Alaska Administrative Code
Title 8 - Labor and Workforce Development
Part 4 - Occupational Safety and Health Division
Chapter 70 - Electrical Safety Code
8 AAC 70.090 - Definitions

Universal Citation: 8 AK Admin Code 8 AAC 70.090

Current through February 27, 2024

In 8 AAC 70.010 - 8 AAC 70.090

(1) "department" means the Department of Labor and Workforce Development;

(2) "commissioner" means the commissioner of labor and Workforce Development and his authorized designee;

(3) "electrical wiring" means the entire electrical system, including all conducting and shielding material, all regulatory and safety apparatus, and all devices used in the process of installation;

(4) "public structure" means buildings such as hotels, resident housing with more than one rental unit, restaurants, taverns, lodging houses, children's homes, auditoriums, town halls, or any structure designed or used for public assembly, whether publicly or privately financed;

(5) repealed 5/19/84;

(6) "alteration" means an addition to an existing structure where the total cost of the new construction is $2,000 or more;

(7) "electrical product" means any electrical equipment, appliance, material, device, or apparatus to convey or to be operated by electrical current;

(8) "third-party testing/inspection body" means an organization that possesses the necessary technical competence and that is not operated or controlled by a manufacturer, supplier, or buyer of a certified product or service in that it has no organizational, financial, or commercial involvements with the producer or buyer that might pose a potential conflict of interest; and

(9) "work of art" means any electrical components or circuitry intended to be energized as a function of the artistic medium that is not addressed in the National Electrical Code;"work of art" does not include any electrical components or circuitry whose primary purpose is to provide any part of the mechanical or electrical power or lighting system of a building or other structure and its adjacent property.

As of Register 151 (October 1999), the regulations attorney made technical revisions under AS 44.62.125(b)(6) to reflect the name change of the Department of Labor to the Department of Labor and Workforce Development made by ch. 58, SLA 1999 and the corresponding title change of the commissioner of labor.

Authority:AS 18.60.600

AS 45.45.910

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