Alaska Stat. § 29.46.120 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.46 / Section 29.46.120
Objection and appeal.
Status: in_force

(a) The validity of an assessment may not be contested by a person who did not file with the municipal clerk a written objection to the assessment roll before its confirmation.

(b) The decision of the governing body on an objection may be appealed to the superior court within 30 days after the date of confirmation of the assessment roll. If no objection is filed or appeal taken within that time, the assessment procedure is considered valid in all respects.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.030 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.030
Eminent domain.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, a municipality may, only within its boundaries, exercise the powers of eminent domain and declaration of taking in the performance of a power or function of the municipality under the procedures set out in AS 09.55.250  09.55.460. In the case of a second class city, the exercise of the power of eminent domain or declaration of taking must be by ordinance that is submitted to the voters at the next general election or at a special election called for that purpose. A majority of the votes on the question is required for approval of the ordinance.

(b) The power of eminent domain may not be exercised to acquire private property from a private person for the purpose of transferring title to the property to another private person for economic development, except as provided by AS 09.55.240 (d)(1)  (6), and may not be exercised for purposes expressed in AS 09.55.240 (e).

(c) This section applies to home rule and general law municipalities.

(d) In this section, (1) economic development has the meaning given in AS 09.55.240 ;

(2) private person has the meaning given in AS 09.55.240 .
Alaska Stat. § 29.45.080 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.45 / Section 29.45.080
Tax on oil and gas production and pipeline property.
Status: in_force

(a) A municipality may levy and collect taxes on taxable property taxable under AS 43.56 only by using one of the methods set out in (b) or (c) of this section.

(b) A municipality may levy and collect a tax on the full and true value of taxable property taxable under AS 43.56 as valued by the Department of Revenue at a rate not to exceed that which produces an amount of revenue from the total municipal property tax equivalent to $1,500 a year for each person residing in its boundaries.

(c) A municipality may levy and collect a tax on the full and true value of that portion of taxable property taxable under AS 43.56 as assessed by the Department of Revenue which value, when combined with the value of property otherwise taxable by the municipality, does not exceed the product of the percentage determined in (f) of this section of the average per capita assessed full and true value of property in the state multiplied by the number of residents of the taxing municipality.

(d) Each assessment year, a taxing municipality shall inform the Department of Revenue, by (1) February 1, which method of taxation the municipality will use; and

(2) May 1, the (A) total value of the municipality's locally assessed property tax base; and

(B) payment amount for the principal of and interest on bonds that the municipality intends to apply in its mill rate calculation for the fiscal year corresponding to the tax year for which the assessment method selected by the municipality under this section will apply.

(e) For purposes of this section, population shall be determined by the commissioner based on the latest statistics of the United States Bureau of the Census or on other reliable population data, and the commissioner shall advise each municipality of its population by January 15 of each year.

(f) The percentage in (c) of this section is based on the total tax rate established by the municipality and levied each year under AS 43.56.010 (b) and is as follows:

If the tax rate determined under AS 43.56.010 (b) is:The percentage is: Not more than 18.0 mills375 percent More than 18.0 mills but not more than 19.0 mills300 percent More than 19.0 mills225 percent
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.615 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.615
Municipal property.
Status: in_force

(a) A municipality may transfer and otherwise convey or lease real property, and any improvements to it, to an authority for use by the authority for the purposes set out in the ordinance adopted under AS 29.35.605 .

(b) A municipality may transfer and otherwise assign or lease personal property to an authority for use by the authority for the purposes set out in the ordinance adopted under AS 29.35.605 .
Alaska Stat. § 29.06.170 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.06 / Section 29.06.170
Application.
Status: in_force

AS 29.06.090  29.06.170 apply to home rule and general law municipalities.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.895 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.895
Annual report.
Status: in_force

Within 90 days following the end of the fiscal year of an authority, the board shall distribute to the mayor and governing body of each municipality participating in the authority a report describing the operations and financial condition of the authority during the preceding fiscal year. The report may include suggestions for legislation relating to the structure, powers, or duties of the authority or operation of facilities of the authority. The report must itemize the cost of providing each category of service offered by the authority and the income generated by each category.
Alaska Stat. § 29.55.105 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.55 / Section 29.55.105
Assessment.
Status: reserved

(a) A municipality that establishes a program under AS 29.55.100 may (1) enter into a written contract with a record owner of privately owned commercial or industrial property in a region designated under AS 29.55.100 to impose an assessment to repay the financing of an energy or resilience improvement project on that property;

(2) contract with the governing body of another taxing unit to perform the duties of the municipality relating to collection of assessments imposed by the municipality under this section.

(b) Financing repaid by an assessment may (1) be provided by a third party under a written contract with the municipality that authorizes the municipality to service the debt by assessment; or

(2) if authorized by municipal ordinance, be provided by the municipality.

(c) An assessment under this section may repay financing for costs of an energy or resilience improvement project, including (1) the cost of materials and labor necessary for the energy or resilience improvement project;

(2) permit fees;

(3) inspection fees;

(4) lender's fees;

(5) program application and administrative fees;

(6) energy or resilience improvement project development and engineering fees;

(7) third-party review fees, including verification review fees, under AS 29.55.120 ;

(8) capitalized interest;

(9) interest reserves;

(10) escrow for prepaid property tax or insurance;

(11) capitalized extended manufacturer's warranty or maintenance agreement costs during the period of assessment; and

(12) any other fees or costs that may be incurred by the property owner incident to the installation, modification, or improvement on a specific or pro rata basis, as determined by the municipality.

(d) An assessment under this section may not repay financing for the costs of (1) [Repealed, § 24 ch 28, SLA 2022.] (2) the purchase or installation of products or devices not permanently fixed to the privately owned commercial or industrial property; or

(3) a utility's purchase or installation of a product, device, or improvement, if the product, device, or improvement will generate electricity or provide thermal energy distributed or used outside of the assessed property; in this paragraph, utility has the meaning given in AS 42.05.990 .

(e) A municipality may establish more than one region. The boundaries of each region may be separate, overlapping, or coterminous.

(f) A municipality may not impose a period of assessment under this section on privately owned commercial or industrial property that exceeds 30 years or the useful life of the project that is the basis for the assessment.

(g) The total financing for costs of an energy or resilience improvement project may not exceed 25 percent of the market value of the property at the time of program application or completion of the proposed energy or resilience improvement project.

(h) [Repealed, § 24 ch 28, SLA 2022.] (i) An assessment under this section may repay financing for costs of a proposed energy or resilience improvement project or an energy or resilience improvement project completed within the past two years.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.610 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.610
Dissolution of a port authority.
Status: in_force

(a) The enabling ordinance by which a port authority is created must provide for the manner by which a port authority may be dissolved.

(b) If an authority ceases to exist, its assets shall be distributed to the municipalities that participated in the authority in proportion to the difference between their contributions to the authority and any outstanding debt or obligation of that municipality to the authority, provided that any obligation to bondholders then outstanding shall first be satisfied in full.
Alaska Stat. § 29.45.370 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.45 / Section 29.45.370
Answer and objection.
Status: in_force

A person having an interest in a lot on the foreclosure list may file an answer within 30 days after the date of last publication, specifying the person's objection. The court shall make its decision in summary proceedings. The foreclosure list is prima facie evidence that the assessment and levy of the tax is valid and that the tax is unpaid.
Alaska Stat. § 29.71.060 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.71 / Section 29.71.060
Copyrights in computer software.
Status: in_force

A municipality may hold the copyright for software created by the municipality or developed by a contractor for the municipality, and may enforce its rights to protect the copyright.
Alaska Stat. § 29.45.810 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.45 / Section 29.45.810
Exemption from municipal taxation.
Status: in_force

(a) A party to a contract approved by the legislature as a result of submission of a proposed contract developed under AS 43.82 or as a result of acts by the legislature in implementing the purposes of AS 43.82 , and the property, gas, products, and activities associated with the approved qualified project that is subject to the contract, are exempt, as specified in the contract, from all taxes identified in the contract that would be levied and collected by a municipality under state law as a consequence of the participation by the party in the approved qualified project.

(b) This section applies to home rule and general law municipalities.
Alaska Stat. § 29.47.460 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.47 / Section 29.47.460
Debt for improvement area projects.
Status: in_force

(a) A municipality may issue bonds to finance or to make loans to finance the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, or development of public improvements in improvement areas. The municipality may issue the bonds as general obligation bonds or as revenue bonds or as a combination of revenue bonds, general obligation bonds, and other forms of indebtedness. The municipality may pledge revenues described in (b) of this section, payments to be made by users and owners of the improvements, payments to be made by borrowers of the proceeds of the bonds, and any other revenues available to the municipality to the payment of bonds issued under this subsection. To the extent that the municipality issues general obligation bonds under this subsection, the provisions of AS 29.47.180  29.47.200 apply to the bonds. To the extent that the municipality issues revenue bonds under this subsection, the provisions of AS 29.47.250 and 29.47.260 apply to the bonds.

(b) A municipality may provide by ordinance that the tax increment from the taxes levied each year by or on behalf of the municipality on the property in an improvement area shall be used to pay the principal and interest on bonds issued under (a) of this section for improvements in that improvement area, and may irrevocably pledge the tax increment from the area for that purpose. The area described in the ordinance may be a service area. Nothing in this section obligates a municipality that has issued bonds under (a) of this section and pledged a tax increment to the payment of those bonds under this subsection to levy any tax in the improvement area or any other area or to levy a tax at any particular rate within the improvement area or any other area.

(c) The power granted by this section is in addition to other powers granted to municipalities and does not restrict or limit the powers municipalities may have under other provisions of law.

(d) In this section, (1) bonds means bonds, notes, and other forms of indebtedness;

(2) improvement area means an area that a municipality determines to be (A) a blighted area on the basis of the substantial presence of factors such as excessive vacant land on which structures were previously located, abandoned or vacant buildings, substandard structures, and delinquencies in payment of real property taxes; or

(B) an area that is capable of being substantially improved based on the property value within the area;

(3) tax increment means the portion of a tax that is attributable to the difference between the value of property within an improvement area shown on the taxing agency's assessment roll for the year when the taxes are levied and the value of the property shown on the taxing agency's last assessment roll that was equalized before the improvements in the improvement area were authorized.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.180 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.180
Land use regulation.
Status: in_force

(a) A first or second class borough shall provide for planning, platting, and land use regulation in accordance with AS 29.40 .

(b) A home rule borough shall provide for planning, platting, and land use regulation.

Article 3. Additional Powers.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.200 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.200
First class borough powers.
Status: in_force

(a) A first class borough may exercise by ordinance on a nonareawide basis any power not otherwise prohibited by law.

(b) A first class borough may by ordinance exercise the following powers on an areawide basis: (1) provide transportation systems;

(2) provide water pollution control;

(3) provide air pollution control in accordance with AS 46.14.400 ;

(4) license day care facilities;

(5) license, impound, and dispose of animals;

(6) establish an energy and resilience improvement assessment program under AS 29.55.100  29.55.165.

(c) In addition to powers conferred by (b) of this section, a first class borough may, on an areawide basis, exercise a power not otherwise prohibited by law if the power has been acquired in accordance with AS 29.35.300 .

(d) A first class borough that exercises power necessary to contain, clean up, or prevent a release or threatened release of oil or a hazardous substance, and exercises a power granted to a municipality under AS 46.04 , AS 46.08 , or AS 46.09 shall exercise its authority in a manner that is consistent with a regional master plan prepared by the Department of Environmental Conservation under AS 46.04.210 .
Alaska Stat. § 29.55.150 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.55 / Section 29.55.150
Prohibited acts.
Status: in_force

A municipality that establishes a region under AS 29.55.100 may not make the issuance of a permit, license, or other authorization from the municipality to a person who owns property in the region contingent on the person entering into a written contract to repay the financing of an energy or resilience improvement project through assessments under AS 29.55.105 , or otherwise compel a person who owns property in the region to enter into a written contract to repay the financing of an energy or resilience improvement project through assessments under AS 29.55.105 .
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.320 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.320
Initiation of acquisition of power.
Status: in_force

(a) An election on the question of adding an areawide power in a first class borough or of adding an areawide or nonareawide power in a second class borough may be initiated in two ways: (1) a number of voters equal to 15 percent of the number of votes cast at the preceding regular election in the area, either areawide or nonareawide, in which the election is to be held may file a petition with the borough clerk; or

(2) the assembly may propose the acquisition of the power.

(b) An election on the question of adding a power in a third class borough for exercise in a service area may be initiated in two ways: (1) a number of voters equal to 15 percent of the number of votes cast at the preceding regular election in a proposed service area in which the power is sought to be exercised may file a petition with the assembly; or

(2) the assembly may propose the acquisition of the power.

(c) The borough clerk shall certify whether a petition filed under (a) or (b) of this section contains the required number of signatures.

(d) Within 30 days after a petition is certified as containing the required number of signatures or the assembly proposes the acquisition of a power, at least one public hearing shall be held in the borough on the question. The assembly shall then evaluate the ability of the borough to exercise the power and make its findings public. Within 60 days after its findings have been made public, the assembly shall order an election on the question.
Alaska Stat. § 29.55.125 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.55 / Section 29.55.125
Direct acquisition by owner.
Status: in_force

The proposed arrangements for financing an energy or resilience improvement project may authorize the property owner to (1) purchase directly the related equipment and materials for the energy or resilience improvement project; and

(2) contract directly, including through lease, a power purchase agreement, or other service contract, for the energy or resilience improvement project.
Alaska Stat. § 29.40.200 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.40 / Section 29.40.200
Subdivisions of state land.
Status: in_force

(a) The subdivision requirements adopted under this chapter apply to a subdivision plat of undeveloped state land for disposal under AS 38.05 or AS 38.08 filed with the platting authority. Subdivision ordinances and regulations adopted after the platting authority is notified by the commissioner of natural resources of a proposed sale of subdivided state land under AS 38.05 or AS 38.08 do not apply to the state land in the proposed sale.

(b) The platting authority shall approve and sign a subdivision plat of state land within 60 days after its receipt from the commissioner of natural resources unless the platting authority (1) determines that the plat does not comply with subdivision requirements; and

(2) notifies the commissioner of each determination of noncompliance within the 60-day period established in this subsection.

(c) The commissioner of natural resources may withdraw the subdivision plat and amend it in response to the determination of noncompliance by the platting authority under (b) of this section. The platting authority shall respond within 30 days to the amendment or response from the commissioner of natural resources.

(d) Nothing in this section relieves the Department of Natural Resources of its obligations to provide legal access to a subdivision.

(e) This section applies to home rule and general law municipalities.
Alaska Stat. § 29.40.080 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.40 / Section 29.40.080
Platting authority.
Status: in_force

(a) The assembly by ordinance shall establish a platting authority to administer subdivision regulations and to perform other duties as required by the assembly. The platting authority may consist of members of the planning commission or of other municipal residents.

(b) The assembly may by ordinance provide for an administrative official to act as the platting authority with regard to abbreviated plats.

