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AK Stat § 47.80.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 80. Persons with Disabilities|Article 2. Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education.|Sec. 47.80.050. Term of office.

(a) Council members serve staggered terms of three years. (b) A vacancy occurring in the membership of the council shall be filled by appointment of the governor for the unexpired portion of the vacated term. (c) Council members serve at the pleasure of the governor, notwithstanding their terms of office. (d) It is the legislative intent that the governor replace any member who, by poor attendance or lack of contribution to the council's work, demonstrates ineffectiveness as a council member.
AK Stat § 47.80.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 80. Persons with Disabilities|Article 2. Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education.|Sec. 47.80.060. Compensation, per diem, and expenses.

Members of the council receive no salary but are entitled to per diem and reimbursement for travel and other expenses as authorized by law for boards.
AK Stat § 47.80.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 80. Persons with Disabilities|Article 2. Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education.|Sec. 47.80.070. Officers and staff.

(a) The council, by a majority of its membership, shall elect a chairman and other officers it considers necessary from among its membership, to serve on a yearly basis. (b) The council shall have a paid staff provided by the department, including an executive director selected by the council. The executive director is in the partially exempt service and may hire additional employees in the classified service of the state. The department shall provide for the assignment of personnel to the council to ensure that the council has the capacity to fulfill its responsibilities. The personnel shall be directly responsible to the council for performance of their duties.
AK Stat § 47.80.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 80. Persons with Disabilities|Article 2. Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education.|Sec. 47.80.080. Bylaws.

The council, on approval of a majority of its membership, shall adopt and amend bylaws governing its composition, proceedings and other activities consistent with AS 47.80.030 - 47.80.090 and including, but not limited to, provisions concerning a quorum to transact council business and other aspects of procedure, frequency and location of meetings, and establishment, functions and membership of council committees.
AK Stat § 47.80.095 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 80. Persons with Disabilities|Article 2. Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education.|Sec. 47.80.095. Legislative findings related to persons with disabilities; policy.

(a) The legislature finds that (1) self-direction and autonomy enhance quality of life, support independence, build self-confidence, and generate skills that help people protect themselves from abuse; (2) the people of the state share a vision of a flexible system of support for persons with physical and mental disabilities that allows persons with physical and mental disabilities to participate actively, with assistance based on each person's strengths and abilities, in managing their own support services so that all persons with physical and mental disabilities can achieve a meaningful life in their homes, jobs, and communities; and (3) as a part of this vision, professional staff and support services should be made available to families of persons with physical and mental disabilities throughout the state now and into the future. (b) It is the policy of the state that the department and the legislature consider the vision of support services described in (a) of this section when determining the need for new and existing services for persons with physical and mental disabilities and establishing priorities among those needs. It is also the policy of the state to encourage and enable persons with physical and mental disabilities to participate fully in the social and economic life of the state. (c) Nothing in this section (1) creates a right; (2) supersedes another law relating to eligibility for programs for persons with physical or mental disabilities; or (3) authorizes the department to apply for a waiver under 42 U.S.C. 1396n(j) to provide medical assistance payments for self-directed personal assistance services.
AK Stat § 47.80.100 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 80. Persons with Disabilities|Article 3. Programs and Plans.|Sec. 47.80.100. Programs for persons with disabilities.

(a) The Department of Health and Social Services, the Department of Education and Early Development, and other departments of the state as appropriate, shall, in coordination, plan, develop, and implement a comprehensive system of services and facilities for persons with disabilities that is consistent with the state plan adopted under AS 47.80.090(5) and is dispersed geographically within the state. (b) The services required in (a) of this section are specialized services or special adaptations of services available to the general population and shall be directed toward the social, personal, physical, or economic habilitation or rehabilitation of persons with disabilities. (c) Within the limits of appropriations and other available funds, the appropriate department may itself provide the services and establish, operate, and maintain the facilities required under (a) and (b) of this section, or it may provide the services or facilities entirely or in part through contractual arrangements with public or private agencies.
AK Stat § 47.80.110 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 80. Persons with Disabilities|Article 3. Programs and Plans.|Sec. 47.80.110. Program principles.

