Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 40 > Chapter 21 - Management and Preservation of Public Records

• action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• archives: means
  (A) the noncurrent records of a state agency or political subdivision of the state preserved, after appraisal, because of their value. See Alaska Statutes 40.21.150
• 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.
• department: means the Department of Education and Early Development. See Alaska Statutes 40.21.150
• director: means the director of elections who is the chief elections officer of the state appointed in accordance with Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 15.80.010
• electronic record: means any information that is recorded in machine readable form. See Alaska Statutes 40.21.150
• 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.
• 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
• property: includes real and personal property. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• proposition: means an initiative, referendum, or constitutional amendment submitted at an election to the public for vote. See Alaska Statutes 15.80.010
• question: means an issue placed on the ballot to determine whether a judge or justice shall be accepted or rejected, whether a constitutional convention shall be called, whether a state debt shall be contracted, or whether a state official shall be recalled. See Alaska Statutes 15.80.010
• record: means any document, paper, book, letter, drawing, map, plat, photo, photographic file, motion picture film, microfilm, microphotograph, exhibit, magnetic or paper tape, punched card, electronic record, or other document of any other material, regardless of physical form or characteristic, developed or received under law or in connection with the transaction of official business and preserved or appropriate for preservation by an agency or a political subdivision, as evidence of the organization, function, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities of the state or political subdivision or because of the informational value in them. See Alaska Statutes 40.21.150
• records center: means a records depository in the department for the storage and disposition of noncurrent records. See Alaska Statutes 40.21.150
• 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
• state agency: means a department, office, agency, state board, commission, public corporation, or other organizational unit of or created under the executive branch of the state government. See Alaska Statutes 40.21.150
• state record: means a record of a department, office, commission, board, public corporation, or other agency of the state government, including a record of the legislature or a court and any other record designated or treated as a public record under state law. See Alaska Statutes 40.21.150