(c) The assembly may by ordinance allow the platting authority to approve a division of a tract or parcel of land that has not previously received platting approval.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.144 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.144
Sprinkler systems in certain residential buildings.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided by (b) of this section, a municipality may not require a sprinkler fire protection system to be included in the construction of all new single-family residential buildings or in the construction of all new residential buildings with not more than two dwelling units.

(b) A municipality may, by ordinance, require a sprinkler fire protection system to be included in the construction of all new single-family residential buildings, in the construction of all new residential buildings with not more than two dwelling units, or in both types of buildings. Before adopting an ordinance to implement this subsection, or before amending an ordinance to extend its coverage to residential buildings described in this subsection, in addition to complying with the other requirements relating to the adoption of an ordinance, the governing body of the municipality shall (1) notwithstanding the publication requirement in AS 29.25.020 (b)(3) or a comparable notice publication requirement of a home rule municipality, at least 30 days before the first scheduled public hearing for the ordinance, publish (A) a summary of the ordinance or ordinance amendment; and

(B) a notice of the time and place of each scheduled public hearing on the proposed ordinance or amendment; and

(2) notwithstanding the public hearing schedule requirement of AS 29.25.020 (b)(6) or comparable public hearing scheduling requirement of a home rule municipality, schedule at least three public hearings on the proposed ordinance or ordinance amendment to be held within a period of not less than 60 days and not more than 180 days.

(c) This section applies to home rule and general law municipalities.
Alaska Stat. § 29.20.400 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.20 / Section 29.20.400
Departments.
Status: in_force

(a) The governing body may establish municipal departments and distribute functions among them.

(b) Each municipal department is administered by a department head. With the consent of the governing body, the mayor may serve as head of one or more departments or a single administrator may serve as head of two or more departments.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.460 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.460
Service area boards.
Status: in_force

The assembly may provide for an appointed or elected board to supervise the furnishing of special services in a service area.
Alaska Stat. § 29.10.040 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.10 / Section 29.10.040
Charter commission candidates.
Status: in_force

(a) A candidate for a charter commission of an existing municipality shall have been qualified to vote in municipality for at least one year immediately preceding the charter commission election.

(b) A charter commission candidate is nominated by a petition signed by at least 50 voters or the number of voters equal to 10 percent of the number of votes cast in the municipality during the last regular election, whichever is less. A nomination petition shall be filed with the municipal clerk on or before a date fixed by the governing body.

(c) If at least seven nominations for qualified charter commission candidates are not filed, the petition or resolution calling for a charter commission is void and an election on the question may not be held.
Alaska Stat. § 29.20.280 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.20 / Section 29.20.280
Vacancy in the office of mayor.
Status: in_force

(a) The governing body shall, by two-thirds concurring vote, declare the office of mayor vacant only when the person elected (1) fails to qualify or take office within 30 days after election or appointment;

(2) unless excused by the governing body, is physically absent for 90 consecutive days;

(3) resigns and the resignation is accepted;

(4) is physically or mentally unable to perform the duties of office;

(5) is convicted of a felony or of an offense involving a violation of the oath of office;

(6) is convicted of a felony or misdemeanor described in AS 15.56 ;

(7) is convicted of a violation of AS 15.13 ;

(8) no longer physically resides in the municipality; or

(9) if a member of the governing body in a second class city, misses three consecutive regular meetings and is not excused.

(b) A vacancy in the office of mayor occurring six months before a regular election shall be filled by the governing body. The person appointed serves until the next regular election when a successor is elected to serve the balance of the term. If a member of the governing body is appointed mayor, the member shall resign the seat on the governing body. If a vacancy occurs more than six months before a regular election, the governing body shall call a special election to fill the unexpired term.

(c) Notwithstanding (b) of this section, a vacancy in the office of mayor of a second class city shall be filled by and from the council. A mayor appointed under this subsection serves the balance of the term to which appointed, except the mayor may serve only while a member of the council.

Article 4. Boards and Commissions.
Alaska Stat. § 29.40.030 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.40 / Section 29.40.030
Comprehensive plan.
Status: in_force

(a) The comprehensive plan is a compilation of policy statements, goals, standards, and maps for guiding the physical, social, and economic development, both private and public, of the first or second class borough, and may include, but is not limited to, the following: (1) statements of policies, goals, and standards;

(2) a land use plan;

(3) a community facilities plan;

(4) a transportation plan; and

(5) recommendations for implementation of the comprehensive plan.

(b) With the recommendations of the planning commission, the assembly shall adopt by ordinance a comprehensive plan. The assembly shall, after receiving the recommendations of the planning commission, periodically undertake an overall review of the comprehensive plan and update the plan as necessary.
Alaska Stat. § 29.55.010 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.55 / Section 29.55.010
Creation of local historical district commissions.
Status: in_force

The governing body of a municipality may establish a local historical district commission or designate the planning commission or itself to serve as the historical district commission.
Alaska Stat. § 29.71.040 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.71 / Section 29.71.040
Procurement preference for state agricultural and fisheries products.
Status: in_force

(a) If a municipality that receives state money seeks to purchase an agricultural product and an agricultural product harvested in the state is available that is of like quality compared with a similar agricultural product harvested outside the state, the municipality (1) shall purchase the product harvested in the state if the product is priced not more than seven percent above the similar product harvested outside the state;

(2) may purchase the product harvested in the state only if the product is priced not more than 15 percent above the similar product harvested outside the state.

(b) If a municipality that receives state money seeks to purchase a fisheries product and a fisheries product harvested or processed within the jurisdiction of the state is available that is of like quality compared with a similar fisheries product harvested or processed outside the jurisdiction of the state, the municipality (1) shall purchase the product harvested or processed within the jurisdiction of the state if the product is priced not more than seven percent above the similar product harvested or processed outside the jurisdiction of the state;

(2) may purchase the product harvested or processed in the jurisdiction of the state only if the product is priced not more than 15 percent above the product harvested or processed outside the jurisdiction of the state.

(c) A solicitation by a municipality for the purchase of agricultural or fisheries products must include written notice of the purchase requirements and limitations under (a) and (b) of this section and specify that agricultural products harvested in the state and fisheries products harvested or processed within the jurisdiction of the state will be used where possible, subject to the limitations under (a) and (b) of this section. If a municipality that receives state money purchases agricultural products harvested outside the state or fisheries products harvested or processed outside the jurisdiction of the state, the municipal officer responsible for the purchase shall certify in writing the reasons that agricultural products harvested in the state or fisheries products harvested or processed within the jurisdiction of the state were not purchased.

(d) If a contractor fails to comply with this section, the municipality shall withhold payment until the contractor complies. If a municipality fails to comply with this section, the state department responsible for disbursing state money to the municipality shall withhold the money until the municipality complies.

(e) An interested party, as defined in AS 36.30.699 , may seek administrative or judicial review of the award of a contract in violation of this section.

(f) Compliance with this section is not required if an exception to this section is mandated for participation in a federal program.

(g) This section applies to general law and home rule municipalities.

(h) In this section, (1) agricultural products includes dairy products, timber and lumber, and products manufactured from timber and lumber;

(2) state money includes state reimbursement to municipalities for school or related construction, foundation funding for education, municipal assistance, community assistance, revenue sharing, and state funds for capital projects.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.146 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.146
Regulation of unmanned aircraft systems.
Status: in_force

(a) A municipality may not adopt an ordinance that permits the release of images captured by an unmanned aircraft system in a manner inconsistent with AS 18.65.903 .

(b) In this section, unmanned aircraft system has the meaning given in AS 18.65.909 .
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.805 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.805
Establishment of regional solid waste management authorities.
Status: in_force

(a) A regional solid waste management authority may be created in one of the following ways: (1) the governing body of a municipality may, by ordinance, create a regional solid waste management authority as a public corporation of the municipality;

(2) the governing bodies of two or more municipalities may, by substantially identical ordinances adopted by each of the governing bodies, create a regional solid waste management authority as a public corporation of the municipalities.

(b) One or more municipalities may join an authority established under (a)(1) or (2) of this section upon the adoption of substantially identical ordinances by the governing bodies of each affected municipality.

(c) A regional solid waste management authority created under this section is a body corporate and politic and an instrumentality of the municipality or municipalities creating it but has a separate and independent legal existence.

(d) Creation of a regional solid waste management authority under AS 29.35.800  29.35.925 is an exercise of a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction under AS 29.35.020 .

(e) The enabling ordinance by which a regional solid waste management authority is established must specify the powers, boundaries, and limitations of the regional solid waste management authority.

(f) An ordinance creating a regional solid waste management authority must be approved by the voters of the municipality or municipalities participating in the authority for the authority to be established.

(g) Nothing in AS 29.35.800  29.35.925 prevents a municipality or municipalities from creating or participating in a public corporation, including a regional solid waste management authority, in any form or manner not prohibited by law. However, AS 29.35.800  29.35.925 only apply to and may only be used by a regional solid waste management authority created under this section.
Alaska Stat. § 29.46.050 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.46 / Section 29.46.050
Objections and revision.
Status: in_force

(a) Objections to an improvement plan may be filed during a period of 60 days after publication of notice. The municipality may by resolution or ordinance approve the plan and order the improvement subject to the limitation of (b) of this section.

(b) If objections are made in writing during the period set for objections by the owners of property bearing 50 percent or more of the estimated total cost of the improvement, the governing body may not proceed with the improvement unless it revises the plan to meet the objections and the objections are reduced to less than 50 percent. A revised plan shall be approved and adopted as an original plan in accordance with AS 29.46.030 .
Alaska Stat. § 29.20.630 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.20 / Section 29.20.630
Prohibited discrimination.
Status: in_force

(a) A person may not be appointed to or removed from municipal office or in any way favored or discriminated against with respect to a municipal position or municipal employment because of the person's race, color, sex, creed, national origin or, unless otherwise contrary to law, because of the person's political opinions or affiliations.

(b) Subject to AS 14.14.140 , a state employee or school district employee may not be denied the right to serve as an elected municipal official because of employment by the state or a school district. For purposes of this subsection, a school district employee is not a municipal employee.

(c) This section applies to home rule and general law municipalities.
Alaska Stat. § 29.40.190 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.40 / Section 29.40.190
Civil remedies and penalties.
Status: in_force

(a) The municipality or an aggrieved person may institute a civil action against a person who violates a provision of this chapter, a subdivision regulation adopted under this chapter, or a term, condition, or limitation imposed by a platting authority. In addition to other relief, a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 may be imposed for each violation. An action to enjoin a violation may be brought notwithstanding the availability of any other remedy. Upon application for injunctive relief and a finding of a violation or threatened violation, the superior court shall grant the injunction.

(b) Each day that an unlawful act or condition continues constitutes a separate violation.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.645 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.645
Pledges of the state and municipalities.
Status: in_force

The state and municipalities participating in the authority pledge to and agree with the holders of bonds issued under AS 29.35.625 and with the federal agency, if any, that loans or contributes funds in respect to a project of the authority, that the state and the municipalities participating in the authority will not limit or alter the rights and powers vested in the authority by its enabling ordinance or other law so that it is unable to fulfill the terms of a contract made by the authority with those holders or that federal agency, or in any way impair the rights and remedies of those holders or that federal agency until the bonds, together with the interest on them and interest on unpaid installments of interest, and all costs and expenses in connection with an action or proceeding by or on behalf of those holders or that federal agency, are fully met and discharged. An authority is authorized to include this pledge and agreement of the state and the municipalities participating in the authority, insofar as it refers to holders of bonds of the authority, in a contract with those holders, and insofar as it relates to a federal agency, in a contract with that federal agency.
Alaska Stat. § 29.05.130 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.05 / Section 29.05.130
Integration of special districts and service areas.
Status: in_force

(a) A service area in a newly incorporated municipality shall be integrated into the municipality within two years after the date of incorporation. On integration the municipality succeeds to all the rights, powers, duties, assets, and liabilities of the service area. On integration all property in the service area subject to taxation to pay the principal and interest on bonds at the time of integration remains subject to taxation for that purpose.

(b) After integration, the municipality may exercise in a former service area all of the rights and powers exercised by the service area at the time of integration, and, as successor to the service area, may levy and collect special charges, taxes, or assessments to amortize bonded indebtedness incurred by the service area or by a municipality in which the service area was formerly located.
Alaska Stat. § 29.65.020 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.65 / Section 29.65.020
Determination of entitlement for cities.
Status: reserved

(a) The general grant land entitlement of a city formerly eligible to receive general grant land under the provisions of former AS 29.18.190 and 29.18.200 is 10 percent of the maximum total acreage of vacant, unappropriated, unreserved land in the boundaries of each city at any time between the initial date of eligibility under former AS 29.18.190 and 29.18.200 and January 1, 1988. Within six months after January 1, 1988, the director shall determine the entitlement for each city eligible to receive general grant land under this section and certify that entitlement to the city.

(b) [Repealed, § 12 ch 34 SLA 1987.]
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.330 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.330
Election.
Status: in_force

(a) If more than one power is proposed for acquisition under AS 29.35.320 , each shall appear separately on the ballot.

(b) If a power is proposed for exercise by a third class borough in a service area, only voters residing in the proposed service area may vote.

(c) A vote on the question of adding an areawide power in a first or second class borough shall be tabulated in two separate classifications. One shall consist of all votes cast in all cities located in the borough. The other shall consist of all votes cast in the borough area outside all cities. If the majority of the votes cast in each classification is favorable, the borough shall assume the added power within 30 days after certification of the election results.

(d) If a majority of the votes cast on the question of adding a nonareawide power in a second class borough or a power to be exercised in a service area in a third class borough is favorable, the borough shall assume the added power within 30 days after certification of the election results.

(e) The borough mayor shall certify the election results to the department.
Alaska Stat. § 29.40.070 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.40 / Section 29.40.070
Platting regulation.
Status: in_force

By ordinance the assembly shall adopt platting requirements that may include, but are not limited to, the control of (1) form, size, and other aspects of subdivision, dedications, and vacations of land;

(2) dimensions and design of lots;

(3) street width, arrangement, and rights-of-way, including requirements for public access to lots and installation of street paving, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, sewers, water lines, drainage, and other public utility facilities and improvements;

(4) dedication of streets, rights-of-way, public utility easements and areas considered necessary by the platting authority for other public uses.
Alaska Stat. § 29.45.290 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.45 / Section 29.45.290
Validity.
Status: in_force

Certified assessment and tax rolls are valid and binding on all persons, notwithstanding a defect, error, omission, or invalidity in the assessment rolls or proceedings pertaining to the assessment roll.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.675 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.675
Development plan.
Status: in_force

In the enabling ordinance establishing the authority under AS 29.35.605 the authority shall be (1) required to submit a development plan to the governing body of the municipality or municipalities participating in the authority; and

(2) prohibited from undertaking the construction or acquisition of a project unless the project appears in a development plan submitted to and approved by the governing body of the municipality or municipalities participating in the authority.
Alaska Stat. § 29.45.360 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.45 / Section 29.45.360
General foreclosure.
Status: in_force

A municipality shall bring one general foreclosure proceeding in rem against the properties included in the foreclosure list. If the owner is unknown, the property is proceeded against as belonging to unknown owner.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.150 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.150
Scope of areawide powers.
Status: in_force

A borough shall exercise the powers as specified and in the manner specified in AS 29.35.150  29.35.180 on an areawide basis.
Alaska Stat. § 29.65.070 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.65 / Section 29.65.070
Selection and conveyance procedure.
Status: in_force

(a) If land selected by a municipality is unsurveyed at the time of approval, the director shall survey, or may approve the municipality's survey of, the exterior boundaries of an approved selection without interior subdivision, and shall issue patent in terms of the exterior boundary survey. The cost of the survey shall be borne by the municipality. If land selected by a municipality has been surveyed at the time of its selection, the boundaries shall conform to the public land subdivisions established by the approved survey.

