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AK Stat § 34.35.425 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 9. Watchmen.|Sec. 34.35.425. Priority.

(a) A lien under AS 34.35.395 - 34.35.425 is preferred, prior, and superior to a mortgage, attachment, claim, or demand made or recorded in the recorder's office of the recording district in which the property is located, after the commencement of the work or services for which the lien is claimed.  (b) A sale, transfer, mortgage, assignment, or attachment recorded after the commencement of the work or services does not postpone the lien, except that the lien is of equal rank with other liens recorded or claimed against the property for work or services performed or furnished in the erection, construction, repair, or preservation of the property.
AK Stat § 34.35.430 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 10. Attorneys.|Sec. 34.35.430. Attorney's lien.

(a) An attorney has a lien for compensation, whether specially agreed upon or implied, as provided in this section (1) first, upon the papers of the client that have come into the possession of the attorney in the course of the professional employment; (2) second, upon money in the possession of the attorney belonging to the client; (3) third, upon money in the possession of the adverse party in an action or proceeding in which the attorney is employed, from the giving of notice of the lien to that party; (4) fourth, upon a judgment to the extent of the costs included in the judgment or, if there is a special agreement, to the extent of the compensation specially agreed on, from the giving of notice of the lien to the party against whom the judgment is given and filing the original with the clerk where the judgment is entered and docketed. (b) The lien described in (a) of this section is superior to all subsequent liens except tax liens. The lien is a charge on the action, and the parties to the action may not extinguish or affect the attorney's lien by any means, including settlement, other than by satisfying the underlying claim of the attorney for the fees and costs incurred in connection with the action. Nothing in this subsection precludes a party from contesting an attorney's lien under applicable law.
AK Stat § 34.35.435 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 11. Wages.|Sec. 34.35.435. Lien for wages.

When a clerk, accountant, bookkeeper, waiter, waitress, cook, maid, porter, servant, employee, artisan, craftsman, factory operator, mill operator, mechanic, quarryman, common laborer, or farmhand labors or performs a service in an office, store, hotel, rooming house, boardinghouse, restaurant, cafe, shop, newspaper plant, factory, quarry, or mill, of any character, or upon a farm, under or by virtue of a contract or agreement, written or oral, with a person or employer, or an agent, receiver, or trustee of the person or employer, in order to secure the payment of the amount due or owing under the contract or agreement, written or oral, the employee has a first lien upon all products, machinery, tools, fixtures, appurtenances, goods, wares, merchandise, chattels, wagons, carts, or things of value, of whatsoever character, that are created in whole or in part by the labor or that may be used or useful by the person or may be necessarily connected with the performance of the labor or service, which may be owned by the employer, or an agent, receiver, or trustee of the employer.
AK Stat § 34.35.440 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 11. Wages.|Sec. 34.35.440. Fixing the lien.

(a) When a person or an agent, receiver, or trustee of the person, fails or refuses to make wage payments as prescribed by law or agreement between the parties, the employee who has performed the service shall make an account of service, showing the amount due the employee for the service, and present to the employer or an agent, receiver, or trustee of the employer one of the duplicate accounts within 30 days after the indebtedness accrues. (b) Within 90 days after termination of the performance of services the claimant shall record with the recorder of the recording district in which the services were performed a lien notice verified by the claimant. (c) The lien notice shall be indexed in a book or computer-readable medium kept for that purpose. (d) The lien claim must contain a description of the property charged with the lien sufficient for identification, and shall be verified by the oath of the lien claimant or of some other person having knowledge of the facts. (e) A compliance with the requirements in this section is necessary to fix and preserve the lien given under AS 34.35.435 - 34.35.445. (f) The liens of different persons of the same class have equal priority with each other. (g) A person claiming the benefit of AS 34.35.435 - 34.35.445 has six months from the date of recording the lien within which to bring suit to foreclose the lien, or, if a credit is given, then six months after the expiration of the credit. (h) A substantial compliance with this section is sufficient diligence to fix and secure the lien, except that a purchaser of products covered by the lien from the owner of the products acquires good title to them unless at the time of the purchase, the purchaser has actual or constructive notice of the claim of the lienholder upon the products. The purchaser has constructive notice if the claim is recorded and indexed or if an action is on file.
AK Stat § 34.35.445 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 11. Wages.|Sec. 34.35.445. Duration of lien.

(a) The lien created by AS 34.35.435 - 34.35.445 is not operative for more than six months after the lien is recorded and indexed, unless suit to enforce the lien is brought before the proper court within that time or if a credit is given, six months after the expiration of the credit. (b) A lien does not continue in force for more than one year from the stopping of the work by an agreement to give credit.
AK Stat § 34.35.450 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 12. Hospitals, Physicians, and Nurses.|Sec. 34.35.450. Hospital's, physician's, and nurse's lien.

