In this chapter,
(1) “child” means a biological child, adopted child, or stepchild of an employee;
(2) “commissioner” means the commissioner of public safety or the commissioner's designee;
(3) “department” means the Department of Public Safety;
(4) “dependent” means a surviving spouse or child of an employee;
(5) “firefighter” means an employee of the state or a municipality whose primary duty is to perform fire suppression services;
(6) “fund” means the peace officer and firefighter survivors' fund established in AS 39.60.010;
(7) “peace officer” means
(A) an employee of the state or a municipal police department with the authority to arrest and issue citations; detain a person taken into custody until that person can be arraigned before a judge or magistrate; conduct investigations of violations of and enforce criminal laws, regulations, and traffic laws; search with or without a warrant persons, dwellings, and other forms of property for evidence of a crime; and take other action consistent with exercise of these enumerated powers when necessary to maintain the public peace;
(B) an officer or employee of the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities who is stationed at an international airport and has been designated to have the general police powers authorized under AS 02.15.230(a);
(C) a University of Alaska public safety officer with general police powers authorized under AS 14.40.043;
(D) a person appointed by the commissioner of corrections or employed by a correctional facility in this state to perform the duties of a probation officer under AS 33.05;
(E) a person appointed by the commissioner of corrections, whose primary duty under AS 33.30 is to provide custody, care, security, control, and discipline of persons charged or convicted of offenses against the state or held under authority of state law;
(F) a person employed in a correctional facility in the state, whose primary duty is to provide custody, care, security, control, and discipline of persons charged or convicted of offenses or held under authority of law;
(8) “surviving spouse” means a person who was married to an employee at the time of the employee's death.
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