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Article 1 Government in Cities and Towns Not Organized Under This Chapter 9-201 – 9-204
Article 3 Town Incorporated Under Common Council Government 9-231 – 9-255
Article 4 Change From Town to City Organization 9-271 – 9-276
Article 5 Adoption of Charter Government by City 9-281 – 9-285

Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 9 > Chapter 2 - Form of Government

  • Accommodation: means any apartment, condominium or cooperative unit, cabin, lodge, hotel or motel room, or other private or commercial structure containing toilet facilities that is designed and available for use and occupancy as a residence by one or more individuals and that is included in the offering of a timeshare plan. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Account: means withdrawable capital deposited with or invested in an association in accordance with any plan authorized by this chapter unless such term is otherwise designated or qualified. See Arizona Laws 6-401
  • Acting in concert: means evidence of collaborating to pursue a concerted plan. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Active license: means a valid license to practice medicine and includes the license of a licensee who has been placed on probation or on whose license the board has placed restrictions. See Arizona Laws 32-1800
  • Active license: means a current license issued by the board to a person licensed pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 32-2091
  • Active license: means a valid and existing license to practice psychology. See Arizona Laws 32-2061
  • Address of record: means either:

    (a) The address where a person who is regulated pursuant to this chapter practices medicine or is otherwise employed. See Arizona Laws 32-1800

  • Adequate records: means legible medical records containing, at a minimum, sufficient information to identify the patient, support the diagnosis, justify the treatment, accurately document the results, indicate advice and cautionary warnings provided to the patient and provide sufficient information for another licensed health care practitioner to assume continuity of the patient's care at any point in the course of treatment. See Arizona Laws 32-1800
  • adequate records: means records containing, at a minimum, sufficient information to identify the client, the dates of service, the fee for service, the payments for service, the type of service given and copies of any reports that may have been made. See Arizona Laws 32-2401
  • Adequate records: means legible medical records containing, at a minimum, sufficient information to identify the patient, support the diagnosis, justify the treatment, accurately document the results, indicate advice and cautionary warnings provided to the patient and provide sufficient information for another practitioner to assume continuity of the patient's care at any point in the course of treatment. See Arizona Laws 32-2501
  • Adequate records: means records containing, at a minimum, sufficient information to identify the client or patient, the dates of service, the fee for service, the payments for service, the type of service given and copies of any reports that may have been made. See Arizona Laws 32-2061
  • Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
  • Administer: means directly applying a controlled substance, prescription-only drug, dangerous drug or narcotic drug, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion or any other means, to the body of a patient or research subject by a practitioner or by the practitioner's authorized agent or the patient or research subject at the direction of the practitioner. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Administrative warning: means a disciplinary action by the board in the form of a written warning to a physician of a violation of this chapter involving patient care that the board determines falls below the community standard. See Arizona Laws 32-1800
  • Adopted rule: means a final rule as defined in section 41-1001. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Advertisement: means all representations that are disseminated in any manner or by any means other than by labeling for the purpose of inducing, or that are likely to induce, directly or indirectly, the purchase of drugs, devices, poisons or hazardous substances. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Advertisement: means any written, oral or electronic communication that is directed to or targeted to persons in this state and that contains a promotion, inducement, premium or offer to sell a timeshare plan, including brochures, pamphlets, radio and television scripts, electronic media, telephone and direct mail solicitations and other means of promotions. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Advertising: means the submission of bids, contracting or making known by any public notice, publication or solicitation of business, directly or indirectly, that services regulated under this chapter are available for consideration. See Arizona Laws 32-2401
  • Advertising: means attempting by publication, dissemination, exhibition, solicitation or circulation, oral or written, or for broadcast on radio or television to induce directly or indirectly any person to enter into any obligation or acquire any title or interest in lands subject to this chapter, including the land sales contract to be used and any photographs, drawings or artist's presentations of physical conditions or facilities existing or to exist on the property. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Advisory letter: means a nondisciplinary letter to notify a licensee or permittee that either:

    (a) While there is insufficient evidence to support disciplinary action, the board believes that continuation of the activities that led to the investigation may result in further board action against the licensee or permittee. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

  • Affected commodity: means the specific citrus, fruit or vegetable that is regulated pursuant to article 2 or 4 of this chapter and that is subject to the marketing agreement or order or the proposed marketing agreement or order. See Arizona Laws 3-401
  • Affected person: means a producer or shipper of an affected commodity. See Arizona Laws 3-401
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • Agency license: means a certificate that is authenticated by the department and that attests that a qualifying party is authorized to conduct the business of private investigations in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-2401
  • Agent: means any person who, for compensation, enrolls or attempts to enroll residents of this state in a professional driver training school through personal or telephone contact, advertisement, mail or any other type of publication. See Arizona Laws 32-2351
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • Animal: means any animal other than human. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • 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.
  • Applicant: means a person who has submitted a completed application and all required application and fingerprint processing fees. See Arizona Laws 32-2401
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Approved postgraduate training program: means that an applicant for licensure successfully completed training when the hospital or other facility in which the training occurred was approved for a postgraduate internship, residency or fellowship by the American osteopathic association or by the accreditation council for graduate medical education. See Arizona Laws 32-1800
  • Approved school of osteopathic medicine: means a school or college offering a course of study that, on successful completion, results in the awarding of the degree of doctor of osteopathy and whose course of study has been approved or accredited by the American osteopathic association. See Arizona Laws 32-1800
  • Assessment: means the share of funds required for the payment of common expenses that the managing entity assesses periodically against each purchaser. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Associate: means a person who is a partner or corporate officer in a private investigation agency. See Arizona Laws 32-2401
  • Associate broker: means a licensed broker who is employed by another broker. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Associate director: means the associate director of the citrus, fruit and vegetable division of the department. See Arizona Laws 3-401
  • Association: means every association to which this chapter applies as defined in the section concerning scope of chapter. See Arizona Laws 6-401
  • Association: means any organized body consisting of the purchasers of interests in a timeshare plan. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Automated prescription-dispensing kiosk: means a mechanical system that is operated as an extension of a pharmacy, that maintains all transaction information within the pharmacy operating system, that is separately permitted from the pharmacy and that performs operations that either:

    (a) Accept a prescription or refill order, store prepackaged or repackaged medications, label and dispense patient-specific prescriptions and provide counseling on new or refilled prescriptions. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

