reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
AK Stat § 18.60.890 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 60. Safety|Article 13. Health Care Protections.|Sec. 18.60.890. Definitions.

In AS 18.60.880 - 18.60.890, (1) “bloodborne pathogens” means pathogenic microorganisms that are present in human blood and can cause disease in humans, including hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and human immunodeficiency virus; (2) “department” means the Department of Labor and Workforce Development; (3) “employer” means an employer having an employee with occupational exposure to human blood or other material potentially containing bloodborne pathogens; (4) “engineered sharps injury protections” means a physical attribute built into (A) a needle device used for withdrawing body fluids, accessing a vein or artery, or administering medications or other fluids that effectively reduces the risk of an exposure incident by a mechanism such as barrier creation, blunting, encapsulation, withdrawal, retraction, destruction, or other effective mechanisms; or (B) another type of needle device, or a nonneedle sharp, that effectively reduces the risk of an exposure incident; (5) “engineering controls” means controls, including needleless systems and sharps with engineered sharps injury protections, that isolate or remove the bloodborne pathogens hazard from the workplace; (6) “front-line health care worker” means a nonmanagerial employee responsible for direct patient care with potential occupational exposure to sharps-related injuries; (7) “needleless system” means a device that does not use needles for (A) the withdrawal of body fluids after initial venous or arterial access is established; (B) the administration of medication or fluids; or (C) another procedure involving the potential for an exposure incident; (8) “sharp” means an object used or encountered in a health care setting that can be reasonably anticipated to penetrate the skin or any other part of the body and to result in an exposure incident, including needle devices, scalpels, lancets, broken glass, and broken capillary tubes; (9) “sharps injury” means cuts, abrasions, needlesticks, or other injuries caused by a sharp; (10) “sharps injury log” means a written or electronic record satisfying the requirements of AS 18.60.880(c); (11) “work practice controls” are controls that reduce the likelihood of exposure by altering the manner in which a task is performed.
AK Stat § 18.65.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 1. State Troopers.|Sec. 18.65.010. Commissioner of public safety may appoint special officers.

(a) The commissioner of public safety may appoint as special officers qualified police officers of the federal, state, or local government units or other persons with adequate police training over the age of 19 years, as the commissioner considers necessary to aid and assist the division of state troopers in the enforcement of the criminal laws of the state. Each special officer appointed serves without compensation and at the pleasure of the commissioner of public safety and appointments shall be of limited duration. (b) Each person appointed as a special officer under this section may prevent crime, pursue and apprehend offenders, obtain legal evidence, institute criminal proceedings, execute warrants of arrest or search and seizure, or other criminal process issuing from any court of the state. A special officer may make arrests in the same manner as a member of the division of state troopers. The authority and duties conferred by this section may be exercised in each case only within the geographical limits determined by the commissioner of public safety. (c) Each special officer shall carry identification issued by the commissioner of public safety and shall carry firearms in the manner the commissioner of public safety requires. Each person appointed shall take the constitutional oath of office. Persons appointed may hold other public or private employment. (d) [Repealed, § 3 ch 6 SLA 1978.]
AK Stat § 18.65.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 1. State Troopers.|Sec. 18.65.020. Uniforms and equipment.

The state shall provide members of the state troopers with standard uniforms, vehicles, supplies, and equipment necessary to carry out the objects and purposes of AS 18.65.020 - 18.65.110. All of this property shall remain the property of the state.
AK Stat § 18.65.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 1. State Troopers.|Sec. 18.65.030. Establishment of stations and headquarters.

The commissioner of public safety shall establish stations and headquarters at the places and localities that are necessary for the enforcement of the laws. The state troopers may, with the approval of the governor, have the right to use land and buildings for the accommodation of its members, their vehicles, and equipment.
AK Stat § 18.65.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 1. State Troopers.|Sec. 18.65.040. Service without uniform.

The commissioner of public safety may direct a member to serve without wearing a uniform.
AK Stat § 18.65.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 1. State Troopers.|Sec. 18.65.050. Central information.

