In AS 44.21.305 — 44.21.330,

1. (1) “commissioner” means the commissioner of administration;
2. (2) “department” means the Department of Administration;
3. (3) “public broadcasting” means the delivery of radio or television noncommercial programming intended for the general public by any method of telecommunications;
4. (4) “public telecommunications” means telecommunications which serve public broadcasting, general educational, instructional, medical, safety, emergency, or public participation functions;
5. (5) “state agencies” means all departments, divisions, and offices in the executive branch of state government; it does not mean an agency of the legislative or judicial branch of government or the University of Alaska;
6. (6) “telecommunications” means the transmission and reception of messages, impressions, pictures, and signals by means of electromagnetic transmission with or without benefit of a closed transmission medium including all instrumentalities, facilities, apparatus, and services, whether conveyed by cable or wire, radiated through space, or transmitted through other media within a specified area or between designated points;
7. (7) “telecommunications systems” means those systems in which the principal service and functions are telecommunications.