Section 4 AAC 58.900 - DefinitionsAs used in AS 14.57 and this chapter
(1) "museum" means an organized and permanent nonprofit institution, educational or aesthetic in purpose, with qualified staff, that owns, cares for, and uses tangible objects, and interprets and exhibits them to the public on some regular schedule;(2) "museum-related agency" means a local, regional, or statewide nonprofit organization, such as an historical society, cultural heritage center, museum support group, or statewide museum association, the purpose of which is to augment and enhance museum services and practices;(3) "nonprofit institution" means a municipality, or a nonprofit corporation in good standing under AS 10.20;(4) "qualified staff" means at least one employee who is considered by the museum's governing authority to be qualified;(5) "Alaska State Museum" means the state museum in Juneau, Alaska and, unless the context requires otherwise, a branch museum established and maintained under AS 14.57.010(a);(6) "Sheldon Jackson Museum" means the branch of the state museum in Sitka, Alaska.(7) "accession" means the process by which an object is made part of the permanent collection of the museum; (8) "deaccession" means the process used to (A) remove permanently an object from the museum's collection; or (B) document the reasons for a removal required by law due to circumstances not controlled by the museum; (9) "senior curator of collections" means the museum employee assigned to oversee the operations of the museum's permanent collections.Eff. 10/21/89, Register 112; am 4/19/95, Register 134; am 8/18/2013, Register 207Authority:AS 14.07.060
AS 14.57.010