Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 12 > Chapter 62 > Article 3 - General Provisions

• action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• agricultural labor: means remunerated service
  (A) on a farm, in the employ of any person in connection with cultivating the soil, or in connection with raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity, including the raising, shearing, feeding, caring for, training, and management of livestock, bees, poultry, and fur-bearing animals and wildlife. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.526
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• American vessel: means a vessel documented or numbered under the laws of the United States, or a vessel not documented or numbered under the laws of the United States nor documented under the laws of a foreign country, if its crew performs service solely for one or more citizens or residents of the United States or corporations organized under the laws of the United States or of a state. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• base period: means the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of an individual's benefit year, except that, if an individual would not otherwise be eligible for unemployment compensation because of the use of a base period that does not include the most recently completed calendar quarter immediately preceding the first day of an individual's benefit year, "base period" means, and eligibility shall be determined using, the four most recently completed calendar quarters before the start of the benefit year. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• benefit year: means a period of 52 consecutive weeks beginning at 12:00 a. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
• benefits: means the money payments payable to an individual, as provided in this chapter with respect to the individual's unemployment. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
• calendar quarter: means the period of three consecutive calendar months ending March 31, June 30, September 30, or December 31. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
• claimant: means an individual who has filed a request for a determination of insured status, a notice of unemployment, a certification for waiting-week credit, or a claim for benefits. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• covered unemployment compensation debt: means
  (A) a past due debt for erroneous payment of unemployment compensation under this chapter because of fraud or the person's failure to report earnings that has become final under this chapter and that remains uncollected. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
• crew leader: means an individual who
  (i) furnishes individuals to perform service in agricultural labor for any other person. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.525
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• employer: means (A) an employing unit which for some portion of a day within the calendar year has or had in employment one or more individuals. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
• employing unit: means one or more departments or other agencies of the state, a political subdivision of the state, a federally recognized tribe, an individual, or a type of organization, partnership, association, trust, estate, joint trust company, insurance company, or domestic or foreign corporation, or the receiver, referee in bankruptcy, trustee, or successor of one of these, or the legal representative of a deceased person, that has or had one or more individuals performing service for it in the state. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
• employment: includes services described in this subparagraph and (A) of this paragraph only if
  (i) the contract of service contemplates that substantially all of the services are to be performed personally by the individual. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.525
• employment office: means a free public employment office or branch of one operated by this state or another state or territory as a part of a state-controlled system of public employment offices or by a federal agency or an agency of a foreign government charged with the administration of an unemployment insurance program or of free public employment offices. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
• farm: includes stock, dairy, poultry, fruit, fur-bearing animal, and truck farms, plantations, ranches, nurseries, ranges, greenhouses or other similar structures used primarily for the raising of agricultural or horticultural commodities, and orchards. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.526
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• fund: means the unemployment compensation fund established by this chapter. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• hospital: means any institution primarily engaged in the treatment of emotional or physical disability which provides, on a regular basis, 24-hour-a-day bed care under the supervision of licensed medical personnel and those components, of other institutions, which are primarily engaged in the treatment of emotional or physical disability and which provide, on a regular basis, 24-hour-a-day bed care under the supervision of licensed medical personnel. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
• institution of higher education: means an educational institution that
  (A) admits as regular students only individuals having a certificate of graduation from a high school, or the recognized equivalent of a high school graduation certificate. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
• insured work: means employment for employers. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
• insured worker: means an individual who, with respect to a base period, meets the wage and employment requirements of Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
• 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.
• Juror: A person who is on the jury.
• month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• municipality: has the meaning given in Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• 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
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• sports official: is a participant in a sports event or competition whose participation is neutral with respect to who wins or loses, including an umpire, referee, judge, scorekeeper, timekeeper, or organizer. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.526
• state: includes the states of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520
• 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• temporary: means a period of less than seven continuous days. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.526
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• volunteer work: means work for which compensation does not exceed $1,500 a year and is paid only to defray or reimburse the reasonable food, travel, and incidental expenses the person incurs in order to perform the work or as a result of performing the work. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.526
• wages: means all remuneration for service from whatever source, including insured work, noninsured work, or self-employment. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.530
• week: means the period of seven consecutive days which the department may by regulations prescribe. See Alaska Statutes 23.20.520