  • Automated teller machine: means an automated device that is established by a bank, savings and loan association or credit union and that facilitates customer-bank communications activities, including taking deposits and disbursing cash drawn against a customer's deposit account or a customer's preapproved loan account, at a location separate from the home office or a branch. See Arizona Laws 6-101
  • Bank: means a corporation that holds a banking permit issued pursuant to chapter 2 of this title. See Arizona Laws 6-101
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Barrier: means a natural or man-made geographic feature that prevents parcels of land from being practicably, reasonably and economically united or reunited and that was not caused or created by the owner of the parcels. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Behavior analysis: means the design, implementation and evaluation of systematic environmental modifications by a behavior analyst to produce socially significant improvements in human behavior based on the principles of behavior identified through the experimental analysis of behavior. See Arizona Laws 32-2091
  • Behavior analysis services: means the use of behavior analysis to assist a person to learn new behavior, increase existing behavior, reduce existing behavior and emit behavior under precise environmental conditions. See Arizona Laws 32-2091
  • Behavior analyst: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this article to practice behavior analysis. See Arizona Laws 32-2091
  • 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: means the private investigator and security guard hearing board established by section 32-2404. See Arizona Laws 32-2401
  • Board: means the Arizona board of osteopathic examiners in medicine and surgery. See Arizona Laws 32-1800
  • Board: means the Arizona regulatory board of physician assistants. See Arizona Laws 32-2501
  • Board: means the board of physical therapy. See Arizona Laws 32-2001
  • Board: means the state board of psychologist examiners. See Arizona Laws 32-2061
  • Board: means the real estate advisory board. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Board: means the Arizona state veterinary medical examining board. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • board of pharmacy: means the Arizona state board of pharmacy. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Branch: means any banking office other than the principal banking office. See Arizona Laws 6-101
  • Branch office: means a place of business of a credit union, other than a principal office, at which deposits are received and checks are paid, but does not include premises used for computer operations, recordkeeping, accounting, storage, maintenance or other administrative or service functions. See Arizona Laws 6-501
  • Broker: when used without modification, means a person who is licensed as a broker under this chapter or who is required to be licensed as a broker under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Business broker: means a real estate broker who acts as an intermediary or agent between sellers or buyers, or both, in the sale or purchase, or both, of businesses or business opportunities where a lease or sale of real property is either a direct or incidental part of the transaction. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Business entity: means a business organization that has an ownership that includes any persons who are not licensed or certified to provide physical therapy services in this state, that offers to the public professional services regulated by the board and that is established pursuant to the laws of any state or foreign country. See Arizona Laws 32-2001
  • Capital: means share accounts, reserves and undivided earnings. See Arizona Laws 6-501
  • Cease and Desist Letter: A letter requesting that a company stops the activity mentioned in the letter. Source: OCC
  • Cemetery broker: means a person other than a real estate broker or real estate salesperson who, for another, for compensation:

    (a) Sells, leases or exchanges cemetery property or interment services of or for another, or on the person's own account. See Arizona Laws 32-2101

  • cemetery property: means any one, or a combination of more than one, of the following in a place that is used, or intended to be used, and dedicated for cemetery purposes:

    (a) A burial park, for earth interments. See Arizona Laws 32-2101

  • Cemetery salesperson: means a natural person who acts on the person's own behalf or through and on behalf of a professional limited liability company or a professional corporation engaged by or on behalf of a licensed cemetery or real estate broker, or through and on behalf of a corporation, partnership or limited liability company that is licensed as a cemetery or real estate broker, to perform any act or transaction included in the definition of cemetery broker. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Certificate of composition: means a list of a product's ingredients. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Certificate of free sale: means a document that authenticates a product that is generally and freely sold in domestic or international channels of trade. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Certified veterinary technician: means either:

    (a) A graduate of a minimum two-year American veterinary medical association accredited program in veterinary technology who has passed a national and a state veterinary technician examination. See Arizona Laws 32-2201

  • Chain pharmacy warehouse: means a physical location for prescription-only drugs that acts as a central warehouse and that performs intracompany sales or transfers of the prescription-only drugs to a group of pharmacies that are under common ownership or control. See Arizona Laws 32-1981
  • Client: means :

    (a) A person or entity that receives behavior analysis services. See Arizona Laws 32-2091

  • Client: means a person or an entity that receives psychological services. See Arizona Laws 32-2061
  • Color additive: means a material that either:

    (a) Is any dye, pigment or other substance that is made by a process of synthesis or similar artifice or that is extracted, isolated or otherwise derived, with or without intermediate or final change of identity, from any vegetable, animal, mineral or other source. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

  • commission: means the marketing commission established under section 3-413. See Arizona Laws 3-401
  • Commissioner: means the state real estate commissioner. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Committee on behavior analysts: means the committee established by Section 32-2091. See Arizona Laws 32-2061
  • Common promotional plan: means a plan, undertaken by a person or a group of persons acting in concert, to offer lots for sale or lease. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Compensation: means any fee, commission, salary, monies or other valuable consideration for services rendered or to be rendered as well as the promise of consideration whether contingent or not. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Component site: means a specific geographic location where accommodations that are part of a multisite timeshare plan are located. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Compounding: means preparing, mixing, assembling, packaging or labeling a drug by a pharmacist or an intern or pharmacy technician under the pharmacist's supervision, for the purpose of dispensing to a patient based on a valid prescription order. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Compressed medical gas distributor: means a person that holds a current permit issued by the board to distribute compressed medical gases to compressed medical gas suppliers and other entities that are registered, licensed or permitted to use, administer or distribute compressed medical gases. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Compressed medical gas order: means an order for compressed medical gases that is issued by a medical practitioner. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Compressed medical gas supplier: means a person that holds a current permit issued by the board to supply compressed medical gases pursuant to a compressed medical gas order and only to the consumer or the patient. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Compressed medical gases: means gases and liquid oxygen that a compressed medical gas distributor or manufacturer has labeled in compliance with federal law. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • controlled: means a person who, through ownership, voting rights, power of attorney, proxy, management rights, operational rights or other rights, has the right to make decisions binding on an entity, whether a corporation, a partnership or any other entity. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Controlled substance: means a drug, substance or immediate precursor that is identified, defined or listed in Title 36, Chapter 27, Article 2 or the rules adopted pursuant to Title 36, Chapter 27, article 2. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Controlled substance: means any substance that is registered and controlled under the controlled substances act (P. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Conviction: means an adjudication of guilt by a federal, state or local court resulting from trial or plea, including a plea of no contest, regardless of whether the adjudication of guilt was set aside or vacated. See Arizona Laws 32-2401
  • Corporate credit union: means a credit union whose field of membership consists of other credit unions and organizations or associations owned by or composed of credit unions and corporations or associations that primarily serve credit unions. See Arizona Laws 6-501
  • Corrosive: means any substance that when it comes in contact with living tissue will cause destruction of the tissue by chemical action. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Counterfeit drug: means a drug that, or the container or labeling of which, without authorization, bears the trademark, trade name or other identifying mark, imprint, number or device, or any likeness of these, of a manufacturer, distributor or dispenser other than the person that in fact manufactured, distributed or dispensed that drug. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Credit union: means a cooperative nonprofit association that is incorporated under this chapter for the purposes of encouraging thrift among its members and creating a source of credit and other financial services at fair and reasonable cost. See Arizona Laws 6-501
  • Cremation: means the heating process that reduces animal remains to bone fragments by combustion and evaporation. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Crematory: means a building or portion of a building that is licensed pursuant to article 8 of this chapter and that houses a retort in which only animal remains are cremated. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Day: means a business day. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Decree of censure: means a formal written reprimand by the board of a physician for a violation of this chapter that constitutes a disciplinary action against a physician's license. See Arizona Laws 32-1800
  • Decree of censure: means an official action that is taken by the board and that may include a requirement for restitution of fees to a patient or consumer. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • delivery: means the actual, constructive or attempted transfer from one person to another whether or not there is an agency relationship. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Department: means the department of public safety. See Arizona Laws 32-2401
  • Department: means the department of insurance and financial institutions. See Arizona Laws 6-101
  • Department: means the state real estate department. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • Deputy director: means a pharmacist who is employed by the board and selected by the executive director to perform duties as prescribed by the executive director. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Deputy director: means the deputy director of the financial institutions division of the department. See Arizona Laws 6-101
  • Designated broker: means a natural person who is licensed as a broker under this chapter and who is either:

    (a) Designated to act on behalf of an employing real estate, cemetery or membership camping entity. See Arizona Laws 32-2101

  • Developer: means either of the following:

    (a) Any person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust or other entity, other than a sales agent, that creates a timeshare plan or is in the business of selling timeshare interests or employs sales agents to sell timeshare interests. See Arizona Laws 32-2197

  • Development: means any division, proposed division or use of real property that the department has authority to regulate, including subdivided and unsubdivided lands, cemeteries, condominiums, timeshares, membership campgrounds and stock cooperatives. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Direct supervision: means that a physician is within the same room or office suite as the unlicensed person in order to be available for consultation regarding those tasks the unlicensed person performs pursuant to section 32-1859. See Arizona Laws 32-1800
  • Direct supervision: means that a licensed veterinarian is physically present at the location where animal health care is being performed. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Direct supervision of a pharmacist: means that the pharmacist is present. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Director: means the director of the department of transportation. See Arizona Laws 32-2351
  • Director: means the director of the department of public safety. See Arizona Laws 32-2401
  • Director: means the director of the division of narcotics enforcement and criminal investigation of the department of public safety. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Dispense: means the delivery by a physician of a prescription drug or device to a patient, except for samples packaged for individual use by licensed manufacturers or repackagers of drugs, and includes the prescribing, administering, packaging, labeling and security necessary to prepare and safeguard the drug or device for delivery. See Arizona Laws 32-1800
  • Dispense: means to deliver to an ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including prescribing, administering, packaging, labeling or compounding as necessary to prepare for that delivery. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Dispenser: means a practitioner who dispenses. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • disposition: means a voluntary transfer or assignment of any legal or equitable interest in a timeshare plan other than the creation, transfer, assignment or release of a security interest. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Distribute: means to deliver, other than by administering or dispensing. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Distributor: means a person who distributes. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Division: means the financial institutions division within the department. See Arizona Laws 6-101
  • Doctor of osteopathy: means a person who holds a license, registration or permit to practice medicine pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-1800
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Drug: means :

    (a) Articles that are recognized, or for which standards or specifications are prescribed, in the official compendium. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

  • Drug enforcement administration: means the drug enforcement administration of the United States department of justice or its successor agency. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Dry needling: means a skilled intervention performed by a physical therapist that uses a thin filiform needle to penetrate the skin and stimulate underlying neural, muscular and connective tissues to evaluate and manage neuromusculoskeletal conditions, pain and movement impairments. See Arizona Laws 32-2001
  • Durable medical equipment: means technologically sophisticated medical equipment as prescribed by the board in rule that a patient or consumer may use in a home or residence and that may be a prescription-only device. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Economic poison: means any substance that alone, in chemical combination with or in formulation with one or more other substances is a pesticide within the meaning of the laws of this state or the federal insecticide, fungicide and rodenticide act and that is used in producing, storing or transporting raw agricultural commodities. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Emergency action: means a summary suspension of a license pending revocation, suspension or probation in order to protect the public health, safety or welfare. See Arizona Laws 32-2401
  • emergency medical reasons: includes transferring a prescription drug by a community pharmacy or hospital pharmacy to another community pharmacy or hospital pharmacy to alleviate a temporary shortage. See Arizona Laws 32-1981
  • Employee: means an individual who works for an employer, is listed on the employer's payroll records and is under the employer's direction and control. See Arizona Laws 32-2401
  • Employer: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter, who employs an individual for wages or salary, who lists the individual on the employer's payroll records and who withholds all legally required deductions and contributions. See Arizona Laws 32-2401
  • employer: means a physician, physician group practice, physician private practice or licensed health care institution. See Arizona Laws 32-2501
  • Employing broker: means a person who is licensed or is required to be licensed as a:

    (a) Broker entity pursuant to section 32-2125, subsection A. See Arizona Laws 32-2101

  • Enteral feeding: means nourishment that is provided by means of a tube inserted into the stomach or intestine. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • 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
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Exchange company: means any person owning or operating or both owning and operating an exchange program. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Exchange program: means any method, arrangement or procedure for the voluntary exchange of timeshare interests or other property interests. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Executive director: means the executive director of the board of pharmacy. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. Source: OCC
  • Federal act: means the federal laws and regulations that pertain to drugs, devices, poisons and hazardous substances and that are official at the time any drug, device, poison or hazardous substance is affected by this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC
  • Fractional interest: means an undivided interest in improved or unimproved land, lots or parcels of any size created for the purpose of sale or lease and evidenced by any receipt, certificate, deed or other document conveying the interest. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
  • General supervision: means that the supervising physical therapist is on call and is readily available via telecommunications when the physical therapist assistant is providing treatment interventions. See Arizona Laws 32-2001
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Good manufacturing practice: means a system for ensuring that products are consistently produced and controlled according to quality standards and covering all aspects of design, monitoring and control of manufacturing processes and facilities to ensure that products do not pose any risk to the consumer or public. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Governmental unit: means a board, agency, department, authority, instrumentality or other unit or organization of the federal, state, county, municipal or other level of government. See Arizona Laws 6-501
  • Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
  • Gross incompetence: means any professional misconduct or unreasonable lack of professional skill in the performance of professional practice. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Gross negligence: means treatment of a patient or practice of veterinary medicine resulting in injury, unnecessary suffering or death that was caused by carelessness, negligence or the disregard of established principles or practices. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • hazardous substance: includes any of the following if intended and suitable for household use or use by children:

    (a) Any substance that, according to standard works on medicine, pharmacology, pharmacognosy or toxicology, if applied to, introduced into or developed within the body in relatively small quantities by its inherent action uniformly produces serious bodily injury, disease or death. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

  • Health care institution: means a facility that is licensed pursuant to Title 36, Chapter 4, Article 1. See Arizona Laws 32-2091
  • Health care institution: means a facility as defined in section 36-401. See Arizona Laws 32-2061
  • Highly toxic: means any substance that falls within any of the following categories:

    (a) Produces death within fourteen days in half or more than half of a group of ten or more laboratory white rats each weighing between two hundred and three hundred grams, at a single dose of fifty milligrams or less per kilogram of body weight, when orally administered. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

  • Hospital: means any institution for the care and treatment of the sick and injured that is approved and licensed as a hospital by the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Identification card: means a card issued by the department to a qualified applicant for an agency license, an associate or a registrant. See Arizona Laws 32-2401
  • Immediate family: means the spouse, natural or adopted children, father, mother, brothers and sisters of the physician and the natural and adopted children, father, mother, brothers and sisters of the physician's spouse. See Arizona Laws 32-1800
  • Immediate family: means the spouse, natural or adopted children, father, mother, brothers and sisters of the physician assistant and the natural or adopted children, father, mother, brothers and sisters of the physician assistant's spouse. See Arizona Laws 32-2501
  • Improved lot or parcel: means a lot or parcel of a subdivision on which there is a residential, commercial or industrial building or concerning which a contract has been entered into between a subdivider and a purchaser that obligates the subdivider directly, or indirectly through a building contractor, to completely construct a residential, commercial or industrial building on the lot or parcel within two years after the date on which the contract of sale for the lot is entered into. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Inappropriate fee: means a fee that is not supported by documentation of time, complexity or extreme skill required to perform the service. See Arizona Laws 32-1800
  • Incompetent as a behavior analyst: means that a person who is licensed pursuant to article 4 of this chapter lacks the knowledge or skills of a behavior analyst to a degree that is likely to endanger the health of a client. See Arizona Laws 32-2091
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Indirect supervision: means that a licensed veterinarian is not physically present at the location where animal health care is being performed but has given either written or oral instructions for treatment of the animal patient. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Instructor: means any person, whether acting for himself as an operator of a professional driver training school or for any such school for compensation, who teaches, conducts classes of, gives demonstrations to, or supervises the practice of persons learning to operate or drive motor vehicles or preparing to take an examination for a driver license or instruction permit, and any person who supervises the work of any other instructor. See Arizona Laws 32-2351
  • Insurance adjuster: means a person other than a private investigator who, for any consideration, engages in any of the activities prescribed in the definition of private investigator in this section in the course of adjusting or otherwise participating in the disposal of any claim under or in connection with a policy of insurance. See Arizona Laws 32-2401
  • Insurance corporation: means the federal deposit insurance corporation or such other instrumentality of, or corporation chartered by, the United States as may be established for the purpose of insuring the accounts of savings and loan associations or any other equivalent deposit insurer approved by the deputy director. See Arizona Laws 6-401
  • Insured association: means an association, the accounts of which are insured wholly or in part by an insurance corporation. See Arizona Laws 6-401
  • Insuring organization: means the national credit union administration or successor organization or any other equivalent insurer approved by the deputy director. See Arizona Laws 6-501
  • Interim permit: means a permit issued by the board that allows a person to practice as a physical therapist in this state or to work as a physical therapist assistant for a specific period of time and under conditions prescribed by the board before that person is issued a license or certificate. See Arizona Laws 32-2001
  • Intern: means a pharmacy intern. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Internship: means the practical, experiential, hands-on training of a pharmacy intern under the supervision of a preceptor. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Investigative hearing: means a meeting between the board and a physician to discuss issues set forth in the investigative hearing notice and during which the board may hear statements from board staff, the complainant, the physician and witnesses, if any. See Arizona Laws 32-1800
  • Investment: means to put funds to use in order to secure profits. See Arizona Laws 6-401
  • Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
  • Irritant: means any substance, other than a corrosive, that on immediate, prolonged or repeated contact with normal living tissue will induce a local inflammatory reaction. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Judgment: means either:

    (a) A final judgment in a court of competent jurisdiction. See Arizona Laws 32-2186

  • Judgment debtor: means any defendant under this article who is the subject of a judgment. See Arizona Laws 32-2186
  • Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
  • Jurisprudence examination: means a board-approved pharmacy law examination that is written and administered in cooperation with the national association of boards of pharmacy or another board-approved pharmacy law examination. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Label: means a display of written, printed or graphic matter on the immediate container of any article that, unless easily legible through the outside wrapper or container, also appears on the outside wrapper or container of the article's retail package. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Labeling: means all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter that either:

    (a) Is on any article or any of its containers or wrappers. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

