Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 6 > Chapter 7 - Escrow Agents

• 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

• Account servicing: means the holding of documents or written instruments and the receipt and disbursement of payments according to the instructions of the parties to the documents or written instruments. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Act: means a bodily movement. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Affiliate: means an entity that directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by or is under common control with the entity specified. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Agency web site: means an agency owned, operated or funded web site connected to the internet and includes web sites accessed through the "Arizona@yourservice" portal. See Arizona Laws 18-201
• Agency website: means a website that is connected to the internet and that is owned, operated or funded by a local government. See Arizona Laws 18-301
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Angling: means taking fish by one line and not more than two hooks, by one line and one artificial lure, which may have attached more than one hook, or by one line and not more than two artificial flies or lures. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Aquatic wildlife: means fish, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans and soft-shelled turtles. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Associate director: means the associate director of the division. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
• Bag limit: means the maximum limit, in number or amount, of wildlife that any one person may lawfully take during a specified period of time. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Bank: means a corporation that holds a banking permit issued pursuant to chapter 2 of this title. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Big game: means wild turkey, deer, elk, pronghorn (antelope), bighorn sheep, bison (buffalo), peccary (javelina), bear and mountain lion. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Bonds: means bonds issued by the commission pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 17-281
• Branch: means any banking office other than the principal banking office. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Budget unit: means a department, commission, board, institution or other agency of the state receiving, expending or disbursing state funds or incurring obligations of the state including the Arizona board of regents but excluding the universities under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents, the community college districts and the legislative or judicial branches. See Arizona Laws 18-101
• Carcass: means all parts, including viscera, of a slaughtered animal that are capable of being used for human food. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
• Chief veterinary meat inspector: means a qualified licensed veterinarian appointed by the director to supervise the state meat inspection service for the state and to carry out the provisions of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
• Closed season: means the time during which wildlife may not be lawfully taken. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Commercial fertilizer: means any substance that contains one or more recognized plant nutrients, that is used for its plant nutrient content and that is designed for use or claimed to have value in promoting plant growth, except unmanipulated animal and vegetable manures, and other products exempted by rule. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Commission: means the Arizona game and fish commission. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Committee: means the information technology authorization committee. See Arizona Laws 18-101
• Community supervision: means that portion of a felony sentence that is imposed by the court pursuant to section 13-603, subsection I and that is served in the community after completing a period of imprisonment or served in prison in accordance with Section 41-1604. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Computer software: means a sequence of instructions that is written in any programming language and that is executed on a computer and does not include a web page or data components of web pages that are not executable independently of the web page. See Arizona Laws 18-501
• Condemned: means the carcass, the viscera, parts of carcasses, meat, meat by-product or meat food products, so marked or identified, is unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome or otherwise unfit for human food, or an animal which has been inspected and found to be in a dying condition or affected with any other condition or disease that would require condemnation of its carcass. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
• Conduct: means an act or omission and its accompanying culpable mental state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Confidential information: means any data collected about a landowner, species or property location from a private landowner or property owner by a state agency or municipal agency or an entity acting on the agency's behalf. See Arizona Laws 17-495
• Conservation plan: means a species conservation plan that promotes compliance with federal law protecting endangered species, species proposed for listing and candidate species in a manner consistent with this state's economic development and fiscal stability, including candidate conservation agreements, candidate conservation agreements with assurances and habitat conservation plans. See Arizona Laws 17-495
• Control: means ownership or the power to vote, either directly or indirectly, more than twenty per cent of the outstanding voting shares of the controlled person. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Crime: means a misdemeanor or a felony. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Criminal street gang: means an ongoing formal or informal association of persons in which members or associates individually or collectively engage in the commission, attempted commission, facilitation or solicitation of any felony act and that has at least one individual who is a criminal street gang member. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Cross-country: means travel over the countryside other than by road. See Arizona Laws 17-451
• Culpable mental state: means intentionally, knowingly, recklessly or with criminal negligence as those terms are defined in this paragraph:

  (a) "Intentionally" or "with the intent to" means, with respect to a result or to conduct described by a statute defining an offense, that a person's objective is to cause that result or to engage in that conduct. See Arizona Laws 13-105