The system of services and facilities required under AS 47.80.100 shall accord with the principles that service providers shall (1) make services available at times and locations that enable residents of the provider's service area to obtain services readily; (2) ensure each client's right to confidentiality and treatment with dignity; (3) establish staffing patterns that reflect the cultural, linguistic, and other social characteristics of the community and that incorporate multidisciplinary professional staff to meet client functional levels and diagnostic and treatment needs; (4) promote client and family participation in formulating, delivering, and evaluating treatment and rehabilitation; (5) design treatment and habilitation to maximize individual potential and minimize institutionalization; and (6) provide services in the least restrictive setting, enabling a person to live as normally as possible within the limitations of the disability.
AK Stat § 47.80.120 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 80. Persons with Disabilities|Article 3. Programs and Plans.|Sec. 47.80.120. Habilitation plans.

A state agency, contractor, or grantee who is directly responsible for providing services to persons with disabilities shall develop an individual habilitation plan for each person whose program of services utilizes state funds. The plan shall be completed in writing and furnished to the department within 30 days of admission of a client to the program of services. The plan, its renewals, and any changes of it shall have the written concurrence of the client, or the client's parent or guardian when appropriate, and the agency or contractor responsible for providing services. The development and content of a plan shall conform to requirements established by the department by regulation. Insofar as practicable, the requirements shall conform to those established for individual habilitation plans under P.L. 91-517 or P.L. 94-103, as amended. Each plan shall be time-limited, evaluated, and renewed at least annually.
AK Stat § 47.80.135 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 80. Persons with Disabilities|Article 3. Programs and Plans.|Sec. 47.80.135. Gainful employment of persons with disabilities.

(a) When carrying out duties under AS 47.80.130 related to the provision of services to a person with a disability, the department's primary objective and preferred outcome is to help the person become gainfully employed in the general workforce of the public or private sector in an integrated workplace where persons with disabilities work with and alongside of persons without disabilities. (b) By December 31 of each year, the commissioner of health and social services shall provide to the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority established by AS 47.30.011 a report on the department's progress toward the objective under (a) of this section. (c) In this section, “gainfully employed” means employed full time or part time for compensation that is (1) at or above the minimum wage; and (2) not less than the compensation paid by the employer for the same or similar work performed by a person who is not disabled.
AK Stat § 47.80.140 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 80. Persons with Disabilities|Article 3. Programs and Plans.|Sec. 47.80.140. Licensing and certificates of need.

(a) A person may not establish or operate a residential facility until the facility has been licensed under AS 47.32. (b) A certificate of need is required as a prerequisite for the licensing of a residential facility established after July 1, 1978, and not otherwise provided for in AS 18.07.031 - 18.07.111. A certificate shall be issued and regulated in the same manner as provided in AS 18.07.031 - 18.07.111 for certificates of need for health care facilities. This subsection does not apply to an assisted living home licensed under AS 47.32.
AK Stat § 47.80.160 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 80. Persons with Disabilities|Article 3. Programs and Plans.|Sec. 47.80.160. Transportation.

When an individual is to be treated under this chapter, the department shall arrange, upon the request of a person having a proper interest in the individual's treatment, and may pay for the individual's transportation to the designated facility, with appropriate medical or nursing attendants and by the available means that are appropriate and suitable. The department may pay return transportation of an individual and appropriate medical and nursing attendants. When practicable, one or more relatives or friends of the individual to be treated shall be permitted to accompany the individual. The department may pay necessary travel, housing, and meal expenses incurred by one relative or friend in accompanying the individual to the facility if the department determines (1) that the best interests of the individual's health require that the individual be accompanied by the relative or friend; (2) the relative or friend accompanying the individual is indigent.
AK Stat § 47.80.170 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 80. Persons with Disabilities|Article 3. Programs and Plans.|Sec. 47.80.170. Provision for personal needs upon discharge.

The department shall make arrangements which are necessary to ensure that (1) no patient is discharged or placed on convalescent status from a designated facility without suitable clothing; and (2) an indigent patient discharged or placed on convalescent status is furnished suitable transportation to the patient's permanent residence in this state or other suitable place at the discretion of the department, and a reasonable amount of money to meet immediate needs.
AK Stat § 47.80.300 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 80. Persons with Disabilities|Article 4. Statewide Independent Living Council.|Sec. 47.80.300. Statewide independent living council.

There is established the Statewide Independent Living Council. For budgetary purposes, the council is located in the department. The department shall provide reasonable and necessary professional and technical assistance when requested by the council.
AK Stat § 47.80.310 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 80. Persons with Disabilities|Article 4. Statewide Independent Living Council.|Sec. 47.80.310. Composition; terms; compensation.

(a) The governor shall appoint members to the council who meet the applicable requirements of 29 U.S.C. 796d after soliciting personal applications and after soliciting recommendations from the public, from organizations representing a broad range of individuals experiencing disabilities, and from organizations interested in individuals experiencing disabilities. The council shall select a chairperson from among its voting members. (b) The members shall be appointed to staggered terms of three years, except that a person appointed to fill a vacancy shall be appointed for the remaining years of the prior member's term. A member may not serve more than two consecutive full terms. Notwithstanding their terms of office, the members serve at the pleasure of the governor. (c) Members of the council who are not state employees are entitled to per diem and travel expenses as authorized for members of boards and commissions under AS 39.20.180. In addition, if required by federal law, a member is entitled to (1) reimbursement of the necessary expenses of attending council meetings and performing council duties, including expenses for child care and personal assistance services; (2) compensation of up to $150 for each day of performing council duties and each day spent traveling to attend a council meeting if the member is not employed or must forfeit wages from other employment in order to perform council duties or travel to a council meeting.
AK Stat § 47.80.320 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 80. Persons with Disabilities|Article 4. Statewide Independent Living Council.|Sec. 47.80.320. Powers and duties.

(a) The council shall perform the duties set out in 29 U.S.C. 796d in a manner that will maximize the state's receipt of federal financial assistance for independent living services and centers of independent living for residents with severe disabilities, including the following duties: (1) joint development of the state plan required under 29 U.S.C. 796c and evaluation of the implementation of the plan; (2) development of a plan for the provision of resources, including staff and personnel, that may be necessary to carry out the council's functions with funds from the federal government and other public and private sources; and (3) coordination of the council's activities with other state agencies that address the needs of specific disability populations and issues under federal law. (b) The council may (1) hold hearings and forums as determined by the council to be necessary to carry out its duties; (2) solicit and accept money or other resources on behalf of the state from any public or private source.
AK Stat § 47.80.330 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 80. Persons with Disabilities|Article 4. Statewide Independent Living Council.|Sec. 47.80.330. Definition.

Notwithstanding AS 47.80.900, in AS 47.80.300 - 47.80.320, “council” means the Statewide Independent Living Council established under AS 47.80.300.
AK Stat § 47.80.400 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 80. Persons with Disabilities|Article 5. Teachers Who Teach the Use of Certain Aids or Devices for the Blind or Visually Impaired.|Sec. 47.80.400. Qualifications for teaching the use of certain aids or devices for the blind or visually impaired.

(a) A person who is employed to teach the use of orientation and mobility aids or assistive technology devices to students who are 16 years of age or older and who are blind or visually impaired may not receive payment from the state or a political subdivision of the state unless the person meets the training and experience requirements established by the department under this section. (b) The department shall, by regulation, establish minimum requirements for training and experience of persons who teach the use of orientation and mobility aids or assistive technology devices to students who are 16 years of age or older and who are blind or visually impaired. The department shall consider the standards adopted by national organizations that provide services to the blind and visually impaired when setting requirements under this section.
AK Stat § 47.80.529 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 80. Persons with Disabilities|Article 6. Traumatic or Acquired Brain Injury.|Sec. 47.80.529. Definition.

