Statutes | Law and Order Code of the Fort McDowell Yavapai Community, Arizona Chapter 6 Article III ยง 6-45 | 2019

  • A. In this section, unless the context otherwise requires:
  •              1. Dangerous instrument means anything that under the circumstances in which it is used, attempted to be used or threatened to be used is readily capable of causing death or serious physical injury.

    •     2. Deadly weapon means anything designed for lethal use. The term includes a firearm.

          3. Firearm means any loaded or unloaded handgun, pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun or other weapon which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of expanding gases, except that it does not include a firearm in permanently inoperable condition.

          4. Force means power, violence or pressure directed against a person or thing.

          5. In the course of committing a robbery includes any of the defendants acts beginning with the initiation and extending though the immediate flight from a robbery.

          6. Property of another means property owned by the Nation or property in which any person other than the defendant has an interest or which the defendant is not privileged to infringe, including property in which the defendant also has an interest. Property in possession of the defendant is not deemed property of another person who has only a security interest in the property, even in legal title is in the creditor pursuant to a security agreement.

          7. Threat means a verbal or physical menace of imminent physical injury to a person.

       

    • (Law & Order Code 2006, § 6-45)