both:

  (a) A person, corporation or institution licensed or certified by the state to provide health care, medical services, nursing services or other health-related services and includes the officers, employees and agents thereof working under the supervision of such person, corporation or institution in providing such health care, medical services, nursing services or other health-related services. See Arizona Laws 12-561

• Licensed professional: means a person, corporation, professional corporation, partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership or other entity that is licensed by this state to practice a profession or occupation under title 20 or 32 or that is admitted to the state bar. See Arizona Laws 12-2601
• Licensee: means a grower, harvester, transporter or processor with a valid license. See Arizona Laws 3-311
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Livestock: means cattle, equine, sheep, goats and swine, except feral pigs. See Arizona Laws 3-1201
• Livestock officer: means an animal health and welfare officer, animal health and welfare inspector or investigator employed by the department. See Arizona Laws 3-1201
• Lot: means a definite quantity of seed identified by a lot number or other mark, every portion or bag of which is uniform within recognized tolerances for the factors which appear in the labeling. See Arizona Laws 3-231
• Maintenance: means the establishment or continuation in existence of facilities, highways, roads, streets, bridges or rights-of-way by a public entity and does not mean or refer to ordinary repair or upkeep. See Arizona Laws 12-820
• Manufacture: means to compound, produce, granulate, mix, blend or alter the composition of fertilizer materials. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Manufacturer: means a person or entity that designs, assembles, fabricates, produces, constructs or otherwise prepares a product or component part of a product before its sale to a user or consumer, including a seller owned in whole or significant part by the manufacturer or a seller owning the manufacturer in whole or significant part. See Arizona Laws 12-681
• Material deficiency: means a deficiency that actually impairs the structural integrity, the functionality or the appearance of the dwelling at the time of the claim, or is reasonably likely to actually impair the structural integrity, the functionality or the appearance of the dwelling in the foreseeable future if not repaired or replaced. See Arizona Laws 12-1361
• Medical care and treatment: includes hospital, medical, psychological, surgical and dental care, ambulance services, prostheses, medical appliances and supplies, pharmaceutical supplies, occupational therapy and physical therapy. See Arizona Laws 12-961
• Medical records: means all communications related to a patient's physical or mental health or condition that are recorded in any form or medium and that are maintained for purposes of patient diagnosis or treatment, including medical records that are prepared by a health care provider or by other providers. See Arizona Laws 12-2291
• Monies: includes cash, credit and accounts, but does not include earnings as defined in section 12-1598, paragraph 4. See Arizona Laws 12-1570
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• Motion picture film: means any film or plate negative, film or plate positive, film or tape designed to be projected on a screen for exhibition, or films, glass slides or transparencies, either in negative or positive form, designed for exhibition by projection on a screen. See Arizona Laws 12-811
• Motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle which is required to be registered under Title 28, Chapter 7. See Arizona Laws 12-631
• Net advance amount: means the gross advance amount less the aggregate amount of the actual and estimated transfer expenses required to be disclosed under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 12-2901
• newspaper: means any publication which may be mailed at the second-class rates established by the United States post office. See Arizona Laws 12-653.01
• Noneconomic loss: means nonpecuniary harm for which damages are recoverable but does not include punitive or exemplary damages. See Arizona Laws 12-581
• Nonexempt earnings: means those earnings or that portion of earnings which is subject to judicial process including garnishment. See Arizona Laws 12-1598
• Nonprofit corporation: means a corporation that is exempt from taxation pursuant to section 501(a) of the internal revenue code. See Arizona Laws 12-981
• Nonprofit organization: means an organization that is exempt from taxation pursuant to section 501(c) of the internal revenue code. See Arizona Laws 12-981
• Nuisance: means any place for the sale or exhibition of obscene motion picture films or pictorial publications. See Arizona Laws 12-811
• Obscene motion picture film or obscene pictorial publication: means any motion picture, film, video reproduction or pictorial publication which would constitute an obscene item as defined in section 13-3501. See Arizona Laws 12-811
• Official sample: means any sample of fertilizer materials taken by the associate director or the associate director's agent and designated as official by the associate director. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Operator: means the owner or the person having charge or control of a feed lot. See Arizona Laws 3-1451
• Organization: means a public or private company, corporation, political subdivision organized under title 48 of this code, firm, enterprise or institution, or any part or combination of these entities, whether incorporated or not, that has its own functions and administration. See Arizona Laws 12-2321
• Original document: means any document of the United States government or any department or agency of the United States government, any foreign government, any state government or any political subdivision of any state, any United Nations document or any other document, including signed affidavits, that would demonstrate physical presence by a person in the United States. See Arizona Laws 12-2701
• Ornamental plant seed: means the seed of any plant used for decorative or ornamental purposes and includes flower seed. See Arizona Laws 3-231
• Owner: means the holder of fee title to the subject real property. See Arizona Laws 12-1136
