Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 10 > Chapter 24 > Article 2 - Filing Documents and Fees-Nonprofit Corporations

• acknowledgment: means either:

  (a) An acknowledgment made by the person or persons signing an instrument and taken by a notarial officer pursuant to Title 41, Chapter 2, Article 1. See Arizona Laws 10-140

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Air commerce: means the scheduled transportation by aircraft of persons or property for hire in interstate, intrastate or international transportation. See Arizona Laws 42-14251
• Aircraft: means any device that is used or designed for navigation or flight through the air. See Arizona Laws 42-14251
• Aircraft time: means the number of minutes in the preceding calendar year in which flight property was in the possession of an airline company. See Arizona Laws 42-14251
• Airline company: means any person who directly or indirectly undertakes to engage in the business of scheduled air commerce. See Arizona Laws 42-14251
• Airport: means any area of land or water designed and set aside for the landing and taking off of aircraft and used, or to be used, in the interest of the public for those purposes. See Arizona Laws 42-14501
• 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.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• 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.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• 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
• Assessed valuation: means the value derived by applying the applicable percentage prescribed by chapter 15, article 1 of this title to the full cash value or limited property value of the property, as applicable. See Arizona Laws 42-11001
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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
• Business day: means a day that is not a Saturday, a Sunday or any other legal holiday in this state. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Commission: means the Arizona corporation commission. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• 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.
• County board: means the county board of supervisors sitting as the county board of equalization. See Arizona Laws 42-11001
• Court: means the superior court of this state. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• 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
• 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 revenue. See Arizona Laws 42-1001
• Director: means the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 42-1001
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• 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
• Due date: means the next business day if a due date of any report, claim, return, statement, payment, deposit, petition, notice or other document or filing falls on Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday. See Arizona Laws 42-11001
• 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
• Entire receipts: means , as applied to a private car company operating partly in and partly outside this state, all earnings on business beginning and ending in this state, and a proportion based on the proportion of mileage in this state to the entire mileage over which the business is done, of earnings on all trans-state and interstate business passing through, into or out of this state. See Arizona Laws 42-14301
• Entity: includes a corporation, foreign corporation, not for profit corporation, profit and not for profit unincorporated association, nonprofit corporation, close corporation, corporation sole or limited liability company, a professional corporation, association or limited liability company, a business trust, estate, partnership, registered limited liability partnership, trust or joint venture, two or more persons having a joint or common economic interest, any person other than an individual and a state, the United States and a foreign government. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• 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.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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

• Fleet type: means aircraft type and model. See Arizona Laws 42-14251
• Flight property: means all airline company aircraft of the types used in this state except aircraft that are permanently removed from operations. See Arizona Laws 42-14251
• 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
• Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
• 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.
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• 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.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Limited property value: means the value determined pursuant to section 42-13301. See Arizona Laws 42-11001
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• operated: means regularly scheduled aircraft landings or takeoffs. See Arizona Laws 42-14251
• Original cost: means the capitalized acquisition cost to the original purchaser from the manufacturer of airframes and engines plus substantial modifications. See Arizona Laws 42-14251
• 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.
• Person: means any individual, corporation, firm, partnership, company or association and includes a guardian, trustee, executor, administrator, receiver or conservator or any person who acts in a fiduciary capacity. See Arizona Laws 42-14251
• Person: means a natural person, individual, proprietor, proprietorship, company, corporation, organization, association, joint venture, partner, partnership, trust, estate or limited liability company, the federal or state government, a political subdivision of a state or any other legal entity or combination of entities that owns, controls or has possession of real or personal property. See Arizona Laws 42-11001
• Person: includes an individual and entity. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes property of every kind, both tangible and intangible, that is not included as real estate. See Arizona Laws 42-11001
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• President: means that officer designated as the president in the articles of incorporation or bylaws or, if not so designated, that officer authorized in the articles of incorporation, bylaws or otherwise to perform the functions of the chief executive officer, irrespective of the name by which designated. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Private car company: means a person who is engaged in the business of operating, furnishing or leasing cars, whether or not owned by the person and regardless of what name is applied to the cars, to be used for transporting or accommodating persons or freight over railroad lines that are located wholly or partially in this state and that are not owned, leased or operated by that person. See Arizona Laws 42-14301
• 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
• Real estate: includes the ownership of, claim to, possession of or right of possession to lands or patented mines. See Arizona Laws 42-11001
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Roll: means the assessment and tax roll. See Arizona Laws 42-11001
• Secondary property taxes: means :

  (a) Ad valorem taxes or special property assessments that are used to pay the principal of and the interest and redemption charges on bonded indebtedness or other lawful long-term obligations that are issued or incurred for a specific capital purpose by a municipality, county or taxing district. See Arizona Laws 42-11001

• 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
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Small flight property: means all airline company aircraft of the types that are used in this state, not permanently removed from operations, with a maximum passenger capacity of less than fifty-six seats and a maximum payload capacity of less than eighteen thousand pounds. See Arizona Laws 42-14251
• state board: means either the state board of tax appeals or the state board of equalization, as applicable. See Arizona Laws 42-1001
• State ground time: means the number of minutes that flight property is considered to be on the ground in this state during the preceding calendar year and is computed by multiplying the number of departures of flight property in this state during the preceding calendar year by forty-five. See Arizona Laws 42-14251
• System ground time: means the number of minutes that flight property is on the ground systemwide during the preceding calendar year and is computed by subtracting the number of revenue and nonrevenue airborne minutes of all flight property during the preceding calendar year from aircraft time. See Arizona Laws 42-14251
• telecommunications company: means any person that owns communications transmission facilities and that provides public telephone or telecommunications exchange or inter-exchange access for compensation to effect two-way communication to, from, through or within this state. See Arizona Laws 42-14401
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Valuation: means the full cash value or limited property value that is determined for real or personal property, as applicable. See Arizona Laws 42-11001
• Valuation year: means :

  (a) For real property and property valued by the department, the calendar year preceding the year in which the taxes are levied. See Arizona Laws 42-11001

• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• written: includes blockchain technology as defined in section 44-7061. See Arizona Laws 10-140