Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 16 > Chapter 20 > Article 5 - Fish and Game Critical Habitat Areas

• acknowledgment: means a declaration by an individual before a notarial officer that the individual has signed a record for the purpose stated in the record and, if the record is signed in a representative capacity, that the individual signed the record with proper authority and signed it as the act of the individual or entity identified in the record. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• 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.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• communication technology: means an electronic device or process that
  (A) allows a notary public and a remotely located individual to communicate with each other simultaneously by sight and sound. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• electronic signature: means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by an individual with the intent to sign the record. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• identity proofing: means a process or service by which a third person provides a notary public with a means to verify the identity of a remotely located individual by a review of personal information from public or private data sources. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• 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.
• 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}
• notarial act: means an act, whether performed with respect to a tangible or electronic record, that is identified as a notarial act under Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• notary public: means a person commissioned to perform notarial acts under this chapter. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• oath: includes affirmation or declaration. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• 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
• property: includes real and personal property. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• remotely located individual: means an individual who is not in the physical presence of a notary public who performs a notarial act under Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• sign: means , with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record, to
  (A) execute or adopt a tangible symbol. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• signature: means a tangible symbol or an electronic signature that evidences the signing of a record. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• 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
• writing: includes printing. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060