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AK Stat § 39.15.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 15. Official Bonds|Sec. 39.15.010. Form, amount, and conditions.

The official bond of an officer or employee of the state required by statute or regulation under authority of law shall be in a form joint and several, and made payable to the state in the penal sum and with the conditions required by law.
AK Stat § 39.15.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 15. Official Bonds|Sec. 39.15.020. Obligation and effect.

Bonds of state officers and employees are in force and obligatory upon the principal and sureties for breach of the condition of the bond committed during the time the officer or employee discharges the duties of or holds the office or appointment. Each bond is considered in force and obligatory upon the principal and sureties for the faithful discharge of all duties required of the officer or employee by any law enacted after the execution of the bond and this condition shall be set out in the bond.
AK Stat § 39.15.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 15. Official Bonds|Sec. 39.15.030. Action on bond.

An official bond executed by a state officer or employee is in force and obligatory upon the principal and sureties to and for the state, and for the use and benefit of all persons injured or aggrieved by the wrongful act or default of the officer or employee in the official capacity or employment of the official or employee. A person injured or aggrieved may bring suit on the bond in the person's name.
AK Stat § 39.15.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 15. Official Bonds|Sec. 39.15.040. Recovery on defective bond.

If a bond does not contain the matter or condition required by law, or there is a defect in the approval or filing of the bond, the bond is not void and the obligor and the obligor's sureties are bound to the state or party interested, and the state or party may, by action instituted in any court of competent jurisdiction, suggest the defect and recover a proper and equitable demand from the obligor and surety.
AK Stat § 39.15.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 15. Official Bonds|Sec. 39.15.050. Procedure when bond becomes insufficient.

(a) If a surety on the bond dies, removes from the state, becomes insolvent or insufficient, or the penalty of the bond becomes insufficient, the Department of Administration shall, on its own motion or on the showing of a person supported by an affidavit, summon the officer or employee to appear before it at a stated time, not less than 15 days after service of the summons, and show cause why the officer or employee should not execute a new bond with good and sufficient sureties. (b) If the officer or employee after notice fails to appear at the time appointed, the department shall hear and determine the matter in the absence of the officer or employee. If the department is of the opinion that the bond is insufficient, it shall require a new bond with sureties and in the amount considered necessary. (c) The new bond shall be executed and filed within the time the department orders. If the officer or employee fails to execute and file a new bond within the time prescribed, the office or appointment of the officer or employee becomes vacant as provided by AS 39.15.100. The new bond has the same force and obligation upon the principal and surety and subjects the officer and the surety to the same liabilities prescribed for an original bond of an officer and employee.
AK Stat § 39.15.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 15. Official Bonds|Sec. 39.15.060. Number of sureties.

Unless expressly provided otherwise, each official bond shall have at least two individual sureties or one corporate surety.
AK Stat § 39.15.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 15. Official Bonds|Sec. 39.15.070. Justification of sureties.

The officer charged with the duty of approving official bonds of officers and employees may not approve a bond unless the surety on the bond is a surety company qualified to do business in the state, or unless each individual surety justifies before an officer authorized to administer oaths that the surety is (1) a resident and freeholder within the state; and (2) worth double the amount for which the surety becomes surety over and above all debts and liabilities in property located in the state that is not exempt from seizure and sale under execution.
AK Stat § 39.15.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 15. Official Bonds|Sec. 39.15.080. Release of sureties.

A surety on an official bond may be released from liability accruing after proceedings are taken under AS 39.15.090.
AK Stat § 39.15.090 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 15. Official Bonds|Sec. 39.15.090. Proceedings for release of sureties.

A surety desiring to be released from liability on a bond shall file with the Department of Administration a statement in writing, signed by the surety or someone on the surety's behalf, setting out the name of the principal and the office, position, or appointment of the principal, the amount for which the surety is liable, and the surety's desire to be released from further liability. A notice containing a copy of the statement shall be served personally on the officer or employee. If the officer or employee is not in the state, the notice may be served by publication for 30 days in a newspaper printed at the capital.
AK Stat § 39.15.100 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 15. Official Bonds|Sec. 39.15.100. Failure to file new bond.

