Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 6 > Chapter 4 - Credit Unions

• Account: means an individual trust account in the fund that is established as prescribed in this article. See Arizona Laws 15-1871
• Account owner: means the person who enters into a tuition savings agreement pursuant to this article, who is an account owner within the meaning of section 529 of the internal revenue code and who is designated at the time an account is opened as having the right to withdraw monies from the account before the account is disbursed to or for the benefit of the designated beneficiary. See Arizona Laws 15-1871
• Accredited: means accredited by a regional accrediting agency recognized by the United States department of education or by the council on postsecondary accreditation. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
• Acquire: includes purchase, erect, build, construct, reconstruct, repair, replace, extend, better, furnish, equip, develop, improve and embellish. See Arizona Laws 15-1481
• Acquire: includes to purchase, lease, lease-purchase, erect, build, construct, reconstruct, raze, remodel, repair, replace, alter, extend, expand, better, equip, furnish, develop, improve and embellish a project, and the acquisition, preparation and development of a site or sites therefor. See Arizona Laws 15-1681
• Additional short-term classes: means those classes that are not in session on the forty-fifth day of the fall or spring semester, that commence at various times during the fiscal year and that are offered over a period of less than sixteen weeks. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Agency contract: means an agreement in which a student athlete authorizes a person to negotiate or solicit a professional sports services contract or an endorsement contract on behalf of the student athlete. See Arizona Laws 15-1762
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Annual education plan: means an initial individualized evaluation and subsequent annual reviews that are developed for a qualified student who meets the criteria specified in paragraph 7, subdivision (a), item (i), (ii) or (iii) of this section to determine ongoing annual eligibility through the school year in which the qualified student reaches twenty-two years of age and whether the student may be eligible pursuant to section 36-2981 and should be referred for eligibility determination. See Arizona Laws 15-2401
• 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.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Applicant: means a person who applies for a driver's license. See Arizona Laws 16-111
• 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
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Associate director: means the associate director of the environmental services division of the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Athlete agent: means an individual who enters into an agency contract with a student athlete or, directly or indirectly, recruits or solicits a student athlete to enter into an agency contract. See Arizona Laws 15-1762
• Athletic director: means an individual responsible for administering the overall athletic program of an educational institution or, if an educational institution has separately administered athletic programs for male students and female students, the athletic program for males or the athletic program for females. See Arizona Laws 15-1762
• Automated teller machine: means an automated device that is established by a bank, savings and loan association or credit union and that facilitates customer-bank communications activities, including taking deposits and disbursing cash drawn against a customer's deposit account or a customer's preapproved loan account, at a location separate from the home office or a branch. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Average daily membership: means the total enrollment of fractional students and full-time students, minus withdrawals, of each school day through the first one hundred days or two hundred days in session, as applicable, for the current year. See Arizona Laws 15-901
• Bank: means a corporation that holds a banking permit issued pursuant to chapter 2 of this title. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Base: means the revenue level per student count specified by the legislature. See Arizona Laws 15-901
• Base level: means the following amounts plus the percentage increase to the base level as provided in Section 15-902. See Arizona Laws 15-901
• Base support level: means the base support level as provided in section 15-943. See Arizona Laws 15-901
• Beef cattle: means cattle or calves grown primarily for meat production. See Arizona Laws 3-1451
• Board: means the governing board of a community college district or its successors, but does not include community college tuition financing districts as prescribed in section 15-1409. See Arizona Laws 15-1481
• Board: means the Arizona board of regents or its successor. See Arizona Laws 15-1681
• Board: means the board of medical student loans. See Arizona Laws 15-1721
• Board: means the Arizona board of regents or its successor. See Arizona Laws 15-1741
• Board: means the state board of investment. See Arizona Laws 15-1871
• Bonds: means any bonds issued pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 15-1481
• Bonds: means any bonds issued pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 15-1681
• Branch: means any banking office other than the principal banking office. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Branch office: means a place of business of a credit union, other than a principal office, at which deposits are received and checks are paid, but does not include premises used for computer operations, recordkeeping, accounting, storage, maintenance or other administrative or service functions. See Arizona Laws 6-501
• Brand: means a term, design or trademark used in connection with one or several grades of commercial fertilizer. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Budget year: means the fiscal year for which the school district is budgeting and that immediately follows the current year. See Arizona Laws 15-901
• Budget year: means the fiscal year for which the community college district is budgeting and that immediately follows the current year. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
• Bulk: means fertilizer materials delivered to the purchaser in the solid or liquid state, in a nonpackaged form to which a label cannot be attached. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Capital: means share accounts, reserves and undivided earnings. See Arizona Laws 6-501
• Certified teacher: means a person who is certified as a teacher pursuant to the rules adopted by the state board of education, who renders direct and personal services to schoolchildren in the form of instruction related to the school district's educational course of study and who is paid from the maintenance and operation section of the budget. See Arizona Laws 15-901
• Charter school: means a public school established by contract with the state board of education, the state board for charter schools, a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents, a community college district or a group of community college districts pursuant to article 8 of this chapter to provide learning that will improve pupil achievement. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• Child: means a person who is at least three years of age by September 1 of the current year but who is under twenty-two years of age. See Arizona Laws 15-1181
• Child with a disability: means a child with a disability as defined in section 15-761. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• Commercial fertilizer: means any substance that contains one or more recognized plant nutrients, that is used for its plant nutrient content and that is designed for use or claimed to have value in promoting plant growth, except unmanipulated animal and vegetable manures, and other products exempted by rule. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Commission: means the western interstate commission for higher education. See Arizona Laws 15-1741
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Common school district: means a political subdivision of this state offering instruction to students in programs for preschool children with disabilities and kindergarten programs and either:

  (a) Grades one through eight. See Arizona Laws 15-901

• Community college: means an educational institution that is operated by a district board and that provides a program of not more than four years' training in the arts, sciences and humanities beyond the twelfth grade of the public or private high school course of study or vocational education, including terminal courses of a technical and vocational nature and basic adult education courses. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
• Community college tuition financing district: means a district that is organized pursuant to section 15-1409. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
• Community school: means any school engaged in a community school program. See Arizona Laws 15-1141
• Community school monies: means monies received as fees, tuitions, grants or donations from any person or agency for a community school program. See Arizona Laws 15-1141
• Community school program: means the involvement of people in the development of an educationally oriented community. See Arizona Laws 15-1141
• Compact: means the compact for western regional cooperation in higher education. See Arizona Laws 15-1741
• Competency: means a demonstrated ability in a skill at a specified performance level. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• Component unit: means an entity for which the nature and significance of its relationship with the board or institution is such that exclusion would cause the board's or institution's financial statements to be misleading or incomplete. See Arizona Laws 15-1681
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Continuous attendance: means enrollment at an educational institution in this state as a full-time student, as such term is defined by the governing body of the educational institution, for a normal academic year since the beginning of the period for which continuous attendance is claimed. See Arizona Laws 15-1801
• Corporate credit union: means a credit union whose field of membership consists of other credit unions and organizations or associations owned by or composed of credit unions and corporations or associations that primarily serve credit unions. See Arizona Laws 6-501
• Course: means organized subject matter in which instruction is offered within a given period of time and for which credit toward promotion, graduation or certification is usually given. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• Course of study: means a list of required and optional subjects to be taught in the schools. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• Credit union: means a cooperative nonprofit association that is incorporated under this chapter for the purposes of encouraging thrift among its members and creating a source of credit and other financial services at fair and reasonable cost. See Arizona Laws 6-501
• Current year: means the fiscal year in which a school district is operating. See Arizona Laws 15-901
• Current year: means the fiscal year in which the community college district is operating. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
• Curriculum: means a course of study for content areas or grade levels, including any supplemental materials required or recommended by the curriculum, approved by the department. See Arizona Laws 15-2401
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the department of insurance and financial institutions. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Department: means the department of education. See Arizona Laws 15-2401
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deposit account: means a balance other than a share account held by a credit union including balances designated as special investment accounts, deposits, certificates of deposit, certificates of indebtedness, demand deposit accounts or other similar names. See Arizona Laws 6-501
• Deputy director: means the deputy director of the financial institutions division of the department. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Designated beneficiary: means a person who qualifies as a designated beneficiary under section 529 of the internal revenue code and, except as provided in section 15-1875, subsections P and Q, with respect to an account, who is designated at the time the account is opened as the person whose qualified higher education expenses are expected to be paid from the account or, if this designated beneficiary is replaced in accordance with section 15-1875, subsections D, E and F, the replacement beneficiary. See Arizona Laws 15-1871
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Distributor: means any person who offers for sale, sells, barters, solicits business or otherwise supplies fertilizer materials. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• District: means a community college district that is established pursuant to sections 15-1402 and 15-1403 or Section 15-1402. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
• District board: means the community college district governing board. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
• Division: means the animal services division of the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-1201
• Domicile: means a person's true, fixed and permanent home and place of habitation. See Arizona Laws 15-1801
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Dual enrollment course: means a college-level course that is conducted on the campus of a high school or on the campus of a career technical education district, that is applicable to an established community college academic degree or certificate program and that is transferable to a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• Eligible educational institution: means an institution of higher education that qualifies under section 529 of the internal revenue code as an eligible educational institution. See Arizona Laws 15-1871
• Eligible postsecondary institution: means a community college as defined in section 15-1401, a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents or an accredited private postsecondary institution. See Arizona Laws 15-2401
• Eligible students: means :

