Arizona Laws 40-1201. Definitions
In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 40-1201
- Commission: means the Arizona corporation commission. See Arizona Laws 40-1201
- contractor: includes subcontractor and specialty contractor. See Arizona Laws 40-1201
- 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.
- Distributor: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association or other legal relationship which stands between the manufacturer and the retail seller in purchases, consignments or contracts for sale of consumer goods. See Arizona Laws 40-1201
- Gas appliance: means any new residential-type furnace, air conditioner, heater, refrigerator, stove, range, dishwasher, dryer, decorative fireplace log or other similar device, except a water heater, which uses a gaseous fuel for operation and is automatically ignited. See Arizona Laws 40-1201
- including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Manufacturer: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association or other legal relationship which manufactures, assembles, produces or gathers consumer goods. See Arizona Laws 40-1201
- 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.
- Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, manufacturer, distributor, retailer, contractor, builder, or other group, however organized, who sells or causes to be distributed or installed, any new gas appliance. See Arizona Laws 40-1201
- retailer: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal relationship which engages in the business of selling new goods to retail buyers. See Arizona Laws 40-1201
1. "Commission" means the Arizona corporation commission.
2. "Contractor" means any person who undertakes to or offers to undertake to or purports to have the capacity to undertake to or submits a bid to, or does himself or by or through others, construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck or demolish any building, highway, road, parking facility, railroad, excavation or other structure, project, development or improvement, or to do any part thereof, including the erection of scaffolding or other structures or works in connection therewith. The term "contractor" includes subcontractor and specialty contractor.
3. "Distributor" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association or other legal relationship which stands between the manufacturer and the retail seller in purchases, consignments or contracts for sale of consumer goods.
4. "Gas appliance" means any new residential-type furnace, air conditioner, heater, refrigerator, stove, range, dishwasher, dryer, decorative fireplace log or other similar device, except a water heater, which uses a gaseous fuel for operation and is automatically ignited.
5. "Intermittent ignition device" means an ignition device which is actuated only when the gas appliance is in operation.
6. "Manufacturer" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association or other legal relationship which manufactures, assembles, produces or gathers consumer goods.
7. "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, manufacturer, distributor, retailer, contractor, builder, or other group, however organized, who sells or causes to be distributed or installed, any new gas appliance.
8. "Pilot light" means any gas operated device that remains continually operated or lighted in order to ignite a gas appliance to begin normal operation.
9. "Retail seller", "retail outlets", "seller", or "retailer" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal relationship which engages in the business of selling new goods to retail buyers.