Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 23 > Chapter 2 > Article 12 - Safety Conditions for Elevators and Similar Conveyances

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Authorized representative: means the elevator chief and elevator inspector employed by the division. See Arizona Laws 23-491
• Certificate: means a certificate of inspection issued by the division. See Arizona Laws 23-491
• Commission: means the industrial commission of Arizona. See Arizona Laws 23-491
• 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.
• Conveyance: means an elevator, dumbwaiter, escalator, moving walk, manlift, personnel hoist, material hoist, stage lift and special purpose personnel elevator, excluding conveyances located at mines and subject to regulation and inspection by the state mine inspector pursuant to Title 27, Chapter 3. See Arizona Laws 23-491
• Director: means the director of the division of occupational safety and health. See Arizona Laws 23-491
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Division: means the division of occupational safety and health of the industrial commission. See Arizona Laws 23-491
• Dumbwaiter: means a hoisting and lowering mechanism with a car of limited capacity and size that moves in guides in a substantially vertical direction and that is used exclusively for carrying material. See Arizona Laws 23-491
• Elevator: means a hoisting and lowering mechanism equipped with a car or platform that moves in guides in substantially vertical direction and that serves two or more floors of a building or structure. See Arizona Laws 23-491
• Elevator company: means a person that is engaged in the business of erecting, constructing, installing, altering, servicing, repairing or maintaining conveyances. See Arizona Laws 23-491
• Escalator: means a power driven, inclined, continuous stairway used for raising or lowering passengers. See Arizona Laws 23-491
• 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.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Interested party: means the commission and its agents and the owner or operator who has been issued a correction order. See Arizona Laws 23-491
• Manlift: means a device consisting of a power driven endless belt moving in one direction only and provided with steps or platforms and attached handholds for the transportation of personnel from floor to floor. See Arizona Laws 23-491
• Material hoist: means a hoist for raising and lowering materials only and prohibiting the hoisting of persons. See Arizona Laws 23-491
• Moving walk: means a type of passenger carrying device on which passengers stand or walk and in which the passenger carrying surface remains parallel to its direction of motion and is uninterrupted. See Arizona Laws 23-491
• 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.
• operator: means an individual or organization including this state and all political subdivisions of this state who has title to, controls or has the duty to control the operation of one or more conveyances, but shall not include an individual or organization engaged in mining or metallurgical operations whose operation is subject to regulation and inspection by the state mine inspector pursuant to Title 27, Chapter 3. See Arizona Laws 23-491
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Personnel hoist: means a mechanism for use in connection with the construction, alteration, maintenance or demolition of a building, structure or other work, used for hoisting and lowering workers and materials and equipped with a car that moves on guide members during its vertical movement. See Arizona Laws 23-491
• Private elevator inspector: means an individual who is authorized by the commission under Section 23-491. See Arizona Laws 23-491
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Special purpose personnel elevator: means a passenger, hand powered, counterweighted device or an electric powered device that travels vertically in guides and that serves two or more landings. See Arizona Laws 23-491
• Stage lift: means a hoisting and lowering mechanism equipped with a platform that moves in guides in a substantially vertical direction and that serves one or more landings. See Arizona Laws 23-491
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215