Sections
Article 1 General Procedures for Delinquency and Incorrigibility Proceedings 8-301 – 8-309
Article 2 Delinquency and Alcohol Offense Complaints and Hearings 8-321 – 8-328
Article 3 Disposition and Commitment 8-341 – 8-350.02
Article 4 Juvenile Intensive Probation 8-351 – 8-358
Article 5 Interstate Compact for Juveniles 8-361 – 8-365
Article 6 Educational Rehabilitation 8-371
Article 7 Victims’ Rights for Juvenile Offenses 8-381 – 8-422

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Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 8 > Chapter 3 - Juvenile Offenders

  • Abandoned vehicle: means a vehicle, trailer or semitrailer that is of a type subject to registration under this title whether lost, stolen, abandoned or otherwise unclaimed and that has been abandoned on a public highway, public property or elsewhere in this state, including private property. See Arizona Laws 28-4801
  • Abuse: means the infliction or allowing of physical injury, impairment of bodily function or disfigurement or the infliction of or allowing another person to cause serious emotional damage as evidenced by severe anxiety, depression, withdrawal or untoward aggressive behavior and which emotional damage is diagnosed by a medical doctor or psychologist and is caused by the acts or omissions of an individual who has the care, custody and control of a child. See Arizona Laws 8-201
  • Access road: means a multiple use corridor that meets all of the following criteria:

    (a) Is maintained for travel by two-wheel vehicles. See Arizona Laws 28-1171

  • Accused: means a juvenile who is referred to juvenile court for committing a delinquent act. See Arizona Laws 8-382
  • Acquittal:
    1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
    2. A verdict of "not guilty."
     
  • Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
  • Adjusted gross event wagering receipts: means an event wagering operator's gross wagering receipts, excluding voided bets, minus winnings paid to authorized participants and any federal excise tax. See Arizona Laws 5-1301
  • Adult: means a person who is eighteen years of age or older. See Arizona Laws 8-201
  • advertisement: means any message in any medium that offers or solicits any person to engage in sexual conduct in this state. See Arizona Laws 13-3551
  • Advisory board: means the advisory board of the sports authority. See Arizona Laws 5-1101
  • Advisory board: means the advisory board of the authority. See Arizona Laws 5-1401
  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • Agent: means a director, officer, employee or other person who is authorized to act on behalf of a business entity. See Arizona Laws 28-1221
  • Air quality measures: means paving unpaved roads and procuring street sweepers to help meet the requirements of the clean air act as defined in Section 49-401. See Arizona Laws 28-6301
  • Alcohol: means any substance containing any form of alcohol, including ethanol, methanol, propynol and isopropynol. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • All-terrain vehicle: means either of the following:

    (a) A motor vehicle that satisfies all of the following:

    (i) Is designed primarily for recreational nonhighway all-terrain travel. See Arizona Laws 28-101

  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • Alternative fuel: means :

    (a) Electricity. See Arizona Laws 1-215

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • 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.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Applicant: means any person that has applied for a license as a fantasy sports contest operator or that has been approved for any act related to fantasy sports contests. See Arizona Laws 5-1201
  • Application: means a request to issue a license as a fantasy sports contest operator or to approve any act related to fantasy sports contests. See Arizona Laws 5-1201
  • 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
  • Area of responsibility: means the area surrounding an individual dealer that the factory designates as that dealer's individual primary geographic territory for the purpose of marketing, promoting, selling and leasing new motor vehicles. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Arrest: means the actual custodial restraint or temporary custody of a person. See Arizona Laws 8-382
  • 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 3-361
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Attorney for the state: means an attorney designated by the attorney general, by a county attorney or by a city attorney to investigate, commence and prosecute an action under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 13-4301
  • Authority: means the tourism and sports authority. See Arizona Laws 5-801
  • Authority: means a sports authority established pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 5-1101
  • Authority: means the southern Arizona sports, tourism and film authority. See Arizona Laws 5-1401
  • Authority board: means the governing board of the sports authority. See Arizona Laws 5-1101
  • Authorized emergency vehicle: means any of the following:

    (a) A fire department vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101

  • Authorized Integrator: means a third party with whom a dealer enters into a contractual relationship to perform a specific function for a dealer that allows the third party to access protected dealer data or to write data to a dealer data system, or both, to carry out the specified function. See Arizona Laws 28-4651
  • Authorized third party: means an entity that has executed a written agreement and is authorized by the department to perform limited or specific functions but is not authorized by the department to function as an authorized third party electronic service provider. See Arizona Laws 28-5100
  • Authorized third party electronic service partner: means an entity that has been awarded a written agreement with the department pursuant to a competitive bid process to provide electronic transmission services and that may be authorized by the director to develop and implement information technology and other automated systems and to provide any necessary ongoing support for these systems. See Arizona Laws 28-5100
  • Authorized third party electronic service provider: means an entity that has executed a written agreement with the department and is authorized by the department to provide electronic transmission services between the department, private citizens, other government agencies and public and private entities in this state or in any other state, territory or country. See Arizona Laws 28-5100
  • Autocycle: means a three-wheeled motorcycle on which the driver and passengers ride in a fully or partially enclosed seating area that is equipped with a roll cage, safety belts for each occupant and antilock brakes and that is designed to be controlled with a steering wheel and pedals. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Automated driving system: means the hardware and software that are collectively capable of performing the entire dynamic driving task on a sustained basis, regardless of whether it is limited to a specific operational design domain. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Automotive recycler: means a person that is engaged in the business of buying or acquiring a motor vehicle solely for the purpose of dismantling, selling or otherwise disposing of the parts or accessories and that removes parts for resale from six or more vehicles in a calendar year. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Autonomous vehicle: means a motor vehicle that is equipped with an automated driving system. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Aviation fuel: means all flammable liquids composed of a mixture of selected hydrocarbons expressly manufactured and blended for the purpose of effectively and efficiently operating an internal combustion engine for use in an aircraft but does not include fuel for jet or turbine powered aircraft. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
  • Bank: means a corporation that holds a banking permit issued pursuant to chapter 2 of this title. See Arizona Laws 6-101
  • Banking office: means any place of business of the bank at which deposits are received, checks are paid or money is loaned but does not include the premises used for computer operations, proofing, record keeping, accounting, storage, maintenance or other administrative or service functions. See Arizona Laws 6-101
  • 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
  • Benefit: means anything of value or advantage, present or prospective. See Arizona Laws 13-105
  • Bicycle: means a device, including a racing wheelchair, that is propelled by human power and on which a person may ride and that has either:

    (a) Two tandem wheels, either of which is more than sixteen inches in diameter. See Arizona Laws 28-101

  • Board: means the board of directors of the authority. See Arizona Laws 5-801
  • Board: means the board of directors of the authority. See Arizona Laws 5-1401
  • Board: means the transportation board. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Board of directors: means the county board of supervisors serving as the board of directors of the district. See Arizona Laws 5-1101
  • bona fide consumer use: means actual operation by an owner who acquired a new motor vehicle both:

    (a) For use in the owner's business or for pleasure or otherwise. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

  • Bond: means any obligation authorized and issued pursuant to this article, including:

    (a) Bonds and notes. See Arizona Laws 5-1161

  • Bond: means any obligation authorized and issued pursuant to this article, including:

    (a) Bonds and notes. See Arizona Laws 5-1461

  • Bond related expenses: means any expenses incurred by the authority to issue and administer its bonds including underwriting fees and costs, trustee fees, financial consultant fees, printing and advertising costs, paying agent fees, transfer agent fees, legal, accounting, feasibility consultant and other professional fees and expenses, credit enhancement fees, attorney and accounting fees and expenses related to credit enhancement, bond insurance or liquidity enhancement, remarketing fees, rating agency fees and costs, travel and telephone expenses and all other fees considered necessary by the authority in order to market and administer the bonds. See Arizona Laws 5-861
  • Bond-related expenses: means :

    (a) Printing, publication or advertising expenses with respect to the sale and issuance of any bonds. See Arizona Laws 28-6301

  • Bond-related expenses: means any expenses incurred by the authority for issuing and administering its bonds, including underwriting fees and costs, trustee fees, financial consultant fees, printing and advertising costs, paying agent fees, transfer agent fees, legal fees, accounting fees, feasibility consultant and other professional fees and expenses, credit enhancement fees and expenses related to credit enhancement, bond insurance or liquidity enhancement, remarketing fees, rating agency fees and costs, travel and telephone expenses and all other fees considered necessary by the board in order to market and administer the bonds. See Arizona Laws 5-1461
  • Bonds: means any bonds that are payable from the regional area road fund as provided in chapter 21, article 2 of this title. See Arizona Laws 28-6301
  • Bonds: means any bonds that are payable from the state highway fund as provided in chapter 21, article 1 of this title. See Arizona Laws 28-6531
  • Bonds: means the bonds of the authority issued pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 5-861
  • Branch: means any banking office other than the principal banking office. See Arizona Laws 6-101
  • Branch license: means a license that is issued by the director to a licensed motor vehicle dealer and that permits the licensee to sell motor vehicles from an established place of business within the same county but other than the original or principal place of business for which the license was issued. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • Bribe: means anything of value or advantage, present or prospective, asked, offered, given, accepted or promised with a corrupt intent to influence, unlawfully, the person to whom it is given in that person's action, vote or opinion, in any public or official capacity. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Broker: means a person who for any fee, commission or other valuable consideration offers to provide, provides or represents that the person will provide a service of arranging or assisting in effecting the purchase of a motor vehicle and who is not:

    (a) A new motor vehicle dealer or an employee or agent of a new motor vehicle dealer. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

