Alaska Statutes 17.37.070 – Definitions

In this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise,

(1) “alternate caregiver” means a person who is listed as an alternate caregiver under Alaska Stat. § 17.37.010;

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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 17.37.070

Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
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
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

(2) “bona fide physician-patient relationship” means that the physician obtained a patient history, performed an in-person physical examination of the patient, and documented written findings, diagnoses, recommendations, and prescriptions in written patient medical records maintained by the physician;

(3) “correctional facility” has the meaning given in Alaska Stat. § 33.30.901;

(4) “debilitating medical condition” means

(A) cancer, glaucoma, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or treatment for any of these conditions;

(B) any chronic or debilitating disease or treatment for such diseases, which produces, for a specific patient, one or more of the following, and for which, in the professional opinion of the patient’s physician, such condition or conditions reasonably may be alleviated by the medical use of marijuana: cachexia; severe pain; severe nausea; seizures, including those that are characteristic of epilepsy; or persistent muscle spasms, including those that are characteristic of multiple sclerosis; or

(C) any other medical condition, or treatment for such condition, approved by the department, under regulations adopted under Alaska Stat. § 17.37.060 or approval of a petition submitted under Alaska Stat. § 17.37.060;

(5) “department” means the Department of Health;

(6) “facility monitored by the department or the Department of Administration” means an institution, building, office, or home operated by the department or the Department of Administration, funded by the department or the Department of Administration, under contract with the department or the Department of Administration, inspected by the department or the Department of Administration, designated by the department or the Department of Administration, or licensed by the department or the Department of Administration, for the care of

(A) juveniles; for the purposes of this subparagraph, “institution” includes a foster home and a group home, and a juvenile detention facility and a juvenile treatment facility, as those terms are defined in Alaska Stat. § 47.12.990;

(B) the elderly; for the purposes of this subparagraph, “institution” includes

(i) an assisted living home as defined in Alaska Stat. § 47.33.990; and

(ii) the Alaska Pioneers’ Home or the Alaska Veterans’ Home, operated under Alaska Stat. Chapter 47.55;

(C) the mentally ill; for the purposes of this subparagraph, “institution” includes a designated treatment facility and an evaluation facility, as those terms are defined in Alaska Stat. § 47.30.915;

(7) “medical facility” means an institution, building, office, or home providing medical services, and includes a hospital, clinic, physician’s office, or health facility as defined in Alaska Stat. § 47.07.900, and a facility providing hospice care or rehabilitative services, as those terms are defined in Alaska Stat. § 47.07.900;

(8) “medical use” means the acquisition, possession, cultivation, use or transportation of marijuana or paraphernalia related to the administration of marijuana to alleviate a debilitating medical condition under the provisions of this chapter and Alaska Stat. § 11.71.090;

(9) “patient” means a person who has a debilitating medical condition;

(10) “physician” means a person licensed to practice medicine in this state or an officer in the regular medical service of the armed forces of the United States or the United States Public Health Service while in the discharge of their official duties, or while volunteering services without pay or other remuneration to a hospital, clinic, medical office, or other medical facility in this state;

(11) “primary caregiver ” means a person listed as a primary caregiver under Alaska Stat. § 17.37.010 and in physical possession of a caregiver registry identification card; “primary caregiver” also includes an alternate caregiver when the alternate caregiver is in physical possession of the caregiver registry identification card;

(12) “usable form” and “usable marijuana” means the seeds, leaves, buds, and flowers of the plant (genus) cannabis, but does not include the stalks or roots.

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