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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 34 - Medical Use of Marijuana › Article 1 - Medical Marijuana Registry › 7 AAC 34.030 - Primary care-giver

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as permitted under (b) of this
				  section, an individual may be designated as the primary care giver only for one
				  patient who holds a valid registry identification card.
(b) Notwithstanding the limitation of (a) of
				  this section, upon the written request of an applicant for a registry
				  identification card the department will, in its discretion, permit more than
				  one patient to designate the same individual as each patient's primary
				  care-giver
(1) in order to avoid unnecessary
				  hardship to the patient;
(2) where
				  the patient's care is being provided in a hospice program licensed under AS
				  18.18; or
(3) where the primary
				  care-giver is simultaneously caring for both the applicant and one or more
				  other patients who reside in the same household as the care-giver.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 34 - Medical Use of Marijuana › Article 1 - Medical Marijuana Registry › 7 AAC 34.040 - Review and verification; return for incompleteness

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The department
				  will review an application for completeness and verify the information provided
				  by the applicant including, as appropriate, contacting the applicant, the
				  applicant's physician, and the applicant's primary care-giver, if one is
				  designated at the time of application.
(b) If an application is complete and the
				  information provided by the applicant is satisfactorily verified, the
				  department will issue a registry identification card to the applicant. Except
				  as otherwise permitted under
				  7 AAC 34.030(b), if the application is
				  complete and verified, but the applicant has named as primary care-giver an
				  individual who has been designed as the primary care-giver for another patient
				  who holds a valid registry identification card, the department will issue the
				  registry identification card without designating a primary
				  care-giver.
(c) If an application
				  is not complete or if information provided with the application cannot be
				  verified, the department will
(1) return the
				  application to the applicant without action on the application; and
(2) notify the applicant in writing of the
				  reason for returning the application.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 34 - Medical Use of Marijuana › Article 1 - Medical Marijuana Registry › 7 AAC 34.050 - Grounds for denial of a registration card

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as
				  otherwise provided under
				  7 AAC 34.040, the department will deny an application
				  for a registry identification card if
(1) the
				  application is not complete;
(2)
				  the application does not meet the requirements of this chapter and AS
				  17.37;
(3) the information in the
				  application cannot be verified;
(4)
				  the information in the application is false;
(5) the applicant submitted another
				  application for a registry identification card less than six months before the
				  date the application being reviewed was received by the department;
(6) the applicant is precluded from obtaining
				  a registry identification card under
				  AS
				  17.37.040(b); or
(7) the applicant's condition is not a
				  qualified debilitating medical condition.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 34 - Medical Use of Marijuana › Article 1 - Medical Marijuana Registry › 7 AAC 34.060 - Expiration of registration

Current through May 31, 2024
The expiration date of a registry identification card is
					 the last day of the twelfth full calendar month after the date of
					 issuance.
Authority:
AS
						17.37.010
AS
						18.05.040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 34 - Medical Use of Marijuana › Article 1 - Medical Marijuana Registry › 7 AAC 34.070 - Renewal; lapse of registration

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A patient who
				  wishes to renew a registry identification card must apply for the renewal in
				  the manner provided under
				  7 AAC 34.020 and must pay the renewal fee established in
				  7 AAC 34.080(b).
(b) A patient whose registry identification
				  card has expired at the time of submission of an application for the renewal
				  will be considered a new applicant for a card and must pay the fee for
				  first-time applicants established in
				  7 AAC 34.080(a).
Authority:
AS
						17.37.010
AS
						18.05.040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 34 - Medical Use of Marijuana › Article 1 - Medical Marijuana Registry › 7 AAC 34.080 - Fees

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A patient applying for the first time for
				  a registry identification card under
				  7 AAC 34.020 must submit a non-refundable application
				  fee of $25.
(b) Except as otherwise
				  provided in
				  7 AAC 34.070(b), a patient applying for
				  renewal of a registry identification card under
				  7 AAC 34.070 must submit a non-refundable application
				  renewal fee of $20.
Authority:
AS
						17.37.010
AS
						18.05.040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 34 - Medical Use of Marijuana › Article 1 - Medical Marijuana Registry › 7 AAC 34.090 - Updating information

