Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 14 > Chapter 11 - Construction, Rehabilitation, and Improvement of Schools and Education- Related Facilities

• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• attendance area: means the geographic area designated by the department to be served by a school. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• authority: means a public body created under Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 30.13.900
• board: means the state Board of Education and Early Development. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• bonds: means bonds or other obligations issued under this chapter. See Alaska Statutes 30.13.900
• commissioner: means the commissioner of education and early development. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• Contemplation of death: The expectation of death that provides the primary motive to make a gift.
• cost: includes the cost of acquisition or construction of all or any part of transportation facilities and of all or any property, rights, easements, and franchises considered by an authority to be necessary, useful, or convenient, including without limitation reimbursements to the authority or any other person of money expended for the purposes of the authority and interest or discount on bonds to finance those expenses, engineering and inspection costs and legal expenses, the cost of financial, professional, and other advice, and the cost of issuance of bonds. See Alaska Statutes 30.13.900
• department: means the Department of Education and Early Development. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• 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.
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, society, state or agency or subdivision of the state, municipality of the state, or an authority, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 30.13.900
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• projects: means harbor, port, shipping and transportation facilities of all kinds, including harbors, channels, turning basins, anchorage areas, jetties, breakwaters, waterways, canals, locks, tidal basins, wharves, docks, piers, slips, bulkheads, public landings, warehouses, terminals, refrigerating and cold storage plants, rolling stock, car ferries, tugs, boats, conveyors, tunnels, bridges, highways, roads and railroads, and appliances of all kinds for the handling, storage, inspection, and transportation of freight and natural resource products. See Alaska Statutes 30.13.900
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• regional educational attendance area: means an educational service area in the unorganized borough which may or may not include a military reservation, and that contains one or more public schools of grade levels K-12 or any portion of those grade levels that are to be operated under the management and control of a single regional school board. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• school board: means the school board of a borough or city school district or a regional educational attendance area. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}