(b) The director may approve municipal selections of land that have been tentatively approved or patented to the state by the federal government but may not issue patent to a municipality until the land has first been patented to the state. After approval of a selection by the director, but before patent to a municipality, the municipality may execute conditional leases and make conditional sales only with the consent of the director. Conditional sales and conditional leases made before July 1, 1978, do not require the consent of the director.

(c) The commissioner of natural resources shall require that each selection be compact in form with its length not exceeding approximately four times its width. The restrictions on form may be waived by the commissioner based on land use, terrain, effect of the form of the selection on access to it and other parcels, and effect of the form of the selection on surveying and management costs to the state and the municipality.

(d) Nothing in this chapter affects a valid existing claim, location, or entry under the laws of the state or the United States whether for homestead, mineral, right-of-way, or other purposes. Nothing in this chapter affects the rights of an owner, claimant, locater, or entryman to the full use and enjoyment of the land so occupied.
Alaska Stat. § 29.26.060 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.26 / Section 29.26.060
Runoff elections.
Status: in_force

(a) Unless otherwise provided by ordinance, a runoff election shall be held if no candidate receives over 40 percent of the votes cast for the office of (1) mayor; or

(2) member of the governing body or school board if candidates run for a designated seat.

(b) Unless otherwise provided by ordinance, if candidates for the governing body or school board run at large, a runoff election for a seat shall be held if no candidate receives a number of votes greater than 40 percent of the total votes cast for all candidates divided by the number of seats to be filled.

(c) Unless otherwise provided by ordinance, a runoff election shall be held within three weeks after the date of certification of the election for which a runoff is required, and notice of the runoff election shall be published at least five days before the election date. The runoff election shall be between the two candidates receiving the greatest number of votes for the seat.
Alaska Stat. § 29.25.070 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.25 / Section 29.25.070
Penalties.
Status: in_force

(a) For the violation of an ordinance, a municipality may by ordinance prescribe a penalty not to exceed a fine of $1,000 and imprisonment for 90 days, except as limited by (f) of this section. For a violation that cannot result in incarceration or the loss of a valuable license, a municipality may allow disposition of the violation without court appearance and establish a schedule of fine amounts for each offense.

(b) The municipality or an aggrieved person may institute a civil action against a person, including a minor as provided in AS 29.25.072 , who violates an ordinance. In addition to injunctive and compensatory relief, a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 may be imposed for each violation. An action to enjoin a violation may be brought notwithstanding the availability of any other remedy. On application for injunctive relief and a finding of a violation or a threatened violation, the superior court shall grant the injunction. Each day that a violation of an ordinance continues constitutes a separate violation.

(c) The penalties authorized under this section may be imposed only if copies of the ordinance are made available for distribution to the public at no more than cost.

(d) This section does not apply to an ordinance adopted under AS 04.11.501 (c).

(e) The municipality shall provide written notice to the commissioner of family and community services or to the commissioner's designee of the commencement of a civil enforcement action for the violation of an ordinance under (b) of this section against a minor. Unless the commissioner and the municipality have negotiated an agreement making other arrangements for the municipality to provide the notice required by this subsection, the municipality shall provide the notice by mailing a copy of the citation or other document setting out the notice of the commencement of the civil enforcement action. This subsection applies to home rule and general law municipalities.

(f) If a municipality prescribes a penalty for a violation of a municipal ordinance, including a violation under (a) of this section, and there is a comparable state crime under AS 11 or AS 28 with elements that are similar to the municipal ordinance, the municipality may not impose a greater punishment than that imposed for a violation of the state crime. This subsection applies to home rule and general law municipalities.

(g) In this section, minor means a person under 18 years of age.
Alaska Stat. § 29.20.060 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.20 / Section 29.20.060
Assembly composition and apportionment.
Status: in_force

(a) Assembly composition and apportionment shall be consistent with the equal representation standards of the Constitution of the United States.

(b) The assembly of a newly incorporated borough is, after incorporation and until the adoption of an ordinance providing for a change in composition or apportionment, composed of the number of members and apportioned as set out in the incorporation petition approved by the voters. If the borough is already incorporated, the assembly shall be composed and apportioned in a manner that is consistent with the requirements of this section and prescribed by charter or ordinance.

(c) An assembly may not provide for weighted voting.

(d) A member of the assembly may not be elected or appointed by and from the council of a city in the borough.

(e) This section applies to home rule and general law municipalities.
Alaska Stat. § 29.06.490 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.06 / Section 29.06.490
Report and hearing.
Status: in_force

(a) The department shall report its findings to the Local Boundary Commission with its recommendation regarding the dissolution of a municipality.

(b) The Local Boundary Commission shall hold at least one public hearing in the municipality proposed to be dissolved.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.685 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.685
Continuation of collective bargaining agreements; application of AS 23.40.070  23.40.260.
Status: in_force

(a) A collective bargaining agreement for employees of the state or its political subdivisions who are transferred to an authority under AS 29.35.600  29.35.730 shall remain in effect for the term of the agreement or for a period of one year, whichever is longer, and shall be binding on the authority unless the parties agree to the contrary before the expiration of the agreement. A labor-management negotiation impasse declared after a transfer of employees under this subsection but before the negotiation of a new collective bargaining agreement shall be resolved as provided in the collective bargaining agreement, except that if the collective bargaining agreement does not provide for a resolution, then as provided in AS 23.40.070  23.40.260.

(b) Employees of the state or a political subdivision of the state transferred to an authority shall retain, for a period of one year following the date of transfer or for the duration of a collective bargaining agreement transferred under (a) of this section, whichever is greater, all rights of participation in fringe benefit programs available to the employees on the day before the transfer, or in programs substantially equivalent.

(c) AS 23.40.070  23.40.260 apply to employees of an authority established under AS 29.35.600  29.35.730 unless all municipalities participating in the authority are exempt under AS 23.40.255 (a).
Alaska Stat. § 29.26.330 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.26 / Section 29.26.330
Form of recall ballot.
Status: in_force

A recall ballot must contain (1) the grounds for recall as stated in 200 words or less on the recall petition;

(2) a statement by the official named on the recall petition of 200 words or less, if the statement is filed with the clerk for publication and public inspection at least 20 days before the election;

(3) the following question: Shall (name of person) be recalled from the office of (office)? Yes [ ] No [ ].
Alaska Stat. § 29.25.060 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.25 / Section 29.25.060
Resolutions.
Status: in_force

(a) The governing body shall provide for the maintenance of a permanent file of resolutions that have been adopted.

(b) This section applies to home rule and general law municipalities.
Alaska Stat. § 29.25.040 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.25 / Section 29.25.040
Codes of regulation.
Status: in_force

The governing body may in a single ordinance adopt or amend by reference provisions of a published code of municipal regulations. The procedure under AS 29.25.020 applies to an ordinance adopted under this section, except that neither the ordinance or its amendments must be distributed to the public or read in full at the public hearing. For a period of 15 days before adoption of an ordinance under this section, at least five copies of the code of regulations shall be made available for public inspection at a time and place set out in the hearing notice. Only the ordinance must be printed after it is adopted under this section. The governing body shall provide for an adopted code of regulations to be made available to the public at no more than cost.
Alaska Stat. § 29.46.040 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.46 / Section 29.46.040
Record owner.
Status: in_force

The person in whose name property is listed on the municipal property tax roll as owner is conclusively presumed to be the legal owner of record. If the owner is unknown, the assessment roll may designate unknown owner.
Alaska Stat. § 29.06.190 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.06 / Section 29.06.190
Unification of municipalities authorized.
Status: in_force

(a) A borough and all cities in the borough may unite to form a single unit of home rule government by complying with AS 29.06.190  29.06.410.

(b) An area that is not incorporated as a borough, including any cities in the area, may incorporate as a unified municipality under AS 29.05.031 .
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.910 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.910
Claims.
Status: in_force

In judicial and regulatory proceedings by and against an authority, an authority and its board members and employees enjoy the same rights, privileges, and immunities as a municipality and municipal officers.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.350 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.350
Definition.
Status: in_force

In AS 29.35.200  29.35.350, power means the provision of a public facility or service, or the exercise of a regulatory power.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.220 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.220
Third class borough powers.
Status: in_force

(a) A third class borough may borrow money and issue negotiable or nonnegotiable bonds or other evidences of indebtedness as provided by AS 29.47 .

(b) Areawide exercise of a power by a third class borough other than education and tax assessment and collection is not authorized.

(c) A third class borough may acquire the power to provide for planning, platting, and land use regulation as provided in AS 29.40 for first and second class boroughs, except the power may only be exercised within a service area.

(d) A third class borough may acquire any power not otherwise prohibited by law, except the power may only be exercised within a service area.

(e) A third class borough may by ordinance exercise power necessary to contain, clean up, or prevent a release or threatened release of oil or a hazardous substance, and exercise a power granted to a municipality under AS 46.04 , AS 46.08 , or AS 46.09 , but the power authorized by this subsection may be exercised only on a nonareawide basis. The borough shall exercise its authority under this subsection in a manner that is consistent with a regional master plan prepared by the Department of Environmental Conservation under AS 46.04.210 .

Article 4. City Powers.
Alaska Stat. § 29.05.011 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.05 / Section 29.05.011
Incorporation of a city.
Status: in_force

(a) A community that meets the following standards may incorporate as a first class or home rule city: (1) the community has 400 or more permanent residents;

(2) the boundaries of the proposed city include all areas necessary to provide municipal services on an efficient scale;

(3) the economy of the community includes the human and financial resources necessary to provide municipal services; in considering the economy of the community, the Local Boundary Commission shall consider property values, economic base, personal income, resource and commercial development, anticipated functions, and the expenses and income of the proposed city, including the ability of the community to generate local revenue;

(4) the population of the community is stable enough to support city government;

(5) there is a demonstrated need for city government.

(b) A community that meets all the standards under (a) of this section except (a)(1) may incorporate as a second class city.
Alaska Stat. § 29.20.270 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.20 / Section 29.20.270
Veto.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided in (c)  (e) of this section, the mayor may veto an ordinance, resolution, motion, or other action of the governing body and may strike or reduce appropriation items.

(b) A veto must be exercised before the next regular meeting of the governing body and must be accompanied by a written explanation of the reasons for the veto. A veto may be overridden by vote of two-thirds of the authorized membership of the governing body within 21 days following exercise of the veto, or at the next regular meeting, whichever is later.

(c) The veto does not extend to (1) appropriation items in a school budget ordinance;

(2) actions of the governing body sitting as the board of equalization or the board of adjustment;

(3) adoption or repeal of a manager plan of government.

(d) The mayor of a second class city has no veto power.

(e) The veto does not extend to an ordinance adopted under AS 04.11.501 . This subsection applies to home rule and general law municipalities.
Alaska Stat. § 29.60.520 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.60 / Section 29.60.520
Purposes of municipal impact grants.
Status: in_force

(a) A grant made under AS 29.60.510 may be made (1) only for (A) provision of subsistence resources on which the residents of the municipality, village, or school district rely for subsistence needs;

(B) the additional costs of a reasonable and appropriate function or service, including administrative expenses for the incremental costs of providing the function or service, limited to: (i) public health and welfare functions and services, including hospital, clinic, and emergency medical services; alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health services; family support services; and the operation of waste disposal systems and water quality improvement systems;

(ii) public safety functions and services, including police protection, search and rescue, and fire protection;

(iii) public utility functions and services, including the operation of electric generating plants and distribution systems, water supply systems, telephone systems, and fuel distribution systems; and

(iv) housing functions and services, limited to leasing or making other arrangements for temporary housing to be occupied by persons associated with containment or cleanup of the release;

(C) costs associated with leasing transportation facilities for use in activities associated with the containment or cleanup;

(D) costs of repair or replacement of equipment or a capital asset associated with a function or service set out in (B) of this paragraph the useful life of which has been substantially reduced by use associated with the containment or cleanup; and

(2) to compensate the municipality, village, or school district for (A) the reduction of revenue attributable to the release of the oil or hazardous substance; and

(B) the actual costs of projects or activities that are delayed or lost because of the efforts of the municipality, village, or school district responding to the release or associated with the containment or cleanup of oil or the hazardous substance.

(b) If money received under this section is used for a capital expenditure, the commissioner may require the municipality, village, or school district that acquired the item as a capital expenditure to transfer it to the state at the end of the period during which the item is actually used for spill response if the commissioner finds that retention of the item would confer an inappropriate benefit on the municipality, village, or school district.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.138 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.138
Application.
Status: in_force

AS 29.35.131  29.35.137 apply to home rule and general law municipalities.
Alaska Stat. § 29.47.020 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.47 / Section 29.47.020
Issuance of notes.
Status: in_force

A municipality may by ordinance or resolution authorize the issuance of revenue anticipation notes. The governing body may delegate to its chief fiscal officer the power to issue the notes from time to time under the terms and conditions of the ordinance or resolution that provides for the manner of their sale.
Alaska Stat. § 29.47.320 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.47 / Section 29.47.320
No election required.
Status: in_force

An election is not required to authorize the issuance and sale of refunding bonds. Their issuance may be authorized and all proceedings with reference to them prescribed by ordinance. However, when it is desirable to use general obligation bonds to refund a revenue bond issue, the governing body shall call an election on the question.
Alaska Stat. § 29.20.170 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.20 / Section 29.20.170
Vacancies.
Status: in_force

The governing body may provide by ordinance the manner in which a vacancy occurs in any elected office except the office of mayor or school board member. Unless otherwise provided by ordinance, the governing body shall declare an elective office, other than the office of mayor or school board member, vacant when the person elected (1) fails to qualify or take office within 30 days after election or appointment;

(2) is physically absent from the municipality for 90 consecutive days unless excused by the governing body;

(3) resigns and the resignation is accepted;

(4) is physically or mentally unable to perform the duties of office as determined by two-thirds vote of the governing body;

(5) is convicted of a felony or of an offense involving a violation of the oath of office;

(6) is convicted of a felony or misdemeanor described in AS 15.56 and two-thirds of the members of the governing body concur in expelling the person elected;

(7) is convicted of a violation of AS 15.13 ;

(8) no longer physically resides in the municipality and the governing body by two-thirds vote declares the seat vacant; this paragraph does not apply to a member of the governing body who forfeits office under AS 29.20.140 (a); or

(9) if a member of the governing body, misses three consecutive regular meetings and is not excused.
Alaska Stat. § 29.26.310 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.26 / Section 29.26.310
Submission.
Status: in_force

If a recall petition is sufficient, the clerk shall submit it to the governing body at the next regular meeting or at a special meeting held before the next regular meeting.
Alaska Stat. § 29.45.065 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.45 / Section 29.45.065
Assessment of private airports open for public use.
Status: in_force

(a) A municipality may provide by ordinance that airports located on private land and open and available for public use may be assessed at full and true value for airport use and not as if subdivided or used for some other nonairport use. The assessor shall maintain records valuing the land at both full and true value and airport use value. If the land is sold, leased, or otherwise disposed of for uses incompatible with airport use by the public or if the owner converts the land to a use incompatible with airport use by the public, the owner is liable to pay an amount equal to the additional tax at the current mill levy together with eight percent interest from the time of the incompatibility, as if the land had not been assessed for airport use. Payment of the additional tax and interest shall be made to the municipality.