• Damage: means any significant impairment to the integrity or availability of data, computer software, a system or information. See Arizona Laws 18-501
• Dangerous offense: means an offense involving the discharge, use or threatening exhibition of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument or the intentional or knowing infliction of serious physical injury on another person. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Deadly physical force: means force that is used with the purpose of causing death or serious physical injury or in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of creating a substantial risk 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
• Department: means the Arizona game and fish department. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Department: means the department of administration. See Arizona Laws 18-101
• Department: means the department of insurance and financial institutions. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deputy director: means the deputy director of the financial institutions division of the department. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Device: means any net, trap, snare, salt lick, scaffold, deadfall, pit, explosive, poison or stupefying substance, crossbow, firearm, bow and arrow, or other implement used for taking wildlife. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Director: means the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 18-101
• Disability: means a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities and includes having a record of or being regarded as having such an impairment. See Arizona Laws 18-131
• Disaster recovery: means the measures required to mitigate the loss of information technology capability. See Arizona Laws 18-101
• Distributor: means a person, firm or corporation that is engaged in the business of receiving carcasses, meat, meat food products, meat by-products, poultry or poultry products from state or federally inspected establishments and storing and distributing properly identified products to commercial outlets, processors or individuals and that conducts no processing. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
• Division: means the animal services division of the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
• Division: means the financial institutions division within the department. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Economic loss: means any loss incurred by a person as a result of the commission of an offense. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Electronic or information technology: means all electronic information processing hardware and software, including telecommunications and any electronic information equipment or interconnected system that is used in acquiring, storing, manipulating, managing, moving, controlling, displaying, switching, interchanging, transmitting and receiving data or information, including audio, graphics and text. See Arizona Laws 18-131
• Endangered species: means any species that is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range and is listed as endangered pursuant to the endangered species act. See Arizona Laws 17-495
• Endangered Species Act: means the endangered species act of 1973 (P. See Arizona Laws 17-495
• Enterprise: includes any corporation, association, labor union or other legal entity. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• escape: means :

  (i) A departure from custody or from a juvenile secure care facility, a juvenile detention facility or an adult correctional facility in which the person is held or detained, with knowledge that the departure is not allowed, or the failure to return to custody or detention following a temporary leave granted for a specific purpose or for a limited period. See Arizona Laws 13-105

• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Escrow: means any transaction in which any escrow property is delivered with or without transfer of legal or equitable title, or both, and irrespective of whether a debtor-creditor relationship is created, to a person not otherwise having any right, title or interest therein in connection with the sale, transfer, encumbrance or lease of real or personal property, to be delivered or redelivered by that person upon the contingent happening or nonhappening of a specified event or performance or nonperformance of a prescribed act, when it is then to be delivered by such person to a grantee, grantor, promisee, promisor, obligee, obligor, bailee or bailor, or any designated agent or employee of any of them. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Escrow agent: means any person engaged in the business of accepting escrows. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Escrow business: means a commercial activity characterized by the regular and continuous carrying on of escrow transactions. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Escrow property: means property, money, a written instrument or evidence of title or possession to real or personal property or any other thing of value. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Establishment: means a mobile or stationary building, plant, vehicle or structure where meat or meat food products are slaughtered or processed or offered for sale. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
• establishment: means a house or place in which horses, asses, mules or burros are slaughtered, packed or processed. See Arizona Laws 3-2121
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Falconry: means the sport of hunting or taking quarry with a trained raptor. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Felony: means an offense for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment in the custody of the state department of corrections is authorized by any law of this state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Fertilizer material: means any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used for promoting or stimulating the growth of plants, increasing the productiveness of plants, improving the quality of crops or producing any chemical or physical change in the soil. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Financial institution: means banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations, credit unions, consumer lenders, international banking facilities and financial institution holding companies under the jurisdiction of the department. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Firearm: means any loaded or unloaded handgun, pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun or other weapon that will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of expanding gases, except that it does not include a firearm in permanently inoperable condition. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fur dealer: means any person engaged in the business of buying for resale the raw pelts or furs of wild mammals. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Fur-bearing animals: means muskrats, raccoons, otters, weasels, bobcats, beavers, badgers and ringtail cats. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Game and fish facilities purpose: means :

