Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 9 > Chapter 4 - General Powers

• Accommodation: means any apartment, condominium or cooperative unit, cabin, lodge, hotel or motel room or other private or commercial structure that contains 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 33-2202
• Account servicing agent: means a joint agent of seller and purchaser, appointed under the contract or under a separate agreement executed by the seller and the purchaser, to hold documents and collect monies due under the contract, who does business under the laws of this state as a bank, trust company, escrow agent, savings and loan association, insurance company or real estate broker, or who is licensed, chartered or regulated by the federal deposit insurance corporation or the comptroller of the currency, or who is a member of the state bar of Arizona. See Arizona Laws 33-741
• Accredited: means accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States department of education. See Arizona Laws 32-3001
• Action: includes recoupment, counterclaim, setoff, suit in equity and any other proceeding in which rights are determined, including an action for possession. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Action: includes recoupment, counterclaim, setoff, suit in equity and any other proceeding in which rights are determined, including an action for possession. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Actuarial method: means the method of allocating each payment between finance charges and principal pursuant to which the payment is applied first to finance charges computed on the unpaid balance of principal for the time the balance is outstanding, and the remainder of the payment is subtracted from the unpaid principal amount. See Arizona Laws 6-601
• Acupuncture: means a medical therapy in which ailments are diagnosed and treated by the specific application of needles, heat or physical and electromagnetic impulses or currents to specific anatomic points on the body through any of the following:

  (a) The diagnosis and treatment of ailments according to the systematic principles of traditional Asian medicine. See Arizona Laws 32-2901

• Acupuncture assistant: means an unlicensed person who has completed a training program approved by the board, who assists in basic health care duties in the practice of acupuncture under the supervision of a licensed acupuncturist and who performs delegated duties commensurate with the acupuncture assistant's education and training, but who does not evaluate, interpret, design or modify established treatment programs of acupuncture care. See Arizona Laws 32-3901
• Adequate records: means legible medical records that contain at a minimum sufficient information to identify the patient, support the diagnosis, document the treatment, accurately describe the results, indicate advice, cautionary warnings and informed consent discussions with the patient and provide sufficient information for another licensed health care practitioner to assume continuity of the patient's care and to continue or modify the treatment plan. See Arizona Laws 32-2901
• Adjunctive therapies: means the manual, mechanical, magnetic, thermal, electrical or electromagnetic stimulation of acupuncture points and energy pathways, auricular and detoxification therapy, the use of ion cord devices, electroacupuncture, nutritional counseling, therapeutic exercise, the use of nonionizing lasers and acupressure. See Arizona Laws 32-3901
• Administer: means the direct application of or dispensing or furnishing a prescription medication or a prescription-only device, whether by injection or any other means, to the body of a patient by a health professional or by the health professional's authorized agent at the direction of the health professional. See Arizona Laws 32-3231
• Adopted rule: means a final rule as defined in section 41-1001. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Advertising: means submitting 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 32-2601
• 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.
• Affiliate: means :

  (a) With respect to an individual:

  (i) A companion of the individual. See Arizona Laws 33-2601

• 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: means any state agency, school district or office or agency established by either title 11 or a county board of supervisors. See Arizona Laws 35-341
• 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 security guard service in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-2601
• agreement: means an agreement that is developed by producers or shippers of the affected commodity and that is entered into by the director pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 3-401
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Allotment: means the allocation of an appropriation or other fund source over a full fiscal year within a budget program or expenditure class. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Alternative fuel: means :

  (a) Electricity. See Arizona Laws 1-215

• 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.
• Amount financed: means the amount of credit extended to a consumer on a consumer loan determined in accordance with the truth in lending act. See Arizona Laws 6-601
• Analysis: means the review of a property valuation or legal classification established by a county assessor in the representation of a person in appealing the property valuation or legal classification to the county assessor. See Arizona Laws 32-3651
• Anniversary date: means an annual date applying to all tenants stated in the rental agreement on which the landlord may adjust the amount of rent. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Annual percentage rate: means the measure of the cost of credit, expressed as a yearly rate, that relates the amount and timing of value received by the consumer to the amount and timing of payments made, determined in accordance with the truth in lending act. See Arizona Laws 6-601
• Annual percentage rate: The cost of credit at a yearly rate. It is calculated in a standard way, taking the average compound interest rate over the term of the loan so borrowers can compare loans. Lenders are required by law to disclose a card account's APR. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Applicant: means a person who has submitted a completed application and all required application and fingerprint processing fees. See Arizona Laws 32-2601
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appraisal: means the development of real or personal property valuation or legal classification opinions or conclusions. See Arizona Laws 32-3651
• Appraisal: means the act or process of developing an opinion of the value of real property in conformance with the uniform standards of professional appraisal practice published by the appraisal foundation, or any other definition used in state or federal laws. See Arizona Laws 32-3661
• Appraisal assignment: means an engagement for which a real estate appraiser is employed or retained to act, or would be perceived by third parties or the public in acting, as a disinterested third party in rendering an unbiased analysis, opinion or conclusion relating to the nature, quality, value or utility of specified interests in or aspects of identified real estate. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
• Appraisal foundation: means the appraisal foundation incorporated as an Illinois nonprofit corporation on November 30, 1987. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
• Appraisal management company: means a corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, subsidiary or other business entity that directly or indirectly performs appraisal management services, regardless of the use of the term "appraisal management company" "mortgage technology provider" "lender processing services" "lender services" "loan processor" "mortgage services" "real estate closing services provider" "settlement services provider" or "vendor management company" or any other term, and that does any of the following:

  (a) Administers an appraiser panel of at least sixteen state-licensed or state-certified appraisers in one state who are independent contractors or at least twenty-five state-licensed or state-certified appraisers in at least two states who perform real property appraisal services in this state for clients. See Arizona Laws 32-3661

• Appraisal management services: means any of the following:

  (a) Recruiting, selecting and retaining appraisers. See Arizona Laws 32-3661

• Appraisal report: means any communication, written or oral, of an appraisal. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
• Appraisal review: means the act of reviewing or the report that follows a review of an appraisal assignment or appraisal report in which a real estate appraiser forms an opinion as to the adequacy and appropriateness of the report being reviewed. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
• Appraisal review: means the act or process of developing and communicating an opinion about the quality of another appraiser's work that was performed as part of an appraisal assignment, but does not include an examination of an appraisal for grammatical, typographical or other similar errors that do not communicate an opinion related to the appraiser's data collection, analysis, opinions, conclusions, estimate of value or compliance with the uniform standards of professional appraisal practice. See Arizona Laws 32-3661
• Appraisal standards board: means the appraisal standards board appointed by the board of trustees of the appraisal foundation to develop, interpret and amend the uniform standards of professional appraisal practice. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
• Appraisal subcommittee: means the subcommittee of the federal financial institutions examination council created pursuant to 12 United States Code § 3310 and chapter 34A, as amended. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
• Appraiser: means a person who is licensed or certified as an appraiser pursuant to this chapter and who performs valuation services competently and in a manner that is independent, impartial and objective. See Arizona Laws 32-3661
• Appraiser qualifications board: means the appraiser qualifications board that is appointed by the board of trustees of the appraisal foundation to establish the minimum education, experience and examination requirements for real estate appraisers. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
• 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
• Appurtenances: means awnings, sheds, porches and other attachments to the mobile home. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Appurtenances: means awnings, sheds, porches and other attachments to the recreational vehicle. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Architect services: means those professional architect services that are within the scope of architectural practice as provided in title 32, chapter 1. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Armed security guard: means a registered security guard who wears, carries, possesses or has access to a firearm at any time during the course of employment. See Arizona Laws 32-2601
• Assessment: means the share of monies that are required for the payment of common expenses and that the managing entity assesses periodically against each owner, and any other amount required to be paid by owners under a timeshare instrument. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Assessment: means the amount a private postsecondary education institution is required to pay to the student tuition recovery fund. See Arizona Laws 32-3071
• Associate: means a person who is a partner or corporate officer in a security guard agency. See Arizona Laws 32-2601
• Association: means any organized body consisting solely of the owners of timeshare interests in a timeshare plan. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Athletic illness: means an illness that arises from, or a manifestation of an illness that occurs as a result of, a person's participation in or preparation for games or sports or participation in recreational activities or physical fitness activities. See Arizona Laws 32-4101
• Athletic injury: means an injury sustained by a person as a result of that person's participation in or preparation for games or sports or participation in recreational activities or physical fitness activities, or any injury sustained by a person that is of the type that occurs during participation in or preparation for games or sports or participation in recreational activities or physical fitness activities, regardless of the circumstances under which the injury was sustained. See Arizona Laws 32-4101
• Athletic trainer: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-4101
• Athletic training: includes the following performed under the direction of a licensed physician and for which the athletic trainer has received appropriate education and training as prescribed by the board:

  (a) The prevention, recognition, examination, evaluation, rehabilitation and management of athletic injuries. See Arizona Laws 32-4101

• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• Authorized agent: means a commercial enterprise that is contracted to process transactions on behalf of a state agency. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• 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.
• 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.
• Beneficiary: means the person named or otherwise designated in a trust deed as the person for whose benefit a trust deed is given, or the person's successor in interest. See Arizona Laws 33-801
• Board: means the private investigator and security guard hearing board established by section 32-2404. See Arizona Laws 32-2601
• Board: means the governing body designated in the timeshare instrument to act on behalf of an association. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Board: means the board of homeopathic and integrated medicine examiners. See Arizona Laws 32-2901
• Board: means the state board for private postsecondary education. See Arizona Laws 32-3001
• Board: means the board of behavioral health examiners. See Arizona Laws 32-3251
• Board: means the board of occupational therapy examiners. See Arizona Laws 32-3401
• Board: means the board of respiratory care examiners. See Arizona Laws 32-3501
• Board: means a health profession regulatory board that provides licensure, certification or registration and regulation pursuant to chapter 13, 15, 17, 19, 19. See Arizona Laws 32-3249
• Board: means the acupuncture board of examiners. See Arizona Laws 32-3901
• Board: means the board of certified reporters. See Arizona Laws 32-4002
• Board: means the board of athletic training. See Arizona Laws 32-4101
• Board: means the board of massage therapy. See Arizona Laws 32-4201
• Board of adjustment: means the official body designated by local ordinance to hear and decide applications for variances from the terms of the zoning ordinance and appeals from the decision of the zoning administrator. See Arizona Laws 9-462
• Board of deposit: means , in the case of a county, the board of supervisors, and in the case of a city or town, the common council. See Arizona Laws 35-321
• Board recognized school: means a school that is any of the following:

  (a) Accredited to offer massage therapy education by an agency recognized by the secretary of the United States department of education. See Arizona Laws 32-4201

• Bodywork therapy: means massage therapy. See Arizona Laws 32-4201
• Bond: means a bond authorized and issued under this article. See Arizona Laws 35-468
• Bond: means any bond, note, warrant, lease, lease purchase agreement or other interest bearing obligation issued pursuant to any provision of law by this state or any political subdivision. See Arizona Laws 35-511
• Bonded stop notice: means a stop notice that is given to any construction lender and that is accompanied by a bond executed solely by one or more surety companies authorized to transact surety business in this state pursuant to Title 20, Chapter 2, Article 1 in an amount equal to one hundred fifty per cent of the amount of the claim on the condition that if the owner, original contractor or construction lender recovers judgment in an action brought on a verified claim or on the lien filed by the claimant, the claimant would have sufficient monies to pay all costs and damages that the owner, original contractor or construction lender may sustain by reason of the stop notice claim or the lien, not exceeding the amount specified in the bond. See Arizona Laws 33-1051
• Bonds: means tax anticipation bonds issued pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 35-401
• Boycott: means engaging in a refusal to deal, terminating business activities or performing other actions that are intended to limit commercial relations with entities doing business in Israel or in territories controlled by Israel, if those actions are taken either:

  (a) Based in part on the fact that the entity does business in Israel or in territories controlled by Israel. See Arizona Laws 35-393

• Branch: means any banking office other than the principal banking office. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Budget estimates: means statements with accompanying explanations, as provided by this chapter, in which a budget unit states its financial requirements and requests appropriations. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Budget program: means functions and activities of a budget unit or within a budget unit that are preplanned to fulfill a distinct mission. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Budget unit: means any department, commission, board, institution or other agency of this state receiving, expending or disbursing state monies or incurring obligations against this state. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Business day: means any day other than a Saturday or a legal holiday. See Arizona Laws 33-801
• Capital: means share accounts, reserves and undivided earnings. See Arizona Laws 6-501
• Capital structure: means the amount of the capital of the eligible depository shown by the latest call statement of condition as defined by rule of the department of insurance and financial institutions for the purpose of administration of this article. See Arizona Laws 35-321
• Cardholder: means any person:

  (a) Named on the face of a credit card to whom or for whose benefit the credit card is issued by an issuer. See Arizona Laws 35-101

• Cash: means United States currency. See Arizona Laws 33-801
• Ceasing operations: means that a private postsecondary education institution has stopped offering educational courses or programs to the public for any reason. See Arizona Laws 32-3071
• Certificate: means a certificate that is granted and issued by the department. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• Certification: means a voluntary process by which a regulatory entity grants recognition to an individual who has met certain prerequisite qualifications specified by that regulatory entity and who may assume or use the word "certified" in a title or designation to perform prescribed health professional tasks. See Arizona Laws 32-3101
• Certification: means a standard certificate that is issued by the board to a person who meets the requirements of sections 32-4021 and 32-4022 and does not include a temporary certificate. See Arizona Laws 32-4002
• Certified reporter: means a person who is certified by the board and who records and transcribes a verbatim record in any sworn proceeding by means of written symbols or abbreviations in shorthand, machine writing or voice writing. See Arizona Laws 32-4002
• Certified technologist: means a person holding a certificate that is granted and issued by the department. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• Certify: means board authorization to engage in activities regulated by the board. See Arizona Laws 32-4002
• Change in use: means either of the following:

  (a) A change in the use of land from the rental of mobile home spaces in a mobile home park to some other use. See Arizona Laws 33-1409

• Change in use: means a change in the use of land from the rental of recreational vehicle spaces in a recreational vehicle park to some other use. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Chelation therapy: means an experimental medical therapy to restore cellular homeostasis through the use of intravenous, metal-binding and bioinorganic agents such as ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid. See Arizona Laws 32-2901
• Child pornography: means the visual depiction of sexual exploitation of a minor as prescribed in section 13-3553. See Arizona Laws 34-501
• City: means any city incorporated under the laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 35-465
• City: means a city or town incorporated under the laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 35-467
• Claim: means a demand against the state for payment for either:

  (a) Goods delivered or, in the case of highway construction, goods or facilities to be delivered by the federal government. See Arizona Laws 35-101

• Clean burning fuel: means :

  (a) An emulsion of water-phased hydrocarbon fuel that contains not less than twenty percent water by volume and that complies with any of the following:

  (i) Is used in an engine that is certified to meet at a minimum the United States environmental protection agency low emission vehicle standard pursuant to 40 C. See Arizona Laws 1-215

• Client: means a patient who receives behavioral health services from a person licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-3251
• Collecting entity: means the entity from which the treasurer receives general funding including the county for collections performed by a county treasurer, the city for collections performed by a city treasurer or the district for collections performed by a district treasurer. See Arizona Laws 35-321
• commission: means the marketing commission established under section 3-413. See Arizona Laws 3-401
• committee: means a marketing committee established by a marketing agreement according to section 3-426. See Arizona Laws 3-401
• Common expenses: means the costs and expenses of and for operating the timeshare plan and timeshare property as set forth in the timeshare instrument. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Community documents: means condominium documents as defined in section 33-1202 or community documents as defined in section 33-1802, including covenants, conditions and restrictions and deed restrictions applicable to the dwelling. See Arizona Laws 33-2001
• Companion: means :

  (a) The spouse of an individual. See Arizona Laws 33-2601

• Company: means an organization, association, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company or other entity or business association, including a wholly owned subsidiary, majority-owned subsidiary, parent company or affiliate, that engages in for-profit activity and that has ten or more full-time employees. See Arizona Laws 35-393
• Compatible: means a recreational vehicle that is in a similar condition as the majority of the other recreational vehicles in the recreational vehicle park, as determined by the maintenance, condition and overall appearance of the recreational vehicle. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Complex one to four residential units: means property that is atypical for the marketplace. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
• Computed tomography technologist: means a person who applies ionizing radiation to a human using a computed tomography machine for diagnostic purposes. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• Conservation easement: means a nonpossessory interest of a holder in real property imposing limitations or affirmative obligations for conservation purposes or to preserve the historical, architectural, archaeological or cultural aspects of real property. See Arizona Laws 33-271
• Conservation purposes: means any of the following activities which yield a significant public benefit:

  (a) Preserving land areas for outdoor recreation by, or the education of, the general public. See Arizona Laws 33-271

• Construction lender: means any mortgagee or beneficiary under a deed of trust lending funds all or a portion of which defray the cost of the construction, alteration, repair or improvement or any assignee or successor in interest of either, or any escrow holder or other party holding any monies furnished or to be furnished by the owner or any other person as a source from which to pay construction costs. See Arizona Laws 33-1051
• Construction services: means either of the following for construction-manager-at-risk, design-build and job-order-contracting project delivery methods:

  (a) Construction, excluding services, through the construction-manager-at-risk or job-order-contracting project delivery methods. See Arizona Laws 34-101

• Construction-manager-at-risk: means a project delivery method in which:

  (a) There is a separate contract for design services and a separate contract for construction services, except that instead of a single contract for construction services, the agent may elect separate contracts for preconstruction services during the design phase, for construction during the construction phase and for any other construction services. See Arizona Laws 34-101

• Consultation: means the act or procedure of exchanging ideas or information or providing professional advice to another professional or responsible party regarding the provision of occupational therapy services. See Arizona Laws 32-3401
• Consumer: means an individual who obtains a consumer lender loan for personal, family or household purposes. See Arizona Laws 6-601
• Consumer lender: means a person that advertises to make or procure, solicits or holds itself out to make or procure, or makes or procures consumer lender loans to consumers in this state. See Arizona Laws 6-601
• Consumer lender loans: means consumer loans, consumer revolving loans and home equity revolving loans. See Arizona Laws 6-601
• Consumer loan: means the direct closed end loan of money, whether unsecured or secured by personal or real property, in an amount of $10,000 or less that is subject to a finance charge in which only the principal amount of the loan is considered, and not any finance charges or other fees allowed pursuant to section 6-635, for the purpose of determining whether the consumer loan is $10,000 or less. See Arizona Laws 6-601
• Consumer loan rate: means the periodic rate of finance charges that applies to the outstanding principal balance of a consumer loan and that remains unpaid. See Arizona Laws 6-601
• Consumer revolving loan: means an open end revolving loan that is established pursuant to an agreement with an agreed on credit limit that does not exceed $10,000, that the consumer may pay in full at any time but has the privilege of paying in installments and that contemplates or provides that advances may be obtained from time to time by the consumer, through checks, drafts, items, credit access devices, orders for the payment of money, evidences of debt or similar means, whether or not negotiable. See Arizona Laws 6-601
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: means a promise or a set of promises for the breach of which the law gives a remedy, or the performance of which the law in some way recognizes as a duty, including but not limited to a note, a promissory note or provisions of any trust deed. See Arizona Laws 33-801
• Contract: means all types of agent agreements, regardless of what they are called, for the procurement of assayer services, construction services, design services, geologist services or land surveying services. See Arizona Laws 34-601
• Contract: means all types of agent agreements, regardless of what they are called, for the procurement of services pursuant to this title. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Contract: means a contract for conveyance of real property, a contract for deed, a contract to convey, an agreement for sale or any similar contract through which a seller has conveyed to a purchaser equitable title in property and under which the seller is obligated to convey to the purchaser the remainder of the seller's title in the property, whether legal or equitable, on payment in full of all monies due under the contract. See Arizona Laws 33-741
• Contractor: means any person who has a contract with an agent for assayer services, construction services, design services, geologist services or land surveying services. See Arizona Laws 34-601
• Contractor: means any person who has a contract with an agent. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Controlled substance: means a drug or substance or a drug's or substance's immediate precursor that is 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 32-2901
• Controlling person: means any of the following:

  (a) An owner, officer or director of a corporation, partnership or other business entity seeking to offer appraisal management services in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-3661