  (a) Students who are transported by or for a school district and who qualify as full-time students or fractional students, except students for whom transportation is paid by another school district or a county school superintendent, and:

  (i) For common school students, whose place of actual residence within the school district is more than one mile from the school facility of attendance or students who are admitted pursuant to Section 15-816. See Arizona Laws 15-901

• Endorsement contract: means an agreement under which a student athlete is employed or receives consideration to use on behalf of the other party any value that the student athlete may generate because of publicity, reputation, following or fame that was obtained because of athletic ability or performance. See Arizona Laws 15-1762
• enrollment: means that a pupil is currently registered in the school district. See Arizona Laws 15-901
• Enterprise: means any person under the jurisdiction of the department other than a financial institution. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Federal agency: means the housing and home finance agency, the United States of America or any of its officers or agencies designated or created to make grants or loans of monies for public construction work. See Arizona Laws 15-1481
• Federal agency: means the United States of America, the president of the United States of America, the department of housing and urban development or such other agency or agencies of the United States of America as may be designated or created to make loans or grants, or both. See Arizona Laws 15-1681
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. ^{Source: OCC}
• Federal public defender: An attorney employed by the federal courts on a full-time basis to provide legal defense to defendants who are unable to afford counsel. The judiciary administers the federal defender program pursuant to the Criminal Justice Act. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Feed lot: means either of the following:

  (a) A beef cattle feed lot, or feed yard, having more than five hundred head of beef cattle at one time during the licensed year. See Arizona Laws 3-1451

• Fertilizer material: means any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used for promoting or stimulating the growth of plants, increasing the productiveness of plants, improving the quality of crops or producing any chemical or physical change in the soil. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Financial institution: means the state treasurer's office or any bank, commercial bank, national bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, insurance company, brokerage firm or other similar entity that is authorized to do business in this state. See Arizona Laws 15-1871
• 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.
• Fiscal year: means the year beginning July 1 and ending June 30. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fractional student: means :

  (i) For common schools, a preschool child who is enrolled in a program for preschool children with disabilities of at least three hundred sixty minutes each week that meets at least two hundred sixteen hours over the minimum number of days or a kindergarten student who is at least five years of age before January 1 of the school year and enrolled in a school kindergarten program that meets at least three hundred fifty-six hours for a one hundred eighty-day school year, or the instructional hours prescribed in this section. See Arizona Laws 15-901

• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Full-time equivalent student: means student enrollment for fifteen community college semester credit units per semester. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
• Full-time student: means :

  (i) For common schools, a student who is at least six years of age before January 1 of a school year, who has not graduated from the highest grade taught in the school district and who is regularly enrolled in a course of study required by the state board of education. See Arizona Laws 15-901

• Fund: means the special education fund. See Arizona Laws 15-1181
• Fund: means the special education fund established by section 15-1182. See Arizona Laws 15-1201
• Fund: means AZ529, Arizona's education savings plan trust fund that constitutes a public instrumentality of this state and that is established by section 15-1873. See Arizona Laws 15-1871
• GDP price deflator: means the average of the four implicit price deflators for the gross domestic product reported by the United States department of commerce for the four quarters of the calendar year. See Arizona Laws 15-1721
• Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governing board: means a body organized for the government and management of the schools within a school district or a county school superintendent in the conduct of an accommodation school. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• Governmental unit: means a board, agency, department, authority, instrumentality or other unit or organization of the federal, state, county, municipal or other level of government. See Arizona Laws 6-501
• Grade: means the percentage of total nitrogen, available phosphate or soluble potash stated in whole numbers in the same terms, order and percentages as in the guaranteed analysis. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Hearing impairment: means hearing impairment as defined in section 15-761. See Arizona Laws 15-1301
• High school district: means a political subdivision of this state offering instruction to students for grades nine through twelve or that portion of the budget of a common school district that is allocated to teaching high school subjects with permission of the state board of education. See Arizona Laws 15-901
• Individual conduct that materially and substantially infringes on the rights of other persons to engage in or listen to expressive activity: means conduct by a person who, with the intent to or the knowledge of doing so, materially and substantially prevents the communication of a message or prevents the transaction of the business of a lawful meeting, gathering or procession by doing any of the following:

  (a) Engaging in fighting or violent or other unlawful behavior. See Arizona Laws 15-1861

• Insolvent: means that the value of a credit union's assets is less than its liabilities. See Arizona Laws 6-501
• Institution: means the Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind, the Arizona training program facilities as provided in section 36-551 and the Arizona state hospital. See Arizona Laws 15-1201
• Institution: means any community college district that is organized in this state pursuant to section 15-1402 or 15-1402. See Arizona Laws 15-1481
• Institution: means the university of Arizona, Arizona state university and northern Arizona university or any other college or university under the jurisdiction and control of the board or its successor. See Arizona Laws 15-1681
• instructional time: means hours or time spent pursuant to an instructional time model adopted under Section 15-901. See Arizona Laws 15-901
• Insuring organization: means the national credit union administration or successor organization or any other equivalent insurer approved by the deputy director. See Arizona Laws 6-501
• Intercollegiate sport: means a sport that is played at the collegiate level and for which eligibility requirements for participation by a student athlete are established by a national association for the promotion or regulation of collegiate athletics. See Arizona Laws 15-1762
• Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Juror: A person who is on the jury.
• Lease: means an agreement for conveyance and possession of real or personal property. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• Livestock officer: means an animal health and welfare officer, animal health and welfare inspector or investigator employed by the department. See Arizona Laws 3-1201
• Magistrate: means an officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense and includes the chief justice and justices of the supreme court, judges of the superior court, judges of the court of appeals, justices of the peace and judges of a municipal court. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Manufacture: means to compound, produce, granulate, mix, blend or alter the composition of fertilizer materials. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Medically underserved area: means an area of this state designated by the department of health services pursuant to Title 36, Chapter 24, Article 1 or by federal law. See Arizona Laws 15-1721
• Medically underserved population: means an area designated by the United States department of health and human services. See Arizona Laws 15-1721
• Member of the family: means any of the following:

  (a) A son or daughter of a person or a descendant of the son or daughter of the person. See Arizona Laws 15-1871

• Membership share: means a balance held by a credit union and established by a member according to the standards prescribed by the credit union. See Arizona Laws 6-501
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) ^{Source: OCC}
• National credit union administration: includes any successor to the organization or other agency or instrumentality of the United States that undertakes to discharge the purposes of the organization. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Nighttime: means the period between sunset and sunrise. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Nonqualified withdrawal: means a withdrawal from an account other than one of the following:

  (a) A qualified withdrawal. See Arizona Laws 15-1871

• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oath: includes an affirmation or declaration. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Official sample: means any sample of fertilizer materials taken by the associate director or the associate director's agent and designated as official by the associate director. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Operational expenses: means the administration, instruction, operation of community college plant, maintenance of community college plant, fixed charges and contingencies incurred in the operation of a district, excluding all capital outlay items, special levies, auxiliary enterprise funds, restricted funds and bond service items. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
• Operator: means the owner or the person having charge or control of a feed lot. See Arizona Laws 3-1451
• Organization: means any corporation, association, partnership, society, firm, syndicate, trust or other legal entity. See Arizona Laws 6-501
• Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Parent: means the natural or adoptive parent of a child or a person who has custody of a child. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• Parent: means a resident of this state who is the parent, stepparent or legal guardian of a qualified student. See Arizona Laws 15-2401
• Parent: means the natural or adoptive parent of a child, the legal guardian of a child, a relative with whom a child resides and who is acting as the parent of that child or a surrogate parent who has been appointed for a child pursuant to Section 15-763. See Arizona Laws 15-1181
• Parent: means a person's father or mother, or if one parent has custody, that parent, or if there is no surviving parent or the whereabouts of the parents are unknown, then a guardian of an unemancipated person if there are not circumstances indicating that such guardianship was created primarily for the purpose of conferring the status of an in-state student on such unemancipated person. See Arizona Laws 15-1801
• Peace officers: means sheriffs of counties, constables, marshals, policemen of cities and towns, commissioned personnel of the department of public safety, personnel who are employed by the state department of corrections and the department of juvenile corrections and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a multicounty water conservation district and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by community college district governing boards and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the Arizona board of regents and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the governing body of a public airport pursuant to section 28-8426 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a private postsecondary institution pursuant to section 15-1897 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board and special agents from the office of the attorney general, or of a county attorney, and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• percentage: means the percentage by weight. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association or public or private organization of any kind. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• Person: includes individual, partnership, association, firm or corporation. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• Person: means an individual, a corporation, a group of individuals, joint venturers, a partnership, or any other business entity. See Arizona Laws 3-1451
• Person: means an individual, a corporation, a business trust, an estate, a trust, a partnership, a limited liability company, an association, a joint venture, a government, a governmental subdivision, a government agency, a government instrumentality, a public corporation or any other legal or commercial entity. See Arizona Laws 15-1762
• Person: means an individual, an individual's legal representative or any other legal entity authorized to establish a savings account under section 529 of the internal revenue code and the corresponding regulations. See Arizona Laws 15-1871
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Petty offense: A federal misdemeanor punishable by six months or less in prison. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• placement: means placement of a child in a private residential facility for residential special education placement as defined in section 15-761 or by a state placing agency for care, safety or treatment reasons. See Arizona Laws 15-1181
• placement: means placement of a person in an institution, as defined in this section, for special education only or for special education and residential and custodial care. See Arizona Laws 15-1201
• Plan: means AZ529, Arizona's education savings plan that is established under this article and that constitutes a qualified tuition program as defined in section 529 of the internal revenue code. See Arizona Laws 15-1871
• Plea agreement: An arrangement between the prosecutor, the defense attorney, and the defendant in which the defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for special considerations. ^Source:
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Primary property taxes: means all ad valorem taxes except for secondary property taxes. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• Private residential facility: means a private facility that is licensed by the department of economic security or department of health services and to which one of the following also applies:

  (a) For special education placements, the facility has been approved by the division of special education pursuant to section 15-765 for the purpose of providing special education and related services. See Arizona Laws 15-1181

• Private school: means a nonpublic institution where instruction is imparted. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Project: means one or more classrooms, student or faculty residence halls, dormitories, dining halls, student union buildings, field houses, stadia and other revenue producing buildings located at the institution, together with sites for the buildings, and includes equipment, furnishings, heating, lighting and other service facilities in connection with the buildings. See Arizona Laws 15-1481
• Project: means and includes buildings, structures, areas and facilities which, as determined by the board, are required by or necessary for the use or benefit of each of such institutions, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, student, faculty or staff housing facilities, residence halls, dormitories and apartments; student union and recreational buildings and stadiums; other facilities for student, faculty or staff services; any facility or building leased to the United States of America; parking garages and areas; offices, classrooms, laboratories, dining halls and food service facilities, libraries, auditoriums, or parts thereof, or additions or extensions thereto; heating, lighting and other utility service facilities in connection therewith, or parts thereof, or additions or extensions thereto; whether heretofore acquired and now or hereafter used for any or all of the purposes aforesaid, or as may be hereafter acquired under this article, with all equipment and appurtenant facilities; or any one, or more than one, or all of the foregoing, or any combination thereof, for any institution, including sites therefor. See Arizona Laws 15-1681
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Provisional community college district: means a community college district that was organized pursuant to section 15-1409 and that began operations before January 1, 2015. See Arizona Laws 15-1401
• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• Public forum: includes both a traditional public forum, which is any open, outdoor area on the campus of a university or community college, and a designated public forum, which is any facility, building or part of a building that the university or community college has opened to students or student organizations for expression. See Arizona Laws 15-1861
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• public school: means any public institution established for the purposes of offering instruction to pupils in programs for preschool children with disabilities, kindergarten programs or any combination of elementary grades or secondary grades one through twelve. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• Qualified school: means a nongovernmental primary or secondary school or a preschool for pupils with disabilities that is located in this state or, for qualified students who reside within the boundaries of an Indian reservation in this state, that is located in an adjacent state and that is within two miles of the border of the state in which the qualified student resides, and that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color or national origin. See Arizona Laws 15-2401
• Qualified student: means a resident of this state who:

  (a) Is any of the following:

  (i) Identified as having a disability under section 504 of the rehabilitation act of 1973 (29 United States Code § 794). See Arizona Laws 15-2401

• Qualified withdrawal: means a withdrawal from an account to pay any of the following:

  (a) The qualified higher education expenses of the designated beneficiary of the account, but only if the withdrawal is made in accordance with this article. See Arizona Laws 15-1871

• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Ratite: means ostriches, emus, rheas and cassowaries. See Arizona Laws 3-1201
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic format or any other medium and that is retrievable in perceivable form. See Arizona Laws 15-1762
• Related services: means related services as defined in section 15-761. See Arizona Laws 15-1181
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Reserves: means allocations of retained income and includes regular and special reserves and any allowances for loan losses and investment losses. See Arizona Laws 6-501
• Revenue control limit: means the base revenue control limit plus the transportation revenue control limit. See Arizona Laws 15-901
• Rural: means either of the following:

  (a) A county with a population of less than four hundred thousand persons. See Arizona Laws 15-1721

• sale: includes exchange. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• School district: means a political subdivision of this state with geographic boundaries organized for the purpose of the administration, support and maintenance of the public schools or an accommodation school. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• school meal programs: means programs under which meals are served by a public or private school on a nonprofit basis to children in attendance, including a program under which federal assistance is received. See Arizona Laws 15-1151
• Schools: means the Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind and includes programs and services offered for the deaf and the blind by the schools in conjunction with other educational institutions. See Arizona Laws 15-1301
• Secondary property taxes: means ad valorem taxes used to pay the principal of and the interest and redemption charges on any bonded indebtedness or other lawful long-term obligation issued or incurred for a specific purpose by a school district or a community college district and amounts levied pursuant to an election to exceed a budget, expenditure or tax limitation. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• Sensory impairment: means the following conditions, as defined in section 15-761:

  (a) Visual impairment. See Arizona Laws 15-1301

• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Share account: means a balance held by a credit union and established by a member according to this chapter, including balances designated as shares, share certificates, share draft accounts and membership shares. See Arizona Laws 6-501
• sister: includes a brother or sister by the half-blood. See Arizona Laws 15-1871
• Special education: means the adjustment of the environmental factors, modification of the course of study and adaptation of teaching methods, materials and techniques to provide educationally for those children who are at least three but not more than twenty-one years of age and who are gifted or have a disability to such an extent that they do not profit from the regular course of study or need special education services in order to profit. See Arizona Laws 15-1201
• State placing agency: means the department of juvenile corrections, the department of economic security, the department of child safety, the Arizona health care cost containment system or the administrative office of the court. See Arizona Laws 15-1181
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Stray animal: as used in this article means livestock, bison or ratites whose owner is unknown or cannot be located, or any such animal whose owner is known but permits the animal to roam at large on the streets, alleys, roads, range or premises of another without permission, except that this section does not apply to livestock where the principles of a federal permit, federal allotment or federal lease are in dispute. See Arizona Laws 3-1401
• Student athlete: means an individual who engages in, is eligible to engage in or may be eligible in the future to engage in any intercollegiate sport. See Arizona Laws 15-1762
• Student count: means average daily membership as prescribed in this subsection for the fiscal year before the current year, except that for the purpose of budget preparation student count means average daily membership as prescribed in this subsection for the current year. See Arizona Laws 15-901
• Subject: means a division or field of organized knowledge, such as English or mathematics, or a selection from an organized body of knowledge for a course or teaching unit, such as the English novel or elementary algebra. See Arizona Laws 15-101
• System of building facilities: means such project or projects as the board by resolution shall collectively designate to be included in a system of building facilities at each institution, either:

  (a) Hereafter acquired for each of such institutions under the terms of this article. See Arizona Laws 15-1681

• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Ton: means a net weight of two thousand pounds avoirdupois. See Arizona Laws 3-262
• 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.
• Treasurer: means the office of the state treasurer. See Arizona Laws 15-2401
• Treasurer: means the state treasurer. See Arizona Laws 15-1871
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Tuition savings agreement: means an agreement between the board, as trustee of the fund, and an account owner that creates an interest in the fund and that provides for participation in the plan. See Arizona Laws 15-1871
• Unified school district: means a political subdivision of this state offering instruction to students in programs for preschool children with disabilities and kindergarten programs and grades one through twelve. See Arizona Laws 15-901
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• University: means a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents. See Arizona Laws 15-1861
• Visual impairment: means visual impairment as defined in section 15-761. See Arizona Laws 15-1301
• withdrawals: means students who are formally withdrawn from schools or students who are absent for ten consecutive school days, except for excused absences identified by the department of education. See Arizona Laws 15-901