Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 10 > Chapter 37 - Dissolution-Nonprofit Corporations

• Abandoned: means the failure of the parent to provide reasonable support and to maintain regular contact with the child, including providing normal supervision. See Arizona Laws 8-201
• Abandonment: means the failure of a parent to provide reasonable support and to maintain regular contact with the child, including providing normal supervision. See Arizona Laws 8-531
• 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
• Act of the board of directors: means either:

  (a) An act of the majority of the directors present at a duly called meeting at which a quorum is present, unless the act of a greater number is required by chapters 1 through 17 of this title, the articles of incorporation or the bylaws. See Arizona Laws 10-140

• Act of the members: means either:

  (a) An act adopted or rejected by a majority of the votes represented and voting at a duly held meeting at which a quorum is present where affirmative votes also constitute a majority of the required quorum unless a greater number of votes is required by chapters 24 through 40 of this title, the articles of incorporation or the bylaws. See Arizona Laws 10-3140

• Address: means a mailing address. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Adult: means a person who is eighteen years of age or older. See Arizona Laws 8-201
• Adulterated: means the existence of one or more of the conditions described in section 402 of the federal food, drug and cosmetic act, as amended (52 Stat. See Arizona Laws 3-601
• Advertisement: includes the attempt by publication, dissemination, solicitation or circulation, oral or written, to induce directly or indirectly any person to enter into any obligation or acquire any title or interest in any merchandise. See Arizona Laws 44-1521
• Agency: means an agency licensed by the division to place children for adoption. See Arizona Laws 8-531
• 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.
• 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
• Articles of incorporation: means the original or restated articles of incorporation or articles of merger and all amendments to the articles of incorporation or merger and includes amended and restated articles of incorporation and articles of amendment and merger. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Associate director: means the associate director of the division. See Arizona Laws 3-601
• Attorney general: means the attorney general of Arizona or the attorney general's authorized delegate. See Arizona Laws 44-1521
• Auction: means the sale of jewelry at either private or public sale, upon oral or written bids, to the highest bidder, and includes all such sales by whatever name called. See Arizona Laws 44-1671
• Authorized delegate: means any attorney, investigator or administrative personnel employed by the attorney general and so designated, and, if requested by the county attorney and authorized by the attorney general, may include similar personnel employed by the several county attorneys of this state. See Arizona Laws 44-1521
• Bakery rack: means a metal frame that holds bakery trays or other bakery products and that is used by a bakery, distributor or retailer or its agent as a means to transport, store or carry bakery products. See Arizona Laws 44-1721
• Bakery tray: means a wire or plastic receptacle that holds bread, buns or other baked goods and that is used by a bakery, distributor or retailer or its agent as a means to transport, store or carry bakery products. See Arizona Laws 44-1721
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Board of directors: means the group of persons vested with the management of the affairs of the corporation irrespective of the name by which the group is designated and includes the governing body or bodies of a water users' association if the articles of incorporation of the water users' association provide for a governing body or bodies denominated other than as a board of directors. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Bucket shop: means any place wherein dealing in futures is carried on as defined in this section. See Arizona Laws 44-1651
• Business records: means records of any purchase, trade, barter or other transaction that involves the receipt of scrap metals and that is made in the ordinary course of business at or near the time of the purchase, trade, barter or transaction, including receipts, books or similar records as prescribed by section 44-1642, but does not include correspondence, tax returns or financial statements. See Arizona Laws 44-1641
• Butter: means the clean and nonrancid product containing not less than eighty per cent milk fat produced by gathering the fat of milk or cream into a mass, containing a small portion of other milk constituents, and with or without salt or harmless coloring matter. See Arizona Laws 3-601
• Buyer: means any natural person who is solicited to purchase or who purchases the services of a credit services organization. See Arizona Laws 44-1701
• Bylaws: means the code of rules adopted for the regulation or management of the affairs of the corporation irrespective of the name by which those rules are designated. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Certificate of disclosure: means the certificate of disclosure described in section 10-202. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Child: means a person less than eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 8-531
• Child safety services: means a specialized child welfare program that is administered by the department as provided in this chapter and that investigates allegations of and seeks to prevent, intervene in and treat abuse and neglect, to promote the well-being of the child in a permanent home and to coordinate services to strengthen the family. See Arizona Laws 8-801
• Class: refers to a group of memberships that have the same rights with respect to voting, dissolution, redemption and transfer. See Arizona Laws 10-3140
• Commission: means the Arizona corporation commission. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• commit: means to assign legal custody. See Arizona Laws 8-201
• Commodity: means any agricultural, grain or livestock product or by-product, any metal or mineral including a precious metal, any gem or gemstone whether characterized as precious, semiprecious or otherwise, any fuel whether liquid, gaseous or otherwise, any foreign currency and all other goods, articles, products or items of any kind. See Arizona Laws 44-1801
• Compensation: includes a payment based on a sale or distribution made to a person who either is a participant in a pyramid promotional scheme or has the right to become a participant upon payment. See Arizona Laws 44-1731
• 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