(a) If a state officer or employee fails to file a new bond within 15 days from the date of personal service or within 30 days from the date of the first insertion of a publication, the office becomes vacant and the officer or employee forfeits the office. (b) The office shall be filled as in other cases of vacancy. The person applying for release from liability on the bond is not liable on it after the office becomes vacant.
AK Stat § 39.23.500 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 23. State Officers Compensation Commission|Sec. 39.23.500. Compensation commission established.

(a) The State Officers Compensation Commission is established. The commission is composed of five members who are state residents appointed by the governor. One member shall be appointed from a list of two or more candidates submitted by the president of the senate. One member shall be appointed from a list of two or more candidates submitted by the speaker of the house of representatives. Members serve for staggered terms of four years. Except as provided in AS 39.05.080(4), a vacancy shall be filled for the balance of the unexpired term. A commission member may serve not more than two complete consecutive terms. (b) The commission shall annually elect a member to chair its meetings. A majority of the commission members constitutes a quorum to transact business. The affirmative vote of three members is required to approve the commission's recommendations on compensation. (c) The commission shall meet at the call of the chair. Notice of a meeting shall be mailed to each member at least 20 days before the date scheduled for the meeting. (d) The commission shall meet to discuss its findings and recommendations at least twice before submitting its final report to the presiding officers of each house of the legislature and the governor. (e) For budgetary purposes, the commission shall be established in the Department of Administration.
AK Stat § 39.23.510 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 23. State Officers Compensation Commission|Sec. 39.23.510. Prohibitions against state or municipal service.

(a) During membership on the commission, a member of the commission may not (1) be employed by the state, including the University of Alaska; (2) serve as a member of another state board, commission, or authority; or (3) hold elective state or municipal office. (b) A member of the commission may not, in the four years preceding that member's appointment, have served in an office or position for which the commission shall submit a recommendation under AS 39.23.540.
AK Stat § 39.23.520 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 23. State Officers Compensation Commission|Sec. 39.23.520. Compensation.

Members of the commission serve without compensation but are entitled to per diem and travel expenses authorized for members of boards and commissions under AS 39.20.180.
AK Stat § 39.23.530 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 23. State Officers Compensation Commission|Sec. 39.23.530. Staff.

The director of personnel in the Department of Administration shall serve as ex officio secretary to the commission and provide research, technical, and administrative services.
AK Stat § 39.23.540 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 23. State Officers Compensation Commission|Sec. 39.23.540. Duties of the commission.

(a) The commission shall review the salaries, benefits, and allowances of members of the legislature, the governor, the lieutenant governor, and each principal executive department head and prepare a report on its findings at least once every two years, but not more frequently than every year. The commission shall notify the legislature that the report is available. (b) The commission may request reports or studies from any state agency as to the rate and form of compensation, benefits, and allowances for legislators, the governor, the lieutenant governor, and each executive department head. A state agency from which a report or a study is requested shall furnish it within a period of time prescribed by the commission. (c) By November 15, the commission shall prepare its preliminary findings and recommendations for compensation of state officers that is reasonable and equitable. The commission shall give reasonable public notice of its preliminary findings and recommendations, solicit public comments, and give due regard to the public comments, before submitting a final report under (d) of this section. (d) The commission shall make available to the governor and presiding officers of each house of the legislature a final report of its findings and recommendations as to the rate and form of compensation, benefits, and allowances for legislators, the governor, the lieutenant governor, and each principal executive department head during the first 10 days of a legislative session. Subject to AS 24.10.130(b) and (g) of this section, and unless a bill disapproving all the recommendations for all officers listed in this section is enacted into law within 60 days after the recommendations are submitted to the governor and presiding officers of each house of the legislature, a recommendation as to the compensation, benefits, and allowances for (1) a legislator has the force of law and becomes effective on the first day of the next regular legislative session; and (2) the governor, the lieutenant governor, and each principal executive department head has the force of law and becomes effective on the first day of the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the recommendation is submitted. (e) The commission may prepare amendments to the report submitted under (d) of this section and notify the legislature that the amendments are available. (f) A commission member who does not concur in the proposed or final recommendations may attach written objections to the commission's report of its findings and recommendations. (g) A recommendation under this section increasing the compensation, benefits, and allowances of a public officer is not effective unless all recommended increases included in the final report under (d) of this section are fully funded by appropriations.
AK Stat § 39.23.550 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 23. State Officers Compensation Commission|Sec. 39.23.550. Recommendations relating to compensation.