The Department of Public Safety shall make available central information on fingerprints, handwriting, ballistics, stains, and other evidence of crime.
AK Stat § 18.65.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 1. State Troopers.|Sec. 18.65.080. Powers and duties of department and members of state troopers.

The Department of Public Safety and each member of the state troopers is charged with the enforcement of all criminal laws of the state, and has the power of a peace officer of the state or a municipality and those powers usually and customarily exercised by peace officers. Each member of the state troopers may prevent crime, pursue and apprehend offenders, obtain legal evidence, institute criminal proceedings, execute any lawful warrant or order of arrest, make an arrest without warrant for a violation of law committed in the presence of the state trooper, and may cooperate with other law enforcement agencies in detecting crime, apprehending criminals, and preserving law and order in the state.
AK Stat § 18.65.085 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 1. State Troopers.|Sec. 18.65.085. Narcotic drugs and alcohol enforcement.

(a) There is established in the Department of Public Safety, division of state troopers, a narcotic drugs and alcohol enforcement unit for the purpose of investigating and combating the illicit sale and distribution of narcotic drugs and alcoholic beverages in the state. Enforcement of the alcoholic beverage control laws shall focus primarily on the investigation, apprehension, and conviction of persons who violate AS 04.11.010 by selling, importing, or possessing alcoholic beverages in violation of a local option adopted by a municipality or established village under AS 04.11.491. (b) The commissioner of public safety shall prepare a report concerning the activities of the narcotic drugs and alcohol enforcement unit. The commissioner shall notify the legislature on the first day of each regular session that the report is available. The report must include, but is not limited to, the number of arrests made, the kind, amount, and value of narcotic drugs and alcoholic beverages seized, the sentences received by narcotic drug and alcohol offenders, and an overall view of the narcotic drug and illicit alcohol problem in the state. (c) The Department of Public Safety may establish and administer a reward program, and provide grants to municipalities, established villages, and, at the request of a municipality or established village, to a nonprofit association that administers a village public safety officer program, for reward programs leading to the apprehension and conviction of persons who violate AS 04.11.010 by selling, importing, or possessing alcoholic beverages in violation of a local option adopted by a municipality or established village under AS 04.11.491.
AK Stat § 18.65.086 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 1. State Troopers.|Sec. 18.65.086. Investigative unit on sexually abused and criminally exploited children.

(a) There is established in the Department of Public Safety, division of state troopers, a special unit for the purpose of investigating cases of repeated child sexual abuse and the criminal exploitation of children. (b) The commissioner of public safety shall prepare, in odd-numbered years, a report concerning the activities of the special unit on repeated child sexual abuse and the criminal exploitation of children. The commissioner shall notify the legislature by the first day of each regular session in an odd-numbered year that the report is available. The report must include, but is not limited to, the number of arrests made in cases of repeated child sexual abuse and the criminal exploitation of children, the number of investigations that result in the Department of Health and Social Services taking temporary or permanent custody of the child, the sentences received by persons convicted in the state of child sexual abuse or criminal exploitation of a child, and an overall view of the problems of child sexual abuse and the criminal exploitation of children in the state. (c) In this section, (1) “child” means a person under 18 years of age at the time the alleged offense was committed by or against the person; (2) “criminal exploitation of children” means the use of a child by an adult in a criminal manner for the personal gratification or profit of the adult; (3) “repeated child sexual abuse” means conduct that is a criminal sexual offense against a child under AS 11 and that is committed against the child more than once or against more than one child.
AK Stat § 18.65.090 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 1. State Troopers.|Sec. 18.65.090. Department to assist other agencies.

The Department of Public Safety shall assist other departments of the state, municipal, and federal governments in the enforcement of criminal laws and regulations pertaining to those departments.
AK Stat § 18.65.100 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 1. State Troopers.|Sec. 18.65.100. Power to command assistance from others.

The Department of Public Safety and members of the state troopers may command the assistance of any able-bodied person to aid in accomplishing the purposes of AS 18.65.020 - 18.65.110, and when called, the person, during the time assistance is required, is considered a member of the state troopers and subject to AS 18.65.020 - 18.65.110.
AK Stat § 18.65.110 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 1. State Troopers.|Sec. 18.65.110. Members not to interfere with rights and property.

