Arizona SB 1715: contractor licensure; handyman exemption

Bill Text

SB1715 - 572R - I Ver 

 REFERENCE TITLE: distressed residential real estate

 State of Arizona

 Senate

 Fifty-seventh Legislature

 Second Regular Session

 2026

 SB 1715

 Introduced by 

 Senators 
 Sundareshan: Alston, Bravo, Diaz, Fernandez, Gonzales, Hatathlie, Kuby, 
 Miranda, Ortiz, Sears

AN 
ACT

Amending sections 32-2101, 32-2121, 
32-2122 and 32-2160.01, arizona revised statutes; Repealing title 44, chapter 
15.1, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes; amending title 44, chapter 15.1, 
Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding a new article 1; relating to RESIDENTIAL 
property.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 32-2101, Arizona Revised 
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE32-2101. Definitions

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Acting in concert" means evidence of 
collaborating to pursue a concerted plan.

2. "Address of record" means any of the 
following:

(a) The address where a licensee practices or is 
otherwise employed.

(b) A licensee's residential address.

(c) The address of a licensee's statutory agency who 
is registered as the licensee's statutory agent with the corporation 
commission. This subdivision applies only if notice of the statutory 
agent is given to the department pursuant to section 32-2126.

3. "Advertising" means attempting by 
publication, dissemination, exhibition, solicitation or circulation, oral or 
written, or for broadcast on radio or television to induce directly or 
indirectly any person to enter into any obligation or acquire any title or 
interest in lands subject to this chapter, including the land sales contract to 
be used and any photographs, drawings or artist's presentations of physical 
conditions or facilities existing or to exist on the property. Advertising does 
not include: 

(a) Press releases or other communications delivered 
to newspapers, periodicals or other news media for general information or 
public relations purposes if no charge is made by the newspapers, periodicals 
or other news media to publish or use any part of these communications.

(b) Communications to stockholders as follows:

(i) Annual reports and interim financial reports.

(ii) Proxy materials.

(iii) Registration statements.

(iv) Securities prospectuses.

(v) Applications for listing of securities on stock exchanges.

(vi) Prospectuses.

(vii) Property reports.

(viii) Offering statements.

4. "Affiliate" means a person who, 
directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, is 
controlled by or is under common control with the person specified.

5. "Associate broker" means a licensed 
broker who is employed by another broker. Unless otherwise 
specifically provided, an associate broker has the same license privileges as a 
salesperson. 

6. "Barrier" means a natural or man-made 
geographic feature that prevents parcels of land from being practicably, 
reasonably and economically united or reunited and that was not caused or 
created by the owner of the parcels.

7. "Blanket encumbrance":

(a) Means either:

(i) Any mortgage, any deed of trust or any other 
encumbrance or lien that secures or evidences the payment of monies and that 
affects more than one lot or parcel of subdivided land.

(ii) An agreement that affects more than one lot or 
parcel by which the subdivider holds the subdivision under an option, contract 
to sell or trust agreement. 

(b) Does not include taxes and assessments that are 
levied by public authority. 

8. "Board" means the real estate advisory 
board.

9. "Broker", when used without 
modification, means a person who is licensed as a broker under this chapter or 
who is required to be licensed as a broker under this chapter.

10. "Business broker" means a real estate 
broker who acts as an intermediary or agent between sellers or buyers, or both, 
in the sale or purchase, or both, of businesses or business opportunities where 
a lease or sale of real property is either a direct or incidental part of the 
transaction.

11. "Camping site" means a space that is 
designed and promoted for the purpose of locating any trailer, tent, tent 
trailer, pickup camper or other similar device used for camping.

12. "Cemetery" or "cemetery 
property" means any one, or a combination of more than one, of the 
following in a place that is used, or intended to be used, and dedicated for 
cemetery purposes:

(a) A burial park, for earth interments.

(b) A mausoleum, for crypt or vault entombments.

(c) A crematory, or a crematory and columbarium, for 
cinerary interments.

(d) A cemetery plot, including interment rights, 
mausoleum crypts, niches and burial spaces.

13. "Cemetery broker" means a person other 
than a real estate broker or real estate salesperson who, for another, for 
compensation:

(a) Sells, leases or exchanges cemetery property or 
interment services of or for another, or on the person's own account.

(b) Offers f