Arizona legal term
Political subdivision in Arizona Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Arizona legislative session
In Arizona criminal law, “Political subdivision” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Arizona criminal code.
What does “Political subdivision” mean in Arizona criminal law?
"Political subdivision" includes any county, city, including a charter city, town, municipal corporation or special district, any board, commission or agency of a county, city, including a charter city, town, municipal corporation or special district or any other local public agency. (A.R.S. § 13-3120)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Harassment
- Unlawful transporting, moving, concealing, harboring or shielding of unlawful aliens
- Arrest of principal by surety
- Causing serious physical injury or death by a moving violation
- False reporting to law enforcement agencies
- Firearms regulated by state
- Fraudulent schemes and practices
- Stored oral, wire and electronic communications
- Unauthorized manufacture, duplication, use or possession of key to a public building
- Unlawful stopping to hire and pick up passengers for work
- Willful failure to complete or carry an alien registration document
Related terms in the same statutes
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