Alaska Administrative Code
Title 12 - Professional Regulations
Part 1 - Boards and Commissions Subject to Centralized Licensing
Chapter 42 - Naturopaths
Article 2 - General Provisions
12 AAC 42.990 - Definitions
Current through February 24, 2025
In AS 08.45 and in this chapter,
(1) "dietetics"
(2) "division" means the division assigned occupational licensing functions in the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development;
(3) "herbal remedy"
(4) "homeopathic remedy" means a remedy defined in the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States Abstracts 1993 revised as of December 1992 and adopted by reference, except by a prescription drug, poison, or controlled substance;
(5) "hydrotherapy" means the use of water in all forms and temperatures to promote health and to diagnose, treat, and prevent disease, illness, and conditions;
(6) "NPLEX" means the Naturopathic Physicians Licensing Examination;
(7) "poison" means a substance given in a manner that has a likelihood of causing physical injury or death;
(8) "prescription drug" means a controlled substance or other medicine requiring a prescription from a physician licensed under AS 08.64 or from another health care professional authorized to issue prescriptions by the law of this state;
(9) "sanitation" means the use of an antiseptic, disinfectant, bactericide, pediculicide, virucide, soap, detergent, and light to promote health and to diagnose, treat, and prevent disease, illness, and conditions;
(10) "suggestion" means the use of education, counseling, teaching, meditation, and assessment to promote health of mind and body and to diagnose, treat, and prevent disease, illness, and conditions;
(11) "surgery" means the use of a scalpel, sharp cutting instrument, laser, electrical current, or other device to incise or remove living tissue; "surgery" does not include venipuncture or the removal of foreign objects from external tissue.
A copy of the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States Abstracts 1993, revised as of December 1992, and adopted by reference, may be obtained from the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing, State Office Building, 9th Floor, 333 Willoughby Avenue, P.O. Box 110806, Juneau, AK 99811-0806; Phone: (907) 465-2695.
As of Register 171 (October 2004), the regulations attorney made technical revisions under AS 44.62.125(b)(6) to reflect the name change of the Department of Community and Economic Development to the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development made by ch. 47, SLA 2004 and the corresponding title change of the commissioner of community and economic development.
Authority:AS 08.45.050
AS 08.45.100
AS 08.45.200
