Alaska Administrative Code
Title 8 - Labor and Workforce Development
Part 4 - Occupational Safety and Health Division
Chapter 77 - Elevator Safety Standards
Article 7 - General Provisions
8 AAC 77.905 - Definitions

(1) repealed 12/17/99;

(2) "commissioner" means the commissioner of labor and workforce development;

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

(4) "director" means the director of the department's division of labor standards and safety, or a designee;

(5) "elevator" means elevators, dumbwaiters, escalators, moving walks, platform lifts, vertical and inclined wheelchair lifts, and other devices described in the Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators, Safety Code for Existing Elevators and Escalators, and Safety Standard for Platform Lifts and Stairway Chairlifts,adopted by reference in 8 AAC 77.005; "elevator" includes hoistways for the devices listed in this paragraph;

(6) "imminent danger" means impending, close, on the point of happening, an immediate threat of danger that must be instantly met;

(7) repealed 2/23/2011;

(8) "owner" means the person who is vested either with the ownership, responsibility, control, or title to an elevator or the property upon or in which the elevator is located and for the purposes of this chapter includes lessees, sublessees, agents, and assigns who have the responsibility for maintenance and operation of an elevator or the property upon or in which the elevator is located;

(9) "present danger" means a danger that is near at hand, related to the present time, as likely to happen within a period of immediate time as distinguished from a future time;

(10) "remote danger" means where the effect is uncertain or indeterminate and cannot be said to be the probable consequence or where the effect does not necessarily follow;

(11) "special inspection" means either an inspection requested by an owner outside of the regular cycle of inspections provided by this chapter or a reinspection under 8 AAC 77.035(b);

(12) "authorized elevator inspector" means an inspector qualified under 8 AAC 77.026 to perform elevator inspections for the labor standards and safety division;

(13) "elevator personnel" means personnel who have been trained in the construction, maintenance, repair, inspection, or testing of the particular type of device they are constructing, maintaining, repairing, inspecting, or testing.