Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 9 > Chapter 6 > Article 1 - Arizona Convention Center Development Fund

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Active tuberculosis: means a disease that is caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis or other members of the mycobacterium tuberculosis complex family in any part of the body and that is in an active state as determined by either:

  (a) A smear or culture that is taken from any source in the afflicted person's body and that tests positive for tuberculosis and the afflicted person has not completed a medically successful complete course of antituberculosis treatment. See Arizona Laws 36-711

• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• 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.
• Afflicted person: means a person who has or who based upon reasonable grounds is suspected of having active tuberculosis. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appropriate prescribed course of medication: means a course of medication that is prescribed by a physician and that meets the recommendations of any of the following:

  (a) The tuberculosis control officer. See Arizona Laws 36-711

• 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
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Cure: means a medically successful complete course of antituberculosis treatment. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-751
• Directly observed therapy: means an appropriate prescribed course of treatment for active tuberculosis in which the prescribed antituberculosis medications are administered to the afflicted person or taken by the afflicted person under the direct observation of a physician, a physician assistant, a registered nurse, a health care provider or another designated responsible person. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Director: means the director of the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Director: means the director of the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-751
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Examination: means conducting tests that include Mantoux tuberculin skin tests, laboratory examination and x-rays as recommended by any of the following:

  (a) The tuberculosis control officer. See Arizona Laws 36-711

• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• 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.
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Institution: means any public or private hospital, rest home, sanatorium, health care institution or other facility approved by the department for the care and treatment of afflicted persons. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Intervention: means treatment, monitoring, quarantine or isolation or any combination thereof. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Isolation: means the physical separation of afflicted persons from others in order to limit the transmission of active tuberculosis. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Local health officer: means the health officer and other persons who are designated by the local health officer. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Medical director: means an individual at a receiving facility who is either a licensed physician or a hospital administrator acting upon the advice of a licensed physician who is authorized by the facility to make any decisions concerning afflicted persons as prescribed by this article. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Medically successful complete course of antituberculosis treatment: means that an afflicted person has successfully completed a prescribed course of antituberculosis treatment and has been medically discharged from further medical treatment for tuberculosis by a licensed physician. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Midwife: means a person who delivers a baby or provides health care related to pregnancy, labor, delivery and postpartum care of the mother and her infant. See Arizona Laws 36-751
• Minor: means a person under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Minor: means a child under the age of eighteen years of age, except as provided by the provisions of section 44-132. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Monitoring: means a program of supervision designed to monitor the health and activities of an afflicted person. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• 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
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Quarantine: means the restriction of activities of persons who have been exposed to an afflicted person. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• 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.
• Treatment: means medication or medical therapy prescribed by a licensed physician to cure a person of active tuberculosis. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• Tuberculosis control officer: means a person appointed by the director to be the chief tuberculosis control officer for tuberculosis control in this state and other persons who are designated by the control officer. See Arizona Laws 36-711
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Voluntary treatment plan: means a written plan that is developed by a medical authority, that has been approved by the tuberculosis control officer or the local health officer and that prescribes one or more of the following on a voluntary basis:

  (a) Examination. See Arizona Laws 36-711

• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215