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AK Stat § 29.46.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 46. Special Assessments|Sec. 29.46.010. Assessment and proposal.

(a) A municipality may assess against the property of a state or federal governmental unit and private real property to be benefited by an improvement all or a portion of the cost of acquiring, installing, or constructing capital improvements. The state shall pay an assessment levied, except as otherwise provided by law and subject to its right of protest under AS 29.46.020(b). If a governmental unit other than the state benefited by an improvement refuses to pay the assessment, it shall be denied the benefit of the improvement. An improvement proposal may be initiated by (1) petition to the governing body of the owners of one-half in value of the property to be benefited; or (2) the governing body. (b) Notwithstanding (a) of this section, 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, is exempt, as specified in the contract, from assessment under this chapter against real property associated with the approved qualified project that is subject to the contract. This subsection applies to home rule municipalities.
AK Stat § 29.46.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 46. Special Assessments|Sec. 29.46.020. Procedure.

(a) A municipality may prescribe by ordinance the procedures relating to creating special assessment districts, making local improvements, levying and collecting assessments, and financing improvements, including the following: (1) a procedure for filing petitions; (2) a survey and report by the mayor concerning the need for, desirable extent of, and estimated cost of each proposed local improvement; (3) a public hearing on the necessity for the proposed local improvement; (4) a resolution or ordinance determining to proceed or not to proceed with the proposed local improvement; (5) a public hearing by the governing body on the special assessment roll for the proposed local improvement; (6) published notice of each public hearing required by this section and mailing notice to each record owner of real property in the special assessment district; (7) a resolution or ordinance confirming the special assessment roll for the proposed local improvement. (b) If protests as to the necessity of a proposed local improvement are made by owners of property that will bear 50 percent or more of the estimated cost of the improvement, the governing body may not proceed with the improvement until the objections have been reduced to less than 50 percent, except on approval of not fewer than three-fourths of the governing body. (c) To the extent that a municipality does not prescribe a procedure for special assessments as permitted by this section, the municipality shall comply with the special assessment procedures set out in AS 29.46.030 - 29.46.100. (d) A municipality may by ordinance provide for deferral of payment of all or part of the assessments on real property owned and occupied as the primary residence and permanent place of abode by a resident who is economically disadvantaged as determined under criteria established in the ordinance. The assessment becomes due when the property ceases to be owned by the resident who qualified for the deferral.
AK Stat § 29.46.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 46. Special Assessments|Sec. 29.46.030. Consideration of improvement proposals for special assessment district.

(a) When an improvement proposal is filed with the municipal clerk and presented to the governing body, the municipality shall find by resolution or ordinance whether (1) the improvement requested is necessary and should be made, and (2) if by petition, the request has sufficient and proper petitioners. The findings under this subsection are conclusive. (b) If the municipality approves an improvement proposal, it shall develop a proposed improvement plan including the total cost estimate and the percentage of the cost to be assessed against the benefited property. The improvement plan shall be filed with the municipal clerk. (c) The governing body shall set a time for public hearing on the improvement plan and the period for filing objections to the plan. The governing body shall publish a notice of the hearing and of the period during which objections may be filed at least once a week for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation if distributed in the municipality and shall send notice by mail to every record owner of property in the special assessment district.
AK Stat § 29.46.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 46. Special Assessments|Sec. 29.46.040. Record owner.

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”.
AK Stat § 29.46.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 46. Special Assessments|Sec. 29.46.050. Objections and revision.

(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.
AK Stat § 29.46.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 46. Special Assessments|Sec. 29.46.060. Assessment roll.

(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.
AK Stat § 29.46.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 46. Special Assessments|Sec. 29.46.070. Hearing and settlement.

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.
AK Stat § 29.46.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 46. Special Assessments|Sec. 29.46.080. Payment.