  • Bulk plant: means a motor fuel storage and distribution facility that is not a terminal and from which motor fuel may be removed at a rack. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Bulk transfer: means any transfer of motor fuel from one location to another by pipeline tender or marine delivery within the bulk transfer terminal system. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Bulk transfer terminal system: means the motor fuel distribution system consisting of refineries, pipelines, marine vessels and terminals. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Bus: means a motor vehicle designed for carrying sixteen or more passengers, including the driver. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Business entity: means a legal entity, including a corporation, partnership or sole proprietorship. See Arizona Laws 28-1221
  • Cancellation: means the annulment or termination of a driver license because of an error or defect or because the licensee is no longer entitled to the license. See Arizona Laws 28-3001
  • Cargo: means commercial or industrial items but does not include personal items such as luggage and camping equipment. See Arizona Laws 28-4531
  • Certificate of ownership: means a paper or an electronic record that is issued in another state or a foreign jurisdiction and that indicates ownership of a vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Certificate of title: means a paper document or an electronic record that is issued by the department and that indicates ownership of a vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Certified ignition interlock device: means an ignition interlock device that is certified pursuant to article 5 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 28-1301
  • Chambers: A judge's office.
  • Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
  • circumvention: means an attempted or successful bypass of the proper functioning of a certified ignition interlock device and includes all of the following:

    (a) The bump start of a motor vehicle with a certified ignition interlock device. See Arizona Laws 28-1301

  • Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
  • Closed course: means a maintained facility that uses department approved dust abatement and fire abatement measures. See Arizona Laws 28-1171
  • Combination of vehicles: means a truck or truck tractor and semitrailer and any trailer that it tows but does not include a forklift designed for the purpose of loading or unloading the truck, trailer or semitrailer. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Commercial driver license: means a license that is issued to an individual and that authorizes the individual to operate a class of commercial motor vehicles. See Arizona Laws 28-3001
  • Commercial motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle or combination of vehicles that is designed, used or maintained to transport passengers or property in the furtherance of a commercial enterprise, that is a commercial motor vehicle as defined in section 28-5201 and that is not exempt from gross weight fees as prescribed in section 28-5432, subsection B. See Arizona Laws 28-601
  • Commercial motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles used to transport passengers or property if the motor vehicle either:

    (a) Has a gross combined weight rating of twenty-six thousand one or more pounds inclusive of a towed unit with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than ten thousand pounds. See Arizona Laws 28-1301

  • Commercial motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles that is used in commerce to transport passengers or property and that includes any of the following:

    (a) A motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles that has a gross combined weight rating of twenty-six thousand one or more pounds inclusive of a towed unit with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than ten thousand pounds. See Arizona Laws 28-3001

  • Commercial motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles that is designed, used or maintained to transport passengers or property in the furtherance of a commercial enterprise on a highway in this state, that is not exempt from the gross weight fees as prescribed in section 28-5432, subsection B and that includes any of the following:

    (a) A single vehicle or combination of vehicles that has a gross vehicle weight rating of twenty-six thousand one or more pounds and that is used for the purposes of intrastate commerce. See Arizona Laws 28-5201

  • Commercially reasonable: means a sale or disposal that would be commercially reasonable under Title 47, Chapter 9, Article 6. See Arizona Laws 13-4301
  • commit: means to assign legal custody. See Arizona Laws 8-201
  • 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: means the relevant market area. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • Complaint: means a written statement of the essential facts constituting a public offense that is any of the following:

    (a) Made on an oath before a judge or commissioner of the superior court or an authorized juvenile hearing officer. See Arizona Laws 8-201

  • Consumer: means the end purchaser of motor vehicle fuel for use on the highways in this state, the end purchaser of motor vehicle fuel for use in watercraft on waterways of this state or the end purchaser of aviation fuel for use in aircraft. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Controlled access highway: means a highway, street or roadway to or from which owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have no legal right of access except at such points only and in the manner determined by the public authority that has jurisdiction over the highway, street or roadway. See Arizona Laws 28-601
  • Controlled substance: means a drug, substance or immediate precursor in schedules I through V of Title 36, Chapter 27 or the rules adopted pursuant to Title 36, Chapter 27, or a dangerous drug or a narcotic drug listed in section 13-3401. See Arizona Laws 13-3451
  • Controlled substance: means a substance so classified under section 102(6) of the controlled substances act (21 United States Code § 802(6)) and includes all substances listed in schedules I through V of Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 1308. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Conviction: means :

    (a) An unvacated adjudication of guilt or a determination that a person violated or failed to comply with the law in a court of original jurisdiction or by an authorized administrative tribunal. See Arizona Laws 28-101

  • Corruptly: means a wrongful design to acquire or cause some pecuniary or other advantage to the person guilty of the act or omission referred to, or to some other person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Counterfeit preparation: means a preparation that has an appearance which imitates another preparation but that, in fact, is a different preparation. See Arizona Laws 13-3451
  • County highway: means a public road that is constructed and maintained by a county. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Court: means the juvenile division of the superior court when exercising its jurisdiction over children in any proceeding relating to delinquency. See Arizona Laws 8-382
  • court: means a juvenile division of the superior court, a justice of the peace court or a municipal court. See Arizona Laws 28-3391
  • Crime victim advocate: means a person who is employed or authorized by a public or private entity to provide counseling, treatment or other supportive assistance to crime victims. See Arizona Laws 8-382
  • 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
  • Crosswalk: means :

    (a) That part of a roadway at an intersection included within the prolongations or connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway measured from the curbs or, in absence of curbs, from the edges of the traversable roadway. See Arizona Laws 28-601

  • Custodial agency: means any law enforcement officer or agency, a sheriff, a county juvenile detention center, the department of juvenile corrections or a secure mental health facility that has custody of a person who is arrested or in custody for a delinquent or incorrigible offense. See Arizona Laws 8-382
  • Custodian: means a person, other than a parent or legal guardian, who stands in loco parentis to the child or a person to whom legal custody of the child has been given by order of the juvenile court. See Arizona Laws 8-201
  • Cyber ransom: means to encrypt, restrict or prohibit or threaten or attempt to encrypt, restrict or prohibit a dealer's or a dealer's authorized integrator's access to protected dealer data for monetary gain. See Arizona Laws 28-4651
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Dangerous drug: means dangerous drug as defined in section 13-3401. See Arizona Laws 13-105
  • Dangerous instrument: means anything that under the circumstances in which it is used, attempted to be used or threatened to be used is readily capable of causing death or serious physical injury. See Arizona Laws 13-105
  • Daytime: means the period between sunrise and sunset. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • De minimis violation: means a violation which, although undesirable, has no direct or immediate relationship to safety, health or property damage. See Arizona Laws 3-361
  • Dealer: means a person who is engaged in the business of buying, selling or exchanging motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers and who has an established place of business and has paid fees pursuant to section 28-4302. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Dealer: means a new motor vehicle dealer, a used motor vehicle dealer or a wholesale motor vehicle dealer. See Arizona Laws 28-4531
  • Dealer data vendor: means a dealer management system provider, consumer relationship management system provider or other vendor providing similar services that permissibly stores protected dealer data pursuant to a contract with the dealer. See Arizona Laws 28-4651
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Declared gross weight: has the meaning prescribed in section 28-5431. See Arizona Laws 28-4031
  • Declared gross weight: means the gross weight in pounds ascribed to a motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer or vehicle combination by the applicant for registration. See Arizona Laws 28-5431
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Delinquency proceeding: means any hearing, argument or other matter that is scheduled or held by a juvenile court judge, commissioner or hearing officer and that relates to an alleged or adjudicated delinquent offense. See Arizona Laws 8-382
  • Delinquent: means a child who is adjudicated to have committed a delinquent act. See Arizona Laws 8-382
  • Delinquent act: means an act to which this article applies pursuant to section 8-381. See Arizona Laws 8-382
  • Delinquent act: means an act by a juvenile that if committed by an adult would be a criminal offense or a petty offense, a violation of any law of this state, or of another state if the act occurred in that state, or a law of the United States, or a violation of any law that can only be violated by a minor and that has been designated as a delinquent offense, or any ordinance of a city, county or political subdivision of this state defining crime. See Arizona Laws 8-201
  • Delinquent juvenile: means a child who is adjudicated to have committed a delinquent act. See Arizona Laws 8-201
  • Department: means the department of gaming. See Arizona Laws 5-1201
  • Department: means the department of gaming. See Arizona Laws 5-1301
  • Department: means the department of transportation acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Department: means the department of insurance and financial institutions. See Arizona Laws 6-101
  • Department: means the department of child safety. See Arizona Laws 8-201
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • 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.
  • Deputy director: means the deputy director of the financial institutions division of the department. See Arizona Laws 6-101
  • Destination state: means the state, territory or foreign country to which motor fuel is directed for delivery into a storage facility, a receptacle, a container or a type of transportation equipment for the purpose of resale or use. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Detention: means the temporary confinement of a juvenile who requires secure care in a physically restricting facility that is completely surrounded by a locked and physically secure barrier with restricted ingress and egress for the protection of the juvenile or the community pending court disposition or as a condition of probation. See Arizona Laws 8-201
  • Detention hearing: means the accused's initial appearance before the court to determine release before adjudication. See Arizona Laws 8-382
  • Director: means the director of the department of transportation. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Director: means the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 8-201
  • 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:
  • Disqualification: means a prohibition from obtaining a commercial driver license or driving a commercial motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-3001
  • Distribute: means the actual, constructive or attempted transfer, delivery or sale of, or dispensing to another of, an imitation controlled substance, imitation prescription-only drug or imitation over-the-counter drug. See Arizona Laws 13-3451
  • Distributor: means a person who acquires motor fuel from a supplier or another distributor for subsequent sale or use and who may blend or import into or export from this state motor fuel in the original package or container or otherwise but excluding a person who imports motor fuel in the fuel tank of a motor vehicle or aircraft. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Distributor: means a person who either:

    (a) Sells or distributes new motor vehicles to new motor vehicle dealers in this state. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

  • Distributor branch: means a branch office maintained or availed of by a distributor for either:

    (a) The sale of new motor vehicles to new motor vehicle dealers in this state. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