• Convenience fee: means an additional fee that is imposed by an authorized agent on a web-based or voice response portal transaction for the acceptance of a credit card that would not be charged if the same transaction were completed by an alternate method of payment. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• 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 or not the adjudication of guilt was set aside or vacated. See Arizona Laws 32-2601
• conviction: means a plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere. See Arizona Laws 32-3401
• 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
• Corporation: means any corporation organized as an authority as provided in this chapter. See Arizona Laws 35-701
• Cosmetic purpose: means for the purpose of beautifying, preserving or conferring comeliness, excluding therapeutic massage and manipulations. See Arizona Laws 32-3231
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• County: means any county now or hereafter in existence in the state. See Arizona Laws 35-465
• county: means the Arizona finance authority, the Arizona board of regents or any incorporated city or town, including charter cities, or any county in this state in which a corporation may be organized and in which it is contemplated the corporation will function. See Arizona Laws 35-701
• Course approval: means the act of the deputy director reviewing course materials to form an opinion as to the adequacy and appropriateness of the course for licensing pursuant to section 32-3613, certification pursuant to section 32-3614 and continuing education as prescribed in section 32-3625 in accordance with the appraiser qualifications board and this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
• Court: means the superior court. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Credit bid: means a bid made by the beneficiary in full or partial satisfaction of the contract or contracts which are secured by the trust deed. See Arizona Laws 33-801
• Credit card: means :

  (a) Any instrument or device, whether known as a credit card, charge card, credit plate, courtesy card or identification card or by any other name, that is issued with or without a fee by an issuer for the use of the cardholder in obtaining money, goods, services or anything else of value, either on credit or in possession or in consideration of an undertaking or guaranty by the issuer of the payment of a check drawn by the cardholder, on a promise to pay in part or in full at a future time, whether or not all or any part of the indebtedness represented by this promise to make deferred payment is secured or unsecured. See Arizona Laws 35-101

• Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Database: means the health professionals workforce database that is developed from designated database information and maintained by the department in the health care professionals workforce data repository established pursuant to Title 36, Chapter 1, Article 3. See Arizona Laws 32-3249
• Daytime: means the period between sunrise and sunset. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Debtor: means an individual whether married or single utilizing property described in this article for personal, family or household use. See Arizona Laws 33-1121
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Declared disaster: means a state of emergency declared by the governor, a presidential declaration of a federal major disaster or emergency in this state or a disaster or emergency event in this state that is designated by the division of emergency management and that requires disaster recovery under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-4501
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• deed of trust: means a deed executed in conformity with this chapter and conveying trust property to a trustee or trustees qualified under section 33-803 to secure the performance of a contract or contracts, other than a trust deed which encumbers in whole or in part trust property located in Arizona and in one or more other states. See Arizona Laws 33-801
• Default: means the failure to perform on time any obligation or duty set forth in the rental agreement. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Degree: means an academic degree or honorary degree or the title of any designation, mark, appellation, series of letters or words including associate, bachelor, master, doctor or fellow which signifies, purports to signify or is generally taken to signify satisfactory completion of the requirements of an educational program of study beyond the secondary school level or which is an honorary title conferred for recognition of some meritorious achievement. See Arizona Laws 32-3001
• Department: means the department of public safety. See Arizona Laws 32-2601
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• Department: means the department of insurance and financial institutions. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Department: means the department of insurance and financial institutions. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 32-3231
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 32-3249
• Department: means the Arizona game and fish department in the case of motorized watercraft and the department of transportation in the case of all other vehicles. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deposit account: means a balance other than a share account held by a credit union including balances designated as special investment accounts, deposits, certificates of deposit, certificates of indebtedness, demand deposit accounts or other similar names. See Arizona Laws 6-501
• 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 the deputy director of the financial institutions division of the department. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Deputy director: means the deputy director of the financial institutions division of the department. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
• Design: means street alignment, grades and widths, alignment and widths of easements and rights-of-way for drainage and sanitary sewers and the arrangement and orientation of lots. See Arizona Laws 9-463
• Design professional: means an individual or firm that is registered by the state board of technical registration pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 1 to practice architecture, engineering, geology, landscape architecture or land surveying or any combination of those professions and persons employed by the registered individual or firm. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Design services: means architect services, engineer services or landscape architect services. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Design-bid-build: means a project delivery method in which:

  (a) There is a sequential award of two separate contracts. See Arizona Laws 34-101

• Design-build: means a project delivery method in which:

  (a) There is a single contract for design services and construction services, except that instead of a single contract for design services and construction services, the agent may elect separate contracts for preconstruction services and design services during the design phase, for construction and design services during the construction phase and for any other construction services. See Arizona Laws 34-101

• 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. See Arizona Laws 33-2202

• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Diagnostic testing: includes obtaining physiologic samples and determining acid-base status and blood gas values from blood samples and pulmonary function measurements. See Arizona Laws 32-3501
• Direct client contact: means the performance of therapeutic or clinical functions related to the applicant's professional practice level of psychotherapy that includes diagnosis, assessment and treatment and that may include psychoeducation for mental, emotional and behavioral disorders based primarily on verbal or nonverbal communications and intervention with, and in the presence of, one or more clients, including through the use of telehealth pursuant to Title 36, Chapter 36, Article 1. See Arizona Laws 32-3251
• Direct holdings: means all publicly traded securities of a company that are held directly by the state treasurer or a retirement system in an actively managed account or fund in which the retirement system owns all shares or interests. See Arizona Laws 35-393
• Direct selection: means the selection of a technical registrant without the requirement of advertising or the use of a current register. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Direct supervision: means that the supervising athletic trainer is present in the facility or on the campus where athletic training students are performing services, is immediately available to assist the person being supervised in the services being performed and maintains continued involvement in appropriate aspects of the services being performed. See Arizona Laws 32-4101
• Direction: means responsibility for and control of the application of ionizing radiation to human beings for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• Direction of a licensed physician: means direction as prescribed by the board by rule pursuant to section 32-4103. See Arizona Laws 32-4101
• Directly supervised: means a health professional who is licensed in this state and whose scope of practice allows the supervision supervises the use of a laser or IPL device for cosmetic purposes while the health professional is present at the facility where and when the device is being used. See Arizona Laws 32-3231
• Director: means the director of the Arizona department of housing. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Director: means the director of the department of public safety. See Arizona Laws 32-2601
• Director: means the director of the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• Director: means the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 32-3249
• Disaster period: means a period that is within ten calendar days of the date of issuance of the declared disaster and that extends for a period of sixty calendar days after the end of the declared disaster or any longer period authorized by the governor. See Arizona Laws 32-4501
• Disaster recovery: means repairing, renovating, installing, building, rendering services or other business activities that relate to infrastructure that has been damaged, impaired or destroyed by a declared disaster. See Arizona Laws 32-4501
• Discount fee: means the fee that is calculated and charged by the credit card issuer or a financial institution pursuant to an agreement for the processing of any credit card transaction. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• 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:
• Distance learning instruction: means a written correspondence or online education program for students who are enrolled in an institution licensed under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-3071
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Drug: means a medication or substance that is any of the following:

  (a) Recognized in the official compendia or for which standards or specifications are prescribed in the official compendia. See Arizona Laws 32-2901

• Dry needling: means a skilled intervention that is performed by an athletic trainer and 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 32-4101
• dual relationship: means a licensee simultaneously engages in both a professional and nonprofessional relationship with a client that is avoidable and not incidental. See Arizona Laws 32-3251
• Dwelling: means a newly constructed single family or multifamily unit designed for residential use and property and improvements that are either owned by a homeowners' association or jointly by all of the members of a homeowners' association. See Arizona Laws 33-2001
• Educational institution: means a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents, a community college in this state, an accredited private postsecondary institution eligible under title IV of the higher education act of 1965 licensed by this state and any other accredited institution eligible under title IV of the higher education act of 1965 offering postsecondary education or courses, whether located within or outside of the boundaries of this state, that awards any eligible degree. See Arizona Laws 35-771
• Educational program: means a class, workshop or educational convention that primarily instructs attendees on issues dealing with the operation of a mobile home park and that is sponsored by a nonprofit organization whose sole or primary purpose is the advocacy and promotion of the rental mobile home parks industry. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Electronic mail: means an electronic message or an executable program or computer file that contains an image of a message that is transmitted between two or more computers or electronic terminals and includes electronic messages that are transmitted within or between computer networks from which a confirmation of receipt is received. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Eligible degree: means any postsecondary degree or program. See Arizona Laws 35-771
• Eligible depository: means any commercial or savings bank or savings and loan association with its principal place of business in the United States which is insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation or any successor, or any other insuring instrumentality of the United States, in accordance with the applicable law of the United States or credit union which is insured by the national credit union administration. See Arizona Laws 35-310
• Eligible depository: means any:

  (a) Commercial or savings bank or savings and loan association that has either a branch in this state or its principal place of business in this state and that is insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation or its successor or any other insuring instrumentality of the United States according to the applicable federal law. See Arizona Laws 35-321

• Eligible lender: means an entity affiliated or contracting with a corporation or a qualified educational institution that may make student loans to eligible students or to the parents of eligible students or a nonprofit entity that is exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code and that makes student loans. See Arizona Laws 35-771
• Eligible student: means any student attending any qualified educational institution and any resident of this state attending any educational institution. See Arizona Laws 35-771
• Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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 32-2601
• 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 32-2601
• 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 32-2601
• Encumbrance: means an obligation in the form of any purchase order, contract or other commitment that is chargeable to an appropriation or any other authorized fund source and for which a part of the fund source is reserved. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Engineer services: means those professional engineer services that are within the scope of engineering practice as provided in title 32, chapter 1. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Enterprise: means any person under the jurisdiction of the department other than a financial institution. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• 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}
• Equivalent: means comparable in content and quality but not identical. See Arizona Laws 32-3251
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Evaluation: means an occupational therapist's assessment of treatment needs within the scope of practice of occupational therapy. See Arizona Laws 32-3401
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Executory contract: means a contract, including a lease, under which each party has an unperformed obligation and the failure of a party to complete performance would constitute a material breach. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Expenditure class: means one of the kinds of expenditure denoting a class of services or commodities purchased or properties acquired as specified in the classification of expenditures prescribed by the director of the department of administration for use in expenditure accounting, in making budget estimates and in the budget reports and budgets. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• exploiting: means taking advantage of a professional relationship with a client, former client or supervisee for the benefit or profit of the licensee. See Arizona Laws 32-3251
• 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.
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. ^{Source: OCC}
• Federal financial institutions examination council: means that agency of the federal government created pursuant to 12 United States Code chapters 34 and 34A, as amended. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Final plat: means a map of all or part of a subdivision essentially conforming to an approved preliminary plat, prepared in accordance with the provision of this article, those of any local applicable ordinance and other state statute. See Arizona Laws 9-463
• Finance charge: The total cost of credit a customer must pay on a consumer loan, including interest. The Truth in Lending Act requires disclosure of the finance charge. ^{Source: OCC}
• Finance charge: means the amount payable by a consumer incident to or as a condition of the extension of a consumer lender loan but does not include other fees allowed pursuant to section 6-635. See Arizona Laws 6-601
• Finance services: means financing for a construction services project. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• 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
• Firearms safety training instructor: means a person who provides classroom and range instruction to applicants for armed security guard certification. See Arizona Laws 32-2601
• Fiscal year: means the period commencing on July 1 of any year and terminating on June 30 of the next succeeding year. See Arizona Laws 35-465
• Fiscal year: means the period commencing on July 1 of any year and terminating on June 30 of the next succeeding year. See Arizona Laws 35-467
• Force majeure: means an act of God or of nature, a superior or overpowering force or an event or effect that cannot reasonably be anticipated or controlled and that prevents access to the sale location for conduct of a sale. See Arizona Laws 33-801
• 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}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fund: means the mobile home relocation fund. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Fund: means the student tuition recovery fund. See Arizona Laws 32-3071
• 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 plan: means a municipal statement of land development policies, that may include maps, charts, graphs and text that set forth objectives, principles and standards for local growth and redevelopment enacted under the provisions of this article or any prior statute. See Arizona Laws 9-461
• Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Good faith: means honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Good faith: means honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned. See Arizona Laws 33-2001
• Good faith: means honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Goods: means all personal property purchased, procured or contracted for by an agency, including leases of real property or other arrangements for the use of space. See Arizona Laws 35-341
• Governing body: means the body constituted by law to be the legislative department of the taxing district. See Arizona Laws 35-465
• Governing body: means the body constituted by law to be the governing board of the issuer. See Arizona Laws 35-466
• Governing body: means the body constituted by law to be the legislative department of the taxing district. See Arizona Laws 35-467
• Governing body: means :

