8 AAC 90.900. Definitions

In this chapter and AS 18.62, unless the context requires otherwise

(1) "accredited" means approved by the United States Department of Labor, bureau of apprenticeship and training;

(2) "apprentice" means a worker at least 16 years of age who is employed to learn a skilled trade through participation in a systematic form of instruction and on-the-job work experience designed to provide the worker with knowledge of the theoretical and technical subjects related to the electrical or plumbing standards adopted by the state;

(3) "commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development or the commissioner's designee;

(4) "day" means a calendar day;

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

(6) "direct supervision" means that while the trainee is performing work to the standards established in either AS 18.60.580 and 8 AAC 70.025 or AS 18.60.705 and 8 AAC 63.010 a certified journeyman is on the same job site, on the same floor and in close and continual control of the trainee and is responsible for the competency of the work performed by the trainee;

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

(8) "division" means the labor standards and safety division of the department;

(9) "electrician journeyman" means a person who performs work necessary to the installation and construction of electrical work within buildings and within property lines of any given property, beginning at the secondary side of the transformer, subject to the National Electrical Code, but does not include a person performing linework consisting of poles and towers, including wires or cables and other apparatus supported by them;

(10) "examination" means a series of prepared questions administered by the department in writing or orally, or both;

(11) "inspector" means an inspector of the labor standards and safety division of the department, or a designee;

(12) "plumber journeyman" means a person who performs plumbing work in the installation, removal, alteration, or repair of plumbing and drainage systems, within the property lines of the premises, including all potable water supply treating and piping, drains, vents, including their joints, connections, devices, receptacles, appurtenances, water heaters, and vents for same, gas piping; a "drainage system" is all the piping within public or private premises, but does not include the mains of a public sewer system or a public treatment disposal plant;

(13) "plumber restricted PG" means a person authorized with a certificate of fitness to install fuel and gas piping within property lines of the premises;

(14) "plumber restricted PU" means a person authorized with a certificate of fitness to install

(A) water service lines from the street or right-of-way water main to the first stop valve within the serviced structure; and

(B) sewer or storm lines from the street or right-of-way main line to within two feet of the serviced structure;

(15) "power lineman journeyman" means a person who performs work necessary to the assembly, installation, or erection of all electrical apparatus, devices, wires, cables, supports, insulators, conductors, ducts, and raceways when part of primary distributing systems outside of buildings, regardless of whether within property lines of any given property, including outdoor substations and electrical connections up to and including the setting of transformers and the connecting of busses to them;

(16) "residential wireman" means a person who performs work necessary to the installation, construction, and operation of residential electrical systems, beginning at the point of attachment of the service drop or the service lateral on the load side of the meter, and whose work is limited to residential occupancies providing for no more than four residential units on a common foundation;

(17) "trainee" means an individual who is employed to learn a skilled trade on the job under the training and direct supervision of an experienced craft journeyman plumber or electrician and who, during the training, is given opportunities to develop progressive skills in that trade.

History: Eff. 9/13/80, Register 75; am 6/14/84, Register 90; am 12/25/98, Register 148

Authority: AS 18.62.060

AS 23.05.060

Editor's note: For the purposes of 8 AAC 90, the Anchorage office can be contacted at Mechanical Inspection, P.O. Box 107020, 3301 Eagle Street, Suite 302, Anchorage, Alaska 99510; phone: (907) 269-4925.

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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