  • District: means a sports authority district established pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 5-1101
  • Division: means the financial institutions division within the department. See Arizona Laws 6-101
  • Division: means the environmental services division of the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-361
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Drive: means to operate or be in actual physical control of a motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Driveaway or towaway methods: means the transportation service rendered by a transporter by which motor vehicles are driven singly or in combinations by the tow bar, saddle-mount or full-mount methods or a lawful combination of the tow bar, saddle-mount or full-mount methods or by which a truck or truck tractor tows or draws a semitrailer or trailer. See Arizona Laws 28-4621
  • Driver: means a person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Driver license: means a license that is issued by a state to an individual and that authorizes the individual to drive a motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Dyed diesel fuel: means diesel fuel that is dyed pursuant to United States internal revenue service regulations or requirements, including any invisible marker requirements. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • E-sport: means an organized, multiplayer video game competition, particularly between professional players, individually or as teams. See Arizona Laws 5-1301
  • Education: means a program in which a person participates in at least sixteen hours of classroom instruction relating to alcohol or other drugs. See Arizona Laws 28-1301
  • Electric bicycle: means a bicycle or tricycle that is equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than seven hundred fifty watts and that meets the requirements of one of the following classes:

    (a) "Class 1 electric bicycle" means a bicycle or tricycle that is equipped with an electric motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle or tricycle reaches the speed of twenty miles per hour. See Arizona Laws 28-101

  • Electric personal assistive mobility device: means a self-balancing device with one wheel or two nontandem wheels and an electric propulsion system that limits the maximum speed of the device to fifteen miles per hour or less and that is designed to transport only one person. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) Source: OCC
  • 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
  • Employee of the dealer: means any of the following:

    (a) An employee who is paid compensation and who appears on the records of the dealer as an employee for whom social security, withholding taxes and all other deductions required by law for employees are made and for whom all applicable payroll taxes are paid by the dealer. See Arizona Laws 28-4531

  • Employee of the manufacturer: means an employee who is paid compensation and who appears on the records of the manufacturer as an employee for whom social security, withholding taxes and all other deductions required by law for employees are made and for whom all applicable payroll taxes are paid by the manufacturer. See Arizona Laws 28-4531
  • Employer: means a person, including the United States, a state or a political subdivision of a state, that owns or leases a commercial motor vehicle or that assigns a person to operate a commercial motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-3001
  • Endorsement: means an authorization that is added to an individual's driver license and that is required to permit the individual to operate certain types of vehicles. See Arizona Laws 28-3001
  • Enhancement: means an addition that exceeds generally accepted engineering or design standards for the specific type of facility. See Arizona Laws 28-6351
  • Enterprise: means any person under the jurisdiction of the department other than a financial institution. See Arizona Laws 6-101
  • 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.
  • Entry fee: means cash or cash equivalent that is paid by a participant to a fantasy sports contest operator to participate in a fantasy sports contest. See Arizona Laws 5-1201
  • Envelope: means the outermost dimensions of a load or vehicle to include width, height and length and the weight of the vehicle or its load. See Arizona Laws 28-1141
  • Envelope permit: means a permit issued by the department authorizing a person to transport property on the highways of this state pursuant to all applicable statutes and local ordinances and the terms listed on the permit. See Arizona Laws 28-1141
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Escort vehicle: means a vehicle that is required pursuant to rules adopted by the department to escort motor vehicles or combinations of vehicles that require issuance of a permit pursuant to article 18 or 19 of this chapter for operation on the highways of this state. See Arizona Laws 28-601
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • essential parts: means integral and body parts, the removal, alteration or substitution of which will tend to conceal the identity or substantially alter the appearance of the vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Event wagering employee: means an employee of an event wagering operator, sports facility, management services provider or limited event wagering operator who is directly involved in the management or control of the conduct of event wagering under this chapter in this state. See Arizona Laws 5-1301
  • Event wagering facility: means a facility at which event wagering is conducted under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 5-1301
  • Event wagering operator: means either:

    (a) An owner or operator of an Arizona professional sports team or franchise, an operator of a sports facility in this state that hosts an annual tournament on the PGA tour or a promoter of a national association for stock car auto racing national touring race in this state, or the designee of such an owner, operator or promoter, who is licensed to offer event wagering under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 5-1301

  • Evidence: includes both of the following:

    (a) A display on a wireless communication device of a department-generated driver license, nonoperating identification license, vehicle registration card or other official record of the department that is presented to a law enforcement officer or in a court or an administrative proceeding. See Arizona Laws 28-101

  • evidence: includes :

    1. See Arizona Laws 28-4131

  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Executive head: means the governor of the state of Arizona. See Arizona Laws 28-1851
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Exhibitor: means a manufacturer of new motor homes that exhibits new motor homes at a special event. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • Exploitive exhibition: means the actual or simulated exhibition of the genitals or pubic or rectal areas of any person for the purpose of sexual stimulation of the viewer. See Arizona Laws 13-3551
  • Explosives: means any chemical compound, mixture or device that is commonly used or intended for the purpose of producing an explosion and that is defined in Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 173. See Arizona Laws 28-601
  • Factory branch: means a branch office maintained or availed of by a manufacturer for either:

    (a) The sale of new motor vehicles to distributors or the sale of new motor vehicles to new motor vehicle dealers in this state. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

  • Fantasy sports contest: means a simulated game or contest that is offered to the public with an entry fee and that meets all of the following conditions:

    (a) No fantasy sports contest team is composed of the entire roster of a real-world sports team. See Arizona Laws 5-1201

  • Fantasy sports contest adjusted revenues: means the amount equal to the total of all entry fees that a fantasy sports contest operator collects from all fantasy sports contest players minus the total of all sums paid out as prizes or awards to all fantasy sports contest players, multiplied by the in-state percentage. See Arizona Laws 5-1201
  • Fantasy sports contest platform: means the hardware, software, firmware, communications technology or other equipment, including operator procedures implemented to allow player participation in digital or online fantasy sports contests, and if supported, the corresponding equipment related to the display of the outcomes, and other similar information necessary to facilitate player participation in which a player is provided with the means to establish a player account and the fantasy sports contest operator is provided with the means to review player accounts, suspend fantasy sports contests, generate various financial transaction and account reports, input outcomes for fantasy sports contests and set any configurable parameters. See Arizona Laws 5-1201
  • Fantasy sports contest team: means the simulated team composed of multiple individual athletes, each of whom is a member of a real-world sports team that a fantasy sports contest player selects to compete in a fantasy sports contest. See Arizona Laws 5-1201
  • Farm: means any lands primarily used for agriculture production. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Farm tractor: means a motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing implements of husbandry. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. Source: OCC
  • Fee: means a charge for allowing access to protected dealer data beyond any direct costs incurred by the dealer data vendor in providing protected dealer data access to an authorized integrator or allowing an authorized integrator to write data to a dealer data system. See Arizona Laws 28-4651
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Final disposition: means the ultimate termination of the delinquency proceeding by a court, including dismissal, acquittal, transfer to adult court or imposition of a disposition after an adjudication for a delinquent offense. See Arizona Laws 8-382
  • Financial institution: means banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations, credit unions, consumer lenders, international banking facilities and financial institution holding companies under the jurisdiction of the department. See Arizona Laws 6-101
  • Financial institution: means a bank, trust company, savings and loan association, credit union, consumer lender, international banking facility or holding company that is licensed, regulated or insured by the department of insurance and financial institutions, the federal deposit insurance corporation, the office of thrift supervision, the comptroller of the currency, the national credit union share insurance fund or the national credit union administration. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • 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.
  • fleet: means two or more vehicles owned by a person and registered in this state. See Arizona Laws 28-2201
  • Fleet: means one or more commercial vehicles. See Arizona Laws 28-2231
  • 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: means outside the United States. See Arizona Laws 28-3001
  • Foreign vehicle: means a motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer that is brought into this state other than in the ordinary course of business by or through a manufacturer or dealer and that has not been registered in this state. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • 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
  • Franchise: means a contract between two or more persons if all of the following conditions are included:

    (a) A commercial relationship of definite duration or continuing indefinite duration is involved. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

  • Franchisee: means a person who both:

    (a) Receives new motor vehicles from the franchisor under a franchise. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

  • Franchisor: means a person who both:

    (a) Manufactures or distributes new motor vehicles. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

  • Fuel tank: means a receptacle on a motor vehicle, watercraft or aircraft from which fuel is supplied for the propulsion of the motor vehicle, watercraft or aircraft, excluding a cargo tank but including a separate compartment of a cargo tank used as a fuel tank and an auxiliary tank or receptacle of any kind from which fuel is supplied for the propulsion of the motor vehicle, watercraft or aircraft, whether or not the tank or receptacle is directly connected to the fuel supply line of the motor vehicle, watercraft or aircraft. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Full-time employee of the dealer: means a person who qualifies as an employee of the dealer and who works at least twenty-four hours each week for the dealer. See Arizona Laws 28-4531
  • 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
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Golf cart: means a motor vehicle that has not less than three wheels in contact with the ground, that has an unladen weight of less than one thousand eight hundred pounds, that is designed to be and is operated at not more than twenty-five miles per hour and that is designed to carry not more than four persons including the driver. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Government: means the state, any political subdivision of the state or any department, agency, board, commission, institution or governmental instrumentality of or within the state or political subdivision. See Arizona Laws 13-105
  • Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
  • Grantee: includes every person to whom an estate or interest in real property passes, in or by a deed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Grantor: includes every person from or by whom an estate or interest in real property passes, in or by a deed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Gross vehicle weight rating: means the weight that is assigned by the vehicle manufacturer to a vehicle and that represents the maximum recommended total weight including the vehicle and the load for the vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-3001
  • Gross weight: means the weight of a vehicle without a load plus the weight of any load on the vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-601
  • Gross weight: has the meaning prescribed in section 28-5431. See Arizona Laws 28-4031
  • Gross weight: means the sum of the empty weight in pounds of a motor vehicle combination plus the weight in pounds of the maximum load to be carried on the motor vehicle combination at any one time, except that for tow trucks, gross weight means the sum of the empty weight in pounds of the tow truck plus the weight in pounds of operational supplies and equipment. See Arizona Laws 28-5431
  • Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. Source: OCC
  • Harmful to minors: means that quality of any description or representation, in whatever form, of nudity, sexual activity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sadomasochistic abuse, when both:

    (a) To the average adult applying contemporary state standards with respect to what is suitable for minors, it both:

    (i) Appeals to the prurient interest, when taken as a whole. See Arizona Laws 13-3501

  • Hazardous material: means a material, and its mixtures or solutions, that the United States department of transportation determines under 49 Code of Federal Regulations is, or any quantity of a material listed as a select agent or toxin under Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 73 that is, capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety and property if transported in commerce and that is required to be placarded or marked as required by the department's safety rules prescribed pursuant to chapter 14 of this title. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Hazardous waste: means a material that is subject to the hazardous waste manifest requirements of the department of environmental quality or the United States environmental protection agency. See Arizona Laws 28-5201
  • Highly experienced player: means a fantasy sports contest player who has done at least one of the following:

    (a) Entered more than one thousand fantasy sports contests offered by a single fantasy sports contest operator. See Arizona Laws 5-1201

  • Highway: means any way or place in this state of whatever nature that is maintained by public monies and that is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel, including a highway under construction. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained by the federal government, the department, a city, a town or a county if any part of the way is generally open to the use of the public for purposes of conventional two-wheel drive vehicular travel. See Arizona Laws 28-1171
  • highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way if a part of the way is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • highway user revenues: means all monies received in this state from licenses, taxes, penalties, interest and fees authorized by the following:

    1. See Arizona Laws 28-6501

  • Holding company: means a corporation, firm, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, trust or other form of business organization that is not an individual and that directly or indirectly does either of the following:

    (a) Holds an ownership interest of ten percent or more, as determined by the holding company's board, in a fantasy sports contest operator. See Arizona Laws 5-1201

  • house trailer: means a vehicle, other than a motor vehicle, that is built on a chassis designed for being drawn on the highways by a motor vehicle and that is designed for human habitation. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • Human driver: means a natural person in the vehicle who performs in real time all or part of the dynamic driving task or who achieves a minimal risk condition for the vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Ignition interlock device: means a device that is based on alcohol specific electrochemical fuel sensor technology that meets the national highway traffic safety administration specifications, that connects a breath analyzer to a motor vehicle's ignition system, that is constantly available to monitor the concentration by weight of alcohol in the breath of any person attempting to start the motor vehicle by using its ignition system and that deters starting the motor vehicle by use of its ignition system unless the person attempting to start the motor vehicle provides an appropriate breath sample for the device and the device determines that the concentration by weight of alcohol in the person's breath is below a preset level. See Arizona Laws 28-1301
  • Ignition interlock service provider: means a person who is an authorized representative of a manufacturer and who is under contract with the department to install or oversee the installation of ignition interlock devices by the provider's authorized agents or subcontractors and to provide services to the public related to ignition interlock devices. See Arizona Laws 28-1301
  • Imitation controlled substance: means a drug, substance or immediate precursor which does or does not contain a controlled substance that by texture, consistency or color or dosage unit appearance as evidenced by color, shape, size or markings, apart from any other representations, packaging or advertisements, would lead a reasonable person to believe that the substance is a controlled substance but it is a counterfeit preparation. See Arizona Laws 13-3451
  • Imitation over-the-counter drug: means an imitation of a nonprescription drug as defined in section 32-1901 that by texture, consistency or color or dosage unit appearance as evidenced by color, shape, size or markings, apart from any other representations, packaging or advertisements, would lead a reasonable person to believe that the substance is an over-the-counter drug. See Arizona Laws 13-3451
  • Imitation prescription-only drug: means a drug, substance or immediate precursor which does or does not contain a prescription-only drug as defined by section 32-1901 that by texture, consistency or color or dosage unit appearance as evidenced by color, shape, size or markings, apart from any other representations, packaging or advertisements, would lead a reasonable person to believe that the substance is a prescription-only drug but it is a counterfeit preparation. See Arizona Laws 13-3451
  • Immediate family: means a victim's spouse, parent, child, sibling, grandparent or lawful guardian. See Arizona Laws 8-382
  • Immediate family member: means a spouse or a parent, child, brother or sister whether by adoption or blood. See Arizona Laws 28-2401
  • immediate family member: means a spouse or a parent, child, brother or sister whether related by adoption or blood. See Arizona Laws 28-4531
  • Implement of husbandry: means a vehicle that is designed primarily for agricultural purposes and that is used exclusively in the conduct of agricultural operations, including an implement or vehicle whether self-propelled or otherwise that meets both of the following conditions:

    (a) Is used solely for agricultural purposes including the preparation or harvesting of cotton, alfalfa, grains and other farm crops. See Arizona Laws 28-101

  • Importer: means a person who transports or arranges for the transportation of a foreign manufactured new motor vehicle into the United States for sale in this state. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • In this state: means any way or place within the exterior limits of the state of Arizona that is maintained by public monies, including any such way or place that is owned by or ceded to the United States of America. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • In-state percentage: means for each fantasy sports contest, the percentage, rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent, equal to the total entry fees collected from all in-state participants divided by the total entry fees collected from all participants in the fantasy sports contest, unless otherwise prescribed by the department. See Arizona Laws 5-1201
  • incidentally operated or moved on a highway: means travel between a farm and another part of the same farm, from one farm to another farm or between a farm and a place of repair, supply or storage. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Incorrigible child: means a child who:

    (a) Is adjudicated as a child who refuses to obey the reasonable and proper orders or directions of a parent, guardian or custodian and who is beyond the control of that person. See Arizona Laws 8-201

  • Independent living program: includes a residential program with supervision of less than twenty-four hours a day. See Arizona Laws 8-201
  • Indian reservation: means all lands that are within the limits of areas set aside by the United States for the exclusive use and occupancy of Indian tribes by treaty, law or executive order and that are currently recognized as Indian reservations by the United States department of the interior. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Indian tribe: means any organized nation, tribe, band or community recognized as an Indian tribe by the United States department of the interior. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Indian tribe: means any organized Indian nation, tribe, band or community that is recognized as an Indian tribe by the United States department of the interior. See Arizona Laws 5-1401
  • infrastructure: means improvements that will directly and principally benefit the stadium or multipurpose facility and includes:

    (i) Sanitary sewage systems. See Arizona Laws 5-1161

  • infrastructure: means improvements that will directly and principally benefit the multipurpose facility and includes:

    (i) Sanitary sewage systems. See Arizona Laws 5-1461

  • Injured person: means a person who has sustained economic loss, including medical loss, as a result of injury to his person, business or property by the conduct giving rise to the forfeiture of property, and who is not an owner of or an interest holder in the property. See Arizona Laws 13-4301
  • Interest holder: means a person in whose favor there is a security interest or who is the beneficiary of a perfected encumbrance pertaining to an interest in property. See Arizona Laws 13-4301
  • 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
  • International banking facility: means a facility that is represented by a set of asset and liability accounts segregated on the books and records of a commercial bank, the principal office of which is located in this state, and that is incorporated and doing business under the laws of the United States or of this state, a United States branch or agency of a foreign bank, an edge corporation organized under section 25(a) of the federal reserve act (12 United States Code §§ 611 through 631) or an agreement corporation having an agreement or undertaking with the board of governors of the federal reserve system under section 25 of the federal reserve act (12 United States Code §§ 601 through 604(a)) that includes only international banking facility time deposits and international banking facility extensions of credit as defined in Title 12 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 204. See Arizona Laws 6-101
  • Intersection: means the area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or if none, the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two highways that join one another at, or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling on different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict. See Arizona Laws 28-601
  • Intersection improvements: means projects that are designed to decrease vehicle congestion, lower travel times or improve safety. See Arizona Laws 28-6301
  • Interstate user: means a person registering a use class motor vehicle under chapter 7, article 7 or 8 of this title or section 28-2321 or 28-2324. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Invoiced gallons: means the gallons actually billed on an invoice in payment to a supplier. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Item: means any material or performance which depicts or describes sexual activity and includes any book, leaflet, pamphlet, magazine, booklet, picture, drawing, photograph, film, negative, slide, motion picture, figure, object, article, novelty device, recording, transcription, live or recorded telephone message or other similar items whether tangible or intangible and including any performance, exhibition, transmission or dissemination of any of the above. See Arizona Laws 13-3501
  • Judgment: means a final judgment and any of the following:

    (a) The finding by a court that an individual is responsible for a civil traffic violation. See Arizona Laws 28-3001

  • Judgment: means a judgment that has become final by expiration without appeal of the time within which an appeal might have been perfected or by final affirmation on appeal and that is rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction of any state or of the United States on a cause of action either:

    (a) Arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of a motor vehicle for damages, including damages for care and loss of services, because of either bodily injury to or death of a person or injury to or destruction of property, including the loss of use of the property. See Arizona Laws 28-4001

  • Jurisdiction: means a state, district, province, political subdivision, territory or possession of the United States or a foreign country. See Arizona Laws 28-2231
  • Jurisdiction executive: means the governor of this state. See Arizona Laws 28-1871
  • Juvenile court: means the juvenile division of the superior court when exercising its jurisdiction over children in any proceeding relating to delinquency, dependency or incorrigibility. See Arizona Laws 8-201
  • Juvenile defendant: means a juvenile against whom a petition is filed seeking to have the juvenile adjudicated delinquent. See Arizona Laws 8-382
  • juvenile intensive probation: means a program that is established pursuant to this article of highly structured and closely supervised juvenile probation and that emphasizes individualized interventions and services for juveniles who are deemed appropriate for the program. See Arizona Laws 8-351
  • Key employee: means an employee of a fantasy sports contest operator who has the power to exercise significant influence over decisions concerning the fantasy sports contest operator. See Arizona Laws 5-1201
  • Knowledge of the character: means having general knowledge or awareness, or reason to know, or a belief or ground for belief which warrants further inspection or inquiry of that which is reasonably susceptible to examination by the defendant both:

    (a) That the item contains, depicts or describes nudity, sexual activity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement or sadomasochistic abuse, whichever is applicable, whether or not there is actual knowledge of the specific contents thereof. See Arizona Laws 13-3501

