Terms Used In Arizona Laws 36-778

  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • 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.

(Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies)

 

A. The proposition 204 protection account is established consisting of monies deposited pursuant to section 36-770. The Arizona health care cost containment system administration shall administer the account.

B. The administration shall use account monies to implement and fund programs and services required as a result of the expanded definition of an eligible person prescribed in Section 36-2901.01.

C. The administration shall spend the balance of monies in the account before it spends monies from the Arizona tobacco litigation settlement fund established by Section 36-2901.02.