In AS 44.21.305 - 44.21.330, (1) 'commissioner' means the commissioner of administration; (2) 'department' means the Department of Administration; (3) 'public broadcasting' means the delivery of radio or television noncommercial programming intended for the general public by any method of telecommunications; (4) 'public telecommunications' means telecommunications which serve public broadcasting, general educational, instructional, medical, safety, emergency, or public participation functions; (5) 'state agencies' means all departments, divisions, and offices in the executive branch of state government; it does not mean an agency of the legislative or judicial branch of government or the University of Alaska; (6) 'telecommunications' means the transmission and reception of messages, impressions, pictures, and signals by means of electromagnetic transmission with or without benefit of a closed transmission medium including all instrumentalities, facilities, apparatus, and services, whether conveyed by cable or wire, radiated through space, or transmitted through other media within a specified area or between designated points; (7) 'telecommunications systems' means those systems in her conveyed by cable or wire, radiated through space, or transmitted through other media within a specified area or between designated points; (7) 'telecommunications systems' means those systems in which the principal service and functions are telecommunications.
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