(b) To secure the assessment under this section, the owner of the airport shall show that the airport is on private land, is open and available for public use, and is of benefit to the public or municipality. The owner shall apply to the assessor before May 15 of each year that the assessment is desired on forms to be prescribed by the municipality for use of the local assessor and shall include information reasonably required to determine the entitlement of the applicant. If the land is leased for airport purposes, the applicant shall furnish the assessor with a copy of the lease bearing the signature of both the lessee and lessor for the period that the exemption is requested.

(c) In this section, airport means an area of land or water that is used for the landing, takeoff, movement, or parking of aircraft, and the appurtenant areas that are used for airport buildings or other airport facilities or right-of-way, together with airport buildings and facilities at the location.
Alaska Stat. § 29.06.380 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.06 / Section 29.06.380
Succession to assets and liabilities; bonded indebtedness.
Status: in_force

A unified municipality shall succeed to all the assets and liabilities of the municipalities it unified. A bonded indebtedness or other debt incurred before unification remains the tax obligation of the area that contracted the debt, except that by ordinance the tax obligation may be assumed by a larger area if the governing body determines that the asset for which the bonded indebtedness or other debt was incurred benefited the larger area before unification, or benefits the larger area after unification. However, bonded indebtedness or other debt for sewage collection systems, water distribution systems, and streets, even if determined to be benefiting a larger area than that which incurred the debt, remains the tax obligation of the area that incurred the debt.
Alaska Stat. § 29.45.051 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.45 / Section 29.45.051
Tax deferral for certain subdivided property.
Status: in_force

(a) A municipality may by ordinance permit deferral of payment of taxes on all or a portion of the increase in assessed value directly attributable to (1) the subdivision of a single parcel of property into three or more parcels; and

(2) any improvements made to the property necessitated by its subdivision.

(b) A deferral from taxation allowed under (a) of this section shall be limited to a maximum period of five years. A municipality may by ordinance provide for the deferral of payment of taxes permitted under (a) of this section to be of a shorter duration.

(c) Subject to (b) of this section, a municipality may also by ordinance provide that (1) the deferral is terminated when (A) a lot in the subdivision is sold; or

(B) a residential or commercial building is built on a lot in the subdivision; or

(2) the deferral continues for the unsold lots in the subdivision after (A) a lot in the subdivision is sold; or

(B) a residential or commercial building is constructed on a lot in the subdivision.
Alaska Stat. § 29.06.220 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.06 / Section 29.06.220
Review of petition.
Status: in_force

The assembly shall review a unification petition within 15 days to determine whether it complies with AS 29.06.210 . If the petition does not meet the designated requirements, it shall be immediately returned to the person who initiated the petition with a statement indicating which requirements have not been satisfied.
Alaska Stat. § 29.06.210 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.06 / Section 29.06.210
Petition requirements.
Status: in_force

(a) A unification petition shall read:

PETITION FOR ELECTION OF CHARTER COMMISSION TO PROPOSE UNIFICATION CHARTER. We, the undersigned, qualified voters of the borough do hereby petition that the following proposition be placed before the voters as provided by law: 'Shall a charter commission be formed (and charter commission members be elected as elsewhere provided on this ballot) to prepare, adopt, and submit to the voters for their approval or rejection a proposed charter uniting the borough and all cities within it as a single unit of home rule government having the powers, duties and functions of a unified municipality as authorized by law? Yes [ ] No [ ]'

Inside First Outside First Class or Class or Signature Address Home Rule City [ ] Home Rule City [ ]

(b) The petition shall be signed by at least (1) the number of voters residing outside all home rule and first class cities in the borough equal to 25 percent of the votes cast in that area in the last regular borough election; and

(2) the number of voters residing in each home rule and first class city in the borough equal to 25 percent of the votes cast in each of these cities in the last regular borough election.
Alaska Stat. § 29.65.120 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.65 / Section 29.65.120
Regulations.
Status: in_force

The commissioner of natural resources may, after consultation with the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, adopt regulations in accordance with AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
Alaska Stat. § 29.45.390 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.45 / Section 29.45.390
Transfer and appeal.
Status: in_force

(a) Foreclosed properties are transferred to the municipality for the lien amount. When answers are filed the court may enter judgment against and order the transfer to the municipality of all other properties on the list pending determination of the matters in controversy. The court shall hear and determine the issues raised by the complaint and answers in the same manner and under the same rules as it hears and determines other actions.

(b) The court clerk shall deliver a certified copy of the judgment and decree to the municipal clerk. The certified judgment and decree constitutes a transfer to the municipality.

(c) The judgment and decree stops objections to it that could have been presented before judgment and decree. Appeal from a judgment and decree of foreclosure, or from a final order in the proceeding, may be taken in a manner provided for appeals in civil actions.
Alaska Stat. § 29.04.030 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.04 / Section 29.04.030
Classes of general law.
Status: in_force

General law municipalities are of five classes: (1) first class boroughs;

(2) second class boroughs;

(3) third class boroughs;

(4) first class cities;

(5) second class cities.
Alaska Stat. § 29.06.510 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.06 / Section 29.06.510
Election.
Status: in_force

(a) The Local Boundary Commission shall immediately notify the director of elections of its acceptance of a dissolution petition. Within 30 days after notification, the director of elections shall order an election in the municipality to determine whether the voters desire dissolution. The election must be held at least 30 and not more than 90 days after the election order unless such timing would cause the election to be held between May 1 and November 1. If the director of elections receives notification after April 1, but before October 1, the election shall be held within 60 days after November 1. A person who is a voter of the municipality may vote in the dissolution election.

(b) The director of elections shall supervise the election in the general manner prescribed by AS 15 (Election Code). The state shall pay all election costs.

(c) The director of elections shall certify the election results. If dissolution is approved by a number of voters greater than 50 percent of the number of people registered to vote in the municipality, the director of elections shall declare that the municipality is dissolved effective on the date of certification.
Alaska Stat. § 29.45.250 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.45 / Section 29.45.250
Rates of penalty and interest.
Status: in_force

(a) A penalty not to exceed 20 percent of the tax due may be added to all delinquent taxes, and interest not to exceed 15 percent a year shall accrue upon all unpaid taxes, not including penalty, from the due date until paid in full. A municipality may impose a penalty not to exceed 20 percent of the tax due upon the late return of personal property assessment forms. A penalty under this section may be imposed according to a formula that increases the amount of the penalty as the length of time increases during which payment is delinquent or assessment forms are not returned.

(b) If a taxpayer is given the right to pay the tax in two installments, penalty and interest on an unpaid installment accrues from the date the installment becomes due.

Article 2. Enforcement of Tax Liens.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.400 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.400
General construction.
Status: in_force

A liberal construction shall be given to all powers and functions of a municipality conferred in this title.
Alaska Stat. § 29.47.300 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.47 / Section 29.47.300
Authorization.
Status: in_force

If a municipality has outstanding general obligation or revenue bonds and the governing body determines that it would be financially advantageous to refund the bonds, the municipality may provide by ordinance or resolution for the issuance of negotiable or nonnegotiable (1) general obligation refunding bonds; or

(2) revenue refunding bonds.
Alaska Stat. § 29.25.010 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.25 / Section 29.25.010
Acts required to be by ordinance.
Status: in_force

(a) In addition to other actions that this title requires to be by ordinance, the governing body of a municipality shall use ordinances to (1) establish, alter, or abolish municipal departments;

(2) provide for a fine or other penalty, or establish rules or regulations for violation of which a fine or other penalty is imposed;

(3) provide for the levying of taxes;

(4) make appropriations, including supplemental appropriations or transfer of appropriations;

(5) grant, renew, or extend a franchise;

(6) adopt, modify, or repeal the comprehensive plan, land use and subdivision regulations, building and housing codes, and the official map;

(7) approve the transfer of a power to a first or second class borough from a city;

(8) designate the borough seat;

(9) provide for the retention or sale of tax-foreclosed property;

(10) exempt contractors from compliance with general requirements relating to payment and performance bonds in the construction or repair of municipal public works projects within the limitations set out in AS 36.25.025 ; this paragraph applies to home rule and general law municipalities.

(b) This section does not grant authority, but requires the governing body to use ordinances in exercising certain of its powers.
Alaska Stat. § 29.45.062 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.45 / Section 29.45.062
Land subject to a conservation easement.
Status: in_force

(a) Land that is subject to a conservation easement created under AS 34.17.010  34.17.060 and used consistent with the conservation easement shall be assessed on the basis of full and true value for use subject to the conservation easement and may not be assessed as though it was not subject to the conservation easement. The assessor shall maintain records valuing the land for both full and true value and value subject to the conservation easement. The municipality may, by ordinance, require that if the land is sold, leased, or otherwise disposed of for uses incompatible with the conservation easement or if the conservation easement is conveyed to the owner of the property, the owner shall pay to the municipality an amount equal to the additional tax at the current mill levy together with eight percent interest for the preceding 10 years, as though the land had not been assessed subject to the conservation easement.

(b) To secure the assessment under this section, an owner of land subject to a conservation easement shall apply to the assessor before May 15 of each year in which the assessment is desired. The application must be made upon forms prescribed by the assessor and must include information that may reasonably be required to determine the entitlement of the applicant.
Alaska Stat. § 29.26.130 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.26 / Section 29.26.130
Signature requirements.
Status: in_force

(a) The signatures on an initiative or referendum petition shall be secured within 90 days after the clerk issues the petition. The statement provided under AS 29.26.120 (a)(6) shall be signed and dated by the sponsor. Signatures shall be in ink or indelible pencil.

(b) The clerk shall determine the number of signatures required on a petition and inform the contact person in writing. Except as provided in (e) of this section, a petition shall be signed by a number of voters based on the number of votes cast at the last regular election held before the date written notice is given to the contact person that the petition is available, equal to (1) 25 percent of the votes cast if a municipality has fewer than 7,500 persons; or

(2) 15 percent of the votes cast if a municipality has 7,500 persons or more.

(c) Illegible signatures shall be rejected by the clerk unless accompanied by a legible printed name. Signatures not accompanied by a legible residence address shall be rejected.

(d) A petition signer may withdraw the signer's signature on written application to the clerk before certification of the petition.

(e) If the ordinance or resolution that is the subject of an initiative or referendum petition affects only an area that is less than the entire area of a municipality, only voters residing in the affected area may sign the petition. The clerk shall determine the number of signatures required on the petition and inform the contact person in writing. The petition shall be signed by a number of voters based on the number of votes cast in that area at the last regular election held before the date written notice is given to the contact person that the petition is available equal to (1) 25 percent of the votes cast if the area has fewer than 7,500 persons; or

(2) 15 percent of the votes cast if the area has 7,500 persons or more.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.140 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.140
Regulation of transportation carriers.
Status: in_force

A municipality may not regulate an activity regarding transportation of passengers or freight for hire if the regulation conflicts with the regulation of that activity by the Alaska Transportation Commission as the regulation existed on April 1, 1983, under former AS 02.05 , former AS 42.07 , or former AS 42.10 .
Alaska Stat. § 29.20.110 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.20 / Section 29.20.110
Effective date of apportionment.
Status: in_force

(a) A change in assembly apportionment or composition under AS 29.20.080 or 29.20.090 is effective beginning with the first regular election for members of the assembly that is held more than 60 days after the later of (1) approval of a reapportionment ordinance by the voters under AS 29.20.080 (a), 29.20.080(e), or 29.20.090(d); or

(2) the delivery to the mayor of a reapportionment order of the commissioner under AS 29.20.090 (e).

(b) The provisions of (a) of this section do not apply to a borough in which a change in assembly composition or apportionment is subject to review and approval or determination of nonobjection by the Attorney General of the United States under 42 U.S.C. 1971-1974 (Voting Rights Act of 1965), as amended. A change in assembly composition or apportionment subject to review under 42 U.S.C. 1971-1974, as amended, is effective beginning with the first regular election for members of the assembly that is held more than 60 days after (1) receipt by the assembly of approval by the Attorney General of the United States of the proposed change in the composition or apportionment of the assembly;

(2) the delivery to the mayor of a reapportionment order of the commissioner under AS 29.20.090 (e); or

(3) the last day on which the Attorney General of the United States may review a proposed change in the composition or apportionment of the assembly.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.880 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.880
Continuation of collective bargaining agreements; application of AS 23.40.070  23.40.260.
Status: in_force

(a) A collective bargaining agreement for employees of the state or its political subdivisions who are transferred to an authority under AS 29.35.800  29.35.925 remain in effect for the term of the agreement or one year, whichever is longer, and are binding on the authority unless the parties agree to the contrary before the agreement expires. A labor-management negotiation impasse declared after a transfer of employees under this subsection but before the negotiation of a new collective bargaining agreement shall be resolved as provided in the collective bargaining agreement or, if the collective bargaining agreement does not provide for a resolution, as provided in AS 23.40.070  23.40.260.

(b) Employees of the state or a political subdivision of the state transferred to an authority shall retain, for one year following the date of transfer or for the duration of a collective bargaining agreement transferred under (a) of this section, whichever is greater, all rights of participation in fringe benefit programs available to the employees on the day before the transfer, or in substantially equivalent programs.

(c) AS 23.40.070  23.40.260 apply to employees of an authority established under AS 29.35.800  29.35.925 unless all municipalities participating in the authority are exempt under AS 23.40.255 (a).
Alaska Stat. § 29.05.200 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.05 / Section 29.05.200
Organization grant program.
Status: in_force

(a) The organization grant program is established in the department. An appropriation made to the program shall be used for organization grants to municipalities that qualify under AS 29.05.180 or 29.05.190.

