Arizona Laws 13-3706. Failure to procure or exhibit a business license; classification
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A. A person commits failure to procure or exhibit a business license if such person knowingly commences or transacts any business, profession or calling, for which a license is required by any law of this state, without procuring the license prescribed for transacting such business, or who upon demand of a peace officer or magistrate, refuses to exhibit such license.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 13-3706
- Knowingly: means , with respect to conduct or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware or believes that the person's conduct is of that nature or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 13-105
- 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
- Misdemeanor: means an offense for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment other than to the custody of the state department of corrections is authorized by any law of this state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
- 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
- Person: means a human being and, as the context requires, an enterprise, a public or private corporation, an unincorporated association, a partnership, a firm, a society, a government, a governmental authority or an individual or entity capable of holding a legal or beneficial interest in property. See Arizona Laws 13-105
B. Failure to procure or exhibit a business license is a class 2 misdemeanor.