Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 36 > Chapter 6 > Article 4 - Communicable Disease Information

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Capacity to consent: means a person's ability, determined without regard to the person's age, to understand and appreciate the nature and consequences of a proposed health care service, treatment or procedure and to make an informed decision concerning that service, treatment or procedure. See Arizona Laws 36-661
• Child: means an unemancipated person under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 36-661
• Communicable disease: means a contagious, epidemic or infectious disease required to be reported to the local board of health or the department pursuant to chapter 1 of this title and this chapter. See Arizona Laws 36-661
• Communicable disease related information: means information regarding a communicable disease in the possession of a person who provides health services or who obtains the information pursuant to the release of communicable disease related information. See Arizona Laws 36-661
• Contact: means a spouse or sex partner of a protected person, a person who has shared hypodermic needles or syringes with a protected person or a person otherwise exposed to a protected person with a communicable disease in a manner that poses an epidemiologically significant risk of transmission of that disease. See Arizona Laws 36-661
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-661
• Director: means the director of the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-661
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• 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.
• First responder: means a law enforcement officer, a firefighter or an ambulance attendant as defined in section 36-2201. See Arizona Laws 36-661
• Good Samaritan: means a person who renders emergency care or assistance in good faith and without compensation at the scene of any accident, fire or other life-threatening emergency and who believes that a significant exposure risk occurred while the person rendered care or assistance. See Arizona Laws 36-661
• Health care provider: means a physician, nurse or other person involved in providing health services. See Arizona Laws 36-661
• Health facility: means a health care institution as defined in section 36-401, a blood bank, blood center, milk bank, sperm bank, organ or tissue bank or clinical laboratory or a health care services organization holding a certificate of authority pursuant to section 20-1054. See Arizona Laws 36-661
• Health service: means public or private care, treatment, clinical laboratory tests, counseling or educational service for adults or children and acute, chronic, custodial, residential, outpatient, home or other health care or activities related to the detection, reporting, prevention and control of communicable or preventable diseases. See Arizona Laws 36-661
• HIV: means the human immunodeficiency virus. See Arizona Laws 36-661
• HIV infection: means infection with the human immunodeficiency virus or a related virus identified as a probable causative agent of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. See Arizona Laws 36-661
• HIV-related illness: means an illness that may result from or be associated with HIV infection. See Arizona Laws 36-661
• HIV-related information: means information concerning whether a person has had an HIV-related test or has HIV infection, HIV-related illness or acquired immune deficiency syndrome and includes information that identifies or reasonably permits identification of that person or the person's contacts. See Arizona Laws 36-661
• HIV-related test: means a laboratory test or series of tests for the virus, components of the virus or antibodies to the virus thought to indicate the presence of HIV infection. See Arizona Laws 36-661
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Occupational significant exposure risk: means a significant exposure risk that occurs in the performance of a health care provider's professional duties or a first responder's official duties. See Arizona Laws 36-661
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Protected person: means a person who takes an HIV-related test or who has been diagnosed as having HIV infection, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, HIV-related illness or another communicable disease. See Arizona Laws 36-661
• Significant exposure risk: means contact with another person in a manner that, if the other person has a communicable disease, poses an epidemiologically significant risk of transmission of that disease as determined by the department. See Arizona Laws 36-661
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215