Title 1, General Provisions

Words and phrases shall be construed according to the common and approved use of the language. Technical words and phrases and those which have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in the law shall be construed according to such peculiar and appropriate meaning.

A. Words in the present tense include the future as well as the present. B. Words in the singular number include the plural, and words in the plural number include the singular. C. Words of the masculine gender include the feminine and the neuter. D. Words of the feminine gender …

In the statutes and laws of this state, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Action" includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. 2. "Adopted rule" means a final rule as defined in section 41-1001. 3. "Adult" means a person who has attained eighteen year…

A. Words purporting to give a joint authority to three or more public officers or other persons shall be construed as giving the authority to a majority of the officers or persons unless it is otherwise expressly declared in the law giving the authority. B. A majority of a board …

In pleadings, civil or criminal: 1. "Horse" includes all kinds, ages and sexes of the horse species. 2. "Mule" includes all kinds, ages and sexes of the mule species. 3. "Neat animal" includes all kinds, ages and sexes of the bovine species.

A. Any report, claim, tax return, statement, payment, deposit or other material dealing in any way or manner with taxation, other than petitions or notices of appeal, that is required or authorized to be filed with or made to this state or any agency or political subdivision of t…

A. The laws of this state shall be interpreted and construed to acknowledge, on behalf of an unborn child at every stage of development, all rights, privileges and immunities available to other persons, citizens and residents of this state, subject only to the Constitution of the…

A. An act or statute which by its terms is to take effect on a specified day shall, unless otherwise provided in the act or statute, take effect at twelve o'clock noon on the day specified. B. An act or statute, which by its terms is to take effect from and after a specified day,…

A. The standard time in Arizona shall be the solar time of the one hundred fifth meridian west of Greenwich, commonly known as standard mountain time. B. This section shall not be construed to affect the standard time established by United States law governing the movements of co…

A. Except as provided in subsection B, the time in which an act is required to be done shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last day, unless the last day is a holiday, and then it is also excluded. B. In cases in which notice of a decision by the state, …

No statute is retroactive unless expressly declared therein.

When a statute has been enacted and has become a law, no other statute or law is continued in force because it is consistent with the statute enacted, but in all cases provided for by the subsequent statute, the statutes, laws and rules theretofore in force, whether consistent or…

When the penalty for an offense is prescribed by one law and altered by a subsequent law, the penalty of such second law shall not be inflicted for a breach of the law committed before the second took effect, but the offender shall be punished under the law in force when the offe…

When by the provisions of a repealing statute a new penalty is substituted for an offense punishable under the law repealed, such repealing statute shall not exempt from punishment a person who has offended against the repealed law while it was in force, but in such case the rule…

A repealing act shall not affect: 1. Any law funding the territorial or state debt. 2. Any law authorizing the issuance of, funding of, or payment of principal or interest on, territorial bonds, bonds of the state, bonds of an agency, institution, department or political subdivis…

No action or proceeding commenced before a repealing act takes effect, and no right accrued is affected by the repealing act, but proceedings therein shall conform to the new act so far as applicable.

When a limitation or period of time prescribed in a law for acquiring a right or barring a remedy or for any purpose has begun to run before an act repealing such law takes effect and the same or any other limitation is prescribed in any other act passed at the same session of th…

A person who at the time an act takes effect holds office under a law repealed by such act continues to hold the office according to the tenure of the law repealed, unless the duties of the office are expressly transferred to some other office.

The repeal or abrogation of a statute, law or rule does not revive the former statute, law or rule theretofore repealed or abrogated, nor does it affect any right then already existing or accrued at the time of such repeal, nor any action or proceeding theretofore taken, except s…

A. The omission to specify or affirm by law liability to damages, penalty, forfeiture or other remedy imposed by law and allowed to be recovered or enforced in a civil action or proceeding for an act or omission declared punishable by law, does not affect a right to recover or en…

No statute may be construed to impose a duty on an officer, agent or employee of this state to discharge a responsibility or to create any right in a person or group if the discharge or right would require an expenditure of state monies in excess of the expenditure authorized by …

A reference to a statute or portion of a statute applies to all reenactments, revisions or amendments of the statute or portion of the statute.

A. Pursuant to the sovereign authority of this state and article II, section 3, Constitution of Arizona, this state and all political subdivisions of this state are prohibited from using any personnel or financial resources to enforce, administer or cooperate with the affordable …

Pursuant to the sovereign authority of this state and article II, section 3, Constitution of Arizona, this state and all political subdivisions of this state are prohibited from using any personnel or financial resources to enforce, administer or cooperate with any act, law, trea…