Alaska Administrative Code › Title 17 - Transportation and Public Facilities › Chapter 15 - Utility and Railroad Permits › Article 5 - General Provisions › 17 AAC 15.901 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
In this chapter
(1)
				"at-grade railroad crossing" means the place where a railroad track and a
				department right-of-way intersect at the same elevation or grade;
(2) "betterment" means any upgrading of a
				utility facility that is made solely for the benefit of the utility and is not
				required by the department to be made in order to accommodate construction by
				the department;
(3) "boring" means
				the method of installing underground conduit or pipe under a structure or
				through an embankment by use of a drilling auger;
(4) "cantilever-mounted signals" means
				railroad crossing signals that are mounted on an arm or a truss beam which
				extends over the roadway and is attached to a post or tower placed at the side
				of the roadway;
(5) "casing" means
				any pipe that encloses a pipeline;
(6) "cathodic protection" means a process or
				system used to control electrochemical corrosion of an underground metallic
				structure (such as a pipeline) by the application of an electric
				current;
(7) "commissioner" means
				the commissioner of transportation and public facilities, or the commissioner's
				designee;
(8) "coring" means the
				method of installing underground conduit or pipe through hard material like
				rock or concrete by using a hollow-tube drilling instrument with cutting teeth
				on the end;
(9) "controlled-access
				highway" means a highway upon which the rights to access, light, view, and air
				by owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons are controlled by the
				department so as to facilitate through traffic;
(10) "controlled-access limits" means the
				area of the highway right-of-way in which highway access is
				controlled;
(11) "cost of
				relocation" means the cost incurred by a railroad or utility that is properly
				attributed to the relocation of a utility or railroad facility after the
				deduction of any increase in the value of the new facility and any salvage
				value attributable to the old facility;
(12) "depth of burial" means the depth to the
				top of the pipe, cable, or other underground structure as measured from the
				surface of the roadway, ditch, or natural ground;
(13) "department" means the Department of
				Transportation and Public Facilities;
(14) "double dead-end structure" means an
				overhead installation on a utility pole in which each conductor is terminated
				and jumpered to continue the circuit;
(15) "eligibility ratio" means that ratio
				between utility or railroad relocation costs that are eligible for
				reimbursement and the total cost of the entire utility or railroad relocation
				work;
(16) "encroachment" means any
				structure or object which is in, on, under, or over a portion of a department
				right-of-way;
(17) "expired service
				life credit" is equal to the original cost of the existing facility multiplied
				by the number of years the facility has been in service divided by total life
				expectancy of the facility in years;
(18) "facility" or "facilities" or "utility
				facility" includes, but is not limited to, poles, lines, trenches, bridges,
				utilidors, tunnels, pipelines, and any other system for furnishing, producing,
				generating, transmitting, or distributing power, electricity, communications,
				telecommunications, water, gas, oil, petroleum products, steam, heat, light,
				chemicals, air, sewage, drainage not connected with highway drainage,
				irrigation, or any other substance;
(19) repealed 7/15/2009;
(20) "grade separation" means the vertical
				separation by the use of a suitable structure of the grades of two intersecting
				roadways or the grades of a roadway and an intersecting railroad
				track;
(21) "grade-separation
				structure" means a bridge, culvert, tunnel, viaduct, or other similar
				structure;
(22) "highway" means a
				road, roadway, street, trail, walk, bridge, tunnel, road drainage structure, or
				other road-related structure or facility, including the entire area within a
				highway right-of-way;
(23) "highway
				structure" includes bridges, buildings, culverts, pedestrian overcrossings,
				pedestrian tunnels, retaining walls, utilidors, and tunnels;
(24) "jacking" means the method of installing
				underground conduit or pipe under a roadway or other state property or through
				an embankment by pushing or packing a liner or heavy-gauge pipe beneath the
				facility;
(25) "joint-use
				agreement" means an agreement between a utility owning poles, trenches, or
				other facilities and other utilities which sets forth the terms and conditions
				by which the poles, trenches, or other facilities, owned by the first utility,
				can be used by other utilities;
(26) "joint-use facility" includes a pole
				line, trench, bridge, utilidor conduit, or tunnel which is used by two or more
				utilities;
(27) "longitudinal
				utility facility" means a utility facility that runs relatively parallel to a
				highway or airstrip;
(28) "median"
				means the portion of a divided highway that separates the traveled ways for
				traffic;
(29) "non-pipe push" means
				the method of installing non-pipe materials under a roadway or other state
				property or through an embankment by using a pushing force;
(30) "plowing" means the installation of
				underground cable for electricity, telephone, or cable television by use of a
				mounted plow-like instrument which digs and feeds out cable at the same
				time;
(31) "railroad" includes all
				rail carriers, whether publicly or privately owned, including steam, diesel,
				and electric railroads, interurban railways, interurban street railways, and
				every other type of street railway;
(32) "railroad crossing" includes the tracks,
