Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 41.98.150

  • 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.
  • 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

The provisions of Alaska Stat. Chapter 23.30 (Alaska Workers’ Compensation Act) and any benefits payable under Alaska Stat. Chapter 23.30 apply and are payable to persons dispatched to another state under art. VI of the compact. If the aiding personnel are officers or employees of a subdivision of this state, they are entitled to the same workers’ compensation or other benefits in case of injury or death to which they would have been entitled if injured or killed while engaged in coping with a nuclear incident in their jurisdiction of regular employment.