  • lease: includes every disposition, transfer, option or offer or attempt to dispose of or transfer real property, or an interest, use or estate in the real property, including offering the property as a prize or gift if a monetary charge or consideration for whatever purpose is required. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • 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
  • leasing: includes any lease, whether it is the sole, the principal or any incidental part of a transaction. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Letter of concern: means an advisory letter to notify a private investigator that while there is insufficient evidence to support probation or suspension or revocation of a license the department believes the private investigator should modify or eliminate certain practices and that continuation of the activities that led to the information being submitted to the department may result in further disciplinary action against the private investigator's license. See Arizona Laws 32-2401
  • Letter of concern: means an advisory letter to notify a physician that while there is insufficient evidence to support disciplinary action against the physician's license there is sufficient evidence for the board to notify the physician of its concern. See Arizona Laws 32-1800
  • Letter of concern: means an advisory letter to notify a licensee that while there is insufficient evidence to support disciplinary action the board believes the licensee should modify or eliminate certain practices and that continuation of the activities that led to the information being submitted to the board may result in action against the license. See Arizona Laws 32-2091
  • Letter of concern: means an advisory letter to notify a psychologist that while there is insufficient evidence to support disciplinary action the board believes the psychologist should modify or eliminate certain practices and that continuation of the activities that led to the information being submitted to the board may result in action against the psychologist's license. See Arizona Laws 32-2061
  • Letter of concern: means an advisory letter to notify a veterinarian that, while there is insufficient evidence to support disciplinary action, the board believes the veterinarian should modify or eliminate certain practices and that continuation of the activities that led to the information being submitted to the board may result in action against the veterinarian's license. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Letter of reprimand: means a disciplinary letter that is a public document issued by the board and that informs a licensee or permittee that the licensee's or permittee's conduct violates state or federal law and may require the board to monitor the licensee or permittee. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • License: means the whole or part of any agency permit, certificate, approval, registration, public report, charter or similar form of permission required by this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • License period: means the two-year period beginning with the date of original issue or renewal of a particular license and ending on the expiration date, if any. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Licensed veterinarian: means a person who is currently licensed to practice veterinary medicine in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Licensed veterinary faculty member: means a person who is currently licensed to practice veterinary medicine as an employee of a veterinary college in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Licensee: means a person to whom an agency license is granted pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-2401
  • Licensee: means a person to whom a license for the current license period has been granted under any provision of this chapter, and, for the purposes of section 32-2153, subsection A, includes original license applicants. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Limited license: means a license that restricts the scope and setting of a licensee's practice. See Arizona Laws 32-1800
  • Limited service pharmacy: means a pharmacy that is approved by the board to practice a limited segment of pharmacy as indicated by the permit issued by the board. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Live classroom course: means a course or instructional segment delivered in either an in-person classroom instructional format or a synchronous remote instructional format that allows students to observe and participate remotely in an instructional segment via livestreaming. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Lot reservation: means an expression of interest by a prospective purchaser in buying at some time in the future a subdivided or unsubdivided lot, unit or parcel in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • 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
  • Malpractice: means treatment in a manner contrary to accepted practices and with injurious results. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Managing entity: means the association or other person that undertakes the duties, responsibilities and obligations of the management of a timeshare plan. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Manual therapy techniques: means a broad group of passive interventions in which physical therapists use their hands to administer skilled movements designed to modulate pain, increase joint range of motion, reduce or eliminate soft tissue swelling, inflammation or restriction, induce relaxation, improve contractile and noncontractile tissue extensibility, and improve pulmonary function. See Arizona Laws 32-2001
  • Master planned community: means a development that consists of two or more separately platted subdivisions and that is either subject to a master declaration of covenants, conditions or restrictions, is subject to restrictive covenants sufficiently uniform in character to clearly indicate a general scheme for improving or developing real property or is governed or administered by a master owner's association. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Medical assistant: means an unlicensed person who has completed an educational program approved by the board, who assists in a medical practice under the supervision of a doctor of osteopathic medicine and who performs delegated procedures commensurate with the assistant's education and training but who does not diagnose, interpret, design or modify established treatment programs or violate any statute. See Arizona Laws 32-1800
  • Medical incompetence: means lacking sufficient medical knowledge or skills, or both, to a degree likely to endanger the health of patients or lacking equipment, supplies or medication to properly perform a procedure. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Medical practitioner: means any medical doctor, doctor of osteopathic medicine, dentist, podiatrist, veterinarian or other person who is licensed and authorized by law to use and prescribe drugs and devices to treat sick and injured human beings or animals or to diagnose or prevent sickness in human beings or animals in this state or any state, territory or district of the United States. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Medically incompetent: means that a physician assistant lacks sufficient medical knowledge or skills, or both, in performing delegated health care tasks to a degree likely to endanger the health or safety of patients. See Arizona Laws 32-2501
  • Medication order: means a written or verbal order from a medical practitioner or that person's authorized agent to administer a drug or device. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • medication-assisted treatment: means the use of pharmacological medications that are approved by the United States food and drug administration, in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies, to provide a whole patient approach to the treatment of substance use disorders. See Arizona Laws 32-3201.01
  • Medicine: means osteopathic medicine as practiced by a person who receives a degree of doctor of osteopathy. See Arizona Laws 32-1800
  • Member: means a member of the real estate advisory board. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Membership camping broker: means a person, other than a salesperson, who, for compensation:

    (a) Sells, purchases, lists, exchanges or leases membership camping contracts. See Arizona Laws 32-2101

  • Membership camping contract: means an agreement that is offered or sold in this state evidencing a purchaser's right or license to use the camping or outdoor recreation facilities of a membership camping operator and includes a membership that provides for this use. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Membership camping salesperson: means a natural person who acts on the person's own behalf or through and on behalf of a professional limited liability company or a professional corporation engaged by or on behalf of a licensed membership camping or real estate broker, or by or on behalf of a corporation, partnership or limited liability company that is licensed as a membership camping or real estate broker, to perform any act or participate in any transaction in a manner included in the definition of membership camping broker. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Membership share: means a balance held by a credit union and established by a member according to the standards prescribed by the credit union. See Arizona Laws 6-501
  • Minor: means a person under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • 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
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Multisite timeshare plan: includes a specific timeshare interest or a nonspecific timeshare interest. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • National credit union administration: includes any successor to the organization or other agency or instrumentality of the United States that undertakes to discharge the purposes of the organization. See Arizona Laws 6-101
  • National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) Source: OCC
  • Negligence: means the failure of a licensed veterinarian to exercise reasonable care in the practice of veterinary medicine. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • 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
  • New drug: means either:

    (a) Any drug of which the composition is such that the drug is not generally recognized among experts qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of drugs as safe and effective for use under the conditions prescribed, recommended or suggested in the labeling. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

