Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 41 > Chapter 9 > Article 4 - Discrimination in Employment

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Auxiliary aids and services: includes :

  (a) Qualified interpreters or other effective methods of making aurally delivered materials available to individuals with hearing impairments. See Arizona Laws 41-1461

• 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.
• 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.
• Covered entity: means an employer, employment agency, labor organization or joint labor-management committee. See Arizona Laws 41-1461
• Disability: means , with respect to an individual, except any impairment caused by current use of illegal drugs, any of the following:

  (a) A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of the individual. See Arizona Laws 41-1461

• Employment agency: means any person regularly undertaking with or without compensation to procure employees for an employer or to procure for employees opportunities to work for an employer and includes an agent of that person. See Arizona Laws 41-1461
• 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.
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Major life activities: includes :

  (a) Caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating and working. See Arizona Laws 41-1461

• Minor: means a person under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• on the basis of sex: includes because of or on the basis of pregnancy or childbirth or related medical conditions. See Arizona Laws 41-1461
• Person: means one or more individuals, governmental agencies, political subdivisions, labor unions, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint-stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy or receivers. See Arizona Laws 41-1461
• Qualified individual: means a person with a disability who, with or without reasonable accommodation, is capable of performing the essential functions of the employment position that the individual holds or desires. See Arizona Laws 41-1461
• Reasonable accommodation: includes :

  (a) Making existing facilities used by employees readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities. See Arizona Laws 41-1461

• Religion: means all aspects of religious observance and practice, as well as belief. See Arizona Laws 41-1461
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215