Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 6 > Chapter 13 > 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
• Advance fee: means a fee, interest or other consideration directly or indirectly received by a person prior to a loan of money or extension of credit or a commitment to loan money or extend credit being made by the person. See Arizona Laws 6-1301
• Advance fee loan broker: means a person who is not exempt under section 6-1302 and who for an advance fee or in the expectation of an advance fee either directly or indirectly makes or procures, attempts to make or procure or offers to make or procure or attempt to make or procure a loan of money or extension of credit. See Arizona Laws 6-1301
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Agency: means any agency, department, board or commission of this state or a county, city or town that issues a license for purposes of operating a business in this state. See Arizona Laws 23-211
• 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.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Automatic elevator: means a passenger or freight lift operated by push buttons so that the starting, moving, leveling, holding and opening and closing of the doors is entirely automatic. See Arizona Laws 23-230
• Commission: means the industrial commission of Arizona. See Arizona Laws 23-311
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Construction: means building, altering, repairing, adding to, subtracting from, improving, moving, wrecking or demolishing a building, highway, road, railroad, excavation or other structure, project, development or improvement, including the erection and use of scaffolding or a similar structure and providing mechanical or structural service for a structure, project, development or improvement. See Arizona Laws 23-230
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• 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.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of insurance and financial institutions. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deputy director: means the deputy director of the financial institutions division of the department. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Directory order: means a temporary order which becomes mandatory as provided in this article. See Arizona Laws 23-311
• E-verify program: means the employment verification program as jointly administered by the United States department of homeland security and the social security administration or any of its successor programs. See Arizona Laws 23-211
• Elevator: means a power-driven hoisting or lowering mechanism equipped with a car or platform which moves in guides in a substantially vertical direction. See Arizona Laws 23-230
• Employ: means hiring an employee after December 31, 2007. See Arizona Laws 23-211
• Employee: means every minor in receipt of or entitled to compensation for labor performed for any employer. See Arizona Laws 23-311
• Employer: means every person, firm, corporation, agent, manager, representative, contractor, subcontractor, principal or other person having control or direction of any minor employed at any labor, or responsible directly or indirectly for the wages of another. See Arizona Laws 23-311
• Employer: means any individual or type of organization that transacts business in this state, that has a license issued by an agency in this state and that employs one or more employees in this state. See Arizona Laws 23-211
• 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.
• Fair wage: means a wage both fairly and reasonably commensurate with the value of the service or class of service rendered, and sufficient to meet the minimum cost of living necessary for health. See Arizona Laws 23-311
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• 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.
• Hazardous agricultural chemicals: means any substance that has a toxicity level that requires manufacturer or distributor labeling as category I, category II and category III toxicity in accordance with the regulations adopted by the administrator pursuant to the federal environmental pesticide control act of 1972, as amended. See Arizona Laws 23-230
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Independent contractor: means any individual or entity that carries on an independent business, that contracts to do a piece of work according to the individual's or entity's own means and methods and that is subject to control only as to results. See Arizona Laws 23-211
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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 employ an unauthorized alien: means the actions described in 8 United States Code § 1324a. See Arizona Laws 23-211
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Logging: means felling timber, bucking or converting timber into logs, poles, piles, ties, bolts, pulpwood, chemical wood, excelsior wood, cordwood, fence posts or similar products, collecting, skidding, yarding, loading, transporting and unloading such products, constructing, repairing and maintaining roads, railroads, flumes or camps used in connection with logging, moving, installing, rigging and maintenance of machinery or equipment used in logging, operation of a sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill or cooperage stock mill in connection with the storing of logs and bolts, converting logs or bolts into sawed lumber, laths, shingles or cooperage stock and storing, drying and shipping lumber, laths, shingles and cooperage stock or other products of such mills. See Arizona Laws 23-230
