Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 9 > Chapter 7 > Article 3 - Elections and Voters

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Advertisement: means all representations disseminated in any manner or by any means other than by labeling for the purpose of inducing, or which are likely to induce, directly or indirectly, the purchase of food. See Arizona Laws 36-901
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• article: means :

  (a) Articles used for food or drink for man or animals. See Arizona Laws 36-901

• Bulk food: means unpackaged and unwrapped food in aggregate containers from which quantities are withdrawn by the consumer, excluding fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, nuts in the shell, rice, beans, food in salad bars and potentially hazardous food. See Arizona Laws 36-971
• color: includes , but is not limited to, black, white and intermediate grays. See Arizona Laws 36-901
• Color additive: means a material that both:

  (a) Is a dye, pigment, or other substance made by a process of synthesis or similar artifice, or extracted, isolated, or otherwise derived, with or without intermediate or final change of identity from a vegetable, animal, mineral, or other source. See Arizona Laws 36-901

• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Daytime: means the period between sunrise and sunset. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the director of the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-901
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• 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.
• Federal act: means the federal food, drug and cosmetic act, as amended (21 United States Code § 301 et seq. See Arizona Laws 36-901
• Food additive: means any substance, the intended use of which results or may be reasonably expected to result, directly or indirectly, in its becoming a component of or otherwise affecting the characteristics of any food, including any substance intended for use in producing, manufacturing, packing, processing, preparing, treating, packaging, transporting or holding food, and including any source of radiation intended for any use if the substance is not generally recognized among experts qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate its safety as having been adequately shown through scientific procedures, or in the case of a substance used in a food prior to January 1, 1958 through either scientific procedures or experience based on common use in food, to be safe under the conditions of its intended use. See Arizona Laws 36-901
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• kosher: as used in this article shall not be construed to include the words "kosher style. See Arizona Laws 36-941
• labeling: means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon the immediate container or wrapper of an article or accompanying that article. See Arizona Laws 36-901
• 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
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Pesticide chemical: means any substance that alone, in chemical combination or in formulation with one or more other substances is an "economic poison" within the meaning of the federal insecticide, fungicide and rodenticide act (7 United States Code §§ 135-135k) and that is used in the production, storage or transportation of raw agricultural commodities. See Arizona Laws 36-901
• Place of business: means grocery store, market, hotel, inn, restaurant, boarding house, eating house, lunch room, cafeteria, caterer or other establishment or place in which meat, meat products, food or food products are sold for human consumption. See Arizona Laws 36-941
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Potentially hazardous food: means food that consists in whole or in part of milk or milk products, eggs, meat, poultry, fish, shellfish, edible crustacea or other ingredients in a form capable of supporting rapid and progressive growth of infectious or toxigenic microorganisms except clean, whole, uncracked, odor free shell eggs or food that has a pH level of 4. See Arizona Laws 36-971
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Product module: means a multi-use or single service food contact container designed for customer self-service of bulk food by either direct or indirect means. See Arizona Laws 36-971
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Raw agricultural commodity: means any food in its raw or natural state, including, but not limited to, all fruits that are washed, colored or otherwise treated in their unpeeled natural form prior to marketing. See Arizona Laws 36-901
• Registered mail: includes certified mail. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215