Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 11 > Chapter 2 > Article 4 - Powers and Duties

• ABLE: means the achieving a better life experience act. See Arizona Laws 46-901
• Absent parent: means the non-custodial natural or adoptive father or mother of a dependent child. See Arizona Laws 46-402
• Abuse: means :

  (a) Intentional infliction of physical harm. See Arizona Laws 46-451

• Account: means an individual account in the fund established as prescribed in this article for a single designated beneficiary. See Arizona Laws 46-901
• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Active management area: means an active management area established under chapter 2 of this title. See Arizona Laws 45-1901
• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• adult day health: means services which provide adults with optimal personal care in a group setting during a portion of a twenty-four hour day. See Arizona Laws 46-191
• Adult protective services central intake unit: means a unit of specialized staff within adult protective services that is responsible for receiving reports of alleged abuse, neglect or exploitation of vulnerable adults or making the necessary resource referrals. See Arizona Laws 46-451
• 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.
• Agent: means a community based organization that is contracted by the department to take applications, determine eligibility and provide short-term services to low income persons through the use of federal and state monies. See Arizona Laws 46-241
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Applicant: means a person who has applied for assistance or services under this title, or a person who has applied for assistance or services under this title and who has custody of a dependent child. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• Applicant: means a person who is applying for short-term crisis services. See Arizona Laws 46-241
• 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
• Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Assistance: means payments in cash or kind to or on behalf of a person or persons in need as provided for in this title. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• assistance: means any money payments made by the department that are paid to or for the benefit of any dependent child as provided in chapter 2, article 5 of this title. See Arizona Laws 46-402
• Assistance unit: means those members of a needy family, as prescribed by the department in rule, or a child only case, that meets the nonfinancial eligibility criteria for cash assistance and whose needs and other circumstances are considered as a whole to determine a cash assistance benefit amount. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attendant care: means a service which provides a trained attendant to provide assistance with homemaking, general supervision and personal care. See Arizona Laws 46-191
• Authority: means a county water augmentation authority established under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 45-1901
• Authority: means a water authority established under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 45-2201
• Authority: means the Arizona power authority created pursuant to Title 30, Chapter 1. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• Authority: means the Arizona water banking authority established by section 45-2421 or its successor. See Arizona Laws 45-2621
• 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: means the board of directors of the authority. See Arizona Laws 45-1901
• Board: means the board of directors of the authority. See Arizona Laws 45-2201
• Buyer: means a person who buys or contracts to buy goods. See Arizona Laws 47-2103
• Caretaker relative: means a relative who exercises responsibility for the day-to-day physical care, guidance and support of a child who physically resides with the relative and who is by affinity or consanguinity or by court decree a grandparent, great-grandparent, sibling of the whole or half blood, stepbrother, stepsister, aunt, uncle, great-aunt, great-uncle or first cousin. See Arizona Laws 46-801
• case manager: means a person who provides medical or nonmedical case management service including:

  (a) Services that are provided by managed care organizations, insurance companies or hospitals. See Arizona Laws 46-341

• Cash assistance: means temporary assistance for needy families paid to a recipient for the purpose of meeting basic living expenses as defined by the department. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Child: means a person who is under thirteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 46-801
• Child care: means the compensated service that is provided to a child who is unaccompanied by a parent or guardian during a portion of a twenty-four hour day. See Arizona Laws 46-801
• Child care assistance: means any money payments for child care services that are paid by the department and that are paid for the benefit of an eligible family. See Arizona Laws 46-801
• Child care home provider: means a person who is at least eighteen years of age, who is not the parent, guardian, caretaker relative or noncertified relative provider of a child needing child care and who is certified by the department to care for four or fewer children for compensation with child care assistance monies. See Arizona Laws 46-801
• Child care personnel: means any person who supervises children in a day care home or center that receives child care food program monies under this article. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• Child care providers: means child care facilities licensed pursuant to Title 36, Chapter 7. See Arizona Laws 46-801
• Child only case: means a case in which the eligible dependent child is in the legal custody of the department of child safety, a tribal court or a tribal child welfare agency located in this state and placed in foster care with an unrelated adult or with a nonparent relative who is not receiving cash assistance. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• Colorado river water: means water from the main stream of the Colorado river. See Arizona Laws 45-2201
• Committee: means the achieving a better life experience act oversight committee. See Arizona Laws 46-901
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conservation: means the preservation and planned management of water resources to ensure the future availability of water resources. See Arizona Laws 45-2201
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract for sale: includes both a present sale of goods and a contract to sell goods at a future time. See Arizona Laws 47-2106
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• County: means the county containing over fifty per cent of the area of the authority. See Arizona Laws 45-1901
• Court: means any court in this or any other state having jurisdiction to determine the liability of persons for the support of another person. See Arizona Laws 46-402
• Court order: means any judgment or order of any court that orders payment of a set or determinable amount of support money. See Arizona Laws 46-402
• Dam: means any artificial barrier, including appurtenant works for the impounding or diversion of water, twenty-five feet or more in height or the storage capacity of which will be more than fifty acre-feet but does not include:

  (a) Any barrier that is or will be less than six feet in height, regardless of storage capacity. See Arizona Laws 45-1201

• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• De facto conservator: means any person who takes possession of the estate of a vulnerable adult, without right or lawful authority. See Arizona Laws 46-451
• De facto guardian: means any person who takes possession of the person of a vulnerable adult, without right or lawful authority. See Arizona Laws 46-451
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of water resources. See Arizona Laws 45-101
• department: means the department of economic security. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• Department: means the Arizona department of economic security. See Arizona Laws 46-402
• Department: means the department of economic security. See Arizona Laws 46-341
• Department: means the department of economic security. See Arizona Laws 46-901
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Dependent child: means a needy child who has been deprived of parental support or care by reason of the death, unemployment of the supporting parent as defined and prescribed by the rules of the department, continued absence from the home, or physical or mental incapacity of a parent, and whose relatives who are responsible under the law for the child's support are not able to provide adequate care and support of the child without public assistance, and who is living with his father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew or cousin in a place of residence maintained by one or more of such relatives as his or their own home or who is in the legal custody of the department of child safety and placed in a foster home or with an unrelated adult as a recipient of temporary assistance for needy families. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• Dependent child: means a person under the age of eighteen who is eligible for temporary assistance for needy families as provided in chapter 2, article 5 of this title. See Arizona Laws 46-402
• Design flood: means a selected flood against which protection is provided, or eventually will be provided, by means of flood protective or control works. See Arizona Laws 45-1441
• Designated beneficiary: means the eligible individual who establishes an account and who is the owner of the account. See Arizona Laws 46-901
• Designated floodway: means the channel of a stream and that portion of the adjoining flood plain required to reasonably provide for the construction of a project for passage of the design flood, including lands necessary for construction of project levees. See Arizona Laws 45-1441
• Director: means the director of water resources, who is also the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 45-101
• Director: means the director of the department of economic security. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• Director: means the director of the department of economic security or the director's designee or authorized representative. See Arizona Laws 46-402
• Director: means the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 46-341
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• District: means any irrigation district, power district, electrical district, agricultural improvement district or water users association now or hereafter organized under the laws of this state that is directly engaged in the sale, distribution or delivery of municipal, industrial or irrigation water or in the sale, distribution or use of electric power or energy. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Domestic violence: means battered or subject to extreme cruelty as defined in section 408(a)(7)(C)(iii) of the social security act. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Effluent: means water that has been collected in a sanitary sewer for subsequent treatment in a facility that is regulated pursuant to Title 49, Chapter 2. See Arizona Laws 45-101
• Effluent: means water that has been collected in a sanitary sewer for subsequent treatment in a facility that is regulated pursuant to Title 49, Chapter 2. See Arizona Laws 45-2201
• Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Eligible adult: means either of the following:

  (a) A person who is sixty-five years of age or older. See Arizona Laws 46-471

• Eligible family: means citizens or legal residents of the United States or individuals who are otherwise lawfully present in the United States and who are parents, legal guardians or caretaker relatives with legal residence in this state and children in their care who meet the eligibility requirements for child care assistance. See Arizona Laws 46-801
• Eligible individual: means an individual who is entitled to benefits based on blindness or disability under title II or XVI of the social security act, and such blindness or disability occurred before the date on which the individual attained twenty-six years of age or a disability certification with respect to such individual is filed with the United States secretary of the treasury for such taxable year as stipulated in 26 United States Code § 529A. See Arizona Laws 46-901
• Emergency shelter: means temporary shelter in a hotel, motel or licensed homeless shelter facility. See Arizona Laws 46-241
• Emotional abuse: means a pattern of ridiculing or demeaning a vulnerable adult, making derogatory remarks to a vulnerable adult, verbally harassing a vulnerable adult or threatening to inflict physical or emotional harm on a vulnerable adult. See Arizona Laws 46-451
• Employment plan: means an agreement between the department and the cash assistance recipient regarding the participant's work activities and services provided by the department. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• 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}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Exploitation: means the illegal or improper use of a vulnerable adult or the vulnerable adult's resources for another's profit or advantage. See Arizona Laws 46-451
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• 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
• Federal poverty level: means the poverty guidelines that are issued by the United States department of health and human services pursuant to section 673(2) of the omnibus budget reconciliation act of 1981 and that are reported annually in the federal register. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• Federal poverty level: means the poverty guidelines that are issued by the United States department of health and human services pursuant to section 673(2) of the omnibus budget reconciliation act of 1981 and that are reported annually in the federal register. See Arizona Laws 46-801
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Financial exploitation: means either of the following:

  (a) The wrongful or unauthorized taking, withholding, appropriating or use of money, assets or property of an eligible adult. See Arizona Laws 46-471

• Financial institution: means any bank, commercial bank, national bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, insurance company, brokerage firm or other similar entity that is authorized to do business in this state. See Arizona Laws 46-901
• 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 Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
  • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
  • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
  • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
• Flood control project: means any project for flood control purposes on which construction commences after April 19, 1973 and which either:

  (a) Is authorized under federal law and requires local participation. See Arizona Laws 45-1441

