Title 18, Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender

A special inspector is not entitled to any compensation or expenses from the state. A special inspector's commission is conditioned upon continuing in the employ of a boiler insurance company or a company operating unfired pressure vessels in this state and upon maintaining the s…

Each special inspector shall inspect all boilers and unfired pressure vessels insured or operated by the inspector's company. The owner and user of a boiler or unfired pressure vessel inspected by its special inspector is exempt from the payment of the inspection fees provided in…

(a) Each company employing a special inspector shall, within 15 days following each inspection for certification as required by AS 18.60.390 for a boiler or unfired pressure vessel, file a report of the inspection with the department. (b) In addition, a special inspector shall fi…

(a) The Department of Labor and Workforce Development or a deputy or special inspector shall be given free access, during reasonable hours, to any premises where a boiler or unfired pressure vessel is being constructed, installed, or operated, for the purpose of determining wheth…

The Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall give the examination for the position of deputy inspector or special inspector using the standard National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors examination. The examination shall be in writing. If an applicant fail…

(a) The Department of Labor and Workforce Development may, after investigation, suspend or revoke a commission for (1) incompetence, (2) conviction of the crime of bribery under AS 11.56.100, receiving a bribe under AS 11.56.110, or perjury under AS 11.56.200, in connection with …

If a certificate or commission is lost or destroyed the Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall issue a new certificate or commission without another examination.

Unless the Department of Labor and Workforce Development establishes by regulation a different edition, the most current edition of the National Board Inspection Code Manual for Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors constitutes the minimum boiler and pressure vessel inspection st…

(a) Each boiler and unfired pressure vessel used or proposed to be used in the state except boilers or unfired pressure vessels exempt under AS 18.60.210 shall be inspected as to construction, installation, condition, and operation, as follows: (1) power boilers and high pressure…

(a) Each inspection under AS 18.60.320 shall be made by a deputy inspector employed under AS 18.60.230, an approved inspector appointed under AS 18.60.235(a), or by a special inspector commissioned under AS 18.60.240. (b) [Repealed, § 5 ch 37 SLA 1992.]

(a) If, upon inspection, a boiler or an unfired pressure vessel complies with the regulations of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the owner or user shall pay to the department a certificate fee to be established by regulation by the commissioner of labor and wor…

The Department of Labor and Workforce Development may suspend an inspection certificate when, in its opinion, the boiler or unfired pressure vessel for which it was issued cannot be operated without menace to the public safety, or when the boiler or unfired pressure vessel does n…

(a) The commissioner of labor and workforce development shall, by regulation, establish reasonable fees to be charged for the inspection of boilers and unfired pressure vessels. Separate fees may be established for external inspection, internal inspection, shop inspection, and hy…

A person aggrieved by an order or act of a deputy inspector employed under AS 18.60.230 or an approved inspector appointed under AS 18.60.235(a) may, within 15 days after notice of the order or act, appeal to the commissioner of labor and workforce development. The commissioner o…

[Repealed or reserved.]

A person may not operate a boiler or unfired pressure vessel under pressure without a valid inspection certificate as provided for in AS 18.60.180 — 18.60.390. The operation of a boiler or unfired pressure vessel without an inspection certificate, or at a pressure exceeding that …

Article 4. Refrigerators and Similar Equipment. (a) The Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall adopt regulations for the licensing of boiler operators. The regulations must conform to the generally accepted nationwide standards and practices established for boiler op…

A person may not dispose of an icebox, refrigerator, freezer, or similar equipment, other than a portable cooler, of a kind and size sufficient to permit the suffocation of a person inside the equipment without first removing the latches, hinges, or cover or otherwise rendering i…

A person may not offer for sale an icebox, refrigerator, freezer, or similar equipment of a kind and size sufficient to permit the suffocation of a person unless the door can be opened easily from the inside, either by application of an outwardly directed force to the inside of t…

The Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall administer AS 18.60.400 — 18.60.460. It may appoint inspectors and inspect all iceboxes, refrigerators, freezers, and similar equipment of a kind and size sufficient to permit the suffocation of a person if the equipment is …

Every person who sells equipment subject to inspection under AS 18.60.400 — 18.60.460 shall permit an authorized inspector to enter the premises where the equipment is stored, or offered for sale, for inspection during reasonable business hours.