(a) A recommendation of the commission may not have the effect of reducing the compensation or benefits of the governor and lieutenant governor who are in office or an executive department head who is appointed on or before the effective date of the commission's recommendation. (b) The commission may recommend reduction in compensation for individuals who become governor, lieutenant governor, or an executive department head after the effective date of the commission's recommendation.
AK Stat § 39.23.560 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 23. State Officers Compensation Commission|Sec. 39.23.560. Recommendations relating to benefits.

The recommendations of the commission relating to benefits may not include any recommendation relating to health, retirement, disability, or death benefits under AS 39.30 and AS 39.35 for members of the legislature, the governor, the lieutenant governor, and each principal executive department head.
AK Stat § 39.23.570 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 23. State Officers Compensation Commission|Sec. 39.23.570. Filing with lieutenant governor and certification.

The commission shall, on transmitting its final recommendations for the compensation of legislators, the governor, the lieutenant governor, and each principal executive department head to the legislature, file the recommendations in the office of the lieutenant governor. When the recommendations become effective, the commission shall certify the copy of the recommendations on file in the office of the lieutenant governor.
AK Stat § 39.23.580 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 23. State Officers Compensation Commission|Sec. 39.23.580. Policy of the legislature.

It is the policy of the legislature that the commission recommend an equitable rate and form of compensation, benefits, and allowances for legislators.
AK Stat § 39.23.590 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 23. State Officers Compensation Commission|Sec. 39.23.590. Administrative Procedure Act inapplicable.

AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) does not apply to proceedings of the commission.
AK Stat § 39.23.599 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 23. State Officers Compensation Commission|Sec. 39.23.599. Definition.

In AS 39.23.500 - 39.23.599, “commission” means the State Officers Compensation Commission.
AK Stat § 39.26.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 26. Rights of State Employees|Sec. 39.26.010. State employees protected against certain conduct.

(a) A department, agency, official, officer, or person employed by the state may not directly or indirectly (1) require or coerce any employee of the state to participate in any way in any activity or undertaking unless the activity or undertaking is related to the performance of official duties; (2) require or coerce any employee of the state to make any report concerning any of the employee's activities or undertakings unless the activity or undertaking is related to the performance of the employee's official duties; (3) except as directly related to the performance of the employee's official duties, require or coerce any employee of the state to submit to any interrogation or examination or psychological test which is designed to elicit information concerning (A) the employee's personal relationship with any person connected by blood or marriage; (B) the employee's religious beliefs or practices; (C) sexual matters; (D) the employee's political affiliation or philosophy; (4) coerce any employee of the state to invest or contribute earnings in any manner or for any purpose; (5) restrict or attempt to restrict after-working-hour statements, pronouncements or other activities, not otherwise prohibited by law or personnel rule, of any employee of the state, if the employee does not purport to speak or act in an official capacity. (b) The heads of the administrative departments of the state may adopt internal management regulations for their respective departments, specifying exceptions to (a)(5) of this section. These regulations shall be submitted for approval to the personnel board provided for in AS 39.25.060. (c) The provisions of (a) of this section do not diminish the authority of an authorized law enforcement agency to conduct criminal investigations of state employees suspected of being involved in criminal activity.
AK Stat § 39.26.015 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 26. Rights of State Employees|Sec. 39.26.015. Required regulations for dress codes and appearance standards.

Dress codes and appearance standards adopted by a department, division, agency, official, or other employee of the state, that are to be applied to state employees shall be in the form of a regulation subject to legislative review under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act).
AK Stat § 39.26.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 26. Rights of State Employees|Sec. 39.26.020. Application of chapter.

This chapter applies to those state employees in the classified and partially exempt services.
AK Stat § 39.27.012 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 27. Pay Plan for State Employees|Sec. 39.27.012. Temporary salary schedules.

The director of the division of personnel may establish salary schedules providing lesser amounts than those in the basic salary schedule in order to meet salary limit requirements for receipt and expenditure of federal funds. Salary rates established under authority of this section do not affect the salaries of employees provided for by a collective bargaining agreement negotiated under the authority of AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260 (Public Employment Relations Act).
AK Stat § 39.27.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 27. Pay Plan for State Employees|Sec. 39.27.020. Geographic pay differentials.