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In accordance with
				  AS
				  17.37.010(g), a patient to
				  whom a registry identification card has been issued must notify the department
				  of a change in the patient's name, address, physician, or primary care-giver
				  within 10 days of the change.
(b)
				  In accordance with
				  AS
				  17.37.010(h), a patient to
				  whom a registry identification card has been issued shall return the card to
				  the department within 24 hours of being diagnosed by the patient's physician
				  that the patient no longer has a qualifying debilitating medical
				  condition.
The department's address to update information under
						7 AAC 34.090(a) or to return a registry
						identification card under
						7 AAC 34.090(b) is Marijuana Registry,
						Department of Health and Social Services, P.O. Box 110699, Juneau, AK
						99811-0699.
Authority:
AS
						17.37.010
AS
						18.05.040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 34 - Medical Use of Marijuana › Article 1 - Medical Marijuana Registry › 7 AAC 34.100 - Confidentiality

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Only department employees authorized by
				  the department to do so in the course of their official duties may have access
				  to information related to the registration status of an individual under
				  AS
				  17.37.010 or this chapter.
(b) The department will provide information
				  regarding the registration status of an individual only to a police officer or
				  prosecuting attorney employed by the state or a local law enforcement agency
				  who requires that information for the purpose of verifying that an individual
				  who has presented a registry identification card is in lawful possession of
				  that card.
Authority:
AS
						17.37.010
AS
						18.05.040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 34 - Medical Use of Marijuana › Article 2 - Qualifying Debilitating Conditions › 7 AAC 34.200 - Petitions for addition of debilitating conditions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The department
				  will accept and consider physician or patient initiated petitions to add other
				  debilitating medical conditions to those permitted under
				  AS
				  17.37.070 using the procedure provided in
				  this section.
(b) A petition
				  submitted under this section must provide at least the following information:
(1) the petitioner's name, address, and
				  telephone number;
(2) a medical
				  description of the condition proposed to be added as a debilitating medical
				  condition;
(3) a description of
				  relevant medical indicators, including references to or copies of available
				  medical studies and reports, that show that
(A) the condition identified is
				  debilitating;
(B) the medicinal use
				  of marijuana is likely to benefit a patient with the condition; and
(C) the condition can be accurately diagnosed
				  by a physician.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 34 - Medical Use of Marijuana › Article 3 - General Provisions › 7 AAC 34.990 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
In this chapter, unless the context requires
					 otherwise,
(1) "certified copy" means
				  a copy of the original document that has been certified to be a true and
				  correct copy of the original
(A) by the
				  person who signed the original document;
(B) by a notary public or other person
				  authorized to administer oaths under
				  AS
				  09.63.010; or
(C) if a notary public or other person
				  authorized to administer oaths under
				  AS
				  09.63.010 is unavailable, in accordance with
				  the provisions of
				  AS
				  09.63.020;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 35 - Embalming and Other Post-Mortem Services › Article 1 - Disposition of Human Remains › 7 AAC 35.090 - Care of human remains

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Repealed 12/29/2006.
(b) Embalmers shall take every precaution to
				  prevent the spread of infections from persons who have died of communicable
				  diseases.
(c) It shall be the duty
				  and responsibility of all physicians licensed to practice medicine in the State
				  of Alaska who are in attendance or any physician who by virtue of his
				  appointment as medical examiner or local health officer shall have knowledge or
				  suspect that a person has died of a communicable disease which may reasonably
				  constitute a threat to the health of morticians and their staffs, village
				  officials, clergymen, and all others involved in the handling and preparation
				  of a dead human body, to inform and counsel such individuals promptly of this
				  hazard or potential threat to their health and safety. Appropriate
				  precautionary measures to prevent the spread of communicable diseases from
				  deceased human bodies to employees of mortuary establishments, persons
				  contracted to provide services involved in the preparation and handling of dead
				  human bodies, and to the general public, shall be undertaken at all times and
				  shall be the responsibility of the funeral director, or in his absence, the
				  senior village official present.
(d) When an individual dies who has smallpox,
				  plague, anthrax, diphtheria, meningococcal meningitis, cholera, epidemic
				  typhus, any toxic hazard, or any unusual infectious disease, the body shall be
				  handled and prepared using the precautions appropriate to prevent the spread of
				  the hazard or infectious disease. If one of the above named infectious diseases
				  occurred or was reasonably suspected to be present, the body must be placed, as
				  soon as reasonably possible, in a leak proof and puncture resistant container
				  accommodating the entire body which shall be permanently closed unless the
				  commissioner of health and social services makes a specific
				  exception.
Authority:
AS
						18.05.040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 35 - Embalming and Other Post-Mortem Services › Article 1 - Disposition of Human Remains › 7 AAC 35.100 - Transportation of human remains