(a) The governing body shall fix times of payment, penalties on delinquent payments, and the rate of interest on the unpaid balance of the assessment. Payment may be in one sum or by installments. If payment is to be in one sum, payment may not be required sooner than 60 days after mailing of the assessment statement. The entire assessment may be prepaid without interest or penalty within 30 days after mailing of the assessment statement, and thereafter the assessment may be prepaid in whole or in part with interest to the payment date. (b) Within 30 days after fixing the time of payment the municipal clerk shall mail a statement to the record owner of each property assessed. The statement designates the property, the assessment amount, method of payment, rate of interest on the unpaid balance of the assessment, the time of delinquency, and penalties on delinquent payments. Within five days after the statements are mailed, the clerk shall have notice published that the statements have been mailed. (c) Assessments are liens on the property assessed and are prior and paramount to all liens except municipal tax liens. They may be enforced as provided in AS 29.45.320 - 29.45.470 for enforcement of property tax liens.
AK Stat § 29.46.100 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 46. Special Assessments|Sec. 29.46.100. Reassessment.

(a) The governing body shall, within one year, correct any deficiency in a special assessment found by a court. Notice and hearing must conform to the initial assessment procedures. (b) Payments on the initial assessment are credited to the property upon reassessment. The reassessment becomes a charge upon the property notwithstanding failure to comply with any provision of the assessment procedure.
AK Stat § 29.46.110 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 46. Special Assessments|Sec. 29.46.110. Allowable costs.

(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.
AK Stat § 29.46.120 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 46. Special Assessments|Sec. 29.46.120. Objection and appeal.

(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.
AK Stat § 29.46.130 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 46. Special Assessments|Sec. 29.46.130. Interim financing.

(a) A municipality may provide by resolution or ordinance for the issuance of notes in payment of the costs of a local improvement project, payable out of special assessments for the improvement. The notes shall bear interest at a rate or rates authorized by the resolution or ordinance, and shall be redeemed either in cash or bonds for the improvement project. (b) Notes issued against assessments shall be claims against the assessments that are prior and superior to a right, lien or claim of a surety on the bond given to the municipality to secure the performance of its contract for a local improvement project, or to secure the payment of persons who have performed work or furnished materials under the contract. (c) The municipal treasurer may accept notes against special assessments on conditions prescribed by the governing body in payment of (1) assessments against which the notes were issued in order of priority; (2) judgments rendered against property owners who have become delinquent in the payment of assessments; and (3) certificates of purchase when property has been sold under execution or at tax sale for failure to pay the assessments.
AK Stat § 29.46.140 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 46. Special Assessments|Sec. 29.46.140. Special assessment bonds.

(a) A municipality may by ordinance authorize the issuance and sale of special assessment bonds to pay all or part of the cost of an improvement in a special assessment district. The principal and interest of bonds issued shall be payable solely from the levy of special assessments against the property to be benefited. The assessments shall constitute a sinking fund for the payment of principal and interest on the bonds. The benefited property may be pledged by the governing body to secure a payment. (b) On default in a payment due on a special assessment bond, a bondholder may enforce payment of principal, interest, and costs of collection in a civil action in the same manner and with the same effect as actions for the foreclosure of mortgages on real property. Foreclosure shall be against all property on which assessments are in default. The period for redemption is the same as for a mortgage foreclosure on real property. (c) Before the governing body may issue special assessment bonds, it shall establish a guarantee fund and appropriate to the fund annually a sum adequate to cover a deficiency in meeting payments of principal and interest on bonds if the reason for the deficiency is nonpayment of assessments when due. Money received from actions taken against property for nonpayment of assessments shall be credited to the guarantee fund.
AK Stat § 29.65.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 65. General Grant Land|Sec. 29.65.010. Determination of entitlement for boroughs and unified municipalities.

