Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 6 > Chapter 15 - Taxes On Financial Institutions

• accomplice: means a person, other than a peace officer acting in his official capacity within the scope of his authority and in the line of duty, who with the intent to promote or facilitate the commission of an offense:

  1. See Arizona Laws 13-301

• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Affected group: means two or more employees designated by the employer to participate in a shared work plan. See Arizona Laws 23-761
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• 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.
• approved plan: means an employer's shared work plan which meets the requirements of section 23-762 and which the department approves in writing. See Arizona Laws 23-761
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Board: means the state liquor board. See Arizona Laws 4-101
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Control: means the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of an applicant or licensee, whether through the ownership of voting securities or a partnership interest, by agreement or otherwise. See Arizona Laws 4-101
• Craft distiller: means a distiller in the United States or in a territory or possession of the United States that holds a license pursuant to Section 4-205. See Arizona Laws 4-101
• Dangerous instrument: means anything that under the circumstances in which it is used, attempted to be used or threatened to be used is readily capable of causing death or serious physical injury. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Deadly weapon: means anything designed for lethal use, including a firearm. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of liquor licenses and control. See Arizona Laws 4-101
• Director: means the director of the department of liquor licenses and control. See Arizona Laws 4-101
• Distilled spirits: includes alcohol, brandy, whiskey, rum, tequila, mescal, gin, absinthe, a compound or mixture of any of them or of any of them with any vegetable or other substance, alcohol bitters, bitters containing alcohol, fruits preserved in ardent spirits, and any alcoholic mixture or preparation, whether patented or otherwise, that may in sufficient quantities produce intoxication. See Arizona Laws 4-101
• Farm winery: means a winery in the United States or in a territory or possession of the United States that holds a license pursuant to Section 4-205. See Arizona Laws 4-101
• Force: means any physical act directed against a person as a means of gaining control of property. See Arizona Laws 13-1901
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Government license: means a license to serve and sell spirituous liquor on specified premises available only to a state agency, state board, state commission, county, city, town, community college or state university or the national guard or Arizona coliseum and exposition center on application by the governing body of the state agency, state board, state commission, county, city, town, community college or state university or the national guard or Arizona exposition and state fair board. See Arizona Laws 4-101
• In the course of committing: includes any of the defendant's acts beginning with the initiation and extending through the flight from a robbery. See Arizona Laws 13-1901
• Industrial hemp: means the plant cannabis sativa L. See Arizona Laws 3-311
• 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.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• License: means a license or an interim retail permit issued pursuant to this title. See Arizona Laws 4-101
• Licensee: means a person who has been issued a license or an interim retail permit pursuant to this title or a special event licensee. See Arizona Laws 4-101
• Licensee: means a grower, harvester, transporter or processor with a valid license. See Arizona Laws 3-311
• Manager: means a natural person who meets the standards required of licensees and who has authority to organize, direct, carry on, control or otherwise operate a licensed business on a temporary or full-time basis. See Arizona Laws 4-101
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Normal weekly hours of work: means the number of hours in a week that the employee normally would work for the shared work employer or forty hours, whichever is less. See Arizona Laws 23-761
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Off-sale retailer: means any person that operates a bona fide regularly established retail liquor store that sells spirituous liquors, wines and beer and any established retail store that sells commodities other than spirituous liquors and that is engaged in the sale of spirituous liquors only in the original unbroken package, to be taken away from the premises of the retailer and to be consumed off the premises. See Arizona Laws 4-101
• Person: includes a partnership, limited liability company, association, company or corporation, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 4-101
• Physical injury: means the impairment of physical condition. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• plan: means an employer's voluntary written plan for reducing unemployment under which a specified group of employees shares the work remaining after their normal weekly hours of work are reduced. See Arizona Laws 23-761
• Possession: means a voluntary act if the defendant knowingly exercised dominion or control over property. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Property: means anything of value, tangible or intangible. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Property of another: means property of another as defined in section 13-1801. See Arizona Laws 13-1901
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Sell: includes soliciting or receiving an order for, keeping or exposing for sale, directly or indirectly delivering for value, peddling, keeping with intent to sell and trafficking in. See Arizona Laws 4-101
• Shared work benefits: means benefits, including benefits payable to federal civilian employees and to ex-servicemen pursuant to 5 United States Code, chapter 85, payable to an individual under this article for weeks of reduced work under an approved shared work plan. See Arizona Laws 23-761
• Shared work employer: means an employer with a shared work plan in effect. See Arizona Laws 23-761
• Spirituous liquor: includes alcohol, brandy, whiskey, rum, tequila, mescal, gin, wine, porter, ale, beer, any malt liquor or malt beverage, absinthe, a compound or mixture of any of them or of any of them with any vegetable or other substance, alcohol bitters, bitters containing alcohol, any liquid mixture or preparation, whether patented or otherwise, that produces intoxication, fruits preserved in ardent spirits, and beverages containing more than one-half of one percent of alcohol by volume. See Arizona Laws 4-101
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Wine: means the product obtained by the fermentation of grapes, other agricultural products containing natural or added sugar or cider or any such alcoholic beverage fortified with grape brandy and containing not more than twenty-four percent of alcohol by volume. See Arizona Laws 4-101
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215