Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 6 > Chapter 8 > 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
• 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.
• Agent: means a person who receives compensation to regularly perform services specifically related to the conduct of the trust business. See Arizona Laws 6-851
• 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.
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• Applicable agency: means a department or agency of this state established by law to regulate certain types of business activity in this state and persons engaged in such business, including types of authorization, that the chief executive officer determines would regulate a sandbox participant. See Arizona Laws 18-601
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• 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
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• Automated claims adjudication system: means a preprogrammed computer system that is designed for the collection, data entry, calculation and final resolution of portable consumer electronic products insurance claims and that:

  (a) May be used only by a licensed adjuster, a licensed producer or supervised individuals operating pursuant to this paragraph. See

• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Balanced budget: A budget in which receipts equal outlays.
• 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.
• Branch: means any banking office other than the principal banking office. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Business entity: means any corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership or other legal entity except an individual or sole proprietorship. See Arizona Laws 20-281
• Capital: means the total of outstanding common stock, preferred stock and surplus and undivided profits. See Arizona Laws 6-851
• Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
• Certificate: means a certificate of authority issued under this chapter to engage in trust business. See Arizona Laws 6-851
• Certified application counselor: means an individual who is licensed pursuant to this article and who is authorized by the United States department of health and human services to perform the activities and duties of a certified application counselor as described by 45 C. See Arizona Laws 20-336
• Chief executive officer: means the chief executive officer of the Arizona commerce authority. See Arizona Laws 18-601
• 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.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Consumer: means a person that purchases or otherwise enters into a transaction or agreement to receive an innovative property product or service that is being tested by a sandbox participant. See Arizona Laws 18-601
• Contingency plan: means a document stating a trust company's means of conducting business and preserving records in the event of any power outage, flood or other physical emergency. See Arizona Laws 6-851
• 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.
• Court: means the supreme court, the court of appeals, the superior court, a court that is inferior to the superior court and a justice court. See Arizona Laws 18-551
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• 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
• department: means the department of insurance and financial institutions. See Arizona Laws 20-101
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Depose: includes every manner of written statement under oath or affirmation. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Deputy director: means the deputy director of the financial institutions division of the department. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Designated producer: means the individual insurance producer that a business entity designates pursuant to section 20-285, subsection C, paragraph 3 as the individual responsible for the business entity's compliance with the insurance laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 20-281
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Discretionary assets: means those assets in which the trust company has the unilateral authority to determine investment strategies and execute investment transactions without seeking the concurrence, approval or authority from the customer or any other external party. See Arizona Laws 6-851
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Electronic mail message: means a message sent to a unique destination that consists of a unique user name or mailbox and a reference to an internet domain, whether or not displayed, and to which an electronic mail message can be sent or delivered. See Arizona Laws 18-541
• Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Exchange: means a health benefit exchange that is established or operated by the secretary of the United States department of health and human services pursuant to 42 United States Code § 18031. See Arizona Laws 20-336
• 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}
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiduciary: means a personal representative, administrator, guardian, conservator, trustee, agent or other person who acts in a fiduciary capacity and who is not exempt by section 6-852. See Arizona Laws 6-851
• Financial institution: means banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations, credit unions, consumer lenders, international banking facilities and financial institution holding companies under the jurisdiction of the department. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• 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.
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governmental agency: means :

  (a) Any board, commission, department or other administrative unit of this state established by the Constitution of Arizona or by enactment of the legislature and includes the legislature, the courts and the governor. See Arizona Laws 18-521

• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Health or sickness insurance: means disability insurance as defined in section 20-253. See Arizona Laws 20-281
• Home state: means the District of Columbia and any state or territory of the United States in which:

  (a) An individual insurance producer maintains a principal place of residence or principal place of business and is licensed to act as a resident insurance producer. See Arizona Laws 20-281

• Identifying information: means an individual's piece of information that can be used to access an individual's financial accounts or to obtain goods or services and that includes an individual's:

  (a) Social security number. See Arizona Laws 18-541

• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Individual: means a resident of this state who has a principal mailing address in this state as reflected in the records of the person conducting business in this state at the time of the breach. See Arizona Laws 18-551
• Innovation: means , with respect to providing a property product or service or a substantial component of a property product or service, the use or incorporation of new or emerging technology or the reimagination of uses for existing technology to address a problem, provide a benefit or otherwise offer a product, service, business model or delivery mechanism that is not known by the chief executive officer to have a comparable widespread offering in this state. See Arizona Laws 18-601
• Innovative property product or service: means a property product or service that includes an innovation. See Arizona Laws 18-601
• insolvent: means the trust company does not possess assets that are at least equal to liabilities, required reserves and total issued and outstanding capital. See Arizona Laws 6-851
• Insurance producer: means a person required to be licensed under this article to sell, solicit or negotiate insurance. See Arizona Laws 20-281
• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• Internet: means collectively the myriad of computer and telecommunications facilities, including equipment and operating software, that comprise the interconnected worldwide network of networks that employ the transmission control protocol or internet protocol, or any predecessor or successor protocols to such protocol, to communicate information of all kinds by wire or radio. See Arizona Laws 18-541
• 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.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Limited line credit insurance: means any form of insurance that is offered in connection with an extension of credit and that is limited to partially or wholly extinguishing that credit obligation, including credit life, credit disability, credit property, credit unemployment, involuntary unemployment, mortgage life, mortgage guaranty, mortgage disability, guaranteed asset or automobile protection insurance and any other form of insurance that is offered in connection with an extension of credit, that is limited to partially or wholly extinguishing that credit obligation and that the director determines should be designated a form of limited line credit insurance. See Arizona Laws 20-281
• Limited line insurance: means limited line credit insurance, limited line crop insurance, limited lines travel insurance under section 20-3553 and any other line of insurance that the director deems necessary to recognize for the purposes of complying with section 20-287, subsection C, paragraph 2. See Arizona Laws 20-281
• Liquid capital: means legal tender, capital in the form of certificates of deposit issued by banks, savings banks or savings and loan associations doing business in this state and insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation or any successor institution, including deposits to a single depository where excess deposit insurance is provided through a reciprocal deposit arrangement by participating banks, or direct obligations of the United States government with maturity of not more than five years. See Arizona Laws 6-851
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Major line insurance: means life insurance, accident and health or sickness insurance, property insurance, casualty insurance, personal lines insurance and variable insurance contracts, as described in section 20-286. See Arizona Laws 20-281
• managing general agent: means any person, firm, association or corporation that manages all or part of the insurance business of an insurer, including the management of a separate division, department or underwriting office, and that, with or without authority and either separately or together with affiliates, directly or indirectly produces and underwrites an amount of gross direct written premium that is at least five per cent of the policyholder surplus as reported in the last annual statement of the insurer in any one quarter or year and that either:

  1. See Arizona Laws 20-311

• Member: means , if used in reference to a business entity, a person that holds an ownership interest in the business entity, excluding any interest in publicly traded securities and any interest of less than ten percent of the voting rights. See Arizona Laws 20-281
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Moral turpitude: means an offense, whether a misdemeanor or felony, that is related to extortion, burglary, larceny, bribery, embezzlement, robbery, racketeering, money laundering, forgery, fraud, murder, voluntary manslaughter or a sexual offense that requires the individual to register pursuant to section 13-3821. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Navigator: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this article and who is certified or compensated by the United States department of health and human services to perform the activities and duties described by 42 United States Code § 18031 and 45 C. See Arizona Laws 20-336
• Negotiate: means the act of conferring directly with or offering advice directly to a purchaser or prospective purchaser of a particular contract of insurance concerning any of the substantive benefits, terms or conditions of the contract if the person engaged in that act either sells insurance or obtains insurance from insurers for purchasers. See Arizona Laws 20-281
• Nonresident: means a person whose home state is not Arizona. See Arizona Laws 20-281
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oath: includes an affirmation or declaration. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• 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: means an individual or a business entity. See Arizona Laws 20-281
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Portable consumer electronic products: means electronic devices and related accessories that are portable in nature. See
• 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}
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Private passenger motor vehicle: means any vehicle that is rated or insured under a family automobile policy, standard automobile policy, personal automobile policy or similar private passenger automobile policy written for personal use, including use by an insured of a motor vehicle in the course of the insured's volunteer work for a tax-exempt organization as described in section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, as opposed to a motor vehicle rated or insured under a commercial automobile policy. See Arizona Laws 20-117
• 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
• Property technology sandbox: means the program established by this chapter that allows a person to temporarily test innovative property products or services on a limited basis without otherwise being authorized to act under the laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 18-601
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Prosecution agency: means the attorney general, a county attorney or a municipal prosecutor. See Arizona Laws 18-551
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Registered mail: includes certified mail. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Resident: means a person whose home state is Arizona and who does not hold a resident insurance producer license in another state or territory of the United States or in the District of Columbia. See Arizona Laws 20-281
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• salaried employee: means an employee whose compensation is not contingent on the outcome of a claim determination. See
• Sandbox participant: means a person whose application to participate in the property technology sandbox is approved pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 18-601
• Security incident: means an event that creates reasonable suspicion that a person's information systems or computerized data may have been compromised or that measures put in place to protect the person's information systems or computerized data may have failed. See Arizona Laws 18-551
• Sell: means to exchange a contract of insurance by any means, for money or its equivalent, on behalf of an insurer. See Arizona Laws 20-281
• sent: means to deliver by United States mail, personal delivery or fax or by electronic means consistent with the requirements of section 20-239. See Arizona Laws 20-117
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Solicit: means attempting to sell insurance or asking or urging a person to apply for a particular kind of insurance from a particular company. See Arizona Laws 20-281
• Specie: means coins having precious metal content. See Arizona Laws 6-851
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• subscription: includes a mark, if a person cannot write, with the person's name written near it and witnessed by a person who writes the person's own name as witness. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Surplus: means the total amount paid by shareholders in excess of the par or stated value of the shares of capital stock of a trust business in consideration for the shares. See Arizona Laws 6-851
• Test: means to provide products and services as allowed by this chapter. See Arizona Laws 18-601
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trust business: means the holding out by a person to the public at large by advertising, solicitation or other means that the person is available to act as a fiduciary in this state and accepting and undertaking to perform the duties as such a fiduciary in the regular course of business. See Arizona Laws 6-851
• Trust company: means a corporation holding a certificate issued under this article. See Arizona Laws 6-851
• 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
• Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
• Volunteer work: means work performed without compensation other than reimbursement of actual expenses incurred, or disbursement of meals or other incidental benefits. See Arizona Laws 20-117
• Web page: means a location with respect to the worldwide web that has a single uniform resource locator or other single location with respect to the internet. See Arizona Laws 18-541
• 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
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Writ: means an order or precept in writing issued in the name of the state or by a court or judicial officer. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215