Title 13 — Criminal Code
48 chapters · 981 sections in this title.
A.R.S. § 13-2911 Interference with or disruption of an educational institution; violation; classification; definitions
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A. A person commits interference with or disruption of an educational institution by doing any of the following: 1. Intentionally, knowingly or recklessly interfering with or disrupting the normal operations of an educational institution by either: (a) Threatening to cause physic…
A.R.S. § 13-2912 Unlawful introduction of disease or parasite; classification
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A. It is unlawful for a person to knowingly introduce into this state a disease or parasite of animals or poultry that constitutes a threat to: 1. Livestock or poultry industry in this state. 2. Human health. 3. Human life. B. This section does not apply to research conducted by …
A.R.S. § 13-2913 Unlawful violation of fire ban; classification
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A. It is unlawful for a person to enter or remain in any public building or on any public property in violation of any order or rule that is issued by any officer or agency having the power of control, management or supervision of the building or property and that relates to the …
A.R.S. § 13-2914 Aggressive solicitation; classification; definitions
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A. It is unlawful for a person to solicit any money or other thing of value or solicit the sale of goods or services: 1. Within fifteen feet of any bank entrance or exit or any automated teller machine if the person does not have permission to be there from the bank or the owner …
A.R.S. § 13-2915 Preventing use of telephone in emergency; false representation of emergency; classification; definitions
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A. It is unlawful for a person to do any of the following: 1. Knowingly refuse to yield or surrender the use of a party line to another person to report a fire or summon police or medical or other aid in case of emergency. 2. Ask for or request the use of a party line on the pret…
A.R.S. § 13-2916 Use of an electronic communication to terrify, intimidate, threaten or harass; unlawful use of electronic communication device; applicability; classification; definitions
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A. It is unlawful for a person to knowingly terrify, intimidate, threaten or harass a specific person or persons by doing any of the following: 1. Directing any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggesting any lewd or lascivious act to the person in an electronic communication…
A.R.S. § 13-2917 Public nuisance; abatement; classification
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A. It is a public nuisance, and is no less a nuisance because the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted is unequal, for anything: 1. To be injurious to health, indecent, offensive to the senses or an obstruction to the free use of property that interferes with the comfortab…
A.R.S. § 13-2918 Interference with emergency transmission on citizens' band radio frequency; presumption; definition; classification
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A. It is unlawful for a person to recklessly interrupt, impede or otherwise interfere with the transmission of an emergency communication over a citizens' band radio frequency. B. A person is presumed to have acted recklessly if he interrupts, impedes or interferes with the trans…
A.R.S. § 13-2919 Automated telephone solicitation; violation; classification
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A. A person shall not use an automated system for the selection and dialing of telephone numbers and the playing of a recorded message or sending a text message for the purpose of soliciting persons to purchase goods or services or requesting survey information if the results are…
A.R.S. § 13-2920 Advertisements and required preamble message for telephone information services; telecommunications corporation compensation; definitions; classification
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A. An information access telephone service provider shall not provide or sponsor an advertisement, publication or other communication regarding information access telephone service that does not clearly and conspicuously display the price for each call or for each minute of the c…
A.R.S. § 13-2921 Harassment; classification; definition
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A. A person commits harassment if the person knowingly and repeatedly commits an act or acts that harass another person or the person knowingly commits any one of the following acts in a manner that harasses: 1. Contacts or causes a communication with another person by verbal, el…
A.R.S. § 13-2921.01 Aggravated harassment; classification; definition
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A. A person commits aggravated harassment if the person commits harassment as provided in section 13-2921 and, at the time of the offense, any of the following applies: 1. A court has issued any of the following orders in favor of the victim of harassment, the order was served on…
A.R.S. § 13-2922 Interference with transmissions on public safety land mobile radio frequencies; classification; definitions
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A. It is unlawful for a person to recklessly interrupt, impede or otherwise directly interfere with emergency communications over a public safety land mobile radio frequency communications network or system created for emergency communications. B. It is unlawful for a person to r…
A.R.S. § 13-2923 Stalking; classification; exceptions; definitions
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A. A person commits stalking if the person intentionally or knowingly engages in a course of conduct that is directed toward another person and if that conduct causes the victim to: 1. Suffer emotional distress or reasonably fear that either: (a) The victim's property will be dam…
A.R.S. § 13-2924 Unlawful solicitation of tort victims; classification; definitions
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A. Except as otherwise provided by law, a person commits unlawful solicitation of a tort victim if the person knowingly does any of the following at the scene of any accident that may result in a civil action, criminal action or claim for tort damages by or against another person…
A.R.S. § 13-2926 Abandonment or concealment of a dead body; classification
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A. It is unlawful for a person to knowingly move a dead human body or parts of a human body with the intent to abandon or conceal the dead human body or parts. B. This section does not apply to the disposition, transportation or other handling of dead human remains for any purpos…
