Title 41, State Government

A. The Arizona historical society is established. B. Subject to limitations imposed by law, the society may purchase, receive, hold, lease and sell property, real and personal, for the benefit of this state and use of the society. The society may solicit private monetary donation…

A. The board of directors shall annually make a detailed statement of expenditures to the governor. B. To enable the society to augment its collections by effecting exchanges with other societies and institutions, sixty bound copies of each of the several publications of the stat…

A. The society shall procure, by gift, exchange or purchase: 1. Books, maps, papers and materials pertaining to the history of Arizona and the west. 2. Narratives of historical events of the exploration and early settlement of Arizona, and of overland travel in the state and the …

The Arizona historical society shall publish a magazine, to be known as "Journal of Arizona History", at least four times per year.

A. There is created the permanent Arizona historical society preservation and restoration revolving fund in the amount of five thousand dollars for use in copying, preserving and restoring historic photographs and negatives, which are proper as ultimate claims for payment from st…

A. The permanent Arizona historical society revolving fund is established consisting of both of the following: 1. All monies received by the society from operating gift shops, book shops and food service facilities and from charges for the use of or admission into any of the soci…

A. There shall be a Prescott historical society of Arizona which, subject to the limitations imposed by law, may purchase, receive, hold, lease and sell property, real and personal, for the benefit of the state and the use of the society. B. The society shall have a president, a …

A. The society shall meet annually on the first Monday of June at the call of the president for the purpose of nominating new members of the board of trustees and to conduct such other business as may properly come before it. The nominations shall be made by a nominating committe…

A. The Prescott historical society shall: 1. Preserve, maintain and perpetuate the gubernatorial mansion, the Sharlot Hall Museum and the historical collections contained in the mansion and museum and on the grounds of the mansion and museum in Prescott, Arizona. 2. Procure by gi…

Any fees collected for annual membership or collections for any other purpose shall be deposited with the treasurer and expended as provided by the terms of this article and the rules and regulations of the society.

It is declared the public policy of this state that natural or artificial objects, places or things continue to be known by the names they now bear, as determined by the state geographic and historic names board, so that the historical record of the state may be protected and pre…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Board" means the state board on geographic and historic names. 2. "Geographic features" means mountains, canyons, gulches, streams, streambeds or channels whether flowing or dry, natural bridges, natural lakes, natural m…

A. The state board on geographic and historic names is established consisting of: 1. One member who is appointed by the head of each of the following agencies or organizations: (a) The department of transportation. (b) The state land department. (c) The Arizona state library, arc…

A. The board shall: 1. Receive and evaluate all proposals for changes in or additions to names of geographic features and places of historical significance in this state and after this evaluation designate the most appropriate and acceptable names and spelling of these names for …

A. A person, a group or an agency of federal, state or local government may propose a change in or the addition of any geographic feature or place of historical significance within this state by submitting a proposal and supporting information to the board for evaluation and reco…

When the board designates a name for a geographic feature or place of historical significance within this state, the name is the official name for the geographic feature or historic place and shall be used in and on all maps, records, documents and other publications issued by th…

A person may not attempt to modify local usage or name an unnamed geographic feature in an advertisement or publication without first obtaining the approval of the board. If a person violates this section, the board shall promptly act to curtail such activity and shall adopt an o…

It is unlawful for a public officer, department, agency or employee to change and record in writing or otherwise in any public records, documents or papers of this state the name of a place of historical significance or mountain, canyon, gulch, stream, streambed or channel, wheth…

A. Notwithstanding this article, the dam located on the Colorado river in Mohave county, formerly known as Boulder Dam, is designated and shall be known as "Hoover Dam". B. All official acts, state records, documents and papers relating thereto executed after June 30, 1953 shall …

A. Notwithstanding this article, the cliff-like escarpment located in northern Arizona which separates the Colorado plateau and the central highlands and forms, in part, the divide between the Little Colorado river and Salt River drainage areas, also forming a portion of the boun…

A person who violates any provision of this article or who directs a violation of this article is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor.

A. On lands owned or controlled by this state or any agency of this state a person shall not knowingly excavate in or upon any historic or prehistoric ruin, burial ground, archaeological or vertebrate paleontological site, or site including fossilized footprints, inscriptions mad…

A. Only institutions, organizations or corporations organized for scientific, research or land use planning purposes may pursue any activity prescribed in section 41-841. B. No such activity may be undertaken until a permit is first secured therefor from the director of the Arizo…

No person, institution or corporation shall deface or otherwise alter any site or object embraced within the terms of sections 41-841 and 41-842, except in the course of activities pursued under the authority of a permit granted by the director of the Arizona state museum.

A. A person in charge of any survey, excavation, construction or other like activity on any lands owned or controlled by this state, by any public agency or institution of the state, or by any county or municipal corporation within the state shall report promptly to the director …

No person shall reproduce, retouch, rework or forge any archaeological, paleontological or historical object, deriving its principal value from its antiquity, or make any object, whether copied or not, or falsely label, describe, identify or offer for sale or exchange any object,…

Except as otherwise provided in section 13-3702.01, any person, institution or corporation violating any provision of this article is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor and shall forfeit to the Arizona state museum all articles and material discovered, collected, excavated or offere…

A. Blue and old gold shall be the colors of the state. The blue shall be the same shade as that of the flag of the United States. B. The flag of the state shall be of the following design: The lower half of the flag a blue field and the upper half divided into thirteen equal segm…

A. The state flag shall be displayed alongside the flag of the United States on or in front of the state capitol building, and institutional and educational buildings of the state as the governor directs, on or in front of the courthouse of each county, and other institutional bu…

Petrified wood, or araucarioxylon arizonicum, is the official state fossil.

The cactus wren, otherwise known as Coues' cactus wren or heleodytes brunneicapillus couesi (Sharpe) shall be the state bird.

The pure white waxy flower of the cereus giganteus (giant cactus) or Saguaro shall be the state flower.

The Palo Verde (genera cercidium) shall be the state tree.

The Bola tie shall be the official state neckwear.

Turquoise is the official state gemstone.

The ringtail or bassariscus astutus, the Arizona ridgenose rattlesnake or crotalus willardi, the Arizona trout or salmo apache and the Arizona tree frog or hyla eximia shall be known respectively as the state mammal, reptile, fish and amphibian.

A. The papilionidae papilio multicaudata, two-tailed swallowtail is the official state butterfly. B. Designation of the state butterfly pursuant to this section shall not constitute grounds for protection of the butterfly or its habitat.

"The Grand Canyon state" is the official state nickname.

The colt single action army revolver is the official state firearm.

Copper is the official state metal.

Wulfenite is the official state mineral.

Sonorasaurus is the official state dinosaur.

Lemonade is the official state drink.

Sierra Vista is the official hummingbird capital of this state.

Pluto is the official state planet.