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The
				  transportation of human remains shall be permitted only in a container
				  accommodating the entire body. The container must be of wood, metal, plastic,
				  canvas, reinforced nylon, composition board, or other suitable
				  material.
(b) The transportation of
				  remains of an individual who, at death, had any of the infectious diseases
				  listed in 7 AAC 35.090(d) is
				  permitted only under the following conditions:
(1) the human remains must be placed in a
				  container accommodating the entire body; and
(2) the container must be placed in a
				  suitable shipping container that completely encases the body and provides a
				  protective barrier between the body and the environment.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 35 - Embalming and Other Post-Mortem Services › Article 1 - Disposition of Human Remains › 7 AAC 35.110 - Requirements of funeral establishments

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A funeral
				  establishment shall
(1) repealed
				  12/29/77;
(2) have a sanitary
				  preparation room; and
(3) be
				  subject to approval and inspection by the department.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 35 - Embalming and Other Post-Mortem Services › Article 1 - Disposition of Human Remains › 7 AAC 35.120 - Preparation room requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The walls and
				  ceiling of the preparation room shall be covered with tile, plaster, sheet
				  rock, composition wall board or brick. With the exception of tile, all these
				  materials shall be finished off with an impervious, readily washable or
				  cleanable material.
(b) Outside
				  ventilation shall be provided for by windows or transoms. If outside
				  ventilation cannot be provided for by these means, an eight-inch pipe shall be
				  installed to run from the ceiling of the room to the roof of the building, or
				  from the side wall to the outside of the building. The installation shall be
				  arranged so that it will not be a public health hazard.
(c) The preparation room shall be private and
				  shall not be located near a public passageway. It shall contain only equipment
				  necessary for preparing bodies for burial or shipment, and no toilet or
				  commode.
(d) Windows and exterior
				  doors shall be installed in such a way that the room shall be obstructed from
				  view from the outside and so that fumes and odors are prevented from entering
				  other parts of the building.
(e)
				  The equipment for preparation rooms shall consist of the following:
(1) an operation or embalming table, which
				  has rustproof metal or porcelain or glass top and a drainage opening at the
				  lower end;
(2) a covered waste can,
				  and sink with running water and backflow prevention and sewage
				  connections;
(3) a cabinet, and
				  instrument table, instruments, all necessary supplies including disinfectants
				  and antiseptics, a sterilizer for instruments, and several pairs of rubber
				  gloves;
(4) a first aid emergency
				  kit for personal use.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 35 - Embalming and Other Post-Mortem Services › Article 1 - Disposition of Human Remains › 7 AAC 35.130 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
In this chapter, unless indicated otherwise
(1) "department" means Department of Health
				  and Social Services;
(2) repealed
				  12/29/2006;
(3) repealed
				  12/29/2006;
(4) "embalm" means to
				  chemically treat human remains to reduce the presence and growth of
				  microorganisms, to temporarily inhibit organic decomposition, and to restore an
				  acceptable physical appearance;
(5)
				  repealed 12/29/2006;
(6) repealed
				  12/29/77;
(7) repealed
				  12/29/77;
(8) repealed
				  12/29/77;
(9) "funeral
				  establishment" means every place or premises devoted to or used in the care and
				  preparation for burial of the body or major portion of the body of a deceased
				  person, or where dead human bodies are prepared for burial or other
				  disposition;
(10) repealed
				  12/29/77;
(11) "infectious disease"
				  has the meaning given in
				  AS
				  18.15.395.
Authority:
AS
						18.05.040
AS
						18.15.395
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 35 - Embalming and Other Post-Mortem Services › Article 2 - Cost of Post-Mortem Examinations, Autopsies, Embalming and Related Services › 7 AAC 35.140 - Designation of facilities

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A medical
				  examiner may perform a post-mortem examination and autopsy ordered under AS
				  12.65 at
(1) a funeral
				  establishment;
(2) a general
				  acute-care hospital licensed by the department or operated by the United States
				  government;
(3) a morgue operated
				  by a state or federal agency; or
(4) another facility temporarily designated
				  by the commissioner.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 35 - Embalming and Other Post-Mortem Services › Article 2 - Cost of Post-Mortem Examinations, Autopsies, Embalming and Related Services › 7 AAC 35.145 - Claims for services

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The department will pay costs described
				  at AS
				  12.65.025(a), (b), or (c)
				  subject to legislative appropriation and the limitation of this
				  section.
(b) A medical examiner,
				  funeral director, embalmer, state agency or common carrier shall submit a claim
				  to the department for payment of a cost described at
				  AS
				  12.65.025 by delivering the claim to the
				  division as directed by the division. A claim authorized by this subsection
				  must include
(1) the name and address of the
				  claimant;
(2) the date when and
				  location at which services were provided;
(3) the state medical examiner's accession
				  number and name of the deceased;
(4) an itemized description of the services
				  and goods provided;
(5) the name
				  and address to which payment should be directed;
(6) the names and addresses of all other
				  persons to whom the claimant has submitted or will submit claims for goods and
				  services related to the deceased, the amounts of any such claims, and the
				  nature of the services for which the claims were or will be made.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 35 - Embalming and Other Post-Mortem Services › Article 2 - Cost of Post-Mortem Examinations, Autopsies, Embalming and Related Services › 7 AAC 35.150 - Definitions for 7 AAC 35.140 - 7 AAC 35.150