Members of the state troopers may not interfere with the rights or property of any person except in a lawful manner necessary for the prevention of crime or the capture and arrest of an offender.
AK Stat § 18.65.130 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 2. Alaska Police Standards Council.|Sec. 18.65.130. Policy.

The administration of criminal justice affects the health, safety, and welfare of the people of this state and requires education and training of a professional quality. It is a primary public interest that applicants meet minimum standards for employment as police officers, probation and parole officers, and correctional officers, and that criminal justice education and training be made available to police officers, probation and parole officers, and correctional officers serving in a probationary capacity and police officers, probation and parole officers, and correctional officers already in regular service. It is of secondary public interest to encourage the establishment of preliminary training programs for persons seeking to become police officers, probation and parole officers, and correctional officers. Application of standards for employment and making education and training available for municipal correctional officers is also in the public interest.
AK Stat § 18.65.140 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 2. Alaska Police Standards Council.|Sec. 18.65.140. Creation.

There is created in the Department of Public Safety the Alaska Police Standards Council.
AK Stat § 18.65.150 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 2. Alaska Police Standards Council.|Sec. 18.65.150. Composition of council.

The council consists of the following persons: (1) four chief administrative officers or chiefs of police of local governments; (2) the commissioner of public safety or a designee of the commissioner; (3) the commissioner of corrections or a designee of the commissioner; (4) two persons, each of whom has been certified for five years or more by the council under this chapter, one of whom serves as a police officer and one of whom serves as a probation officer, parole officer, municipal correctional officer, or correctional officer; (5) one correctional administrative officer who is employed at the level of a deputy director or higher; and (6) four members of the public at large with at least two from the communities of 2,500 population or less.
AK Stat § 18.65.160 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 2. Alaska Police Standards Council.|Sec. 18.65.160. Appointment.

The commissioner of public safety or a designee and the commissioner of corrections or a designee shall serve during each commissioner's continuance in office. Other members of the council shall be appointed by the governor for staggered terms of four years, except that a member may not serve beyond the time the member holds the office that established eligibility for appointment. A vacancy on the council shall be filled for the remainder of a member's unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointment.
AK Stat § 18.65.170 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 2. Alaska Police Standards Council.|Sec. 18.65.170. Chairman and vice chairman.

The council shall select its chairman and vice chairman annually.
AK Stat § 18.65.180 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 2. Alaska Police Standards Council.|Sec. 18.65.180. Holding another office.

Membership on the council does not disqualify a member from holding any other public office or employment.
AK Stat § 18.65.190 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 2. Alaska Police Standards Council.|Sec. 18.65.190. Compensation and expenses.

The members of the council receive no salary, but are entitled to per diem and travel expenses authorized by law for other boards and commissions.
AK Stat § 18.65.200 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 2. Alaska Police Standards Council.|Sec. 18.65.200. Meetings.

The council shall meet at least twice a year. The chairman shall set the time and place of the meeting, either on the chairman's own motion or on written request by any three members of the council.
AK Stat § 18.65.220 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 2. Alaska Police Standards Council.|Sec. 18.65.220. Powers.