(a) An operator of a hospital in the state, a licensed special nurse in a hospital in the state, or a physician who furnishes service to a person who has a traumatic injury has a lien upon any sum awarded to the injured person or the personal representative of the injured person by judgment or obtained by a settlement or compromise to the extent of the amount due the hospital, nurse, or physician for the reasonable value of the service furnished before the date of judgment, settlement, or compromise, together with costs and reasonable attorney fees that the court allows, incurred in the enforcement of the lien. AS 34.35.450 - 34.35.480 do not apply to a claim, right of action, or money accruing under AS 23.30 (Workers' Compensation Act). (b) When the person receiving hospitalization has a contract providing for indemnity or compensation for the sum incurred for hospitalization, the hospital has a lien upon the amount payable under the contract. The party obligated to make reimbursement under the contract may pay the sum due under it directly to the hospital, and this payment is a full release of the party making the payment under the contract in the amount of the payment.
AK Stat § 34.35.455 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 12. Hospitals, Physicians, and Nurses.|Sec. 34.35.455. Limitation on extent of lien.

Except as otherwise provided, a lien under AS 34.35.450 - 34.35.480 may not be allowed for hospitalization or the services of a physician or licensed special nurse furnished after a settlement is made by or on behalf of the person causing the injury unless the settlement is made within 20 days from the date of the injury. A lien is not allowed for necessary attorney fees, costs, and expenses incurred by the injured person in securing a settlement, compromise, or judgment.
AK Stat § 34.35.460 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 12. Hospitals, Physicians, and Nurses.|Sec. 34.35.460. Notice of lien.

(a) To perfect the lien described in AS 34.35.450 - 34.35.480, the hospital or the owner or operator of the hospital, or the physician or licensed special nurse, shall, not later than 90 days after the date of injury, or in no event later than 90 days after the discharge of the injured person from the hospital or the provision of the physician's services, file a notice of lien substantially in the form prescribed in AS 34.35.465, containing a general description of the services rendered and a statement of the amount claimed, with a recorder's office, and shall, after the 90-day period, before the date of judgment, settlement, or compromise, serve a copy of the notice of lien by registered mail, at the last known address, upon the person alleged to be responsible for causing the injury and from whom damages are claimed, and upon the insurance carrier that has insured against the liability, if the insurance carrier is known. (b) A hospital or the owner or operator of a hospital, or a physician or licensed special nurse who files a notice of lien under (a) of this section for hospitalization or services provided to a recipient of medical assistance under AS 47 shall mail a copy of the notice of lien to the unit of the Department of Health and Social Services that administers medical assistance for needy persons under AS 47. The copy must be sent by certified mail no later than 30 days after the filing of the notice of lien under (a) of this section.
AK Stat § 34.35.465 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 12. Hospitals, Physicians, and Nurses.|Sec. 34.35.465. Form of notice.

The form of notice required by AS 34.35.450 - 34.35.480 shall be substantially as follows: NOTICE is hereby given that .................................. has rendered services for hospitalization, physician services, or special nurses' services for .................................., a person who was injured on the .......... day of .......... at .......... in the state, and the ..................................................... (claimant) hereby claims a lien upon any money due or owing or any claim for compensation, damages, contribution, settlement, or judgment from ..................................................... alleged to have caused the injuries and any other person liable for the injury or obligated to compensate the injured person on account of the injuries; the hospitalization, physician services, or special nurses' services were rendered to the injured person between the .......... day of .......... and .....................................................:General Description of Services Rendered and Statement of Amount Due...................and that 90 days have not elapsed since that time; that the claimant's demands for care and service is in the sum of $.......... and that no part of the demands has been paid, except $.........., and that there is now due and owing and remaining unpaid thereof, after deducting all credits and offsets, the sum of $.........., in which amount lien is hereby claimed.United States of AmericaState of Alaska ss.......... Judicial DistrictI, ....................................................., being first duly sworn on oath say: That I am ..................................................... named in the foregoing claim of lien; that I have read the same and know the contents thereof and believe the same to be true.Subscribed and sworn to before me this .......... day of .........., 2...............................................................
AK Stat § 34.35.475 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 12. Hospitals, Physicians, and Nurses.|Sec. 34.35.475. Settlement after notice.

