In AS 29.60.500 - 29.60.599, (1) 'barrel' when used with reference to oil has the meaning given in AS 43.20.144; (2) 'containment and cleanup' has the meaning given in AS 46.08.900; (3) 'disaster emergency' means a disaster declared by the governor under AS 26.23.020; (4) 'fund' means the oil and hazardous substance release prevention and response fund established by AS 46.08.010; (5) 'hazardous substance' has the meaning given in AS 46.09.900; (6) 'oil' and 'release' have the meanings given in AS 46.08.900; (7) 'school district' means a borough school district, a city school district, or a regional educational attendance area under AS 14; (8) 'service' (A) means (i) a function performed or service provided by a municipality under a duty or power authorized by this title or by another provision of law authorizing a municipality to perform functions or provide services; (ii) a comparable function performed or service provided by a village; or (iii) a function performed or service provided by a school district; (B) includes functions not previously performed and services not previously provided by the municipality or village; (9) 'village' means a place within the unorganized provided by a school district; (B) includes functions not previously performed and services not previously provided by the municipality or village; (9) 'village' means a place within the unorganized borough or within a borough if the power, function, or service for which a grant application is submitted under AS 29.60.500 - 29.60.599 is not exercised or provided by the borough on an areawide or nonareawide basis at the time the grant application is submitted, that (A) has irrevocably waived, in a form approved by the Department of Law, any claim of sovereign immunity that might arise in connection with the use of grant money under this chapter; and (B) has (i) a council organized under 25 U.S.C. 476 (sec. 16 of the Indian Reorganization Act); (ii) a traditional village council recognized by the United States as eligible for federal aid to Indians; or (iii) a council recognized by the commissioner under regulations adopted by the department to determine and give official recognition of village entities under AS 44.33.755(b).
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