Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 13 > Chapter 34 - Drug Offenses

• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Act: means a bodily movement. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Administer: means to apply, inject or facilitate the inhalation or ingestion of a substance to the body of a person. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• 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.
• Amidone: means any substance identified chemically as (4-4-diphenyl-6-dimethylamine-heptanone-3), or any salt of such substance, by whatever trade name designated. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Authority: means the tourism and sports authority. See Arizona Laws 5-801
• Base area lift: means a passenger tramway that skiers ordinarily use without first using another passenger tramway. See Arizona Laws 5-701
• 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}
• Benefit: means anything of value or advantage, present or prospective. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Board: means the board of directors of the authority. See Arizona Laws 5-801
• Board: means the Arizona state board of pharmacy. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• Calendar year: means three hundred sixty-five days' actual time served without release, suspension or commutation of sentence, probation, pardon or parole, work furlough or release from confinement on any other basis. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• cannabimimetic substances: means any substances within the following structural classes:

  (i) 2-(3-hydroxycyclohexyl)phenol with substitution at the 5-position of the phenolic ring by alkyl or alkenyl, whether or not substituted on the cyclohexyl ring to any extent. See Arizona Laws 13-3401

• Cannabis: means the following substances under whatever names they may be designated:

  (a) The resin extracted from any part of a plant of the genus cannabis, and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of such plant, its seeds or its resin. See Arizona Laws 13-3401

• Chair lift: means a type of transportation on which passengers are carried on chairs suspended in the air and attached to a moving cable, chain or link belt supported by trestles or towers with one or more spans. See Arizona Laws 5-701
• Circumstantial evidence: All evidence except eyewitness testimony.
• Coca leaves: means cocaine, its optical isomers and any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of coca leaves, except derivatives of coca leaves which do not contain cocaine, ecgonine or substances from which cocaine or ecgonine may be synthesized or made. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• Competitor: means a skier actually engaged in competition or in practice for competition with the permission of a ski area operator on any slope or trail or portion of any slope or trail designated for competition by the ski area operator. See Arizona Laws 5-701
• Conditions of ordinary visibility: means daylight and, if applicable, nighttime in nonprecipitating weather. See Arizona Laws 5-701
• Conduct: means an act or omission and its accompanying culpable mental state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Crime: means a misdemeanor or a felony. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Dangerous drug: means the following by whatever official, common, usual, chemical or trade name designated:

  (a) Any material, compound, mixture or preparation that contains any quantity of the following hallucinogenic substances and their salts, isomers, whether optical, positional or geometric, and salts of isomers, unless specifically excepted, whenever the existence of such salts, isomers and salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation:

  (i) Alpha-ethyltryptamine. See Arizona Laws 13-3401

• Dangerous offense: means an offense involving the discharge, use or threatening exhibition of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument or the intentional or knowing infliction of serious physical injury on another person. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Deliver: means the actual, constructive or attempted exchange from one person to another, whether or not there is an agency relationship. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the director of the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• 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:
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Drug court program: means a program that is established pursuant to section 13-3422 by the presiding judge of the superior court in cooperation with the county attorney in a county for the purpose of prosecuting, adjudicating and treating drug dependent persons who meet the criteria and guidelines for entry into the program that are developed and agreed on by the presiding judge and the prosecutor. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• Enterprise: includes any corporation, association, labor union or other legal entity. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Felony: means an offense for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment in the custody of the state department of corrections is authorized by any law of this state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Government: means the state, any political subdivision of the state or any department, agency, board, commission, institution or governmental instrumentality of or within the state or political subdivision. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Indian tribe: means any organized Indian nation, tribe, band or community that is recognized as an Indian tribe by the United States department of the interior. See Arizona Laws 5-801
• 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.
• Inherent dangers and risks of skiing: means those dangers or conditions that are an integral part of the sport of skiing, excluding acts of ordinary or gross negligence, or reckless or intentional conduct on the part of the ski area operator. See Arizona Laws 5-701
• Isoamidone: means any substance identified chemically as (4-4-diphenyl-5-methyl-6-dimethylaminohexanone-3), or any salt of such substance, by whatever trade name designated. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• Ketobemidone: means any substance identified chemically as (4-(3-hydroxyphenyl)-1-methyl-4-piperidylethyl ketone hydrochloride), or any salt of such substance, by whatever trade name designated. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• Knowingly: means , with respect to conduct or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware or believes that the person's conduct is of that nature or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Manufacture: means produce, prepare, propagate, compound, mix or process, directly or indirectly, by extraction from substances of natural origin or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• Manufacturer: means a person who manufactures a narcotic or dangerous drug or other substance controlled by this chapter. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• Marijuana: means all parts of any plant of the genus cannabis, from which the resin has not been extracted, whether growing or not, and the seeds of such plant. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• Misdemeanor: means an offense for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment other than to the custody of the state department of corrections is authorized by any law of this state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• mixture: means any combination of substances from which the unlawful substance cannot be removed without a chemical process. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• Multipurpose facility: means any facility that is suitable to be used to accommodate professional football franchises, major college football bowl sponsors, other sporting events and entertainment, cultural, civic, meeting, trade show or convention events or activities and may include a stadium, on-site infrastructure, parking garages and lots and related commercial uses within the facility. See Arizona Laws 5-801
• Narcotic drug: means narcotic drugs as defined in section 13-3401. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Narcotic drugs: means the following, whether of natural or synthetic origin and any substance neither chemically nor physically distinguishable from them:

