AK Stat § 08.76.590 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 8. Business and Professions|Chapter 76. Pawnbrokers and Secondhand Dealers|Article 2. Licensing and Regulation of Pawnbrokers.|Sec. 08.76.590. Definitions.

In AS 08.76.100 - 08.76.590, (1) “amount financed” means the amount of money, excluding a finance fee, charged by a pawnbroker for a pawn transaction; (2) “business” includes advertising; (3) “claim” means a claim under AS 08.76.370; (4) “claimant” means a person who makes a claim; (5) “department” means the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development; (6) “evidentiary hold order” means an evidentiary hold order authorized under AS 08.76.330; (7) “finance fee” means all the amounts that a pawnbroker may charge under AS 08.76.210; (8) “governmental fee” means a fee imposed by a governmental agency on a pawnbroker to hold or transfer a firearm or conduct a background check required by the governmental agency; (9) “grace period” means the 30-day period after a maturity date during which a pawnbroker is required by AS 08.76.270(b) to retain possession of pledged property; (10) “hold order” means a police hold order or an evidentiary hold order; (11) “identification” means (A) a government-issued identification document that contains a photograph; or (B) an electronic image of a document identified under (A) of this paragraph; (12) “knowingly” has the meaning given in AS 11.81.900; (13) “law enforcement agency” means (A) the police department of a municipality where a pawnshop is located; (B) the Department of Law; (C) the Department of Public Safety; (14) “law enforcement officer” means (A) a police officer of the municipality where a pawnshop is located; or (B) a state trooper if a pawnshop is located in the unorganized borough or if a pawnshop is located in a municipality that does not provide police protection services; (15) “law enforcement report” means a report required by AS 08.76.410; (16) “lease” means any form of rental; (17) “license” means a license to engage in business as a pawnbroker issued under AS 08.76.110; (18) “licensee” means a person who holds a license; (19) “maturity date” means the date by which a pledgor is required to pay a pawnbroker the amount financed and the finance fee for a pawn transaction, but does not include a grace period; (20) “misappropriated” means pledged or sold to a pawnbroker (A) after being stolen; or (B) while being leased to the pledgor or seller by another person if the property has a permanent label or other conspicuous mark identifying it as another person's property; (21) “pawnbroker” means a person who lends money in exchange for a pledge of property; (22) “pawnbroker transaction” means a pawn transaction or purchase; (23) “pawn transaction” means a pledge given in exchange for a loan by a pawnbroker; (24) “personal property” means tangible personal property, but does not include a security, a title to property, a deed, a bill of sale, or printed evidence of indebtedness; (25) “pledge” means a deposit of property as security for payment of financial obligations to a pawnbroker in a pawn transaction; (26) “pledged property” means the property that is pledged in a pawn transaction; (27) “pledgor” means (A) a person who delivers property to a pawnbroker for a pawn transaction; or (B) the principal, if the person who delivers property to a pawnbroker for a pawn transaction discloses that the delivery person is acting for a principal; (28) “police hold order” means a hold order authorized under AS 08.76.320; (29) “property” means personal property; (30) “purchase” means a purchase of property by a pawnbroker that is not a pawn transaction; (31) “redeem” means to obtain the return of pledged property under AS 08.76.270; (32) “register” means the register required to be maintained by AS 08.76.180; (33) “registration fee” means a fee for registering a firearm; (34) “seller” means a person who sells property to a pawnbroker, but does not include a pledgor; (35) “transaction agreement” means the transaction agreement required by AS 08.76.200.