Alaska Statutes 23.35.150 – Definitions

In this chapter,

(1) “approved medical facilities” and “medical care” include the facilities of, or the care and treatment prescribed or performed by, a practitioner of chiropractic licensed by the state under Alaska Stat. Chapter 08.20;

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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 23.35.150

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
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

(2) “council” means the Fishermen’s Fund Advisory and Appeals Council;

(3) “fisherman” means a person who is licensed by the state to engage in commercial fishing under Alaska Stat. § 16.05.480 or who is the holder of a permit issued under Alaska Stat. Chapter 16.43 and who, at the time injury is sustained or illness is contracted, is actually so engaged or is occupied in Alaska in preparing or dismantling boats or gear used in commercial fishing;

(4) “fund” means the Fishermen’s Fund;

(5) “occupational disease” means hernia; varicose veins of the leg; the respiratory diseases, bronchitis, pleurisy, and pneumonia caused by or aggravated by the fishing endeavor, but excluding the common cold and influenza; rheumatism, arthritis, and those musculoskeletal diseases (such as bursitis, traumatic sciatica, and tenosynovitis) directly caused by or aggravated by the fishing endeavor; and does not include a disease not common to both sexes, venereal disease, or a condition arising out of an attempt of a fisherman to injure self or another.

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