11 AAC 09.900. Definitions

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "active river channel" means a channel of a river or stream that has water flowing through it at the time of a proposed activity;

(2) "aircraft" means a device that is used or intended for flight or movement of people or goods in the air; "aircraft" does not include a hovercraft;

(3) "anchor buoy" means a float attached to the bottom of a waterbody by an anchor, line, or chain for making fast a vessel;

(4) "commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources;

(5) "department" means the Alaska Department of Natural Resources;

(6) "division of insurance" means the division of insurance in the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development;

(7) repealed 12/7/2002;

(8) "general permit" means a permit authorizing a specific category of uses of a generic application filed by the department on behalf of an entire category of potential users;

(9) "management plan" means the plan incorporated by reference in 11 AAC 09.005;

(10) "mining location" means a property right to a locatable mineral established by discovery, location, and filing under AS 38.05.195 or 38.05.205;

(11) "permit" means a temporary authorization under this chapter that will grant permission to do an activity without transferring a property interest;

(12) "recreation river" means all land and water including uplands and shorelands, designated under AS 41.23.500 (1) - (6);

(13) "recreation river corridor" has the meaning given that term in AS 41.23.510 ;

(14) "recreation rivers permit" means a permit for an activity that does not appear on the list referred to in 11 AAC 09.030 and that would be authorized by a land use permit under 11 AAC 96 if the activity were on state land that is not within a recreation river;

(15) "recreation rivers system" means the state recreation rivers, including recreation river corridors, established in AS 41.23.500 ;

(16) "resource management camp" means a facility established for resource or recreation management, or for scientific study, by an entity such as the department, the Department of Fish and Game, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, a non-profit group, or the University of Alaska; "resource management camp" does not include a commercial camp or mining camp;

(17) "river corridor" has the meaning given the term "recreation river corridor" in this section;

(18) "state land" has the meaning given that term in AS 38.05.965 ;

(19) "upland" has the meaning given that term in AS 38.05.965 ;

(20) "waterbody" means river, lake, or stream;

(21) "commercial recreation" has the meaning given in 11 AAC 96.250.

History: Eff. 12/13/95, Register 136; am 12/7/2002, Register 164

Authority: AS 41.23.440

AS 41.23.500

Editor's note: As of Register 171 (October 2004), the regulations attorney made technical revisions under AS\n 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.

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