Section 44.21.330. Definitions.

In AS 44.21.305 - 44.21.330,
        (1) "commissioner" means the commissioner of administration;
        (2) "department" means the Department of Administration;
        (3) "public broadcasting" means the delivery of radio or television noncommercial programming intended for the general public by any method of telecommunications;
        (4) "public telecommunications" means telecommunications which serve public broadcasting, general educational, instructional, medical, safety, emergency, or public participation functions;
        (5) "state agencies" means all departments, divisions, and offices in the executive branch of state government; it does not mean an agency of the legislative or judicial branch of government or the University of Alaska;
        (6) "telecommunications" means the transmission and reception of messages, impressions, pictures, and signals by means of electromagnetic transmission with or without benefit of a closed transmission medium including all instrumentalities, facilities, apparatus, and services, whether conveyed by cable or wire, radiated through space, or transmitted through other media within a specified area or between designated points;
        (7) "telecommunications systems" means those systems in which the principal service and functions are telecommunications.

Authorities

44.21.310

Notes

References

AS 44.21.310 Telecommunications powers and duties.

History

(E.O. No. 50 Sec. 9 (1981); am E.O. No. 66 Sec. 6 (1987))