• Party: means any plaintiff or defendant in any civil action, in any superior or justice court of this state. See Arizona Laws 12-2401
• Past damages: means economic loss and noneconomic loss arising from bodily injury that have accrued before a claim is tried under this article, including punitive or exemplary damages. See Arizona Laws 12-581
• Payday: means the fixed, regular day for payment of wages designated by an employer pursuant to section 23-351. See Arizona Laws 12-1598
• Payee: means an individual who receives tax-free damage payments under a structured settlement and who proposes to make a transfer of payment rights under the structured settlement. See Arizona Laws 12-2901
• Payment records: means all communications related to payment for a patient's health care that contain individually identifiable information. See Arizona Laws 12-2291
• percentage: means the percentage by weight. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Periodic payments: includes both recurring payments and scheduled future lump sum payments. See Arizona Laws 12-2901
• Person: means individuals, corporations, associations, partnerships, trustees, lessees, agents and assignees. See Arizona Laws 12-801
• Person: means any individual, association, partnership, corporation, trustee, lessee, agent or assignee. See Arizona Laws 12-811
• Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, trust, association, cooperative association and any other business unit or organization. See Arizona Laws 3-1231
• Person: means an individual, a corporation, a group of individuals, joint venturers, a partnership, or any other business entity. See Arizona Laws 3-1451
• Person: means an individual, employee, officer, managing body, trust, firm, joint stock company, consortium, public or private corporation, including a government corporation, partnership, association, state, political subdivision of this state or commission or the United States government, a federal facility, an interstate body or any other entity. See Arizona Laws 12-2321
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, company, society or association. See Arizona Laws 3-231
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality or public corporation or any other legal or commercial entity. See Arizona Laws 12-3001
• Person: includes individual, partnership, association, firm or corporation. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: means all property and interests to which a security interest may be perfected pursuant to Title 47, Chapter 9, except accounts. See Arizona Laws 12-1570
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Pictorial publication: means any book, magazine or pamphlet containing one or more drawings, pictures, photographs or illustrations. See Arizona Laws 12-811
• Place: means any building, enclosure or any separate part or portion thereof whether permanent or not or the ground itself. See Arizona Laws 12-811
• Plaintiff: means the person by whom proceedings for acquisition of real property, as defined in this article, are instituted pursuant to the provisions of section 12-1142. See Arizona Laws 12-1141
• Plaintiff: means any party asserting a claim for damages against another party to an action. See Arizona Laws 12-2301
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Poultry: means any domesticated bird, whether live or dead, and includes chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, guineas, ratites and squabs. See Arizona Laws 3-1201
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Primary plant nutrient: means total nitrogen, available phosphate or soluble potash. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Prisoner: means a person incarcerated while awaiting sentence or while serving a sentence imposed by a court of law. See Arizona Laws 12-820
• Private way of necessity: as used in this article means right of way on, over, across, or through the land of another for means of ingress and egress, and the construction and maintenance thereon of roads, overhead transmission lines, pole lines, power lines, canals, ditches, flumes, shafts, tunnels, pipe lines, drains, including, but not limited to, embankments, diversion dams, dikes, ditches, canals, flumes and levees for the purpose of removing water from land or preventing accumulation of water on land, and tramways, including, but not limited to, aerial tramways and industrial railroads, for mining, milling, lumbering, agricultural, domestic or sanitary purposes. See Arizona Laws 12-1201
• Pro se: A Latin term meaning "on one's own behalf"; in courts, it refers to persons who present their own cases without lawyers.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
• Processor: means an individual, partnership, company or corporation that is licensed by the department to receive industrial hemp for processing into hemp products or hemp seed. See Arizona Laws 3-311
• Producer: means a person who owns or acquires ownership of cattle. See Arizona Laws 3-1231
• Product: means the individual product or any component part of the product that is the subject of a product liability action. See Arizona Laws 12-681
• Product liability action: means any action brought against a manufacturer or seller of a product for damages for bodily injury, death or property damage caused by or resulting from the manufacture, construction, design, formula, installation, preparation, assembly, testing, packaging, labeling, sale, use or consumption of any product, the failure to warn or protect against a danger or hazard in the use or misuse of the product or the failure to provide proper instructions for the use or consumption of any product. See Arizona Laws 12-681
• Product safety analysis or review: means any investigation, inquiry, review, evaluation or other means by which a person or entity seeks to determine, calculate, predict, estimate, evaluate or report the safety or health effects of the use of any of its products, systems, services or processes. See Arizona Laws 12-681
• Property: means any item, including currency, that is held for safekeeping or as evidence or found property or that has been abandoned, unclaimed or awarded by the court. See Arizona Laws 12-940
• Property: means any present or future interest in wages, real estate, goods, chattels or choses in action whether such interest is vested or contingent. See Arizona Laws 12-2401