  (a) Acetyl-alpha-methylfentanyl. See Arizona Laws 13-3401

• Opium: means any compound, manufacture, salt, isomer, salt of isomer, derivative, mixture or preparation of the following, but does not include apomorphine or any of its salts:

  (a) Acetorphine. See Arizona Laws 13-3401

• 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.
• Passenger tramway: means a device used to transport passengers uphill on skis or in cars on tracks or suspended in the air by the use of steel cables, chains, belts or ropes, usually supported by trestles or towers with one or more spans. See Arizona Laws 5-701
• Peace officer: means any person vested by law with a duty to maintain public order and make arrests and includes a constable. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• permitted: means authorized by the laws of this state to do certain things. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• Person: means a human being and, as the context requires, an enterprise, a public or private corporation, an unincorporated association, a partnership, a firm, a society, a government, a governmental authority or an individual or entity capable of holding a legal or beneficial interest in property. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Peyote: means any part of a plant of the genus lophophora, known as the mescal button. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• Pharmacy: means a licensed business where drugs are compounded or dispensed by a licensed pharmacist. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• Physical injury: means the impairment of physical condition. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• 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.
• Possess: means knowingly to have physical possession or otherwise to exercise dominion or control over property. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Possession: means a voluntary act if the defendant knowingly exercised dominion or control over property. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Practitioner: means a person licensed to prescribe and administer drugs. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• Produce: means grow, plant, cultivate, harvest, dry, process or prepare for sale. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• Property: means anything of value, tangible or intangible. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Recklessly: means , with respect to a result or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware of and consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the result will occur or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Regulated chemical: means the following substances in bulk form that are not a useful part of an otherwise lawful product:

  (a) Acetic anhydride. See Arizona Laws 13-3401

• 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.
• Retailer: means either:

  (a) A person other than a practitioner who sells any precursor chemical or regulated chemical to another person for purposes of consumption and not resale, whether or not the person possesses a permit issued pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 18. See Arizona Laws 13-3401

• Rope tow: means a mode of transportation that pulls a skier riding on skis as the skier grasps the rope with the skier's hands. See Arizona Laws 5-701
• Sale for personal use: means the retail sale for a legitimate medical use in a single transaction to an individual customer, to an employer for dispensing to employees from first aid kits or medicine chests or to a school for administration pursuant to section 15-344. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• sell: means an exchange for anything of value or advantage, present or prospective. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• Site host: means any of the following entities that owns all or part of the multipurpose facility site at the time the site is provided to the authority pursuant to section 5-807:

  (a)  This state or any agency of this state. See Arizona Laws 5-801

• Ski area: means all ski slopes and trails or other places within the boundary of a ski area operator's property, administered as a single enterprise in this state. See Arizona Laws 5-701
• Ski area operator: means any corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or other commercial entity, including a natural person, and its employees, agents, members, successors in interest, affiliates and assigns that have responsibility for the operations of a ski area. See Arizona Laws 5-701
• Ski slopes and trails: means those areas designated by a ski area operator for use by skiers for any of the purposes listed in paragraph 11. See Arizona Laws 5-701
• Skier: means a person using a ski area for the purpose of skiing or sliding downhill on snow or ice on skis, a toboggan, sled, tube, skibob or snowboard or any other device, using any of the facilities of a ski area, including ski slopes and trails, or observing any activities in a ski area as a sightseer or visitor. See Arizona Laws 5-701
• Surface lift: means a mode of transportation that pulls skiers riding on skis by means of attachment to an overhead cable supported by trestles or towers. See Arizona Laws 5-701
• Suspicious transaction: means a transaction to which any of the following applies:

  (a) A report is required under the federal act. See Arizona Laws 13-3401

• Threshold amount: means a weight, market value or other form of measurement of an unlawful substance as follows:

  (a) One gram of heroin. See Arizona Laws 13-3401

• Transfer: means furnish, deliver or give away. See Arizona Laws 13-3401
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Unlawful: means contrary to law or, where the context so requires, not allowed by law. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Vapor-releasing substance containing a toxic substance: means a material which releases vapors or fumes containing any of the following:

  (a) Ketones, including acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, mibk, miak, isophorone and mesityl oxide. See Arizona Laws 13-3401

• Wholesaler: means a person who in the usual course of business lawfully supplies narcotic drugs, dangerous drugs, precursor chemicals or regulated chemicals that he himself has not produced or prepared, but not to a person for the purpose of consumption by the person, whether or not the wholesaler has a permit that is issued pursuant to title 32, chapter 18. See Arizona Laws 13-3401