Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 28 > Chapter 10 > Article 7 - Dealer and Manufacturer License Plates

• Cargo: means commercial or industrial items but does not include personal items such as luggage and camping equipment. See Arizona Laws 28-4531
• Certificate of title: means a paper document or an electronic record that is issued by the department and that indicates ownership of a vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Dealer: means a new motor vehicle dealer, a used motor vehicle dealer or a wholesale motor vehicle dealer. See Arizona Laws 28-4531
• Department: means the department of transportation acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Director: means the director of the department of transportation. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Distributor: means a person who either:

  (a) Sells or distributes new motor vehicles to new motor vehicle dealers in this state. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

• Distributor branch: means a branch office maintained or availed of by a distributor for either:

  (a) The sale of new motor vehicles to new motor vehicle dealers in this state. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

• Employee of the dealer: means any of the following:

  (a) An employee who is paid compensation and who appears on the records of the dealer as an employee for whom social security, withholding taxes and all other deductions required by law for employees are made and for whom all applicable payroll taxes are paid by the dealer. See Arizona Laws 28-4531

• Employee of the manufacturer: means an employee who is paid compensation and who appears on the records of the manufacturer as an employee for whom social security, withholding taxes and all other deductions required by law for employees are made and for whom all applicable payroll taxes are paid by the manufacturer. See Arizona Laws 28-4531
• 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.
• Factory branch: means a branch office maintained or availed of by a manufacturer for either:

  (a) The sale of new motor vehicles to distributors or the sale of new motor vehicles to new motor vehicle dealers in this state. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

• Full-time employee of the dealer: means a person who qualifies as an employee of the dealer and who works at least twenty-four hours each week for the dealer. See Arizona Laws 28-4531
• highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way if a part of the way is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• immediate family member: means a spouse or a parent, child, brother or sister whether related by adoption or blood. See Arizona Laws 28-4531
• 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.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Local authority: means any county, municipal or other local board or body exercising jurisdiction over highways under the constitution and laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Manufacturer: means a person engaged in the business of manufacturing motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers or a person engaged in the manufacture of integrated automotive systems and modules that are being tested at or in conjunction with a facility located in this state. See Arizona Laws 28-4531
• Modules: means groups of component parts that are arranged in close physical proximity to each other within a vehicle and that may be assembled by the supplier and shipped to the manufacturer for installation in a vehicle as a unit. See Arizona Laws 28-4531
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Motor vehicle: means an automobile, motor bus, motorcycle, truck or truck tractor or any other self-propelled vehicle, trailer or semitrailer. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
• Motor vehicle dealer: means a new motor vehicle dealer, a used motor vehicle dealer, a public consignment auction dealer, a broker or a wholesale motor vehicle auction dealer, excluding a person who comes into possession of a motor vehicle as an incident to the person's regular business and who sells, auctions or exchanges the motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
• Motorcycle: means a motor vehicle that has a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and that is designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground but excludes a tractor, an electric bicycle, an electric miniature scooter, an electric standup scooter and a moped. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• New motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle, other than a used motor vehicle, that is held either for:

  (a) Sale by the franchisee who first acquired the vehicle from the manufacturer or distributor of the vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

• Operator: means a person who drives a motor vehicle on a highway, who is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle on a highway or who is exercising control over or steering a vehicle being towed by a motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Owner: means :

  (a) A person who holds the legal title of a vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101

• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Service: means any service that is sold, leased or provided to retail consumers and that directly relates to the ownership or leasing of a new or used motor vehicle, including extended service contracts or motor vehicle warranty and nonwarranty repairs or maintenance, including both parts and labor. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
• State: means a state of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Systems: means groups of component parts that are located throughout a vehicle and that operate together to provide a specific vehicle function. See Arizona Laws 28-4531
• Title transfer form: means a paper or an electronic form that is prescribed by the department for the purpose of transferring a certificate of title from one owner to another owner. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Truck: means a motor vehicle designed or used primarily for the carrying of property other than the effects of the driver or passengers and includes a motor vehicle to which has been added a box, a platform or other equipment for such carrying. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Used motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle that has been sold, bargained, exchanged or given away or the title to the motor vehicle has been transferred from the person who first acquired the vehicle from the manufacturer, or importer, dealer or agent of the manufacturer or importer, and that has been placed in bona fide consumer use. See Arizona Laws 28-4301
• Wholesale motor vehicle auction dealer: means a person who both:

  (a) Is in the business of providing auction services solely in wholesale transactions to motor vehicle dealers licensed by this state or any other jurisdiction. See Arizona Laws 28-4301

• Wholesale motor vehicle dealer: means a person who sells used motor vehicles only to licensed motor vehicle dealers. See Arizona Laws 28-4301