Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 23 > Chapter 3 > Article 4 - Professional Employer Organizations

• Administrative fee: means the fee that is charged to a client by a professional employer organization for professional employer services. See Arizona Laws 23-561
• 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.
• 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
• Client: means a person who contracts with a professional employer organization under a professional employer agreement. See Arizona Laws 23-561
• Co-employer: means a professional employer organization or a client. See Arizona Laws 23-561
• Co-employment relationship: means all of the following:

  (a) A relationship between co-employers if the rights, duties and obligations of an employer that arise out of an employment relationship are allocated between co-employers subject to a professional employer agreement and this article, and the relationship is intended to be an ongoing relationship and not a temporary or project specific relationship. See Arizona Laws 23-561

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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.
• 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.
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• 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.
• 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.
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company or other legally recognized entity. See Arizona Laws 23-561
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Professional employer agreement: means a written contract between a professional employer organization and a client that provides for:

  (a) The co-employment of covered employees. See Arizona Laws 23-561

• Professional employer services: means the service of entering into a co-employment relationship under this article in which all or a majority of the employees who provide services to a client or to a division or work unit of the client are covered employees. See Arizona Laws 23-561
• Registrant: means a professional employer organization that is registered under this article. See Arizona Laws 23-561
• 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