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AK Stat § 18.08.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 08. Emergency Medical Services|Sec. 18.08.060. Meetings.

The council shall meet at the call of the chairman not less frequently than twice a year. A majority of members constitutes a quorum.
AK Stat § 18.08.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 08. Emergency Medical Services|Sec. 18.08.070. Special committees.

The council may create special committees or task forces outside its membership and may appoint persons who are not members of the council to serve as advisors or consultants to any committee created to carry out the purposes of the council.
AK Stat § 18.08.075 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 08. Emergency Medical Services|Sec. 18.08.075. Authority of emergency medical technician and mobile intensive care paramedic.

(a) An emergency medical technician or mobile intensive care paramedic who responds to an emergency with an ambulance service or first responder service, who has in the technician's or mobile intensive care paramedic's possession a current emergency medical technician or mobile intensive care paramedic identification card, and who provides emergency medical care or other emergency medical service, has the authority to (1) control and direct activities at the accident site or emergency until the arrival of law enforcement personnel; (2) order a person other than the owner to leave a building or place in the vicinity of the accident or other emergency for the purpose of protecting the person from injury; (3) temporarily block a public highway, street, or private right-of-way while at the scene of an accident, illness, or emergency; (4) trespass upon property at or near the scene of an accident, illness, or emergency at any time of day or night; (5) enter a building, including a private dwelling, or premises where a report of an injury or illness has taken place or where there is a reasonable cause to believe an individual has been injured or is ill to render emergency medical care; and (6) direct the removal or destruction of a motor vehicle or other thing that the emergency medical technician or mobile intensive care paramedic determines is necessary to prevent further harm to injured or ill individuals. (b) A person who knowingly refuses to comply with an order of an emergency medical technician or mobile intensive care paramedic authorized under (a) of this section is, upon conviction, guilty of a class B misdemeanor. In this subsection, “knowingly” has the meaning given in AS 11.81.900(a).
AK Stat § 18.08.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 08. Emergency Medical Services|Sec. 18.08.080. Regulations.

(a) The department shall adopt, with the concurrence of the Department of Public Safety, regulations establishing standards and procedures for the issuance, renewal, reissuance, revocation, and suspension of certificates or licenses required under AS 18.08.084, as well as other regulations necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. (b) The department may charge fees set by regulation for the certification or licensure of individuals and organizations under this chapter.
AK Stat § 18.08.082 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 08. Emergency Medical Services|Sec. 18.08.082. Issuance of certificates and licenses; designations.

(a) The department shall prescribe by regulation a course of training or other requirements prerequisite to the issuance of certificates or licenses that provide for the following: (1) certification of a person who meets the training and other requirements as an emergency medical technician, emergency medical technician instructor, or emergency medical dispatcher; (2) authorization for an emergency medical technician certified under this chapter to provide under the written or oral direction of a physician the advanced life support services enumerated on the certificate or enumerated on a written document filed with the department by the technician's medical director and approved by the department under its regulations; (3) certification that a person, organization, or government agency that provides an emergency medical service, conducts a training course for a mobile intensive care paramedic, or represents itself as a trauma center meets the minimum standards prescribed by the department for that service, course, or designation; (4) authorization for an emergency medical service certified under this chapter to provide under the written or oral direction of a physician the advanced life support services enumerated on the certificate or enumerated on a written document filed with the department by the medical director for the emergency medical service and approved by the department under its regulations; and (5) licensure of a mobile intensive care paramedic and the medical services that a mobile intensive care paramedic may perform, including the  (A) educational and other qualifications, which may include education in pain management and opioid use and addiction; (B) application and licensing procedures; (C) scope of activities authorized; and (D) responsibilities of a supervising or training physician. (b) The department is the central certifying and licensing agency for a person, organization, or governmental agency that is certified or licensed under (a) of this section and under regulations adopted under AS 18.08.080. (c) The commissioner shall establish special designations in regulation for varying levels of trauma care provided by any certified trauma center in the state that shall be used to set compensation eligibility and amounts under AS 18.08.085. The designations shall be based on nationally recognized standards and procedures.
AK Stat § 18.08.084 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 08. Emergency Medical Services|Sec. 18.08.084. Certificate required.

