Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 10 > Chapter 15 > Article 1 - Grant of Authority

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Agency: means the supreme court, the department of economic security, the department of child safety, the department of education, the department of health services, the department of juvenile corrections, the department of emergency and military affairs, the department of public safety, the department of transportation, the state real estate department, the department of insurance and financial institutions, the Arizona game and fish department, the Arizona department of agriculture, the board of examiners of nursing care institution administrators and assisted living facility managers, the state board of dental examiners, the Arizona state board of pharmacy, the board of physical therapy, the state board of psychologist examiners, the board of athletic training, the board of occupational therapy examiners, the state board of podiatry examiners, the acupuncture board of examiners the state board of technical registration or the board of massage therapy or the Arizona department of housing. See Arizona Laws 41-619.51
• 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.
• 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.
• Appointing authority: means the person or group of persons authorized by law or delegated authority to make appointments to fill positions. See Arizona Laws 41-741
• 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
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• 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
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• At will: means an employment relationship where either party to the relationship may sever the relationship at any time for any reason other than an unlawful reason. See Arizona Laws 41-741
• Board: means the board of fingerprinting. See Arizona Laws 41-619.51
• 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
• Break in service: means a separation from state employment, regardless of the reason for separation. See Arizona Laws 41-741
• Building renewal: means major activities that involve the repair or reworking of a building and the supporting infrastructure that will result in maintaining a building's expected useful life. See Arizona Laws 41-790
• Building system: means a group of buildings that together constitute a single unit for purposes of planning, land acquisition, construction or building renewal. See Arizona Laws 41-790
• Capital projects: means buildings, structures, facilities and areas constructed for the use or benefit of this state. See Arizona Laws 41-790
• Central registry exception: means notification to the department of economic security, the department of child safety or the department of health services, as appropriate, pursuant to Section 41-619. See Arizona Laws 41-619.51
• Certificate of disclosure: means the certificate of disclosure described in section 10-202. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Change in assignment: means movement of an employee to a different position in the same state agency or another state agency. See Arizona Laws 41-741
• 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
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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
• Covered employee: means an employee who:

  (a) Before September 29, 2012, is in the state service, is not uncovered pursuant to section 41-742, subsection A and has remained in covered status without a break in service since that date. See Arizona Laws 41-741

• Covered service: means that employment status conferring rights of appeal as prescribed in sections 41-782 and 41-783 or Section 41-1830. See Arizona Laws 41-741
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deliver: includes sending by mail, private courier, fax or electronic transmission. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Delivery: means actual receipt by the person or entity to which directed and for electronic transmissions means receipt as described in section 44-7015, subsection B. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Department: means the department of administration. See Arizona Laws 41-701.01
• Director: means the director of the department of administration. See Arizona Laws 41-701.01
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• domestic corporation: means a corporation for profit that is not a foreign corporation and that is incorporated under or subject to chapters 1 through 17 of this title. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Electronic transmission: means an electronic record as defined in section 44-7002 that is sent pursuant to section 44-7015. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Employee: means all officers and employees of this state, whether in covered service or uncovered service, unless otherwise prescribed. See Arizona Laws 41-741
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executed by the corporation: means executed by manual or facsimile signature on behalf of the corporation by a duly authorized officer or, if the corporation is in the hands of a receiver or trustee, by the receiver or trustee. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Expedited review: means an examination, in accordance with board rule, of the documents an applicant submits by the board or its hearing officer without the applicant being present. See Arizona Laws 41-619.51
• 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

• 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.
• Foreign corporation: means a corporation for profit that is incorporated under a law other than the law of this state. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Full authority peace officer: means a peace officer whose authority to enforce the laws of this state is not limited by the rules adopted by the Arizona peace officer standards and training board. See Arizona Laws 41-741
• 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 exception: means the issuance of a fingerprint clearance card to an employee pursuant to Section 41-619. See Arizona Laws 41-619.51
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Individual: includes the estate of an incompetent or deceased individual. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Infrastructure: means nonbuilding improvements that directly support operating a facility that is listed in the annual building system such as utility delivery systems, roadway systems, external lighting systems, irrigation systems, sidewalks and parking lots. See Arizona Laws 41-790
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Known place of business: means the known place of business required to be maintained pursuant to section 10-501. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Land acquisition: means the procurement of real property by gift, grant, purchase, lease purchase, condemnation or other lawful means. See Arizona Laws 41-790
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• Lease: 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• 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
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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
• 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.
• Original probationary period: means the specified period following initial appointment to covered service. See Arizona Laws 41-741
• 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 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
• Person: means a person who is required to be fingerprinted pursuant to this article or who is subject to a central registry check and any of the following:

  (a) Section 3-314. See Arizona Laws 41-619.51

• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Principal office: means the office, in or out of this state, so designated in the annual report where the principal executive offices of a domestic or foreign corporation are located or in any other document executed by the corporation by an officer and delivered to the commission for filing. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Probationary period: means a working test period of employment in a covered service position for evaluation of the employee's work. See Arizona Laws 41-741
• Proceeding: includes a civil suit and a criminal, administrative and investigatory action. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• 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.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Rules: means rules adopted by the department of administration, human resources division. See Arizona Laws 41-741
• Secretary: means that officer designated as the secretary in the articles of incorporation or bylaws or that officer authorized in the articles of incorporation, the bylaws or otherwise to perform the functions of secretary, irrespective of the name by which designated. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Security: means security services related to building operation and maintenance functions provided by the department. See Arizona Laws 41-790
• 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.
• Shares: means the units into which the proprietary interests in a corporation are divided. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• State agency: means a department, board, office, authority, commission or other governmental budget unit of this state and includes an agency assigned to a department for administrative purposes. See Arizona Laws 41-741
• State capitol building: means :

  (a) The original 1898 statehouse known as the state capitol museum. See Arizona Laws 41-790

• State personnel board: means the board established by section 41-781. See Arizona Laws 41-741
• State personnel system: means all state agencies and employees of those agencies that are not exempted by this article. See Arizona Laws 41-741
• State service: means all offices and positions of employment in state government that, before September 29, 2012, were subject to the provisions of articles 5 and 6 of this chapter that were in effect before September 29, 2012. See Arizona Laws 41-741
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Supervisor: means a state employee who has one or more other state employees reporting directly to the person and, for those state employees, typically has the authority to:

  (a) Approve sick or annual leave. See Arizona Laws 41-741

• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• trustees: means individuals, designated in the articles of incorporation or bylaws or elected by the incorporators, and their successors and individuals elected or appointed by any other name or title to act as members of the board. See Arizona Laws 10-3140
• Uncovered employee: means an employee in uncovered service. See Arizona Laws 41-741
• Uncovered service: means employment at will and includes all state employees except those in covered service. See Arizona Laws 41-741
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• written: includes blockchain technology as defined in section 44-7061. See Arizona Laws 10-140