Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 1 > Chapter 7 - Education

• ALIRT agreement: means the Arizona livestock incident response team agreement established between the department and a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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
• 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.
• 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}
• Brand: means the term, design or trademark and other specific designation under which an individual commercial feed is distributed in this state. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
• Commercial feed: means all materials, except whole seeds unmixed or physically altered entire unmixed seeds, that are distributed for use as feed or for mixing in feed. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
• Community supervision: means that portion of a felony sentence that is imposed by the court pursuant to section 13-603, subsection I and that is served in the community after completing a period of imprisonment or served in prison in accordance with Section 41-1604. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Customer-formula feed: means a mixture of commercial feed or feed materials, or both, each batch of which is mixed according to the specific instructions of the final purchaser. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Depose: includes every manner of written statement under oath or affirmation. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Distribute: means to offer for sale, sell, barter or otherwise supply commercial feeds or customer-formula feeds, but does not include or apply to any feeds supplied for consumption on the premises of the supplier. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
• Division: means the environmental services division of the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
• Economic loss: means any loss incurred by a person as a result of the commission of an offense. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Enterprise: includes any corporation, association, labor union or other legal entity. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Feed ingredient: means each of the constituent materials making up a commercial feed. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
• 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.
• 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
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Label: means a display of written, printed or graphic matter on or affixed to the container in which a commercial feed is distributed, or on the invoice or delivery slip with which a commercial feed or customer-formula feed is distributed. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Minor: means a person under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Official sample: means any sample of feed taken by the director or the director's agent and designated as official. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
• 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.
• percentage: means percentage by weight. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
• Person: includes an individual, partnership, corporation, firm, association or agent. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
• 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
• Possession: means a voluntary act if the defendant knowingly exercised dominion or control over property. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• sale: includes exchange. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Ton: means a net weight of two thousand pounds avoirdupois. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Vehicle: means a device in, upon or by which any person or property is, may be or could have been transported or drawn upon a highway, waterway or airway, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Wilfully: 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 1-215
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Writ: means an order or precept in writing issued in the name of the state or by a court or judicial officer. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215