Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 8 > Chapter 13 - Early Childhood Development and Health Programs

• Account: means withdrawable capital deposited with or invested in an association in accordance with any plan authorized by this chapter unless such term is otherwise designated or qualified. See Arizona Laws 6-401
• Accredited: means being recognized or authorized by the American board of funeral service education. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Active license: means a valid and existing license to practice medicine. See Arizona Laws 32-1401
• Adequate records: means legible medical records, produced by hand or electronically, containing, at a minimum, sufficient information to identify the patient, support the diagnosis, justify the treatment, accurately document the results, indicate advice and cautionary warnings provided to the patient and provide sufficient information for another practitioner to assume continuity of the patient's care at any point in the course of treatment. See Arizona Laws 32-1401
• Administrative costs and expenses: means the cost of copies, transcripts, court reporter and witness fees, reimbursement for mileage and office of administrative hearings costs. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Advisory letter: means a nondisciplinary letter to notify a licensee that either:

  (a) While there is insufficient evidence to support disciplinary action, the board believes that continuation of the activities that led to the investigation may result in further board action against the licensee. See Arizona Laws 32-1401

• 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.
• Affiliated practice dental hygienist: means any licensed dental hygienist who is able, pursuant to Section 32-1289. See Arizona Laws 32-1201
• Aggregate withdrawal value: means the sum of all payments made on all accounts of the association, all dividends and bonuses credited or allocated to such accounts and all dividends credited to "divided profits" for subsequent crediting to accounts on maturity, less all withdrawals, retirements and other proper deductions from accounts and all unpaid charges on the accounts. See Arizona Laws 6-401
• 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
• Alkaline hydrolysis: means a form of final disposition that includes all of the following:

  (a) Reducing a dead human body to essential elements through a water-based dissolution process using alkaline chemicals, heat, agitation and pressure to accelerate natural decomposition. See Arizona Laws 32-1301

