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AK Stat § 03.09.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 09. Board of Agriculture and Conservation|Sec. 03.09.020. Director of agriculture and staff.

(a) The director of the division of the department with responsibility for agriculture shall serve as the director of the Board of Agriculture and Conservation. The director may employ staff and, as directed by the board, is responsible for the daily operations of the agricultural revolving loan fund (AS 03.10.040). (b) The director of agriculture shall be appointed to the partially exempt service by the commissioner from a list of two or more candidates submitted by the board. The commissioner may reject all candidates, in which case the board shall submit a new list. The director may be removed by the commissioner at any time, and the office shall remain vacant until a new director is appointed under this subsection.
AK Stat § 03.09.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 09. Board of Agriculture and Conservation|Sec. 03.09.030. Quorum.

Five members of the Board of Agriculture and Conservation constitute a quorum for the transaction of business or the exercise of a power or function at a meeting of the board.
AK Stat § 03.09.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 09. Board of Agriculture and Conservation|Sec. 03.09.040. Regulations.

(a) The Board of Agriculture and Conservation may adopt regulations under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) to carry out its duties. (b) The board may, by regulation, classify loan and marketing information and make some classes of loan or marketing information confidential.
AK Stat § 03.09.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 09. Board of Agriculture and Conservation|Sec. 03.09.050. Agricultural land.

The Board of Agriculture and Conservation may recommend to the commissioner that land in the land disposal bank established under AS 38.04.020 be classified as suitable for agriculture. The board may identify state land for agricultural disposal and request the commissioner to provide for the survey and disposal of the land.
AK Stat § 03.10.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 10. Alaska Agricultural Loan Act|Sec. 03.10.010. Declaration of policy.

It is the policy of this chapter to promote the more rapid development of agriculture as an industry throughout the state by means of long-term low-interest loans.
AK Stat § 03.10.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 10. Alaska Agricultural Loan Act|Sec. 03.10.020. