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AK Stat § 47.70.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 70. Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children|Sec. 47.70.020. Financial responsibility.

Financial responsibility for a child placed in accordance with the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children shall be determined in accordance with art. V of the compact. However, in the event of partial or complete default of performance under the compact, the provisions of AS 47.14.100(b) apply.
AK Stat § 47.70.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 70. Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children|Sec. 47.70.030. Designation of authority.

(a) The “appropriate public authorities” as used in art. III of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children shall, with reference to this state, mean the Department of Health and Social Services. The department shall receive and act with reference to notices required by art. III of the compact. (b) As used in Art. V of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, the phrase “appropriate authority in the receiving state” with reference to this state means the Department of Health and Social Services.
AK Stat § 47.70.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 70. Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children|Sec. 47.70.040. Agreements.

The officers and agencies of this state and its subdivisions having authority to place children are empowered to enter into agreements with appropriate officers or agencies of or in other party states under art. V(b) of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children.
AK Stat § 47.70.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 70. Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children|Sec. 47.70.050. Delegation by agreement.

Requirements for visitation, inspection, or supervision of children, homes, institutions, or other agencies in another party state which may apply under AS 47.14.110 shall be considered to be met if performed under an agreement entered into by appropriate officers or agencies of this state or a subdivision of this state as contemplated by art. V(b) of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children.
AK Stat § 47.70.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 70. Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children|Sec. 47.70.060. Executive head.

As used in Art. VII of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, the term “executive head” means the governor. The governor is authorized to appoint a compact administrator in accordance with the terms of art. VII.
AK Stat § 47.70.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 70. Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children|Sec. 47.70.070. Violations of compact.

A person who sends, brings, or causes to be sent or brought into this state from any party state, or from this state into any party state, a person under the age of 19, in violation of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction is punishable by a fine of not more than $200.
AK Stat § 47.70.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 70. Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children|Sec. 47.70.080. Short title.

AS 47.70.010 may be cited as the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children.
AK Stat § 47.75.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 75. Social Services Planning|Sec. 47.75.010. Purpose.

The purpose of the state plan for social services is to assess the state's needs for existing and new social services, to establish priorities among these needs, and to present an annual implemental plan to meet those needs based upon available state and federal financing with the goals of (1) achieving or maintaining economic self-support to prevent, reduce, or eliminate dependency; (2) achieving or maintaining self-sufficiency, including reduction or prevention of dependency; (3) preventing or remedying neglect, abuse, or exploitation of children and adults unable to protect their own interests, or preserving, rehabilitating, or reuniting families; (4) preventing or reducing inappropriate institutional care by providing alternative types of care including community-based care, home-based care, or other forms of less intensive care; and (5) securing referral or admission for institutional care when other forms of care are not appropriate, or providing services to individuals in institutions.
AK Stat § 47.75.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 75. Social Services Planning|Sec. 47.75.020. State plan.

(a) The department shall annually provide to the legislature a detailed state plan for the delivery of social services. It includes the following: (1) a needs analysis of social services presently provided or purchased by the state; (2) a needs analysis of social services that are not presently provided or purchased by the state or not available from any other source in the state; (3) a needs analysis of social services provided by local governments, nonprofit and charitable organizations, and profit corporations and partnerships, with an emphasis on their availability for purchase by the state; (4) a priority listing of social services to be provided or purchased by the state for the succeeding fiscal year, including (A) a justification of how each proposed social service shall meet the goals established under AS 47.75.010; (B) the categories of individuals to whom the services are to be provided, including categories based on the income of individuals or their families; (C) the geographic areas in which the services are to be provided, with the nature and amount of the services to be provided in each area; (D) a description of the planning, evaluation, and reporting activities to be carried out in order to provide the service; (E) a description of the organizational structure through which the program will be administered, including the extent to which public and private agencies and volunteers will be utilized in the provision of the services; (F) estimated expenditures required for each of the services to be provided, each of the categories of individuals to whom the services are to be provided, and each of the geographic areas in which the services are to be provided; and a comparison between estimated state and other expenditures for the services necessary to insure adequate availability of services to the entire population of the state; (5) a comprehensive budget for services provided or purchased by the state based upon the prioritized listing required in (4) of this subsection including expenditures for administration, planning, evaluation, and personnel training directly related to the provision of those services; and (6) recommendations as to any necessary changes in existing laws, including licensing to improve the quality and availability of social services, facilities and institutions, and social services manpower. (b) The state plan required by this chapter is the official state plan prepared for the delivery of social services in the state and shall include and meet all the applicable provisions required by title XX of the Social Security Act, P.L. 93-647. The state plan may not be limited to the planning of services funded by title XX, but must include all the social services purchased or provided by the state or any of its subdivisions.
AK Stat § 47.75.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 75. Social Services Planning|Sec. 47.75.030. Annual public meetings required.

(a) During the first quarter of each fiscal year, the department shall hold public meetings for the purposes of gathering information and testimony on the availability and need of social services in the regional office service areas designated by the department. (b) Notice of these public meetings shall be made by publication in newspapers of general circulation published in each region at least once each week for three successive weeks before the meeting. (c) All meetings shall be recorded. The recordings and all information submitted at the meeting shall be maintained by the department for a period of at least two years.
AK Stat § 47.75.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 75. Social Services Planning|Sec. 47.75.040. Public hearings on proposed state plan.

(a) Upon completion of the needs analysis required in AS 47.75.020 and the public meetings required in AS 47.75.030, the department shall prepare a state plan. (b) At least 90 days before the first day of each regular legislative session, the department shall publish and make available to the public and members of the legislature the proposed state plan for the following fiscal year. (c) The department shall conduct public hearings for the purpose of obtaining comment on the proposed state plan as provided for in the Administrative Procedure Act (AS 44.62).
AK Stat § 47.75.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 75. Social Services Planning|Sec. 47.75.050. Submission to the legislature.

(a) The department shall submit the state plan and supporting commentary reflecting the public input and comment provided for in AS 47.75.030 and 47.75.040 to the legislature on the first day of each regular session. (b) The department shall submit a budget for proposed state expenditures in conformity with the state plan. In addition, the department shall submit a budget and a detailed analysis of those prioritized needs and funds which were addressed in the needs analysis and public hearings, but were not included in the published state plan as a result of fiscal or legal constraints.
AK Stat § 47.75.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 75. Social Services Planning|Sec. 47.75.060. Definitions.

In this chapter, (1) “department” means the Department of Health and Social Services; (2) “social services” means child care services, protective services for children and adults, services for children and adults in foster care, services related to the management and maintenance of the home, day care services for adults, transportation services, training and related services, employment services, information, referral, and counseling services, the preparation and delivery of meals, health support services, a full range of legal services, and appropriate combinations of services designed to meet the special needs of children, the aged, persons with developmental disabilities, persons who are blind, persons with mental illness, persons with physical disabilities, and persons with substance abuse disorders.
AK Stat § 47.90.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 90. Displaced Homemakers|Sec. 47.90.010. Program established.

(a) The commissioner, in consultation with state and local government agencies, community groups, and groups concerned with displaced homemakers, may (1) contract with eligible private profit and nonprofit corporations for multipurpose service centers for displaced homemakers; contracting under this paragraph is governed by AS 36.30 (State Procurement Code); and (2) coordinate existing state programs for displaced homemakers. (b) The commissioner shall adopt regulations prescribing the standards to be met by each multipurpose service center for displaced homemakers in accordance with the policies established in this chapter. (c) [Repealed, § 67 ch 106 SLA 1986.] (d) To be eligible for an award of a contract under this chapter a private profit or nonprofit corporation must be governed by a board of directors whose membership is broadly representative of the community in which it operates as determined by the commissioner.
AK Stat § 47.90.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 90. Displaced Homemakers|Sec. 47.90.020. Services provided by centers.

(a) A multipurpose service center for displaced homemakers established under AS 47.90.010 may provide the following services: (1) job counseling services that (A) are specifically designed for displaced homemakers; (B) counsel displaced homemakers regarding job opportunities; and (C) consider and build on the skills and experience of a homemaker and emphasize job readiness as well as skill development; (2) job training and job placement services that (A) emphasize short-term training programs that expand upon homemaking skills and volunteer experience and that lead to gainful employment; (B) develop through cooperation with state and local government agencies and private employers training and placement programs for jobs in the public and private sector; (C) assist displaced homemakers in gaining admission to existing public and private job-training programs and opportunities including vocational education, reentry into secondary and post-secondary education, and apprenticeship training programs; and (D) assist in identifying community needs and creating new jobs for displaced homemakers in the public and private sector; (3) health counseling services including referral to existing health programs with respect to (A) general principles of preventive health care; (B) health care consumer education, particularly in the selection of physicians and health care services including health maintenance organizations and health insurance; (C) mental health care and transitional counseling; (D) family health care and nutrition; (E) alcohol and drug abuse, including the abuse of prescription drugs; and (F) other related health care matters; (4) financial management services that provide information and assistance relating to insurance, taxes, estate and probate matters, mortgages, loans, and related financial matters; (5) educational services including (A) information relating to courses offering credit through secondary or postsecondary education programs and reentry programs, including bilingual programs if appropriate, and information relating to the availability of financial assistance; and (B) information about other programs of benefit to displaced homemakers; (6) legal counseling and referral services; (7) information services with respect to federal and state employment, education, health, public assistance, and unemployment assistance programs that the commissioner determines to be of benefit to displaced homemakers. (b) A multipurpose center for displaced homemakers may provide assistance in obtaining child care, temporary babysitting expenses, and transportation when it will aid a displaced homemaker to receive services under (a) of this section.
AK Stat § 47.90.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 90. Displaced Homemakers|Sec. 47.90.030. Employment of displaced homemakers.

The staff positions of multipurpose centers established under AS 47.90.010, including supervisory, technical, and administrative positions, shall to the maximum extent possible be filled by displaced homemakers.
AK Stat § 47.90.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 90. Displaced Homemakers|Sec. 47.90.040. Consultation and cooperation.

The commissioner shall consult and cooperate with the Department of Health and Social Services; the Department of Education and Early Development; the director of the division of vocational rehabilitation; the University of Alaska, community colleges, and other colleges as appropriate; and other persons or agencies that the commissioner considers appropriate in the implementation of this chapter.
AK Stat § 47.90.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 90. Displaced Homemakers|Sec. 47.90.050. State employment assistance.

Contractors operating programs under AS 47.90.010 shall, to the maximum extent possible, provide displaced homemakers with assistance in qualifying on state employment registers under regulations of the commissioner.
AK Stat § 47.90.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 90. Displaced Homemakers|Sec. 47.90.060. Regulations.

The commissioner may adopt regulations to implement this chapter.
AK Stat § 47.90.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 90. Displaced Homemakers|Sec. 47.90.070. Definitions.

In this chapter, (1) “commissioner” means the commissioner of labor and workforce development; (2) “displaced homemaker” means a person who (A) has worked as a homemaker providing unsalaried services for the family for a period of at least three years; (B) faces a significant reduction in family income or support through divorce, death, separation, desertion, or disability; and (C) has encountered difficulty in finding employment.
AK Stat § 01.10.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 1. General Provisions|Chapter 10. Laws and Statutes|Article 1. Common Law.|Sec. 01.10.010. Applicability of common law.

So much of the common law not inconsistent with the Constitution of the State of Alaska or the Constitution of the United States or with any law passed by the legislature of the State of Alaska is the rule of decision in this state.
AK Stat § 01.10.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 1. General Provisions|Chapter 10. Laws and Statutes|Article 2. General Definitions, Residency, and Rules of Statutory Construction.|Sec. 01.10.020. Applicability of AS 01.10.040 - 01.10.090.

The provisions of AS 01.10.040 - 01.10.090 shall be observed in the construction of the laws of the state unless the construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the legislature.
AK Stat § 01.10.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 1. General Provisions|Chapter 10. Laws and Statutes|Article 2. General Definitions, Residency, and Rules of Statutory Construction.|Sec. 01.10.030. Severability.

Any law heretofore or hereafter enacted by the Alaska legislature which lacks a severability clause shall be construed as though it contained the clause in the following language: “If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this Act and the application to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.”
AK Stat § 01.10.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 1. General Provisions|Chapter 10. Laws and Statutes|Article 2. General Definitions, Residency, and Rules of Statutory Construction.|Sec. 01.10.040. Words and phrases; meaning of “including”.

(a) Words and phrases shall be construed according to the rules of grammar and according to their common and approved usage. Technical words and phrases and those that have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning, whether by legislative definition or otherwise, shall be construed according to the peculiar and appropriate meaning. (b) When the words “includes” or “including” are used in a law, they shall be construed as though followed by the phrase “but not limited to.”
AK Stat § 01.10.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 1. General Provisions|Chapter 10. Laws and Statutes|Article 2. General Definitions, Residency, and Rules of Statutory Construction.|Sec. 01.10.050. Tense, number, and gender.

(a) Words in the present tense include the past and future tenses, and words in the future tense include the present tense. (b) Words in the singular number include the plural, and words in the plural number include the singular. (c) Words of any gender may, when the sense so indicates, refer to any other gender.
AK Stat § 01.10.055 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 1. General Provisions|Chapter 10. Laws and Statutes|Article 2. General Definitions, Residency, and Rules of Statutory Construction.|Sec. 01.10.055. Residency.

(a) A person establishes residency in the state by being physically present in the state with the intent to remain in the state indefinitely and to make a home in the state. (b) A person demonstrates the intent required under (a) of this section (1) by maintaining a principal place of abode in the state for at least 30 days or for a longer period if a longer period is required by law or regulation; and (2) by providing other proof of intent as may be required by law or regulation, which may include proof that the person is not claiming residency outside the state or obtaining benefits under a claim of residency outside the state. (c) A person who establishes residency in the state remains a resident during an absence from the state unless during the absence the person establishes or claims residency in another state, territory, or country, or performs other acts or is absent under circumstances that are inconsistent with the intent required under (a) of this section to remain a resident of this state.
AK Stat § 01.10.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 1. General Provisions|Chapter 10. Laws and Statutes|Article 2. General Definitions, Residency, and Rules of Statutory Construction.|Sec. 01.10.060. Definitions.

(a) In the laws of the state, unless the context otherwise requires, (1) “action” includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal; (2) “daytime” means the period between sunrise and sunset; (3) “month” means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed; (4) “municipality” means a political subdivision incorporated under the laws of the state that is a home rule or general law city, a home rule or general law borough, or a unified municipality; (5) “nighttime” means the period between sunset and sunrise; (6) “oath” includes affirmation or declaration; (7) “peace officer” means (A) an officer of the state troopers; (B) a member of the police force of a municipality; (C) a village public safety officer; (D) a regional public safety officer; (E) a United States marshal or deputy marshal; and (F) an officer whose duty it is to enforce and preserve the public peace; (8) “person” includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person; (9) “personal property” includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt; (10) “property” includes real and personal property; (11) “real property” is coextensive with land, tenements, and hereditaments; (12) “signature” or “subscription” includes the mark of a person who cannot write, with the name of that person written near the mark by a witness who writes the witness's own name near the name of the person who cannot write; but a signature or subscription by mark can be acknowledged or can serve as a signature or subscription to a sworn statement only when two witnesses so sign their own names to the sworn statement; (13) “state” means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories; (14) “writing” includes printing. (b) In the laws of the state, “lewd conduct,” “lewd touching,” “immoral conduct,” “indecent conduct,” and similar terms do not include the act of a woman breast-feeding a child in a public or private location where the woman and child are otherwise authorized to be. Nothing in this subsection may be construed to authorize an act that is an offense under AS 11.61.123.
AK Stat § 01.10.065 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 1. General Provisions|Chapter 10. Laws and Statutes|Article 2. General Definitions, Residency, and Rules of Statutory Construction.|Sec. 01.10.065. Registered mail, certified mail.

When the use of registered mail is authorized or required by the laws of the state, certified mail, with return receipt requested, may be used.
AK Stat § 01.10.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 1. General Provisions|Chapter 10. Laws and Statutes|Article 3. Effect and Effective Date of Statutes.|Sec. 01.10.080. Computation of time.

The time in which an act provided by law is required to be done is computed by excluding the first day and including the last, unless the last day is a holiday, and then it is also excluded.