(a) The following geographic pay differentials established as a percentage above the basic salary schedule provided in AS 39.27.011 are approved as an amendment to the basic salary schedule provided in AS 39.27.011:Duty StationGeographic PayDifferentialAnchor Point0Anchorage0Anchorage International Airport0Aniak50Anvik50Auke Bay5Barrow50Bethel50Camp Carroll0Cantwell0Chena River3Chignik50Chitina0Cold Bay50Coldfoot Camp37Cooper Landing0Cordova11Craig0Crown Point0Deadhorse50Delta Junction0Denali0Dillingham37Douglas5Dutch Harbor60Eagle0Eagle River0Eielson Air Force Base3Elfin Cove0Elmendorf Air Force Base0Emmonak50Fairbanks3Finger Lake0Fort Richardson0Fort Wainwright3Fort Yukon37Gakona0Galena37Girdwood0Glennallen0Gustavus0Haines0Harding Lake3Healy0Homer0Hoonah0Iliamna50Juneau5Kaltag50Kenai0Ketchikan0King Cove50King Salmon50Klawock0Kodiak11Kotzebue60Mackenzie Point0Matanuska0McGrath37Mount Edgecumbe5Nancy0Nenana0Nikiski0Ninilchik0Nome37Northway0Palmer0Pelican0Petersburg0Port Alsworth50Port Moller50Saint Mary's50Sand Point50Selawik60Seward0Sitka5Skagway0Soldotna0Sterling0Sutton0Talkeetna0Tazlina0Tenakee Springs0Tok0Trapper Creek0Unalakleet50Unalaska60Valdez11Wasilla0Whittier0Willow0Wrangell0Yakutat0Other states0 (b) If an employee's duty station is not included in (a) of this section and is not in a foreign country, the commissioner of administration shall establish by regulation the appropriate geographic pay differential. The regulations are not subject to AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act). (c) The commissioner of administration shall establish geographic pay differentials for positions in foreign countries. The differentials shall be adjusted annually, effective July 1, to maintain equity between salaries for positions in foreign countries and salaries for positions in the state.
AK Stat § 39.27.025 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 27. Pay Plan for State Employees|Sec. 39.27.025. Swing and graveyard shift differentials.

(a) Classified and partially exempt state employees who regularly work a “swing” shift beginning between 12:00 noon and 7:59 p.m. are entitled to a one-step increase over their normal pay established by this chapter. (b) Classified and partially exempt state employees who regularly work a “graveyard” shift beginning between 8:00 p.m. and 3:59 a.m. are entitled to a two-step increase over their normal pay established by this chapter.
AK Stat § 39.27.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 27. Pay Plan for State Employees|Sec. 39.27.030. Geographic pay differential survey.

Subject to appropriation, the director of the division of personnel shall conduct a survey, at least every five years, to review the geographic pay differentials under AS 39.27.020. The survey may address factors the director determines are relevant to review state salary schedules, entitlements for beneficiaries of state programs, and payments for state service providers. The survey must reflect the cost of living for duty stations in the state or outside of the state by using the cost of living in Anchorage, Alaska, as a base.
AK Stat § 39.28.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 28. Equal Employment Opportunity Program|Sec. 39.28.010. Administration of equal employment opportunity program.

The director of personnel shall administer the equal employment opportunity program for the executive branch of state government to assure compliance with this chapter.
AK Stat § 39.28.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 28. Equal Employment Opportunity Program|Sec. 39.28.030. Administrative regulations.

The department shall adopt regulations under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) to carry out the division of personnel's duties under this chapter.
AK Stat § 39.28.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 28. Equal Employment Opportunity Program|Sec. 39.28.040. Affirmative action plan.

The department shall establish an equal employment opportunity program and adopt annually an affirmative action plan for the executive branch of state government. The plan remains in effect until the department establishes a subsequent plan. The director of personnel shall work with each agency to enhance equal employment opportunity.
AK Stat § 39.28.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 39. Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 28. Equal Employment Opportunity Program|Sec. 39.28.050. Compliance with affirmative action plan.

(a) Each agency shall comply with the affirmative action plan. Each commissioner or executive head of an agency shall adopt an affirmative action program to implement the plan within the agency. At the request of the director of personnel, a state official shall report to the director of personnel about agency employment practices and activities to implement and comply with the plan or program. (b) When the director of personnel finds that an agency has violated the affirmative action plan or its affirmative action program, the director of personnel may (1) suspend the hiring authority of the agency; and (2) impose mandatory affirmative action measures on the agency to bring the agency into compliance.