A.R.S. § 13-2927 Unlawful feeding of wildlife; classification
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A. A person commits unlawful feeding of wildlife by intentionally, knowingly or recklessly feeding, attracting or otherwise enticing wildlife into an area, except for: 1. Persons lawfully taking or holding wildlife pursuant to title 17 or pursuant to rules or orders of the Arizon…
A.R.S. § 13-2928 Unlawful stopping to hire and pick up passengers for work; unlawful application, solicitation or employment; classification; definitions
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A. It is unlawful for an occupant of a motor vehicle that is stopped on a street, roadway or highway to attempt to hire or hire and pick up passengers for work at a different location if the motor vehicle blocks or impedes the normal movement of traffic. B. It is unlawful for a p…
A.R.S. § 13-2929 Unlawful transporting, moving, concealing, harboring or shielding of unlawful aliens; vehicle impoundment; exception; classification
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1. Transport or move or attempt to transport or move an alien in this state, in furtherance of the illegal presence of the alien in the United States, in a means of transportation if the person knows or recklessly disregards the fact that the alien has come to, has entered or rem…
A.R.S. § 13-2930 Unlawful funeral or burial protest activities; classification; definition
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A. A person shall not picket or engage in other protest activities, and an association or corporation shall not cause picketing or other protest activities to occur, within three hundred feet of the property line of any residence, cemetery, funeral home, church, synagogue or othe…
A.R.S. § 13-3001 Definitions
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In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Aural transfer" means a communication containing the human voice at any point between and including the point of origin and the point of reception. 2. "Child monitoring device" means a device that is capable of transmitt…
A.R.S. § 13-3002 False or forged messages; classification
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A. It is unlawful for a person: 1. Knowingly to send to any person by telegraph or telephone a false or forged message, purporting to be from a telegraph or telephone office, or from any other person. 2. Knowingly to deliver or cause to be delivered to any person a false or forge…
A.R.S. § 13-3003 Opening, reading or publishing sealed letter of another without authority; classification
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A person who knowingly opens or reads or causes to be read a sealed letter not addressed to himself, without being authorized so to do either by the writer of such letter, or by the person to whom it is addressed, or a person who, without like authority, publishes the contents of…
A.R.S. § 13-3004 Sending threatening or anonymous letter; classification
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A person who knowingly sends or delivers to another a letter or writing, whether subscribed or not, threatening to accuse him or another of a crime, or to expose or publish his failings or infirmities, and a writer or sender of an anonymous letter or writing calculated to create …
A.R.S. § 13-3005 Interception of wire, electronic and oral communications; installation of pen register or trap and trace device; classification; exceptions
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A. Except as provided in this section and section 13-3012, a person is guilty of a class 5 felony who either: 1. Intentionally intercepts a wire or electronic communication to which he is not a party, or aids, authorizes, employs, procures or permits another to so do, without the…
A.R.S. § 13-3006 Divulging communication service information; classification; exception
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A person is guilty of a class 6 felony who either: 1. Intentionally and without lawful authority obtains any knowledge of the contents of a wire or electronic communication by connivance with a communication service provider or its officer or employee. 2. Is a communications serv…
A.R.S. § 13-3008 Possession of interception devices; classification
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A. It is unlawful for a person to have in his possession or control any device, contrivance, machine or apparatus designed or primarily useful for the interception of wire, electronic or oral communications as defined in section 13-3001 with the intent to unlawfully use or employ…
A.R.S. § 13-3009 Duty to report to law enforcement officers; classification
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It shall be the duty of every communications service provider and its officers and employees to report any violation of sections 13-3005, 13-3006 and 13-3008 coming within their knowledge to the county attorney having jurisdiction and to the attorney general. Any intentional viol…
A.R.S. § 13-3010 Ex parte order for interception; definition
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A. On application of a county attorney, the attorney general or a prosecuting attorney whom a county attorney or the attorney general designates in writing, any justice of the supreme court, judge of the court of appeals or superior court judge may issue an ex parte order for the…
A.R.S. § 13-3011 Disclosing confidential information relating to ex parte order; exceptions; classification
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A. Except in any trial, hearing or other judicial proceeding, a person shall not knowingly disclose to another person any information concerning either: 1. The application for or the granting or denial of orders for the interception or installation of a pen register or trap and t…
A.R.S. § 13-3012 Exemptions
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The following are exempt from the provisions of this chapter: 1. The interception of wire, electronic or oral communications, the installation and operation of a pen register or trap and trace device, the providing of information, facilities or technical assistance to an investig…
A.R.S. § 13-3013 Defenses
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The following constitute a complete defense to any civil or criminal action brought under this chapter or under any other law: 1. A good faith reliance on an ex parte order or subpoena that is issued pursuant to section 13-3010, 13-3015, 13-3016, 13-3017 or 13-3018. 2. Providing …
A.R.S. § 13-3014 Communication service provider; right to compensation
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Any communication service provider who furnishes information, facilities or technical assistance pursuant to this chapter shall be compensated therefor by the applicant at the prevailing rates.