  • Law enforcement officer: means a peace officer, sheriff, deputy sheriff, municipal police officer or constable. See Arizona Laws 8-201
  • Lawful representative: means a person who is designated by the victim or appointed by the court and who will act in the best interests of the victim. See Arizona Laws 8-382
  • Lead: means any retail consumer who satisfies all of the following:

    (a) Responds to a factory-directed program that obtains consumer contact information and that provides such information to one or more dealers. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

  • 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
  • Levy: includes the power of distraint and seizure by any means. See Arizona Laws 28-5931
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • License: means an approval that is issued by the department to any person or entity to be involved in a fantasy sports operation. See Arizona Laws 5-1201
  • License: means any license, temporary instruction permit or temporary license issued under the laws of this state or any other state that pertain to the licensing of persons to operate motor vehicles. See Arizona Laws 28-601
  • License: means any license, temporary instruction permit or temporary license issued under the laws of this state or any other state pertaining to the licensing of persons to operate motor vehicles. See Arizona Laws 28-1301
  • License: means any license, temporary instruction permit or temporary license issued under the laws of this state or any other state pertaining to the licensing of persons to operate motor vehicles. See Arizona Laws 28-1501
  • License: means a license, temporary instruction permit or temporary license issued under the laws of this state pertaining to the licensing of persons to operate motor vehicles. See Arizona Laws 28-4001
  • License class: means , for the purpose of determining the appropriate class of driver license required for the type of motor vehicle or vehicle combination a driver intends to operate or is operating, the class of driver license prescribed in section 28-3101. See Arizona Laws 28-3001
  • Licensee: means a person that holds an event wagering operator license, limited event wagering license, supplier license or management services provider license. See Arizona Laws 5-1301
  • Licensing authority: means the department. See Arizona Laws 28-1851
  • Licensing authority: means the department. See Arizona Laws 28-1871
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Light class motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle that uses use fuel on the highways in this state but excludes a road tractor, truck tractor, truck or passenger carrying vehicle having a declared gross vehicle weight of more than twenty-six thousand pounds or having more than two axles. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Light motor vehicle: means a self-propelled motor driven vehicle that has a declared gross weight of twelve thousand or fewer pounds and that is used to transport for hire persons, freight or property. See Arizona Laws 28-5491
  • Limited event wagering operator: means a racetrack enclosure or additional wagering facility that holds a permit issued by the division of racing to offer wagers on horseracing and that is licensed under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 5-1301
  • Limousine: means a motor vehicle providing prearranged ground transportation service for an individual passenger, or a group of passengers, that is arranged in advance or is operated on a regular route or between specified points and includes ground transportation under a contract or agreement for services that includes a fixed rate or time and is provided in a motor vehicle with a seating capacity not exceeding fifteen passengers including the driver. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Line-make: means those motor vehicles that are offered for sale, lease or distribution under a common name, trademark, service mark or brand name of the manufacturer of those same motor vehicles. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Livery vehicle: means a motor vehicle that:

    (a) Has a seating capacity not exceeding fifteen passengers including the driver. See Arizona Laws 28-101

  • Local authority: means any county, municipal or other local board or body exercising jurisdiction over highways under the constitution and laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Magistrate: means an officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense and includes the chief justice and justices of the supreme court, judges of the superior court, judges of the court of appeals, justices of the peace and judges of a municipal court. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Major arterial: means an interconnected thoroughfare whose primary function is to link areas in the region and to distribute traffic to and from controlled access highways, generally of regionwide significance and of varying capacity depending on the travel demand for the specific direction and adjacent land uses. See Arizona Laws 28-6301
  • Major component part: includes a motor vehicle or vehicle part that the manufacturer has assigned any factory, motor, serial or other identification number or mark. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • Management company: means a person retained by a fantasy sports contest operator to manage a fantasy sports contest platform and provide general administration and other operational services. See Arizona Laws 5-1201
  • Management services provider: means a person that operates, manages or controls event wagering authorized by this chapter on behalf of an event wagering operator or limited event wagering operator, including developing or operating event wagering platforms and providing odds, lines and global risk management, and may provide services to more than one licensed event wagering operator or licensed limited event wagering operator. See Arizona Laws 5-1301
  • Manufacture: means the production, preparation, compounding, processing, encapsulating, packaging or repackaging, or labeling or relabeling of an imitation controlled substance, imitation prescription-only drug or imitation over-the-counter drug. See Arizona Laws 13-3451
  • Manufacturer: means a person engaged in the business of manufacturing motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Manufacturer: means a person or an organization that is located in the United States, that is responsible for the design, construction or production of an ignition interlock device and that is certified by the department to offer ignition interlock devices for installation in motor vehicles in this state. See Arizona Laws 28-1301
  • Manufacturer: means a person engaged in the business of manufacturing motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers or a person engaged in the manufacture of integrated automotive systems and modules that are being tested at or in conjunction with a facility located in this state. See Arizona Laws 28-4531
  • Manufacturer: means any person who either:

    (a) Manufactures or assembles new motor vehicles. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

  • Manufacturer: means a person who transports or causes to be transported or shipped by a motor vehicle a material that is represented, marked, certified or sold by a person for transportation in commerce. See Arizona Laws 28-5201
  • Markup: The process by which congressional committees and subcommittees debate, amend, and rewrite proposed legislation.
  • Minor: means a person or persons who were under eighteen years of age at the time a visual depiction was created, adapted or modified. See Arizona Laws 13-3551
  • Mitigation: means the rectification or reduction of existing damage to natural resources, including flora, fauna and land or cultural resources, including prehistoric or historic archaeological sites, if the damage is caused by off-highway vehicles. See Arizona Laws 28-1171
  • Mobile home: means a structure that is transportable in one or more sections, including the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems that are contained in the structure, and that, when erected on site, is either of the following:

    (a) More than eight body feet in width, thirty-two body feet or more in length and built on a permanent chassis. See Arizona Laws 28-2001

  • Modules: means groups of component parts that are arranged in close physical proximity to each other within a vehicle and that may be assembled by the supplier and shipped to the manufacturer for installation in a vehicle as a unit. See Arizona Laws 28-4531
  • Monetary obligations: includes fines, fees, penalties, court costs, surcharges, restitution, assessments and penalty enhancements. See Arizona Laws 28-1630
  • Moped: means a bicycle, not including an electric bicycle, an electric miniature scooter or an electric standup scooter, that is equipped with a helper motor if the vehicle has a maximum piston displacement of fifty cubic centimeters or less, a brake horsepower of one and one-half or less and a maximum speed of twenty-five miles per hour or less on a flat surface with less than a one percent grade. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • 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
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Motor carrier: means a person who operates or causes to be operated a motor vehicle on a public highway. See Arizona Laws 28-5851
  • Motor carrier: means a person who operates or causes to be operated a commercial motor vehicle on a public highway. See Arizona Laws 28-5201
  • Motor driven cycle: means a motorcycle, including every motor scooter, with a motor that produces not more than five horsepower but does not include an electric bicycle, an electric miniature scooter or an electric standup scooter. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Motor fuel: means motor vehicle fuel, use fuel and aviation fuel. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Motor vehicle: means a self-propelled vehicle required to be licensed or subject to licensing for operation on a highway. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Motor vehicle: means a self-propelled vehicle that is registered or required to be registered under the laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 28-4001
  • Motor vehicle: means a self-propelled motor driven vehicle that has a declared gross vehicle weight of more than twelve thousand pounds and that is subject to vehicle registration before lawful operation on the public highways in this state, excluding a motor vehicle that is exempt from gross weight fees pursuant to section 28-5432. See Arizona Laws 28-5851
  • Motor vehicle: means an automobile, motor bus, motorcycle, truck or truck tractor or any other self-propelled vehicle, trailer or semitrailer. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • Motor vehicle: means any vehicle, machine, truck tractor, trailer or semitrailer that is propelled or drawn by mechanical power and that is used on a public highway in the transportation of passengers or property in the furtherance of a commercial enterprise. See Arizona Laws 28-5201
  • Motor vehicle dealer: means a new motor vehicle dealer, a used motor vehicle dealer, a public consignment auction dealer, a broker or a wholesale motor vehicle auction dealer, excluding a person who comes into possession of a motor vehicle as an incident to the person's regular business and who sells, auctions or exchanges the motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • Motor vehicle liability policy: means an owner's or an operator's policy of liability insurance that is both:

    (a) Certified as provided in section 28-4077 or 28-4078 as proof of financial responsibility. See Arizona Laws 28-4001

  • Motorcycle: means a motor vehicle that has a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and that is designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground but excludes a tractor, an electric bicycle, an electric miniature scooter, an electric standup scooter and a moped. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Motorized quadricycle: means a self-propelled motor vehicle to which all of the following apply:

    (a) The vehicle is self-propelled by an emission-free electric motor and may include pedals operated by the passengers. See Arizona Laws 28-101

  • Motorized wheelchair: means any self-propelled wheelchair that is used by a person for mobility. See Arizona Laws 28-601
  • Multipurpose facility: means any facility that is suitable to be used to accommodate professional football franchises, major college football bowl sponsors, other sporting events and entertainment, cultural, civic, meeting, trade show or convention events or activities and may include a stadium, on-site infrastructure, parking garages and lots and related commercial uses within the facility. See Arizona Laws 5-801
  • Multipurpose facility: means a stadium or a facility for youth sports that is adapted for additional entertainment, cultural, civic, meeting, trade show or convention events, on-site infrastructure and related parking facilities and commercial activity within the facility. See Arizona Laws 5-1101
  • Multipurpose facility purpose: includes the following purposes:

    (a) Acquiring, designing, developing, constructing, reconstructing, equipping, repairing, maintaining, operating and improving a multipurpose facility and improvements. See Arizona Laws 5-861

  • Narcotic drug: means narcotic drugs as defined in section 13-3401. See Arizona Laws 13-105
  • National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. Source: OCC
  • National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) Source: OCC
  • neglected: means :

    (a) The inability or unwillingness of a parent, guardian or custodian of a child to provide that child with supervision, food, clothing, shelter or medical care if that inability or unwillingness causes substantial risk of harm to the child's health or welfare, except if the inability of a parent, guardian or custodian to provide services to meet the needs of a child with a disability or chronic illness is solely the result of the unavailability of reasonable services. See Arizona Laws 8-201