Equipment of less than 1.5 cubic feet in capacity is exempt from the provisions of AS 18.60.400 — 18.60.460.

A person aggrieved by an order or act of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development or of an inspector under AS 18.60.400 — 18.60.460 may, within 15 days after notice of the order or act, request a hearing under AS 44.62.330 — 44.62.640.

(a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, a person who violates a provision of AS 18.60.400 — 18.60.460 is guilty of a violation. (b) A person who violates a provision of AS 18.60.400 — 18.60.460 who has previously been convicted of violating AS 18.60.400 — 18.60.460 is guil…

Article 5. Radiation Protection. Federal, state, and municipal law enforcement officers may enforce AS 18.60.400 — 18.60.460.

[Repealed or reserved.]

(a) The department shall (1) adopt regulations necessary to carry out the purposes of AS 18.60.475 — 18.60.545; (2) develop comprehensive policies and programs for the evaluation and determination of hazards associated with the use of radiation sources and their amelioration; (3)…

[Repealed or reserved.]

Radiation sources shall be shielded, transported, handled, used, and kept to prevent users and other persons from being exposed to concentrations of radionuclides or levels of radiation exceeding those limits established by the department in regulations.

[Repealed or reserved.]

When the department finds, after inspection and examination of a source of radiation as constructed, operated, or maintained, that there has been a violation of a provision of AS 18.60.475 — 18.60.545, it shall notify the person causing or permitting the violation of the nature o…

[Repealed or reserved.]

When the department finds that an emergency exists requiring immediate action to protect the public health or welfare from radiation, it may issue an order reciting the existence of an emergency and requiring that action be taken to meet the emergency. The order is effective imme…

[Repealed or reserved.]

The department shall, on the request of another state agency, contract with that agency to assist it in performing functions that require expertise in determining or reducing the hazards of radiation. This assistance may include conducting inspections and investigations and provi…

[Repealed or reserved.]

(a) AS 18.60.475 — 18.60.485 do not limit the intentional exposure of patients to radiation for the purpose of diagnosis or therapy, or medical research, when conducted as authorized by law and in accordance with accepted radiation safety principles. (b) AS 18.60.475(a)(5) and (6…

[Repealed or reserved.]

A person who violates a regulation, standard, or order of the department adopted or issued under AS 18.60.475 — 18.60.545 is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, is punishable by a fine of not more than $500, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both. Eac…

[Repealed or reserved.]

In AS 18.60.475 — 18.60.545, (1) “department” means the Department of Health; (2) “electronic product” means a manufactured product that (A) when in operation contains or acts as part of an electronic circuit and emits, or in the absence of effective shielding or other controls w…

Article 6. Electrical Safety.

After the American National Standards Institute approves a new, published edition of the National Electrical Code or a new, published edition of the National Electrical Safety Code, the Department of Labor and Workforce Development may, by regulation, adopt the most recent codes …

(a) The department may by regulation adopt amendments to the National Electrical Code as approved and issued by the American National Standards Institute. (b) AS 18.60.580 — 18.60.660 do not affect the authority of any municipality or rural electrification association to prescrib…

(a) The department may (1) adopt regulations to carry out the purposes of AS 18.60.580 — 18.60.660; (2) inspect the electrical wiring of any place of employment or public structure in this state. (b) The department shall (1) keep a record of all inspection fees collected; (2) kee…

Upon application to the department, a person, corporation, electric utility firm, public utility district, rural electrification association, or municipal utility district furnishing electrical current may be authorized by the commissioner to inspect the electrical wiring for a p…