Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 13 > Chapter 32 - Prostitution

• Act: means a bodily movement. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• 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.
• 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}
• Benefit: means anything of value or advantage, present or prospective. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Commission: means the Arizona state lottery commission. See Arizona Laws 5-551
• Conduct: means an act or omission and its accompanying culpable mental state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Director: means the executive director of the Arizona state lottery commission. See Arizona Laws 5-551
• Employee: means a person who conducts lawful or unlawful business for another person under a master-servant relationship or as an independent contractor and who is compensated by wages, commissions, tips or other valuable consideration. See Arizona Laws 13-3211
• Enterprise: includes any corporation, association, labor union or other legal entity. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Felony: means an offense for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment in the custody of the state department of corrections is authorized by any law of this state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• 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.
• Historical prior felony conviction: means :

  (a) Any prior felony conviction for which the offense of conviction either:

  (i) Mandated a term of imprisonment except for a violation of chapter 34 of this title involving a drug below the threshold amount. See Arizona Laws 13-105

• House of prostitution: means any building, structure or place that is used for the purpose of prostitution or lewdness or where acts of prostitution occur. See Arizona Laws 13-3211
• 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
• 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
• Operate and maintain: means to organize, design, perpetuate or control. See Arizona Laws 13-3211
• Oral sexual contact: means oral contact with the penis, vulva or anus. See Arizona Laws 13-3211
• 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 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
• Prostitution: means engaging in or agreeing or offering to engage in sexual conduct under a fee arrangement with any person for money or any other valuable consideration. See Arizona Laws 13-3211
• Prostitution enterprise: means any corporation, partnership, association or other legal entity or any group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity engaged in providing prostitution services. See Arizona Laws 13-3211
• Sadomasochistic abuse: means flagellation or torture by or on a person who is nude or clad in undergarments or in revealing or bizarre costume or the condition of being fettered, bound or otherwise physically restrained on the part of one so clothed. See Arizona Laws 13-3211
• Sexual contact: means any direct or indirect fondling or manipulating of any part of the genitals, anus or female breast. See Arizona Laws 13-3211
• Sexual intercourse: means penetration into the penis, vulva or anus by any part of the body or by any object. See Arizona Laws 13-3211
• state lottery: means the lottery created and operated pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 5-551
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Unlawful: means contrary to law or, where the context so requires, not allowed by law. See Arizona Laws 13-105