  • Neighborhood electric vehicle: means a self-propelled electrically powered motor vehicle to which all of the following apply:

    (a) The vehicle is emission free. See Arizona Laws 28-101

  • Neighborhood occupantless electric vehicle: means a neighborhood electric vehicle that is not designed, intended or marketed for human occupancy. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • New house trailer dealer: means a person who buys, sells, exchanges or offers or attempts to negotiate a sale or exchange of an interest in, or who is engaged in the business of selling, new house trailers or used house trailers taken in trade on new house trailers. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • New motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle, other than a used motor vehicle, that is held either for:

    (a) Sale by the franchisee who first acquired the vehicle from the manufacturer or distributor of the vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

  • New motor vehicle dealer: means a person who buys, sells, exchanges or offers or attempts to negotiate a sale or exchange of an interest in, or who is engaged in the business of selling, new motor vehicles or used motor vehicles taken in trade on new motor vehicles or used vehicles purchased for resale. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • Nighttime: means the period between sunset and sunrise. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Nondomiciled commercial driver license: means a commercial driver license issued to an individual domiciled in a foreign country or to an individual domiciled in another state if that state is prohibited from issuing commercial driver licenses. See Arizona Laws 28-3001
  • Nonmotorized mobility infrastructure: means the improvement of safety, accessibility or connectivity through sidewalks, crosswalks, curb ramps, elements that are required by the Americans with disabilities act of 1990 (42 United States Code §§ 12101 through 12213) or other components adjacent to streets or roadways for vulnerable road users as defined in 23 United States Code § 148(a)(15). See Arizona Laws 28-6301
  • Nonresident: means a person who is not a resident of this state as defined in section 28-2001. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • nonresident daily commuter: means a person who is a resident of a contiguous state, who enters and leaves this state on a daily basis for the purpose of employment and whose motor vehicle is principally garaged in the contiguous state. See Arizona Laws 28-2291
  • Nonresident operating privilege: means the privilege conferred on a nonresident by the laws of this state pertaining to the nonresident's operation of a motor vehicle or the use of a motor vehicle owned by the nonresident in this state. See Arizona Laws 28-4001
  • Nonserious violation: means a violation that may have had a direct or immediate relationship to safety, health or property damage, but which does not constitute a de minimis violation or a serious violation, unless the violator did not, and could not with the exercise of reasonable diligence, know of such safety, health or property damage risk in which case the violation is de minimis. See Arizona Laws 3-361
  • Nudity: means the showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area or buttocks with less than a full opaque covering, or the showing of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering of any portion thereof below the top of the nipple, or the depiction of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state. See Arizona Laws 13-3501
  • Off-premises display and sales: means a promotion or sale of motor vehicles for a period of time as specified by the director that both:

    (a) Is sponsored by a licensed motor vehicle dealer, the licensed motor vehicle dealer's agents or the manufacturer. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

  • Off-premises exhibition: means the exhibition of a motor vehicle for a period of time as specified by the director at a location within the same county but not at the established place of business of a licensed motor vehicle dealer and at which a solicitation or sale does not occur. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • Off-road recreational motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle that is designed primarily for recreational nonhighway all-terrain travel and that is not operated on a public highway. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Officer: means any police officer or other law enforcement officer. See Arizona Laws 28-4801
  • Official league data: means statistics, results, outcomes and other data related to a sports event or other event obtained pursuant to an agreement with the relevant sports governing body or an entity expressly authorized by the sports governing body to provide such information to licensees that authorizes the use of such data for determining the outcome of sports wagers on sports events or other events. See Arizona Laws 5-1301
  • Omission: means the failure to perform an act as to which a duty of performance is imposed by law. See Arizona Laws 13-105
  • operator: means a person that is engaged in the business of professionally conducting paid fantasy sports contests for cash or other prizes or awards for members of the general public that requires cash or cash equivalent as an entry fee to be paid by a member of the general public who participates in a paid fantasy sports contest. See Arizona Laws 5-1201
  • Operator: means a person who drives a motor vehicle on a highway, who is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle on a highway or who is exercising control over or steering a vehicle being towed by a motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Operator: means a person who is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle, whether or not the person has a license. See Arizona Laws 28-4001
  • Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
  • Original applicant: means any of the following:

    (a) An applicant who has never been licensed or cannot provide evidence of licensing. See Arizona Laws 28-3001

  • Other event: means a competition of relative skill or an event authorized by the department under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 5-1301
  • out-of-state student: means either:

    (i) A person who is enrolled at an educational institution maintained by public monies and who is not classified as an in-state student under section 15-1802. See Arizona Laws 28-2001

  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Owner: means a person who is not a secured party as defined in section 47-9102 and who has an interest in property, whether legal or equitable. See Arizona Laws 13-4301
  • Owner: means :

    (a) A person who holds the legal title of a vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101

  • Paraquat: means the pesticide dimethyl-dipyridinium dichloride. See Arizona Laws 3-361
  • 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.
  • Peace officer: means any person vested by law with a duty to maintain public order and make arrests and includes a constable. See Arizona Laws 13-105
  • Peace officers: means sheriffs of counties, constables, marshals, policemen of cities and towns, commissioned personnel of the department of public safety, personnel who are employed by the state department of corrections and the department of juvenile corrections and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a multicounty water conservation district and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by community college district governing boards and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the Arizona board of regents and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the governing body of a public airport pursuant to section 28-8426 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a private postsecondary institution pursuant to section 15-1897 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board and special agents from the office of the attorney general, or of a county attorney, and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Pedestrian: means any person afoot. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Pedestrian area: includes a sidewalk, crosswalk, school crosswalk, school crossing zone or safety zone. See Arizona Laws 28-1221
  • Performance-based: means regional planning agency processes and practices that are consistent with federal law, including:

    (a) Requirements prescribed in 23 United States Code § 134 and 49 United States Code § 5303. See Arizona Laws 28-6301

  • Permissive supplier: means an out-of-state supplier that elects, but is not required, to have a supplier's license pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, estate, trust, business trust, receiver or syndicate, this state, any county, city, town, district or other subdivision of this state, an Indian tribe, or any other group or combination acting as a unit. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, limited liability company, federally recognized Indian tribe or other legal entity. See Arizona Laws 5-1201
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, committee, association, corporation, Indian tribe or an entity fully owned by an Indian tribe, or any other organization or group of persons. See Arizona Laws 5-1301
  • Person: means :

    (a) An owner or operator of a motor vehicle or vehicle combination subject to the financial responsibility requirements of this article. See Arizona Laws 28-4031

  • Person: means a public or private corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society of persons, the federal government and its departments or agencies, this state or any of its agencies, departments, political subdivisions, counties, towns or municipal corporations or a natural person. See Arizona Laws 28-5201
  • person who holds the inventory position in motor fuel: means a person who has a contract with the terminal operator for the use of storage facilities and terminaling services for fuel at the terminal. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Personal mobile cargo carrying device: means an electronically powered device that:

    (a) Is operated primarily on sidewalks and within crosswalks and that is designed to transport property. See Arizona Laws 28-101

  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Pesticide: means any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used for defoliating plants or for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating insects, fungi, bacteria, weeds, rodents, predatory animals or any form of plant or animal life which is, or which the director may declare to be, a pest which may infest or be detrimental to vegetation, humans, animals or households or which may be present in any environment. See Arizona Laws 3-361
  • Pesticide use: means the sale, processing, storing, transporting, handling or applying of a pesticide and disposal of pesticide containers. See Arizona Laws 3-361
  • Petition: means a written statement of the essential facts that allege delinquency, incorrigibility or dependency. See Arizona Laws 8-201
  • Photo enforcement system: means a device substantially consisting of a radar unit or sensor linked to a camera or other recording device that produces one or more photographs, microphotographs, videotapes or digital or other recorded images of a vehicle's license plate for the purpose of identifying violators of articles 3 and 6 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 28-601
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Plan: means the comprehensive, performance-based, multimodal and coordinated regional strategic transportation infrastructure investment plan approved for the county pursuant to section 28-6308, as amended or otherwise modified. See Arizona Laws 28-6351
  • player: means an individual who participates in a fantasy sports contest offered by a fantasy sports contest operator. See Arizona Laws 5-1201
  • Player account: means an account that is established by a patron for the purpose of participating in fantasy sports contests, including deposits, withdrawals, entry fees and payouts. See Arizona Laws 5-1201
  • Plea agreement: An arrangement between the prosecutor, the defense attorney, and the defendant in which the defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for special considerations. Source:
  • 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.
  • Pole trailer: means a vehicle that is all of the following:

    (a) Without motive power. See Arizona Laws 28-601

  • Police officer: means an officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or make arrests for violations of traffic rules or other offenses. See Arizona Laws 28-601
  • Police officer: means an officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or make arrests for violations of traffic rules or for other offenses. See Arizona Laws 28-1501
  • Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Population: means the population determined in the most recent United States decennial census or the most recent special census as provided in section 28-6532 and revisions to the decennial or special census certified by the United States bureau of the census. See Arizona Laws 28-6301
  • Population: means the population determined in the most recent United States decennial census or the most recent special census as provided in section 28-6532 and revisions to the decennial or special census certified by the United States bureau of the census. See Arizona Laws 28-6531
  • Possession: means a voluntary act if the defendant knowingly exercised dominion or control over property. See Arizona Laws 13-105
  • Postadjudication release: means release on probation, intensive probation, work furlough, community supervision or home detention, release on conditional liberty pursuant to section 41-2818 by the department of juvenile corrections or any other permanent, conditional or temporary release from confinement, discharge or completion of commitment by the department of juvenile corrections, a sheriff, a municipal jail, a juvenile detention center, a residential treatment facility or a secure mental health facility. See Arizona Laws 8-382
  • Postarrest release: means the discharge of the accused from confinement. See Arizona Laws 8-382
  • 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
  • Power sweeper: means an implement, with or without motive power, that is only incidentally operated or moved on a street or highway and that is designed for the removal of debris, dirt, gravel, litter or sand whether by broom, vacuum or regenerative air system from asphaltic concrete or cement concrete surfaces, including parking lots, highways, streets and warehouses, and a vehicle on which the implement is permanently mounted. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Power unit: means a vehicle that propels itself or tows a trailer or combination of vehicles on the highways of this state. See Arizona Laws 28-1141
  • 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.
  • Preceding year: means a period of twelve consecutive months fixed by the director. See Arizona Laws 28-2231
  • Prevention: means the creation of conditions, opportunities and experiences that encourage and develop healthy, self-sufficient children and that occur before the onset of problems. See Arizona Laws 8-201
  • Prior express written consent: means the dealer's express written consent that is contained in a document separate from any other consent, contract, franchise agreement or other writing and that contains:

    (a) The dealer's consent to the data sharing and identification of all parties with whom the data may be shared. See Arizona Laws 28-4651

  • Prize or award: means anything of value or any amount of cash or cash equivalents. See Arizona Laws 5-1201
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
  • Producing: means financing, directing, manufacturing, issuing, publishing or advertising for pecuniary gain. See Arizona Laws 13-3551
  • Professional sport: means a sport conducted at the highest level league or organizational play for its respective sport and includes baseball, basketball, football, golf, hockey, soccer and motorsports. See Arizona Laws 5-1301
  • Prohibited conduct: includes any statement, action or other communication intended to unlawfully influence, manipulate or control a betting outcome of a sports event or other event of any individual occurrence or performance in a sports event or other event in exchange for financial gain or to avoid financial or physical harm. See Arizona Laws 5-1301
  • Prohibited participant: means :

    (a) Any individual whose participation may undermine the integrity of the wagering, the sports event or the other event. See Arizona Laws 5-1301

  • Proof of financial responsibility: means proof of ability to respond in damages for liability on account of accidents occurring after the effective date of the proof and arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of a motor vehicle, in the amounts required by section 28-4009 or 28-4033. See Arizona Laws 28-4001
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Protected dealer data: means any:

    (a) Personal, financial or other data relating to a consumer that a consumer provides to a dealer or that a dealer otherwise obtains and that is stored in the dealer's dealer data system. See Arizona Laws 28-4651

  • Protected information: means information related to playing fantasy sports contests by a fantasy sports contest player that is not readily available to the general public and that is obtained as a result of a person's employment in relation to a fantasy sports contest. See Arizona Laws 5-1201
  • Protective supervision: means supervision that is ordered by the juvenile court of children who are found to be dependent or incorrigible. See Arizona Laws 8-201
  • Public consignment auction dealer: means a person who at the public consignment auction dealer's established place of business or at an authorized off-premises location pursuant to the requirements of section 28-4401 is in the business of both of the following:

    (a) Conducting live auctions with a licensed auctioneer verbally calling for and accepting bids. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

  • Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
  • Public highway: means a public street, alley, road, highway or thoroughfare of any kind in this state that is used by the public or that is open to the use of the public as a matter of right, for the purpose of vehicular travel. See Arizona Laws 28-5201
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Public monies: means those monies that are received by this state and that are derived all or in part from tax revenues or other funding sources. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Public transit: means the transportation of passengers on scheduled routes by means of a conveyance on an individual passenger fare-paying basis excluding transportation by a sightseeing bus, school bus or taxi or a vehicle not operated on a scheduled route basis. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Public transportation: means moving passengers by means of a conveyance operated by or for a political subdivision of this state, including dial-a-ride transportation, special needs transportation and van pool transportation but excluding school buses. See Arizona Laws 28-6301
  • Qualified terminal: means a terminal that is designated as a qualified terminal pursuant to the United States internal revenue code, regulation and practices and that has been assigned a terminal control number by the United States internal revenue service. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Rack: means a mechanism for delivering motor fuel from a refinery, a terminal or a bulk plant into a railroad tank car, a transport truck or other means of transfer that is outside the bulk transfer terminal system. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Railroad: means a carrier of persons or property on cars operated on stationary rails. See Arizona Laws 28-601
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Reconstructed vehicle: means a vehicle that has been assembled or constructed largely by means of essential parts, new or used, derived from vehicles or makes of vehicles of various names, models and types or that, if originally otherwise constructed, has been materially altered by the removal of essential parts or by the addition or substitution of essential parts, new or used, derived from other vehicles or makes of vehicles. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • 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
  • Referral: means a report that is submitted to the juvenile court and that alleges that a child is dependent or incorrigible or that a juvenile has committed a delinquent or criminal act. See Arizona Laws 8-201
  • Refiner: means any person who owns, operates or otherwise controls a refinery within the United States. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Refinery: means a facility that is used to produce motor fuel from crude oil, unfinished oils, natural gas liquids, transmix or other hydrocarbons or by blending and from which motor fuel may be removed by pipeline, by vessel or at a rack. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Regional transportation infrastructure: means transportation projects that are selected through a performance-based process for nonmotorized mobility infrastructure, emerging technologies and air quality measures. See Arizona Laws 28-6301
  • Regionwide business: means a company that provides goods or services throughout the county. See Arizona Laws 28-6301
  • Registration: means the registration certificate or certificates and license plates issued under the laws of this state pertaining to the registration of motor vehicles. See Arizona Laws 28-4001
  • Release: means no longer in the custody of the custodial agency and includes transfer from one custodial agency to another custodial agency. See Arizona Laws 8-382
  • relevant market area: means the incorporated city or town in which the franchise is located. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • 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).
  • Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
  • Restitution: means restitution ordered pursuant to section 13-603, subsection C. See Arizona Laws 28-1630
  • Retail consumer: means any person purchasing, leasing or acquiring or possibly purchasing, leasing or acquiring a vehicle or product, service or financing not for resale. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • Revocation: means that the driver license and driver's privilege to drive a motor vehicle on the public highways of this state are terminated and shall not be renewed or restored, except that an application for a new license may be presented and acted on by the department after one year from the date of revocation. See Arizona Laws 28-3001
  • Right-of-way: when used within the context of the regulation of the movement of traffic on a highway means the privilege of the immediate use of the highway. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Rights: means any right granted to the victim by the laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 8-382
  • Road tractor: means a motor vehicle that is designed and used for drawing other vehicles and that is not constructed to carry either a load independently or any part of the weight of a vehicle or load so drawn. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Roadway: means that portion of a highway that is improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. See Arizona Laws 28-601
  • Rolling retest: means a breath alcohol test that is required of a person at random intervals after the motor vehicle is started and that is in addition to the initial test required to start the motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-1301
  • Sadomasochistic abuse: means flagellation or torture by or upon a person clad in undergarments, a mask or bizarre costume, or the condition of being fettered, bound or otherwise physically restrained on the part of one so clothed, for the purpose or in the context of sexual gratification or abuse. See Arizona Laws 13-3501
  • Safety zone: means the area or space that is both:

    (a) Officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians. See Arizona Laws 28-601

  • School bus: means a motor vehicle that is designed for carrying more than ten passengers and that is either:

    (a) Owned by any public or governmental agency or other institution and operated for the transportation of children to or from home or school on a regularly scheduled basis. See Arizona Laws 28-101

  • Screening: means a preliminary interview and assessment of an offender to determine if the offender requires alcohol or other drug education or treatment. See Arizona Laws 28-1301
  • Script: means a list of commands that a fantasy contest-related computer program can execute and that is created by a fantasy sports contest player or by a third party for a fantasy sports contest player to automate processes on a fantasy sports contest platform. See Arizona Laws 5-1201
  • Secure care: means confinement in a facility that is completely surrounded by a locked and physically secure barrier with restricted ingress and egress. See Arizona Laws 8-201
  • Seizing agency: means any department or agency of this state or its political subdivisions that regularly employs peace officers and that employs the peace officer who seizes property for forfeiture, or such other agency as the seizing agency may designate in a particular case by its chief executive officer or the chief executive officer's designee. See Arizona Laws 13-4301
  • Seizure for forfeiture: means seizure of property by a peace officer and either:

    (a) There is an assertion by the seizing agency or by an attorney for the state that the property is subject to forfeiture. See Arizona Laws 13-4301

  • Sell: includes a transfer of title or possession, exchange or barter in any manner or by any means. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Semitrailer: means a vehicle that is with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer or single-axle tow dolly, that is designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and that is constructed so that some part of its weight and that of its load rests on or is carried by another vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Serial number: means the number placed on the vehicle by its manufacturer or assigned pursuant to section 28-2165. See Arizona Laws 28-2001
  • Serious violation: means a violation of this article or a rule adopted under this article which produces a substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result, unless the violator did not, and could not with the exercise of reasonable diligence, know of such safety or human health risk, in which case the violation is nonserious. See Arizona Laws 3-361
  • Service: means any service that is sold, leased or provided to retail consumers and that directly relates to the ownership or leasing of a new or used motor vehicle, including extended service contracts or motor vehicle warranty and nonwarranty repairs or maintenance, including both parts and labor. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • 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.
  • Sexual activity: means :

    (a) Patently offensive representations or descriptions of ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated. See Arizona Laws 13-3501

  • Sexual conduct: means acts of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse, or physical contact with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks or, if such person is a female, breast. See Arizona Laws 13-3501
  • Sexual conduct: means actual or simulated:

    (a) Sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex. See Arizona Laws 13-3551

