ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES

TITLE 13.  CRIMINAL CODE

CHAPTER 22.  BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL FRAUDS

� 13-2204.  Defrauding secured creditors; definition; classification

A.  A person commits defrauding secured creditors if the person knowingly destroys, removes, conceals, encumbers, converts, sells, obtains, transfers, controls or otherwise deals with property subject to a security interest with the intent to hinder or prevent the enforcement of that interest.

B.  For the purposes of this section, "control" has the same meaning as prescribed by � 13-1801.

C.  Defrauding secured creditors is a class 6 felony.