Alaska Admin. Code tit. 17, § 90.990 – Definitions

In this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise,

(1) "ANSI" means American National Standards Institute;
(2) "artifact" means any measurement standard (mass or volume) submitted to the metrology laboratory for calibration or other measurement services;
(3) "commercial and law enforcement weighing and measuring device" has the same meaning given the term "commercial and law-enforcement equipment" in NIST Handbook 44, Section 1.10, General Code, Paragraph G-A.1;
(4) "commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities;
(5) "creep" means that, with the load wires removed and with potential only applied to the meter, the moving element rotates at a speed in excess of one revolution in five;
(6) "current capacity" means the maximum current that a meter can carry continuously without damage and without exceeding the allowable limits of accuracy;
(7) "day" means calendar day;
(8) "department" means the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities;
(9) "device" means a weighing and measuring device as described in Item G-A.1 of Section 1.10, General Code, NIST Handbook 44, adopted by reference in AS 45.75.050(d);
(10) "director" means the director of the division of measurement standards and commercial vehicle enforcement;
(11) "division" means the division of measurement standards and commercial vehicle enforcement;
(12) "electric meter" means a device that measures and registers the integral of an electrical quantity with respect to time;
(13) "gpm" means gallons per minute;
(14) "NIST" means the National Institute of Standards and Technology;
(15) "NTEP" means National Type Evaluation Program;
(16) repealed 9/20/2015;
(17) "power factor" means the ratio of watts over volt-amperes, power factor = ((watts)
(18) repealed 9/20/2015;
(19) "standard" means an artifact established by authority as a rule for the measure of mass volume, length, quantity, or other measurable value;
(20) "watthour" means the total or integrated amount of energy delivered in one hour at a steady or average rate of one watt;
(21) "watthour constant" (disk constant) means the registration of one revolution of the rotating element expressed in watt-hours;
(22) "weight set" is a group of weights, as determined by the director, contained within a single case or carrier designed specifically for that weight assortment;
(23) "working day" means a calendar day, except Saturday, Sunday, or a state holiday.
(24) "check-out register"
1. (A) means any device that is commercially used in a price verification system at a check-out register;
2. (B) includes
  1. (i) a device that uses a universal product code (UPC) scanner;
  2. (ii) a device that uses an electronic product code (EPC) reader;
  3. (iii) a device that uses manual entries;
  4. (iv) any current or future use of a device that could be used at the final point of sale as a means for pricing commercial sales.

(Eff. 7/9/2000, Register 155; am 1/18/2002, Register 161; am 9/20/2015, Register 215; am 5/5/2018, Register 226)

Authority: AS 45.75.040, AS 45.75.070, AS 45.75.380, AS 45.75.050, AS 45.75.080