Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 9 > Chapter 8 - Police and Fire Departments

• Abortion: means the use of any means to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman with knowledge that the termination by those means will cause, with reasonable likelihood, the death of the unborn child. See Arizona Laws 36-2151
• Accredited program: means a program leading to the award of a degree in audiology that is accredited by an organization recognized for that purpose by the United States department of education. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Administration: means the Arizona health care cost containment system administration. See Arizona Laws 36-1801
• Administration: means the Arizona health care cost containment system administration. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• Administrative medical direction: means supervision of emergency medical care technicians by a base hospital medical director, administrative medical director or basic life support medical director. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• administrative medical director: means a physician who is licensed pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 13 or 17 and who provides direction within the emergency medical services and trauma system. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• Advance practice provider: means a physician assistant as defined in section 32-2501 or a registered nurse practitioner as defined in section 32-1601. See Arizona Laws 36-2171
• Advanced emergency medical technician: means a person who has been trained in an advanced emergency medical technician program certified by the director or in an equivalent training program and who is certified by the director to render services pursuant to section 36-2205. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• Advanced life support: means the level of assessment and care identified in the scope of practice approved by the director for the advanced emergency medical technician, emergency medical technician I-99 and paramedic. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• Advanced life support base hospital: means a health care institution that offers general medical and surgical services, that is certified by the director as an advanced life support base hospital and that is affiliated by written agreement with a licensed ambulance service, municipal rescue service, fire department, fire district or health services district for medical direction, evaluation and control of emergency medical care technicians. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• 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.
• 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
• Alcoholic: means a person who habitually lacks self-control with respect to the use of alcoholic beverages or who uses alcoholic beverages to the extent that the person's health is substantially impaired or endangered or social or economic functions are substantially disrupted. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Ambulance attendant: means any of the following:

  (a) An emergency medical technician, an advanced emergency medical technician, an emergency medical technician I-99 or a paramedic whose primary responsibility is the care of patients in an ambulance and who meets the standards and criteria adopted pursuant to section 36-2204. See Arizona Laws 36-2201

• Ambulance service: means a person who owns and operates one or more ambulances. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• 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.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• 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
• Approved private treatment facility: means a private agency meeting the standards established by the department and approved pursuant to sections 36-2023 and 36-2029. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• Approved public treatment facility: means a treatment agency operating under the directions and control of a county, providing treatment through a contract with a county, meeting the standards established by the department and approved pursuant to sections 36-2023 and 36-2029. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• Approved training program: means a postsecondary speech-language pathology assistant training program that is approved by the director. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• 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 citrus, fruit and vegetable division of the department. See Arizona Laws 3-441
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attempt to perform or induce an abortion: means to do or to omit doing anything that, under the circumstances as the physician believes them to be, is an act or omission that constitutes a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in the performance or induction of an abortion in violation of this article. See Arizona Laws 36-2321
• Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
• Audiologist: means a person who engages in the practice of audiology and who meets the requirements prescribed in this chapter. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Audiology: means the nonmedical and nonsurgical application of principles, methods and procedures of measurement, testing, evaluation and prediction that are related to hearing, its disorders and related communication impairments for the purpose of nonmedical diagnosis, prevention, amelioration or modification of these disorders and conditions. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Auscultation: means the act of listening for sounds made by internal organs of the unborn child, specifically for a heartbeat, using an ultrasound transducer and fetal heart rate monitor. See Arizona Laws 36-2151
• Automated external defibrillator: means a medical device heart monitor and defibrillator that:

  (a) Is approved for premarket modification by the United States food and drug administration pursuant to 21 United States Code § 360(k). See Arizona Laws 36-2261

