Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 20 > Chapter 4 > Article 11 - Service Companies

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Consumer product: means any property that is distributed in commerce, that is normally used for personal, family or household purposes, including any such property intended to be attached to or installed in any real property without regard to whether it is so attached or installed, and that becomes part of the intended usefulness of real property or that is typically transferred with real property as an integral functioning utility appliance or system. See Arizona Laws 20-1095
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• 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.
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Mechanical reimbursement insurance: means an insurance policy issued to an obligor to either provide reimbursement to the obligor under the terms of the insured service contracts issued or sold by the obligor or, in the event of the obligor's nonperformance, to pay on behalf of the obligor all covered contractual obligations incurred by the obligor under the terms of the insured service contracts issued or sold by the obligor. See Arizona Laws 20-1095
• obligor: means any person that is contractually obligated to the contract holder under the terms of the service contract. See Arizona Laws 20-1095
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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 property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Residential property: means a house, townhouse, condominium or other habitable structure that is used principally as a residence. See Arizona Laws 20-1095
• Service contract administrator: means a person who is responsible for the administration of the service contracts or the service contracts plan or who is responsible for any submission required under this article. See Arizona Laws 20-1095
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Warranty: means :

  (a) Any written affirmation by a manufacturer or seller of fact or written promise made in connection with the sale of a consumer product that relates to the nature of the material or workmanship and affirms or promises that the material or workmanship is free of defects or will meet a specified level of performance over a specified period of time. See Arizona Laws 20-1095

• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215