Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 36 > Chapter 6 > Article 10 - Kratom Products

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• 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.
• Food: means a food as defined in section 36-901, food product, food ingredient, dietary ingredient, dietary supplement or beverage for human consumption. See Arizona Laws 36-795
• 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.
• Kratom product: means a food product or dietary ingredient containing any part of the leaf of the plant mitragyna speciosa. See Arizona Laws 36-795
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Processor: means a person that sells, prepares, manufactures, distributes, wholesales or maintains kratom products or that advertises, represents or holds itself out as selling, preparing or maintaining kratom products. See Arizona Laws 36-795
• Retailer: means a person that sells or distributes kratom products or that advertises, represents or holds itself out as selling or maintaining kratom products. See Arizona Laws 36-795