  • 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.
  • Nonspecific timeshare interest: means the right to use accommodations at more than one component site created by or acquired through the timeshare plan's reservation system, but not including a specific right to use any particular accommodations. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Normal distribution channel: means the chain of custody for a prescription-only drug that begins with the delivery of the drug by a manufacturer to a wholesale distributor who then delivers the drug to a pharmacy or a practitioner for final receipt by a patient. See Arizona Laws 32-1981
  • Notice: means personal service or the mailing of a copy of the notice by certified mail and email addressed either to the person at the person's latest address of record in the board office or to the person and the person's attorney using the most recent information provided to the board in the board's licensing database. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Nutritional supplementation: means vitamins, minerals and caloric supplementation. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Oath: includes an affirmation or declaration. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • offering: means any marketing, promotion, solicitation or advertising of any kind that is intended to interest prospective customers in the sale, lease or use of a timeshare interest in a timeshare plan, other than as security for an obligation, whether now or in the future. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Official compendium: means the latest revision of the United States pharmacopeia and the national formulary or any current supplement. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • On-site supervision: means that the supervising physical therapist is on site and is present in the facility or on the campus where assistive personnel or a holder of an interim permit is performing services, is immediately available to assist the person being supervised in the services being performed and maintains continued involvement in appropriate aspects of each treatment session in which a component of treatment is delegated. See Arizona Laws 32-2001
  • Online course: means prelicensure education that is a planned learning experience with a geographic separation that may be synchronous or asynchronous, that does not require real-time interaction between a student and an instructor and that uses a platform with self-paced or prerecorded lessons and materials that a student can access via the internet to proceed at the student's own pace. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • order: means an order that is developed by producers or shippers of the affected commodity and that is issued by the director pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 3-401
  • Organization: means any corporation, association, partnership, society, firm, syndicate, trust or other legal entity. See Arizona Laws 6-501
  • Other jurisdiction: means one of the other forty-nine states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or a territory of the United States of America. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Package: means a receptacle that is defined or described in the United States pharmacopeia and the national formulary as adopted by the board. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Packaging: means the act or process of placing a drug item or device in a container for the purpose or intent of dispensing or distributing the item or device to another. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Parenteral nutrition: means intravenous feeding that provides an individual with fluids and essential nutrients the individual needs while the individual is unable to receive adequate fluids or feedings by mouth or by enteral feeding. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Patient: means a person who receives psychological services. See Arizona Laws 32-2061
  • 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
  • Perpetual or endowed-care cemetery: means a cemetery in which lots or other burial spaces are sold or transferred under the representation that the cemetery will receive perpetual care or endowed care free of further cost to the purchaser after payment of the original purchase price for the lot, burial space or interment right. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation and association, and their duly authorized agents. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Person: means a natural person, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, association, estate, trust, federal or state government, political subdivision or other legal entity or any combination of these entities. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership or company and any other form of multiple organization for carrying on business, foreign or domestic. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Person: means any individual, firm, corporation, trust, association or partnership. See Arizona Laws 3-401
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Petty offense: A federal misdemeanor punishable by six months or less in prison. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Pharmaceutical care: means the provision of drug therapy and other pharmaceutical patient care services. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Pharmacist: means an individual who is currently licensed by the board to practice the profession of pharmacy in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Pharmacist in charge: means the pharmacist who is responsible to the board for a licensed establishment's compliance with the laws and administrative rules of this state and of the federal government pertaining to the practice of pharmacy, the manufacturing of drugs and the distribution of drugs and devices. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Pharmacist licensure examination: means a board-approved examination that is written and administered in cooperation with the national association of boards of pharmacy or any other board-approved pharmacist licensure examination. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Pharmacy: means :

    (a) Any place where drugs, devices, poisons or related hazardous substances are offered for sale at retail or where prescription orders are dispensed by a licensed pharmacist. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

  • Pharmacy intern: means a person who has all of the qualifications and experience prescribed in section 32-1923. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Pharmacy technician: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Pharmacy technician trainee: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Physical therapist: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-2001
  • Physical therapist assistant: means a person who meets the requirements of this chapter for certification and who performs physical therapy procedures and related tasks that have been selected and delegated by the supervising physical therapist. See Arizona Laws 32-2001
  • Physical therapy: means the care and services provided by or under the direction and supervision of a physical therapist who is licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-2001
  • Physical therapy aide: means a person who is trained under the direction of a physical therapist and who performs designated and supervised routine physical therapy tasks. See Arizona Laws 32-2001
  • Physician: means a doctor of osteopathy who holds a license, a permit or a locum tenens registration to practice osteopathic medicine pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-1800
  • Physician: means a physician who is licensed pursuant to chapter 13 or 17 of this title. See Arizona Laws 32-2501
  • Physician assistant: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-2501
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • practice of osteopathic medicine: means all of the following:

    (a) To examine, diagnose, treat, prescribe for, palliate, prevent or correct human diseases, injuries, ailments, infirmities and deformities, physical or mental conditions, real or imaginary, by the use of drugs, surgery, manipulation, electricity or any physical, mechanical or other means as provided by this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-1800

  • Practice of physical therapy: means :

    (a) Examining, evaluating and testing persons who have mechanical, physiological and developmental impairments, functional limitations and disabilities or other health and movement related conditions in order to determine a diagnosis, a prognosis and a plan of therapeutic intervention and to assess the ongoing effects of intervention, including ordering musculoskeletal imaging consisting of plain film radiographs. See Arizona Laws 32-2001

  • Practice of psychology: means the psychological assessment, diagnosis, treatment or correction of mental, emotional, behavioral or psychological abilities, illnesses or disorders or purporting or attempting to do this consistent with section 32-2076. See Arizona Laws 32-2061
  • Practice of the profession of optometry: means :

    (a) The examination or refraction of the human eye and its appendages and the employment of any objective or subjective means or methods other than surgery for the purpose of diagnosing or treating any visual, muscular, neurological or anatomical anomalies of the eye. See Arizona Laws 32-1701

  • Practitioner: means any physician, dentist, veterinarian, scientific investigator or other person who is licensed, registered or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to or administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this state, or any pharmacy, hospital or other institution that is licensed, registered or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to or administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • 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.
  • Preceptor: means a pharmacist who is serving as the practical instructor of an intern and who complies with section 32-1923. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Precursor chemical: means a substance that is:

    (a) The principal compound that is commonly used or that is produced primarily for use and that is an immediate chemical intermediary used or likely to be used in the manufacture of a controlled substance, the control of which is necessary to prevent, curtail or limit manufacture. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

  • Premium: means anything of value offered, promised or given to a prospective customer as an incentive to attend a presentation for the sale, lease or use of a timeshare interest or to tour or visit a timeshare property. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Prescription: means either a prescription order or a prescription medication. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Prescription medication: means any drug, including label and container according to context, that is dispensed pursuant to a prescription order. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Prescription order: means any of the following:

    (a) An order to a pharmacist for drugs or devices that is issued and signed by a duly licensed medical practitioner in the authorized course of the practitioner's professional practice. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

  • Prescription-only device: includes :

    (a) Any device that is limited by the federal act to use under the supervision of a medical practitioner. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

  • 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.
  • Private investigator: means a person other than an insurance adjuster or an on-duty peace officer as defined in section 1-215 who, for any consideration, engages in business or accepts employment to:

    (a) Furnish, agree to make or make any investigation for the purpose of obtaining information with reference to:

    (i) Crime or wrongs done or threatened against the United States or any state or territory of the United States. See Arizona Laws 32-2401

  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Producer: means a person that has a financial interest in producing or causing citrus, fruit or vegetable commodities to be produced for market in commercial quantities. See Arizona Laws 3-401
  • Professionally incompetent: means :

    (a) Incompetence based on a variety of factors, including a lack of sufficient pharmaceutical knowledge or skills or experience to a degree likely to endanger the health of patients. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

