Alaska Administrative Code › Title 17 - Transportation and Public Facilities › Chapter 90 - Division of Measurement Standards › Article 10 - Definitions › 17 AAC 90.990 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
In this chapter, unless the context requires
				  otherwise,
(1) "ANSI" means American
				National Standards Institute;
(2)
				"artifact" means any measurement standard (mass or volume) submitted to the
				metrology laboratory for calibration or other measurement services;
(3) "commercial and law enforcement weighing
				and measuring device" has the same meaning given the term "commercial and
				law-enforcement equipment" in NIST Handbook 44, Section 1.10, General Code,
				Paragraph G-A.1;
(4) "commissioner"
				means the commissioner of the Department of Transportation and Public
				Facilities;
(5) "creep" means that,
				with the load wires removed and with potential only applied to the meter, the
				moving element rotates at a speed in excess of one revolution in
				five;
(6) "current capacity" means
				the maximum current that a meter can carry continuously without damage and
				without exceeding the allowable limits of accuracy;
(7) "day" means calendar day;
(8) "department" means the Department of
				Transportation and Public Facilities;
(9) "device" means a weighing and measuring
				device as described in Item G-A.1 of Section 1.10, General Code, NIST Handbook
				44, adopted by reference in
				AS
				45.75.050(d);
(10) "director" means the director of the
				division of measurement standards and commercial vehicle enforcement;
(11) "division" means the division of
				measurement standards and commercial vehicle enforcement;
(12) "electric meter" means a device that
				measures and registers the integral of an electrical quantity with respect to
				time;
(13) "gpm" means gallons per
				minute;
(14) "NIST" means the
				National Institute of Standards and Technology;
(15) "NTEP" means National Type Evaluation
				Program;
(16) repealed
				9/20/2015;
(17) "power factor"
				means the ratio of watts over volt-amperes, power factor =
				((watts)&gt;volt-ampere);
(18)
				repealed 9/20/2015;
(19) "standard"
				means an artifact established by authority as a rule for the measure of mass
				volume, length, quantity, or other measurable value;
(20) "watthour" means the total or integrated
				amount of energy delivered in one hour at a steady or average rate of one
				watt;
(21) "watthour constant"
				(disk constant) means the registration of one revolution of the rotating
				element expressed in watt-hours;
(22) "weight set" is a group of weights, as
				determined by the director, contained within a single case or carrier designed
				specifically for that weight assortment;
(23) "working day" means a calendar day,
				except Saturday, Sunday, or a state holiday.
(24) "check-out register"
(A) means any device that is commercially
				used in a price verification system at a check-out register;
(B) includes
(i) a device that uses a universal product
				code (UPC) scanner;
(ii) a device
				that uses an electronic product code (EPC) reader;
(iii)  a device that uses manual
				entries;
(iv) any current or future
				use of a device that could be used at the final point of sale as a means for
				pricing commercial sales.