• property damage: means both physical damage to tangible property and economic loss proximately caused by a breach of duty. See Arizona Laws 12-2501
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Provisional remedy: means the remedies of attachment, garnishment or replevin, but shall not include garnishment of wages. See Arizona Laws 12-2401
• Public employee: means an employee of a public entity. See Arizona Laws 12-820
• Public entity: includes this state and any political subdivision of this state. See Arizona Laws 12-820
• Public works project: means a work or undertaking which is financed in whole or in part by a federal agency, as defined in this article, or by a state public body, as defined in this article. See Arizona Laws 12-1141
• Purchaser: means any person or entity who files a dwelling action. See Arizona Laws 12-1361
• Qualified assignment agreement: means an agreement that provides for a qualified assignment within the meaning of section 130 of the internal revenue code as defined by section 42-1001. See Arizona Laws 12-2901
• Qualified debt counseling organization: means a nonprofit corporation authorized to do business in this state for the purpose of counseling persons with respect to their financial obligations and assisting them in dealing with their creditors. See Arizona Laws 12-1598
• Qualified insurer: means an insurer, self-insurer, plan or arrangement approved by the director of the department of insurance and financial institutions. See Arizona Laws 12-581
• Range: means every character of lands, enclosed or unenclosed, outside of cities and towns, upon which livestock is permitted by custom, license or permit to roam and feed. See Arizona Laws 3-1201
• Range livestock: means livestock customarily permitted to roam upon the ranges of the state, whether public domain or in private control, and not in the immediate actual possession or control of the owner although occasionally placed in enclosures for temporary purposes. See Arizona Laws 3-1201
• Ratite: means ostriches, emus, rheas and cassowaries. See Arizona Laws 3-1201
• Real property: includes mines and mining claims. See Arizona Laws 12-521
• Reasonable remedial measures: means actions taken as a result of a product safety analysis or review and intended to improve the safety of products, systems, services or processes or to lessen the likelihood of a safety-related accident. See Arizona Laws 12-681
• Receipt: means actually received. See Arizona Laws 12-1570
• Receipt: means actually received. See Arizona Laws 12-1598
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and that is retrievable in perceivable form. See Arizona Laws 12-3001
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Registered mail: includes certified mail. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• registered seed: means seed that has been produced and labeled in accordance with the procedures and in compliance with the rules and regulations of an officially recognized seed-certifying agency. See Arizona Laws 3-231
• Regulated facility or operation: means a facility or operation that is regulated under a health or safety law. See Arizona Laws 12-2321
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Renovation: means the repair, remodeling, alteration or expansion of existing buildings or structures to make them habitable or suitable for program operations. See Arizona Laws 12-299
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Responsible administrative authority: means , with respect to a structured settlement, any government authority that is vested by law with exclusive jurisdiction over the settled claim that is resolved by the structured settlement. See Arizona Laws 12-2901
• Safekeeping: means storage of an asset or item of value by a public agency that is not classified as evidence and that belongs to a known individual. See Arizona Laws 12-940
• sale: includes exchange. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Sell: means offer for sale, expose for sale, possess for sale, exchange, barter or trade. See Arizona Laws 3-231
• Seller: means a person engaged in the business of selling or leasing motor vehicles under a retail installment contract. See Arizona Laws 12-631
• Seller: means a person or entity, including a wholesaler, distributor, retailer or lessor, that is engaged in the business of leasing any product or selling any product for resale, use or consumption. See Arizona Laws 12-681
• Seller: means any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association or other organization that is engaged in the business of designing, constructing or selling dwellings, including construction professionals. See Arizona Laws 12-1361
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Settled claim: means the original tort claim or workers' compensation claim that is resolved by a structured settlement. See Arizona Laws 12-2901
• Source data: means information that is summarized, interpreted or reported in the medical record, including x-rays and other diagnostic images. See Arizona Laws 12-2291
• Special damages: means all damages which the plaintiff alleges and proves he has suffered in respect only to his property, business, trade, profession or occupation. See Arizona Laws 12-653.01
• State: means this state and any state agency, board, commission or department. See Arizona Laws 12-820
• State of the art: means the technical, mechanical and scientific knowledge of manufacturing, designing, testing or labeling the same or similar products that was in existence and reasonably feasible for use at the time of manufacture. See Arizona Laws 12-681
• State public body: means the state or a county, city, town, municipal corporation, authority or any other subdivision, agency or instrumentality thereof, corporate or otherwise. See Arizona Laws 12-1141
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Stray animal: as used in this article means livestock, bison or ratites whose owner is unknown or cannot be located, or any such animal whose owner is known but permits the animal to roam at large on the streets, alleys, roads, range or premises of another without permission, except that this section does not apply to livestock where the principles of a federal permit, federal allotment or federal lease are in dispute. See Arizona Laws 3-1401
