Alaska Statutes 45.65.250 – Definitions

In Alaska Stat. § 45.65.200 – 45.65.250, unless the context otherwise requires,

(1) “art dealer” means a person engaged in the business of selling works of art, other than a person exclusively engaged in the business of selling goods at public auction;

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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 45.65.250

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

(2) “artist” means the creator of a work of art or, if deceased, the heirs or personal representatives of the creator;

(3) “consignment” means that no title to or estate in the goods or right to possession superior to that of the consignor vests in the consignee, notwithstanding the consignee’s power or authority to transfer and convey, to third person, all of the right, title, and interest of the consignor, in and to the goods;

(4) “creditor” has the meaning given in Alaska Stat. § 45.01.211;

(5) “work of art” means an original or multiple original art work including:

(A) visual art such as a painting, sculpture, drawing, mosaic, or photograph;

(B) calligraphy;

(C) graphic art such as an etching, lithograph, offset print, or silk screen;

(D) craft work in clay, textile, fiber, wood, metal, plastic, or glass materials;

(E) mixed media such as a collage or any combination of art media in this paragraph;

(F) art employing traditional native materials such as white, bone, grass, baleen, animal skins, wood, and furs.

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