Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 36 > Chapter 18 - Alcohol and Drug Abuse

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Administration: means the Arizona health care cost containment system administration. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Alcoholic: means a person who habitually lacks self-control with respect to the use of alcoholic beverages or who uses alcoholic beverages to the extent that the person's health is substantially impaired or endangered or social or economic functions are substantially disrupted. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• 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
• Approved private treatment facility: means a private agency meeting the standards established by the department and approved pursuant to sections 36-2023 and 36-2029. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• Approved public treatment facility: means a treatment agency operating under the directions and control of a county, providing treatment through a contract with a county, meeting the standards established by the department and approved pursuant to sections 36-2023 and 36-2029. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• Board: means the police pension board. See Arizona Laws 9-911
• center: means an initial reception agency for a person who is intoxicated or who is incapacitated by alcohol to receive initial evaluation and processing for assignment for further evaluation or into a treatment program. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• Certifying organization: means an organization that certifies homes as sober living homes and is affiliated with a national organization recognized by the department whose primary function is to improve access to and the quality of sober living residences through standards, education, research and advocacy. See Arizona Laws 36-2061
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Court: means the supreme court, the court of appeals, a superior court, a justice of the peace court, a municipal court or a city court authorized by charter. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• Department: means the police department. See Arizona Laws 9-911
• Director: means the director of the administration. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• Evaluation: means a multidisciplinary professional analysis of a person's medical, psychological, social, financial and legal conditions. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• 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.
• Fund: means the police pension fund. See Arizona Laws 9-911
• Governing body: means the city commission, city or town council or other governing body of the municipality. See Arizona Laws 9-911
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• 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.
• Incapacitated by alcohol: means that a person as a result of the use of alcohol is unconscious or has judgment otherwise so impaired that the person is incapable of realizing and making a rational decision with respect to the person's need for evaluation and treatment, is unable to take care of basic personal needs or safety such as food, clothing, shelter or medical care or lacks sufficient understanding or capacity to make or communicate rational decisions. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• Intoxicated person: means a person whose mental or physical functioning is substantially impaired as a result of the immediate effects of alcohol in the person's system. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• 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.
• Minor: means a person under eighteen years of age. 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
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Sober living home: means any premises, place or building that provides alcohol-free or drug-free housing and that:

  (a) Promotes independent living and life skills development. See Arizona Laws 36-2061

• Treatment: means the broad range of emergency, outpatient, intermediate and inpatient services and care, including diagnostic evaluation, medical, psychiatric, psychological and social service care, vocational rehabilitation and career counseling, which may be extended to alcoholics and intoxicated persons. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.