Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 12 > Chapter 7 > Article 8 - Unclaimed Property in Hands of Public Agency

• Dispose: means the transfer of property by its return to the owner, sale, conversion or destruction or by any other means of disposal. See Arizona Laws 12-940
• 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.
• Evidence: means property that is held for possible presentation in a judicial or administrative proceeding to establish the truth or falsity of an alleged matter of fact. See Arizona Laws 12-940
• Found property: means recovered, lost, surrendered, abandoned or otherwise received property that is turned over to a public agency where the owner may or may not be known and that is not classified as evidence. See Arizona Laws 12-940
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Property: means any item, including currency, that is held for safekeeping or as evidence or found property or that has been abandoned, unclaimed or awarded by the court. See Arizona Laws 12-940
• Safekeeping: means storage of an asset or item of value by a public agency that is not classified as evidence and that belongs to a known individual. See Arizona Laws 12-940
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215