• Flood warning system: means a project or series of projects to detect floods and develop flood preparedness plans and may include the system known as the automatic local evaluation in real time system. See Arizona Laws 45-1501
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fund: means the ABLE program fund. See Arizona Laws 46-901
• 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.
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Groundwater: means water under the surface of the earth regardless of the geologic structure in which it is standing or moving. See Arizona Laws 45-101
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Head of household: means a dependent child's parent or the spouse of the parent, or the dependent child's nonparent relative or spouse of the nonparent relative, who receives cash assistance for himself and on behalf of the dependent child or only on behalf of the dependent child. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• Height: means the vertical distance from the lowest elevation of the outside limit of the barrier at its intersection with the natural ground surface to the spillway crest elevation. See Arizona Laws 45-1201
• Home health aid: means services which provide intermittent health maintenance, continued treatment or monitoring of a health condition and supportive care for activities of daily living within the individual's place of residence. See Arizona Laws 46-191
• Homeless: means the participant has no permanent place of residence where a lease or mortgage agreement between the participant and the owner exists. See Arizona Laws 46-241
• In-home provider: means a provider who is certified by the department to care for a child of an eligible family in the child's own home and is compensated with child care assistance monies. See Arizona Laws 46-801
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Investment adviser: means a person who is licensed or exempt from licensure as an investment advisor pursuant to Title 44, Chapter 13. See Arizona Laws 46-471
• Jobs program: means services established by the department to ensure that participants comply with work requirements as prescribed in Public Law 104-193. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• 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.
• 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}
• Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
• Lifespan respite care: means a coordinated system of accessible, community-based respite care services for family caregivers of children or adults with special needs. See Arizona Laws 46-171
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local entity: means a city, town, county, political subdivision or drainage and flood control district organized under Title 48, Chapter 18 or 21 or any other special taxing district organized under title 48. See Arizona Laws 45-1501
• Minor: means a person under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Multi-county water conservation district: means a multi-county district established under Title 48, Chapter 22, which has contracted with the United States for the repayment of the cost and for the delivery of the water supply in accordance with P. See Arizona Laws 45-2201
• Municipality: means any incorporated city or town or other corporation organized for municipal purposes. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• Neglect: means the deprivation of food, water, medication, medical services, shelter, supervision, cooling, heating or other services necessary to maintain a vulnerable adult's minimum physical or mental health. See Arizona Laws 46-451
• Noncertified relative provider: means a person who is at least eighteen years of age, who provides child care services to an eligible child, who is by affinity or consanguinity or by court decree the grandparent, great-grandparent, sibling not residing in the same household, aunt, great-aunt, uncle or great-uncle of the eligible child and who meets the department's requirements to be a noncertified relative provider. See Arizona Laws 46-801
• Nonparent relative: means a dependent child's grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew or cousin and includes a permanent guardian who is appointed pursuant to section 8-872. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• notes: means bonds and notes, respectively, of the authority issued pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• 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.
• Operating unit: means a county, city, town, water company or political subdivision, this state, the United States, an Indian tribe or any other public or private entity with which an authority has a contractual relationship for the acquisition, delivery, exchange, treatment, storage or recharge of water. See Arizona Laws 45-1901
• Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: includes any person or entity that owns, controls, operates, maintains, manages or proposes to construct or modify a dam. See Arizona Laws 45-1201
• parents: means the natural or adoptive parents of a child. See Arizona Laws 46-801
• Participant: means a recipient of cash assistance engaged in work activities through the JOBS program. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• 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.
• Peace officers: means sheriffs of counties, constables, marshals, policemen of cities and towns, commissioned personnel of the department of public safety, personnel who are employed by the state department of corrections and the department of juvenile corrections and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a multicounty water conservation district and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by community college district governing boards and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the Arizona board of regents and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the governing body of a public airport pursuant to section 28-8426 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a private postsecondary institution pursuant to section 15-1897 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board and special agents from the office of the attorney general, or of a county attorney, and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, company or district. See Arizona Laws 45-1201
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Person aggrieved: means any person who has not been permitted freedom of choice of a practitioner in eye care services when he is entitled to receive such eye care services, or the holder of a license or a certificate to practice in this state in the field of eye care who has been discriminated against in violation of the provisions of this article. See Arizona Laws 46-301
• Personal care: means assistance to meet essential personal physical needs. See Arizona Laws 46-191
• 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
• Personal responsibility declaration: means a document that is prescribed by the department and in which the applicant acknowledges understanding of the applicant's personal responsibility. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• Petty offense: A federal misdemeanor punishable by six months or less in prison. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• 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
• Power: means electric power or electric energy or both. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• present sale: means a sale which is accomplished by the making of the contract. See Arizona Laws 47-2106
• 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.
• Private water company: means any entity that distributes or sells groundwater, except a political subdivision or any entity that is established pursuant to title 48 and that is not regulated as a public service corporation by the Arizona corporation commission under a certificate of public convenience and necessity. See Arizona Laws 45-2201
• 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
• Program: means the qualified ABLE program that is established under this article and as defined in 26 United States Code § 529A. See Arizona Laws 46-901
• Project: means a facility necessary or convenient to obtain, divert, withdraw, transport, exchange, deliver, treat or recharge water, including rights-of-way, real and personal property, interests in property and improvements to property that are necessary or appropriate to maintain and operate the facilities. See Arizona Laws 45-1901
• Project permits: means permits obtained under articles 2 and 3 of this chapter for the purposes of operating a state demonstration project. See Arizona Laws 45-892.01
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Protective services: means a program of identifiable and specialized social services that may offer social services appropriate to resolve problems of abuse, exploitation or neglect of a vulnerable adult. See Arizona Laws 46-451
• Protective services worker: means a person who has been selected by and trained under the requirements prescribed by the department to provide protective services. See Arizona Laws 46-451
• Public agency: means any state agency or political subdivision of the state. See Arizona Laws 45-1441
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Public utility: means any person, corporation, district, electric cooperative, public agency or political subdivision of the state that provides electrical service to the public by means of electric facilities or provides water for municipal, industrial, irrigation, recreation and fish and wildlife purposes to the public. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• Qualified disability expenses: means any expenses that are related to the eligible individual's blindness or disability and that are for the benefit of an eligible individual who is the designated beneficiary of an account, including education, housing, transportation, employment training and support, assistive technology and personal support services, health care, prevention and wellness, financial management and administrative services, legal fees, expenses for oversight and monitoring and funeral and burial expenses and any other expenses that are approved by the United States secretary of the treasury as required by 26 United States code section 529A. See Arizona Laws 46-901
• Qualified individual: means a broker-dealer, investment adviser or person who serves in a supervisory, compliance, legal or senior investor protection capacity for a broker-dealer or investment adviser. See Arizona Laws 46-471
• Qualifying family member: means an individual who meets all of the following requirements:

  (a) Is at least eighteen years of age during the calendar year. See Arizona Laws 46-341

• 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.
• Real property: means lands, rights in lands, interests in land, including lands under water, appurtenances, improvements and any and all other things and rights usually included within the term and includes also any and all interest in such property less than full title, such as easements, permanent or temporary rights-of-way, uses, leases, licenses and other such incorporeal hereditaments. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• Recipient: means a person who receives assistance or services under the provisions of this title. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• Registered mail: includes certified mail. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Release-contained barrier: means any artificial barrier and appurtenant works that comply with both of the following:

  (a) Has a storage capacity that in the event of failure would be contained within property that the release-contained barrier owner owns, controls, operates, maintains or manages. See Arizona Laws 45-1201

• 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.
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Respite care: means short-term care and supervision services that are provided to an individual to relieve the individual's caregiver. See Arizona Laws 46-171
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
• Sanitary sewer: means any pipe or other enclosed conduit that carries, among other substances, any water-carried wastes from the human body from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants or institutions. See Arizona Laws 45-101
• Seller: means a person who sells or contracts to sell goods. See Arizona Laws 47-2103
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Services: includes social casework, rehabilitation counseling and similar services rendered to a person or persons in need as provided for in this title. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Short-term crisis: means an unplanned incident that causes the loss of monies and that makes the applicant unable to meet the applicant's financial obligations. See Arizona Laws 46-241
• Southside replenishment obligation: means a replenishment obligation calculated under section 45-2622. See Arizona Laws 45-2621
• State: includes a state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Arizona Laws 46-402
• State: means the state of Arizona. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• State demonstration project: means a project for the storage of excess central Arizona project water at an underground storage facility pursuant to permits issued under this chapter and in accordance with this article. See Arizona Laws 45-892.01
• State water and power development fund: means the fund by that name established by section 45-1711. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• State water and power plan: means the plan established pursuant to section 45-1703. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Storage capacity: means the maximum volume of water that can be impounded by the reservoir when there is no discharge of water. See Arizona Laws 45-1201
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Surface water: means the waters of all sources, flowing in streams, canyons, ravines or other natural channels, or in definite underground channels, whether perennial or intermittent, floodwater, wastewater or surplus water, and of lakes, ponds and springs on the surface. See Arizona Laws 45-101
• Temporarily deferred: means the postponement of work activities. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• Temporary assistance for needy families: means assistance granted under section 403 of title IV of the social security act as it exists after August 21, 1996. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• 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.
• Tentatively allocated: means water of the main stem of the Colorado river water that has been recommended by the director to the secretary of the interior for allocation, but for which a contract with the secretary for delivery has not been signed. See Arizona Laws 45-2201
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testify: includes every manner of oral statement under oath or affirmation. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• United States: means the secretary of the interior, acting for the United States department of interior, or his duly authorized representative. See Arizona Laws 45-2201
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
• Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
• Vendor payment: means any payment to a person other than the recipient on his behalf. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Visiting nurse services: means services which provide intermittent skilled nursing services in the individual's place of residence. See Arizona Laws 46-191
• Vulnerable adult: means an individual who is eighteen years of age or older and who is unable to protect himself from abuse, neglect or exploitation by others because of a physical or mental impairment. See Arizona Laws 46-451
• Water company: means either a private water company as defined in section 45-402 or an irrigation district that primarily serves municipal water. See Arizona Laws 45-1901
• Wholesale: means sales to municipalities, districts or public utilities for resale or distribution. See Arizona Laws 45-1702
• Work activities: means the following activities that are countable toward the federal work participation rate as prescribed in Public Law 104-193, section 407 (1996):

  (a) Unsubsidized employment. See Arizona Laws 46-101

• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215