Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 41 > Chapter 1 > Article 3 - Address Confidentiality Program

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Actual address: means a residential, work or school address as specified on the individual's application to be a program participant and includes the county and voting precinct number. See Arizona Laws 41-161
• Address confidentiality program: means the program established pursuant to this article in the office of the secretary of state to protect the confidentiality of the actual address of a relocated victim of domestic violence, a sexual offense or stalking. See Arizona Laws 41-161
• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Applicant: means an individual identified as such in an application received by the secretary of state pursuant to section 41-163. See Arizona Laws 41-161
• Application assistant: means a person designated by the secretary of state to assist an applicant in the preparation of an application to participate in the address confidentiality program. See Arizona Laws 41-161
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• 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.
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Minor: means a person under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Program participant: means an individual accepted into the address confidentiality program. See Arizona Laws 41-161
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Public record: means all documents, papers, letters, maps, books, photographs, films, sound recordings, magnetic or other tapes, digital data, artifacts or other documentary material, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received pursuant to law or ordinance in connection with the transaction of public business by a state or local government entity. See Arizona Laws 41-161
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Registered mail: includes certified mail. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Sexual offense: means an offense included in Title 13, Chapter 14 or 35. See Arizona Laws 41-161
• Stalking: means an offense prescribed in section 13-2923. See Arizona Laws 41-161
• State or local government entity: means every elected or appointed state or local public office, public officer or official, board, commission, bureau, committee, council, department, authority, agency, institution of higher education or other unit of the executive, legislative or judicial branch of this state or any city, town, county, public school or other kind of municipal, quasi-municipal or public corporation but does not include an agricultural improvement district. See Arizona Laws 41-161
• Substitute address: means an address that is designated by the secretary of state under the address confidentiality program and that is used instead of an actual address. See Arizona Laws 41-161
• 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.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215