(a) The general grant land entitlement of each of the municipalities in this subsection is the amount set out opposite each: (1) Municipality of Anchorage - 44,893 acres; (2) City and Borough of Juneau - 19,584 acres; (3) City and Borough of Sitka - 10,500 acres; (4) Bristol Bay Borough - 2,898 acres; (5) Fairbanks North Star Borough - 112,000 acres; (6) Haines Borough - 2,800 acres; (7) Kenai Peninsula Borough - 155,780 acres; (8) Ketchikan Gateway Borough - 11,593 acres; (9) Kodiak Island Borough - 56,500 acres; (10) Lake and Peninsula Borough - 125,000 acres; (11) Matanuska-Susitna Borough - 355,210 acres; (12) North Slope Borough - 89,850 acres; (13) City and Borough of Yakutat - 21,500 acres; (14) City and Borough of Wrangell - 9,006 acres; (15) Haines Borough - 3,167 acres; (16) Petersburg Borough - 14,666 acres. (b) [Repealed, § 12 ch 34 SLA 1987.]
AK Stat § 29.65.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 65. General Grant Land|Sec. 29.65.020. Determination of entitlement for cities.

(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.]
AK Stat § 29.65.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 65. General Grant Land|Sec. 29.65.030. Determination of entitlement for newly incorporated municipalities.

(a) The general grant land entitlement of a municipality incorporated after July 1, 1978, that does not qualify for an entitlement under AS 29.65.010 or 29.65.020 is 10 percent of the maximum total acreage of vacant, unappropriated, unreserved land within the boundaries of the municipality between the date of its incorporation and two years after that date. (b) Within two years and six months after the date of incorporation of the municipality, the director shall determine the entitlement of each municipality eligible to receive general grant land under (a) of this section and certify the entitlement to the municipality. However, the governing body of a city may, by resolution, request the director to certify the entitlement to the city on an expeditious basis. The director shall determine and certify the entitlement within six months after receipt of the resolution. (c) [Repealed, § 12 ch 34 SLA 1987.]  (d) For the purpose of determining the general land grant entitlement under (a) of this section, the maximum total acreage of vacant, unappropriated, unreserved land within the boundaries of the municipality between the date of its incorporation and two years after that date shall be increased by the amount of land located within the boundaries of the municipality that is transferred to the University of Alaska under AS 14.40.365.
AK Stat § 29.65.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 65. General Grant Land|Sec. 29.65.040. Status of entitlements.

(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.
AK Stat § 29.65.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 65. General Grant Land|Sec. 29.65.070. Selection and conveyance procedure.

(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.
AK Stat § 29.65.090 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 65. General Grant Land|Sec. 29.65.090. Authorization for land exchanges.

The director and a municipality are authorized to exchange land or interests in land when it is in the public interest. Land or interests in land exchanged under this section must be of approximately equal value, including the nonmonetary value of public benefits. Exchange procedures shall comply with applicable law and municipal ordinances. The notice and review provisions of AS 38.05.945 apply to exchanges of land under this section. The provisions of AS 38.50 do not apply to exchanges of land under this section.
AK Stat § 29.65.100 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 65. General Grant Land|Sec. 29.65.100. Public purpose and expansion needs.

(a) Consistent with the best interests of the state, if a municipality does not contain and cannot reasonably acquire sufficient nonfederal land within its boundaries to meet its legitimate needs for public or private settlement or development, it is the policy of the state to select federal land reasonably necessary to meet the needs of the municipality and to make the land selected available to the municipality under AS 38.05.810 or (b) of this section. (b) The state may contract with a municipality to act as its agent in an auction of state land under applicable statutes. When a municipality acts as the agent of the state in an auction, the municipality may retain from the proceeds of the auction the capital and other expenses that the director determines to be necessary and reasonable. (c) Nothing in this chapter limits or impairs the authority of the director to transfer land to municipalities, without limit or consideration, for public purposes in accordance with AS 38.05.810. If there is a remaining entitlement of the municipality, land transferred under AS 38.05.810 shall be credited toward fulfillment of the entitlement.
AK Stat § 29.65.120 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 29. Municipal Government|Chapter 65. General Grant Land|Sec. 29.65.120. Regulations.

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.