Arizona Revised Statutes Title 28. Transportation § 28-3001. Definitions

1. “Cancellation” means the annulment or termination of a driver license because of an error or defect or because the licensee is no longer entitled to the license.

2. “Commercial driver license” means a license that is issued to an individual and that authorizes the individual to operate a class of commercial motor vehicles.

3. “Commercial motor vehicle” means a motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles that is used in commerce to transport passengers or property and that includes any of the following:

4. “Conviction” has the same meaning prescribed in § 28-101 and also means a final conviction or judgment, including an order of a juvenile court finding that a juvenile has violated a provision of this title or has committed a delinquent act that if committed by an adult constitutes any of the following:

5. “Disqualification” means a prohibition from obtaining a commercial driver license or driving a commercial motor vehicle.

6. “Employer” means a person, including the United States, a state or a political subdivision of a state, that owns or leases a commercial motor vehicle or that assigns a person to operate a commercial motor vehicle.

7. “Endorsement” means an authorization that is added to an individual's driver license and that is required to permit the individual to operate certain types of vehicles.

8. “Foreign” means outside the United States.

9. “Gross vehicle weight rating” means the weight that is assigned by the vehicle manufacturer to a vehicle and that represents the maximum recommended total weight including the vehicle and the load for the vehicle.

10. “Judgment” means a final judgment and any of the following:

11. “License class” means, for the purpose of determining the appropriate class of driver license required for the type of motor vehicle or vehicle combination a driver intends to operate or is operating, the class of driver license prescribed in § 28-3101.

12. “Nondomiciled commercial driver license” means a commercial driver license issued to an individual domiciled in a foreign country or to an individual domiciled in another state if that state is prohibited from issuing commercial driver licenses.

13. “Original applicant” means any of the following:

14. “Revocation” means that the driver license and driver's privilege to drive a motor vehicle on the public highways of this state are terminated and shall not be renewed or restored, except that an application for a new license may be presented and acted on by the department after one year from the date of revocation.

15. “State of domicile” means the state or jurisdiction where a person has the person's true, fixed and permanent home and principal residence and to which the person has the intention of returning after an absence.

16. “Suspension” means that the driver license and driver's privilege to drive a motor vehicle on the public highways of this state are temporarily withdrawn during the period of the suspension.

17. “Vehicle combination” means a motor vehicle and a vehicle in excess of ten thousand pounds gross vehicle weight that it tows, if the combined gross vehicle weight rating is more than twenty-six thousand pounds.