• 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.
• Basic life support: means the level of assessment and care identified in the scope of practice approved by the director for the emergency medical responder and emergency medical technician. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• Behavioral health provider: means a physician who is a board-certified or board-eligible psychiatrist, a psychologist, a physician assistant or a registered nurse practitioner who is certified to practice as a behavioral health specialist or a person who is licensed pursuant to title 32 as a clinical social worker, professional counselor or marriage and family therapist. See Arizona Laws 36-2171
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Board: means the Arizona state board of pharmacy. See Arizona Laws 36-2501
• Board: means the police pension board. See Arizona Laws 9-911
• Board: means the Arizona state board of pharmacy or its designee. See Arizona Laws 36-2601
• Bodily remains: means the physical remains, corpse or body parts of an unborn child who has been expelled or extracted from his or her mother through abortion. See Arizona Laws 36-2151
• Branch: means any banking office other than the principal banking office. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Bureau: means the bureau of emergency medical services and trauma system in the department. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• By-products: means any product from citrus fruit that is commercially processed or manufactured for resale. See Arizona Laws 3-441
• Cannabis: means the following substances under whatever names they may be designated:

  (a) Marijuana. See Arizona Laws 36-2501

• Capital: means the total of outstanding common stock, preferred stock and surplus and undivided profits. See Arizona Laws 6-851
• Cardholder: means a qualifying patient, a designated caregiver, a nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary agent or a independent third-party laboratory agent who has been issued and possesses a valid registry identification card. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• center: means an initial reception agency for a person who is intoxicated or who is incapacitated by alcohol to receive initial evaluation and processing for assignment for further evaluation or into a treatment program. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• Centralized medical direction communications center: means a facility that is housed within a hospital, medical center or trauma center or a freestanding communication center that meets the following criteria:

  (a) Has the ability to communicate with ambulance services and emergency medical services providers rendering patient care outside of the hospital setting via radio and telephone. See Arizona Laws 36-2201

• Certificate: means a certificate of authority issued under this chapter to engage in trust business. See Arizona Laws 6-851
• Certificate of necessity: means a certificate that is issued to an ambulance service by the department and that describes the following:

  (a) The service area. See Arizona Laws 36-2201

• Certifying organization: means an organization that certifies homes as sober living homes and is affiliated with a national organization recognized by the department whose primary function is to improve access to and the quality of sober living residences through standards, education, research and advocacy. See Arizona Laws 36-2061
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• citrus fruit: means the fruit of any orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit, tangerine, kumquat or other citrus tree that produces edible citrus fruit suitable for human consumption. See Arizona Laws 3-441
• Clinical interaction: means a fieldwork practicum in speech-language pathology that is supervised by a licensed speech-language pathologist. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Clinical investigation: means activity conducted for the purpose of developing, refining or training in the process of in vitro fertilization for the treatment of human infertility, including experiments, investigations, clinical trials, and the development of new technology. See Arizona Laws 36-1701
• Commission: means the commission for the deaf and the hard of hearing. See Arizona Laws 36-1941
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conception: means the fusion of a human spermatozoon with a human ovum. See Arizona Laws 36-2151
• 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
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Controlled substance: means a drug, substance or immediate precursor in schedules I through V of article 2 of this chapter and the rules adopted pursuant to article 2 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 36-2501
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Coordinating medical provider: means a physician or group of physicians, or any combination thereof, which has entered into an agreement with a county, incorporated city or town, health service district or the department to supervise the medical care offered at a medical clinic, as defined by this section. See Arizona Laws 36-2351
• 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.
• Council: means the emergency medical services council. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• Court: means the supreme court, the court of appeals, a superior court, a justice of the peace court, a municipal court or a city court authorized by charter. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deaf: means a person who cannot generally understand speech sounds with or without a hearing aid when in optimal listening conditions. See Arizona Laws 36-1941
• Deafblind: means a person who is deaf or hard of hearing, who has a central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with corrective lenses, or a field defect such that the peripheral diameter of visual field subtends an angular distance not greater than twenty degrees, or a progressive visual loss having a prognosis leading to one or both of these conditions, and for whom the combination of the hearing and vision loss described affects the person's ability to communicate and receive environmental information both visually and auditorily. See Arizona Laws 36-1941
• Debilitating medical condition: means one or more of the following:

  (a) Cancer, glaucoma, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, hepatitis C, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Crohn's disease or agitation of Alzheimer's disease or the treatment of these conditions. See Arizona Laws 36-2801

• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defibrillation: means the administration of a controlled electrical charge to the heart to restore a viable cardiac rhythm. See Arizona Laws 36-2261
• Department: means the department of health services or its successor agency. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• Department: means the department of insurance and financial institutions. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-1751
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-1801
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-2171
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-2351
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-2451
• Department: means the department of public safety. See Arizona Laws 36-2501
• Department: means the police department. See Arizona Laws 9-911
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-1691
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-2101
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-2321
• Deputy director: means the deputy director of the financial institutions division of the department. See Arizona Laws 6-101
• Designated caregiver: means a person who:

  (a) Is at least twenty-one years of age. See Arizona Laws 36-2801

• Destructive human embryonic stem cell research: means any research that involves the disaggregation of any human embryo for the purpose of creating human pluripotent stem cells or human pluripotent stem cell lines. See Arizona Laws 36-2311
• Director: means the director of the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-1751
• Director: means the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 36-1801
• Director: means the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Director: means the director of the administration. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• Director: means the director of the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• Director: means the director of the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-2451
• Director: means the director of the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-1691
• Director: means the director of the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-2101
• 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
• Disorders of communication: means an organic or nonorganic condition that impedes the normal process of human communication and includes disorders of speech, articulation, fluency, voice, verbal and written language, auditory comprehension, cognition and communications and oral, pharyngeal and laryngeal sensorimotor competencies. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Disorders of hearing: means an organic or nonorganic condition, whether peripheral or central, that impedes the normal process of human communication and includes disorders of auditory sensitivity, acuity, function or processing. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Dispenser: means a medical practitioner or pharmacy that is authorized to dispense controlled substances. See Arizona Laws 36-2601
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Drug enforcement administration: means the drug enforcement administration of the department of justice of the United States or its successor agency. See Arizona Laws 36-2501
• Egg: means an oocyte or egg cell of a human female. See Arizona Laws 36-1701
• Egg donor: means a woman who provides or agrees to provide her eggs for purposes other than her own impregnation with those eggs. See Arizona Laws 36-1701
• 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}
• Emergency medical care technician: means an individual who has been certified by the department as an emergency medical technician, an advanced emergency medical technician, an emergency medical technician I-99 or a paramedic. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• Emergency medical responder program: means a program that includes at least the following:

  (a) Emergency vehicle driver training. See Arizona Laws 36-2201

• Emergency medical services: means those services required following an accident or an emergency medical situation:

  (a) For on-site emergency medical care. See Arizona Laws 36-2201

• Emergency medical services provider: means any governmental entity, quasi-governmental entity or corporation whether public or private that renders emergency medical services in this state. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• Emergency medical technician: means a person who has been trained in an emergency medical technician program certified by the director or in an equivalent training program and who is certified by the director as qualified to render services pursuant to section 36-2205. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• Emergency receiving facility: means a licensed health care institution that offers emergency medical services, is staffed twenty-four hours a day and has a physician on call. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• 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.
• 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.
• Escrow: means any transaction in which any escrow property is delivered with or without transfer of legal or equitable title, or both, and irrespective of whether a debtor-creditor relationship is created, to a person not otherwise having any right, title or interest therein in connection with the sale, transfer, encumbrance or lease of real or personal property, to be delivered or redelivered by that person upon the contingent happening or nonhappening of a specified event or performance or nonperformance of a prescribed act, when it is then to be delivered by such person to a grantee, grantor, promisee, promisor, obligee, obligor, bailee or bailor, or any designated agent or employee of any of them. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Escrow agent: means any person engaged in the business of accepting escrows. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• Evaluation: means a multidisciplinary professional analysis of a person's medical, psychological, social, financial and legal conditions. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Excluded felony offense: means :

  (a) A violent crime as defined in Section 13-901. See Arizona Laws 36-2801

• Federal poverty guidelines: means the poverty guidelines as updated annually in the federal register by the United States department of health and human services. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• 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.
• Fit and proper: means that the director determines that an applicant for a certificate of necessity or a certificate holder has the expertise, integrity, fiscal competence and resources to provide ambulance service in the service area. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
  • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
  • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
  • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
• 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.
• Fund: means the police pension fund. See Arizona Laws 9-911
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Gestational age: means the age of the unborn child as calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman. See Arizona Laws 36-2151
• Governing body: means the city commission, city or town council or other governing body of the municipality. See Arizona Laws 9-911
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Grantee: includes every person to whom an estate or interest in real property passes, in or by a deed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Hard of hearing: means a person who has a degree of hearing loss greater than 40dB PTA-2, but less than 85dB PTA-2, in the better ear. See Arizona Laws 36-1941
• Health care entity: means any of the following:

  (a) A licensed health care provider. See Arizona Laws 36-2401

• Health service district: means a health service district established pursuant to Title 48, Chapter 16, Article 1. See Arizona Laws 36-2351
• Hearing aid: means any wearable instrument or device designed for or represented as aiding or improving human hearing or as aiding, improving or compensating for defective human hearing, and any parts, attachments or accessories of the instrument or device, including ear molds, but excluding batteries and cords. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Hearing aid dispenser: means any person who engages in the practice of fitting and dispensing hearing aids. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Hospital: means a health care institution licensed as a hospital pursuant to chapter 4, article 2 of this title. See Arizona Laws 36-2351
• Human being: means an individual member of the species homo sapiens, from and after the point of conception. See Arizona Laws 36-2321
• Human embryo: means a living organism of the species homo sapiens through the first fifty-six days of its development, excluding any time during which its development has been suspended. See Arizona Laws 36-2311
• Human-animal hybrid: means any of the following:

  (a) A human embryo into which a nonhuman cell or cells, or any component part of a nonhuman cell or cells, have been introduced. See Arizona Laws 36-2311

• Immediate precursor: means a substance that the board has found to be and by rule designates as being the principal compound commonly used or produced primarily for use and that is an immediate chemical intermediary used or likely to be used in the manufacture of a controlled substance, the control of which is necessary to prevent, curtail or limit manufacture. See Arizona Laws 36-2501
• In vitro: means outside the human body. See Arizona Laws 36-2311
• Incapacitated by alcohol: means that a person as a result of the use of alcohol is unconscious or has judgment otherwise so impaired that the person is incapable of realizing and making a rational decision with respect to the person's need for evaluation and treatment, is unable to take care of basic personal needs or safety such as food, clothing, shelter or medical care or lacks sufficient understanding or capacity to make or communicate rational decisions. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• Independent third-party laboratory: means an entity that has a national or international accreditation and that is certified by the department to analyze marijuana cultivated for medical use. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• Independent third-party laboratory agent: means an owner, employee or volunteer of a certified independent third-party laboratory who is at least twenty-one years of age and who has not been convicted of an excluded felony offense. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• Indirect supervision: means supervisory activities, other than direct supervision, that are performed by a licensed speech-language pathologist and that may include consulting, reviewing records and reviewing and evaluating audiotaped or videotaped sessions. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Interpreting: means translating or transliterating English concepts to any necessary specialized vocabulary used by a consumer or translating a consumer specialized vocabulary to English concepts. See Arizona Laws 36-1941
• Intoxicated person: means a person whose mental or physical functioning is substantially impaired as a result of the immediate effects of alcohol in the person's system. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• 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.
• Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
• 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}
• Letter of concern: means an advisory letter to notify a licensee that, while there is insufficient evidence to support disciplinary action, the director believes the licensee should modify or eliminate certain practices and that continuation of the activities that led to the information being submitted to the director may result in action against the licensee. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: means a license issued pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 6-801
• License: means a license issued by the director under this chapter and includes a temporary license. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Licensed health care provider: means a person or institution that is licensed or certified by this state to provide health care, medical services, nursing services or other health-related services. See Arizona Laws 36-2401
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• 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
• Lot: means a unit of identical or similar items that are grouped or consolidated in one or more containers for packaging or transporting or a cluster of identical or similar items that are included in the same shipping order, bill of lading or other itemized transport order. See Arizona Laws 3-441
• 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
• Major bodily function: includes functions of the immune system, normal cell growth, and digestive, bowel, bladder, neurological, brain, respiratory, circulatory, endocrine and reproductive functions. See Arizona Laws 36-2321
