Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 6 > Chapter 60 > Article 1 - Licensing

• action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• administer: means the direct application of a drug to the body of a patient or research subject by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or other means. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• advance health care directive: means an individual instruction or a durable power of attorney for health care. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• advanced practice registered nurse: has the meaning given in Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• 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
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• 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
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• artificial nutrition and hydration: means medically appropriate nutrition and hydration delivered
  (A) through an intravenous needle placed directly in a vein. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• attendance area: means the geographic area designated by the department to be served by a school. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• available: means , when referring to a person, that the
  (A) person's existence is known. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• best interest: means that the benefits to the individual resulting from a treatment outweigh the burdens to the individual resulting from that treatment after assessing
  (A) the effect of the treatment on the physical, emotional, and cognitive functions of the patient. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• biological product: means a product that is applicable to the prevention, treatment, or cure of a disease or condition of human beings, and is a virus, therapeutic serum, toxin, antitoxin, vaccine, blood, blood component or derivative, allergenic product, protein other than a chemically synthesized polypeptide, or analogous product, or arsphenamine or derivative of arsphenamine or any other trivalent organic arsenic compound. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• board: means the Board of Pharmacy. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• board: means the state Board of Education and Early Development. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• board: means the State Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Board. See Alaska Statutes 08.84.190
• bona fide nonprofit organization: means an organization that the department has determined qualifies as a bona fide nonprofit organization under Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• borrower: means an individual who receives a mortgage loan. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• cardiopulmonary resuscitation: means an attempt to restore spontaneous circulation. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• Codicil: An addition, change, or supplement to a will executed with the same formalities required for the will itself.
• commissioner: means the commissioner of education and early development. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• competent: means that an individual has the capacity
  (A) to assimilate relevant facts and to appreciate and understand the individual's situation with regard to those facts. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• compounding: means the preparation, mixing, assembling, packaging, or labeling of a drug or device (A) as the result of a practitioner's prescription drug order or initiative based on the relationship of the practitioner, patient, and pharmacist in the course of professional practice or (B) for the purpose of, or as an incident to, research, teaching, or chemical analysis and not for sale or dispensing. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• consumer reporting agency: means a consumer reporting agency that compiles and maintains files on consumers on a nationwide basis. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• control: means the power, directly or indirectly, to direct the management or policies of a company, whether through ownership of securities, by contract, or otherwise. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• control person: means an individual described in the uniform mortgage lender and mortgage broker application form of the registry who directly or indirectly exercises control over the applicant. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. ^{Source: OCC}
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• delivery: means the actual, constructive, or attempted transfer of a drug or device from one person to another, whether or not for consideration. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• department: means the Department of Health. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• department: means the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• department: means the Department of Education and Early Development. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• depository institution: has the meaning given in 12 U. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• device: means an instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, or other similar or related article, including a component part or accessory, that is required under federal law to bear the label "Caution: Federal or state law requires dispensing by or on the order of a physician". See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• dispensing: means the preparation and delivery of a drug or device to a patient or patient's agent under a lawful order of a practitioner in a suitable container appropriately labeled for subsequent administration to, or use by, a patient. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• do not resuscitate identification: means an identification card, form, necklace, or bracelet that carries the standardized design or symbol developed by the department under Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• do not resuscitate order: means a directive from a licensed physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant that emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation should not be administered to a qualified patient. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• drug: means an article recognized as a drug in an official compendium, or supplement to an official compendium. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• durable power of attorney for health care: means a power of attorney that remains in effect when the principal lacks capacity. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• dwelling: means a residential structure or mobile home that contains one to four family housing units, or the individual units of condominiums or cooperatives. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• equivalent drug product: means a drug product that has the same established name, active ingredients, strength or concentration, and route of administration and that is formulated to contain the same amount of active ingredients in the same dosage form and to meet the same compendia or other applicable standards for strength, quality, purity, and identity, but that may differ in characteristics such as shape, scoring configuration, packaging, excipients including colors, flavors, preservatives, and expiration time. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• 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.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• federal banking agency: means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Comptroller of the Currency, the director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, the National Credit Union Administration, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• fund: means the mortgage loan originator surety fund established under Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• generally accepted health care standards: includes the protocol for do not resuscitate orders that is adopted under Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• guardian: means a judicially appointed person having authority to make a health care decision for an individual. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• 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
• health care decision: means a decision made by an individual or the individual's agent, guardian, or surrogate regarding the individual's health care, including
  (A) selection and discharge of health care providers and institutions. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• health care facility: means a nursing home, a rehabilitation center, a long-term care facility, and any other health care institution that administers health care and that provides overnight stays in the ordinary course of the facility's business. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• health care institution: means an institution, facility, or agency licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by law to provide health care in the ordinary course of business. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• health care provider: means an individual licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by law to provide health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession. 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
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• individual: means a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• individual instruction: means an individual's direction concerning a health care decision for the individual. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• interchangeable biological product: means a biological product that the United States Food and Drug Administration has determined
