In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. (1) "active river channel" means a channel of a river or stream that has water flowing through it at the time of a proposed activity;
2. (2) "aircraft" means a device that is used or intended for flight or movement of people or goods in the air; "aircraft" does not include a hovercraft;
3. (3) "anchor buoy" means a float attached to the bottom of a waterbody by an anchor, line, or chain for making fast a vessel;
4. (4) "commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources;
5. (5) "department" means the Alaska Department of Natural Resources;
6. (6) "division of insurance" means the division of insurance in the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development;
7. (7) repealed 12/7/2002;
8. (8) "general permit" means a permit authorizing a specific category of uses of a generic application filed by the department on behalf of an entire category of potential users;
9. (9) "management plan" means the plan incorporated by reference in 11 AAC 09.005;
10. (10) "mining location" means a property right to a locatable mineral established by discovery, location, and filing under AS 38.05.195 or 38.05.205;
11. (11) "permit" means a temporary authorization under this chapter that will grant permission to do an activity without transferring a property interest;
12. (12) "recreation river" means all land and water including uplands and shorelands, designated under AS 41.23.500(1) - (6);
13. (13) "recreation river corridor" has the meaning given that term in AS 41.23.510;
14. (14) "recreation rivers permit" means a permit for an activity that does not appear on the list referred to in 11 AAC 09.030 and that would be authorized by a land use permit under 11 AAC 96 if the activity were on state land that is not within a recreation river;
15. (15) "recreation rivers system" means the state recreation rivers, including recreation river corridors, established in AS 41.23.500;
16. (16) "resource management camp" means a facility established for resource or recreation management, or for scientific study, by an entity such as the department, the Department of Fish and Game, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, a non-profit group, or the University of Alaska; "resource management camp" does not include a commercial camp or mining camp;
17. (17) "river corridor" has the meaning given the term "recreation river corridor" in this section;
18. (18) "state land" has the meaning given that term in AS 38.05.965;
19. (19) "upland" has the meaning given that term in AS 38.05.965;
20. (20) "waterbody" means river, lake, or stream;
21. (21) "commercial recreation" has the meaning given in 11 AAC 96.250.

(Eff. 12/13/95, Register 136; am 12/7/2002, Register 164)

Authority: AS 41.23.440, AS 41.23.500