Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 36 > Chapter 17 > Article 3 - Regulation of Hearing Aid Dispensers, Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Director: means the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• 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.
• Hearing aid: means any wearable instrument or device designed for or represented as aiding or improving human hearing or as aiding, improving or compensating for defective human hearing, and any parts, attachments or accessories of the instrument or device, including ear molds, but excluding batteries and cords. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Letter of concern: means an advisory letter to notify a licensee that, while there is insufficient evidence to support disciplinary action, the director believes the licensee should modify or eliminate certain practices and that continuation of the activities that led to the information being submitted to the director may result in action against the licensee. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• License: means a license issued by the director under this chapter and includes a temporary license. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Moral turpitude: means an offense, whether a misdemeanor or felony, that is related to extortion, burglary, larceny, bribery, embezzlement, robbery, racketeering, money laundering, forgery, fraud, murder, voluntary manslaughter or a sexual offense that requires the individual to register pursuant to section 13-3821. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Unprofessional conduct: means :

  (a) Obtaining any fee or making any sale by fraud or misrepresentation. See Arizona Laws 36-1901

• 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