• Alkaline hydrolysis facility: means a building or structure containing one or more alkaline hydrolysis vessels for alkaline hydrolysis. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Alkaline hydrolysis operator: means a person who is trained to carry out the process of alkaline hydrolysis. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Alkaline hydrolysis vessel: means the container in which alkaline hydrolysis is performed. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Alternative container: means any unfinished wood box or other nonmetal receptacle or enclosure, without ornamentation or a fixed interior lining, that is designed for encasing human remains. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• 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.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Applicant: means a person who is applying for licensure to practice dental therapy in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-1276
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Approved school of medicine: means any school or college offering a course of study that, on successful completion, results in the degree of doctor of medicine and whose course of study has been approved or accredited by an educational or professional association, recognized by the board, including the association of American medical colleges, the association of Canadian medical colleges or the American medical association. See Arizona Laws 32-1401
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Association: means every association to which this chapter applies as defined in the section concerning scope of chapter. See Arizona Laws 6-401
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Authorizing agent: means a person who is legally entitled to order the cremation, disinterment or embalming of human remains pursuant to Section 32-1365. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Auxiliary personnel: means all dental assistants, dental technicians, dental x-ray technicians and other persons employed by dentists or firms and businesses providing dental services to dentists. See Arizona Laws 32-1201
• Bank: means a corporation that holds a banking permit issued pursuant to chapter 2 of this title. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Beneficiary: means a person whose future funeral arrangements will be handled by a funeral establishment pursuant to a prearranged funeral agreement. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Board: means the Arizona early childhood development and health board established by this chapter. See Arizona Laws 8-1152
• Board: means the state board of dental examiners. See Arizona Laws 32-1201
• Board: means the Arizona medical board. See Arizona Laws 32-1401
• Bribe: means anything of value or advantage, present or prospective, asked, offered, given, accepted or promised with a corrupt intent to influence, unlawfully, the person to whom it is given in that person's action, vote or opinion, in any public or official capacity. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Business entity: means a business organization that has an ownership that includes any persons who are not licensed or certified to provide dental services in this state, that offers to the public professional services regulated by the board and that is established pursuant to the laws of any state or foreign country. See Arizona Laws 32-1201
• Business entity: includes any corporation, association, limited liability company, professional corporation, partnership, limited partnership, sole proprietorship, business trust, trust, joint venture and other business entity. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Casket: means a rigid container that is designed to permanently encase human remains and that is usually constructed of wood, metal or synthetic substances and ornamented and lined with fabric. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Change of ownership: means a transfer of a controlling legal or equitable interest in a licensed funeral establishment or crematory resulting from a sale or merger. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• commission: means the marketing commission established under section 3-413. See Arizona Laws 3-401
• Community: means a city, incorporated town, unincorporated town, community or village. See Arizona Laws 6-401
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Completed application: means that the applicant has supplied all required fees, information and correspondence requested by the board on forms and in a manner acceptable to the board. See Arizona Laws 32-1401
• Construction contract: means a written or oral agreement relating to the construction, alteration, repair, maintenance, moving or demolition of any building, structure or improvement or relating to the excavation of or other development or improvement to land. See Arizona Laws 32-1181
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contractor: means any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association or other organization, or a combination of any of them, that has a direct contract with an owner to perform work under a construction contract. See Arizona Laws 32-1181
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Conviction: means a criminal adjudication or conviction by any state or federal court of competent jurisdiction, including a judgment based on a no contest plea, without regard to whether civil rights have been restored. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• Cremated remains: means the remaining bone fragments after cremation. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Cremation: means the heating process that reduces human remains to bone fragments by combustion and evaporation. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Cremation container: means a leak and spill resistant, rigid, combustible, closed receptacle into which human remains are placed before cremation. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Cremationist: means a person who operates a crematory retort, who performs the actual cremation of human remains and who may be licensed pursuant to article 6 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Crematory: means a building or portion of a building that is licensed pursuant to article 6 of this chapter and that houses a retort in which only human remains are cremated. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Dental assistant: means any person who acts as an assistant to a dentist, dental therapist or dental hygienist by rendering personal services to a patient that involve close proximity to the patient while the patient is under treatment or observation or undergoing diagnostic procedures. See Arizona Laws 32-1201
• Dental hygienist: means any person who is licensed and engaged in the general practice of dental hygiene and all related and associated duties, including educational, clinical and therapeutic dental hygiene procedures. See Arizona Laws 32-1201
• Dental incompetence: means lacking in sufficient dentistry knowledge or skills, or both, in that field of dentistry in which the dentist, dental therapist, denturist or dental hygienist concerned engages, to a degree likely to endanger the health of that person's patients. See Arizona Laws 32-1201
• Dental laboratory technician: means any person, other than a licensed dentist, who, pursuant to a written work order of a dentist, fabricates artificial teeth, prosthetic appliances or other mechanical and artificial contrivances designed to correct or alleviate injuries or defects, both developmental and acquired, disorders or deficiencies of the human oral cavity, teeth, investing tissues, maxilla or mandible or adjacent associated structures. See Arizona Laws 32-1201
• Dental therapist: means any person who is licensed and engaged in the general practice of dental therapy and all related and associated duties, including educational, clinical and therapeutic dental therapy procedures. See Arizona Laws 32-1201
• Denturist: means a person practicing denture technology pursuant to article 5 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-1201
• Department: means the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-101
• Department: means the department of child safety. See Arizona Laws 8-201
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Deputy director: means the deputy director of the financial institutions division of the department. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Direct supervision: means that a physician, physician assistant licensed pursuant to chapter 25 of this title or nurse practitioner certified pursuant to chapter 15 of this title is within the same room or office suite as the medical assistant in order to be available for consultation regarding those tasks the medical assistant performs pursuant to section 32-1456. See Arizona Laws 32-1401
• Direct supervision: means that a licensed dentist is present in the office and available to provide treatment or care to a patient and observe a dental therapist's work. See Arizona Laws 32-1276
• Director: means the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 8-201
• Director: means the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Disciplinary action: means regulatory sanctions that are imposed by the board in combination with, or as an alternative to, revocation or suspension of a license and that may include:

  (a) Imposition of an administrative penalty in an amount not to exceed two thousand dollars for each violation of this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-1201

• Disciplinary action: means an action taken to revoke or suspend a license, to impose probationary requirements or civil penalties or to issue a letter of censure or reprimand to any person who is subject to this chapter and who violates any provision of this chapter or rules. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dispense: means the delivery by a doctor of medicine of a prescription drug or device to a patient, except for samples packaged for individual use by licensed manufacturers or repackagers of drugs, and includes the prescribing, administering, packaging, labeling and security necessary to prepare and safeguard the drug or device for delivery. See Arizona Laws 32-1401
• Doctor of medicine: means a natural person holding a license, registration or permit to practice medicine pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-1401
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Early childhood development and health programs: means programs and services provided to children prior to kindergarten and their families for the purpose of assisting child development by providing education and other support, including parent and family support programs, child care, preschool, health screenings and access to preventive health services. See Arizona Laws 8-1152
• Embalmer: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter and who is engaged in embalming. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Embalming: means the implementation of reconstructive procedures and the process of disinfecting and preserving a dead human body to retard organic decomposition by treating the body to reduce the presence and growth of organisms. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• 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}
• 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}
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Federal association: means a savings and loan association or savings association operating under the laws and regulations of the United States. See Arizona Laws 6-401
• Federal poverty guidelines: means the poverty guidelines as updated annually in the federal register by the United States department of health and human services. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Final completion: means the earliest of the following:

  (a) When the work, or the work under a portion of a construction contract for which the contract states a separate price, has been completed in accordance with the terms and conditions of the construction contract. See Arizona Laws 32-1181

• Financial institution: means a bank, savings and loan association, trust company or credit union that is lawfully doing business in this state and that is not affiliated with a funeral establishment. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• 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.
• Fixed price prearranged funeral agreement funded by trust: means any agreement or combination of agreements that establishes a fixed price for funeral goods and services, that requires a funeral establishment to provide those funeral goods and services at the price levels in effect at the time of the execution of the agreement and that requires the purchaser to convey all or a portion of the accrued interest to the funeral establishment at the time that the funeral goods and services are actually provided. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Full-time faculty member: means a physician who is employed full time as a faculty member while holding the academic position of assistant professor or a higher position at an approved school of medicine. See Arizona Laws 32-1401
• Funded by insurance: means that monies for a prearranged funeral agreement are paid directly to an insurance company licensed pursuant to title 20 on behalf of the beneficiary of the agreement. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Funeral directing: means arranging, directing or providing a service in the disposition of dead human bodies for compensation. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Funeral director: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter and who is engaged in funeral directing. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Funeral establishment: means a business at a specific location that is licensed pursuant to this chapter and that is devoted to the care, storage or preparation for final disposition or transportation of dead human bodies. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• 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
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Grantee: includes every person to whom an estate or interest in real property passes, in or by a deed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Health care institution: means any facility as defined in section 36-401, any person authorized to transact disability insurance, as defined in Title 20, Chapter 6, Article 4 or 5, any person who is issued a certificate of authority pursuant to Title 20, Chapter 4, Article 9 or any other partnership, association or corporation that provides health care to consumers. See Arizona Laws 32-1401
• Holding facility: means a designated area for retaining human remains. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Human remains: means a lifeless human body or parts of a human body that allow a reasonable inference that death occurred. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Immediate family: means the spouse, natural or adopted children, father, mother, brothers and sisters of the doctor of medicine and the natural or adopted children, father, mother, brothers and sisters of the doctor of medicine's spouse. See Arizona Laws 32-1401
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Insurance corporation: means the federal deposit insurance corporation or such other instrumentality of, or corporation chartered by, the United States as may be established for the purpose of insuring the accounts of savings and loan associations or any other equivalent deposit insurer approved by the deputy director. See Arizona Laws 6-401
• Insured association: means an association, the accounts of which are insured wholly or in part by an insurance corporation. See Arizona Laws 6-401
• Investment: means to put funds to use in order to secure profits. See Arizona Laws 6-401
• Irregularities in billing: means submitting any claim, bill or government assistance claim to any patient, responsible party or third-party payor for dental services rendered that is materially false with the intent to receive unearned income as evidenced by any of the following:

  (a) Charges for services not rendered. See Arizona Laws 32-1201

• 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.
• Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
• 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}
• Letter of concern: means an advisory letter to notify a licensee or a registered business entity that, while the evidence does not warrant disciplinary action, the board believes that the licensee or registered business entity 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 board action against the practitioner's license or the business entity's registration. See Arizona Laws 32-1201
• Letter of reprimand: means a disciplinary letter that is issued by the board and that informs the physician that the physician's conduct violates state or federal law and may require the board to monitor the physician. See Arizona Laws 32-1401
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: means an authorization for the person who is listed on the electronic, paper or other records maintained by the registrar to act in the capacity of a contractor. See Arizona Laws 32-1101
• License: means a written authorization that is issued by the department and that entitles a person to act as a funeral director or embalmer or to operate a funeral establishment, crematory or alkaline hydrolysis facility in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Licensed: means licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-1201
• Licensee: means a person to whom the department has issued a license under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Licensee: means a person who holds a license to practice dental therapy in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-1276
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Limit: means taking a nondisciplinary action that alters the physician's practice or professional activities if the board determines that there is evidence that the physician is or may be mentally or physically unable to safely engage in the practice of medicine. See Arizona Laws 32-1401
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• mailed: means , with respect to a writing or notice, deposit in a United States post-office mailing facility in this state with postage prepaid and correctly addressed to the proper person at the person's address stated on the association's records or otherwise agreed on or if no address has been so established then to the last known address. See Arizona Laws 6-401
• Manage: means :

  (a) That a responsible funeral director exercises control and oversight over all employees of a funeral establishment and over funeral transactions, including caring for dead human bodies, funeral services and activities and documenting and retaining records. See Arizona Laws 32-1301

• Medical assistant: means an unlicensed person who meets the requirements of section 32-1456, has completed an education program approved by the board, assists in a medical practice under the supervision of a doctor of medicine, physician assistant or nurse practitioner and performs delegated procedures commensurate with the medical assistant's education and training but does not diagnose, interpret, design or modify established treatment programs or perform any functions that would violate any statute applicable to the practice of medicine. See Arizona Laws 32-1401
• Medical peer review: means :

  (a) The participation by a doctor of medicine in the review and evaluation of the medical management of a patient and the use of resources for patient care. See Arizona Laws 32-1401

• Medically incompetent: means a person who the board determines is incompetent based on a variety of factors, including:

  (a) A lack of sufficient medical knowledge or skills, or both, to a degree likely to endanger the health of patients. See Arizona Laws 32-1401