  • Profits: means , as determined by the application of proper accounting principles, gross income less the aggregate of operating and other expenses, losses actually sustained and not charged to reserves under this chapter and interest paid or accrued on borrowings and non-recurring charges. See Arizona Laws 6-401
  • Promotion: means a plan or device, including one involving the possibility of a prospective purchaser receiving a vacation, discount vacation, gift or prize, used by a developer or the developer's employee, or on the developer's behalf by an agent or the agent's employee, an independent contractor or the independent contractor's employee in connection with the offering and sale of timeshare interests in a timeshare plan. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • promotional practice: means advertising and any other act, practice, device or scheme to induce directly or indirectly any person to enter into any obligation or acquire any title or interest in or use of real property subject to this chapter, including meetings with prospective purchasers, arrangements for prospective purchasers to visit real property, travel allowances and discount, exchange, refund and cancellation privileges. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Property management firm: means any corporation, partnership or limited liability company licensed pursuant to section 32-2125, subsection A or a designated broker that by written agreement, manages rental property or properties for compensation. See Arizona Laws 32-2171
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Psychologically incompetent: means a person lacking in sufficient psychological knowledge or skills to a degree likely to endanger the health of clients or patients. See Arizona Laws 32-2061
  • Psychologist: means a natural person holding a license to practice psychology pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-2061
  • Public debt: Cumulative amounts borrowed by the Treasury Department or the Federal Financing Bank from the public or from another fund or account. The public debt does not include agency debt (amounts borrowed by other agencies of the Federal Government). The total public debt is subject to a statutory limit.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • published: means printed in the English language in a newspaper of general circulation published in the community in which the association's business office is located or if no such newspaper exists in said community then in the county in which such business office is located. See Arizona Laws 6-401
  • Purchase agreement: means a document that legally obligates a person to sell or buy a timeshare interest. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Purchaser: means any person, other than a developer, who, by means of a voluntary transfer, acquires a legal or equitable interest in a timeshare plan other than a security for an obligation. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Qualifying party: means the individual meeting the qualifications under this chapter for an agency license. See Arizona Laws 32-2401
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Radioactive substance: means a substance that emits ionizing radiation. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Real estate: includes leasehold-interests and any estates in land as defined in Title 33, Chapter 2, articles 1 and 2, regardless of whether located in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Real estate broker: means a person, other than a salesperson, who, for another and for compensation:

    (a) Sells, exchanges, purchases, rents or leases real estate, businesses and business opportunities or timeshare interests. See Arizona Laws 32-2101

  • Real estate sales contract: means an agreement in which one party agrees to convey title to real estate to another party on the satisfaction of specified conditions set forth in the contract. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Real estate salesperson: means a natural person who acts on the person's own behalf or through and on behalf of a professional limited liability company or a professional corporation engaged by or on behalf of a licensed real estate broker, or by or on behalf of a limited liability company, partnership or corporation that is licensed as a real estate broker, to perform any act or participate in any transaction in a manner included in the definition of real estate broker subject to section 32-2155. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. Source: FDIC
  • Redemption certificate: means a premium that grants a right to or the promise of the future delivery of goods or services and that is conditioned on the holder's compliance with stated requirements, limitations or conditions. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Registrant: means an employee of a licensed agency qualified to perform the services of the agency. See Arizona Laws 32-2401
  • Registration certificate: means a certificate that is authenticated by the department and that attests that an employee of a business holding an agency license has satisfactorily complied with article 3 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-2401
  • Regular license: means a valid and existing license that is issued pursuant to section 32-2521 to perform health care tasks. See Arizona Laws 32-2501
  • Regularly: means that veterinary services are offered to the public once a month or more frequently. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Remote dispensing site pharmacy: means a pharmacy where a pharmacy technician or pharmacy intern prepares, compounds or dispenses prescription medications under remote supervision by a pharmacist. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Remote hospital-site pharmacy: means a pharmacy located in a satellite facility that operates under the license issued by the department of health services to the hospital of which it is a satellite. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Remote supervision by a pharmacist: means that a pharmacist directs and controls the actions of pharmacy technicians and pharmacy interns through the use of audio and visual technology. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Rental agreement: means a lease or leasing agreement. See Arizona Laws 32-2171
  • Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
  • Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
  • Reservation system: means the method, arrangement or procedure in which a purchaser, in order to reserve the use or occupancy of any accommodation of a multisite timeshare plan for one or more timeshare periods, is required to compete with other purchasers in the same multisite timeshare plan, regardless of whether the reservation system is operated and maintained by the multisite timeshare plan managing entity, an exchange company or any other person. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Reserves: means allocations of retained income and includes regular and special reserves and any allowances for loan losses and investment losses. See Arizona Laws 6-501
  • Responsible veterinarian: means the veterinarian who is responsible to the board for compliance by licensed veterinary premises with the laws and rules of this state and of the federal government pertaining to the practice of veterinary medicine and responsible for establishing the policy at such premises. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Restricted license: means a license on which the board places restrictions or conditions, or both, as to the scope of practice, place of practice, supervision of practice, duration of licensed status or type or condition of a patient to whom the licensee may provide services. See Arizona Laws 32-2001
  • revoke: means the official cancellation of a license, permit, registration or other approval authorized by the board for a period of two years unless otherwise specified by the board. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Safely engage in employment duties: means that a permittee or the permittee's employee is able to safely engage in employment duties related to the manufacture, sale, distribution or dispensing of drugs, devices, poisons, hazardous substances, controlled substances or precursor chemicals. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Sales agent: means a person who, directly or through the person's employees, agents or independent contractors, sells or offers to sell one or more timeshare interests in a timeshare plan to any individual in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Salesperson: when used without modification, means a natural person who acts on the person's own behalf or through and on behalf of a professional limited liability company or a professional corporation licensed under this chapter or any person required to be licensed as a salesperson under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Satellite pharmacy: means a work area located within a hospital or on a hospital campus that is not separated by other commercial property or residential property, that is under the direction of a pharmacist, that is a remote extension of a centrally licensed hospital pharmacy, that is owned by and dependent on the centrally licensed hospital pharmacy for administrative control, staffing and drug procurement and that is not required to be separately permitted. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • school: means a business enterprise conducted by an individual, association, partnership, or corporation that educates and trains persons, either practically or theoretically, or both, to operate or drive commercial motor vehicles, that prepares applicants for an examination given by the state for a commercial driver license or learner's permit and that charges a consideration or tuition for these services. See Arizona Laws 32-2351
  • School: means a person or entity that offers a course of study toward completion of the education requirements leading to licensure or renewal of licensure under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • securities: as used in this article in respect to any plan, includes not only shares of guaranty capital and evidences of accounts issuable by an association under the laws of this state, but also shares of stock of one or more classes issuable by corporations generally, and bonds, notes, debentures, evidences of indebtedness, certificates of interest or participation and collateral trust certificates. See Arizona Laws 6-493
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • sexual conduct: includes :

    (i) Engaging in or soliciting sexual relationships, whether consensual or nonconsensual. See Arizona Laws 32-2501