Current through May 31, 2024
As used in
					 7 AAC 35.140 -
					 7 AAC 35.150
(1) "claimant" means a person who signs and
				  submits a claim to the department for the payment of costs under
				  AS
				  12.65.025;
(2) "commissioner" means the commissioner of
				  the Department of Health and Social Services;
(3) "deceased" means the body of an
				  individual upon which a coroner has directed that a medical examiner perform a
				  post-mortem examination under AS 12.65;
(4) "division" means the division of public
				  health within the Department of Health and Social Services, or a division that
				  succeeds to its duties under this chapter;
(5) "embalmer" means an embalmer licensed by
				  the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development under AS
				  08.42;
(6) "funeral director" means
				  a funeral director licensed by the Department of Commerce, Community, and
				  Economic Development under AS 08.42;
(7) "funeral establishment" means a funeral
				  establishment that has a permit required by
				  AS
				  08.42.100;
(8) "judicial officer" means a judicial
				  officer described at
				  AS
				  22.20.010 or a coroner appointed under
				  AS
				  22.15.310;
(9) "medical examiner" means a medical
				  examiner appointed by the commissioner under
				  AS
				  12.65.010;
(10) "morgue" means a place that meets the
				  requirements of
				  7 AAC 35.120, where human remains are kept for
				  identification and autopsy;
(11)
				  "person legally responsible for burial" means the personal representative of
				  the deceased, appointed under
				  AS
				  22.15.320, AS 13.16, or a similar statute of
				  another jurisdiction; the term also includes a person otherwise legally
				  responsible for burial.
Additional definitions relevant to
						7 AAC 35.140 -
						7 AAC 35.150 may be found in
						AS
						01.10.060.
As of Register 171 (October 2004), the regulations
						attorney made technical revisions under
						AS
						44.62.125(b)(6) to reflect
						the name change of the Department of Community and Economic Development to the
						Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development made by ch. 47, SLA
						2004 and the corresponding title change of the commissioner of community and
						economic development.
Authority:
AS
						12.65.025
AS
						18.05.040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 35 - Embalming and Other Post-Mortem Services › Article 3 - Autopsies, State Medical Examiner Office › 7 AAC 35.200 - Fees

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as provided in (c) and (d) of this
				  section, the following fees apply to the provision of autopsy reports and
				  photographs under this chapter:
(1) autopsy
				  reports, without photographs, 15 cents a page or the actual cost of copying,
				  whichever is higher;
(2) autopsy
				  photographs, $5 a picture or the actual cost of photographic reproduction,
				  whichever is higher.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 35 - Embalming and Other Post-Mortem Services › Article 3 - Autopsies, State Medical Examiner Office › 7 AAC 35.210 - Local, regional, and district medical examiners

Current through May 31, 2024
The state medical examiner will, in the state medical
					 examiner's discretion, appoint a local, regional, or district medical examiner
					 to perform a post-mortem examination, autopsy, or other service requested by
					 the state medical examiner.
Authority:
AS
						12.65.015
AS
						12.65.020
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 35 - Embalming and Other Post-Mortem Services › Article 3 - Autopsies, State Medical Examiner Office › 7 AAC 35.220 - Disposition of clothing and other property

Current through May 31, 2024
Immediately upon finding jewelry, money, papers, or other
					 items of personal property with a decedent brought to the state medical
					 examiner under AS 12.65, the state medical examiner or the state medical
					 examiner's designee shall make a list of those items. Unless the item is held
					 as evidence in a criminal or civil investigation, the state medical examiner
					 shall release the item to a member of the decedent's family or other person
					 that the state medical examiner determines to be responsible for the personal
					 effects of the decedent. The state medical examiner shall retain the decedent's
					 clothing for 72 hours after receipt of the decedent's body. After that time
					 period has passed and unless the clothing is held as evidence in a criminal or
					 civil investigation, the state medical examiner shall dispose of the clothing
					 as a biohazard. However, the state medical examiner will, in the state medical
					 examiner's discretion, release clothing that the state medical examiner
					 determines is not a biohazard if the item is requested by a member of the
					 decedent's family or other person responsible for the personal effects of the
					 decedent within 72 hours after the body is delivered to the state medical
					 examiner.
Authority:
AS
						12.65.020
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 35 - Embalming and Other Post-Mortem Services › Article 3 - Autopsies, State Medical Examiner Office › 7 AAC 35.290 - Definitions for 7 AAC 35.200 - 7 AAC 35.290

