Section 8 AAC 90.900 - DefinitionsIn this chapter and AS 18.62,
(1) "accredited" means approved by the United States Department of Labor, Office of Apprenticeship;(2) "apprentice" means a worker at least 16 years of age who is legally performing work to learn a skilled trade; (3) "approved program" means a program consisting of any combination of continuing education workshops, formal correspondence programs, or individual study programs that meets the requirements of chapter;(4) "commissioner" means the commissioner of labor and workforce development or the commissioner's designee;(5) "day" means a calendar day;(6) "department" means the Department of Labor and Workforce Development;(7) "director" means the director of the labor standards and safety division of the department, or the director's designee;(8) "direct supervision" means a certified journeyman is on the same job site, on the same floor and in close and continual control of the trainee and is responsible for the competency of the work performed by the trainee while the trainee is legally performing work subject to the standards established in either AS 18.60.580 and 8 AAC 70.025 or AS 18.60.705 and 8 AAC 63.010;(9) "division" means the labor standards and safety division of the department;(10) "electrician journeyman" means a person who performs work necessary to the installation and construction of electrical work within buildings and within property lines of any given property, beginning at the secondary side of the transformer, subject to the National Electrical Code, but does not include a person performing linework consisting of poles and towers, including wires or cables and other apparatus supported by them;(11) "examination" means a series of prepared questions administered in writing, orally, or both;(12) "industry related" (A) for an electrician journeyman is related to electrical installation techniques for the electrical journeyman trade as defined in 8 AAC 90.900;(B) for a plumber journeyman is related to plumbing installation techniques for the plumber journeyman trade as defined in 8 AAC 90.900;(C) does not include management skills or techniques, such as general construction industry safety, first aid, planning, scheduling, supervision, designing, estimating, or marketing and sales;(13) "inspector" means an inspector of the labor standards and safety division of the department, or a designee;(14) "plumber journeyman" means a person who performs plumbing work in the installation, removal, alteration, or repair of plumbing and drainage systems, within the property lines of the premises; in this paragraph, "plumbing and drainage systems"(A) includes all (i) building supply and distribution piping for potable water;(ii) water treating or utilization equipment;(iii) plumbing fixtures and traps;(iv) drainage and vent pipes;(v) building drains and building sewers;(vi) medical gas and medical vacuum systems;(vii) liquid and fuel gas piping;(viii) swimming pool, spa, and hot tub piping;(ix) joints, connections, devices, receptacles, appurtenances, water heaters, and vents for items listed in (i) - (viii) of this subparagraph and within the property lines of the premises; and(x) harbor distribution piping for potable water.(B) does not include the mains of a public sewer system or a public sewage treatment or disposal plant;(15) "plumber restricted PG" means a person authorized with a certificate of fitness to install fuel and gas piping within property lines of the premises;(16) "plumber restricted PU" means a person authorized with a certificate of fitness to install (A) water service piping from the street, right-of-way main, water well, or storage tank to the first stop valve of the serviced structure or other point of use or distribution on the serviced property;(B) building sewer piping from within two feet of a serviced structure to a public sewer, private sewer, private sewage disposal system, or other point of disposal; and(C) building storm drains that receive the discharge of roof drains, leaders, downspouts, or conductors, if the storm drains are installed from within two feet of a commercial structure, or from within two feet of a residential structure of four or more dwelling units, to the street, the right-of-way main line, or a point of disposal approved by the federal, state, or local agency having jurisdiction;(17) "power lineman journeyman" means a person who performs work necessary to the assembly, installation, or erection of all electrical apparatus, devices, wires, cables, supports, insulators, conductors, ducts, and raceways when part of primary distributing systems outside of buildings, regardless of whether within property lines of any given property, including outdoor substations and electrical connections up to and including the setting of transformers and the connecting of busses to them;(18) "residential wireman" means a person who performs work necessary to the installation, construction, and operation of residential electrical systems, beginning at the point of attachment of the service drop or the service lateral on the load side of the meter, and whose work is limited to residential occupancies providing for no more than four residential units on a common foundation;(19) "trainee" means an individual who is legally performing work to learn a skilled trade on the job under the training and direct supervision of an experienced craft journeyman plumber or electrician and who, during the training, is given opportunities to develop progressive skills in that trade.Eff. 9/13/80, Register 75; am 6/14/84, Register 90; am 12/25/98, Register 148; am 9/27/2008, Register 187; am 3/6/2016, Register 217, April 2016; am 4/16/2022, Register 242, July 2022; am 10/28/2023, Register 248, January 2024For the purposes of 8 AAC 90, the Anchorage office can be contacted at Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Mechanical Inspection, 1251 Muldoon Road, Suite 113, Anchorage, Alaska 99504; phone: (907) 269-4925.
Authority:AS 18.62.060
AS 23.05.060