(a) One may not represent oneself, nor may an agency or business represent an agent or employee of that agency or business, as an emergency medical dispatcher, emergency medical technician, mobile intensive care paramedic, or emergency medical technician instructor certified or licensed by the state unless the person represented is certified or licensed for that occupation under AS 18.08.082. (b) A person, organization, or government agency may not represent itself as an emergency medical service or ambulance service certified by the state unless the person, organization, or government agency is certified as an emergency medical service under AS 18.08.082. (c) A person may not provide, offer, or advertise to provide advanced life support services outside a hospital unless authorized by law. (d) A person, organization, or government agency that provides, offers, or advertises to provide an emergency medical service may not provide advanced life support services unless authorized under AS 18.08.082. (e) A hospital, clinic, or other entity may not represent itself as being a trauma center unless it is certified under AS 18.08.082 as meeting the criteria established for a trauma center. (f) A person, organization, or government agency may not offer or conduct a training course that is represented as a course for mobile intensive care paramedics unless the person, organization, or agency is certified under AS 18.08.082 to offer or conduct that course.
AK Stat § 18.08.085 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 08. Emergency Medical Services|Sec. 18.08.085. Trauma care fund; creation.

(a) The trauma care fund is created. The purpose of the fund is to compensate certified trauma centers in the state that receive a special designation under AS 18.08.082(c) and that achieve or maintain the highest appropriate level of trauma care designation. (b) The fund consists of money appropriated to it by the legislature, including donations, recoveries of or reimbursements for awards made from the fund, income from the fund, and other program receipts from activities under this chapter. Appropriations to the fund do not lapse. (c) The commissioner shall administer the fund in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. The commissioner shall spend money from the trauma care fund for the purpose established in (a) of this section. (d) The commissioner shall establish compensation standards under this section. The standards must include funding priorities for trauma centers receiving a special designation under AS 18.08.082(c). The commissioner may seek the advice of a special committee for review of statewide trauma care and compensation standards. (e) The commissioner may not provide more than 25 percent of the total assets, including earnings, of the fund in a fiscal year to one trauma center.
AK Stat § 18.08.087 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 08. Emergency Medical Services|Sec. 18.08.087. Disclosure of medical records.

When requested for the purpose of evaluating the performance of an emergency medical technician, mobile intensive care paramedic, or physician who provided emergency medical care or other assistance to a sick or injured person, a licensed physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant may disclose to an emergency medical technician, a mobile intensive care paramedic, or physician the medical or hospital records of a sick or injured person to whom the paramedic, technician, or physician is providing or has rendered emergency medical care or assistance. However, the disclosing physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant shall limit disclosure under this section to the records that are considered necessary by the discloser for evaluation of the paramedic's, technician's, or physician's performance in providing the emergency medical care or assistance. A mobile intensive care paramedic, emergency medical care technician, or physician to whom confidential records are disclosed under this section may not further disclose the information to a person not entitled to receive that information under this section or another law.
AK Stat § 18.08.088 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 08. Emergency Medical Services|Sec. 18.08.088. Penalty.

A person who violates a provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction is punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or by both. Each violation is a separate offense.
AK Stat § 18.08.095 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 08. Emergency Medical Services|Sec. 18.08.095. Air ambulance service.

An air ambulance service provider that provides air ambulance services to an individual covered under an air ambulance membership agreement with the provider may not deny emergency medical services to any person on the basis that the person is not covered under an air ambulance membership agreement. In this section, “air ambulance membership agreement” and “air ambulance service provider” have the meanings given in AS 21.61.110.
AK Stat § 18.10.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 10. Health Units and Districts|Sec. 18.10.010. Local health unit and health board.

Each community or settlement outside an incorporated city is a health unit. In each health unit there shall be a board of health composed of the president of the school board and two citizens of the unit selected by the school board. At least one of the members of the health board must, where practicable, be a licensed physician. In a health unit where there is no school board, the commissioner shall appoint three residents of the unit to the local board of health, at least one member of which must, where practicable, be a licensed physician.
AK Stat § 18.10.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 10. Health Units and Districts|Sec. 18.10.020. Health unit in incorporated city.

AS 18.10.010 applies to an incorporated city unless the city otherwise provides for the establishment and maintenance of a local board of health or a health officer.
AK Stat § 18.10.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 10. Health Units and Districts|Sec. 18.10.030. Health units in Native villages and communities.

In a Native village, or community composed largely of Natives, where the formation of a board of health is impracticable, the commissioner may delegate to a representative of the Alaska Native Service the authority granted to the local boards of health.
AK Stat § 18.10.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 10. Health Units and Districts|Sec. 18.10.040. Health districts.

Two or more contiguous health units of two or more local boards of health for contiguous incorporated cities may be constituted a health district by the department. Members of the board of health for this type of health district shall be appointed by the department from residents of each health unit or incorporated city represented in the health district in the numbers and for the periods of time determined by the department.
AK Stat § 18.10.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 10. Health Units and Districts|Sec. 18.10.050. Commissioner to supervise local health boards.

Each local board of health whether inside or outside incorporated cities, and each representative of the Alaska Native Service acting in the capacity of health officer is responsible to and under the supervision of the commissioner.
AK Stat § 18.10.260 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 10. Health Units and Districts|Sec. 18.10.260. Definitions.

In this chapter, (1) “commissioner” means the commissioner of health and social services; (2) “department” means the Department of Health and Social Services.
AK Stat § 18.13.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 13. Genetic Privacy|Sec. 18.13.010. Genetic testing.

(a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, (1) a person may not collect a DNA sample from a person, perform a DNA analysis on a sample, retain a DNA sample or the results of a DNA analysis, or disclose the results of a DNA analysis unless the person has first obtained the informed and written consent of the person, or the person's legal guardian or authorized representative, for the collection, analysis, retention, or disclosure; (2) a DNA sample and the results of a DNA analysis performed on the sample are the exclusive property of the person sampled or analyzed. (b) The prohibitions of (a) of this section do not apply to DNA samples collected and analyses conducted (1) under AS 44.41.035 or comparable provisions of another jurisdiction; (2) for a law enforcement purpose, including the identification of perpetrators and the investigation of crimes and the identification of missing or unidentified persons or deceased individuals; (3) for determining paternity; (4) to screen newborns as required by state or federal law; (5) for the purpose of emergency medical treatment. (c) A general authorization for the release of medical records or medical information may not be construed as the informed and written consent required by this section. The Department of Health and Social Services may by regulation adopt a uniform informed and written consent form to assist persons in meeting the requirements of this section. A person using that uniform informed and written consent is exempt from civil or criminal liability for actions taken under the consent form. A person may revoke or amend their informed and written consent at any time.
AK Stat § 18.13.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 13. Genetic Privacy|Sec. 18.13.020. Private right of action.

A person may bring a civil action against a person who collects a DNA sample from the person, performs a DNA analysis on a sample, retains a DNA sample or the results of a DNA analysis, or discloses the results of a DNA analysis in violation of this chapter. In addition to the actual damages suffered by the person, a person violating this chapter shall be liable to the person for damages in the amount of $5,000 or, if the violation resulted in profit or monetary gain to the violator, $100,000.
AK Stat § 18.13.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 13. Genetic Privacy|Sec. 18.13.030. Criminal penalty.

(a) A person commits the crime of unlawful DNA collection, analysis, retention, or disclosure if the person knowingly collects a DNA sample from a person, performs a DNA analysis on a sample, retains a DNA sample or the results of a DNA analysis, or discloses the results of a DNA analysis in violation of this chapter. (b) In this section, “knowingly” has the meaning given in AS 11.81.900. (c) Unlawful DNA collection, analysis, retention, or disclosure is a class A misdemeanor.
AK Stat § 18.13.100 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 13. Genetic Privacy|Sec. 18.13.100. Definitions.

In this chapter, (1) “DNA” means deoxyribonucleic acid, including mitochondrial DNA, complementary DNA, and DNA derived from ribonucleic acid; (2) “DNA analysis” means DNA or genetic typing and testing to determine the presence or absence of genetic characteristics in an individual, including tests of nucleic acids or chromosomes in order to diagnose or identify a genetic characteristic; “DNA analysis” does not include a routine physical measurement, a test for drugs, alcohol, cholesterol, or the human immunodeficiency virus, a chemical, blood, or urine analysis, or any other diagnostic test that is widely accepted and in use in clinical practice; (3) “genetic characteristic” includes a gene, chromosome, or alteration of a gene or chromosome that may be tested to determine the existence or risk of a disease, disorder, trait, propensity, or syndrome, or to identify an individual or a blood relative; “genetic characteristic” does not include family history or a genetically transmitted characteristic whose existence or identity is determined other than through a genetic test.
AK Stat § 18.16.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 16. Regulation of Abortions|Sec. 18.16.040. Reports.

For each month in which an abortion is performed on a minor by a physician, the physician shall file a report with the Department of Health and Social Services indicating the number of abortions performed on a minor for that month, the age of each minor, the number of previous abortions performed on each minor, if any, and the number of pregnancies of each minor, if any, and the number of consents provided under each of the exceptions enumerated under AS 18.16.020(a)(1) - (4). A report filed under this section may not include identifying information of the minor other than the minor's age.
AK Stat § 18.16.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 16. Regulation of Abortions|Sec. 18.16.050. Partial-birth abortions.

(a) Notwithstanding compliance with AS 18.16.010, a person may not knowingly perform a partial-birth abortion unless a partial-birth abortion is necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, illness, or injury and no other medical procedure would suffice for that purpose. Violation of this subsection is a class C felony. (b) A woman upon whom a partial-birth abortion is performed may not be prosecuted under this section or under any other law if the prosecution is based on this section. (c) In this section, “partial-birth abortion” means an abortion in which the person performing the abortion partially vaginally delivers a living fetus before killing the fetus and completing the delivery.
AK Stat § 18.16.090 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 16. Regulation of Abortions|Sec. 18.16.090. Definitions.

In this chapter, (1) “abortion” means the use or prescription of an instrument, medicine, drug, or other substance or device to terminate the pregnancy of a woman known to be pregnant, except that “abortion” does not include the termination of a pregnancy if done with the intent to (A) save the life or preserve the health of the unborn child; (B) deliver the unborn child prematurely to preserve the health of both the pregnant woman and the woman's child; or (C) remove a dead unborn child; (2) “unemancipated” means that a woman who is unmarried and under 17 years of age has not done any of the following: (A) entered the armed services of the United States; (B) become employed and self-subsisting; (C) been emancipated under AS 09.55.590; or (D) otherwise become independent from the care and control of the woman's parent, guardian, or custodian.
AK Stat § 18.26.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 26. Alaska Medical Facility Authority|Sec. 18.26.010. Legislative finding and policy.

(a) The legislature finds that (1) there exist inadequate medical care and medical facilities in certain localities of the state, and in other localities medical care is not available and medical facilities do not exist at all; (2) construction funding under 42 U.S.C. 291-291z (Title VI, Public Health Service Act) and 42 U.S.C. 2661-2698(b) (P.L. 88-164, Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963) has not been forthcoming to the degree necessary, either alone or when combined with state or local funds, to ameliorate the state's need for medical care and medical facilities; and (3) it is essential that the people of this state have adequate medical care and medical facilities at a reasonable cost. (b) It is declared to be the policy of the state, in the interests of promoting the health and general welfare of all of its people, to provide acceptable alternative means of financing the constructing and equipping of needed medical facilities that, in number, size, type, distribution, operation, and services, are consistent with the orderly and economic development of medical facilities and services, are in the public interest, avoid unnecessary duplication of medical facilities and services, are economical in the use of health personnel, and will assure admission and care of high quality to all who need it. The legislature finds that this policy will be implemented by creating a public corporation called the Alaska Medical Facility Authority, with powers, duties, and functions as provided in this chapter.
AK Stat § 18.26.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender|Chapter 26. Alaska Medical Facility Authority|Sec. 18.26.020. Creation of authority.

There is created the Alaska Medical Facility Authority the sole purpose of which is to provide and finance medical facilities for the benefit of the people of the state. The authority is a public corporation and an instrumentality of the state within the Department of Revenue, but with a separate and independent legal existence.