(a) A person or insurer is liable to a hospital, physician, or nurse, in the amount that the hospital, physician, or nurse is entitled to receive, for 180 days after the date of a payment to the injured person, the heirs of the injured person, personal representatives, or the attorney of them, when the person or insurer (1) receives a copy of notice of lien, or the lien is recorded as provided in AS 34.35.460 and 34.35.465; (2) makes the payment after receipt of notice or the recording of the lien as compensation for the injury suffered; and (3) does not pay the hospital, physician, or the licensed special nurse for the reasonable value of the services rendered to the injured person and claimed in the notice of lien, or so much of the value of the services as can be satisfied out of a judgment, settlement, or compromise, after paying the attorney fees, costs, and expenses incurred in connection with it. (b) The hospital, physician, or nurse has a cause of action, during the 180 days, against the person or insurer.
AK Stat § 34.35.480 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 12. Hospitals, Physicians, and Nurses.|Sec. 34.35.480. Enforcement of lien.

(a) A lien under AS 34.35.450 - 34.35.480 may be foreclosed or enforced by an action brought by the claimant, a representative, or assignee within one year after the filing of the lien. (b) In the action, upon entering a decree for the plaintiff, the court shall allow as part of the costs, all money paid for the filing and recording of the lien notice, together with a reasonable attorney fee.
AK Stat § 34.35.481 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 12. Hospitals, Physicians, and Nurses.|Sec. 34.35.481. Priority of liens.

A lien perfected by the Department of Health and Social Services under AS 47.05.075 has priority immediately after a lien perfected by a hospital, nurse, or physician under AS 34.35.450 - 34.35.480.
AK Stat § 34.35.482 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 12. Hospitals, Physicians, and Nurses.|Sec. 34.35.482. Definition.

In AS 34.35.450 - 34.35.482, “physician” means a person licensed as a chiropractor under AS 08.20 or a person licensed as a doctor of medicine under AS 08.64.
AK Stat § 34.35.510 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 13. Hotels and Boardinghouses.|Sec. 34.35.510. Hotel and boardinghouse operator's liens.

The operator of a hotel or boardinghouse has a lien upon, and may retain, all baggage and other property lawfully in the possession of a guest for all proper charges owed by the guest to the hotel or boardinghouse operator. However, this section does not apply when the baggage or other property is not owned by the guest and the hotel or boardinghouse operator has actual notice of this fact.
AK Stat § 34.35.520 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 13. Hotels and Boardinghouses.|Sec. 34.35.520. Disposition of property to satisfy liens.

(a) If a lien under AS 34.35.510 is not satisfied within 60 days after the charges become due, the hotel or boardinghouse operator may proceed to sell the baggage or other property held under the lien at public auction. Ten days before the sale the hotel or boardinghouse operator shall give notice of the time and place of sale by posting notice in three public places in the town or city where the hotel or boardinghouse is located and by mailing notice of the time and place to the owner of the baggage or other property at the place of residence as set out in the hotel or boardinghouse register. If the guest failed to register or to give sufficient address, the required notice shall be mailed to the guest at the city or town where the hotel or boardinghouse is located. When the notice requirements of this section have been complied with, the sale of the baggage or other property is a perpetual bar to an action against the hotel or boardinghouse operator for recovery of baggage, property, or their value. (b) After satisfaction of the lien and payment of all legal charges for storage and expenses incurred in selling the property, the remaining proceeds of the sale shall, within one year, be paid to the guest upon demand.
AK Stat § 34.35.530 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 13. Hotels and Boardinghouses.|Sec. 34.35.530. Definitions.

In AS 34.35.510 - 34.35.530, (1) “guest” includes every person who is a member of the family of, or dependent upon, a guest, boarder, or lodger in a hotel or boardinghouse; (2) “hotel or boardinghouse” includes any building held out to the public to be an inn, motel, hotel, or public lodginghouse, or place where sleeping accommodations, whether with or without meals, are furnished for hire to transient guests; (3) “operator” includes innkeeper, proprietor, keeper, owner, lessee, or manager of a hotel or boardinghouse.
AK Stat § 34.35.900 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 14. Miscellaneous Provisions.|Sec. 34.35.900. Acknowledgment of satisfaction.

(a) When a lien is satisfied by payment, an acknowledgment of satisfaction suitable for recordation shall be delivered to all parties to the lien by the lien claimant. The acknowledgment of satisfaction shall be delivered immediately upon payment by tender of cash in satisfaction of the claim or within 10 days after payment when satisfaction is obtained in some other manner. A certificate of discharge of a lien for nonpayment of a state tax or license fee recorded under AS 43.10.042 shall be delivered within 15 days after tender of cash in satisfaction of the claim or within 30 days when satisfaction is obtained in some other manner. The acknowledgment must identify all parties to the lien and any property subject to the lien using the same name or description contained in the claim of record, if a claim was made, and the book and page of the official record containing the claim or the serial number assigned to the claim by the recorder. (b) A lien claimant or assignee who, after payment in full of the lien claim and after written demand by a person liable upon the lien, fails without just cause for a period of 30 days to execute and file or record an acknowledgment of satisfaction in the recording district in which the claim of lien is filed or recorded is liable to the person making the demand or the grantees or heirs of that person for all damages that they may sustain by reason of that failure and shall also forfeit to them the sum of $100.
AK Stat § 34.35.910 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 14. Miscellaneous Provisions.|Sec. 34.35.910. Employment considered continuous.

