40-1201

40-1201. Definitions

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Commission" means the Arizona corporation commission.

2. "Contractor" means any person who undertakes to or offers to undertake to or
purports to have the capacity to undertake to or submits a bid to, or does himself or by
or through others, construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck
or demolish any building, highway, road, parking facility, railroad, excavation or other
structure, project, development or improvement, or to do any part thereof, including the
erection of scaffolding or other structures or works in connection therewith. The term
"contractor" includes subcontractor and specialty contractor.

3. "Distributor" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association or
other legal relationship which stands between the manufacturer and the retail seller in
purchases, consignments or contracts for sale of consumer goods.

4. "Gas appliance" means any new residential-type furnace, air conditioner, heater,
refrigerator, stove, range, dishwasher, dryer, decorative fireplace log or other similar
device, except a water heater, which uses a gaseous fuel for operation and is
automatically ignited.

5. "Intermittent ignition device" means an ignition device which is actuated only
when the gas appliance is in operation.

6. "Manufacturer" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association or
other legal relationship which manufactures, assembles, produces or gathers consumer
goods.

7. "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association,
manufacturer, distributor, retailer, contractor, builder, or other group, however
organized, who sells or causes to be distributed or installed, any new gas appliance.

8. "Pilot light" means any gas operated device that remains continually operated or
lighted in order to ignite a gas appliance to begin normal operation.

9. "Retail seller", "retail outlets", "seller", or "retailer" means any individual,
partnership, corporation, association, or other legal relationship which engages in the
business of selling new goods to retail buyers.