Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 8 > Chapter 84 > Article 2 - Licensing

• action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• advance health care directive: means an individual instruction or a durable power of attorney for health care. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• agent: means an individual designated in a durable power of attorney for health care to make a health care decision for the individual granting the power. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• anatomical gift: means a donation of all or a part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• available: means , when referring to a person, that the
  (A) person's existence is known. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• board: means the State Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Board. See Alaska Statutes 08.84.190
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• department: means the Department of Health. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• health care: means any care, treatment, service, or procedure to maintain, diagnose, or otherwise affect an individual's physical or mental condition. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• hospital: means a facility
  (A) licensed, accredited, or approved as a hospital under the laws of this state. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• occupational therapist: means a person who practices occupational therapy. See Alaska Statutes 08.84.190
• occupational therapy: includes
  (A) developing daily living, play, leisure, social, and developmental skills. See Alaska Statutes 08.84.190
• occupational therapy assistant: means a person who assists in the practice of occupational therapy under the supervision of an occupational therapist. See Alaska Statutes 08.84.190
• part: means an organ, tissue, or an eye of a human being, except fetal tissue. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, joint venture, association, government, governmental subdivision, governmental agency, or another legal or commercial entity. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• physical therapist: means a person who practices physical therapy. See Alaska Statutes 08.84.190
• physical therapist assistant: means a person who assists in the practice of physical therapy or an aspect of physical therapy as initiated, supervised, and terminated by a licensed physical therapist. See Alaska Statutes 08.84.190
• physical therapy: means the examination, treatment and instruction of human beings to detect, assess, prevent, correct, alleviate and limit physical disability, bodily malfunction, pain from injury, disease and other bodily or mental conditions and includes the administration, interpretation and evaluation of tests and measurements of bodily functions and structures. See Alaska Statutes 08.84.190
• state: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060