Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 43 > Chapter 16 - School Tuition Organizations for Individual Contributions

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Allocate: includes reserving money for an award of a multiyear educational scholarship or tuition grant for a specific student. See Arizona Laws 43-1601
• Articles of incorporation: means the original or restated articles of incorporation or articles of merger and all amendments to the articles of incorporation or merger and includes amended and restated articles of incorporation and articles of amendment and merger. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Board of directors: means the group of persons vested with the management of the affairs of the corporation irrespective of the name by which the group is designated and includes the governing body or bodies of a water users' association if the articles of incorporation of the water users' association provide for a governing body or bodies denominated other than as a board of directors. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Bylaws: means the code of rules adopted for the regulation or management of the affairs of the corporation irrespective of the name by which those rules are designated. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• 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.
• Department: means the department of revenue, the director or the director's authorized delegate, as the context requires. See Arizona Laws 43-104
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Fiscal year: means the fiscal year of the state as prescribed in section 35-102. See Arizona Laws 43-1601
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Individual: means a natural person. See Arizona Laws 43-104
• Person: includes individuals, fiduciaries, partnerships and corporations. See Arizona Laws 43-104
• President: means that officer designated as the president in the articles of incorporation or bylaws or, if not so designated, that officer authorized in the articles of incorporation, bylaws or otherwise to perform the functions of the chief executive officer, irrespective of the name by which designated. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Qualified school: means a preschool that offers services to students with disabilities, nongovernmental primary school or secondary school that is located in this state and that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, disability, familial status or national origin and that requires all teaching staff and personnel that have unsupervised contact with students to be fingerprinted. See Arizona Laws 43-1601
• Students with disabilities: means students who have any of the following conditions:

  (a) Hearing impairment. See Arizona Laws 43-1601

• Tax: means the taxes imposed under this title. See Arizona Laws 43-104
• United States: when used in a geographical sense, includes the states, the District of Columbia and the possessions of the United States. See Arizona Laws 43-104
• written: includes blockchain technology as defined in section 44-7061. See Arizona Laws 10-140