Sec. 18.15.450. - Definitions for AS 18.15.400 - 18.15.450. - Alaska Statutes

In AS 18.15.400 - 18.15.450,

(1) "adult or juvenile offender" means a person in custody, arrested, or charged under a criminal complaint or a minor being held or subject to a petition under AS 47.12;

(2) "bloodborne pathogens" means pathogenic microorganisms that are present in human blood and can cause disease in humans; these pathogens include hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV);

(3) "employing agency" means the

(A) department that employs a state employee who is, or contracts with another person who is or employs, a public safety officer;

(B) municipality that employs a municipal employee who is, or contracts with another person who is or employs, a public safety officer or that contracts with, sponsors, or accepts the services of a public safety officer who volunteers for a volunteer fire department or emergency medical services agency;

(C) Department of Public Safety for a public safety officer who volunteers for a volunteer fire department or emergency medical services agency that provides services in the unorganized borough outside of a municipality;

(4) "prisoner" has the meaning given in AS 33.30.901 ;

(5) "public safety officer" means a state or municipal juvenile or adult correctional, probation, or parole officer, a contractor or employee of a contractor in a correctional facility, a juvenile detention or treatment facility staff member, or a peace officer or fire fighter, emergency medical technician, or mobile intensive care paramedic employed by or volunteering for the state or a municipality or volunteer fire department or emergency medical services provider;

(6) "significant exposure" means contact likely to transmit a bloodborne pathogen, in a manner supported by the most current guidelines and recommendations of the United States Public Health Service at the time an evaluation takes place, that includes

(A) percutaneous injury, contact of mucous membrane or nonintact skin, or prolonged contact of intact skin; and

(B) contact, in a manner that may transmit a bloodborne pathogen, with blood, tissue, or potentially infectious body fluids.