Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 47 > Chapter 30 > Article 2 - Construction of Mental Health Hospitals and Facilities

• action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• 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
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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