(a) The fact that a lien claimant is employed at different kinds of labor or at different rates of wages during the period of general employment is not considered an interruption of the continuity of employment. (b) A temporary cessation of employment of the lien claimant under an understanding of resumption of employment within a reasonable time is not considered an interruption of the continuity of employment so as to cause the time to run within which the notice of the lien is required to be filed for record.
AK Stat § 34.35.920 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 14. Miscellaneous Provisions.|Sec. 34.35.920. Waiver of lien.

Except as provided under AS 34.35.117 and 34.35.119, an agreement by a person mentioned in AS 34.35.010 - 34.35.425 to waive the right to acquire a lien provided in AS 34.35.010 - 34.35.425 is invalid.
AK Stat § 34.35.930 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 14. Miscellaneous Provisions.|Sec. 34.35.930. Liberal construction of chapter.

The intent of this chapter is remedial and its provisions shall be liberally construed.
AK Stat § 34.35.950 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 14. Miscellaneous Provisions.|Sec. 34.35.950. Nonconsensual common law liens.

(a) A nonconsensual common law lien is invalid unless the lien is authorized by an order of a court of competent jurisdiction recognized under state or federal law. (b) A person may not submit a nonconsensual common law lien under AS 40.17 to the recorder in order to record the lien unless the lien is accompanied by a specific order authorizing the recording of the lien issued by a court of competent jurisdiction recognized under state or federal law. When a nonconsensual common law lien is submitted for recording under this subsection, the court order accompanying the lien shall be recorded with the lien. (c) A person may not submit a nonconsensual common law lien under a law authorizing the filing of a lien against personal property in order to file the lien unless the lien is accompanied by a specific order authorizing the filing of the lien issued by a court of competent jurisdiction recognized under state or federal law. When a nonconsensual common law lien is submitted for filing under this subsection, the court order accompanying the lien shall be filed with the lien. (d) In this section, (1) “filed” means the acceptance of a document by a department or person having responsibility for the receipt and filing of documents that may be filed and that are presented for filing in the place of filing designated by law, whether or not under applicable law the department or person is directed to file the document; (2) “nonconsensual common law lien” means a lien on real or personal property that (A) is not provided for by a specific state or federal statute or municipal ordinance; (B) does not depend on the consent of the owner of the property affected for its existence; and (C) is not an equitable, constructive, or other lien imposed by a court recognized under state or federal law; (3) “record” means the acceptance of a document by the recorder that the recorder has determined is recordable under AS 40.17 and that is presented for recording in the place of recording designated for the recording district where affected property is located whether or not the place of recording is in that district and whether or not under applicable law the recorder is directed to record the document; (4) “recorder” means the commissioner of natural resources or the person designated by the commissioner of natural resources to perform the duties set out in AS 40.17.
AK Stat § 34.45.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 45. Unclaimed Property|Article 1. Consignees and Bailees.|Sec. 34.45.010. Record of consignee or bailee.

When personal property is consigned to or deposited with a forwarding merchant, wharf, warehouse, or tavern keeper, or the keeper of a depot for the reception and storage of trunks, baggage, merchandise, or other personal property, the consignee or bailee shall immediately record a description of the property, and the date of receipt, in a book kept by the consignee or bailee.
AK Stat § 34.45.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 45. Unclaimed Property|Article 1. Consignees and Bailees.|Sec. 34.45.020. Consignee's or bailee's notice to owner.

If the property is not left with the consignee or bailee for the purpose of being forwarded, disposed of, or kept according to directions received by the consignee or bailee, at or before the time of the reception of the property, and if the name and residence of the owner of the property is known to the person having possession of the property, the consignee or bailee shall immediately notify the owner, by letter directed to the owner and deposited in the post office, of the reception of the property.
AK Stat § 34.45.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 45. Unclaimed Property|Article 1. Consignees and Bailees.|Sec. 34.45.030. Sale.

If property held by a person described in AS 34.45.010 is not claimed and taken away within one year after the time it is received, the person having possession of the property may sell the property in the manner provided in AS 34.45.010 - 34.45.080, except that property described in AS 34.45.110 - 34.45.260 shall be reported to the Department of Revenue under AS 34.45.280 and is subject to AS 34.45.290 - 34.45.780.