Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 24 > Chapter 5 > Article 3 - Meeting and Organization

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Joint session: When both chambers of a legislature adopt a concurrent resolution to meet together.
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• 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
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• 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