• Consideration: means the payment of cash or the purchase of goods, services or intangible property but does not include:

  (a) The purchase of goods or services furnished at cost to be used in making sales and not for resale. See Arizona Laws 44-1731

• Consumer: means an individual. See Arizona Laws 44-1691
• Consumer: means an individual who uses or intends to use household goods moving services provided by a household goods mover. See Arizona Laws 44-1611
• Consumer report: means any written, oral, or other communication of any information by a consumer reporting agency bearing on a consumer's credit worthiness, credit standing, credit capacity, character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living which is used or expected to be used or collected in whole or in part for the purpose of serving as a factor in establishing the consumer's eligibility for (a) credit or insurance to be used primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, or (b) employment purposes, or (c) other purposes authorized under section 44-1692. See Arizona Laws 44-1691
• Consumer reporting agency: means any person which, for monetary fees, dues, or on a cooperative nonprofit basis, regularly engages in whole or in part in the practice of assembling or evaluating consumer credit information on consumers for the purpose of furnishing consumer reports to third parties. See Arizona Laws 44-1691
• Container: means a bakery rack, bakery tray, dairy case, egg basket or merchandise pallet. See Arizona Laws 44-1721
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract for dance studio lessons and other services: means a contract for instruction in ballroom or other types of dancing and includes but is not limited to dance competitions, olympics, single specialist projects, showcases and other services whether given to customers individually or in groups. See Arizona Laws 44-1741
• Control: means actual or legal power of influence over another person, whether direct or indirect, arising through direct or indirect ownership of capital stock, interlocking directorates or officers, contractual relations, agency agreements or leasing arrangements where the result is used to affect or influence such persons. See Arizona Laws 44-1551
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Court: means the superior court of this state. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. ^{Source: OCC}
• Credit Score: A number, roughly between 300 and 800, that measures an individual's credit worthiness. The most well-known type of credit score is the FICO score. This score represents the answer from a mathematical formula that assigns numerical values to various pieces of information in your credit report. ^{Source: OCC}
• Credit services organization: means a person who, with respect to the extension of credit by others, sells, provides, performs or represents that he can or will sell, provide or perform any of the following services in return for the payment of monies or other valuable consideration:

  (a) Improving a buyer's credit record, history or rating. See Arizona Laws 44-1701

• 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 a court of competent jurisdiction. See Arizona Laws 8-531
• 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
• Dairy case: means a plastic receptacle that holds sixteen quarts or more of beverage and that is used by a dairy, distributor or retailer or its agent as a means to transport, store or carry dairy products. See Arizona Laws 44-1721
• Dance studio: means any person who contracts directly with members of the general public to provide dance studio lessons and other services. See Arizona Laws 44-1741
• Dealer: means any person engaged in the retail sale of petroleum products supplied under a distributorship, franchise or other agreement, entered into with a distributor. See Arizona Laws 44-1551
• Dealer: means a person engaged in conducting, managing or carrying on the business of purchasing solely precious items or precious items in addition to other tangible personal property. See Arizona Laws 44-1601
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Deliver: includes sending by mail, private courier, fax or electronic transmission. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Department: means the department of public safety. See Arizona Laws 44-1641
• Department: means the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-101
• department: means the department of child safety. See Arizona Laws 8-501
• Department: means the department of child safety. See Arizona Laws 8-201
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Designee: means a local law enforcement agency designated in writing by a county sheriff to perform designated duties specified in this article on behalf of the sheriff. See Arizona Laws 44-1621
• Director: means the director of the securities division of the commission. See Arizona Laws 44-1801
• 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.
• Dissolved: means the status of a corporation on either:

  (a) Effectiveness of articles of dissolution pursuant to section 10-1403, subsection B or section 10-1421, subsection B. See Arizona Laws 10-140

• Distribution: means a direct or indirect transfer of money or other property, except its own shares, or incurrence of indebtedness by a corporation to or for the benefit of its shareholders in respect of any of its shares. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Distributor: means any person engaged in the sale, consignment or other distribution of petroleum products to dealers at retail outlets serving the general motoring public. See Arizona Laws 44-1551
• Division: means the securities division of the commission. See Arizona Laws 44-1801
• Division: means the animal services division of the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-601
• Division: means the department. See Arizona Laws 8-531
• Egg basket: means a wire or plastic receptacle that holds four dozen or more shell eggs and that is used by a processor, distributor or retailer or its agent as a means to transport, store or carry eggs. See Arizona Laws 44-1721
• Employment purposes: when used in connection with a consumer report means a report used for the purpose of evaluating a consumer for employment, promotion, reassignment or retention as an employee. See Arizona Laws 44-1691
• 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}
• Examine: means the inspection, study or copying of any account, book, document, merchandise, paper or record. See Arizona Laws 44-1521
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Extension of credit: means the right to defer payment of debt or to incur debt and defer its payment, which is offered or granted primarily for personal, family or household purposes. See Arizona Laws 44-1701
• Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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}
• File: when used in connection with information on any consumer, means all of the information on that consumer recorded and retained by a consumer reporting agency regardless of how the information is stored. See Arizona Laws 44-1691
• Filing: means the commission completing the following procedure with respect to any document delivered for that purpose:

  (a) Determining that the filing fee requirements of section 10-122 have been satisfied. See Arizona Laws 10-140

• 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}
• Foster child: means a child placed in a foster home or child welfare agency. See Arizona Laws 8-501
• Foster home: means a home that is maintained by any individual or individuals having the care or control of minor children, other than those related to each other by blood or marriage, or related to such individuals, or who are legal wards of such individuals. See Arizona Laws 8-501
• Foster parent: means any individual or individuals maintaining a foster home. See Arizona Laws 8-501
• Franchise: means a commercial relationship between a supplier and a wholesaler that includes all of the following:

  (a) A commercial relationship of definite duration or continuing indefinite duration is involved. See Arizona Laws 44-1565

• franchise agreement: means a written agreement between a distributor and a dealer under which the dealer is granted the right to use a trademark, trade name, service mark or other identifying symbol or name owned by the distributor, under which the dealer is granted the right to occupy premises owned, leased, or controlled by the distributor, for the purpose of engaging in the retail sale of petroleum products of the distributor. See Arizona Laws 44-1551
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fraud Alert: A key provision of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 is the consumer's ability to place a fraud alert on their credit record. A consumer would use this option if they believe they were a victim of identity theft. ^{Source: OCC}
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Good cause: means the failure of a dealer to comply with those express provisions of the franchise except any that may be unconscionable. See Arizona Laws 44-1551
• Good cause: means failure by the supplier or the wholesaler to comply with the provisions of an agreement as delineated therein, which provisions are not unconscionable. See Arizona Laws 44-1565
• Good faith: includes the duty of a party to act in a fair and equitable manner in the performance and in demanding performance of the franchise. See Arizona Laws 44-1551
• Good faith: means the duty of each party to any franchise and all officers, employees or agents of the franchise to act in a fair and equitable manner in carrying out the agreement. See Arizona Laws 44-1565
• Household goods: means goods that are used primarily for personal, family or household purposes and that are used in connection with household goods moving services. See Arizona Laws 44-1611
• Household goods mover: means a person that provides household goods moving services. See Arizona Laws 44-1611
• Identification document: means a valid driver license, a valid nonoperating identification license, a valid armed forces identification card or any other valid government issued photo identification. See Arizona Laws 44-1621
• Independent living program: includes a residential program with supervision of less than twenty-four hours a day. See Arizona Laws 8-201
• Individual: includes the estate of an incompetent or deceased individual. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Industrial account: means either:

  (a) A person or business entity that files or is required to file monthly returns for that person's or entity's transaction privilege tax licenses and that is reasonably expected to generate the type of scrap metals it sells. See Arizona Laws 44-1641

• Insolvent: means inability of a corporation to pay its debts as they become due in the usual course of its business. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• Investment items: means commodities that possess the characteristics of those items commonly traded in internationally recognized markets. See Arizona Laws 44-1601
• Issuer: means any person who issues or proposes to issue any security, except:

  (a) With respect to certificates of deposit, voting-trust certificates, collateral-trust certificates, certificates of interest or shares in an unincorporated investment trust, whether or not of the fixed, restricted management or unit type, issuer means the person or persons performing the acts and assuming the duties of depositor or manager pursuant to the provisions of the trust or other agreement or instrument under which such securities are issued. See Arizona Laws 44-1801

• Jewelry: includes gold, platinum, silver, gold-filled or plated ware, diamonds and other precious or semiprecious stones whether mounted or unmounted, cultured pearls, watches, clocks, and goods, wares and merchandise commonly classified as jewelry and commonly offered for sale in jewelry stores. See Arizona Laws 44-1671
• Juvenile court: means the juvenile division of the superior court. See Arizona Laws 8-531
• 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
• Known place of business: means the known place of business required to be maintained pursuant to section 10-501. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• legal custody: means a status embodying all of the following rights and responsibilities:

  (a) The right to have physical possession of the child. See Arizona Laws 8-531

• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Loan: means advancing money on the security of pledged goods or purchasing tangible personal property on the condition that it may be redeemed or repurchased by the seller for a fixed or variable price within a fixed or variable period of time. See Arizona Laws 44-1621
• Local law enforcement agency: means the police department of an incorporated city or town or, in areas outside of incorporated cities and towns, the county sheriff. See Arizona Laws 44-1601
• Local law enforcement agency: means the chief of police, the police department or the town marshal, if applicable to a city or town, or the county sheriff, the sheriff's designee or the county sheriff's department, if applicable to a county. See Arizona Laws 44-1621
• Maturity date: means the date specified on the pawn ticket by which the pledged goods must be redeemed or the pawn ticket must be renewed. See Arizona Laws 44-1621
• Member: means , without regard to what a person is called in the articles of incorporation or bylaws, any person or persons who, pursuant to a provision of a corporation's articles of incorporation or bylaws, have the right to vote for the election of a director or directors. See Arizona Laws 10-3140
• Membership: refers to the rights and obligations a member or members have pursuant to a corporation's articles of incorporation and bylaws and chapters 24 through 40 of this title. See Arizona Laws 10-3140
• Merchandise: means any objects, wares, goods, commodities, intangibles, real estate or services. See Arizona Laws 44-1521
• Merchandise pallet: means a wooden or plastic carrier or holder used by a manufacturer or distributor to transport merchandise to wholesale and retail outlets. See Arizona Laws 44-1721
• Misbranded: means either:

  (a) The existence of one or more of the conditions described in section 403 of the federal food, drug and cosmetic act, as amended (52 Stat. See Arizona Laws 3-601

• Misrepresentation: means a false or misleading representation made by a person with an intent to deceive or defraud. See Arizona Laws 44-1621
• 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
• Moving destination: means the location that the consumer specifies is where the household goods shall be delivered and unloaded. See Arizona Laws 44-1611
• Name or mark: means a permanently affixed or permanently stamped name or mark that satisfies the requirements of section 44-1722 and that is used for the purpose of identifying the owner of the containers. See Arizona Laws 44-1721
• 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