				structures, crossing slabs, drainage structures, and crossing protection
				devices which are required to permit railroad trains to cross a department
				right-of-way either at-grade or by use of grade-separation
				structures;
(33) "railroad crossing
				signal" means a signal with flashing lights that is used to indicate the
				approach or presence of trains at railroad crossings;
(34) "railroad facility" means any structure
				or facility that is used for railroad purposes;
(35) "relocate" means adjust, change, remove,
				or reposition;
(36) "restoration"
				means replacing, repairing, or otherwise restoring a right-of-way or other area
				to the same condition that existed before any construction or relocation work
				took place;
(37) "right-of-way" and
				"department right-of-way" mean a highway easement, airport easement,
				section-line easement, any material or borrow pit leased or owned by the state,
				and any land leased or owned by the state and occupied by a public
				facility;
(38) "roadway" means that
				portion of the highway, including shoulders, intended for vehicular
				use;
(39) "roadway prism" means
				that portion of the highway right-of-way between the top of cut or toe of fill
				on either side of the roadway; "roadway prism" includes median
				strips;
(40) "routine maintenance"
				means the repair of any defective or damaged part of a facility or the
				replacement of that part at the same location by another part of the same type,
				capacity, or design, and includes the routine clearing of the area immediately
				adjacent to pedestals, vents, pipes, marker signs, or other similar objects to
				ensure their visibility to the public and other users of department
				rights-of-way;
(41) "rural highway
				or road" means a road or highway without access controls that is located
				outside of an urban area;
(42)
				"siphon" means a conduit, pipe, or tunnel that is used to conduct water from an
				open waterway to a lower elevation and then return it to another open waterway
				at the elevation of the original waterway;
(43) "specifications" means all directions
				and requirements pertaining to and governing the performance of work;
(44) "state" means the State of
				Alaska;
(45) "department contract"
				means a contract for construction of a project which is advertised, awarded,
				and administered by the department and which may contain items relating to
				utility or railroad facilities work;
(46) "surface-mounted facility" means any
				utility or railroad facility extending above the surface of the ground,
				including poles, posts, and hydrants;
(47) "telecommunications" or "communications"
				means the transmission and reception of messages, impressions, pictures, and
				signals by means of electromagnetic waves, force variations, impulses, or any
				other kind of energy, whether conveyed through cable or wire, or whether
				radiated through space or transmitted through any other medium;
(48) "toe of fill" means the point where the
				slope of the roadway building foundation fill, or airport runway fill
				intersects with the natural ground;
(49) "top of cut" means the point where the
				back slope of a roadway cut section intersects with the natural
				ground;
(50) "traveled way" means
				that portion of the roadway intended for the movement of vehicles, exclusive of
				shoulders and parking lanes;
(51)
				"undefined shoulder" means the area adjacent to a traveled way where the
				roadway surface is on the same level as the natural ground and there is no
				longitudinal drainage ditch or roadway fill or cut;
(52) "urban highway or street" means any
				roadway or highway without access controls that is located within a first or
				second class city, or is located within the municipal center of a unified
				municipality or within a developed area that has a commercial, industrial, or
				residential character;
(53)
				"utilidor" means a structure containing one or more channels, usually
				prefabricated in units, including units that are fitted with a removable cover
				that may also be used as a sidewalk or roadway surface;
(54) "utility" includes any corporation,
				company, individual, or association of individuals, or any lessee, trustee, or
				court-appointed receiver, that owns, operates, manages, or controls any line,
				plant, pipeline, or system for furnishing, producing, generating, transmitting,
				or distributing power, electricity, communications, telecommunications, water,
				gas, oil, petroleum products, steam, heat, light, chemicals, air, sewage,
				drainage not connected with highway drainage, irrigation, or similar products
				including publicly owned fire and police signal systems and street lighting
				systems which directly or indirectly serve the public or a segment of the
				public; "utility" also includes any corporation, company, individual, or
				association of individuals, or any lessee, trustee, or court-appointed receiver
				that owns, operates, manages, or controls any system for furnishing
				transportation of goods or persons by means of a railway, tramway, cableway,
				conveyer, flume, canal, tunnel, pipeline, or any other similar means;
(55) "utility locate service" means a service
				provided by a utility to locate its buried utility facilities;
(56) "utility service connection" means the
				cable, wire, or pipe that connects the utility distribution line to the
				premises served;
(57) "wet-boring"
				means the method or process of boring with the use of jets of water or liquid
				slurry;
(58) "airport" has the same
				meaning as in
				AS
				02.15.260(5);
(59) "public facility" has the same meaning
				as in AS 35.25.020(7).
Authority:
AS
					 02.15.020
AS 02.15.102
AS 02.15.106
AS 19.05.020
AS 19.05.040
AS 19.25.010
AS 19.30.121
AS 19.40.065
AS 35.05.020
AS 35.10.230
AS 44.42.020
AS
					 44.42.030