  • Share account: means a balance held by a credit union and established by a member according to this chapter, including balances designated as shares, share certificates, share draft accounts and membership shares. See Arizona Laws 6-501
  • Shipper: means a person that engages in shipping, transporting, selling or marketing citrus, fruits or vegetables under the shipper's own registered trademark or label or a person that first markets the fruits or vegetables for the producer. See Arizona Laws 3-401
  • Single site timeshare plan: means the right to use accommodations at a single timeshare property. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Specialist: means a physician who has successfully completed postdoctoral training in an approved postgraduate training program, an approved preceptorship or an approved residency or who is board certified by a specialty board approved by the board. See Arizona Laws 32-1800
  • Specialist: means a veterinarian who is certified as a diplomate in a particular discipline by a national specialty board or college recognized by the American veterinary medical association after completing additional education and training, an internship or residency, passing required examinations and meeting any other criteria required by the various individual national specialty boards or colleges. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Stock cooperative: means a corporation to which all of the following apply:

    (a) The corporation is formed or used to hold title to improved real property in fee simple or for a term of years. See Arizona Laws 32-2101

  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • subscription: includes a mark, if a person cannot write, with the person's name written near it and witnessed by a person who writes the person's own name as witness. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Subscription provider of health care: means an entity that, through contractual agreement, is responsible for the payment, in whole or in part, of debts incurred by a person for medical or other health care services. See Arizona Laws 32-1800
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Supervisee: means a person who acts under the extended authority of a behavior analyst to provide behavioral services and includes a person who is in training to provide these services. See Arizona Laws 32-2091
  • Supervisee: means any person who functions under the extended authority of the psychologist to provide, or while in training to provide, psychological services. See Arizona Laws 32-2061
  • Supervising physician: means a physician who holds a current unrestricted license, who supervises a physician assistant who has less than eight thousand hours of clinical practice and who assumes legal responsibility for health care tasks performed by the physician assistant. See Arizona Laws 32-2501
  • Supervising veterinarian: means a licensed veterinarian who is responsible for the care rendered to an animal by a certified veterinary technician or a veterinary assistant. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Supervision: means a physician's opportunity or ability to provide or exercise direction and control over the services of a physician assistant. See Arizona Laws 32-2501
  • Supervision agreement: means a written or electronic signed agreement that both:

    (a) Describes the scope of practice for a physician assistant who has less than eight thousand hours of clinical practice. See Arizona Laws 32-2501

  • Symbol: means the characteristic symbols that have historically identified pharmacy, including show globes and mortar and pestle, and the sign "Rx". See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Telepractice: means providing psychological services through interactive audio, video or electronic communication that occurs between the psychologist and the patient or client, including any electronic communication for diagnostic, treatment or consultation purposes in a secure platform, and that meets the requirements of telehealth pursuant to section 36-3602. See Arizona Laws 32-2061
  • Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Third-party logistics provider: means an entity that provides or coordinates warehousing or other logistics services for the following items, but that does not take ownership of the items, and that distributes those items as directed by a manufacturer, wholesaler, dispenser or durable medical equipment supplier that is permitted by the board:

    (a) Narcotic drugs or other controlled substances. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

  • Timeshare estate: means the right of occupancy in a timeshare property that is coupled with an estate in real property. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Timeshare instrument: means one or more documents creating or governing the operation of a timeshare plan. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Timeshare interest: includes either a timeshare estate or a timeshare use. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Timeshare period: means the period of time when the purchaser of a timeshare plan is afforded the opportunity to use the accommodations of a timeshare plan. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Timeshare plan: means any arrangement, plan or similar device, other than an exchange program, whether by membership agreement, sale, lease, deed, license or right-to-use agreement or by any other means, in which a purchaser, in exchange for consideration, receives ownership rights in or the right to use accommodations for a period of time less than a full year during any given year, but not necessarily for consecutive years. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Timeshare property: means one or more accommodations subject to the same timeshare instrument, together with any other property or rights to property appurtenant to those accommodations. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
  • Toxic substance: means a substance, other than a radioactive substance, that has the capacity to produce injury or illness in humans through ingestion, inhalation or absorption through any body surface. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. Source: OCC
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Ultimate user: means a person who lawfully possesses a drug or controlled substance for that person's own use, for the use of a member of that person's household or for administering to an animal owned by that person or by a member of that person's household. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
  • unethical conduct: means the following, whether occurring in this state or elsewhere:

    1. See Arizona Laws 32-1901.01

  • Unimproved lot or parcel: means a lot or parcel of a subdivision that is not an improved lot or parcel. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
  • Unprofessional conduct: means any of the following:

    (a) Engaging or offering to engage by fraud or misrepresentation in activities regulated by this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-2401

  • Unprofessional conduct: includes the following acts by a physician assistant that occur in this state or elsewhere:

    (a) Violating any federal or state law or rule that applies to the performance of health care tasks as a physician assistant. See Arizona Laws 32-2501

  • unprofessional conduct: means the following, whether occurring in this state or elsewhere:

    1. See Arizona Laws 32-1901.01

  • Unprofessional conduct: includes the following activities, whether occurring in this state or elsewhere:

    (a) Obtaining a fee by fraud or misrepresentation. See Arizona Laws 32-2091

  • Unprofessional conduct: includes the following activities whether occurring in this state or elsewhere:

    (a) Obtaining a fee by fraud or misrepresentation. See Arizona Laws 32-2061

  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
  • Veterinarian: means a person who has received a doctor's degree in veterinary medicine from a veterinary college. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Veterinarian client patient relationship: means a relationship between a veterinarian and a client or the owner or caretaker of an animal in which the veterinarian meets all of the following:

    (a) Assumes the responsibility for making medical judgments regarding the animal's health and need for medical treatment and the client, owner or caretaker has agreed to follow the veterinarian's instructions. See Arizona Laws 32-2201

  • Veterinary assistant: means an individual who provides care under the direct supervision or indirect supervision of a veterinarian or certified veterinary technician. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Veterinary college: means any veterinary college or division of a university or college that offers the degree of doctor of veterinary medicine or its equivalent and that conforms to the standards required for accreditation by the American veterinary medical association. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Veterinary faculty member: means a person who has received a doctor's degree in veterinary medicine from a veterinary college and who is an employee of a veterinary college in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Veterinary medicine: includes veterinary surgery, obstetrics, dentistry, acupuncture, manipulation and all other branches or specialties of veterinary medicine and prescribing, administering or dispensing drugs and medications for veterinary purposes. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Veterinary student: means a student who is regularly enrolled in a veterinary college. See Arizona Laws 32-2201
  • Volume: means cartons or the equivalent weight of Arizona-grown products marketed in the preceding marketing season. See Arizona Laws 3-401
  • Wholesale distribution: means distribution of a drug to a person other than a consumer or patient. See Arizona Laws 32-1981
  • Wilfully: 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 1-215
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
  • Writ: means an order or precept in writing issued in the name of the state or by a court or judicial officer. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Written assent: means a signed statement of an affected person consenting to the terms of a marketing order. See Arizona Laws 3-401