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

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[Repealed or reserved.]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[Repealed or reserved.]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[Repealed or reserved.]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…

A person, corporation, electric utility firm, public utility district, rural electrification association, or municipal utility district authorized under AS 18.60.610 to provide inspection services may charge a fee for these services. After notice and hearing, the department shall…

An authorized inspector under this chapter shall give written notice to the owner of constructed premises, or the contractor of premises under construction, of each violation of applicable electrical standards discovered as a result of inspection. If within 15 days after receipt …

(a) AS 18.60.580 — 18.60.660 cover only new installations and alterations to existing installations. (b) These standards are the recommended minimum standards for all new structures in the state.

A person who installs electrical wiring not in compliance with minimum electrical standards as set out in AS 18.60.580, and who fails to correct this wiring after having been notified in writing by an authorized inspector, upon conviction, is punishable by a fine of not more than…

Article 7. High Voltage Lines. In AS 18.60.580 — 18.60.660, (1) “commissioner” means commissioner of labor and workforce development; (2) “department” means the Department of Labor and Workforce Development; (3) “electrical wiring” means the entire electrical system, including al…

A person individually or through an agent or employee may not (1) place any type of tool, equipment, machinery, or material that is capable of lateral, vertical, or swinging motion, within 10 feet of a high voltage overhead electrical line or conductor; (2) store, operate, erect,…

A person individually or through an agent or employee may not operate a crane, derrick, power shovel, drilling rig, hoisting equipment, or similar apparatus, any part of which is capable of vertical, lateral, or swinging motion, unless the operator or the operator's employer post…

Before a person is going to temporarily engage in work or other activity in closer proximity to a high voltage line or conductor than is permitted by AS 18.60.670, the person shall immediately notify the operator or owner of the high voltage line or conductor of the work to be pe…

(a) A person who violates AS 18.60.670 — 18.60.695 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 six months, or by both. (b) If a violation of AS 18.60.670 — 18.60.695 results in physical or ele…

AS 18.60.670 — 18.60.695 do not apply to (1) activities relating to high voltage overhead conductors or their supporting structures conducted by persons authorized by the operator or owner of high voltage overhead conductors or their supporting structures; (2) work done on teleph…

Article 8. Plumbing Code. In AS 18.60.670 — 18.60.695, (1) “high voltage” means a voltage in excess of 750 volts between conductors or between any single conductor and the ground; (2) “overhead lines or overhead conductors” means all bare or insulated electrical conductors instal…

(a) Except as provided otherwise in this section, and unless the department adopts by regulation a later edition of the following publications or a later version of another nationally recognized code approved by the legislature by law, the following publications are adopted as th…

The department is responsible for the administration of the code. The department may adopt regulations designed for maximum practical implementation of the code, and may grant exceptions from specific code provisions, where distance or other factors make implementation impractica…

(a) The code applies to all new construction, all new work in relocated buildings, and to any alteration, repairs, or reconstruction of buildings except as provided otherwise under AS 18.60.705 — 18.60.740. (b) The department may inspect work installed, removed, altered, or repla…

(a) If the department by regulation requires permits for plumbing work, fees may not exceed the following: (1) for issuing each permit ..... $2.00; (2) a permit for each (A) plumbing fixture or trap or set of fixtures on one trap, including water, drainage piping and backflow pro…

(a) A department inspector shall give written notice to the owner of a constructed premise or the contractor of a premise under construction of each violation of the code. The notice of violation must accurately describe the violation and give specific reference to the section an…

A person who violates a provision of the code, and who, after receiving the notification required by AS 18.60.725, refuses to correct the violation, after proof of the violation, is subject to a fine of not more than $1,000.