Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 3 AAC 48.820 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless the context indicates otherwise, in this
					 chapter
(1) "answer" means a document
				  filed by a respondent or other party against whom a petition is directed or who
				  is affected by the filing of a petition or application;
(2) "applicant" means a person requesting
				  authorization the commission has authority to grant;
(3) "application" means a written document,
				  signed by an applicant or the applicant's authorized representative, in which
				  an authorization is requested which the commission has the jurisdictional
				  authority to grant;
(4) "base rate
				  area" or "primary rate area" means a developed area, specifically delineated in
				  a local exchange telephone utility's certificate of public convenience and
				  necessity and in the maps filed as part of its tariff, within which station
				  service is furnished to subscribers without requiring them to pay mileage
				  charges or to make any contribution in aid of construction;
(5) "central office" means a switching unit
				  in a telephone system having the necessary equipment and operating arrangements
				  for terminating and interconnecting the lines of subscribers or farmer lines
				  and toll lines or interoffice trunks;
(6) "commission" means the Regulatory
				  Commission of Alaska;
(7)
				  "commissioner" means a member of the commission;
(8) "complainant" means a person who
				  complains to the commission of anything done or not done in contravention or
				  violation of the provisions of any statute or other delegated authority
				  administered by the commission, or of any requirement of the commission or any
				  other alleged wrong;
(9) repealed
				  6/29/84;
(10) "effective tariff"
				  means a tariff that has been filed, noticed and placed in effect in full
				  compliance with all the procedural requirements established by law and by this
				  chapter;
(11) "exchange" or "local
				  exchange" means an operating unit established by a utility for communication
				  service within a specific geographic area; the unit usually embraces a city,
				  town, village or community and its environs, and usually consists of one or
				  more central offices together with the associated plant used in furnishing
				  telephone communication service to the general public within that
				  area;
(12) "exchange area" means a
				  specific area in which a developed local exchange telephone service is
				  furnished by a utility;
(13)
				  "filing or submittal" means applications, declarations, complaints, petitions,
				  and other papers seeking commission action; financial, statistical, and other
				  reports to the commission; original cost and reclassification studies, proposed
				  accounting entries, tariff filings, and other submittals to the commission in
				  compliance with a statute, regulation, or other commission requirement;
				  answers, replies, responses, objections, protests, motions, stipulations,
				  exceptions, and other pleadings; exhibits, attachments and appendices;
				  amendments to, corrections of, supplements to, or transmittals or withdrawals
				  of, any of these documents, and any other document filed or submitted under AS
				  42.05 or AS 42.06 or the applicable provisions of 3 AAC 48, 3 AAC 49, 3 AAC 50,
				  or 3 AAC 52;
(14) "hearing
				  examiner" means any of the following individuals, if authorized and designated
				  by the commission to preside at hearings and perform other duties associated
				  with a formal proceeding:
(A) a member of the
				  commission's staff;
(B) an
				  individual whom the commission employs on a contractual basis;
(C) an employee or officer of an agency of
				  this state, other than the commission;