Current through May 31, 2024
As used in
					 7 AAC 35.200 -
					 7 AAC 35.290
(1) "department" means the Department of
				  Health and Social Services;
(2)
				  "state medical examiner" means the state officer appointed by the commissioner
				  of the department under
				  AS
				  12.65.015.
Authority:
AS
						12.65.020
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 35 - Embalming and Other Post-Mortem Services › Article 4 - Medicolegal Death Investigation, State Medical Examiner Office › 7 AAC 35.310 - Investigating reported deaths

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A medicolegal
				  death investigator shall perform, for the state medical examiner, a medicolegal
				  death investigation of each death reported under
				  AS
				  12.65.005.
(b) The state medical examiner, after
				  evaluating all available information gathered during the medicolegal death
				  investigation, may
(1) assume jurisdication
				  for the purpose of performing the remainder of the medical death investigation
				  under
				  AS
				  12.65.020;
(2) determine whether to transport the body
				  to the office or another location for an examination;
(3) determine the manner and cause of death;
				  and
(4) determine or confirm
				  identity.
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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 35 - Embalming and Other Post-Mortem Services › Article 4 - Medicolegal Death Investigation, State Medical Examiner Office › 7 AAC 35.320 - Assuming jurisdiction

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Only the state medical examiner may
				  assume jurisdiction after evaluating all the available information gathered
				  during the medicolegal death investigation.
(b) The state medical examiner, after
				  evaluating all available information gathered during the medicolegal death
				  investigation,
(1) will assume jurisdiction
				  on an apparent homicide, and the department will transport the remains of the
				  deceased person to the office or another location for examination;
(2) will assume jurisdiction on the
				  following, and the department may transport the remains of the deceased person
				  to the office or another location for examination:
(A) an apparent accident;
(B) an apparent suicide;
(3) may assume jurisdiction on the following,
				  and the department may transport the remains of the deceased person to the
				  office or another location for examination:
(A) a stillborn infant;
(B) a death that occurred while the deceased
				  person was in the custody of, or was being taken into the custody of, the state
				  or a political subdivision of the state or a public officer or agent of the
				  state or a political subdivision of the state;
(C) a death that occurred in a jail or
				  corrections facility owned or operated by the state or a political subdivision
				  of the state or in a facility for the placement of persons in the custody or
				  under the supervision of the state;
(D) a death that apparently resulted from a
				  disease that constitutes a threat to public health;
(E) a death associated with a diagnostic or
				  therapeutic procedure;
(F) an
				  apparently natural death that occurred suddenly when the decedent was in
				  apparent good health;
(G) an
				  apparently natural, unattended death; and
(4) will decline jurisdiction, except as
				  provided in (1) and (2) of this subsection, on a case if, in the opinion of the
				  state medical examiner, the death does not warrant further
				  investigation.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 35 - Embalming and Other Post-Mortem Services › Article 4 - Medicolegal Death Investigation, State Medical Examiner Office › 7 AAC 35.330 - Transportation

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) If the state medical examiner or the
				  deputy medical examiner orders transportation of the remains of the deceased
				  person under
				  AS
				  12.65.020(a)(4), the
				  department is responsible for transportation of the remains as described in
				  AS
				  12.65.025.
(b) The department will determine the mode of
				  transportation to the applicable location under
				  AS
				  12.65.025 and back to the community closest
				  to the location of the death.
(c)
				  Remains transported directly from the applicable location under
				  AS
				  12.65.025 following examination will be
				  shipped in a container that is appropriate for human remains and complies with
				  the requirements in
				  7 AAC 35.100.
Authority:
AS
						12.65.015
AS
						12.65.020
AS 18.05..040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 35 - Embalming and Other Post-Mortem Services › Article 4 - Medicolegal Death Investigation, State Medical Examiner Office › 7 AAC 35.340 - Personal property