• Marijuana: means all parts of any plant of the genus cannabis whether growing or not, and the seeds of such plant. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• Medical clinic: means a facility, whether mobile or stationary, which provides ambulatory medical care in a medically-underserved area through the employment of physicians, professional nurses, physician assistants or other health care technical and paraprofessional personnel. See Arizona Laws 36-2351
• Medical emergency: means a condition that, on the basis of the physician's good faith clinical judgment, so complicates the medical condition of a pregnant woman as to necessitate the immediate abortion of her pregnancy to avert her death or for which a delay will create serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function. See Arizona Laws 36-2151
• Medical emergency: means a condition that, on the basis of the physician's good faith clinical judgment, so complicates the medical condition of a pregnant woman as to necessitate the immediate abortion of her pregnancy to avert her death or for which a delay will create serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function. See Arizona Laws 36-2321
• Medical practitioner: means any person who is licensed and authorized by law to use and prescribe drugs and devices to treat sick and injured human beings or to diagnose or prevent sickness in human beings in this state or any state, territory or district of the United States. See Arizona Laws 36-2601
• Medical use: means the acquisition, possession, cultivation, manufacture, use, administration, delivery, transfer or transportation of marijuana or paraphernalia relating to the administration of marijuana to treat or alleviate a registered qualifying patient's debilitating medical condition or symptoms associated with the patient's debilitating medical condition. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• Medication abortion: means the use of any medication, drug or other substance that is intended to cause or induce an abortion. See Arizona Laws 36-2151
• Mobile food unit: means a food establishment that is licensed by this state, that is readily movable and that dispenses food or beverages for immediate service and consumption and other incidental retail items from any vehicle as defined in section 28-101. See Arizona Laws 36-1751
• Mobile food vendor: means any person who owns, controls, manages or leases a mobile food unit or contracts with a person to prepare foods and vend from, drive or operate a mobile food unit. See Arizona Laws 36-1751
• 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.
• National certification organization: means a national organization that tests and certifies the ability of an emergency medical care technician and whose tests are based on national education standards. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• National education standards: means the emergency medical services education standards of the United States department of transportation or other similar emergency medical services education standards developed by that department or its successor agency. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• Necessary specialized vocabulary: includes American sign language, English based sign language, cued speech and oral interpreting. See Arizona Laws 36-1941
• negligently: import a want of such attention to the nature or probable consequence of the act or omission as a prudent man ordinarily bestows in acting in his own concerns. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Nonmedical diagnosing: means the art or act of identifying a communication disorder from its signs and symptoms. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary: means a not-for-profit entity that acquires, possesses, cultivates, manufactures, delivers, transfers, transports, supplies, sells or dispenses marijuana or related supplies and educational materials to cardholders. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• Nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary agent: means a principal officer, board member, employee or volunteer of a nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary who is at least twenty-one years of age and has not been convicted of an excluded felony offense. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• Nutritional supplement: means any vitamin essential to, important in, or claimed to have value in human nutrition, which shall include laetrile or amygdalin, also known as vitamin B-17. See Arizona Laws 36-2451
• 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.
• Opiate: means any substance having an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or being capable of conversion into a drug having addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability. See Arizona Laws 36-2501
• Opium poppy: means the plant of the genus papaver, except its seeds. See Arizona Laws 36-2501
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• packages: means any container used for packing, shipping or selling citrus fruit. See Arizona Laws 3-441
• Packer: means a person, other than a producer, shipper or dealer, that is engaged in the business of packing any citrus fruit. See Arizona Laws 3-441
• Paramedic: means a person who has been trained in a paramedic program certified by the director or in an equivalent training program and who is certified by the director to render services pursuant to section 36-2205. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• 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.
• Patient utilization report: means all of the following information about a patient that is compiled by the program and disclosed pursuant to section 36-2606:

  (a) Controlled substances prescription monitoring program data. See Arizona Laws 36-2601

