Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 28 > Chapter 16 > Article 3 - Vehicle License Tax

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• All-terrain vehicle: means either of the following:

  (a) A motor vehicle that satisfies all of the following:

  (i) Is designed primarily for recreational nonhighway all-terrain travel. See Arizona Laws 28-101

• Alternative fuel: means :

  (a) Electricity. See Arizona Laws 1-215

• Board: means the transportation board. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Bus: means a motor vehicle designed for carrying sixteen or more passengers, including the driver. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the department of transportation acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the director of the department of transportation. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Driver: means a person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• 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.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Highway: means any way or place in this state of whatever nature that is maintained by public monies and that is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel, including a highway under construction. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
• In this state: means any way or place within the exterior limits of the state of Arizona that is maintained by public monies, including any such way or place that is owned by or ceded to the United States of America. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
• 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.
• Manufacturer: means a person engaged in the business of manufacturing motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Motor vehicle: means a self-propelled vehicle required to be licensed or subject to licensing for operation on a highway. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
• Owner: means :

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

• Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, estate, trust, business trust, receiver or syndicate, this state, any county, city, town, district or other subdivision of this state, an Indian tribe, or any other group or combination acting as a unit. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Public monies: means those monies that are received by this state and that are derived all or in part from tax revenues or other funding sources. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
• Semitrailer: means a vehicle that is with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer or single-axle tow dolly, that is designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and that is constructed so that some part of its weight and that of its load rests on or is carried by another vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• State: means a state of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• State highway: means a state route or portion of a state route that is accepted and designated by the board as a state highway and that is maintained by the state. See Arizona Laws 28-101
• Trailer: means a vehicle that is with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer or single-axle tow dolly, that is designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and that is constructed so that no part of its weight rests on the towing vehicle. 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
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Use: includes the placing of fuel into any receptacle on a motor vehicle from which fuel is supplied for the propulsion of the vehicle unless the operator of the vehicle establishes to the satisfaction of the director that the fuel was consumed for a purpose other than to propel a motor vehicle on a highway in this state and, with respect to fuel brought into this state in any such receptacle on a use class motor vehicle, the consumption of the fuel in this state. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
• User: includes a person who, within the meaning of the term use as defined in this section, uses fuel in a use class motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-5601