  (a) Construction of game and fish facilities. See Arizona Laws 17-281

• Game and fish facility: means any real property, fixtures, furnishings and equipment that the commission deems appropriate to carry out this title, including the preservation or propagation of wildlife and the preservation or development of habitat. See Arizona Laws 17-281
• Game fish: means trout of all species, bass of all species, catfish of all species, sunfish of all species, northern pike, walleye and yellow perch. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Game mammals: means deer, elk, bear, pronghorn (antelope), bighorn sheep, bison (buffalo), peccary (javelina), mountain lion, tree squirrel and cottontail rabbit. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governmental agency: means :

  (a) Any board, commission, department or other administrative unit of this state established by the Constitution of Arizona or by enactment of the legislature and includes the legislature, the courts and the governor. See Arizona Laws 18-521

• Grantee: includes every person to whom an estate or interest in real property passes, in or by a deed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Guide: means a person who meets any of the following:

  (a) Advertises for guiding services. See Arizona Laws 17-101

• Historical prior felony conviction: means :

  (a) Any prior felony conviction for which the offense of conviction either:

  (i) Mandated a term of imprisonment except for a violation of chapter 34 of this title involving a drug below the threshold amount. See Arizona Laws 13-105

• Horse: includes horse, ass, mule and burro. See Arizona Laws 3-2121
• Horsemeat: means meat from a horse, ass, mule or burro, or any product derived wholly or partially from such animal. See Arizona Laws 3-2121
• Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Information technology: means all computerized and auxiliary automated information processing, telecommunications and related technology, including hardware, software, vendor support and related services, equipment and projects. See Arizona Laws 18-101
• Inspector: includes chief veterinary meat inspector, veterinary meat inspector, lay meat inspector, livestock officer or any other employee appointed by the associate director, with the approval of the director, to carry out the purposes of this chapter, the livestock laws and rules adopted thereunder. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
• Intentionally deceptive: means any of the following:

  (a) By means of an intentionally and materially false or fraudulent statement. See Arizona Laws 18-501

• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Internet: means the global information system that is logically linked together by a globally unique address space based on the internet protocol, or its subsequent extensions, and that is able to support communications using the transmission control protocol or internet protocol suite, or its subsequent extensions, or other internet protocol compatible protocols, and that provides, uses or makes accessible, either publicly or privately, high level services layered on the communications and related infrastructure described in this paragraph. See Arizona Laws 18-501
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Intoxication: means any mental or physical incapacity resulting from use of drugs, toxic vapors or intoxicating liquors. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Judgement: The official decision of a court finally determining the respective rights and claims of the parties to a suit.
• Knowingly: means , with respect to conduct or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware or believes that the person's conduct is of that nature or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• License: means a license issued pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• License year: means the twelve-month period between January 1 and December 31, inclusive, or a different twelve-month period as prescribed by the commission by rule. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Licensee: means a person licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Local government: means :

  (a) A county, city or town with a population of more than twenty-five hundred persons. See Arizona Laws 18-301