• Medicine: means allopathic medicine as practiced by the recipient of a degree of doctor of medicine. See Arizona Laws 32-1401
• Merger: includes consolidation. See Arizona Laws 6-401
• Minor: means a person under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Mobile dental facility: means a facility in which dentistry is practiced and that is routinely towed, moved or transported from one location to another. See Arizona Laws 32-1299.21
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Moral turpitude: means an offense, whether a misdemeanor or felony, that is related to extortion, burglary, larceny, bribery, embezzlement, robbery, racketeering, money laundering, forgery, fraud, murder, voluntary manslaughter or a sexual offense that requires the individual to register pursuant to section 13-3821. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• National board examination: means the test or tests given by the international conference of funeral service examining boards to determine the entry level knowledge and skills of a person regarding funeral directing and embalming. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• 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}
• Net interest: means interest earned on a prearranged funeral trust account minus applicable taxes, reasonable and necessary charges made by the financial institution and the annual service fee allowed to be deducted by the funeral establishment according to Section 32-1391. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oath: includes an affirmation or declaration. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Office-based surgery: means a medical procedure conducted in a physician's office or other outpatient setting that is not part of a licensed hospital or licensed ambulatory surgical center. See Arizona Laws 32-1401
• 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
• Outer burial container: means a container that is designed for placement in a grave around a casket, including burial vaults, grave boxes and grave liners. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: means any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association or other organization, or a combination of any of them, that causes a building, structure or improvement to be constructed, altered, repaired, maintained, moved or demolished or that causes land to be excavated or otherwise developed or improved, whether the interest or estate of the person is in fee, as vendee under a contract to purchase, as lessee or another interest or estate less than fee. See Arizona Laws 32-1181
• Participating interests: means the purchase or acquisition of an interest in an existing permanent mortgage loan. See Arizona Laws 6-401
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Permit holder: means a dentist, dental hygienist, denturist or registered business entity that is authorized by this chapter to offer dental services in this state or a nonprofit organization, school district or school or institution of higher education that may employ a licensee to provide dental services and that is authorized by this article to operate a mobile dental facility or portable dental unit. See Arizona Laws 32-1299.21
• Person: means a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, trust, society or natural person. See Arizona Laws 32-1101
• Person: means any individual, firm, corporation, trust, association or partnership. See Arizona Laws 3-401
• Person legally responsible: means the person responsible for burying a dead body as determined in section 36-831. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• 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
• Physician: means a doctor of medicine who is licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-1401
• Place of practice: means each physical location at which a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter performs services subject to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-1201
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Portable dental unit: means a nonfacility in which dental equipment used in the practice of dentistry is transported to and used on a temporary basis at an out-of-office location. See Arizona Laws 32-1299.21
• Prearranged funeral agreement: means any agreement or combination of agreements under which a payment is made before the death of the intended beneficiary for funeral goods and services to be delivered or performed after the death of the beneficiary. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Prearranged funeral trust account: means a trust account that is established at a financial institution and into which all monies paid on behalf of a beneficiary pursuant to a prearranged funeral agreement are deposited. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Preparation: means washing, shaving, dressing or arranging hair on, applying cosmetics to or positioning bodily features on a dead human body and placing the dead human body in a casket. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Primary mailing address: means the address on file with the board and to which official board correspondence, notices or documents are delivered in a manner determined by the board. See Arizona Laws 32-1201
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Processed cremated remains: means cremated remains after they are pulverized and cleaned, leaving primarily small bone fragments. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Profits: means , as determined by the application of proper accounting principles, gross income less the aggregate of operating and other expenses, losses actually sustained and not charged to reserves under this chapter and interest paid or accrued on borrowings and non-recurring charges. See Arizona Laws 6-401
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Provisionally accredited: means being granted candidacy status by the American board of funeral service education. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Qualified anesthesia provider: means any of the following:

  (a) A licensee who holds a permit to administer anesthesia and sedation from the board pursuant to section 32-1207. See Arizona Laws 32-1201

• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recognized dental hygiene school: means a school that has a dental hygiene program with a minimum two academic year curriculum, or the equivalent of four semesters, and that is approved by the board and accredited by the American dental association commission on dental accreditation. See Arizona Laws 32-1201
• Recognized dental school: means a dental school that is accredited by the American dental association commission on dental accreditation. See Arizona Laws 32-1201
• Recognized dental therapy school: means a school that is accredited or that has received initial accreditation by the American dental association commission on dental accreditation. See Arizona Laws 32-1201
• Recognized denturist school: means a denturist school that maintains standards of entrance, study and graduation and that is accredited by the United States department of education or the council on higher education accreditation. See Arizona Laws 32-1201
• Registrar: means the registrar of contractors. See Arizona Laws 32-1101
• 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.
• 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).
• Responsible cremationist: means a licensed cremationist who manages a crematory. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Responsible funeral director: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter, who is engaged in funeral directing and who manages and is accountable for a funeral establishment. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Restrict: means taking a disciplinary action that alters the physician's practice or professional activities if the board determines that there is evidence that the physician is or may be medically incompetent or guilty of unprofessional conduct. See Arizona Laws 32-1401
• Retention: means a portion of a progress payment otherwise due from the owner to the contractor that is withheld pursuant to the terms and conditions of a construction contract to ensure proper performance of the construction contract. See Arizona Laws 32-1181
• Retort: means an enclosed space within which cremation takes place. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• sexual conduct: includes :

  (i) Engaging in or soliciting sexual relationships, whether consensual or nonconsensual. See Arizona Laws 32-1401

• 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
• Special purpose licensing examination: means an examination that is 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 for a considerable period of time in another jurisdiction and to determine the competence of a physician who is under investigation by a state licensing board. See Arizona Laws 32-1401
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subcontractor: means any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association or other organization, or a combination of any of them, that has a direct contract with a contractor or another subcontractor to perform a portion of the work under a construction contract. See Arizona Laws 32-1181
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• subscription: includes a mark, if a person cannot write, with the person's name written near it and witnessed by a person who writes the person's own name as witness. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supervised personnel: means all dental hygienists, dental assistants, dental laboratory technicians, dental therapists, denturists, dental x-ray laboratory technicians and other persons supervised by licensed dentists. See Arizona Laws 32-1201
• supervision: means that a licensed embalmer has responsibility for and is within sight and sound of a person who is embalming a dead human body or assisting in embalming a dead human body. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Teaching license: means a valid license to practice medicine as a full-time faculty member of an approved school of medicine or a teaching hospital's accredited graduate medical education program. See Arizona Laws 32-1401
• Teledentistry: means the use of data transmitted through interactive audio, video or data communications for the purposes of examination, diagnosis, treatment planning, consultation and directing the delivery of treatment by dentists and dental providers in settings permissible under this chapter or specified in rules adopted by the board. See Arizona Laws 32-1201
• Temporary container: means a receptacle that is usually made of cardboard, rigid plastic or another similar material and that is designed to hold processed cremated remains until they are placed in an urn or another permanent container. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• 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.
• Total assets: means the total value of all loan contracts without deduction for the withdrawal value of any accounts of the association held as collateral for loans and the total value of all other assets of the association as determined by the application of proper accounting principles. See Arizona Laws 6-401
• Transportation protection agreement: means an agreement that primarily provides or arranges for services that are related to preparing human remains or cremated remains for the purpose of transportation and such subsequent transportation. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• 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 all monies that are deposited on behalf of a beneficiary of a prearranged funeral agreement funded by trust and all accrued net interest. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Universal precautions: means the universal blood and fluid precautions recommended by the centers for disease control of the United States public health service to prevent the transmission of bloodborne and bodily fluid-borne infectious diseases. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Unprofessional conduct: includes the following acts, whether occurring in this state or elsewhere:

  (a) Committing a class 1 or 2 felony. See Arizona Laws 32-1301

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

  (a) Violating any federal or state laws, rules or regulations applicable to the practice of medicine. See Arizona Laws 32-1401

• Urn: means a receptacle into which processed cremated remains are placed for disposition. See Arizona Laws 32-1301
• Work: means the labor, materials, equipment and services to be provided by a contractor or subcontractor under a construction contract. See Arizona Laws 32-1181
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Written assent: means a signed statement of an affected person consenting to the terms of a marketing order. See Arizona Laws 3-401