A. A program participant shall notify the secretary of state within thirty days after the program participant has obtained a legal name change by providing the secretary of state a certified copy of any judgment or order evidencing the change or any other documentation the secretary of state deems to be sufficient evidence of the name change.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 41-164

  • 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.
  • Applicant: means an individual identified as such in an application received by the secretary of state pursuant to section 41-163. See Arizona Laws 41-161
  • 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.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Program participant: means an individual accepted into the address confidentiality program. See Arizona Laws 41-161
  • State or local government entity: means every elected or appointed state or local public office, public officer or official, board, commission, bureau, committee, council, department, authority, agency, institution of higher education or other unit of the executive, legislative or judicial branch of this state or any city, town, county, public school or other kind of municipal, quasi-municipal or public corporation but does not include an agricultural improvement district. See Arizona Laws 41-161
  • Substitute address: means an address that is designated by the secretary of state under the address confidentiality program and that is used instead of an actual address. See Arizona Laws 41-161

B. A program participant shall notify the secretary of state of a change in address or telephone number from the address or telephone number listed for the program participant on the application pursuant to section 41-163, subsection C no later than seven days after the change occurs.

C. The certification of a program participant shall be canceled under any of the following circumstances:

1. The program participant files a request for withdrawal of the certification pursuant to section 41-163, subsection E.

2. The program participant fails to notify the secretary of state of a change in the program participant’s name, address or telephone number listed on the application pursuant to this section.

3. The program participant or parent or guardian who completes an application on behalf of an applicant knowingly submitted false information in the program application.

4. Mail forwarded to the program participant by the secretary of state is returned as undeliverable.

D. If the secretary of state determines that there is one or more grounds for canceling certification of a program participant pursuant to subsection C of this section, the secretary of state shall send notice of cancellation to the program participant. The notice of cancellation shall set forth the reasons for cancellation. The program participant has thirty days to appeal the cancellation decision under rules adopted by the secretary of state.

E. An individual who ceases to be a program participant is responsible for notifying any person, state or local government entity or business that uses the substitute address that the designated substitute address is no longer valid.

 

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