The council has the power to (1) adopt regulations for the administration of AS 18.65.130 - 18.65.290; (2) establish minimum standards for employment as a police officer, probation officer, parole officer, municipal correctional officer, and correctional officer in a permanent or probationary position and certify persons to be qualified as police officers, probation officers, parole officers, municipal correctional officers, and correctional officers under AS 18.65.130 - 18.65.290; (3) establish minimum criminal justice curriculum requirements for basic, specialized, and in-service courses and programs for schools operated by or for the state or a political subdivision of the state for the specific purpose of training police recruits, police officers, probation officers, parole officers, municipal correctional officers, and correctional officers; the curriculum requirements established under this paragraph must include training in (A) recognizing persons with disabilities; (B) appropriate interactions with persons with disabilities; (C) resources available to persons with disabilities and to those interacting with persons with disabilities; and (D) the requirements of 42 U.S.C. 12131 - 12165 (Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990); (4) consult and cooperate with municipalities, agencies of the state, other governmental agencies, universities, colleges, and other institutions concerning the development of police officer, probation officer, parole officer, municipal correctional officer, and correctional officer training schools and programs of criminal justice instruction; (5) employ an administrator and other persons necessary to carry out its duties under AS 18.65.130 - 18.65.290; (6) investigate when there is reason to believe that a police officer, probation officer, parole officer, municipal correctional officer, or correctional officer does not meet the minimum standards for employment; in connection with the investigation the council may subpoena persons, books, records, or documents related to the investigation and require answers in writing under oath to questions asked by the council or the administrator; (7) charge and collect a fee of $50 for processing applications for certification of police, probation, parole, municipal correctional, and correctional officers;  (8) require a state and national criminal history record check for an applicant to a training program established in AS 18.65.230 and for a person to be certified as a police officer under AS 18.65.240 if that person's prospective employer does not have access to a criminal justice information system.
AK Stat § 18.65.225 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 2. Alaska Police Standards Council.|Sec. 18.65.225. Alaska police training fund.

The Alaska police training fund is created in the general fund. The fund consists of appropriations made by the legislature to the fund. The legislature may appropriate to the fund the annual estimated balance in the accounts maintained under AS 37.05.142 for money collected under AS 12.25.195(c), AS 12.55.039, AS 28.05.151, and AS 29.25.074. The legislature may make appropriations from the fund to (1) the Department of Public Safety for the Public Safety Training Academy, including Village Public Safety Officers, (2) the Alaska Police Standards Council to provide training for the law enforcement and corrections community of the state under AS 18.65.230, and (3) municipalities that conduct their own police training programs. Nothing in this section creates a dedicated fund.
AK Stat § 18.65.230 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 2. Alaska Police Standards Council.|Sec. 18.65.230. Training programs; criminal history records check.

(a) The council shall establish and maintain police training programs, probation and parole officer training programs, and correctional training programs through those agencies and institutions that the council considers appropriate. (b) To determine a person's qualification for appointment as a police officer under AS 18.65.240, each person who applies for admittance to a basic program of police training established under this section shall submit to the council the person's fingerprints along with the fee established in AS 12.62.160 unless the person's fingerprints were previously submitted by the person's prospective employer. The Department of Public Safety shall conduct a state criminal history record check and may submit the person's fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to obtain a national criminal history record check of the person under AS 12.62.400 for the purpose of evaluating the person's qualifications for appointment as a police officer under AS 18.65.240.
AK Stat § 18.65.240 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 65. Police Protection|Article 2. Alaska Police Standards Council.|Sec. 18.65.240. Standards.

(a) A person may not be appointed as a police officer, except on a probationary basis, unless the person (1) has satisfactorily completed a basic program of police training approved by the council, which includes at least 12 hours of instruction regarding domestic violence and at least 12 hours of instruction regarding sexual assault, as those terms are defined in AS 18.66.990, and (2) possesses other qualifications the council has established for the employment of police officers, including minimum age, education, physical and mental standards, citizenship, moral character, and experience. The council shall prescribe the means of presenting evidence of fulfillment of these requirements. (b) Subject to (d) of this section, the council shall issue a certificate evidencing satisfaction of the requirements of (a) of this section to an applicant who satisfies those requirements or who satisfies the requirements of (a)(2) of this section and satisfactorily completes a program or course of instruction in another jurisdiction equivalent in content and quality to that required by the council for approved police education and training programs in this state. (c) The council may deny or revoke the certificate of a police officer who does not meet the standards adopted under (a)(2) of this section. (d) The council may not issue a certificate under (b) of this section to an applicant unless the council determines that the applicant will undergo a national criminal history record check before employment as a police officer. If a prospective employer of a person seeking certification under this section does not have access to a criminal justice information system to obtain a report of criminal justice information under AS 12.62 and a national criminal history record check, the prospective employer shall submit to the council the applicant's fingerprints along with the fee established in AS 12.62.160. The council or prospective employer shall submit the fingerprints to the Department of Public Safety to request a national criminal history record check of the person for the purpose of evaluating the person's qualifications for appointment as a police officer.