Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 41 > Chapter 6 - Geothermal Resources

• action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• ballot: means any document provided by the director on which votes may be cast for candidates, propositions, or questions. See Alaska Statutes 15.80.010
• commercial use: means the sale of heat or power to a third party. See Alaska Statutes 41.06.060
• commission: means the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission created under Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 41.06.060
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• correlative rights: means the right of an owner of each property in a geothermal system to produce without waste the owner's just and equitable share of the geothermal resources in the geothermal system. See Alaska Statutes 41.06.060
• director: means the director of elections who is the chief elections officer of the state appointed in accordance with Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 15.80.010
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• general election: means the election held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November of even-numbered years. See Alaska Statutes 15.80.010
• geothermal fluid: means liquids and steam at temperatures greater than 120 degrees Celsius or any commercial use of liquids and steam naturally present in a geothermal system at temperatures less than 120 degrees Celsius. See Alaska Statutes 41.06.060
• geothermal system: means a stratum, pool, reservoir, or other geologic formation containing geothermal resources. See Alaska Statutes 41.06.060
• house district: means one of the districts described in art. See Alaska Statutes 15.80.010
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• lieutenant governor: includes an appointed lieutenant governor, governor, or acting governor if a vacancy has occurred in the office of lieutenant governor or governor. See Alaska Statutes 15.80.010
• operator: means a person drilling, maintaining, operating, producing, or in control of a well. See Alaska Statutes 41.06.060
• owner: means the person who has the right to drill into or produce from a geothermal system and to appropriate the geothermal resources produced from a geothermal system for that person and others. See Alaska Statutes 41.06.060
• person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• political group: means a group of organized voters which represents a political program and which does not qualify as a political party. See Alaska Statutes 15.80.010
• political party: means an organized group of voters that represents a political program and has at least 5,000 registered voters in the state. See Alaska Statutes 15.80.010
• property: includes real and personal property. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• qualified voter: means a person who has the qualification of a voter and is not disqualified as provided by art. See Alaska Statutes 15.80.010
• senate district: means one of the districts described in art. See Alaska Statutes 15.80.010
• special election: means an election held at a time other than when the general or primary election is held and an election called to be held with, and at the time of, the general or primary election. See Alaska Statutes 15.80.010
• state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• sworn: includes affirmed. See Alaska Statutes 15.80.010
• voter: means a person who presents oneself for the purpose of voting either in person or by absentee ballot. See Alaska Statutes 15.80.010
• waste: means , in addition to its ordinary meaning, physical waste, and includes an inefficient, excessive, or improper production, use, or dissipation of geothermal resources, including
  (A) drilling, transporting, or storage methods that cause or tend to cause unnecessary surface loss of geothermal resources. See Alaska Statutes 41.06.060
• well: means a well drilled, converted, or reactivated for the discovery, testing, production, or subsurface injection of geothermal resources. See Alaska Statutes 41.06.060
• writing: includes printing. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060