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A medicolegal death investigator has the
				  primary responsibility for gathering, safeguarding, and transferring personal
				  property of the decedent.
(b) Any
				  item present at the scene and relevant to the medical death investigation must
				  remain at the scene and must be made available to the medicolegal death
				  investigator to examine and photograph before the investigating agency removes
				  it.
(c) If the remains of the
				  deceased person need to be transported to the office or applicable location
				  under
				  AS
				  12.65.025, the personal effects on or about
				  the remains or other item at the scene may be brought to the office if the item
				  may be evidence.
(d) Before
				  transporting the remains of the deceased person to the office, the medicolegal
				  death investigator may release directly to the family of the deceased person a
				  personal item that is not evidence.
(e) The personal property that the office
				  releases may be picked up directly from the office, released to a funeral home,
				  or shipped by the office.
Authority:
AS
						12.65.015
AS
						12.65.020
AS 18.05..040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 35 - Embalming and Other Post-Mortem Services › Article 4 - Medicolegal Death Investigation, State Medical Examiner Office › 7 AAC 35.350 - Release of remains

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The office will release the remains of a
				  deceased person after it receives a signed Authorization for Release of Remains
				  form, dated April 7, 2014, adopted by reference, completed by a person
				  authorized under
				  AS
				  13.75.020.
(b) The state medical examiner may place a
				  hold the remains of a deceased person at a funeral home, hospital, or other
				  site approved by the state medical examiner if the medicolegal death
				  investigator was unable to answer some investigative questions when the
				  investigator completed the initial death report.
(c) If the state medical examiner declines
				  jurisdiction, and the remains of the deceased person will be released directly
				  from the scene, the following applies:
(1) if
				  the person died at home, and the family was present, the remains will be
				  released directly to the family;
(2) if the person died at home, and no family
				  was present, the remains will be released to the investigating agency;
(3) if the person died in a
				  hospital, the remains will be released to that hospital.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 35 - Embalming and Other Post-Mortem Services › Article 4 - Medicolegal Death Investigation, State Medical Examiner Office › 7 AAC 35.360 - Viewing the remains

Current through May 31, 2024
The remains of a deceased person may not be viewed while in
					 the custody of the department as part of a medicolegal death investigation or
					 under the jurisdiction of the state medical examiner as part of a medical death
					 investigation.
Authority:
AS
						12.65.015
AS 18.05..040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 35 - Embalming and Other Post-Mortem Services › Article 4 - Medicolegal Death Investigation, State Medical Examiner Office › 7 AAC 35.390 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
In 7 AAC 35.310 - 7 AAC 35.390, unless the context
					 requires otherwise,
(1) "department"
				  means the Department of Health and Social Services;
(2) "family" means persons authorized to
				  control disposition of a deceased person's remains under
				  AS
				  13.75.020;
(3) "jurisdiction" means responsibility for
				  performing the remainder of a medical death investigation under
				  AS
				  12.65.020, determining the manner and cause
				  of death, and verifying the deceased person's identity;
(4) "medicolegal death investigation" means
				  the process at the start of a medical death investigation to assess each death
				  reported to the department under
				  AS
				  12.65.005, so that the state medical examiner
				  may determine whether to assume jurisdiction for the purpose of performing the
				  remainder of the medical death investigation under
				  AS
				  12.65.020;
(5) "medicolegal death investigator" means a
				  public employee or contractor in the service of the office who performs the
				  initial death investigation; in this paragraph, "initial death investigation"
				  includes taking reports of death, investigating scenes, collecting records,
				  interviewing witnesses, and serving subpoenas on behalf of the state medical
				  examiner;
(6) "office" means the
				  state medical examiner office in the department;
(7) "personal property" means clothing and
				  personal items;
(8) "remains" means
				  a body or any part of a body;
(9)
				  "unattended death" means the death of a person who has not been examined or
				  prescribed medication by a physician, physician assistant, or advanced practice
				  registered nurse within the year before death.
Authority:
AS
						12.65.015
AS
						12.65.020
AS 18.05..040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance › Chapter 36 - Administration (Relocated)

Current through May 31, 2024
Effective 1/1/96, the former contents of this chapter were
				  relocated to a new chapter at 7 AAC 54 as part of a reorganization of portions
				  of the title. No change was made to either the content or the numbering of the
				  individual sections within the chapter, other than to change their chapter
				  number.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance › Chapter 37 - Public Assistance › 7 AAC 37.010 - Safeguarding information

Current through May 31, 2024
The regulations of the Department of Health and Social
				  Services must provide safeguards which restrict the use or disclosure of
				  information concerning applicants for and recipients of public assistance to
				  purposes directly connected with administration of the assistance
				  programs.
Authority:
AS
					 47.05.010
AS 47.05.020
AS 47.05.030
AS
					 47.05.040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance › Chapter 37 - Public Assistance › 7 AAC 37.020 - Information to be safeguarded