  (a) The board or body in which the general legislative powers of the municipality or the county are vested. See Arizona Laws 35-701

• Governmental agency: includes this state, agencies, boards, commissions, departments, institutions and political subdivisions of this state, municipal corporations and all other public bodies which may enter into contracts for the construction or repair of highways, buildings or structures, or additions or alterations to highways, buildings or structures, or for the furnishing of equipment, labor or materials. See Arizona Laws 34-251
• Governmental unit: means an office, department, division, bureau, board, commission or other agency of this state or a subdivision of this state. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• 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
• Grandfather clause: means a provision applicable to practitioners actively engaged in the regulated health profession before the effective date of a law that exempts the practitioners from meeting the prerequisite qualifications set forth in the law to perform prescribed occupational tasks. See Arizona Laws 32-3101
• Grant: means award, bestow, confer, convey or sell. See Arizona Laws 32-3001
• Grant agreement: means any written agreement entered into with the issuer and the United States of America or any of its departments or agencies by which the issuer will receive a grant or subvention for which the funds to be advanced have been appropriated to the department or agency making the grant and by which the issuer incurs no monetary liability to repay the grant or subvention except for the obligation to construct a project or projects. See Arizona Laws 35-466
• Grant anticipation notes: means notes authorized by this article and also notes to refund grant anticipation notes. See Arizona Laws 35-466
• Grant revenues: means any revenues the issuer will receive under a grant agreement, proceeds of grant anticipation notes and income and gain from investment of such revenues and proceeds. See Arizona Laws 35-466
• Grantee: includes every person to whom an estate or interest in real property passes, in or by a deed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Grantor: includes every person from or by whom an estate or interest in real property passes, in or by a deed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Guest: means a nonresident, over and above the occupancy limit set for the resident's space under the terms of the rental agreement or by park rules, of a mobile home park who stays at the home of a person with constructive possession of the home with the consent of the resident for one or more nights and not more than thirty days in any twelve-month period. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Guest: means a nonresident of a recreational vehicle park, over and above the limit set for the resident's space under the terms of the rental agreement or by park rules, who stays at the home of a person with constructive possession of the home with the consent of the resident for one or more nights and not more than fourteen days in any twelve month period. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Health profession regulatory board: means any board that regulates one or more health professionals in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-3201
• Health professional: means a person who is certified or licensed pursuant to chapter 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 15. See Arizona Laws 32-3201
• Health professional group: means any health professional group or organization, any individual or any other interested party that proposes that any health professional group not presently regulated be regulated or that proposes to increase the scope of practice of a health profession. See Arizona Laws 32-3101
• Health professions: means professions that are regulated pursuant to chapter 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 15. See Arizona Laws 32-3101
• Herbal therapies: means prescribing, administering, injecting, compounding and dispensing herbal medicines and plant, animal, mineral and natural substances. See Arizona Laws 32-3901
• Holder: means either:

  (a) A governmental body empowered to hold an interest in real property under the laws of this state or the United States. See Arizona Laws 33-271

• Home equity revolving loan: means an open end revolving loan that is made pursuant to an agreement with an agreed on credit limit that is not more than $10,000, that is secured by the consumer's principal residence and that provides that advances may be obtained from time to time by the consumer through checks, drafts, items, credit access devices, orders for the payment of money, evidences of debt or similar means, whether or not negotiable. See Arizona Laws 6-601
• Homeopathic medication: means a substance of animal, vegetable or mineral origin that is prepared according to homeopathic pharmacology and that is given usually in a homeopathic microdosage. See Arizona Laws 32-2901
• Homeopathic microdosage: means a substance prepared so that it is diluted from ten to the minus one to ten to the minus ten thousandth or higher of its original concentration. See Arizona Laws 32-2901
• Homeopathy: means a system of medicine that employs homeopathic medication in accordance with the principle that a substance that produces symptoms in a healthy person can cure those symptoms in an ill person. See Arizona Laws 32-2901
• Horizontal construction: means construction of highways, roads, streets, bridges, canals, floodways, earthen dams, landfills, light rail and airport runways, taxiways and aprons. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Housing: means any structure suitable for residence by an individual or family. See Arizona Laws 9-441
• Housing development area: means an area within a municipality that is declared by the local governing body to be in serious need of housing and that is declared to be in need of the expenditure of public monies to assist the development of housing in the area. See Arizona Laws 9-441
• Housing development project: means any undertaking related to real property, structures or improvements in a housing development area, for the purpose of establishing housing and other facilities necessary or incidental to the housing and primarily for the use of those residing in the housing. See Arizona Laws 9-441
• Identification card: means a card issued by the department to a qualified applicant for an agency license, to an associate or to a registrant. See Arizona Laws 32-2601
• Immediate family: means a person's spouse, natural or adopted children, parents and siblings and the natural or adopted children, parents and siblings of the person's spouse. See Arizona Laws 32-2901
• Improvement: means required installations, pursuant to this article and subdivision regulations, including grading, sewer and water utilities, streets, easements, traffic control devices as a condition to the approval and acceptance of the final plat thereof. See Arizona Laws 9-463
• Income: means gross earnings from wages, salary, commissions, bonuses or tips from all jobs, net earnings from such person's or family's own nonfarm business, professional practice or partnership, and net earnings from such person's or family's own farm. See Arizona Laws 35-701
• Increase the scope of practice: means to engage in conduct beyond the authority granted to a health profession by law. See Arizona Laws 32-3101
• 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 client service: means training for, and the performance of, functions of an applicant's professional practice level in preparation for or on behalf of a client for whom direct client contact functions are also performed, including case consultation and receipt of clinical supervision. See Arizona Laws 32-3251
• Indirect holdings: means all securities of a company that are held in an account or fund, including a mutual fund, that is managed by one or more persons who are not employed by the state treasurer or a retirement system, if the state treasurer or retirement system owns shares or interests either:

  (a) Together with other investors that are not subject to this section. See Arizona Laws 35-393

• Indirect supervision: means supervision by a health professional who is licensed in this state, whose scope of practice allows the supervision and who is readily accessible by telecommunication. See Arizona Laws 32-3231
• Infrastructure: means property and equipment owned or used by communications networks, electric generation, transmission and distribution systems and gas distribution systems, water pipelines, public roads and bridges and related support facilities that service multiple customers or citizens of this state and includes buildings, offices, lines, poles, pipes, structures and equipment. See Arizona Laws 32-4501
• Insolvent: means that the value of a credit union's assets is less than its liabilities. See Arizona Laws 6-501
• Inspection: means the periodic examination of practitioners by a state agency in order to ascertain whether the practitioners' occupation is being carried out in a fashion consistent with the public health, safety and welfare. See Arizona Laws 32-3101
• institution: means an educational institution that is subject to licensure under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-3071
• 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
• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• 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}
• Ionizing radiation: means gamma rays and x-rays, alpha and beta particles, high speed electrons, neutrons, protons and other nuclear particles or rays. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• Issuer: means any city, charter city, town, county, sanitary district, electrical district, irrigation district, hospital district, improvement district or any other similar municipal corporation. See Arizona Laws 35-466
• Issuer: means any business organization, state agency or financial institution, or its duly authorized agent, that issues a credit card. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Job-order-contracting: means a project delivery method in which:

  (a) The contract is a requirements contract for indefinite quantities of construction. See Arizona Laws 34-101

• 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.
• Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
• Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
• land: means and includes mines and mining claims. See Arizona Laws 33-432
• Land splits: as used in this article means the division of improved or unimproved land whose area is two and one-half acres or less into two or three tracts or parcels of land for the purpose of sale or lease. See Arizona Laws 9-463
• Landlord: means the owner, lessor, sublessor or operator, or any combination thereof, of a mobile home park and it also means a manager of the premises who fails to disclose as required by section 33-1432. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Landlord: means :

  (a) The owner, lessor, sublessor or operator, or any combination of these persons, of a recreational vehicle park. See Arizona Laws 33-2102