(b) Before August 31 of each fiscal year, the department shall submit a report to the office of management and budget indicating (1) each municipality expected to qualify to receive an organization grant during the next fiscal year;

(2) the amount of money needed to cover all organization grants expected to be awarded during the next fiscal year.
Alaska Stat. § 29.45.430 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.45 / Section 29.45.430
Possession during redemption period.
Status: in_force

Foreclosure does not affect the former owner's right to possession during the redemption period. If waste is committed by the former owner or by anyone acting under the permission or control of the former owner, the municipality may declare an immediate forfeiture of the right to possession.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.110 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.110
Expenditure of borough revenues.
Status: in_force

(a) Borough revenues received through taxes collected on an areawide basis by the borough may be expended on general administrative costs and on areawide functions only. Borough revenues received through taxes collected on a nonareawide basis may be expended on general administrative costs and functions that render service only to the area outside all cities in the borough.

(b) Use of borough revenues from a sales tax levied upon room rentals for a tourism marketing campaign is not subject to (a) of this section.

(c) Notwithstanding (a) of this section, a borough that has entered into an agreement with a city located in the borough to cooperatively or jointly provide for economic development may use borough revenue from taxes or funding from other sources to carry out the terms of the agreement.
Alaska Stat. § 29.04.020 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.04 / Section 29.04.020
General law.
Status: in_force

A general law municipality is a municipal corporation and political subdivision and is an unchartered borough or city. It has legislative powers conferred by law.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.148 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.148
Regulation of transportation network companies or drivers.
Status: reserved

(a) The authority to regulate transportation network companies and transportation network company drivers is reserved to the state, and, except as specifically provided by statute, a municipality may not enact or enforce an ordinance regulating transportation network companies or transportation network company drivers.

(b) The prohibition on regulation under (a) of this section does not include (1) imposition of a municipal sales tax on a transportation network company driver that taxes a trip originating in the municipality in the same manner that other services are taxed in the municipality; in imposing a sales tax as permitted by this paragraph, a municipality may require the transportation network company to collect and pay the municipal sales tax on behalf of transportation network company drivers;

(2) a municipal traffic ordinance.

(c) Notwithstanding AS 28.01.010 or (a) of this section, a municipality may by ordinance ratified by the voters in a regular municipal election prohibit transportation network companies from conducting activities under AS 28.23 within the municipality.

(d) This section applies to home rule and general law municipalities.

(e) In this section, (1) transportation network company has the meaning given in AS 28.23.180 ;

(2) transportation network company driver has the meaning given in AS 28.23.180 .
Alaska Stat. § 29.46.070 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.46 / Section 29.46.070
Hearing and settlement.
Status: in_force

After the public hearing, the governing body shall correct errors and inequalities in the roll. If an assessment is increased, a new hearing shall be set and notice published, except that a new hearing and notice is not required if all record owners of property subject to the increased assessment consent in writing to the increase. Objections to the increased assessment shall be limited to record owners of property on which the assessment was increased. When the roll is corrected, it shall be confirmed by resolution or ordinance.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.410 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.410
Extent of powers.
Status: in_force

Unless otherwise limited by law, a municipality has and may exercise all powers and functions necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the purpose of all powers and functions conferred in this title.
Alaska Stat. § 29.47.030 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.47 / Section 29.47.030
Issuance of notes in anticipation of state or federal grants.
Status: in_force

(a) A municipality, on adoption of a long-range capital improvement budget by ordinance or resolution, may by resolution provide for negotiable or nonnegotiable revenue anticipation notes in an amount not to exceed the total amount of any state or federal grants finally committed for these projects. The notes mature no later than the end of the next fiscal year. The notes may be for single or multiple projects outlined in the adopted capital improvement budget.

(b) If the state or federal grants for capital improvement projects have not been paid to the municipality before maturity of the notes issued in anticipation of the receipt of the revenue, the governing body may issue new notes in order to meet payment of the notes then maturing or may renew the outstanding revenue anticipation notes. New notes issued or renewals of outstanding revenue anticipation notes mature not later than the end of the next fiscal year.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.250 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.250
Cities inside boroughs.
Status: in_force

(a) A city inside a borough may exercise any power not otherwise prohibited by law.

(b) On adoption of a borough ordinance to provide for areawide exercise of a power, no city may exercise the power unless the borough ordinance provides otherwise or the borough by ordinance ceases to exercise the power.

(c) A home rule city in a third class borough shall provide for planning, platting, and land use regulation as provided by AS 29.35.180 (b) for home rule boroughs. A first class city in a third class borough shall provide for planning, platting, and land use regulation as provided by AS 29.35.180 (a) for first and second class boroughs. A second class city in a third class borough may provide for planning, platting, and land use regulation as provided by AS 29.35.180 (a) for first and second class boroughs.

(d) This section applies to home rule and general law cities.
Alaska Stat. § 29.46.110 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.46 / Section 29.46.110
Allowable costs.
Status: in_force

(a) When a special assessment district is created, there may be included in the assessments (1) all of the cost of acquiring, installing, making, or constructing the local improvement;

(2) the costs of all engineering and surveying to be done in connection with creating the district or improvement;

(3) the cost of mailing and publishing notices;

(4) interest on interim financing;

(5) the cost of legal services and other expenses incurred in the formation of the special assessment district;

(6) the cost of completing the improvement and financing the improvement, including the issuance of bonds.

(b) The total amount of the assessment roll may not exceed actual costs, but actual costs may include reasonable estimates of the costs to be incurred in connection with issuance of bonds.
Alaska Stat. § 29.40.010 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.40 / Section 29.40.010
Planning, platting, and land use regulation.
Status: in_force

(a) A first or second class borough shall provide for planning, platting, and land use regulation on an areawide basis.

(b) If a city in a borough consents by ordinance, the assembly may by ordinance delegate any of its powers and duties under this chapter to the city. The assembly may by ordinance, without first obtaining the consent of the city, revoke any power or duty delegated under this section.
Alaska Stat. § 29.26.360 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.26 / Section 29.26.360
Application.
Status: in_force

AS 29.26.250  29.26.360 apply to home rule and general law municipalities.
Alaska Stat. § 29.04.060 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.04 / Section 29.04.060
Reclassification of third class boroughs.
Status: in_force

(a) A third class borough may reclassify as a first or second class borough in the manner provided by AS 29.35.320  29.35.330 for the addition of an areawide power by a first or second class borough, except the petition or proposal requests reclassification instead of requesting addition of a power. At the time of voting on reclassification of a third class borough to first or second class status, voters shall vote also on whether the borough shall, on reclassification, retain a combined assembly and school board or elect a separate assembly and board as otherwise provided for first and second class boroughs.

(b) If a combined assembly and school board are approved at the reclassification election, the assembly serving at the time of the election continues to serve as the assembly and board on voter approval of reclassification and until terms of assembly members expire as provided before reclassification.

(c) If a separate assembly and school board are approved at the reclassification election, a school board shall be elected in conformity with AS 14.12.030  14.12.100 at the next regular election, if it occurs within 90 days of the date of the reclassification election, or otherwise at a special election within 90 days of the date of the reclassification election. Expiration dates of terms of school board members elected at a special election must coincide with the date of the regular election. Until a board is elected and qualified, the assembly continues to serve as the board.
Alaska Stat. § 29.71.030 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.71 / Section 29.71.030
Taxation of municipalities.
Status: in_force

A state law or regulation may not assess or tax, or be construed to assess or tax, a municipality unless the law or regulation expressly provides that the municipality is to be assessed or taxed by the particular law or regulation.
Alaska Stat. § 29.47.400 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.47 / Section 29.47.400
Sale.
Status: in_force

Bonds and notes issued under this chapter may be sold at either public or private sale by the municipality in the manner and at the price it determines.
Alaska Stat. § 29.20.390 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.20 / Section 29.20.390
Municipal treasurer.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided in AS 14.14.060 , the treasurer is the custodian of all municipal funds. The treasurer shall keep an itemized account of money received and disbursed. The treasurer shall pay money on vouchers drawn against appropriations.

(b) The treasurer shall give bond to the municipality in a sum that the governing body directs.
Alaska Stat. § 29.20.370 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.20 / Section 29.20.370
Municipal attorney.
Status: in_force

The municipal attorney is the legal advisor of the governing body, the school board, and the other officials of the municipality. The municipal attorney represents the municipality as attorney in civil and criminal proceedings. The school board may hire independent counsel when in its judgment independent counsel is needed.
Alaska Stat. § 29.60.830 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.60 / Section 29.60.830
Definition.
Status: in_force

In AS 29.60.800  29.60.830, regional housing authority means a regional housing authority established under AS 18.55.996 .
Alaska Stat. § 29.06.100 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.06 / Section 29.06.100
Petition.
Status: in_force

(a) Residents of two or more municipalities may file a merger or consolidation petition with the department. The petition must be signed by a number of voters of each existing municipality equal to at least 25 percent of the number of votes cast in each municipality's last regular election.

(b) The petition includes (1) the name and class of each existing municipality;

(2) the name and class of the proposed municipality;

(3) the proposed composition and apportionment of the governing body;

(4) maps, documents, and other information that shows that the proposed municipality meets the standards for municipal incorporation;

(5) for a home rule municipality, a proposed home rule charter.
Alaska Stat. § 29.47.340 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.47 / Section 29.47.340
Sale of refunding bonds.
Status: in_force

General obligation or revenue refunding bonds may, at the discretion of the governing body, be exchanged for the bonds being refunded, or may be sold at public or private sale. They may be issued and delivered at any time before the date of maturity or redemption of the refunded bonds.
Alaska Stat. § 29.45.310 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.45 / Section 29.45.310
Enforcement of personal property tax liens by distraint and sale.
Status: in_force

(a) A lien for personal property taxes may be enforced by distraint and sale of the property. The municipality shall provide the procedure for distraint and sale by ordinance. A seizure, levy, or distraint is not legal unless demand is first made of the person assessed for the amount of the tax, penalty, and interest, and a sale is not valid unless made at public auction no sooner than 15 days after notice is published. The seizure is made by virtue of a warrant issued by the municipal clerk to a peace officer.

(b) If the personal property sold is not sufficient to satisfy the tax, penalty, and interest, and costs of sale, the warrant may authorize the seizure of other personal property sufficient to satisfy the tax, penalty, interest, and costs of sale. If the property is sold for more money than is needed to satisfy the tax, the municipality shall remit the excess to the former record owner upon presentation of a proper claim. A claim for the excess filed after six months of the date of sale is forever barred.
Alaska Stat. § 29.65.040 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.65 / Section 29.65.040
Status of entitlements.
Status: in_force

(a) After July 1, 1978, general grant land entitlements provided in former AS 29.18.201 and 29.18.202 are vested property rights that must be fulfilled as provided in AS 29.65.050 . After January 1, 1988, general grant land entitlements provided in AS 29.65.010 are vested property rights that must be fulfilled as provided in AS 29.65.050 .

(b) General grant land entitlements provided by AS 29.65.030 are property rights that vest on the date of incorporation of the municipality. The entitlement shall be fulfilled as provided in AS 29.65.050 .

(c) Land may be selected or nominated for selection by a municipality to satisfy a general grant land entitlement under former AS 29.18.201 and 29.18.202 at any time before October 1, 1980. Land may be selected or nominated for selection by a municipality to satisfy a general grant land entitlement under AS 29.65.010 (a)(1)-(9), (11), or (12) at any time before October 1, 1990. Land may be selected or nominated for selection by a municipality to satisfy a general grant land entitlement under AS 29.65.010 (a)(10) at any time before October 1, 1996. Land may be selected or nominated for selection by a municipality to satisfy a general grant land entitlement under AS 29.65.010 (a)(13) at any time before October 1, 1999. Land may be selected or nominated for selection by a municipality to satisfy a general grant land entitlement under AS 29.65.010 (a)(14) or (15) at any time before October 1, 2011. Land may be selected or nominated for selection by a municipality to satisfy a general grant land entitlement under AS 29.65.010 (a)(16) at any time before October 1, 2018. However, if a municipal selection or nomination or a part of a municipal selection or nomination is rejected by the director, the municipality may, not later than 90 days after receipt of the rejection or final decision on an appeal filed under AS 29.65.050 (d), select additional state land as necessary to satisfy its entitlement.

(d) Land may be selected by a municipality to satisfy a general grant land entitlement under AS 29.65.030 at any time within one year after the director certifies the entitlement to the municipality.

(e) The time limitations imposed by (c) and (d) of this section for exercising a vested general grant land entitlement do not apply to (1) the portion of an entitlement that cannot be satisfied by that date because of a shortage of land suitable for residential, commercial, and industrial purposes that is vacant, unappropriated, unreserved land;

(2) the portion of an entitlement that cannot be satisfied because the land selected by a municipality has been selected by a party entitled to select land owned by the United States or the state; or

(3) the portion of an entitlement that cannot be satisfied because the land nominated for selection by the municipality is not tentatively approved for patent to the state.
Alaska Stat. § 29.26.100 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.26 / Section 29.26.100
Reservation of powers.
Status: reserved

The powers of initiative and referendum are reserved to the residents of municipalities, except the powers do not extend to matters restricted by art. XI, § 7 of the Constitution of the State of Alaska.
Alaska Stat. § 29.45.550 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.45 / Section 29.45.550
Cities outside boroughs.
Status: in_force

Home rule and first class cities outside boroughs may assess, levy, and collect a property tax. A property tax if levied must be assessed, levied, and collected as provided by AS 29.45.010  29.45.500.
Alaska Stat. § 29.65.130 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.65 / Section 29.65.130
Definitions.
Status: in_force

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, (1) approved selection means a municipal land selection that has been approved in writing by the director for transfer by patent to a municipality;

(2) director means the director of lands, Department of Natural Resources;

(3) general grant land (A) means land patented or tentatively approved to the state from the United States under § 6(a) or (b) of the Alaska Statehood Act;

(B) does not include university land;

(4) mental health land means land granted under Title II, § 202 of P.L. 84-830, as amended before or after July 1, 1978;

(5) municipal land selection means a request by a municipality, filed in writing with the director under authority of former AS 29.18.190 and 29.18.200 or under this chapter for vacant, unappropriated, unreserved general grant land within its municipal boundaries in partial fulfillment of its municipal entitlement;

(6) patent means a document, issued by the director to a municipality for a previously approved selection, that conveys and quitclaims all the right, title, and interest of the state without reservation or condition except as may be required by law;

(7) remaining entitlement means the general grant land entitlement determined in accordance with this chapter, reduced by the total acreage of approved selections, including both patented and unpatented parcels;

(8) school land means those rectangular sections 16 and 36 within each township surveyed on or before January 3, 1959, and confirmed and transferred to the State of Alaska upon its admission under § 6(k), Alaska Statehood Act, 72 Stat. 339, and any other land designated solely for school revenues;

(9) university land has the meaning given in AS 38.05.965 ;

(10) vacant, unappropriated, unreserved land means general grant land as defined in (3) of this section, excluding minerals as required by § 6(i) of the Alaska Statehood Act, that (A) has not been set aside by statute for one or more particular uses or purposes;

(B) has not been approved for patent to a municipality under this chapter or former AS 29.18.190 and 29.18.200;

(C) is unclassified or, if classified under AS 38.05.300 , is classified for agricultural, grazing, material, public recreation, or settlement purposes, or is classified in accordance with an agreement between a municipality and the state providing for state management of land of the municipality; or

(D) was classified no earlier than September 1, 1983, as resource management and is still classified as resource management under AS 38.05.300 .
Alaska Stat. § 29.06.240 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.06 / Section 29.06.240
Composition of charter commission.
Status: in_force

The charter commission shall consist of 11 voters, three of whom are residents elected at large from the borough and eight of whom, proportionate to the population as determined by the department, are (1) residents of and elected from the area outside all home rule and first class cities in the borough; or

(2) residents of and elected from home rule or first class cities in the borough.
Alaska Stat. § 29.45.820 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.45 / Section 29.45.820
Taxes or fees on transportation by certain air carriers prohibited.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding other provisions of law, a municipality may not levy or collect a tax or fee on the air transportation of individuals or goods by a federally certificated air carrier other than a tax or fee authorized under 49 U.S.C. 40116(e) or 40117. This section applies to home rule and general law municipalities.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.722 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.722
Ownership or operation of certain state facilities prohibited.
Status: in_force

The state may not, without the approval of the legislature, (1) convey or transfer the Alaska marine highway system, the Anchorage or Fairbanks international airports, or any other state asset, except undeveloped state land as provided in AS 38.05.810 or surplused property, to an authority; or

(2) enter into an agreement with an authority under which the authority would operate the Alaska marine highway system, the Anchorage or Fairbanks international airports, or any other state facility, system, or function that employs one or more employees.
Alaska Stat. § 29.20.490 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.20 / Section 29.20.490
Appointment of manager.
Status: in_force

(a) The governing body shall appoint a manager by a majority vote of its membership. A manager is chosen on the basis of administrative qualifications and receives the compensation set by the governing body. A member of the governing body may not be appointed manager of the municipality sooner than one year after leaving office, except by a vote of three-fourths of the authorized membership of the governing body.

