Title 12 . Professional and Vocational Regulations

Chapter 36 . Big Game Guides and Transporters

Section 990. Definitions

12 AAC 36.990. Definitions

(a) For the purposes of this chapter and AS 08.48, unless the context requires otherwise,

(1) "advanced courses" means courses in institutes of higher learning beyond the second academic year;

(2) "board" means the State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors;

(3) "chemical engineering" means that branch of professional engineering which embraces studies and activities relating to applied chemistry, both industrial and nonindustrial, concerned with chemical materials, their composition, locations, transportation, and storage; chemical and physical-chemical processes naturally occurring or artificially operated, their matter and energy changes, the conditions of temperature, concentration and media for those changes including apparatus and analytical control; chemical products, their quality, quantity, applications, uses, and values; preparation of materials for public or industrial use including water supply, waste abatement, and pollution control;

(4) "civil engineering" means that branch of professional engineering which embraces studies and activities in connection with research, design, and construction of fixed works for irrigation, drainage, waterpower, water supply and treatment, flood control, inland waterways, harbors, municipal improvements, railroads, highways, tunnels, airports and airways, sewerage, refuse disposal, foundations, structures, or bridges;

(5) "design" means the original and unique application of basic aesthetic, mathematical and physical and chemical principles to provide an acceptable solution of a problem or project;

(6) repealed 8/26/98;

(7) "ABET" means Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology;

(8) "electrical engineering" means that branch of professional engineering which embraces studies and activities relating to generation, transmission and utilization of electrical energy and to telecommunications systems and facilities, including the design of electrical, electronic and magnetic circuits and components, and the technical control of their operation and of the design of electrical and telecommunications gear; it is concerned with the research, organizational and economic aspects of these studies and activities;

(9) "mechanical engineering" means that branch of professional engineering which deals with engineering problems relating to generation, transmission and utilization of energy in the thermal or mechanical form, and also with engineering problems relating to the production of tools, machinery and their products and to mechanical processes, heating, air conditioning, refrigeration and plumbing; it is concerned with the research, design, production, operational, organizational and economic aspects of these studies and activities;

(10) "mining engineering" means that branch of professional engineering which embraces studies or activities relating to the exploration, location, and recovery of mineral commodities; it is concerned with research, design, construction, and development of structures, devices, and facilities of production and the economic aspects related to these studies and activities;

(11) repealed 7/26/97;

(12) "NCARB" means the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards;

(13) "NCEES" means the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying;

(14) "petroleum engineering" means that branch of professional engineering that embraces studies or activities relating to the exploration, location, and recovery of natural fluid hydrocarbons; "petroleum engineering" is concerned with research, design, production, operations of devices, facilities of production, and the economic aspects of these studies and activities;

(15) repealed 9/30/78;

(16) repealed 9/30/78;

(17) "professional engineering" includes the branches of

(A) chemical engineering;

(B) civil engineering;

(C) electrical engineering;

(D) mechanical engineering;

(E) mining engineering;

(F) petroleum engineering;

(18) "professional work" means the time the applicant has been occupied in architecture, engineering, land surveying, or landscape architecture work of higher grade and responsibility than that of subprofessional work;

(19) "responsible charge of work in the field" means the direction of work, the successful accomplishment of which rested upon the applicant, where the applicant has to decide questions of methods of execution and suitability of materials without relying upon advice or instructions from his superiors and where the applicant has to supply solutions to deficiencies in plans or has to correct errors in designs without first referring them to higher authority for approval, except where the approval is a matter of form;

(20) "responsible charge" as it pertains to "work in the office" means undertaking investigations or carrying out assignments, which demand resourcefulness and originality, or making plans, writing specifications, and directing drafting and computations for the design of architectural, engineering or land surveying work with only rough sketches, general information and field measurements for reference;

(21) "state" means the State of Alaska;

(22) "subprofessional work" means time spent working as rodman, chainman, recorder, draftsman, clerk of works, instrument man, inspector, or similar work where personal responsibility and technical knowledge are slight;

(23) "specialty contractor" means the same as in AS 08.18.171 ;

(24) "registration by comity" means registration by recognition of the applicant's credentials accepted by another jurisdiction;

(25) "registrant" means an individual architect, engineer, land surveyor, landscape architect, corporation, limited liability company, or limited liability partnership, registered or issued a certificate of authorization under this chapter;

(26) "A.S. degree" means an associate of science degree;

(27) "B.S. degree" means a bachelor of science degree;

(28) "M.S. degree" means a master of science degree;

(29) "IDP" means the Intern-Architect Development Program administered by NCARB and constitutes the record keeping system for verifying an intern-architect's fulfillment of the education and training standards established by NCARB;

(30) "responsible control" means that amount of control over and detailed knowledge of the content of technical submissions during their preparation as is ordinarily exercised by registered engineers, land surveyors, and landscape architects applying the required professional standard of care;

(31) "CLARB" means Council of Landscape Architect Registration Boards;

(32) "LAAB" means Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board;

(33) "landscape architect" means a person registered as a professional landscape architect.

(b) For purposes of this chapter, "department" means the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development.

History: Eff. 5/23/74, Register 50; am 9/30/78, Register 67; am 6/29/84, Register 90; am 8/29/87, Register 103; am 10/20/90, Register 116; am 3/16/96, Register 137; am 7/26/97, Register 143; am 8/26/98, Register 147; am 11/13/99, Register 152; am 3/9/2001, Register 157

Authority: AS 08.48.101

AS 08.48.171

AS 08.48.181

AS 08.48.191

Editor's note: As of Register 138, July 1996, the regulations attorney added a definition of "department" to 12 AAC 36.990 to clarify the meaning of that term in conformity with AS 08.01 and AS 08.48.

As of Register 171 (October 2004), the regulations attorney made technical revisions under AS 44.62.125 (b)(6) to reflect the name change of the Department of Community and Economic Development to the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development made by ch. 47, SLA 2004 and the corresponding title change of the commissioner of community and economic development.