• Landscape architect services: means those professional landscape architect services that are within the scope of landscape architectural practice as provided in Title 32, Chapter 1. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Laser technician: means a person who is or has been certified by the department pursuant to its rules and this article. See Arizona Laws 32-3231
• Last known address: means that postal address or electronic address provided by the occupant in the rental agreement or the postal address or electronic address provided by the occupant in a subsequent written notice of a change of address. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Late fee: means a reasonable fee or charge that is assessed by the operator for the failure of the occupant to pay rent when due pursuant to section 33-1703, subsection D. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• 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}
• Leased space: means the storage space or spaces at the self-service storage facility that are rented to an occupant pursuant to a rental agreement. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Leg: means that part of the lower limb between the knee and the foot. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Letter of concern: means an advisory letter to notify a licensee or registrant that while there is insufficient evidence to support probation, suspension or revocation of a license or registration the department believes the licensee or registrant 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 person's license or registration. See Arizona Laws 32-2601
• 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. See Arizona Laws 32-2901
• Letter of concern: means a nondisciplinary written document sent by the board to notify a licensee that, 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. See Arizona Laws 32-3251
• Letter of concern: means a nondisciplinary advisory letter to notify a licensee that, while there is insufficient evidence to support disciplinary action, 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 future action against the licensee's license. See Arizona Laws 32-3401
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: means a license issued under the authority of this chapter to make consumer lender loans in accordance with this chapter. See Arizona Laws 6-601
• license: means an individual, nontransferable authorization to carry on a health activity that would otherwise be unlawful in this state in the absence of the permission and that is based on qualifications that include graduation from an accredited or approved program and acceptable performance on a qualifying examination or a series of examinations. See Arizona Laws 32-3101
• Licensed physician: means a person who is licensed pursuant to chapter 13 or 17 of this title. See Arizona Laws 32-4101
• Licensed practitioner: means a person who is licensed or otherwise authorized by law to practice medicine, dentistry, osteopathic medicine, podiatry, chiropractic or naturopathic medicine in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• Licensed respiratory care practitioner: means a respiratory therapist who is licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-3501
• Licensee: means a person to whom an agency license is granted pursuant to article 2 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-2601
• Licensee: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-2901
• Licensee: means a person licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 6-601
• Licensee: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-3251
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Lien: means an interest in property that secures payment or performance of an obligation. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Loan commissioners: means the loan commissioners of this state. See Arizona Laws 35-401
• Local governing body: means the council or legislative body charged with governing the municipality. See Arizona Laws 9-441
• 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
• Maintenance services: means routine maintenance, repair and replacement of existing facilities, structures, buildings or real property. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Mammographic technologist: means a person who applies ionizing radiation to the breasts of a human being for diagnostic purposes. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• Managing agent: means a person, corporation, partnership or limited liability company that is authorized by the owner to operate and manage the property. See Arizona Laws 33-1901
• 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 33-2202
• Manufactured house: means a structure that is manufactured in a factory after June 15, 1976, that is delivered to a homesite in more than one section and that is placed on a permanent foundation. See Arizona Laws 35-701
• Massage therapist: means a person who is licensed under this chapter to engage in the practice of massage therapy. See Arizona Laws 32-4201
• Massage therapy: means the following that are undertaken to increase wellness, relaxation, stress reduction, pain relief and postural improvement or provide general or specific therapeutic benefits:

  (a) The manual application of compression, stretch, vibration or mobilization of the organs and tissues beneath the dermis, including the components of the musculoskeletal system, peripheral vessels of the circulatory system and fascia, when applied primarily to parts of the body other than the hands, feet and head. See Arizona Laws 32-4201

• Medical assistant: means an unlicensed person who has completed an educational program approved by the board, who assists in a homeopathic practice under the supervision of a doctor of homeopathy 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 32-2901
• Medical direction: means direction by a physician who is licensed pursuant to chapter 13 or 17 of this title. See Arizona Laws 32-3501
• Medical incompetence: means the lack of sufficient medical knowledge or skill by a licensee to a degree that is likely to endanger a patient's health. See Arizona Laws 32-2901
• 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
• 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 surgery: means surgical procedures that are conducted by a licensee who is licensed pursuant to section 32-2912, subsection A in an outpatient setting and that involve the removal or repair of lesions or injuries to the skin, mucous membranes and subcutaneous tissues, the use of topical, local or regional anesthetic agents, the treatment by stabilizing or casting nondisplaced and uncomplicated fractures of the extremities and diagnostic endoscopies of the intestinal tract, nasopharynx and vagina. See Arizona Laws 32-2901
• Mobile food unit: means a food establishment that is licensed by this state, that is readily movable and that dispenses food or beverages for immediate service and consumption and other incidental retail items from any vehicle as defined in section 28-101. See Arizona Laws 9-485
• Mobile food vendor: means any person who owns, controls, manages or leases a mobile food unit or contracts with a person to prepare foods and vend from, drive or operate a mobile food unit. See Arizona Laws 9-485
• Mobile home: means either of the following:

  (a) A residential structure that was manufactured on or before June 15, 1976, that is transportable in one or more sections, eight feet or more in body width, over thirty feet in body length with the hitch, built on an integral chassis, designed to be used as a dwelling when connected to the required utilities and not originally sold as a travel trailer or recreational vehicle and that includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems in the structure. See Arizona Laws 33-2102

• Mobile home park: means any parcel of land that contains four or more mobile home spaces. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Mobile home park: means any parcel of land that contains four or more mobile home spaces and two or more recreational vehicle spaces. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Mobile home space: means a parcel of land for rent that has been designed to accommodate a mobile home and provide the required sewer and utility connections. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Monies due under the contract: means :

  (a) Any principal and interest payments which are currently due and payable to the seller. See Arizona Laws 33-741

• 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: means a record, however denominated, that creates or provides for a consensual lien on real property or rents, even if it also creates or provides for a lien on personal property. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Mortgagee: means a person entitled to enforce an obligation secured by a mortgage. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagor: means a person that grants a mortgage or a successor in ownership of the real property described in the mortgage. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• Moving expenses: means the cost incurred by the tenant whose mobile home is moved for taking down, transporting and setting up the mobile home with the identical, or substantially similar, improvements as were attached to the tenant's mobile home on the mobile home space from which it was removed but does not include the cost of landscaping or the cost of utility lines, trenching or utility connections located in excess of twenty-five feet from the point of hookup on the mobile home. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Municipal corporation: means any sanitary district, electrical district, irrigation district, hospital district or any other similar municipal corporation which is required by law to adopt a budget. See Arizona Laws 35-465
• Municipal corporation: means a sanitary district, electrical district, irrigation district or hospital district or any other similar municipal corporation which is required by law to adopt a budget. See Arizona Laws 35-467
• Municipality: means an incorporated city or town. See Arizona Laws 9-441
• municipality: means an incorporated city or town. See Arizona Laws 9-461
• municipality: means an incorporated city or town. See Arizona Laws 9-462
• municipality: means an incorporated city or town. See Arizona Laws 9-463
• 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}
• 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
• Net proceeds: means the total proceeds received from the lien sale minus the total amount of the lien. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Neuromuscular integration: means musculoskeletal therapy that uses any combination of manual methods, physical agents and physical medicine procedures and devices to improve physiological function by normalizing body structure. See Arizona Laws 32-2901
• Newly enrolled student: means a student who is enrolling with a private postsecondary education institution for the first time. See Arizona Laws 32-3071
• 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.
• Notice: means delivery by hand or mailed by registered or certified mail to the last known address of the landlord or tenant. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Nuclear medicine technologist: means a person who uses radiopharmaceutical agents on humans for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes as set forth in rules adopted pursuant to section 32-2815. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• Nutrition: means the recommendation by a licensee of therapeutic or preventative dietary measures, food factor concentrates, fasting and cleansing regimens and the rebalancing by a licensee of digestive system function to correct diseases of malnutrition, to resolve conditions of metabolic imbalance and to support optimal vitality. See Arizona Laws 32-2901
• Oath: includes an affirmation or declaration. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Obligee: includes any bondholder, any agents or trustees for any bondholders or any lessor demising to the municipality property used in connection with a housing development project, or any assignee or assignees of such lessor's interest or any part of the lessor's interest, and the federal government when it is a party to any contract with the municipality. See Arizona Laws 9-441
• Occupant: means a person or the person's sublessee, successor or assign that is entitled to the use of the leased space at a self-service storage facility under a rental agreement, to the exclusion of others. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Occupational therapist: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter to practice occupational therapy and who is a graduate of an accredited occupational therapy education program, completes the approved fieldwork and passes the examination as required by the board pursuant to section 32-3424. See Arizona Laws 32-3401
• Occupational therapy: means the use of therapeutic activities or modalities to promote engagement in activities with individuals who are limited by physical or cognitive injury or illness, psychosocial dysfunction, developmental or learning disabilities, sensory processing or modulation deficits or the aging process in order to achieve optimum functional performance, maximize independence, prevent disability and maintain health. See Arizona Laws 32-3401
• Occupational therapy assistant: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter, who is a graduate of an accredited occupational therapy assistant education program, who assists in the practice of occupational therapy and who performs delegated procedures commensurate with the person's education and training. See Arizona Laws 32-3401
• Occupational therapy services: includes the following:

  (a) Developing an intervention and training plan that is based on the occupational therapist's evaluation of the client's occupational history and experiences, including the client's daily living activities, development, activity demands, values and needs. See Arizona Laws 32-3401

• Operate: means to establish, keep, maintain or utilize a physical facility, location or mailing address in this state where, from which or through which students are procured for private vocational or private degree programs, private vocational or private degree programs are offered or private vocational credentials or private degrees are offered or granted and includes contracting for the performance of any of these acts. See Arizona Laws 32-3001
• Operating monies: means those treasury monies the interest from which is paid to the state general fund. See Arizona Laws 35-310
• Operations services: means routine operation of existing facilities, structures, buildings or real property. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Operator: means the owner, operator, lessor or sublessor of a self-service storage facility, an agent or any other person authorized to manage the facility. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• 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: includes a corporation, limited liability company, government, governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest and any other legal or commercial entity that is a landlord, owner, manager or designated agent pursuant to section 33-1432. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Organization: includes a corporation, government, governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest and any other legal or commercial entity that is a landlord, owner, manager or designated agent. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Organization: means any corporation, association, partnership, society, firm, syndicate, trust or other legal entity. See Arizona Laws 6-501
• Original contractor: means any contractor who has a direct contractual relationship with the owner. See Arizona Laws 33-1051
• Orthomolecular therapy: means therapy to provide the optimum concentration of substances normally present in the human body such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids and enzymes. See Arizona Laws 32-2901
• Out-of-state business: means a business entity that existed as an operating entity before the declared disaster, including an affiliate solely by common ownership of a registered business, whose services are requested by a registered business in this state or by the state or a local government for the purpose of performing disaster recovery in this state and that meets all of the following conditions:

  (a) Is not present in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-4501

• Out-of-state employee: means an employee who does not work in this state except for performing disaster recovery during a disaster period. See Arizona Laws 32-4501
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: means one or more persons, jointly or severally, in whom is vested all or part of the legal title to property or all or part of the beneficial ownership and a right to present use and enjoyment of the premises. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Owner: means the owners of a timeshare interest in a timeshare plan, other than as security for an obligation. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Owner: means the person for whose property a receiver is appointed. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Parent: means a student's mother, father, adoptive parent, grandparent or guardian or any person with the duty and authority to make important decisions in matters having a permanent effect on the life and development of a student and to be concerned about the student's general welfare. See Arizona Laws 35-771
• Parent corporation: means a corporation which owns eighty per cent or more of every class of the issued and outstanding stock of another corporation or, in the case of a savings and loan association, eighty per cent or more of its issued and outstanding guaranty capital. See Arizona Laws 33-801
• Park manager: means the person who is primarily responsible for the day-to-day operation of a mobile home park. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Payoff deed: means the deed that the seller is obligated to deliver to the purchaser on payment in full of all monies due under the contract to convey to the purchaser the remainder of the seller's title in the property, whether legal or equitable, as prescribed by the terms of the contract. See Arizona Laws 33-741
• 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
• Permanent endowment funds: means those funds or any part of a fund, established by law, to retain trust monies, not wholly expendable by the beneficiary on a current basis. See Arizona Laws 35-310
• Permissible rate of interest: means a rate of interest that an eligible financial institution is permitted to pay by state or federal law or valid state rules or federal regulations. See Arizona Laws 35-321
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association or other entity formed for the purpose of doing business as a contractor, subcontractor or supplier. See Arizona Laws 34-251
• Person: includes a company, partnership or firm as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Person: includes a company, partnership or firm as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Person: means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal entity. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Person: means any corporation, business, individual, union, committee, club, other organization or group of individuals. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Person: means any individual, firm, corporation, trust, association or partnership. See Arizona Laws 3-401
• Person injured: means a student of a private postsecondary education institution that charges prepaid tuition to a student who is damaged monetarily by the institution ceasing operations before fulfilling its contractual obligations or fully providing the services that were paid for in advance. See Arizona Laws 32-3071
• Personal property: means movable property that is not affixed to land and includes goods, wares, merchandise, household items and furnishings and vehicles. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• 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
• Persons of low and moderate income: means , for the purposes of financing owner-occupied single family dwelling units in areas that the municipality has found, pursuant to section 36-1479, to be slum or blighted areas, as defined in section 36-1471, persons and families whose income does not exceed two and one-half times the median family income of this state. See Arizona Laws 35-701
• Petty offense: A federal misdemeanor punishable by six months or less in prison. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Pharmaceutical medicine: means a drug therapy that uses prescription-only and nonprescription pharmaceutical agents as well as medicinal agents of botanical, biological or mineral origin and that is based on current scientific indications or traditional or historical usage indications. See Arizona Laws 32-2901
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Planning agency: means the official body designated by local ordinance to carry out the purposes of this article and may be a planning department, a planning commission, a hearing officer, the legislative body itself, or any combination thereof. See Arizona Laws 9-461
• Planning agency: means the official body designated by local ordinance to carry out the purposes of this article and may be a planning department, a planning commission, a hearing officer, the legislative body itself or any combination thereof. See Arizona Laws 9-462
• Planning agency: means the official body designated by local ordinance to carry out the purposes of this article and may be a planning department, a planning commission, the legislative body itself, or any combination thereof. See Arizona Laws 9-463
• Plat: means a map of a subdivision:

  (a) "Preliminary plat" means a preliminary map, including supporting data, indicating a proposed subdivision design prepared in accordance with the provisions of this article and those of any local applicable ordinance. See Arizona Laws 9-463

• 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.
• Political subdivision: means any county, school district, community college district or special taxing district organized under title 48 in which remote municipal property, as defined in section 42-15251, is located. See Arizona Laws 35-468
• Political subdivision: means city, town, county, school district, community college district, multi-county water conservation district, agriculture improvement district, industrial development authority, pollution control corporation, special taxing district in title 48 and any other agency, instrumentality, municipal corporation or other entity created by a law of this state which has the power to issue bonds. See Arizona Laws 35-511
• 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}
• Practical technologist in bone densitometry: means a technologist who holds a certificate to apply ionizing radiation to a person's hips, spine and extremities through the use of a bone density machine. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• Practical technologist in podiatry: means a person holding a practical technologist in podiatry certificate that is granted and issued by the department. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• Practical technologist in radiology: means a person holding a practical technologist in radiology certificate that is granted and issued by the department. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• Practical technologist in radiology certificate: means a certificate that is issued to a person, other than a licensed practitioner, who applies ionizing radiation to specific parts of the human body for diagnostic purposes while under the specific direction of a licensed practitioner. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• Practice of behavioral health: means the practice of marriage and family therapy, professional counseling, social work and substance abuse counseling pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-3251
• Practice of marriage and family therapy: means the professional application of family systems theories, principles and techniques to treat interpersonal relationship issues and nervous, mental and emotional disorders that are cognitive, affective or behavioral. See Arizona Laws 32-3251
• Practice of massage therapy: means the application of massage therapy to any person for a fee or other consideration. See Arizona Laws 32-4201
• Practice of professional counseling: means the professional application of mental health, psychological and human development theories, principles and techniques to:

  (a) Facilitate human development and adjustment throughout the human life span. See Arizona Laws 32-3251

• Practice of respiratory care: means direct and indirect respiratory care services that are performed in a clinic, hospital, skilled nursing facility or private dwelling or other place deemed appropriate or necessary by the board in accordance with the prescription or verbal order of a physician and performed under qualified medical direction. See Arizona Laws 32-3501
• Practice of social work: means the professional application of social work theories, principles, methods and techniques to:

  (a) Treat mental, behavioral and emotional disorders. See Arizona Laws 32-3251

• Practice of substance abuse counseling: means the professional application of general counseling theories, principles and techniques as specifically adapted, based on research and clinical experience, to the specialized needs and characteristics of persons who are experiencing substance abuse, chemical dependency and related problems and to the families of those persons. See Arizona Laws 32-3251
• Practitioner: means an individual who has achieved knowledge and skill by practice and who is actively engaged in a specified health profession. See Arizona Laws 32-3101
• 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.
• Precomputed consumer loan: means a consumer loan that is payable in substantially equal, consecutive monthly installments that are applied to the unpaid balance of the principal and precomputed finance charges combined, subject to provisions for refund or credit in the event of prepayment and for deferral or default charges in the event of deferral or default. See Arizona Laws 6-601
• Preconstruction services: means services and other activities during the design phase. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Premises: means the mobile home park and its existing facilities and appurtenances, including furniture and utilities where applicable, and grounds, areas and existing facilities held out for the use of tenants generally or whose use is promised to the tenant. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Premises: means the recreational vehicle park and existing facilities and appurtenances in the park, including furniture and utilities, if applicable, and grounds, areas and existing facilities held out for the use of tenants generally or whose use is promised to the tenant. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Prepaid tuition: means monies that are advanced to an educational institution before the educational institution provides its service. See Arizona Laws 32-3071
• Prepayment: means the payment of a claim before receiving the goods or services. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Private security guard service: means any agency, individual or employer in the business of furnishing to the public for hire, fee or reward dogs, watchmen, patrol services, private security guards or other persons to protect human life or to prevent the theft or the misappropriation or concealment of goods, wares, merchandise, money, bonds, stocks, notes, choses in action or other property, valuable documents, papers and articles of value. See Arizona Laws 32-2601
• Private vocational program: means an instructional program which includes a course or group of courses as defined in section 15-101 for which a student does not earn a degree and which is designed to provide or is advertised as providing a student with sufficient skills for entry into a paid occupation, and which is not conducted solely by a public school, public community college or public university. See Arizona Laws 32-3001
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Proceeds: means the following property:

  (a) Whatever is acquired on the sale, lease, license, exchange or other disposition of receivership property. See Arizona Laws 33-2601

• Process: means execution, attachment, garnishment, replevin, sale or any final process issued from any court or any other judicial remedy provided for collection of debts. See Arizona Laws 33-1121
• Processing fee: means a fee that is charged by an entity other than a credit card issuer or the processing financial institution to process a credit card transaction. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• 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
• Professional negligence: means any of the following:

  (a) That a licensee administers treatment to a patient in a manner that is contrary to accepted practices and that harms the patient if it can be shown to the board's satisfaction that accepted practices are inherently less hazardous. See Arizona Laws 32-2901

• professional services: means architectural practice, engineering practice or land surveying practice as defined in section 32-101. See Arizona Laws 33-1007
• Project: means any land, any building or any other improvement and all real and personal properties, including machinery and equipment whether or not now in existence or under construction and whether located within or without this state or the municipality or county approving the formation of the corporation, that are suitable for any of the following:

  (a) With respect to a corporation formed with the permission of the Arizona finance authority, a municipality or a county other than the Arizona board of regents:

  (i) Any enterprise for the manufacturing, processing or assembling of any agricultural or manufactured products. See Arizona Laws 35-701

• Property: means all of a person's right, title and interest, both legal and equitable, in real and personal property, tangible and intangible, wherever located and however acquired. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Property: means any land, improvements thereon, buildings and any improvements thereto, machinery and equipment of any and all kinds necessary to a project and any other personal properties deemed necessary in connection with a project. See Arizona Laws 35-701
• Property: means the real property described in the contract and any personal property included under the contract. See Arizona Laws 33-741
• Property tax agent: means an individual who is designated by a person or is an employee of an entity designated as an agent pursuant to section 42-16001, who acts on behalf of a person who owns, controls or possesses property valued by a county assessor and who receives a fee for the analysis of any matter relating to the review of the valuation of the person's property before the assessor. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
• Property tax agent: means an individual who is designated by a person or is an employee of an entity designated as an agent pursuant to section 42-16001, who acts on behalf of a person who owns, controls or possesses property valued by a county assessor or the department of revenue and who receives a fee for the analysis of any matter relating to the review of the valuation or legal classification of the person's property before the assessor, the county or state board of equalization or the department of revenue. See Arizona Laws 32-3651
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Prospective tenant: means a person who desires to become a tenant. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Prospective tenant: means a person who expresses an interest to a landlord in becoming a tenant. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Protected property: means personal property for which the sale or disposal is regulated by state or federal law and that is one of the following:

  (a) Documents, files or electronic data that contains personal information relating to clients, customers, patients or others in connection with the occupant's business. See Arizona Laws 33-1701

• Psychoeducation: means the education of a client as part of a treatment process that provides the client with information regarding mental health, emotional disorders or behavioral health. See Arizona Laws 32-3251
• Psychotherapy: means a variety of treatment methods developing out of generally accepted theories about human behavior and development. See Arizona Laws 32-3251
• Public access computer: means a computer that is all of the following:

  (a) Located in a public school or public library. See Arizona Laws 34-501

• Public competition: means a competitive procurement process pursuant to section 34-103, subsection G that includes advertising in a public newspaper and a qualification-based selection process. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Public fund: means the state treasurer or a retirement system. See Arizona Laws 35-393
• 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 monies: includes subdivision monies. See Arizona Laws 35-321
• Purchase order: means a document that is signed by the appropriate agency authorized signatory, that requests a vendor to deliver described goods or services at a specific price and that on delivery and acceptance of the goods or services by this state becomes an obligation of this state. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Purchaser: means the person or any successor in interest to the person who has contracted to purchase the seller's title to the property which is the subject of the contract. See Arizona Laws 33-741
• Qualified educational institution: means an educational institution, as defined in paragraph 1 of this section, with a campus and facilities located in this state that offers one or more eligible degrees. See Arizona Laws 35-771
• Qualifying party: means the individual who meets the qualifications under this chapter for an agency license. See Arizona Laws 32-2601
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Radiation therapy technologist: means a person who uses radiation on humans for therapeutic purposes. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• Radiologic technologist: means a person who holds a certificate that is issued by the department and that allows that person to apply ionizing radiation to individuals at the direction of a licensed practitioner for general diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• Radiologic technology: means the science and art of applying ionizing radiation to human beings for general diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• Radiologist: means a licensed practitioner of medicine or osteopathic medicine who has undertaken a course of training that meets the requirements for admission to the examination of the American board of radiology or the American osteopathic board of radiology. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• Radiologist assistant: means a person who holds a certificate pursuant to section 32-2819 and who performs independent advanced procedures in medical imaging and interventional radiology under the guidance, directions, supervision and discretion of a licensed practitioner of medicine or osteopathic medicine specializing in radiology as set forth in section 32-2819 and the rules adopted pursuant to that section. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• Real estate: means an identified parcel or tract of land, including improvements, if any. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
• real estate appraisal: means a statement that is independently and impartially prepared by an individual setting forth an opinion as to the market value of real property as of a specific date and supported by the presentation and analysis of relevant market information. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
• Real estate related financial transaction: means any transaction involving the sale of, lease of, purchase of, investment in or exchange of real property, including interests in property or the financing of property, the refinancing of real property or interests in real property and the use of real property or interests in property as security for a loan or investment, including mortgage-backed securities. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Real property: means one or more defined interests, benefits and rights inherent in the ownership of real estate. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
• Real property appraisal services: means the practice of developing an opinion of the value of real property in conformance with the uniform standards of professional appraisal practice published by the appraisal foundation. See Arizona Laws 32-3661
• Rebate: means the payment of monies to the federal government pursuant to any law enacted by the Congress of the United States in consideration of retaining any exemption from federal income taxes for the interest income on an issuer's bonds. See Arizona Laws 35-511
• Receiver: means a person who is appointed by the court as the court's agent and, subject to the court's direction, to take possession of, manage, and, if authorized by this chapter or court order, transfer, sell, lease, license, exchange, collect or otherwise dispose of receivership property. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Receivership: means a proceeding in which a receiver is appointed. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Receivership property: means the property of an owner that is described in the order appointing a receiver or a subsequent order. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• 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}
• Recreational vehicle: means a vehicular type unit that is any of the following:

  (a) A portable camping trailer mounted on wheels and constructed with collapsible partial sidewalls that fold for towing by another vehicle and unfold for camping. See Arizona Laws 33-2102

• Recreational vehicle space: means a parcel of land for rent that has been designed to accommodate a recreational vehicle and provide the required sewer and utility connections. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Redevelopment of the mobile home park: means that the spaces being redeveloped shall remain vacant for at least one hundred eighty days after the effective date of all change in use notices that are given to the tenants and either of the following applies:

  (a) A minimum of twenty-five percent of the spaces in the park, in groups of at least five contiguous spaces, are being changed into an upgraded mobile home park. See Arizona Laws 33-1409

• Registered business: means a business entity that is currently registered to do business in this state and that was a registered business before the declared disaster. See Arizona Laws 32-4501
• Registered mail: includes certified mail. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Registered owner: means an owner of a vehicle as stated in the official records of the department. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Registered trainee appraiser: means a person who meets both of the following requirements:

  (a) Is registered with the deputy director and meets the appraiser qualifications board's qualifications for trainee appraisers to perform appraisal services only under the direct supervision of a certified appraiser who has met the minimum criteria to be a supervisory appraiser. See Arizona Laws 32-3601

• Registrant: means an employee of a licensed agency who is qualified to perform the services of a security guard. See Arizona Laws 32-2601
• Registrant: means a person or entity that owns or operates a laser or IPL device for which the application for registration is on file with the department and that is in compliance with department rules. See Arizona Laws 32-3231
• Registration: means the formal notification that, before rendering services, a practitioner shall submit to a state agency setting forth the name and address of the practitioner, the location, nature and operation of the health activity to be practiced and, if required by a regulatory entity, a description of the service to be provided. See Arizona Laws 32-3101
• 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 32-2601
• Regularly engaged in the business: means either:

  (a) Advertising to or any other solicitation of a resident of this state that offers a consumer loan and that occurs within this state. See Arizona Laws 6-601

• Regulatory entity: means any board, commission, agency or department of this state that regulates one or more health professions in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-3101
• Relocation management company: means a business entity whose exclusive business services are not for mortgage purposes and include the relocation of employees as an agent or contractor for the employer or the employer's agent for the purposes of determining an anticipated sales price, as defined by the worldwide employee relocation council, of the residence of an employee being relocated by the employer in the course of its business. See Arizona Laws 32-3661
• 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.
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Rent: means payments to be made to the landlord or designated agent in full consideration for the rented premises. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Rent: means payments to be made to the landlord or designated agent in full consideration for the rented premises. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Rental agreement: means any written agreement provided to the occupant that establishes or modifies the terms, conditions or rules concerning the use and occupancy of leased space at a self-service storage facility. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Rental agreement: means leases or agreements and valid rules adopted under section 33-1452 embodying the terms and conditions concerning the use and occupancy of a mobile home space and premises, and includes month-to-month tenancies that arise out of the expiration of a written rental agreement pursuant to section 33-1413. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Rental agreement: means oral or written leases or agreements and valid rules embodying the terms and conditions concerning the use and occupancy of a recreational vehicle space. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Rents: means :

  (a) Sums payable for the right to possess or occupy, or for the actual possession or occupation of, real property of another person. See Arizona Laws 33-2601

• Report: means to stenographically or by voice writing record and transcribe sworn proceedings. See Arizona Laws 32-4002
• 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.
• Research park: means an area of land that has been designated by the Arizona board of regents as a research park for a university and that, at the date of designation, is owned by this state or by the Arizona board of regents. See Arizona Laws 35-701
• 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
• Resident: means a person entitled under a rental agreement to occupy a mobile home space to the exclusion of others and does not include a person rendering necessary care or services under Section 33-1413. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Resident: means a person entitled under a rental agreement to occupy a recreational vehicle space to the exclusion of others. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Residential rental property: means property that is used solely as leased or rented property for residential purposes. See Arizona Laws 33-1901
• Respiratory therapist: means a person who successfully completes a respiratory therapy training program approved by the board. See Arizona Laws 32-3501
• Respiratory therapy training program: means a program that is accredited by the commission on accreditation for respiratory care or its successor agency and that is adopted by the board. See Arizona Laws 32-3501
• Restricted companies: means companies that boycott Israel. See Arizona Laws 35-393
• 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 license status or type or condition of a person to whom the licensee may provide services. See Arizona Laws 32-4101
• Retirement system: means a retirement plan or system that is established by or pursuant to title 38. See Arizona Laws 35-393
• Revenue: means any monies derived other than from grants, ad valorem taxes, sales taxes or transaction privilege taxes or from this state. See Arizona Laws 35-467
• Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
• Right-of-way: means any public right-of-way and includes any area required for public use pursuant to any general or specific plan. See Arizona Laws 9-461
• Right-of-way: means any public or private right-of-way and includes any area required for public use pursuant to any general or specific plan as provided for in article 6 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 9-463
• School district: means any school district now or hereafter in existence in the state. See Arizona Laws 35-465
• Secured obligation: means an obligation the payment or performance of which is secured by a security agreement. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• Security agreement: means an agreement that creates or provides for a lien. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• security deposit: means any refundable money or property given to assure payment or performance under a rental agreement. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Security deposit: means money or property given to assure payment or performance under a rental agreement. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Security guard: means any person employed by a private security guard service or proprietary company as a watchman, patrolman, bodyguard, personal protection guard or private security guard or any other person who performs security guard services, but does not include any regularly commissioned police or peace officer or railroad police appointed pursuant to section 40-856. See Arizona Laws 32-2601
• Security guard training instructor: means a person who provides instruction to applicants for unarmed security guard certification. See Arizona Laws 32-2601
• Self-service storage facility: means any real property used for renting or leasing storage spaces in which the occupants themselves customarily store and remove their own personal property on a self-service basis. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Seller: means any of the following:

  (a) Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association or other organization that is engaged in the business of building or selling dwellings. See Arizona Laws 33-2001

• Seller: means the person or any successor in interest to the person who has contracted to convey his title to the property which is the subject of the contract. See Arizona Laws 33-741
• Service fee or surcharge: means a fee, whether fixed or variable, that is in addition to the transaction amount, that is charged by a state agency when the state agency accepts a credit card for payment and that is necessary for the state agency to process the payment. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Services: means all services purchased, procured or contracted for by an agency, including construction services. See Arizona Laws 35-341
• 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.
• 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 family dwelling unit: includes any new, used or manufactured house that meets the insuring requirements of the federal housing administration, the United States department of veterans affairs or any other insuring entity of the United States government or any private mortgage insurance or surety company that is approved by the federal home loan mortgage corporation or the federal national mortgage association. See Arizona Laws 35-701
• Slum property: means residential rental property that has deteriorated or is in a state of disrepair and that manifests one or more of the following conditions that are a danger to the health or safety of the public:

  (a) Structurally unsound exterior surfaces, roof, walls, doors, floors, stairwells, porches or railings. See Arizona Laws 33-1901

• Special purpose licensing examination: means an examination developed by the national board of medical examiners on behalf of the federation of state medical boards for use by state licensing boards to test the basic medical competence of physicians who are applying for licensure and who have been in practice in another jurisdiction of the United States and to determine the competence of a physician under investigation by a state licensing board. See Arizona Laws 32-2901
• Specific plan: means a detailed element of the general plan enacted under the provisions of this article or a prior statute. See Arizona Laws 9-461
• Standards of professional appraisal practice: means the uniform standards of professional appraisal practice promulgated by the appraisal standards board of the appraisal foundation. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
• State: means the state of Arizona. See Arizona Laws 35-465
• State: means this state or any of its departments, agencies or authorities. See Arizona Laws 35-466
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Arizona Laws 33-2601
• State agency: means any department, board, commission or agency of this state. See Arizona Laws 32-3101
• State monies: means all monies in the treasury of this state or coming lawfully into the possession or custody of the state treasurer. See Arizona Laws 35-321
• State program representative: means the state treasurer or the state treasurer's designee. See Arizona Laws 35-771
• State-licensed or state-certified appraiser: means a person who develops and communicates appraisals and who holds a current, valid license or certificate issued under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Stop notice: means a written notice that is signed and verified by the claimant or its agent and that states in general terms all of the following:

  (a) A description of the labor, professional services, materials, machinery, fixtures or tools furnished or agreed to be furnished by the claimant. See Arizona Laws 33-1051

• Street: means streets, highways, freeways, expressways, avenues, boulevards, parkways, roads, lanes, walks, alleys, viaducts, subways, tunnels, bridges, public access easements and rights-of-way. See Arizona Laws 9-461
• Street: means any existing or proposed street, avenue, boulevard, road, lane, parkway, place, bridge, viaduct or easement for public vehicular access or a street shown in a plat heretofore approved pursuant to law or a street in a plat duly filed and recorded in the county recorder's office. See Arizona Laws 9-463
• Student loan: means a loan to or for the benefit of an eligible student for the purpose of financing all or a part of the eligible student's cost of attending an educational institution in pursuit of an eligible degree or refinancing any such loan previously made. See Arizona Laws 35-771
• Subcontractor: means a person who contracts to perform work or render service to a contractor or to another subcontractor as a part of a contract with an agent. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Subdivider: means a person, firm, corporation, partnership, association, syndicate, trust or other legal entity that files application and initiates proceedings for the subdivision of land in accordance with the provisions of this article, any local applicable ordinance and other state statute, except that an individual serving as agent for such legal entity is not a subdivider. See Arizona Laws 9-463
• Subdivision: means any county, noncharter city or town. See Arizona Laws 35-321
• Subdivision: means any land or portion thereof subject to the provisions of this article as provided in Section 9-463. See Arizona Laws 9-463
• Subdivision monies: means all monies in the treasury of a subdivision or coming lawfully into the possession or custody of the treasurer. See Arizona Laws 35-321
• Subdivision regulations: means a municipal ordinance regulating the design and improvement of subdivisions enacted under the provisions of article 6. See Arizona Laws 9-461
• Subdivision regulations: means a municipal ordinance regulating the design and improvement of subdivisions enacted under the provisions of this article or any prior statute regulating the design and improvement of subdivisions. See Arizona Laws 9-463
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• substitute check: means a paper reproduction of an original warrant or check that is created from an electronic image of the original warrant or check and that meets all of the following:

  1. See Arizona Laws 35-101.01

• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supervision: means the giving of instructions by the supervising occupational therapist or the occupational therapy assistant that are adequate to ensure the safety of clients during the provision of occupational therapy services and that take into consideration at least the following factors:

  (a) Skill level. See Arizona Laws 32-3401

• Supervision: means that the supervising licensed acupuncturist is present in the facility where the acupuncture assistant is performing services and is available for consultation regarding procedures that the licensed acupuncturist has authorized and for which the licensed acupuncturist remains responsible. See Arizona Laws 32-3901
• Supervisory appraiser: means a state-certified appraiser who has a supervisory appraiser designation and who:

  (a) Has been in good standing for the last three years in the jurisdiction in which the registered trainee appraiser practices. See Arizona Laws 32-3601

• Supplemental appropriation: Budget authority provided in an appropriations act in addition to regular or continuing appropriations already provided. Supplemental appropriations generally are made to cover emergencies, such as disaster relief, or other needs deemed too urgent to be postponed until the enactment of next year's regular appropriations act.
• Taxes: means state excise taxes levied pursuant to lawful appropriations, which are due or will become due prior to the end of the fiscal year but which remain uncollected, in anticipation of which bonds may be issued. See Arizona Laws 35-401
• Taxes: means ad valorem taxes levied or to be levied by the taxing district in the fiscal year, sales taxes and transaction privilege taxes levied by the taxing district and all amounts returned to the taxing district by the state. See Arizona Laws 35-465
• Taxing district: means any city, county, school district or municipal corporation having the power to levy ad valorem taxes. See Arizona Laws 35-465
• Taxing district: means a city, county, school district or municipal corporation having the power to levy ad valorem taxes. See Arizona Laws 35-467
• Technical registrant: means a person who provides any of the professional services listed in Title 32, Chapter 1. See Arizona Laws 34-101
• Technology protection measure: means a technology that blocks or filters internet access to visual depictions. See Arizona Laws 34-501
• Temporary license: means a short-term license issued to a qualified individual to work in this state on a short-term basis by teaching a course, seminar or class, working during the process of receiving a full and active license, working while traveling with a sports or athletic team or providing free services during a declared state or national disaster. See Arizona Laws 32-3121
• Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent
• Tenant: means a person signing a rental agreement or otherwise agreeing with a landlord for the occupancy of a mobile home space. See Arizona Laws 33-1409
• Tenant: means a person signing a rental agreement or otherwise agreeing with a landlord for the occupancy of a recreational vehicle space for more than one hundred eighty days. See Arizona Laws 33-2102
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Therapeutics: includes the following:

  (a) Applying and monitoring oxygen therapy. See Arizona Laws 32-3501

• Third party right of enforcement: means a right granted in a conservation easement to enforce any of its terms granted to a governmental body, charitable corporation or charitable trust, which, although eligible to be a holder, is not a holder. See Arizona Laws 33-271
• Timeshare estate: means the right of occupancy in a timeshare property that is coupled with an estate in real property. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Timeshare instrument: means one or more documents creating or governing the operation of a timeshare plan. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Timeshare interest: means either a timeshare estate or a timeshare use. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Timeshare plan: means any arrangement, plan or similar device, other than an exchange program, whether by membership agreement, or sales, lease, deed, license or right-to-use agreement or by any other means, in which an owner, in exchange for consideration, receives ownership rights in or the right to use accommodations for a period of time that is less than a full year during any given year, but not necessarily for consecutive years, if the use rights extend for at least three years. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Timeshare property: means one or more accommodations that are subject to the same timeshare instrument, together with any other property or rights to property appurtenant to those accommodations. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Timeshare use: means the right to occupy a timeshare property that is not coupled with an estate in real property. See Arizona Laws 33-2202
• Total course cost: means the tuition and other fees that are charged by the private postsecondary education institution for each course offered. See Arizona Laws 32-3071
• Transaction amount: means the total amount due to the state for any goods, service or license or anything else of value. See Arizona Laws 35-101
• 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.
• Trauma: means the experience of significant psychological distress following any terrible or life-threatening event. See Arizona Laws 32-3901
• Treasurer: includes the treasurer or officer exercising the functions of treasurer of any subdivision but excludes the state treasurer. See Arizona Laws 35-321
• Treasurer: means state treasurer. See Arizona Laws 35-401
• Treasurer: means the treasurer of the taxing district or the ex officio tax collector of the taxing district. See Arizona Laws 35-465
• Treasurer: means the treasurer, finance director or other person acting in the capacity of the treasurer of this state or any political subdivision. See Arizona Laws 35-511
• Treasury monies: means all monies in the treasury of this state or coming lawfully into the possession or custody of the state treasurer. See Arizona Laws 35-310
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Trust funds: means those monies entrusted to a public body or official for preservation and investment, as prescribed by the instrument establishing such funds. See Arizona Laws 35-321
• Trust monies: means treasury monies, other than operating monies, that are entrusted to the state treasurer for preservation and investment. See Arizona Laws 35-310
• Trust property: means any legal, equitable, leasehold or other interest in real property which is capable of being transferred, whether or not it is subject to any prior mortgages, trust deeds, contracts for conveyance of real property or other liens or encumbrances. See Arizona Laws 33-801
• Trustee: means an individual, association or corporation qualified pursuant to section 33-803, or the successor in interest thereto, to whom trust property is conveyed by trust deed. See Arizona Laws 33-801
• Trustor: means the person conveying trust property by a trust deed as security for the performance of a contract or contracts, or the successor in interest of such person. See Arizona Laws 33-801
• Trustor: The person who makes or creates a trust. Also known as the grantor or settlor.
• Truth in lending act: means title I of the consumer credit protection act (15 United States Code §§ 1601 through 1666j), as amended, and the regulations promulgated under that act (Title 12 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 226), as amended. See Arizona Laws 6-601
• Truth in Lending Act: The Truth in Lending Act is a federal law that requires lenders to provide standardized information so that borrowers can compare loan terms. In general, lenders must provide information on ^{Source: OCC}
• Unethical professional conduct: means the following acts, whether occurring in this state or elsewhere:

  (a) Intentionally betraying a professional confidence or intentional violation of a privileged communication except as required by law. See Arizona Laws 32-2801

• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• Uniform standards of professional appraisal practice: means the uniform standards of professional appraisal practice promulgated by the appraisal foundation. See Arizona Laws 32-3661
• Unlimited practical technologist in radiology: means a person holding an unlimited practical technologist in radiology certificate that is granted and issued by the department. See Arizona Laws 32-2801
• 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 32-2601

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

  1. See Arizona Laws 32-2933

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

  (a) Being convicted of a felony. See Arizona Laws 32-3251

• Unprofessional conduct: includes the following:

  (a) Habitual intemperance in the use of alcohol. See Arizona Laws 32-3401

• Unprofessional conduct: includes the following:

  (a) Committing a felony, whether or not involving moral turpitude, or a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude. See Arizona Laws 32-3501

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

  (a) Wilfully disclosing a professional secret or wilfully violating a privileged communication except as either of these may otherwise be required by law. See Arizona Laws 32-3901

• Value: means the monetary relationship between properties and those who buy, sell or use those properties. See Arizona Laws 32-3601
• Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
• Vehicle: means a motor vehicle, a trailer or a semitrailer as defined in section 28-101 and a motorized watercraft as defined in section 5-301. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verified mail: means any method of mailing that is offered by the United States postal service and that provides evidence of mailing. See Arizona Laws 33-1701
• Voice writing: means the making of a verbatim record of the spoken word by means of repeating the words of the speaker into a device that is capable of digital translation into text. See Arizona Laws 32-4002
• Water transportation revenues: means monies received by a political subdivision pursuant to section 9-433. See Arizona Laws 35-468
• 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
• Zoning administrator: means the official responsible for enforcement of the zoning ordinance. See Arizona Laws 9-462
• Zoning ordinance: means a municipal ordinance regulating the use of land or structures, or both, under the provisions of this article. See Arizona Laws 9-461
• Zoning ordinance: means a municipal ordinance regulating the use of the land or structures, or both, as provided in this article. See Arizona Laws 9-462