A.R.S. tit. 38 ch. 3.1 — Arizona Revised Statutes Title 38 Chapter 3.1 — Standards For Financial Disclosure

38-541. Definitions In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Business" includes any enterprise, organization, trade, occupation or profession, whether or not operated as a legal entity or for profit, including any business trust, corporation, partnership, joint venture or sole proprietorship. 2. "Compensation" means anything of value or advantage, present or prospective, including the forgiveness of debt. 3. "Controlled business" means any business in which the public officer or any member of his household has an ownership or beneficial interest, individually or combined, amounting to more than a fifty percent interest. 4. "Dependent business" means any business in which the public officer or any member of his household has an ownership or beneficial interest, individually or combined, amounting to more than a ten percent interest, and during the preceding calendar year the business received from a single source more than ten thousand dollars and more than fifty percent of its gross income. 5. "Gift" includes any gratuity, special discount, favor, hospitality, service, economic opportunity, loan or other benefit received without equivalent consideration and not provided to members of the public at large. Gift does not include: (a) Travel-related expenses that are publicly reported pursuant to this article. (b) Political campaign contributions that are publicly reported pursuant to title 16, chapter 6. 6. "Local public officer" means a person holding an elective office of an incorporated city or town, a county or a groundwater replenishment district established under title 48, chapter 27. 7. "Member of household" means a public officer's spouse and any minor child of whom the public officer has legal custody. 8. "Public officer" means a member of the legislature and any judge of the court of appeals or the superior court, or a person holding an elective office the constituency of which embraces the entire geographical limits of this state. Members of Congress are not public officers as defined in this paragraph. 9. "Travel-related expenses" means any costs associated with transportation, food, lodging and registration fees and other expenses directly related to travel to or from a meeting, conference or other event where the public officer is participating in the public officer's official capacity. 38-543. Duty to file financial disclosure statement by candidate for public office A candidate for public office as specified in section 38-541, paragraph 8 shall file a financial disclosure statement covering the preceding twelve month period and containing the information described in section 18-444 on a form prescribed by the secretary of state at the time of filing of nomination papers. 38-544. Violation; classification A. Any public officer, local public officer or candidate who knowingly fails to file a financial disclosure statement required pursuant to section 18-444, 38-543 or 38-545, who knowingly files an incomplete financial disclosure statement or who knowingly files a false financial disclosure statement is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor. B. Any public officer, local public officer or candidate who violates this chapter is subject to a civil penalty of fifty dollars for each day of noncompliance but not more than five hundred dollars that may be imposed as prescribed in sections 16-937 and 16-938. 38-545. Local public officers financial disclosure Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, charter or ordinance to the contrary, every incorporated city or town or county shall by ordinance, rule, resolution or regulation adopt standards of financial disclosure consistent with the provisions of this chapter applicable to local public officers.