(b) Subject to the contract of employment, the manager holds office at the pleasure of the governing body.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.845 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.845
Pledges of the state and municipalities.
Status: in_force

The state and municipalities participating in an authority pledge to and agree with the holders of bonds issued under AS 29.35.825 and with the federal agency, if any, that loans or contributes funds for a project of the authority that the state and the municipalities participating in the authority will not limit or alter the rights and powers vested in the authority by its enabling ordinance or other law so that it is unable to fulfill the terms of a contract made by it with those holders or that federal agency or in any way impair the rights and remedies of those holders or that federal agency until the bonds, together with the interest on them and interest on unpaid installments of interest, and all costs and expenses in connection with an action or proceeding by or on behalf of those holders or that federal agency, are fully met and discharged. An authority may include this pledge and agreement of the state and the municipalities participating in the authority, to the extent that it refers to holders of bonds of the authority, in a contract with those holders, and to the extent that it relates to a federal agency, in a contract with that federal agency.
Alaska Stat. § 29.45.150 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.45 / Section 29.45.150
Reevaluation.
Status: in_force

A systematic reevaluation of taxable real and personal property undertaken by the assessor, whether of specific areas in which real property is located or of specific classes of real or personal property to be assessed, shall be made only in accordance with a resolution or other act of the municipality directing a systematic reevaluation of all taxable property in the municipality over the shortest period of time practicable, as fixed in the resolution or act.
Alaska Stat. § 29.20.610 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.20 / Section 29.20.610
Bonding.
Status: in_force

The manager and the other municipal officials or employees that the governing body may designate shall give bond in the amount and with the surety prescribed by the governing body. Premiums on bonds are paid by the municipality.
Alaska Stat. § 29.05.021 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.05 / Section 29.05.021
Limitations on incorporation of a city.
Status: in_force

(a) A community in the unorganized borough may not incorporate as a city if the services to be provided by the proposed city can be provided by annexation to an existing city.

(b) A community within a borough may not incorporate as a city if the services to be provided by the proposed city can be provided on an areawide or nonareawide basis by the borough in which the proposed city is located, or by annexation to an existing city.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.700 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.700
Annual report.
Status: in_force

Within 90 days following the end of the fiscal year of an authority, the board shall distribute to the mayor and governing body of each municipality participating in the authority a report describing the operations and financial condition of the authority during the preceding fiscal year. The report may include suggestions for legislation relating to the structure, powers, or duties of the authority or operation of facilities of the authority. The report must itemize the cost of providing each category of service offered by the authority and the income generated by each category.
Alaska Stat. § 29.45.070 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.45 / Section 29.45.070
Mobile homes.
Status: in_force

Mobile homes, trailers, house trailers, trailer coaches, and similar property used or intended to be used for residential, office, or commercial purposes and permanently affixed to real property under AS 34.85.150 are classified as real property for tax purposes unless expressly classified as personal property by ordinance. This section does not apply to house trailers and mobile homes that are unoccupied and held for sale by persons engaged in the business of selling mobile homes. In this section, mobile home has the meaning given to manufactured home in AS 45.29.102 .
Alaska Stat. § 29.55.135 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.55 / Section 29.55.135
Lien.
Status: in_force

(a) Assessments under AS 29.55.105 and any interest or penalties on the assessments are liens on the property assessed and are prior and paramount to all liens except municipal tax liens and special assessments. Assessment liens may be enforced as provided in AS 29.45.320  29.45.470 for enforcement of property tax liens.

(b) Assessment liens run with the land, and that portion of the assessment under the assessment contract that has not yet become due is not eliminated by foreclosure of a property tax lien or a lien for an assessment.

(c) Penalties and interest may be added to delinquent installments of the assessments in the same manner as provided in AS 29.45.250 .

(d) A municipality may recover costs and expenses, including attorney fees, in a suit to collect a delinquent installment of an assessment in the same manner as in a suit to collect a delinquent property tax.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.860 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.860
Fidelity bond.
Status: in_force

An authority shall obtain a fidelity bond in an amount determined by the board for board members and each executive officer responsible for accounts and finances of that authority. A fidelity bond must be in effect during the entire tenure in office of the bonded person.
Alaska Stat. § 29.26.040 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.26 / Section 29.26.040
Date of regular election.
Status: in_force

The date of a regular election is the first Tuesday of October annually, unless a different date or interval of years is provided by ordinance.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.080 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.080
Alcoholic beverages.
Status: in_force

(a) A municipality may regulate the possession, barter, sale, importation, and consumption of alcoholic beverages under AS 04.11.480  04.11.509 and AS 04.21.010 .

(b) This section applies to home rule and general law municipalities.
Alaska Stat. § 29.55.160 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.55 / Section 29.55.160
Definitions.
Status: in_force

In AS 29.55.100  29.55.165, (1) finance and financing include refinancing an existing project;

(2) mortgage has the meaning given in AS 13.06.050 ;

(3) program means a program established under AS 29.55.100 .
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.210 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.210
Second class borough powers.
Status: in_force

(a) A second class borough may by ordinance exercise the following powers on a nonareawide basis: (1) provide transportation systems;

(2) regulate the offering for sale, exposure for sale, sale, use, or explosion of fireworks;

(3) license, impound, and dispose of animals;

(4) subject to AS 29.35.050 , provide garbage, solid waste, and septic waste collection and disposal;

(5) provide air pollution control under AS 46.14.400 ;

(6) provide water pollution control;

(7) participate in federal or state loan programs for housing rehabilitation and improvement for energy conservation;

(8) provide for economic development;

(9) provide for the acquisition and construction of local service roads and trails under AS 19.30.111  19.30.251;

(10) establish an emergency services communications center under AS 29.35.130 ;

(11) subject to AS 28.01.010 , regulate the licensing and operation of motor vehicles and operators;

(12) engage in activities authorized under AS 29.47.460 ;

(13) contain, clean up, or prevent a release or threatened release of oil or a hazardous substance, and exercise a power granted to a municipality under AS 46.04 , AS 46.08 , or AS 46.09 ; the borough shall exercise its authority under this paragraph in a manner that is consistent with a regional master plan prepared by the Department of Environmental Conservation under AS 46.04.210 ;

(14) establish an energy and resilience improvement assessment program under AS 29.55.100  29.55.165.

(b) A second class borough may by ordinance exercise the following powers on an areawide basis: (1) provide transportation systems;

(2) license, impound, and dispose of animals;

(3) provide air pollution control under AS 46.14.400 ;

(4) provide water pollution control;

(5) license day care facilities;

(6) establish an energy and resilience improvement assessment program under AS 29.55.100  29.55.165.

(c) In addition to powers conferred by (a) of this section, a second class borough may, on a nonareawide basis, exercise a power not otherwise prohibited by law if the exercise of the power has been approved at an election by a majority of voters living in the borough but outside all cities in the borough.

(d) In addition to powers conferred by (b) of this section, a second class borough may, on an areawide basis, exercise a power not otherwise prohibited by law if the power has been acquired in accordance with AS 29.35.300 .
Alaska Stat. § 29.40.090 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.40 / Section 29.40.090
Abbreviated plats and waivers.
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter, the assembly shall by ordinance establish an abbreviated plat procedure for a plat that will (1) subdivide a single lot into not more than four lots;

(2) provide legal and physical access to a public highway or street for each lot created by the subdivision;

(3) not contain or require a dedication of a street, right-of-way, or other area;

(4) not require a vacation of a public dedication of land or a variance from a subdivision regulation.

(b) The platting authority shall waive the preparation, submission for approval, filing, and recording of a plat on satisfactory evidence that the subdivision meets the requirements of (a) of this section and each lot created by the subdivision is five acres or larger.
Alaska Stat. § 29.55.115 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.55 / Section 29.55.115
Notice to mortgage holder required for participation.
Status: in_force

Before a municipality may enter into a written contract with a record owner of property to impose an assessment to repay the financing of an energy or resilience improvement project under AS 29.55.100 , the property owner shall (1) give each holder of a mortgage lien on the property at least 30 days' written notice of the intention of the property owner to participate in a program under AS 29.55.100 ; and

(2) obtain written consent from each holder of a mortgage lien on the property.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.015 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.015
Investment pools.
Status: in_force

A municipality may invest money in investment pools for public entities as authorized under AS 37.23 only if that municipality has obtained the consent of its governing body through an ordinance authorizing the participation.
Alaska Stat. § 29.25.080 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.25 / Section 29.25.080
Breast-feeding.
Status: in_force

A municipality may not enact an ordinance that prohibits or restricts a woman breast-feeding a child in a public or private location where the woman and child are otherwise authorized to be. In a municipal ordinance, lewd conduct, lewd touching, immoral conduct, indecent conduct, and similar terms do not include the act of a woman breast-feeding a child in a public or private location where the woman and child are otherwise authorized to be. Nothing in this section may be construed to authorize an act that is an offense under a municipal ordinance that establishes an offense with elements substantially equivalent to the elements of an offense under AS 11.61.123 . This section is applicable to home rule and general law municipalities.
Alaska Stat. § 29.40.160 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.40 / Section 29.40.160
Title to vacated area.
Status: in_force

(a) The title to the street or other public area vacated on a plat attaches to the lot or land bordering the area in equal proportions, except that if the area was originally dedicated by different persons, original boundary lines shall be adhered to so that the street area that lies on one side of the boundary line shall attach to the abutting property on that side, and the street area that lies on the other side of the boundary line shall attach to the property on that side. The portion of a vacated street that lies inside the limits of a platted addition attaches to the lots of the platted addition bordering on the area. If a public square is vacated, the title to it vests in a city if it lies inside the city, and in the borough if it lies inside the borough but outside all cities. If the property vacated is a lot, title vests in the rightful owner.

(b) If the municipality acquired the street or other public area vacated for legal consideration or by express dedication to the municipality other than as a subdivision platting requirement, before the final act of vacation the fair market value of the street or public area shall be deposited with the platting authority to be paid to the municipality on final vacation.

(c) The provisions of (a) and (b) of this section apply to home rule and general law municipalities.

(d) The council of a second class city located outside a borough may vacate streets, alleys, crossings, sidewalks, or other public ways that may have been previously dedicated or established when the council finds that the streets, alleys, crossings, sidewalks, or other public ways are no longer necessary for the public welfare, or when the public welfare will be enhanced by the vacation. If the council determines that all or a portion of the area vacated under this subsection should be devoted to another public purpose, title to the area vacated and held for another public purpose does not vest as provided in (a) of this section but remains in the city.
Alaska Stat. § 29.55.155 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.55 / Section 29.55.155
Application.
Status: in_force

AS 29.55.100  29.55.165 apply to home rule and general law municipalities.
Alaska Stat. § 29.06.500 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.06 / Section 29.06.500
Decision.
Status: in_force

(a) The Local Boundary Commission may amend the petition and may impose conditions for the dissolution. If the commission determines that the dissolution, as amended or conditioned if appropriate, meets applicable standards under the state constitution and commission regulations, meets the standards for dissolution under AS 29.06.470 , and is in the best interest of the state, it may accept the petition. Otherwise, it shall reject the petition.

(b) A Local Boundary Commission decision under this section may be appealed under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act).
Alaska Stat. § 29.05.210 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.05 / Section 29.05.210
Transitional assistance to boroughs and unified municipalities.
Status: in_force

(a) Within 30 days after the date of incorporation of a borough or unified municipality incorporated after December 31, 1985, the department shall determine the population of the borough or unified municipality.

(b) The department shall provide assistance to each borough and unified municipality incorporated after December 31, 1985, in (1) establishing the initial sales and use tax assessment and collection department if the borough or unified municipality has adopted a sales or use tax;

(2) determining the initial property tax assessment roll if the borough or unified municipality has adopted a property tax, including contracting for appraisals of property needed to complete the initial assessment.

(c) This section does not apply to a borough incorporated by consolidation or to a unified municipality that occupies the area formerly occupied by a borough.
Alaska Stat. § 29.26.140 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.26 / Section 29.26.140
Sufficiency of petition.
Status: in_force

(a) All copies of an initiative or referendum petition shall be assembled and filed as a single instrument. Within 10 days after the date the petition is filed, the municipal clerk shall (1) certify on the petition whether it is sufficient; and

(2) if the petition is insufficient, identify the insufficiency and notify the contact person by certified mail.

(b) A petition that is insufficient may be supplemented with additional signatures obtained and filed before the 11th day after the date on which the petition is rejected.