  (A) meets the standards for interchangeability under 42 U. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• labeling: means the process of preparing and affixing a label to a drug container, exclusive, however, of the labeling by a manufacturer, packer, or distributor of a nonprescription drug or commercially packed legend drug or device. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• legend drug: means a prescription drug. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• license: means a license issued under this chapter. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• licensed mortgage loan originator: means a person who holds a mortgage loan originator license issued under this chapter. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• licensee: means a person who holds a license issued under this chapter. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• life-sustaining procedures: means any medical treatment, procedure, or intervention that, in the judgment of the primary physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant, when applied to a patient with a qualifying condition, would not be effective to remove the qualifying condition, would serve only to prolong the dying process, or, when administered to a patient with a condition of permanent unconsciousness, may keep the patient alive but is not expected to restore consciousness. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• loan processor or underwriter: means an individual who performs clerical or support duties as an employee at the direction of and subject to the supervision and instruction of a person required to be licensed or exempt from licensing under this chapter. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• mental health facility: has the meaning given to "designated treatment facility" in Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• mental health treatment: means electroconvulsive treatment, treatment with psychotropic medication, or admission to and retention in a health care institution for mental health treatment. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• mortgage broker: means a person who, for compensation or gain, or in the expectation of compensation or gain, directly or indirectly, by telephone, by electronic means, by mail, through the Internet, in person, or by the person itself or a mortgage loan originator,
  (A) arranges with a variety of lending sources, including private lenders, institutional investors, or wholesale lenders, to provide financing for mortgage loans. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• mortgage license: means a license issued under this chapter to operate as a mortgage lender or a mortgage broker. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• mortgage licensee: means a person who holds a mortgage license. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• mortgage loan: means a residential mortgage loan. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• municipality: means a political subdivision incorporated under the laws of the state that is a home rule or general law city, a home rule or general law borough, or a unified municipality. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) ^{Source: OCC}
• nonprescription drug: means a nonnarcotic medicine or drug that may be sold without a prescription and that is prepackaged for use by the consumer and labeled in accordance with the requirements of the statutes and regulations of the state and the federal government. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• nontraditional mortgage product: means a mortgage product other than a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• 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
• operate: means hold out, do business, offer to provide services, or provide services. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• operate in the state: includes operating in the state from a location outside the state or from an Internet website that originates inside or outside the state. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• owner: means the owner of a place of business for wholesaling, retailing, compounding, or dispensing drugs, medicines, or poisons. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• part: means an organ, tissue, or an eye of a human being, except fetal tissue. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• patient counseling: means the communication by the pharmacist of information, as defined in the regulations of the board, to the patient or care giver in order to improve therapy by ensuring proper use of drugs and devices. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• permanent unconsciousness: means a condition
  (A) that, to a high degree of medical certainty, will last permanently without improvement. 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: has the meaning given in Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• 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
• pharmacist: means an individual currently licensed by this state to engage in the practice of pharmacy. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• pharmacy: means a place in this state where drugs are dispensed and pharmaceutical care is provided and a place outside of this state that is subject to licensure or registration under Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• 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
• physician assistant: means an individual licensed under Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• power of attorney: means the designation of an agent to make health care decisions for the individual granting the power. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• practice of pharmacy: means the interpretation, evaluation, and dispensing of prescription drug orders in the patient's best interest. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• practitioner: means an individual currently licensed, registered, or otherwise authorized by the jurisdiction in which the individual practices to prescribe and administer drugs in the course of professional practice. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• preceptor: means an individual who is currently licensed by the board, meets the qualifications as a preceptor under the regulations of the board, and participates in the instructional training of pharmacy interns. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• prescription drug: means a drug that, under federal law, before being dispensed or delivered, is required to be labeled with either of the following statements:
  (A) "Caution: Federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription". See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• prescription drug order: means a lawful order of a practitioner for a drug or device for a specific patient. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• primary physician: means a physician designated by an individual, or by the individual's agent, guardian, or surrogate, to have primary responsibility for the individual's health care or, in the absence of a designation or if the designated physician is not reasonably available, a physician who undertakes the responsibility. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• Probate: Proving a will
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• property: includes real and personal property. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• qualified patient: means a patient with a qualifying condition who is eligible for do not resuscitate identification. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• qualifying condition: means a terminal condition or permanent unconsciousness in a patient. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• reasonably available: means available using a level of diligence appropriate to the seriousness and urgency of an individual's health care needs. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• regional educational attendance area: means an educational service area in the unorganized borough which may or may not include a military reservation, and that contains one or more public schools of grade levels K-12 or any portion of those grade levels that are to be operated under the management and control of a single regional school board. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• registered depository institution: means a depository institution that is registered under Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• registered mortgage loan originator: means an individual who
  (A) is a mortgage loan originator and is an employee of

  (i) a depository institution. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• registry: means the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• residential mortgage loan: means a loan that is primarily for personal, family, or household use and that is secured by a mortgage, deed of trust, or other equivalent consensual security interest on a dwelling or residential real estate located in the state. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
• school board: means the school board of a borough or city school district or a regional educational attendance area. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• 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
• surrogate: means an individual, other than a patient's agent or guardian, authorized under this chapter to make a health care decision for the patient. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• terminal condition: means an incurable or irreversible illness or injury
  (A) that without administration of life-sustaining procedures will result in death in a short period of time. See Alaska Statutes 13.52.390
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• unique identifier: means a number or other identifier assigned to a licensee by protocols established by the registry. See Alaska Statutes 06.60.990
• wholesale: means sale by a manufacturer, wholesale dealer, distributor, or jobber to a person who sells, or intends to sell, directly to the user. See Alaska Statutes 08.80.480
• writing: includes printing. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060