• Structured settlement: means an arrangement for periodic payment of damages for personal injuries or sickness that is established by settlement or judgment in resolution of a tort claim or for periodic payments in settlement of a workers' compensation claim. See Arizona Laws 12-2901
• Structured settlement agreement: means the agreement, judgment, stipulation or release that embodies the terms of a structured settlement. See Arizona Laws 12-2901
• Structured settlement obligor: means , with respect to any structured settlement, the party that has the continuing periodic payment obligation to the payee under a structured settlement agreement or a qualified assignment agreement. See Arizona Laws 12-2901
• Structured settlement payment rights: means the right to receive periodic payments under a structured settlement, whether from the settlement obligor or the annuity issuer, if any of the following apply:

  (a) The payee, the structured settlement obligor, the annuity issuer or any other interested party is domiciled in this state. See Arizona Laws 12-2901

• Successor: means a corporation that assumes or incurs or has assumed or incurred successor asbestos-related liabilities, that is a successor and that became a successor before January 1, 1972 or is any of that successor corporation's successors. See Arizona Laws 12-559
• Successor asbestos-related liabilities: means any liabilities, whether known or unknown, asserted or unasserted, absolute or contingent, accrued or nonaccrued, liquidated or nonliquidated or due or to become due, that are related in any way to asbestos claims and that were assumed or incurred by a corporation as a result of or in connection with a merger or consolidation, or the plan of merger or consolidation related to the merger or consolidation with or into another corporation, or that are related in any way to asbestos claims based on the exercise of control or the ownership of stock of the corporation before the merger or consolidation. See Arizona Laws 12-559
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• 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.
• Terms of the structured settlement: include , with respect to any structured settlement, the terms of the structured settlement agreement, the annuity contract, any qualified assignment agreement and any order or other approval of any court or responsible administrative authority or other government authority that authorized or approved the structured settlement. See Arizona Laws 12-2901
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testify: includes every manner of oral statement under oath or affirmation. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Third person: includes any governmental entity, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, society and a natural person. See Arizona Laws 12-961
• Ton: means a net weight of two thousand pounds avoirdupois. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• 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.
• Transfer: means any sale, assignment, pledge, hypothecation or other form of alienation or encumbrance of structured settlement payment rights. See Arizona Laws 12-2901
• Transfer agreement: means the agreement that provides for transfer of structured settlement payment rights from a payee to a transferee. See Arizona Laws 12-2901
• Transfer expenses: means all expenses of a transfer required under the transfer agreement to be paid by the payee or deducted from the gross advance amount, including court filing fees, attorney fees, escrow fees, lien recordation fees, judgment and lien search fees, finders' fees, commissions and other payments to a broker or other intermediary. See Arizona Laws 12-2901
• Transferee: means a party acquiring or proposing to acquire structured settlement payment rights through a transfer. See Arizona Laws 12-2901
• Transferor: means a corporation from which successor asbestos-related liabilities are or were assumed or incurred. See Arizona Laws 12-559
• Transporter: means an individual, partnership, company or corporation that is licensed by the department to transport industrial hemp for a licensed grower to a processor. See Arizona Laws 3-311
• Treated: means that the seed has received an application of a substance or process that is designed to reduce, control or repel certain disease organisms, insects or other pests attacking such seeds or seedlings growing from the seeds. See Arizona Laws 3-231
• Type: means either a group of varieties so similar that the individual varieties cannot be clearly differentiated except under special conditions or, when used with a variety name, seed of the variety named which may be mixed with seed of other varieties of the same kind and of similar character. See Arizona Laws 3-231
• Unauthorized practice of immigration and nationality law: means :

  (a) The act of any person appearing in any case, either in person or through preparation or filing of any brief or other document, paper, application or petition on behalf of another person or client before or with the immigration and naturalization service, or any officer of the immigration and naturalization service, the executive office for immigration review or the board of immigration appeals, without authorization under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 12-2701

• Variety: means a subdivision of a kind characterized by growth, yield, plant, fruit, seed or other characteristics by which it can be differentiated from other plants of the same kind. See Arizona Laws 3-231
• Vegetable seeds: means seeds of those crops which are grown in gardens and on truck farms and are generally known and sold under the name of vegetable seeds in this state. See Arizona Laws 3-231
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Victim advocate: work with prosecutors and assist the victims of a crime.
• Volunteer: means a person who performs services for a nonprofit corporation or nonprofit organization, hospital or governmental entity without compensation other than reimbursement of actual expenses incurred. See Arizona Laws 12-981
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Writ: means an order or precept in writing issued in the name of the state or by a court or judicial officer. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.