  • Sexual excitement: means the condition of human male or female genitals when in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal. See Arizona Laws 13-3501
  • Shelter care: means the temporary care of a child in any public or private facility or home that is licensed by this state and that offers a physically nonsecure environment that is characterized by the absence of physically restricting construction or hardware and that provides the child access to the surrounding community. See Arizona Laws 8-201
  • Shipper: means a person who offers a material for motor vehicle transportation in commerce. See Arizona Laws 28-5201
  • Sidewalk: means that portion of a street that is between the curb lines or the lateral lines of a roadway and the adjacent property lines and that is intended for the use of pedestrians. See Arizona Laws 28-601
  • Simulated: means any depicting of the genitals or rectal areas that gives the appearance of sexual conduct or incipient sexual conduct. See Arizona Laws 13-3551
  • Single-axle tow dolly: means a nonvehicle device that is drawn by a motor vehicle, that is designed and used exclusively to transport another motor vehicle and on which the front or rear wheels of the drawn motor vehicle are mounted on the tow dolly while the other wheels of the drawn motor vehicle remain in contact with the ground. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Special event: means an exhibition of new motor homes by a motor vehicle dealer licensed to sell new motor homes or an exhibitor for a period of time specified by the director at a location in this state other than the licensee's or exhibitor's established place of business. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • Special plates: means plates issued pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 28-2401
  • Sports event: means a professional sport or athletic event, a collegiate sport or athletic event, a motor race event, an e-sport event or an olympic event. See Arizona Laws 5-1301
  • Sports facility: means a facility that is owned by a commercial, state or local government or quasi-governmental entity that hosts professional sports events and that holds a seating capacity of more than ten thousand persons at its primary facility, one location in this state that hosts an annual golf tournament on the PGA tour and one location that holds an outdoor motorsports facility that hosts a national association for stock car auto racing national touring race. See Arizona Laws 5-1301
  • Sports governing body: means an organization headquartered in the United States that prescribes final rules and enforces codes of conduct with respect to a sports event and participants in a sports event. See Arizona Laws 5-1301
  • Stadium: means a facility intended primarily for use by one or more major league baseball spring training operations, including baseball stadiums, clubhouses, practice facilities, other related facilities, on-site infrastructure and related parking facilities and commercial activity within the facility. See Arizona Laws 5-1101
  • Star standards: means the current, applicable security standards published by the standards for technology in automotive retail. See Arizona Laws 28-4651
  • State: means a state of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • State: means a state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia or a province of the Dominion of Canada. See Arizona Laws 28-4001
  • State highway: means a state route or portion of a state route that is accepted and designated by the board as a state highway and that is maintained by the state. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • State highway fund: means the state highway fund established by section 28-6991. See Arizona Laws 28-6531
  • State of domicile: means the state or jurisdiction where a person has the person's true, fixed and permanent home and principal residence and to which the person has the intention of returning after an absence. See Arizona Laws 28-3001
  • State route: means a right-of-way whether actually used as a highway or not that is designated by the board as a location for the construction of a state highway. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • subscription: includes a mark, if a person cannot write, with the person's name written near it and witnessed by a person who writes the person's own name as witness. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Supplier: means a person that manufactures, distributes or supplies event wagering equipment or software, including event wagering systems. See Arizona Laws 5-1301
  • Suspension: means that the driver license and driver's privilege to drive a motor vehicle on the public highways of this state are temporarily withdrawn during the period of the suspension. See Arizona Laws 28-3001
  • Systems: means groups of component parts that are located throughout a vehicle and that operate together to provide a specific vehicle function. See Arizona Laws 28-4531
  • Tampering: means an overt or conscious attempt to physically disable or otherwise disconnect the certified ignition interlock device from its power source that allows the operator to start the engine without taking and passing the requisite breath test. See Arizona Laws 28-1301
  • Tax: means any tax, fee, penalty or interest imposed by this title. See Arizona Laws 28-5931
  • Tax administration: includes the levy and assessment, collection, investigation, litigation, statistical gathering, enforcement, policymaking and management functions of the director in connection with this chapter. See Arizona Laws 28-5931
  • Taxi: means a motor vehicle that has a seating capacity not exceeding fifteen passengers, including the driver, that provides passenger services and that:

    (a) Does not primarily operate on a regular route or between specified places. See Arizona Laws 28-101

  • Taxpayer: means a person liable for a tax. See Arizona Laws 28-5931
  • 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.
  • Terminal: means a storage and distribution facility for motor fuel, which is supplied by pipeline or marine vessel, that is registered as a qualified terminal by the United States internal revenue service and from which motor fuel may be removed at a rack. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Terminal operator: means any person who owns, operates or otherwise controls a terminal and who does not use a substantial portion of the motor fuel that is transferred through or stored in the terminal for the person's own use or consumption or in the manufacture of products other than motor fuel. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Testify: includes every manner of oral statement under oath or affirmation. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Tier one sports wager: means a sports wager that is determined solely by the final score or final outcome of the sports event and that is placed before the sports event has begun. See Arizona Laws 5-1301
  • Title transfer form: means a paper or an electronic form that is prescribed by the department for the purpose of transferring a certificate of title from one owner to another owner. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Traffic: means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other conveyances either singly or together while using a highway for purposes of travel. See Arizona Laws 28-601
  • Traffic: means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other conveyances either singly or together while using a highway for purposes of travel. See Arizona Laws 28-1501
  • Traffic survival school: means a school that is licensed pursuant to chapter 8, article 7. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Trailer: means a vehicle that is with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer or single-axle tow dolly, that is designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and that is constructed so that no part of its weight rests on the towing vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • 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.
  • Transmix: means the buffer or interface between two different products in a pipeline shipment or a mix of two different products within a refinery or terminal that results in an off-grade mixture that is not usable or salable as motor fuel. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Transportation: means a movement of person or property by a motor vehicle and any loading, unloading or storage incidental to the movement. See Arizona Laws 28-5201
  • Transporter: means a person who is lawfully engaged in the business of transporting or delivering vehicles that are not the person's own and vehicles of a type otherwise required to be registered, by the driveaway or towaway methods, from a point of manufacture, assembly or distribution or from the owner of the vehicles to a dealer or sales agent of a manufacturer or to any consignee designated by the shipper or consignor. See Arizona Laws 28-4621
  • Treatment: means a program consisting of at least twenty hours of participation in a group setting dealing with alcohol or other drugs in addition to the sixteen hours of education. See Arizona Laws 28-1301
  • Truck: means a motor vehicle that is designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property. See Arizona Laws 28-601
  • Truck: means a motor vehicle designed or used primarily for the carrying of property other than the effects of the driver or passengers and includes a motor vehicle to which has been added a box, a platform or other equipment for such carrying. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Truck tractor: means a motor vehicle that is designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and that is not constructed to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load drawn. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Two party exchange: means a transaction:

    (a) In which motor fuel is transferred from one licensed supplier or licensed permissive supplier to another licensed supplier or licensed permissive supplier. See Arizona Laws 28-5601

  • Ultimate sexual acts: means sexual intercourse, vaginal or anal, fellatio, cunnilingus, bestiality or sodomy. See Arizona Laws 13-3501
  • Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC
  • Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
  • Use: includes the placing of fuel into any receptacle on a motor vehicle from which fuel is supplied for the propulsion of the vehicle unless the operator of the vehicle establishes to the satisfaction of the director that the fuel was consumed for a purpose other than to propel a motor vehicle on a highway in this state and, with respect to fuel brought into this state in any such receptacle on a use class motor vehicle, the consumption of the fuel in this state. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Use class motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle that uses use fuel on a highway in this state and that is a road tractor, truck tractor, truck or passenger carrying vehicle having a declared gross vehicle weight of more than twenty-six thousand pounds or having more than two axles. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Use fuel: includes all gases and liquids used or suitable for use to propel motor vehicles, except fuels that are subject to the motor vehicle fuel tax imposed by this article. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Used motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle that has been sold, bargained, exchanged or given away or the title to the motor vehicle has been transferred from the person who first acquired the vehicle from the manufacturer, or importer, dealer or agent of the manufacturer or importer, and that has been placed in bona fide consumer use. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • Used motor vehicle dealer: means a person, other than a new motor vehicle dealer, who buys, sells, auctions, exchanges or offers or attempts to negotiate a sale or exchange of an interest in, or who is engaged in the business of selling, seven or more used motor vehicles in a continuous twelve month period. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • User: includes a person who, within the meaning of the term use as defined in this section, uses fuel in a use class motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
  • Vehicle combination: has the meaning prescribed in section 28-5431. See Arizona Laws 28-4031
  • Vehicle combination: means a motor vehicle and a vehicle in excess of ten thousand pounds gross vehicle weight that it tows, if the combined gross vehicle weight rating is more than twenty-six thousand pounds. See Arizona Laws 28-3001
  • Vehicle combination: means a motor vehicle and the trailers and semitrailers that it tows. See Arizona Laws 28-5431
  • Vehicle registration agency: means the agency or department of any state that has charge of the records of motor vehicle registration in that state. See Arizona Laws 28-4801
  • Vehicle transporter: means either:

    (a) A truck tractor capable of carrying a load and drawing a semitrailer. See Arizona Laws 28-101

  • Vendor: includes a person who sells use fuel in this state and who places the fuel or causes the fuel to be placed into any receptacle on a motor vehicle from which receptacle fuel is supplied for the propulsion, including a service station dealer, a broker and a user who sells use fuel to others. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Victim: means a person against whom the delinquent act was committed, or if the person is killed or incapacitated, the person's spouse, parent, child, grandparent or sibling, any other person related to the person by consanguinity or affinity to the second degree or any other lawful representative of the person, except if the person or the person's spouse, parent, child, grandparent, sibling, other person related to the person by consanguinity or affinity to the second degree or other lawful representative is in custody for an offense or is the accused. See Arizona Laws 8-382
  • Victim advocate: work with prosecutors and assist the victims of a crime.
  • Victim Impact Statement: A written or spoken statement by the victim or his or her representative about the physical, emotional, and financial impact of a crime on the victim. The statement is given to the court before sentencing.
  • Visual depiction: includes each visual image that is contained in an undeveloped film, videotape or photograph or data stored in any form and that is capable of conversion into a visual image. See Arizona Laws 13-3551
  • Wholesale motor vehicle auction dealer: means a person who both:

    (a) Is in the business of providing auction services solely in wholesale transactions to motor vehicle dealers licensed by this state or any other jurisdiction. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

  • Wholesale motor vehicle dealer: means a person who sells used motor vehicles only to licensed motor vehicle dealers. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
  • Youth sports: means recreational and amateur sporting related activities and competitions organized in the district. See Arizona Laws 5-1101