• Magistrate: means an officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense and includes the chief justice and justices of the supreme court, judges of the superior court, judges of the court of appeals, justices of the peace and judges of a municipal court. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Meat: means the edible part of the muscle of cattle, sheep, swine, goats or equines which is skeletal or which is found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the heart or in the esophagus, with or without the accompanying and overlying fat, and the portions of bone, skin, sinew, nerve and blood vessels which normally accompany the muscle tissue and which are not separated from it in the process of dressing. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
• Meat food product: means any article of food or any article intended for or capable of being used as human food which is derived or prepared, in whole or in substantial and definite part, from any portion of any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines, except such articles as organotherapeutic substances, meat juice, meat extract, and the like, which are only for medicinal purposes and are advertised only to the medical profession. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
• Meat processor: means any person, including jobbers, wholesalers or slaughtering establishments, who changes meat or meat food products in any way by cutting, mixing, blending, canning, curing or otherwise preparing meat or meat food products for human consumption. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
• Meat wholesaler or jobber: means any person with an established place of business who buys meat or meat food products and offers them for resale, for sale to restaurants or for sale to the consuming public. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
• Migratory game birds: means wild waterfowl, including ducks, geese and swans, sandhill cranes, all coots, all gallinules, common snipe, wild doves and bandtail pigeons. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Minor children: means persons under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Misdemeanor: means an offense for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment other than to the custody of the state department of corrections is authorized by any law of this state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Moral turpitude: means an offense, whether a misdemeanor or felony, that is related to extortion, burglary, larceny, bribery, embezzlement, robbery, racketeering, money laundering, forgery, fraud, murder, voluntary manslaughter or a sexual offense that requires the individual to register pursuant to section 13-3821. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• negligently: import a want of such attention to the nature or probable consequence of the act or omission as a prudent man ordinarily bestows in acting in his own concerns. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Nighttime: means the period between sunset and sunrise. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Open season: means the time during which wildlife may be lawfully taken. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner or operator: means the owner or lessee of a computer or someone using the computer with the owner's or lessee's authorization. See Arizona Laws 18-501
• Peace officer: means any person vested by law with a duty to maintain public order and make arrests and includes a constable. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Peace officers: means sheriffs of counties, constables, marshals, policemen of cities and towns, commissioned personnel of the department of public safety, personnel who are employed by the state department of corrections and the department of juvenile corrections and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a multicounty water conservation district and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by community college district governing boards and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the Arizona board of regents and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the governing body of a public airport pursuant to section 28-8426 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a private postsecondary institution pursuant to section 15-1897 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board and special agents from the office of the attorney general, or of a county attorney, and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Peddler: means any person without an established place of business who buys meat or meat food products and offers them for resale, for sale to restaurants or for sale to the consuming public. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
• Person: means a human being and, as the context requires, an enterprise, a public or private corporation, an unincorporated association, a partnership, a firm, a society, a government, a governmental authority or an individual or entity capable of holding a legal or beneficial interest in property. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Person: includes individual, partnership, association, firm or corporation. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company or other organization or any combination of these entities. See Arizona Laws 18-501
• Personally identifiable information: means any of the following with respect to an individual who is an owner or operator of a computer:

  (a) First name or first initial in combination with last name. See Arizona Laws 18-501

