Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 31 > Chapter 5 > Article 2 - Regulation of Operations

• action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• and: includes "or" and "or" includes "and". See Alaska Statutes 31.05.170
• 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
• commission: means the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. See Alaska Statutes 31.05.170
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• 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.
• field: means a general area which is underlain or appears to be underlain by at least one pool, and includes the underground reservoir containing oil or gas. See Alaska Statutes 31.05.170
• 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.
• gas: includes all natural gas and all hydrocarbons produced at the wellhead not defined as oil. See Alaska Statutes 31.05.170
• 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.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• oil: includes crude petroleum oil and other hydrocarbons regardless of gravity which are produced at the wellhead in liquid form and the liquid hydrocarbons known as distillate or condensate recovered or extracted from gas, other than gas produced in association with oil and commonly known as casinghead gas. See Alaska Statutes 31.05.170
• owner: means the person who has the right to drill into and produce from a pool and to appropriate the oil and gas the person produces from a pool for that person and others. See Alaska Statutes 31.05.170
• person: includes a natural person, corporation, association, partnership, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary or other representative of any kind, and includes a department, agency or instrumentality of the state or a governmental subdivision of the state. See Alaska Statutes 31.05.170
• pool: means an underground reservoir containing, or appearing to contain, a common accumulation of oil or gas. See Alaska Statutes 31.05.170
• producer: means the owner of a well or wells capable of producing oil or gas or both. See Alaska Statutes 31.05.170
• property: includes real and personal property. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• 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.
• waste: means , in addition to its ordinary meaning, "physical waste" and includes
  (A) the inefficient, excessive, or improper use of, or unnecessary dissipation of, reservoir energy. See Alaska Statutes 31.05.170