Current through May 31, 2024
Information which must be safeguarded includes the following,
				  whether recorded or not:
(1) names and
				addresses, including lists, of applicants for and recipients of
				assistance;
(2) information
				contained in applications, reports of investigations or medical examinations,
				correspondence, and other records concerning the condition or circumstances of
				any person from whom, or about whom, information is obtained; and
(3) records of agency evaluations of the
				information described in this section.
Authority:
AS
					 47.05.010
AS 47.05.020
AS 47.05.030
AS
					 47.05.040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance › Chapter 37 - Public Assistance › 7 AAC 37.030 - Prohibitions against disclosure of information

Current through May 31, 2024
The use of all public assistance information and records,
				  including all lists of names and addresses, will be limited to purposes
				  directly connected with the administration of public assistance programs. These
				  purposes include establishing eligibility, determining amounts of assistance,
				  and providing services. No disclosure of any information or list, obtained by
				  any representative or employee of the department, in the course of discharging
				  its duties, may be made directly or indirectly, other than in the
				  administration of assistance programs.
Authority:
AS
					 47.05.010
AS 47.05.020
AS 47.05.030
AS
					 47.05.040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance › Chapter 37 - Public Assistance › 7 AAC 37.040 - Authorization for disclosure of information

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The
				commissioner of health and social services has exclusive control and custody of
				all public assistance information. For purposes of facilitating administration
				of public assistance programs, the commissioner delegates authority to the
				eligibility staff of the department to disclose information. Any request for
				information not clearly covered by this delegation, or requiring a special
				determination, will be referred to the director of the division of public
				assistance by the eligibility staff.
(b) All public assistance information
				procured by or available to division of public assistance staff, both
				professional and clerical, may be used by staff members only, in accordance
				with 7 AAC 37.
Authority:
AS
					 47.05.010
AS 47.05.020
AS 47.05.030
AS
					 47.05.040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance › Chapter 37 - Public Assistance › 7 AAC 37.050 - Disclosure to law enforcement officers

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Public
				assistance information may not be released to federal, state, or local law
				enforcement officers, including district attorneys, U.S. marshals, or local
				police officers, without a court order, except for purposes directly connected
				with the administration of a public assistance program.
(b) Notwithstanding (a) of this section, a
				provider of medical assistance as defined in 7 AAC 43.090(18), an employee of a
				provider, or the division of medical assistance, shall
(1) comply with the reporting requirements of
				AS
				47.17.010-47.17.022, if the recipient is a
				child; AS
				47.24.010 - 47.24.100, if the recipient is a
				dependent adult; and AS 47.24.110-47.24.120, if the
				recipient is a disabled adult; and
(2) report to the department and to the local
				law enforcement authority
(A) the same
				information reported under (b)(1) of this section;
(B) any reasonable cause to suspect that the
				recipient has threatened or poses a threat to the physical safety of another
				person and it appears possible that the threat may be carried out; or
(C) any reasonable cause to suspect that the
				recipient is at risk of imminent bodily harm.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance › Chapter 37 - Public Assistance › 7 AAC 37.060 - Disclosure in court or other hearings

Current through May 31, 2024
No person employed by the Department of Health and Social
				  Services in any capacity may give testimony in court or in a hearing of any
				  nature regarding any person, record, file, paper, or information connected with
				  the administration of a public assistance program, except
(1) for a purpose directly connected with the
				administration of a public assistance program;
(2) if the applicant or recipient concerned
				has authorized the release of the information; or
(3) if a court, having been informed of the
				existence of policies and regulations against disclosure, orders
				disclosure.
Authority:
AS
					 47.05.010
AS 47.05.020
AS 47.05.030
AS
					 47.05.040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance › Chapter 37 - Public Assistance › 7 AAC 37.070 - Staff participation in court or other hearings

Current through May 31, 2024
Notwithstanding
				  7 AAC 37.060, a department staff member may give
				  testimony which is directly related to the operation of a public assistance
				  program at a judicial or administrative hearing, including a hearing under 7
				  AAC 49 and a hearing in a prosecution for fraud involving a public assistance
				  program.
Authority:
AS
					 47.05.010
AS 47.05.020
AS 47.05.030
AS
					 47.05.040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance › Chapter 37 - Public Assistance › 7 AAC 37.080 - Disclosure to public officials

Current through May 31, 2024
Information may be released to state and municipal officials
				  in specific cases, if the information is necessary for a purpose directly
				  connected with the administration of a public assistance program. This section
				  authorizes furnishing lists of recipients, their addresses, and the amounts of
				  their grants to the Department of Administration and the Department of Revenue
				  in connection with the writing of public assistance warrants from certified
				  public assistance rolls.
Authority:
AS
					 47.05.010
AS 47.05.020
AS 47.05.030
AS
					 47.05.040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance › Chapter 37 - Public Assistance › 7 AAC 37.085 - Disclosure of ATAP financial information to legislators

