Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 36 > Chapter 11.3 - Individualized Investigational Treatment

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Eligible facility: means a health care institution that operates under a federalwide assurance for the protection of human subjects pursuant to Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 46 and that is subject to the federal federalwide assurance regulations, policies and guidelines, including renewals or updates. See Arizona Laws 36-1331
• Eligible patient: means a patient who meets all of the following conditions:

  (a) Has a life-threatening disease or condition or a severely debilitating illness, attested to by the patient's physician. See Arizona Laws 36-1331

• 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.
• Fire and life safety inspection: means an inspection of a regulated person or facility conducted to ensure fire safety compliance. See Arizona Laws 9-831
• Food and swimming pool inspection: means an inspection of a regulated person or facility conducted to ensure the safety of food services, swimming pools and other bathing places. See Arizona Laws 9-831
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• License: includes the whole or part of any municipal permit, certificate, approval, registration, charter or similar form of permission required by law. See Arizona Laws 9-831
• Life-threatening disease or condition: means a disease or condition that both:

  (a) Has a high likelihood of death unless the course of the disease or condition is interrupted. See Arizona Laws 36-1331

• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• municipality: means an incorporated city or town. See Arizona Laws 9-831
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental subdivision or unit of a governmental subdivision or a public or private organization of any character. See Arizona Laws 9-831
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Severely debilitating illness: means a disease or condition that causes major irreversible morbidity. See Arizona Laws 36-1331
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Working day: means a twenty-four hour period excluding weekends and legal holidays. See Arizona Laws 9-831
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Written informed consent: means a written document that is signed by a patient, the patient's parent if the patient is a minor, the patient's legal guardian or the patient's advocate designated by the patient, that is attested to by the patient's physician and a witness and that, at a minimum, includes all of the following:

  (a) An explanation of the currently approved products and treatments for the disease or condition from which the patient suffers. See Arizona Laws 36-1331