(c) A petition that is insufficient shall be rejected and filed as a public record unless it is supplemented under (b) of this section. Within 10 days after a supplementary filing the clerk shall recertify the petition. If it is still insufficient, the petition is rejected and filed as a public record.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.650 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.650
Limitation of liability.
Status: in_force

A liability incurred by an authority shall be satisfied exclusively from the assets or revenue of the authority. A creditor or other person does not have a right of action against the state or a municipality participating in an authority because of a debt, obligation, or liability of an authority.
Alaska Stat. § 29.20.120 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.20 / Section 29.20.120
Applicability of apportionment provisions.
Status: in_force

The provisions of AS 29.20.080  29.20.110 apply to home rule and general law municipalities, except they do not apply to a (1) unified municipality;

(2) home rule borough if the borough, by home rule charter, provides for reapportionment of the assembly.
Alaska Stat. § 29.47.310 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.47 / Section 29.47.310
Effect of refunding bonds.
Status: in_force

The refunding bonds may take up and refund all or part of outstanding bonds at or before their maturity or redemption date. The governing body may include various series and issues of bonds in a single issue of refunding bonds.
Alaska Stat. § 29.05.070 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.05 / Section 29.05.070
Review.
Status: in_force

The department shall review an incorporation petition for content and signatures and shall return a deficient petition for correction and completion.
Alaska Stat. § 29.06.050 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.06 / Section 29.06.050
Annexation of military reservations.
Status: in_force

A military reservation may be annexed to a municipality in the same manner as prescribed for other territory under AS 29.06.040 . If a city in a borough annexes a military reservation under this section, the area encompassing the military reservation automatically is annexed to the borough in which the city is located.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.840 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.840
Credit of state or a municipality not pledged.
Status: in_force

(a) The state and municipalities participating in an authority are not liable for the debts of that authority. Bonds issued under AS 29.35.825 are payable solely from the revenue of the authority and do not constitute a (1) debt, liability, or obligation of the state or a municipality; or

(2) pledge of the faith and credit of the state or a municipality.

(b) An authority may not pledge the credit or the taxing power of the state or its municipalities. A bond issued under AS 29.35.825 must contain on its face a statement that (1) the authority is not obligated to pay it or the interest on it except from the revenue pledged for it; and

(2) the faith and credit of the taxing power of the state or of a political subdivision of the state is not pledged to the payment of it.
Alaska Stat. § 29.20.360 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.20 / Section 29.20.360
Appointment of officials.
Status: in_force

Unless otherwise provided by ordinance, the municipal clerk, attorney, treasurer, and police chief are appointed by the chief administrator. Unless otherwise provided by ordinance, an official described in this section serves at the pleasure of the appointing authority and, if appointed by the chief administrator, must be confirmed by the governing body.
Alaska Stat. § 29.26.320 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.26 / Section 29.26.320
Election.
Status: in_force

(a) If a regular election occurs within 75 days but not sooner than 45 days after submission of the petition to the governing body, the governing body shall submit the recall at that election.

(b) If no regular election occurs within 75 days, the governing body shall hold a special election on the recall question within 75 days but not sooner than 45 days after a petition is submitted to the governing body.

(c) If a vacancy occurs in the office after a sufficient recall petition is filed with the clerk, the recall question may not be submitted to the voters. The governing body may not appoint to the same office an official who resigns after a sufficient recall petition is filed naming that official.
Alaska Stat. § 29.20.020 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.20 / Section 29.20.020
Meetings public.
Status: in_force

(a) Meetings of all municipal bodies shall be public as provided in AS 44.62.310 . The governing body shall provide reasonable opportunity for the public to be heard at regular and special meetings.

(b) This section applies to home rule and general law municipalities.

Article 2. Governing Bodies.
Alaska Stat. § 29.46.060 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.46 / Section 29.46.060
Assessment roll.
Status: in_force

(a) At any time after approval of an improvement plan, the governing body shall assess the authorized percentage of the cost against property in the district included in the plan in proportion to the benefit received.

(b) The special assessment roll shall contain property descriptions, names of record owners, and assessment amounts.

(c) The governing body shall fix a time to hear objections to the roll. The municipal clerk shall send an assessment and hearing notice by mail to each record owner of an assessed property not less than 15 days before the hearing.
Alaska Stat. § 29.06.370 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.06 / Section 29.06.370
Effect of the charter after ratification.
Status: in_force

Upon ratification, the home rule charter of a unified municipality operates to dissolve all municipalities in the area unified in accordance with the charter.
Alaska Stat. § 29.20.320 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.20 / Section 29.20.320
Other boards and commissions.
Status: in_force

(a) The governing body may by ordinance establish advisory, administrative, technical, or quasi-judicial boards and commissions.

(b) Members of boards and commissions, except for members of the board of adjustment and assembly members serving on the board of equalization, are appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the governing body.

Article 5. Other Officials and Employees.
Alaska Stat. § 29.60.450 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.60 / Section 29.60.450
Fisheries business tax allocation.
Status: in_force

(a) A municipality may receive a fisheries business tax allocation under this section if the municipality demonstrates to the department that the municipality suffered significant effects from fisheries business activities during the base year.

(b) The amount transmitted each fiscal year (1) under AS 43.75.137 shall be apportioned by the department to each management area based on the ratio of the management area's production value to the total production value for all of the management areas; the department shall allocate the amount available for each management area to each municipality in that management area based on the demonstrated effects on the municipality of fisheries business activities, the commercial fishing vessel days in that municipality, or both;

(2) under AS 43.77.060 (d) shall be apportioned by the department to each management area based on the ratio of the management area's fishery resource landing tax production value to the total fishery resource landing tax production value for all of the management areas; the department shall allocate the amount available for each management area to each municipality in that management area based on the demonstrated effects on the municipality of fisheries activities that are subject to the tax levied under AS 43.77 .

(c) A municipality that receives a tax allocation under this section shall use the tax allocation to help reduce the effect of fisheries business activities on the municipality, which may include the expenses of any municipal service.

(d) At the request of the department, an applicant or a recipient of a tax allocation shall provide the department with the assistance and information available to the municipality that is necessary for the department to carry out the department's duties under this section relating to that municipality.

(e) The department may adopt regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.

(f) In this section, (1) base year means the calendar year that precedes the application deadline for the tax allocation year;

(2) commercial fishing vessel day means a day for which a fishing vessel licensed under AS 16.05.490 pays the municipality a moorage, harbor, or docking fee;

(3) effect means the result of fisheries business activities on the municipality's (A) population;

(B) employment;

(C) finances;

(D) air and water quality;

(E) fish and wildlife habitats; and

(F) ability to provide essential public services, including health care, public safety, education, transportation, marine garbage collection and disposal, solid waste disposal, utilities, and government administration;

(4) fisheries business activity means activity related to (A) fishing, including the catching and sale of fisheries resources;

(B) vessel moorage and vessel and gear maintenance;

(C) preparing fisheries resources for transportation; and

(D) processing fisheries resources for sale by freezing, icing, cooking, salting, or other method and includes canneries, cold storages, freezer ships, and processing plants;

(5) fishery resource landing tax production value has the meaning given the term value by AS 43.77.200 ;

(6) management area means one of the geographical units designated by the Board of Fisheries by regulation adopted under AS 16.05.251 (a)(2) for the management of commercial fisheries of the state;

(7) production value means the weight of the fish and shellfish produced by fisheries businesses as that term is defined by AS 43.75.290 .

Article 3. Oil and Hazardous Substance Municipal Impact Assistance.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.145 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.145
Regulation of firearms and knives.
Status: reserved

(a) The authority to regulate firearms and knives is reserved to the state, and, except as specifically provided by statute, a municipality may not enact or enforce an ordinance regulating the possession, ownership, sale, transfer, use, carrying, transportation, licensing, taxation, or registration of firearms or knives.

(b) Municipalities may enact and enforce ordinances (1) that are identical to state law and that have the same penalty as provided for by state law;

(2) restricting the discharge of firearms in any portion of their respective jurisdictions where there is a reasonable likelihood that people, domestic animals, or property will be jeopardized; ordinances enacted or enforced under this paragraph may not abridge the right of the individual guaranteed by art. I, sec. 19, Constitution of the State of Alaska, to bear arms in defense of self or others;

(3) restricting the areas in their respective jurisdictions in which firearms or knives may be sold; a business selling firearms or knives may not be treated more restrictively than other businesses located within the same zone; and

(4) prohibiting the possession of firearms or knives in the restricted access area of municipal government buildings; the municipal assembly shall post notice of the prohibition against possession of firearms or knives at each entrance to the restricted access area.

(c) The prohibition on taxation in (a) of this section does not include imposition of a sales tax that is levied on all products sold within a municipality.

(d) This section applies to home rule and general law municipalities.

(e) In this section, (1) firearms includes firearms, or any other element relating to firearms or parts thereof including ammunition and reloading components;

(2) restricted access area means the area beyond a secure point where visitors are screened and does not include common areas of ingress and egress open to the general public.
Alaska Stat. § 29.05.060 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.05 / Section 29.05.060
Petition.
Status: in_force

Municipal incorporation is proposed by filing a petition with the department. The petition must include the following information about the proposed municipality: (1) class;

(2) name;

(3) boundaries;

(4) maps, documents, and other information required by the department;

(5) composition and apportionment of the governing body;

(6) a proposed operating budget for the municipality projecting sources of income and items of expenditure through the first full fiscal year of operation;

(7) for a borough or unified municipality, based on the number who voted in the respective areas in the last general election, the signature and resident address of 15 percent of the voters in (A) home rule and first class cities in the area of the proposed borough or unified municipality; and

(B) the area of the proposed borough or unified municipality outside home rule and first class cities;

(8) for a first class borough or unified municipality, a designation of areawide powers to be exercised;

(9) for a second class borough, a designation of areawide and nonareawide powers to be exercised;

(10) for a first class, second class, or home rule city, a designation of the powers to be exercised;

(11) for a first class or home rule city, based on the number who voted in the area in the last general election, the signatures and resident addresses of 50 voters in the proposed city or of 15 percent of the voters in the proposed city, whichever is greater;

(12) for a second class city, based on the number who voted in the area in the last general election, the signatures and resident addresses of 25 voters in the proposed city or of 15 percent of the voters in the proposed city, whichever is greater;

(13) for a home rule city, home rule borough, or unified municipality, a proposed home rule charter.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.630 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.630
Bonds eligible for investment.
Status: in_force

Bonds issued under AS 29.35.625 are securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the state and its political subdivisions, all insurance companies, trust companies, banks, investment companies, executors, administrators, trustees, and other fiduciaries may properly and legally invest funds, including capital in their control or belonging to them. The bonds may be deposited with a state or municipal officer of an agency or political subdivision of the state for any purpose that the deposit of bonds of the state is authorized by law.
Alaska Stat. § 29.55.130 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.55 / Section 29.55.130
Recording of notice of assessment.
Status: in_force

(a) A municipality that authorizes financing through assessments under AS 29.55.105 shall file written notice of each assessment in the property records of the recording district in which the property is located.

(b) The notice under (a) of this section must contain (1) the amount of the assessment;

(2) the legal description of the property;

(3) the name of each property owner; and

(4) a reference to the statutory assessment lien provided under AS 29.55.135 .
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.085 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.085
Curfew.
Status: in_force

(a) A municipality may, by ordinance, provide for a curfew for persons under 18 years of age for whom the disabilities of minority have not been removed for general purposes under AS 09.55.590 and who have not arrived at the age of majority under AS 25.20.020 .

(b) Notwithstanding AS 29.25.070 (a), for a violation of this section, the court may impose a fine of not more than $250.

(c) The community work provisions of AS 47.12.030 (b)(6) apply to punishment for a minor's conviction of a violation of a curfew ordinance for which a penalty is provided under AS 29.25.070 (a).
Alaska Stat. § 29.45.020 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.45 / Section 29.45.020
Taxpayer notice.
Status: in_force

(a) If a municipality levies and collects property taxes, the governing body shall provide the following notice:

NOTICE TO TAXPAYER For the current fiscal year the (city)(borough) has been allocated the following amount of state aid for school and municipal purposes under the applicable financial assistance Acts: PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING PROGRAM ( AS 14.17 ) $ STATE AID FOR RETIREMENT OF SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION DEBT ( AS 14.11.100 )$ COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ( AS 29.60.850  29.60.879)$ TOTAL AID$

The millage equivalent of this state aid, based on the dollar value of a mill in the municipality during the current assessment year and for the preceding assessment year, is:

MILLAGE EQUIVALENT PREVIOUS YEARTHIS YEAR PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING PROGRAM ASSISTANCEMILLSMILLS STATE AID FOR RETIREMENT OF SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION DEBTMILLSMILLS COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMMILLSMILLS TOTAL MILLAGE EQUIVALENTMILLSMILLS

Notice shall be provided by (1) furnishing a copy of the notice with tax statements mailed for the fiscal year for which aid is received; or

(2) publishing in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality a copy of the notice once each week for a period of three successive weeks, with publication to occur not later than 45 days after the final adoption of the municipality's budget.

(b) Compliance with the provisions of this section is a prerequisite to receipt of community assistance under AS 29.60.850  29.60.879. The department shall withhold annual allocations under those sections until municipal officials demonstrate that the requirements of this section have been met.
Alaska Stat. § 29.04.010 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.04 / Section 29.04.010
Home rule.
Status: in_force

A home rule municipality is a municipal corporation and political subdivision. It is a city or a borough that has adopted a home rule charter, or it is a unified municipality. A home rule municipality has all legislative powers not prohibited by law or charter.
Alaska Stat. § 29.10.200 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.10 / Section 29.10.200
Limitation of home rule powers.
Status: in_force

Only the following provisions of this title apply to home rule municipalities as prohibitions on acting otherwise than as provided. These provisions supersede existing and prohibit future home rule enactments that provide otherwise: (1) AS 29.05.140 (transition);

(2) AS 29.06.010 (change of municipal name);

(3) AS 29.06.040  29.06.060 (annexation and detachment);

(4) AS 29.06.090  29.06.170 (merger and consolidation);

(5) AS 29.06.190  29.06.420 (unification of municipalities);

(6) AS 29.06.450  29.06.530 (dissolution);

(7) AS 29.10.100 (charter amendment);

(8) AS 29.20.010 (conflict of interest);

(9) AS 29.20.020 (meetings public);

(10) AS 29.20.050 (legislative power);

(11) AS 29.20.060  29.20.120 (assembly composition and apportionment);

(12) AS 29.20.140 (qualifications of members of governing bodies);

(13) AS 29.20.150 (term of office);

(14) AS 29.20.220 (executive power);

(15) AS 29.20.270 (e) (ordinance veto by mayor);

(16) AS 29.20.630 (prohibited discrimination);

(17) AS 29.20.640 (reports);

(18) AS 29.25.010 (a)(10) (municipal exemption on contractor bond requirements);

(19) AS 29.25.050 (codification);

(20) AS 29.25.060 (resolutions);

(21) AS 29.25.070 (e) and (f) (penalties);

(22) AS 29.25.074 (surcharge);

(23) AS 29.25.080 (breast-feeding);

(24) AS 29.26.030 (notice of elections);

(25) AS 29.26.050 (voter qualification);

(26) AS 29.26.250  29.26.360 (recall);

(27) AS 29.35.020 (extraterritorial jurisdiction);

(28) AS 29.35.030 (eminent domain);

(29) AS 29.35.050 (a)  (c) (garbage and solid waste services);

(30) AS 29.35.055 (local air quality control program);

(31) AS 29.35.060 (franchises and permits);

(32) AS 29.35.070 (public utilities);

(33) AS 29.35.080 (alcoholic beverages);

(34) AS 29.35.090 (b) (certain vacations of rights-of-way prohibited);

(35) AS 29.35.120 (post audit);

(36) AS 29.35.125 (fees for police protection services);

(37) AS 29.35.131  29.35.137 (enhanced 911 system);

(38) AS 29.35.141 (regulation of radio antennas);

(39) AS 29.35.144 (sprinkler fire protection systems);

(40) AS 29.35.145 (regulation of firearms and knives);

(41) AS 29.35.146 (images captured by unmanned aircraft systems);

(42) AS 29.35.147 (licensing of massage therapists);

(43) AS 29.35.148 (regulation of transportation network companies or drivers).