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Notwithstanding
				other provisions of this chapter, the division shall provide to an incumbent
				State of Alaska legislator financial information concerning an eligibility
				determination of a person applying for or receiving assistance under the Alaska
				temporary assistance program. However, the information may be provided to the
				legislator only
(1) upon written request to
				the director of the division of public assistance on a form designated by the
				division that
(A) is personally signed by the
				legislator;
(B) identifies the
				person for whom the information is being sought; and
(C) attests that the conditions for
				disclosure set out in (2) and (3) of this paragraph are met;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance › Chapter 37 - Public Assistance › 7 AAC 37.090 - Disclosure of identifying information

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) District
				representatives or administrative staff members may furnish identifying
				information to a federal, state, municipal, or hospital official, or a
				mortician, if the individual applicant or recipient has given his permission
				for the release of such information.
(b) It is also permissible to release
				information concerning a deceased applicant or recipient to the representative
				of the estate of such person, or if there is no probate of his estate, to his
				next of kin, on the theory that such representative of next of kin stands in
				the position of the applicant or recipient and is entitled to the information
				which such applicant or recipient himself would have been entitled to receive
				or disclose.
Authority:
AS
					 47.05.010
AS 47.05.020
AS 47.05.030
AS
					 47.05.040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance › Chapter 37 - Public Assistance › 7 AAC 37.100 - Disclosure for research

Current through May 31, 2024
Information of a statistical nature may be released for
				  research purposes provided that such research will not result in the disclosure
				  of the identity of the applicant or family.
Authority:
AS
					 47.05.010
AS 47.05.020
AS 47.05.030
AS
					 47.05.040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance › Chapter 37 - Public Assistance › 7 AAC 37.110 - Release of names for charitable purposes

Current through May 31, 2024
Names, either individually or in lists, shall not be
				  furnished for use by community organizations or individuals for charitable
				  purposes, such as distribution of Thanksgiving baskets or other contributions
				  without the permission of the individuals concerned.
Authority:
AS
					 47.05.010
AS 47.05.020
AS 47.05.030
AS
					 47.05.040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance › Chapter 37 - Public Assistance › 7 AAC 37.120 - Release of information at client's request

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Upon the
				written request of a public assistance client, the department will make the
				client's records available for inspection during normal business
				hours.
(b) Upon the written request
				of a public assistance client, and payment of costs, subject to
				7 C.F.R.
				273.15(p), the department
				will provide a copy of any information in the client's records to the client or
				the client's designee.
Authority:
AS
					 47.05.010
AS 47.05.020
AS 47.05.030
AS
					 47.05.040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance › Chapter 37 - Public Assistance › 7 AAC 37.130 - General information

Current through May 31, 2024
General information, not identified with any particular
				  individuals, such as total expenditures made, number of recipients, and other
				  statistical information, and social data contained in general studies, reports,
				  or surveys of welfare problems does not fall within the class of material to be
				  safeguarded. Its release should be accompanied, however, by appropriate
				  explanations in an effort to assure its proper use and
				  understanding.
Authority:
AS
					 47.05.010
AS 47.05.020
AS 47.05.030
AS
					 47.05.040
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance › Chapter 37 - Public Assistance › 7 AAC 37.180 - Appointment of agents

Current through May 31, 2024
The department will appoint fee and part-time agents in
				  various communities of the state, as the department determines necessary to
				  fulfill its functions under this chapter and AS 47.05, AS 47.07, AS 47.08, and
				  AS 47.25.
Authority:
AS
					 47.05.010
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance › Chapter 38 - Permanent Fund Dividend Distribution › 7 AAC 38.010 - Purpose of chapter

Current through May 31, 2024
The purpose of 7 AAC 38 is to set out the effects of
				  permanent fund dividends distributed under
				  AS
				  43.23.005-43.23.095 on public assistance
				  programs administered by the department.
Authority:
AS
					 43.23.075
AS 43.23.080
AS 43.23.085
AS 43.23.087
AS
					 47.05.010
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance › Chapter 38 - Permanent Fund Dividend Distribution › 7 AAC 38.020 - Dividends disregarded

Current through May 31, 2024
Notwithstanding any other provision of 7 AAC, the department
				  will not count a permanent fund dividend as income or a resource under any
				  public assistance program in which eligibility is based on financial need
				  unless it is required to do so by federal law or regulation.
Authority:
AS
					 43.23.075
AS 43.23.080
AS 43.23.085
AS 43.23.087
AS
					 47.05.010