• Newborn infant: means a child who is under thirty days of age. See Arizona Laws 8-201
• Newspaper: has the meaning set forth in section 39-201. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Oath: includes an affirmation or declaration. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• offer for sale: means an attempt or offer to dispose of, or solicitation of an order or offer to buy, a security or interest in a security for value or any sale or offer for sale of a warrant or right to subscribe to another security of the same issuer or of another issuer. See Arizona Laws 44-1801
• Open-end credit: A credit agreement (typically a credit card) that allows a customer to borrow against a preapproved credit line when purchasing goods and services. The borrower is only billed for the amount that is actually borrowed plus any interest due. (Also called a charge account or revolving credit.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Operator: includes a manager or any person in charge of the operation of motels, motor hotels, motor courts, motor camps, hotels, and like establishments. See Arizona Laws 44-1501
• Out-of-home placement: means the placing of a child in the custody of an individual or agency other than with the child's parent or legal guardian and includes placement in temporary custody pursuant to section 8-821, voluntary placement pursuant to section 8-806 or placement due to dependency actions. See Arizona Laws 8-501
• owner: includes natural persons, firms, and corporations. See Arizona Laws 44-1501
• Parent: means the natural or adoptive mother or father of a child. See Arizona Laws 8-501
• Parent: means the natural or adoptive mother or father of a child. See Arizona Laws 8-531
• Parent-child relationship: includes all rights, privileges, duties and obligations existing between parent and child, including inheritance rights. See Arizona Laws 8-531
• Parking area: means a lot or other property provided by a recipient for the use of its customers to park vehicles while at the recipient's establishment. See Arizona Laws 44-1721
• Parties: includes the child, the petitioners and any parent of the child required to consent to the adoption pursuant to section 8-106. See Arizona Laws 8-531
• 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.
• Pawn ticket: means the actual executed document that records the pawn transaction and describes the conditions of the loan agreement between the pawnbroker and pledgor. See Arizona Laws 44-1621
• Pawn transaction: means either the act between the pawnbroker and a person pledging tangible personal property or extending credit on the security of pledged goods or the act of purchasing tangible personal property with an express or implied agreement or understanding that it may be redeemed or repurchased by the seller for a fixed or variable price within a fixed or variable period of time, except that a good faith outright purchase of tangible personal property is not a pawn transaction. See Arizona Laws 44-1621
• Pawnbroker: means a person who is engaged in the business of advancing money on the security of pledged goods or is engaged in the business of purchasing tangible personal property on the condition that it may be redeemed or repurchased by the seller for a fixed or variable price within a fixed or variable period of time. See Arizona Laws 44-1621
• Pawnshop: means the location or premises at which a pawnbroker is licensed to regularly conduct the pawnbroker's business. See Arizona Laws 44-1621
• Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, joint stock company or trust, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency or any other unincorporated organization. See Arizona Laws 44-1801
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or any other entity of whatever kind or nature. See Arizona Laws 44-1691
• Person: means any natural person or the person's legal representative, any partnership or domestic or foreign corporation, any company, trust, business entity or association or any agent, employee, salesman, partner, officer, director, member, stockholder, associate or trustee. See Arizona Laws 44-1521
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association or any other entity of whatever kind or nature. See Arizona Laws 44-1601
• Person: includes an individual and entity. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• 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
• Petition: means a written statement of the essential facts that allege delinquency, incorrigibility or dependency. See Arizona Laws 8-201
• Petroleum products: means motor vehicle fuels and lubricants. See Arizona Laws 44-1551
• Petty offense: A federal misdemeanor punishable by six months or less in prison. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Pledged goods: means tangible personal property which is deposited with or otherwise actually delivered into the possession of a pawnbroker in the course of the pawnbroker's business in connection with the pawn transaction. See Arizona Laws 44-1621
• Pledgor: means the person leaving the personal property with the pawnbroker and executing the pawn ticket. See Arizona Laws 44-1621
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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}
• Precious item: means :

  (a) Secondhand gold, silver, platinum or jewelry, flatware or holloware containing gold, silver or platinum. See Arizona Laws 44-1601

• Pretrial conference: A meeting of the judge and lawyers to discuss which matters should be presented to the jury, to review evidence and witnesses, to set a timetable, and to discuss the settlement of the case.
• Proceeding: includes a civil suit and a criminal, administrative and investigatory action. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• 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 law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Publish: means to publish in a newspaper of general circulation in the county of the known place of business for three consecutive publications. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Purchase: means to buy, trade, exchange or receive a precious item. See Arizona Laws 44-1601
• Purchaser: means a person who purchases any cat or dog without intent to resell. See Arizona Laws 44-1799
• Pyramid promotional scheme: means any plan or operation by which a participant gives consideration for the opportunity to receive compensation which is derived primarily from any person's introduction of other persons into participation in the plan or operation rather than from the sale of goods, services or intangible property by the participant or other persons introduced into the plan or operation. See Arizona Laws 44-1731
• Qualified young adult: means a former dependent child who is at least eighteen years of age and not over twenty-one years of age, who meets the criteria for an extended foster care program pursuant to Section 8-521. See Arizona Laws 8-201
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Reason for leaving care: means one of the following:

  (a) Reunification with a parent or primary caretaker. See Arizona Laws 8-501

• Receiving foster home: means a licensed foster home that is suitable for immediate placement of children when taken into custody or pending medical examination and court disposition. See Arizona Laws 8-501
• Recipient: means a person, firm, corporation or association that is authorized by the owner to use an owner's container. See Arizona Laws 44-1721
• 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}
• redemption: means the act of the pledgor or the pledgor's agent of retrieving and paying in full all charges and fees for the pledged goods left with the pawnshop. See Arizona Laws 44-1621
• Registered mail: includes certified mail. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Relative: means a grandparent, great-grandparent, brother or sister of whole or half blood, aunt, uncle or first cousin. See Arizona Laws 8-501
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Reportable transaction: means any transaction conducted by a pawnbroker in which merchandise is received through a pawn, purchase, trade or consignment. See Arizona Laws 44-1621
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Sale: means any sale, offer for sale or attempt to sell any merchandise for any consideration, including sales, leases and rentals of any real estate subject to any form of deed restriction imposed as part of a previous sale. See Arizona Laws 44-1521
• Salesman: means an individual, other than a dealer, employed, appointed or authorized by a dealer to sell securities in this state. See Arizona Laws 44-1801
• Scrap metal dealers: means each person or business entity, including all employees of the person or business entity, except automotive recyclers that are licensed pursuant to Title 28, Chapter 10 and whose primary business is the dismantling, selling or disposing of parts or accessories of motor vehicles, engaged in the business of purchasing, trading, bartering or otherwise receiving secondhand or castoff material of any kind that is commonly known as scrap metal. See Arizona Laws 44-1641
• Scrap metals: includes insulated and uninsulated metallic cables and scrap vehicles. See Arizona Laws 44-1641
• Scrap vehicle: means a vehicle that has been reported to the national vehicle title information system and that has been flattened, crushed, baled or logged so that the vehicle is less than fifty percent of its original volume, is no longer the vehicle that is described by the certificate of title and is sold for purposes of scrap metal only. See Arizona Laws 44-1641
• Secondhand: means that the precious item has previously been owned by someone other than the manufacturer or dealer whose business it is to sell such items to the public. See Arizona Laws 44-1601
• sell: means a sale or any other disposition of a security or interest in a security for value and includes a contract to make such sale or disposition. See Arizona Laws 44-1801
• 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.
• 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
• Spirituous liquor: includes alcohol, brandy, whiskey, rum, tequila, mescal, gin, wine, porter, absinthe, a compound or mixture of any of them or of any of them with any vegetable or other substance, alcohol bitters, bitters containing alcohol, any liquid mixture or preparation, whether patented or otherwise, that produces intoxication, fruits preserved in ardent spirits and beverages containing more than one-half of one percent of alcohol by volume. See Arizona Laws 44-1565
• 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 any person other than a wholesaler engaged in business as a manufacturer, distiller, rectifier, importer, brewer, vintner, broker or agent that distributes any or all of its beer through duly licensed wholesalers in this state. See Arizona Laws 44-1565
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Transaction date: means the initial date of the reportable transaction. See Arizona Laws 44-1621
• 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.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Vote: includes authorization by written ballot and written consent. See Arizona Laws 10-3140
• Voting power: means the total number of votes entitled to be cast for the election of directors at the time the determination of voting power is made, excluding a vote that is contingent on the happening of a condition or event that has not occurred at the time. See Arizona Laws 10-3140
• Wholesaler: means any person licensed by the department of liquor licenses and control to sell at wholesale beer to retailers duly licensed in this state. See Arizona Laws 44-1565
• worker: means a person who has been selected by and trained under the requirements prescribed by the department and who assists in carrying out the provisions of this article. See Arizona Laws 8-801
• written: includes blockchain technology as defined in section 44-7061. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Young adult administrative review: means an administrative review of a voluntary extended foster care case plan with the qualified young adult, the department's case specialist or designee, an independent party who is not responsible for the case management of or the delivery of services to the qualified young adult and any other individual the young adult invites. See Arizona Laws 8-201