2004 Alaska Statutes
Title 18 HEALTH, SAFETY, AND HOUSING
Chapter 18.05. ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND RELATED LAWS
Sec. 18.05.040. Regulations.

(a) The commissioner shall adopt regulations consistent with existing law for

(1) the definition, reporting, and control of diseases of public health significance;

(2) cooperation with local boards of health and health officers;

(3) protection and promotion of the public health and prevention of disability and mortality;

(4) the transportation of dead bodies;

(5) carrying out the purposes of this chapter;

(6) the conduct of its business and for carrying out the provisions of laws of the United States and the state relating to public health;

(7) establishing the divisions and local offices and advisory groups necessary or considered expedient to carry out or assist in carrying out a duty or power assigned to it;

(8) the voluntary certification of laboratories to perform diagnostic, quality control, or enforcement analyses or examinations based on recognized or tentative standards of performance relating to analysis and examination of food to include seafood, milk, water, and specimens from human beings submitted by licensed physicians and nurses for analysis;

(9) the regulation of quality and purity of commercially compressed oxygen sold for human respiration;

(10) the licensure of midwifery birth centers, except that the commissioner may not require the presence of a physician or nurse midwife at a birth resulting from a low risk pregnancy attended by a direct-entry midwife certified in this state.

(b) A regulation may not be adopted under (a) of this section that duplicates, conflicts with, or is inconsistent with AS 18.60.705 - 18.60.740.