Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 44 > Chapter 9 > Article 2.1 - Fraudulent Practices in the Sale of Indian Arts and Crafts

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Findings: means an ingredient part of the product which adapts the product for wearing or display, including silver beads, leather backing, binding material, bolo tie clips, tie bar clips, tie tack pins, earring pins, earring clips, earring screw backs, cuff link toggles, money clips, pin stems, combs or chains. See Arizona Laws 44-1231
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Indian: means a person who is enrolled or who is a lineal descendant of one enrolled upon an enrollment listing of the bureau of Indian affairs, or upon the enrollment listing of a recognized Indian tribe domiciled within the United States border. See Arizona Laws 44-1231
• Indian handcrafted: means the skillful and expert use of the hands in making products solely by Indians within the United States, including the use of findings, hand tools and equipment for buffing, polishing, grinding, drilling or sewing. See Arizona Laws 44-1231
• Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors.
• Made by machine: means the producing or reproducing of a product in mass production by mechanically stamping, casting, blanking or weaving. See Arizona Laws 44-1231
• Natural turquoise: means turquoise, exclusive of any backing material, whose composition has not been chemically or otherwise altered. See Arizona Laws 44-1231
• offer for sale: means an attempt or offer to dispose of, or solicitation of an order or offer to buy, a security or interest in a security for value or any sale or offer for sale of a warrant or right to subscribe to another security of the same issuer or of another issuer. See Arizona Laws 44-1801
• Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, joint stock company or trust, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency or any other unincorporated organization. See Arizona Laws 44-1801
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Reconstituted turquoise: means dust and turquoise particles which are mixed with plastic resins and are compressed into a solid form so as to resemble natural turquoise. See Arizona Laws 44-1231
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• sell: means a sale or any other disposition of a security or interest in a security for value and includes a contract to make such sale or disposition. See Arizona Laws 44-1801
• Stabilized turquoise: means turquoise which has been chemically hardened, but not adulterated so as to change the color of the natural mineral. See Arizona Laws 44-1231
• Synthetic turquoise: means any compound or mineral which is manufactured or treated so as to closely approximate turquoise in appearance. See Arizona Laws 44-1231
• Treated turquoise: means turquoise which has been altered to produce a change in the coloration of the natural mineral. See Arizona Laws 44-1231
• Turquoise: means a hydrous copper sulphate, containing aluminum salts, plus iron. See Arizona Laws 44-1231
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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