Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 41-161

Current through L. 2024, ch. 259
Section 41-161 - Definitions

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Actual address" means a residential, work or school address as specified on the individual's application to be a program participant and includes the county and voting precinct number.
2. "Address confidentiality program" means the program established pursuant to this article in the office of the secretary of state to protect the confidentiality of the actual address of a relocated victim of domestic violence, a sexual offense or stalking.
3. "Applicant" means an individual identified as such in an application received by the secretary of state pursuant to section 41-163.
4. "Application assistant" means a person designated by the secretary of state to assist an applicant in the preparation of an application to participate in the address confidentiality program.
5. "Domestic violence" has the same meaning prescribed in section 13-3601.
6. "Program participant" means an individual accepted into the address confidentiality program.
7. "Public record" means all documents, papers, letters, maps, books, photographs, films, sound recordings, magnetic or other tapes, digital data, artifacts or other documentary material, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received pursuant to law or ordinance in connection with the transaction of public business by a state or local government entity.
8. "Sexual offense" means an offense included in title 13, chapter 14 or 35.1.
9. "Stalking" means an offense prescribed in section 13-2923.
10. "State or local government entity" means every elected or appointed state or local public office, public officer or official, board, commission, bureau, committee, council, department, authority, agency, institution of higher education or other unit of the executive, legislative or judicial branch of this state or any city, town, county, public school or other kind of municipal, quasi-municipal or public corporation but does not include an agricultural improvement district.
11. "Substitute address" means an address that is designated by the secretary of state under the address confidentiality program and that is used instead of an actual address.

A.R.S. § 41-161

Amended by L. 2014, ch. 130,s. 4, eff. 7/24/2014.