Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 10 > Chapter 12 - Sale of Assets

• Articles of incorporation: means the original or restated articles of incorporation or articles of merger and all amendments to the articles of incorporation or merger and includes amended and restated articles of incorporation and articles of amendment and merger. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Authorized delegate: means a person that a licensee designates to engage in money transmission on behalf of the licensee. See Arizona Laws 6-1201
• Average daily money transmission liability: means the amount of the licensee's outstanding money transmission obligations at the end of each day in quarters ending March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31, added together and divided by the total number of days in each quarter. See Arizona Laws 6-1201
• 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.
• 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}
• Board of directors: means the group of persons vested with the management of the affairs of the corporation irrespective of the name by which the group is designated and includes the governing body or bodies of a water users' association if the articles of incorporation of the water users' association provide for a governing body or bodies denominated other than as a board of directors. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Commission: means the corporation commission. See Arizona Laws 40-201
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the department of insurance and financial institutions. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Director: means the director of the residential utility consumer office. See Arizona Laws 40-461
• Distribution: means a direct or indirect transfer of money or other property, except its own shares, or incurrence of indebtedness by a corporation to or for the benefit of its shareholders in respect of any of its shares. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• 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}
• 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}
• Licensee: means a person licensed under this article. See Arizona Laws 6-1201
• money received for transmission: means receiving money or monetary value in the United States for transmission within or outside the United States by electronic or other means. See Arizona Laws 6-1201
• NMLS: means the nationwide multistate licensing system and registry that is developed by a conference of state bank supervisors and the American association of residential mortgage regulators and that is owned and operated by a state regulatory registry for the licensing and registration of persons in financial services industries. See Arizona Laws 6-1201
• Office: means the residential utility consumer office. See Arizona Laws 40-461
• Person: means any individual, general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, corporation, trust, association, joint stock corporation or other corporate entity identified by the director. See Arizona Laws 6-1201
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Pipeline: includes all property used in transmission for compensation of air, steam or fluid substances, except water, through pipelines. See Arizona Laws 40-201
• Public service corporation: means a public service corporation as defined in article XV, section 2, Constitution of Arizona except a member-owned nonprofit cooperative corporation. See Arizona Laws 40-461
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Shareholder: means the person in whose name shares are registered in the records of a corporation or the beneficial owner of shares to the extent of the rights granted by a nominee certificate on file with a corporation. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Shares: means the units into which the proprietary interests in a corporation are divided. See Arizona Laws 10-140
• Tangible net worth: means the aggregate assets of a licensee excluding all intangible assets, minus liabilities, as determined in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles. See Arizona Laws 6-1201
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Vote: includes authorization by written ballot and written consent. See Arizona Laws 10-3140
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215