Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 3 > Chapter 20 > Article 1 - General Provisions

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Branch office: means any fixed place of business, other than the primary office, where records are kept, mail is received, statements are rendered, money is collected, requests for service or bids are received, information pertaining to the business of pest management is given or pesticides are stored or disposed of. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• Business license: means a license that is issued pursuant to this chapter or rules adopted pursuant to this chapter to a person and that entitles that person and the person's employees to engage in the business of pest management. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• Business of pest management: means engaging in, offering to engage in, advertising for, soliciting or performing pest management, including any of the following:

  (a) Identifying infestations or making inspections for the purpose of identifying or attempting to identify infestations. See Arizona Laws 3-3601

• Certified applicator: means an individual who is licensed by the division to provide pest management services in accordance with this chapter. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• Certified qualified applicator: means a certified applicator who is eligible to act as a qualifying party. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• Child care facility: means a facility that is regulated pursuant to Title 36, Chapter 7. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conduct: means an act or omission and its accompanying culpable mental state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Crime: means a misdemeanor or a felony. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Department: means the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-101
• Division: means the pest management division of the department. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• 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.
• Felony: means an offense for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment in the custody of the state department of corrections is authorized by any law of this state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Final grade treatment: means the establishment of a complete vertical barrier at the exterior of foundation walls in stem wall or monolithic construction. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• Financial security: means liability insurance, a deposit of cash or certified monies, a surety bond or an irrevocable and unconditional letter of credit from a federally chartered financial institution or a financial institution as defined in section 6-101. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• 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.
• Government: means the state, any political subdivision of the state or any department, agency, board, commission, institution or governmental instrumentality of or within the state or political subdivision. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Household pests: means pests, other than wood-destroying organisms, that invade households or other structures, including rodents, vermin and insects. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Inquiry: means an initial investigation of possible violations of this chapter or rules adopted pursuant to this chapter based on information received from the public or division staff. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• 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.
• Knowingly: 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 13-105
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Misdemeanor: means an offense for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment other than to the custody of the state department of corrections is authorized by any law of this state. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• New-construction treatment: means a treatment that protects all cellulose components of a structure from subterranean termites and that is performed after a permanent concrete slab foundation is installed or footings and supports for a raised foundation are installed, but before the structure or a final grade treatment is completed. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• Other structures: includes railroad cars, boats, docks, motor vehicles or airplanes and their contents. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• Person: means a human being and, as the context requires, an enterprise, a public or private corporation, an unincorporated association, a partnership, a firm, a society, a government, a governmental authority or an individual or entity capable of holding a legal or beneficial interest in property. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Pest management services: means identifying infestations or making inspections for the purpose of identifying or attempting to identify infestations, making written or oral inspection reports or recommendations with respect to infestations and the application of pesticides or the use of devices not exempt by section 3-3603, subsection B, paragraph 17 for the purpose of eliminating, exterminating, controlling or preventing infestations. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• Pesticide: means any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating insects, fungi, bacteria, microbes, weeds, rodents, predatory animals or any form of plant or animal life that is, or that the director may declare to be, a pest and that may infest or be detrimental to vegetation, humans, animals or households or be present in any environment. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• Physical injury: means the impairment of physical condition. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Political subdivision: means a state agency, county, city, town, municipal corporation or school district or a special district formed pursuant to title 48. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• Possession: means a voluntary act if the defendant knowingly exercised dominion or control over property. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Postconstruction treatment: means a treatment to control wood-destroying organisms in or around an existing structure performed after all soil disturbance associated with construction is complete and after an applicator has completed an inspection of the structure and a treatment proposal under section 3-3632, subsections A and B. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• Pretreatment: means a termite treatment that protects all cellulose components of a structure from subterranean termites, that is performed before a permanent concrete slab foundation is installed or in conjunction with establishing footings and supports for a raised foundation and that establishes thorough and complete horizontal and vertical treated barriers. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Property: means anything of value, tangible or intangible. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Qualifying party: means a certified qualified applicator registered with the division as the individual responsible for ensuring the training, equipping and supervision of all applicators of a business licensee or school district. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• School: means any public or nonpublic institution, other than a child's home, that is established for the purpose of offering instruction to pupils in programs for preschool children with disabilities, kindergarten programs or any combination of grades one through twelve and that qualifies as a school pursuant to section 15-802. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• Service vehicle: means a motor vehicle, including a trailer attached to the motor vehicle, that is used to transport equipment or pesticides for the business of pest management. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• Sexual intercourse: means penetration into the penis, vulva or anus by any part of the body or by any object or masturbatory contact with the penis or vulva. See Arizona Laws 13-1401
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Unlawful: means contrary to law or, where the context so requires, not allowed by law. See Arizona Laws 13-105
• Wood-destroying insect inspection report: means a written inspection report on a form approved by the director that is prepared in connection with the sale or refinancing of real property whether or not the report is used as part of the transaction. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• Wood-destroying organisms: means organisms that attack, damage or destroy wood or wood-derivative products, but does not include birds or mammals. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215