Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 14 > Chapter 20 > Article 6 - Interstate Agreement On Qualification of Educational Personnel

• action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• 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.
• commissioner: means the commissioner of education and early development. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• department: means Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development. See Alaska Statutes 34.55.044
• department: means the Department of Education and Early Development. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• disposition: includes sale, lease, assignment, award by lottery, or any other transaction concerning a subdivision, if undertaken for gain or profit. See Alaska Statutes 34.55.044
• 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.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• 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.
• offer: includes every inducement, solicitation, or attempt to encourage a person to acquire an interest in land, if undertaken for gain or profit. See Alaska Statutes 34.55.044
• person: means an individual, corporation, government, or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, unincorporated association, two or more of any of them having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Alaska Statutes 34.55.044
• property: includes real and personal property. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• purchaser: means a person who acquires or attempts to acquire or succeeds to an interest in land. See Alaska Statutes 34.55.044
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• subdivider: means an owner of subdivided land who offers it for disposition or the principal agent of an inactive owner. See Alaska Statutes 34.55.044
• writing: includes printing. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060