In AS 47.80.500 - 47.80.529, “traumatic or acquired brain injury” means an insult from physical force or internal damage to the brain or its coverings, not of a degenerative or congenital nature, that produces an altered mental state and that results in a decrease in cognitive, behavioral, emotional, or physical functioning.
AK Stat § 47.80.900 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 80. Persons with Disabilities|Article 7. General Provisions.|Sec. 47.80.900. Definitions.

In this chapter, (1) “council” means the Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education created by AS 47.80.030; (2) “department” means the Department of Health and Social Services; (3) “facilities for persons with disabilities” means publicly or privately operated facilities, or specified portions of facilities, designed primarily for the delivery of services to those persons; the term includes residential facilities; (4) “habilitation” means education or training for persons with disabilities to enable them to function better in society; (5) “least restrictive setting” means a residential or other setting for meeting the needs of a person with a disability that requires the least amount of restriction of personal liberty by enabling the person to function in as normal an environment as possible and to live as normally as possible, within the limitations of the disability; (6) “person with a developmental disability” means a person who is experiencing a severe, chronic disability that (A) is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or combination of mental and physical impairments; (B) is manifested before the person attains age 22; (C) is likely to continue indefinitely; (D) results in substantial functional limitations in three or more of the following areas of major life activity: self-care, receptive and expressive language, learning, mobility, self-direction, capacity for independent living, and economic self-sufficiency; and (E) reflects the person's need for a combination and sequence of special, interdisciplinary, or generic care, treatment, or other services that are of lifelong or extended duration and are individually planned and coordinated; (7) “person with a disability” means a person with a developmental disability as defined in (6) of this section or a person who is hard of hearing, deaf, speech impaired, visually impaired, seriously emotionally disturbed, orthopedically or otherwise health impaired, or who has a specific learning disability; the term includes a child with a disability as defined in AS 14.30.350; (8) “residential facility” means a publicly or privately operated facility that provides 24-hour care for four or more persons with disabilities, excluding family, foster family, or adoptive homes; (9) “substantial disability” means a disability that prevents or substantially impedes the person's participating in and benefiting from the social, economic, educational, recreational, or other opportunities generally available to peers in the community who are not similarly disabled.
AK Stat § 09.10.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 10. Limitations of Actions|Sec. 09.10.010. General limitations on civil actions.

A person may not commence a civil action except within the periods prescribed in this chapter after the cause of action has accrued, except when, in special cases, a different limitation is prescribed by statute.
AK Stat § 09.10.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 10. Limitations of Actions|Sec. 09.10.030. Actions to recover real property.

(a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, a person may not bring an action for the recovery of real property or for the recovery of the possession of it unless the action is commenced within 10 years. An action may not be maintained under this subsection for the recovery unless it appears that the plaintiff, an ancestor, a predecessor, or the grantor of the plaintiff was seized or possessed of the premises in question within 10 years before the commencement of the action. (b) An action may be brought at any time by a person who was seized or possessed of the real property in question at some time before the commencement of the action or whose grantor or predecessor was seized or possessed of the real property in question at some time before commencement of the action, and whose ownership interest in the real property is recorded under AS 40.17, in order to (1) quiet title to that real property; or (2) eject a person from that real property.
AK Stat § 09.10.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 10. Limitations of Actions|Sec. 09.10.040. Action upon judgment or sealed instrument in 10 years.

(a) A person may not bring an action upon a judgment or decree of a court of the United States, or of a state or territory within the United States, and an action may not be brought upon a sealed instrument, unless the action is commenced within 10 years. (b) [Repealed, § 54 ch 132 SLA 1998.]
AK Stat § 09.10.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 10. Limitations of Actions|Sec. 09.10.050. Certain property actions to be brought in six years.

Unless the action is commenced within six years, a person may not bring an action for waste or trespass upon real property.
AK Stat § 09.10.053 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 10. Limitations of Actions|Sec. 09.10.053. Contract actions to be brought in three years.

Unless the action is commenced within three years, a person may not bring an action upon a contract or liability, express or implied, except as provided in AS 09.10.040, or as otherwise provided by law, or, except if the provisions of this section are waived by contract.