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Title 8 . Labor and Workforce Development
Chapter 77 . Boiler and Pressure Vessel Construction Code
Section 905. Definitions

8 AAC 77.905. Definitions

In this chapter and AS 18.60.800 - 18.60.820, unless the context requires otherwise

(1) repealed 12/17/99;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, and other devices described in the Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators, 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) "inspector" means an elevator inspector of the labor standards and safety division or designee;

(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) .

History: Eff. 10/21/79, Register 72; am 10/21/92, Register 124; am 12/17/99, Register 152

Authority: AS 18.60.800

Editor's note: 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.


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