• Peace officers: include regularly salaried deputy sheriffs, policemen and police officers of duly organized police departments. See Arizona Laws 9-901
• 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
• Person: includes an individual, firm, association, partnership, trust or corporation. See Arizona Laws 3-441
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation or association and the person's duly authorized agents. See Arizona Laws 36-2601
• 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}
• Physician: means a doctor of medicine who holds a valid and existing license to practice medicine pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 13 or its successor, a doctor of osteopathic medicine who holds a valid and existing license to practice osteopathic medicine pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 17 or its successor, a naturopathic physician who holds a valid and existing license to practice naturopathic medicine pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 14 or its successor or a homeopathic physician who holds a valid and existing license to practice homeopathic medicine pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 29 or its successor. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• Physician: means any person licensed pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 13 or 17. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• Physician: means a physician licensed pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 13, 14 or 17. See Arizona Laws 36-2351
• Physician: means a person who is licensed pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 13 or 17. See Arizona Laws 36-1701
• Physician: means a person who is licensed pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 13 or 17. See Arizona Laws 36-2151
• Physician: means a physician who is licensed pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 13 or 17, and who provides medical oversight services pursuant to section 36-2262. See Arizona Laws 36-2261
• Physician: means a person who is licensed pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 13 or 17. See Arizona Laws 36-2321
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Poppy straw: means all parts, except the seeds, of the opium poppy after mowing. See Arizona Laws 36-2501
• Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Practice of audiology: means :

  (a) Rendering or offering to render to a person or persons who have or who are suspected of having disorders of hearing any service in audiology, including prevention, identification, evaluation, consultation, habilitation, rehabilitation, instruction and research. See Arizona Laws 36-1901

• Practice of speech-language pathology: means :

  (a) Rendering or offering to render to an individual or groups of individuals who have or are suspected of having disorders of communication service in speech-language pathology, including prevention, identification, evaluation, consultation, habilitation, rehabilitation, instruction and research. See Arizona Laws 36-1901

• pregnancy: means a female reproductive condition of having a developing unborn child in the body and that begins with conception. See Arizona Laws 36-2151
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probable gestational age: means the gestational age of the unborn child at the time the abortion is planned to be performed and as determined with reasonable probability by the attending physician. See Arizona Laws 36-2151
• probable gestational age: means the age of an unborn human being as calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman. See Arizona Laws 36-2321
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Producer: means a person that is engaged in this state in the business of producing or causing citrus fruit to be produced for market in commercial quantities. See Arizona Laws 3-441
• Program: means the controlled substances prescription monitoring program. See Arizona Laws 36-2601
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Purchase: includes providing any cash, in-kind payment or other valuable financial or nonfinancial consideration. See Arizona Laws 36-1701
• Purchase or sell: includes an exchange of cash, an in-kind payment or any other valuable financial or nonfinancial consideration. See Arizona Laws 36-2311
• Qualifying patient: means a person who has been diagnosed by a physician as having a debilitating medical condition. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• Quality assurance activities: means activities or proceedings of a health care entity:

  (a) That are established for the purposes of reducing morbidity and mortality and for improving the quality of health care or encouraging proper utilization of health care services and facilities through the review of the qualifications, professional practices, training, experience, patient care, conduct, processes or data of licensed health care providers. See Arizona Laws 36-2401

• Quality assurance information: means information in oral, written or digital form that is submitted to, prepared for or by or considered by a health care entity for or in the course of quality assurance activities, including the record of the health care entity's actions and proceedings. See Arizona Laws 36-2401
• 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.
• Registrant: means a person registered under the provisions of the federal controlled substances act (P. See Arizona Laws 36-2501
• Registry identification card: means a document issued by the department that identifies a person as a registered qualifying patient, a registered designated caregiver, a registered nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary agent or a registered independent third-party laboratory agent. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• Regular license: means each type of license issued by the director, except a temporary license. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Risk assessment: means a procedure that produces a quantitative or qualitative estimate of public health risks from an environmental exposure. See Arizona Laws 36-1691
• Rural: means either of the following:

  (a) A county with a population of less than four hundred thousand persons according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 36-2171

• sale: means a transfer of title or of the right to use by lease, bailment or any other contract, but does not include transfers at wholesale to distributors or dealers. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Shipper: means a person that ships, transports, sells or markets citrus fruit under the person's registered trademark or label or a person that first markets the citrus fruit on behalf of the producer. See Arizona Laws 3-441
• Sober living home: means any premises, place or building that provides alcohol-free or drug-free housing and that:

  (a) Promotes independent living and life skills development. See Arizona Laws 36-2061

• Specie: means coins having precious metal content. See Arizona Laws 6-851
• Speech-language pathology: means the nonmedical and nonsurgical application of principles, methods and procedures of assessment, testing, evaluation and prediction related to speech and language and its disorders and related communication impairments for the nonmedical diagnosis, prevention, amelioration or modification of these disorders and conditions. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Speech-language pathology assistant: means a person who provides services prescribed in Section 36-1940. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Sponsor: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter and who agrees to train or directly supervise a temporary licensee in the same field of practice. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, means any state, district, commonwealth, territory or insular possession of the United States and any area subject to the legal authority of the United States of America. See Arizona Laws 36-2501
• State health care provider: means a department, agency, board or commission of the state and its officers, agents and employees that is a health care provider to clients, wards, patients or other persons in the control or custody of a department, agency, board or commission of the state and a health care provider rendering health care services on behalf of the state that is covered by insurance or self-insurance pursuant to section 41-621, 41-622 or 41-623. See Arizona Laws 36-2401
• Stretcher van: means a vehicle that contains a stretcher and that is operated to accommodate an incapacitated person or person with a disability who does not require medical monitoring, aid, care or treatment during transport. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• Suboperation station: means a physical facility or location at which an ambulance service conducts operations for the dispatch of ambulances and personnel and that may be staffed twenty-four hours a day or less as determined by system use. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• 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
• Surgical abortion: means the use of a surgical instrument or a machine to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman with knowledge that the termination by those means will cause, with reasonable likelihood, the death of the unborn child. See Arizona Laws 36-2151
• 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
• Temporary licensee: means a person who is licensed under this chapter for a specified period of time under the sponsorship of a person licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 36-1901
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• 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.
• Trained user: means a person who is the expected user of an automated external defibrillator and who has completed training in its use. See Arizona Laws 36-2261
• Training: means a state approved course in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of an automated external defibrillator for the lay rescuer and first responder, including the course adopted by the American heart association and in effect as of December 31, 1998. See Arizona Laws 36-2261
• Trauma center: means any acute care hospital that provides in-house twenty-four-hour daily dedicated trauma surgical services that is designated pursuant to section 36-2225. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• Trauma registry: means data collected by the department on trauma patients and on the incidence, causes, severity, outcomes and operation of a trauma system and its components. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• Trauma system: means an integrated and organized arrangement of health care resources having the specific capability to perform triage, transport and provide care. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• Treatment: means the broad range of emergency, outpatient, intermediate and inpatient services and care, including diagnostic evaluation, medical, psychiatric, psychological and social service care, vocational rehabilitation and career counseling, which may be extended to alcoholics and intoxicated persons. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
• 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.
• Ultrasound: means the use of ultrasonic waves for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes to monitor a developing unborn child. See Arizona Laws 36-2151
• Unborn child: means the offspring of human beings from conception until birth. See Arizona Laws 36-2151
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Unprofessional conduct: means :

  (a) Obtaining any fee or making any sale by fraud or misrepresentation. See Arizona Laws 36-1901

• Validated testing procedure: means a testing procedure that includes practical skills, or attests practical skills proficiency on a form developed by the department by the educational training program, identified pursuant to section 36-2204, paragraph 2, that is certified as valid by an organization capable of determining testing procedure and testing content validity and that is recommended by the medical direction commission and the emergency medical services council before the director's approval. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verification system: means a secure, password-protected, web-based system that is established and maintained by the department and that is available to law enforcement personnel and nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary agents on a twenty-four-hour basis for verifying registry identification cards. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• Wheelchair van: means a vehicle that contains or that is designed and constructed or modified to contain a wheelchair and that is operated to accommodate an incapacitated person or person with a disability who does not require medical monitoring, aid, care or treatment during transport. See Arizona Laws 36-2201
• 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 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
• Written certification: means a document dated and signed by a physician, stating that in the physician's professional opinion the patient is likely to receive therapeutic or palliative benefit from the medical use of marijuana to treat or alleviate the patient's debilitating medical condition or symptoms associated with the debilitating medical condition. See Arizona Laws 36-2801