Alaska Administrative Code
Title 17 - Transportation and Public Facilities
Chapter 90 - Division of Measurement Standards
Article 10 - Definitions
17 AAC 90.990 - Definitions

(1) "ANSI" means American National Standards Institute;

(2) "artifact" means any measurement standard (mass or volume) submitted to the metrology laboratory for calibration or other measurement services;

(3) "commercial and law enforcement weighing and measuring device" has the same meaning given the term "commercial and law-enforcement equipment" in NIST Handbook 44, Section 1.10, General Code, Paragraph G-A.1;

(4) "commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities;

(5) "creep" means that, with the load wires removed and with potential only applied to the meter, the moving element rotates at a speed in excess of one revolution in five;

(6) "current capacity" means the maximum current that a meter can carry continuously without damage and without exceeding the allowable limits of accuracy;

(7) "day" means calendar day;

(8) "department" means the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities;

(9) "device" means a weighing and measuring device as described in Item G-A.1 of Section 1.10, General Code, NIST Handbook 44, adopted by reference in AS 45.75.050(d);

(10) "director" means the director of the division of measurement standards and commercial vehicle enforcement;

(11) "division" means the division of measurement standards and commercial vehicle enforcement;

(12) "electric meter" means a device that measures and registers the integral of an electrical quantity with respect to time;

(13) "gpm" means gallons per minute;

(14) "NIST" means the National Institute of Standards and Technology;

(15) "NTEP" means National Type Evaluation Program;

(16) repealed 9/20/2015;

(17) "power factor" means the ratio of watts over volt-amperes, power factor = ((watts)>volt-ampere);

(18) repealed 9/20/2015;

(19) "standard" means an artifact established by authority as a rule for the measure of mass volume, length, quantity, or other measurable value;

(20) "watthour" means the total or integrated amount of energy delivered in one hour at a steady or average rate of one watt;

(21) "watthour constant" (disk constant) means the registration of one revolution of the rotating element expressed in watt-hours;

(22) "weight set" is a group of weights, as determined by the director, contained within a single case or carrier designed specifically for that weight assortment;

(23) "working day" means a calendar day, except Saturday, Sunday, or a state holiday.

(24) "check-out register"