Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 46 > Chapter 2 > Article 7 - Child Care Food Program

• Child care personnel: means any person who supervises children in a day care home or center that receives child care food program monies under this article. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• department: means the department of economic security. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Dependent child: means a needy child who has been deprived of parental support or care by reason of the death, unemployment of the supporting parent as defined and prescribed by the rules of the department, continued absence from the home, or physical or mental incapacity of a parent, and whose relatives who are responsible under the law for the child's support are not able to provide adequate care and support of the child without public assistance, and who is living with his father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew or cousin in a place of residence maintained by one or more of such relatives as his or their own home or who is in the legal custody of the department of child safety and placed in a foster home or with an unrelated adult as a recipient of temporary assistance for needy families. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• Domestic violence: means battered or subject to extreme cruelty as defined in section 408(a)(7)(C)(iii) of the social security act. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• 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.
• 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
• Services: includes social casework, rehabilitation counseling and similar services rendered to a person or persons in need as provided for in this title. See Arizona Laws 46-101
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.