• Manufacturing: means designing, assembling, fabricating, producing, constructing or preparing a product or part of a product before sale or use. See Arizona Laws 23-230
• Mine or quarry: means an underground or surface rock or mineral extracting, placer, dredging or bore-hole operation including all grinding and metal mills, washer plants and any other cutting, crushing, grinding, screening, sizing, washing or cleaning operation performed on extracted rocks or minerals. See Arizona Laws 23-230
• Minor: means a person of either sex under the age of eighteen years. See Arizona Laws 23-311
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Motor vehicle: means an automobile, truck, truck tractor, trailer, semitrailer, motorcycle or similar vehicle propelled or drawn by mechanical power and designed for use as a means of transportation. See Arizona Laws 23-230
• municipal court: as used in this title includes city or town magistrates' courts and all other courts established by law in incorporated cities and towns. See Arizona Laws 22-401
• Occupation: means any class of work in any industry, trade, business, or branch thereof, in which minors are gainfully employed, but does not include domestic service in the home of an employer or agricultural labor. See Arizona Laws 23-311
• Oppressive and unreasonable wage: means a wage which is both less than the fair and reasonable value of the services rendered and less than sufficient to meet the minimum cost of living necessary for health. See Arizona Laws 23-311
• Outside helper: means a person who rides on a motor vehicle other than in the driver or passenger compartment for the purpose of transporting, loading or unloading items. See Arizona Laws 23-230
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Petty offense: A federal misdemeanor punishable by six months or less in prison. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Power-driven bakery machine: means a horizontal or vertical dough mixer, batter mixer, bread dividing, rounding or molding machine, dough brake, dough sheeter, combination bread slicing and wrapping machine, cake cutting band saw, cookie machine or cracker machine. See Arizona Laws 23-230
• Power-driven hoist: means an apparatus for raising or lowering a load by the application of a pulling or pushing force including a crane, derrick or forklift. See Arizona Laws 23-230
• Power-driven meat processing machine: means a meat patty forming machine, meat and bone cutting saw or knife, head splitter, guillotine cutter, snout puller, jaw puller, skinning machine, horizontal rotary washing machine, casing cleaning machine, grinding, mixing, chopping and hashing machines and meat presses. See Arizona Laws 23-230
• Power-driven paper products machine: means a platen die-cutting press, platen printing press, punch press which involves hand feeding of the machine, arm-type wirestitcher or stapler, circular or band saw, corner cutter or mitering machine, corrugating and single or double-lacing machine, envelope die-cutting press, guillotine paper cutter or shear, horizontal bar scorer, laminating or combining machine, sheeting machine, scrap paper baler or vertical slotter or other machine used in the remanufacture or conversion of paper or pulp into a finished product. See Arizona Laws 23-230
• Power-driven woodworking machine: means a fixed or portable machine or tool driven by power and used or designed for cutting, shaping, forming, surfacing, nailing, stapling, wire stitching, fastening, assembling, pressing or printing wood or veneer. See Arizona Laws 23-230
• Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Processing: means an activity involving an addition to, subtraction from, change in or cleaning of any food or foodstuff including filleting fish, dressing poultry or cracking nuts. See Arizona Laws 23-230
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Radiation: means ionizing radiation including gamma rays, x-rays, alpha and beta particles, high speed electrons, neutrons, protons and other nuclear particles or rays. See Arizona Laws 23-230
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Roofing: means all work performed in connection with the application of weatherproofing materials and substances, including tar, pitch, asphalt, prepared paper, tile, slate, metal, translucent materials and shingles of asbestos, asphalt or wood, to roofs of buildings and other structures. See Arizona Laws 23-230
• Silica refractory products: means items produced from raw materials and containing free silica as their main constituent. See Arizona Laws 23-230
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testify: includes every manner of oral statement under oath or affirmation. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Unauthorized alien: means an alien who does not have the legal right or authorization under federal law to work in the United States as described in 8 United States Code § 1324a(h)(3). See Arizona Laws 23-211
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Wage board: means a board created as provided in section 23-314. See Arizona Laws 23-311
• wages: means any compensation for labor measured by time, piece, or otherwise. See Arizona Laws 23-311
• Warehousing: means loading, unloading, storing or otherwise moving any item or items to and from trucks, railroad cars, conveyors and buildings. See Arizona Laws 23-230
• Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215