Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 16 > Chapter 6 > Article 1.2 - Contributions

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Advertisement: means information or materials, other than nonpaid social media messages, that are mailed, e-mailed, posted, distributed, published, displayed, delivered, broadcasted or placed in a communication medium and that are for the purpose of influencing an election. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Affiliate: means any organization that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a corporation, limited liability company or labor organization. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Agent: means any person who has actual authority, either express or implied, to represent or make decisions on behalf of another person. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Candidate: means an individual who receives contributions or makes expenditures or who gives consent to another person to receive contributions or make expenditures on behalf of that individual in connection with the candidate's nomination, election or retention for any public office. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Candidate committee: includes the candidate. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Committee: means a candidate committee, a political action committee or a political party. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Contribution: means any money, advance, deposit or other thing of value that is made to a person for the purpose of influencing an election. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Control: means to possess, directly or indirectly, the power to direct or to cause the direction of the management or policies of another organization, whether through voting power, ownership, contract or otherwise. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Coordinated party expenditures: means expenditures that are made by a political party to directly pay for goods or services on behalf of its nominee. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• coordination: means the coordination of an expenditure as prescribed by section 16-922. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• 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.
• District office: means an elected office established or organized pursuant to title 15 or 48. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Earmarked: means a designation, instruction or encumbrance between the transferor of a contribution and a transferee that requires the transferee to make a contribution to a clearly identified candidate. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Election: means any election for any ballot measure in this state or any candidate election during a primary, general, recall, special or runoff election for any office in this state other than a federal office and a political party office prescribed by chapter 5, article 2 of this title. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Election cycle: means the two-year period beginning on January 1 in the year after a statewide general election and ending on December 31 in the year of a statewide general election or, for cities and towns, the two-year period beginning on the first day of the calendar quarter after the calendar quarter in which the city's or town's second, runoff or general election is scheduled and ending on the last day of the calendar quarter in which the city's or town's immediately following second, runoff or general election is scheduled, however that election is designated by the city or town. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Entity: means a corporation, limited liability company, labor organization, partnership, trust, association, organization, joint venture, cooperative, unincorporated organization or association or other organized group that consists of more than one individual. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Excess contribution: means a contribution that exceeds the applicable contribution limits for a particular election. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Filing officer: means the secretary of state or the county, city or town officer in charge of elections for that jurisdiction who accepts statements and reports for those elections pursuant to section 16-928. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Insurance producer: means a person that:

  (a) Is required to be licensed to sell, solicit or negotiate insurance. See Arizona Laws 16-901

• Labor organization: means any employee representation organization that exists for the purpose of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment or other conditions of employment. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• 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}
• Legislative office: means the office of representative in the state house of representatives or senator in the state senate. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Minor: means a person under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Nominee: means a candidate who prevails in a primary election for partisan office and includes the nominee's candidate committee. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• 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 an individual or a candidate, nominee, committee, corporation, limited liability company, labor organization, partnership, trust, association, organization, joint venture, cooperative or unincorporated organization or association. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Personal monies: means any of the following:

  (a) Assets to which the individual or individual's spouse has either legal title or an equitable interest. See Arizona Laws 16-901

• Political action committee: means an entity that is required to register as a political action committee pursuant to section 16-905. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Political party: means a committee that meets the requirements for recognition as a political party pursuant to chapter 5 of this title. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Separate segregated fund: means a fund established by a corporation, limited liability company, labor organization or partnership that is required to register as a political action committee. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Social media messages: means forms of communication, including internet sites for social networking or blogging, through which users create a personal profile and participate in online communities to share information, ideas and personal messages. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Sponsor: means any person that establishes, administers or contributes financial support to the administration of a political action committee or that has common or overlapping membership or officers with that political action committee. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• Statewide office: means the office of governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, attorney general, superintendent of public instruction, corporation commissioner or mine inspector. See Arizona Laws 16-901
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.