(44) AS 29.35.149 (regulation of dextromethorphan);

(45) AS 29.35.160 (education);

(46) AS 29.35.170 (b) (assessment and collection of taxes);

(47) AS 29.35.180 (b) (land use regulation);

(48) AS 29.35.250 (cities inside boroughs);

(49) AS 29.35.260 (cities outside boroughs);

(50) AS 29.35.340 (acquisition of areawide power);

(51) AS 29.35.450 (service areas);

(52) AS 29.35.500  29.35.590 (hazardous materials and wastes);

(53) AS 29.40.160 (a)  (c) (title to vacated areas);

(54) AS 29.40.200 (subdivisions of state land);

(55) AS 29.45.010  29.45.560 and 29.45.800 (property taxes);

(56) AS 29.45.650 (c), (d), (e), (f), (i), (j), (k), and (l) (sales and use tax);

(57) AS 29.45.700 (d), (e), (g), and (h) (sales and use tax);

(58) AS 29.45.750 (taxation of mobile telecommunications);

(59) AS 29.45.810 (exemption from municipal taxation);

(60) AS 29.45.820 (air carriers);

(61) AS 29.46.010 (b) (exemption from municipal assessment);

(62) AS 29.47.200 (b) (security for bonds);

(63) AS 29.47.260 (revenue bonds);

(64) AS 29.55.100  29.55.165 (energy and resilience improvement assessment programs);

(65) AS 29.65 (general grant land);

(66) AS 29.71.040 (procurement preference for state agricultural and fisheries products);

(67) AS 29.71.050 (procurement preference for recycled Alaska products).
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.020 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.020
Extraterritorial jurisdiction.
Status: in_force

(a) To the extent a municipality is otherwise authorized by law to exercise the power necessary to provide the facility or service, the municipality may provide facilities for the confinement and care of prisoners, parks, playgrounds, cemeteries, emergency medical services, solid and septic waste disposal, utility services, airports, streets (including ice roads), trails, transportation facilities, wharves, harbors and other marine facilities outside its boundaries and may regulate their use and operation to the extent that the jurisdiction in which they are located does not regulate them. A regulation adopted under this section must state that it applies outside the municipality.

(b) A municipality may adopt an ordinance to exercise a power authorized by this subsection and may enforce the ordinance outside its boundaries. Before a power authorized by this subsection may be exercised inside the boundaries of another municipality, the approval of the other municipality must be given by ordinance, and before a power authorized by this subsection may be exercised inside a village, as that term is defined by AS 46.08.900 , the approval of the village must be given by resolution. A municipality intending to exercise its authority under this subsection shall act by ordinance, and may adopt an ordinance under this subsection to (1) protect its water supply and watershed; or

(2) contain, clean up, or prevent the release or threatened release of oil or a hazardous substance that may pose an imminent or substantial threat to persons, property, or natural resources within the municipality's boundaries; however, this paragraph does not authorize a municipality to enforce an ordinance outside its boundaries to regulate exploration, development, production, or transportation of oil, gas, or minerals in a manner inconsistent with the state's management of those resources, and enforcement of the ordinance must be consistent with a regional master plan prepared by the Department of Environmental Conservation under AS 46.04.210 ; in this paragraph, natural resources has the meaning given in AS 46.03.826 .

(c) A municipality may enter into agreements with the United States Coast Guard, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and other persons relating to development and enforcement of vessel traffic control and monitoring systems for oil barges and tank vessels carrying oil operating in or near the waters of the state.

(d) This section applies to home rule and general law municipalities.

(e) In this section, village (1) means the area within a five-mile radius of the village post office or, if there is no post office, another site designated by the commissioner;

(2) does not include an area described in (1) of this subsection that is within a city or another village.
Alaska Stat. § 29.71.010 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.71 / Section 29.71.010
No adverse possession.
Status: in_force

A municipality may not be divested of title to real property by adverse possession.
Alaska Stat. § 29.20.250 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.20 / Section 29.20.250
Powers and duties of mayor.
Status: in_force

(a) If a municipality has not adopted a manager plan of government, the mayor is the chief administrator and the mayor has the same powers and duties as those of a manager under AS 29.20.500 .

(b) The mayor may take part in the discussion of a matter before the governing body. The mayor may not vote, except that the mayor of a first class city or the mayor of a borough with a manager form of government may vote in the case of a tie. The mayor of a second class city, as a council member, may vote on all matters.
Alaska Stat. § 29.45.470 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.45 / Section 29.45.470
Repurchase by record owner.
Status: in_force

(a) The record owner at the time of tax foreclosure of property acquired by a municipality, or the assigns of that record owner, may, within 10 years and before the sale or contract of sale of the tax-foreclosed property by the municipality, repurchase the property. The municipality shall sell the property for the full amount applicable to the property under the judgment and decree plus (1) interest not to exceed 15 percent a year from the date of entry of the judgment of foreclosure to the date of repurchase;

(2) delinquent taxes assessed and levied as though it had continued in private ownership;

(3) costs of foreclosure and sale incurred by the municipality; and

(4) costs of maintaining and managing the property incurred by the municipality including insurance, repairs, association dues, and management fees, that exceed amounts received by the municipality for the use of the property.

(b) After adoption of an ordinance providing for the retention of tax-foreclosed property by the municipality for a public purpose, the right of the former record owner to repurchase the property ceases.
Alaska Stat. § 29.06.090 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.06 / Section 29.06.090
Merger and consolidation.
Status: in_force

(a) Two or more municipalities may merge or consolidate to form a single general law or home rule municipality, except a third class borough may not be formed through merger or consolidation.

(b) Two methods may be used to initiate merger or consolidation of municipalities: (1) petition to the Local Boundary Commission under regulations adopted by the commission; or

(2) the local option method specified in AS 29.06.100  29.06.160.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.070 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.070
Public utilities.
Status: in_force

(a) The assembly acting for the area outside all cities in the borough and the council acting for the area in a city may regulate, fix, establish, and change the rates and charges imposed for a utility service provided to the municipality or its inhabitants by a utility that is not subject to regulation under AS 42.05 unless that utility is exempted from regulation under AS 42.05.711 (a), (d)  (k), (o), (p), (r), or (t).

(b) A municipality may provide for a reasonable deposit for meters and service to be given if interest is paid on the deposit.

(c) Unless the utility is owned by the municipality, all rates, charges, and regulations established under this section shall be established by ordinance and shall be reasonable and permit a fair return on invested capital.

(d) This section applies to home rule and general law municipalities.
Alaska Stat. § 29.05.190 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.05 / Section 29.05.190
Organization grants to boroughs and unified municipalities.
Status: in_force

(a) For the purpose of defraying the cost of transition to borough government and to provide for interim governmental operations, each borough or unified municipality incorporated after December 31, 1985, is entitled to organization grants as follows: (1) $300,000 for the municipality's first full or partial fiscal year;

(2) $200,000 for the municipality's second fiscal year; and

(3) $100,000 for the municipality's third fiscal year.

(b) The department shall disburse the first organization grant to a borough or unified municipality within 30 days after certification of the election favoring incorporation, or as soon after that as money is appropriated and available for the purpose. The second grant shall be disbursed within 30 days after the beginning of the municipality's second fiscal year, or as soon after that as money is appropriated and available for the purpose. The third grant shall be disbursed within 30 days after the beginning of the municipality's third fiscal year, or as soon after that as money is appropriated and available for the purpose.

(c) Except as provided in (d) of this section, this section does not apply to a borough incorporated by consolidation or to a unified municipality that occupies the area formerly occupied by a borough.

(d) For the purpose of defraying the cost of government transition, each third class borough that merges or consolidates with a city after January 1, 2002, and each municipality that unifies after January 1, 2002, in an area formerly occupied by a third class borough is entitled to an organization grant of $200,000 for the municipality's first full or partial fiscal year after the merger or consolidation or after unification.
Alaska Stat. § 29.26.350 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.26 / Section 29.26.350
Successors.
Status: in_force

(a) If an official is recalled from the governing body, the office of that official is filled in accordance with AS 29.20.180 . If all members of the governing body are recalled, the governor shall appoint three qualified persons to the governing body. The appointees shall appoint additional members to fill remaining vacancies in accordance with AS 29.20.180 .

(b) If a member of the school board is recalled, the office of that member is filled in accordance with AS 14.12.070 . If all members are recalled from a school board, the governor shall appoint three qualified persons to the school board. The appointees shall appoint additional members to fill remaining vacancies in accordance with AS 14.12.070 .

(c) A person who has been recalled may not be appointed under (a) or (b) of this section to the office from which the person was recalled. A person appointed under (a) or (b) of this section serves until a successor is elected and takes office.

(d) If an official other than a member of the governing body or school board is recalled, a successor shall be elected to fill the unexpired portion of the term. The election shall be held not more than 60 days after the date the recall election is certified, except that if a regular election occurs within 75 days after certification the successor shall be chosen at that election.

(e) Nominations for a successor may be filed until seven days before the last date on which a first notice of the election must be given. Nominations may not be filed before the certification of the recall election.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.625 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.625
Bonds of a port authority; superior court jurisdiction.
Status: in_force

(a) If authorized by the enabling ordinance, an authority may borrow money and may issue bonds on which the principal and interest are payable (1) exclusively from the income and receipts of, or other money derived from, the project financed with the proceeds of the bonds;

(2) exclusively from the income and receipts of, or other money derived from, designated projects or other sources whether or not they are financed, insured, or guaranteed in whole or in part with the proceeds of the bonds; or

(3) from its income and receipts generally or a designated part or parts of them.

(b) All bonds may be sold at public or private sale in the manner, for the price or prices, and at the time or times that the authority may determine.

(c) Before issuing bonds, an authority shall provide for consideration at least sufficient, in the judgment of the authority, to pay the principal and interest on the bonds as they become due and to create and maintain the reserves for the payment that the authority considers necessary or desirable and meet all obligations in connection with the lease or agreement and all costs necessary to service the bonds, unless the lease or agreement provides that the obligations are to be met or costs are to be paid by a party other than the authority.

(d) Bonds shall be authorized by resolution of the authority, be dated, and shall mature as the resolution may provide, except that a bond may not mature more than 40 years from the date of its issue. Bonds shall bear interest at the rate or rates, be in the denominations, be in the form, either coupon or registered, carry the registration privileges, be executed in the manner, be payable in the medium of payment, at the place or places, and be subject to the terms of redemption that the resolution or a subsequent resolution may provide.

(e) All bonds issued under this section, regardless of form or character, are negotiable instruments for all of the purposes of AS 45.01  AS 45.08 , AS 45.12 , AS 45.14 , and AS 45.29 (Uniform Commercial Code).

(f) The superior court has jurisdiction to hear and determine suits, actions, or proceedings relating to an authority, including suits, actions, or proceedings brought to foreclose or otherwise enforce a mortgage, pledge, assignment, or security interest brought by or for the benefit or security of a holder of the authority's bonds or by a trustee for or other representative of the holders.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.530 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.530
Duties of municipalities; powers of other agencies.
Status: reserved

(a) The municipality, at the request of a business or government agency required to submit an inventory under AS 29.35.500 , shall provide (1) a descriptive summary of the hazardous chemicals, hazardous materials, and hazardous wastes that are required to be included in an inventory; and

(2) inventory forms approved by the Alaska State Emergency Response Commission.

(b) [Repealed, § 15 ch 71 SLA 1997.] (c) The division of fire prevention, the Department of Environmental Conservation, the Department of Health, or the Department of Labor and Workforce Development may (1) request copies of inventories submitted under AS 29.35.500 ; and

(2) provide educational materials related to hazardous chemicals, hazardous materials, and hazardous wastes.
Alaska Stat. § 29.06.520 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.06 / Section 29.06.520
Succession.
Status: in_force

A municipality succeeding to a dissolved municipality succeeds to all rights, powers, duties, assets, and liabilities of the dissolved municipality. Otherwise, the state succeeds to those rights, powers, duties, assets, and liabilities. If the state succeeds to a dissolved municipality, the state may enter into a contract for the performance of duties or powers in the area of the dissolved municipality. However, a contract with an organization for the performance of duties or powers entered into under this section does not constitute recognition by the state of governmental powers of that organization.
Alaska Stat. § 29.35.870 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.35 / Section 29.35.870
Exemption from taxation.
Status: in_force

(a) An authority exercising the powers granted by the enabling ordinance under AS 29.35.800  29.35.925 is in all respects for the benefit of the people of the municipalities participating in the authority and the people of the state in general, for their well-being and prosperity, and for the improvement of their social and economic condition. The real and personal property of an authority and its assets, income, and receipts are exempt from all taxes and special assessments of the state or a political subdivision of the state.

(b) Bonds issued by the authority under AS 29.35.825 are issued for an essential public and governmental purpose; therefore, the bonds, the interest and income from them, and all fees, charges, funds, revenue, income, and other money pledged or available to pay or secure the payment of the bonds or interest on them are exempt from taxation except for inheritance, transfer, and estate taxes.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of (a) of this section, an authority and the municipalities participating in the authority may enter into agreements under which the authority agrees to pay the participating municipalities' payments in lieu of taxes and special assessments on real and personal property of the authority that is within the taxing jurisdiction of the municipality.

(d) Nothing in this section creates a tax exemption with respect to the interests of a business enterprise or other person, other than the authority, in property, assets, income, or receipts, whether or not financed under AS 29.35.800  29.35.925.
Alaska Stat. § 29.45.400 — AK Code / Title 29 / Chapter 29.45 / Section 29.45.400
Redemption period.
Status: in_force

Properties transferred to the municipality are held by the municipality for at least one year. During the redemption period a party having an interest in the property may redeem it by paying the lien amount plus penalties, interest, and costs, including all costs incurred under AS 29.45.440 (a). Property redeemed is subject to all accrued taxes, assessments, liens, and claims as though it had continued in private ownership. Only the amount applicable under the judgment and decree must be paid in order to redeem the property.