• Petty offense: means an offense for which a sentence of a fine only is authorized by law. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Petty offense: A federal misdemeanor punishable by six months or less in prison. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Physical force: means force used upon or directed toward the body of another person and includes confinement, but does not include deadly physical force. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Physical injury: means the impairment of physical condition. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Possess: means knowingly to have physical possession or otherwise to exercise dominion or control over property. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Possession: means a voluntary act if the defendant knowingly exercised dominion or control over property. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Possession limit: means the maximum limit, in number or amount of wildlife, that any one person may possess at one time. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
• Privacy policy statement: means a description of an agency's information practices. See Arizona Laws 18-201
• projects: means a project for selection, restoration, rehabilitation or improvement of areas of land or water adaptable as feeding, resting or breeding places for wildlife or fish, and includes acquisition by purchase, lease or gift of the property or interest therein as may be suitable or capable of being made suitable therefor, and the construction of such works as may be necessary to efficient administration of wildlife resources, and such preliminary or incidental expenses as may be incurred in and about the project. See Arizona Laws 17-401
• Property: means anything of value, tangible or intangible. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Property owner: means a person with a fee simple, leasehold or other property interest, including owners of water or other natural resources, or any other entity that may have a property interest, sufficient to carry out species research or management activities, subject to applicable state law, on nonfederal land. See Arizona Laws 17-495
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• public offense: means conduct for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment or of a fine is provided by any law of the state in which it occurred or by any law, regulation or ordinance of a political subdivision of that state and, if the act occurred in a state other than this state, it would be so punishable under the laws, regulations or ordinances of this state or of a political subdivision of this state if the act had occurred in this state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• range: means a permanently located and improved area that is designed and operated for the use of rifles, shotguns, pistols, silhouettes, skeet, trap, black powder or any other similar sport shooting in an outdoor environment. See Arizona Laws 17-601
• Raptors: means birds that are members of the order of falconiformes or strigiformes and includes falcons, hawks, owls, eagles and other birds that the commission may classify as raptors. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Recklessly: means , with respect to a result or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware of and consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the result will occur or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Research: means scientifically valid data that is collected on a species that is already protected under the endangered species act or potentially subject to federal protection under the endangered species act. See Arizona Laws 17-495
• Resolution: means any resolution adopted by the commission and any trust indenture or other agreement executed by the commission pursuant to a resolution. See Arizona Laws 17-281
• Restoration acts: means the Pittman-Robertson federal aid in wildlife restoration act found in 50 Stat. See Arizona Laws 17-401
• Road: means any maintained right-of-way for public conveyance. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Road: means any maintained or unmaintained road that has been utilized by the public. See Arizona Laws 17-451
• sale: includes exchange. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Secretary: means the secretary of the interior of the United States, or any officer or agency of the United States authorized to administer the restoration acts. See Arizona Laws 17-401
• Serious physical injury: includes physical injury that creates a reasonable risk of death, or that causes serious and permanent disfigurement, serious impairment of health or loss or protracted impairment of the function of any bodily organ or limb. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Slaughter: means to kill cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines and to prepare the carcasses or parts of carcasses for human consumption. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
• Slaughterer: means any person who slaughters cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines in a slaughtering establishment and prepares the carcasses or parts of carcasses for human consumption. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
• Small game: means cottontail rabbits, tree squirrels, upland game birds and migratory game birds. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Species: includes any species or subspecies of fish, wildlife or plants and any distinct population segment of any species of vertebrate fish or wildlife that interbreeds when mature. See Arizona Laws 17-495
• State agency: means any state agency, authority or body that is established and authorized by the legislature. See Arizona Laws 17-495
• State government: means any department, commission, board, institution or other agency of the state organization receiving, expending or disbursing state funds or incurring obligations against the state. See Arizona Laws 18-301
• State meat inspection service: means the meat inspection provided in sections 3-2041 through 3-2047 and sections 3-2049, 3-2051 and 3-2052, providing approved slaughtering plants with inspectors during all periods of slaughter to conduct antemortem and postmortem inspections of all cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines slaughtered. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
• Statewide: means all lands except those areas lying within the boundaries of state and federal refuges, parks and monuments, unless specifically provided differently by commission order. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Subdivision trust: means an agreement in which title to real property or an interest therein is held for the limited purpose of holding, subdividing, developing or selling real property or an interest therein, or to facilitate any business transaction with respect thereto and under which agreement the trustee acts pursuant to direction of its beneficiaries, and without discretionary powers, with respect to the holding, subdivision, development or sale of real estate or an interest therein or the disposition of the proceeds therefrom. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Take: means pursuing, shooting, hunting, fishing, trapping, killing, capturing, snaring or netting wildlife or placing or using any net or other device or trap in a manner that may result in capturing or killing wildlife. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Taxidermist: means any person who engages for hire in mounting, refurbishing, maintaining, restoring or preserving any display specimen. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Transmit: means to transfer, send or make available computer software, or any component of computer software, via the internet or any other medium, including local area networks of computers, any other nonwire transmission and a disk or other data storage device. See Arizona Laws 18-501
• trapping: means taking wildlife in any manner except with a gun or other implement in hand. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Trout: means all species of the family salmonidae, including grayling. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Unlawful: means contrary to law or, where the context so requires, not allowed by law. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Upland game birds: means quail, partridge, grouse and pheasants. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Vehicle: means a device in, upon or by which any person or property is, may be or could have been transported or drawn upon a highway, waterway or airway, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Veterinary meat inspector: means a qualified licensed veterinarian appointed by the associate director, with the director's approval, to work under the direction of the chief veterinary meat inspector. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
• Wild: means , in reference to mammals and birds, those species that are normally found in a state of nature. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Wildlife: means all wild mammals, wild birds and the nests or eggs thereof, reptiles, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans and fish, including their eggs or spawn. See Arizona Laws 17-101
• Youth: means a person who is under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 17-101