A.R.S. § 13-3015 Emergency interception
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A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if the attorney general or a county attorney or such prosecuting attorneys as they may designate in writing reasonably determines that an emergency situation exists involving immediate danger of death or serious physical inj…
A.R.S. § 13-3016 Stored oral, wire and electronic communications; agency access; backup preservation; delayed notice; records preservation request; violation; classification
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A. This section applies to oral, wire and electronic communications that are entrusted to a communication service provider or remote computing service solely for the purpose of transmission, storage or processing. Oral, wire and electronic communications that are in the possessio…
A.R.S. § 13-3017 Ex parte order for pen register or trap and trace device
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A. Any prosecuting attorney or investigating peace officer of this state or its political subdivisions may apply to any justice of the supreme court, judge of the court of appeals, judge of the superior court or magistrate for an ex parte order authorizing the installation and us…
A.R.S. § 13-3018 Communication service records; subpoenas; application; certification; definition
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A. This section applies to all communication service providers that do business in this state or that furnish communication services to persons within this state. B. The prosecutor may issue a subpoena duces tecum to a communication service provider in order to obtain communicati…
A.R.S. § 13-3019 Surreptitious photographing, videotaping, filming or digitally recording or viewing; exemptions; classification; definitions
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A. It is unlawful for any person to knowingly photograph, videotape, film, digitally record or by any other means secretly view, with or without a device, another person without that person's consent under either of the following circumstances: 1. In a restroom, bathroom, locker …
A.R.S. § 13-3101 Definitions
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A. In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Deadly weapon" means anything that is designed for lethal use. The term includes a firearm. 2. "Deface" means to remove, alter or destroy the manufacturer's serial number. 3. "Explosive" means any dynamite, nitroglyce…
A.R.S. § 13-3102 Misconduct involving weapons; defenses; classification; definitions
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A. A person commits misconduct involving weapons by knowingly: 1. Carrying a deadly weapon except a pocket knife concealed on his person or within his immediate control in or on a means of transportation: (a) In the furtherance of a serious offense as defined in section 13-706, a…
A.R.S. § 13-3102.01 Storage of deadly weapons; definitions
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B. This section does not apply to the licensed premises of any public establishment or public event with a license issued pursuant to title 4. C. The operator of the establishment or the sponsor of the event or the employee of the operator or sponsor or the agent of the sponsor, …
A.R.S. § 13-3103 Misconduct involving explosives; classification
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A. A person commits misconduct involving explosives by knowingly: 1. Keeping or storing a greater quantity than fifty pounds of explosives in or upon any building or premises within a distance of one-half mile of the exterior limits of a city or town, except in vessels, railroad …
A.R.S. § 13-3104 Depositing explosives; classification
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A. A person commits depositing explosives if with the intent to physically endanger, injure, intimidate or terrify any person, such person knowingly deposits any explosive on, in or near any vehicle, building or place where persons inhabit, frequent or assemble. B. Depositing exp…
A.R.S. § 13-3105 Forfeiture of weapons and explosives
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A. On the conviction of any person for a violation of any felony in this state in which a deadly weapon, dangerous instrument or explosive was used, displayed or unlawfully possessed by the person, the court shall order the article forfeited and sold within one year after its for…
A.R.S. § 13-3106 Firearm purchase in other states
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A person residing in this state, or a corporation or other business entity maintaining a place of business in this state, may purchase or otherwise obtain firearms anywhere in the United States if such purchase or acquisition fully complies with the laws of this state and the sta…
A.R.S. § 13-3107 Unlawful discharge of firearms; exceptions; classification; definitions
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A. A person who with criminal negligence discharges a firearm within or into the limits of any municipality is guilty of a class 6 felony. B. Notwithstanding the fact that the offense involves the discharge of a deadly weapon, unless a dangerous offense is alleged and proven purs…
A.R.S. § 13-3108 Firearms regulated by state; state preemption; injunction; civil penalty; cause of action; violation; classification; definition
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A. Except as provided in subsection G of this section, a political subdivision of this state shall not enact any ordinance, rule or tax relating to the transportation, possession, carrying, sale, transfer, purchase, acquisition, gift, devise, storage, licensing, registration, dis…
A.R.S. § 13-3109 Sale or gift of firearm to minor; classification
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A. Except as provided in subsection C of this section, a person who sells or gives to a minor, without written consent of the minor's parent or legal guardian, a firearm, ammunition or a toy pistol by which dangerous and explosive substances may be discharged is guilty of a class…
A.R.S. § 13-3110 Misconduct involving simulated explosive devices; classification; definition
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A. A person commits misconduct involving simulated explosive devices by intentionally giving or sending to another person or placing in a private or public place a simulated explosive device with the intent to terrify, intimidate, threaten or harass. B. The placing or sending of …
A.R.S. § 13-3111 Minors prohibited from carrying or possessing firearms; exceptions; seizure and forfeiture; penalties; classification
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A. Except as provided in subsection B, an unemancipated person who is under eighteen years of age and who is unaccompanied by a parent, grandparent or guardian, or a certified hunter safety instructor or certified firearms safety instructor acting with the consent of the unemanci…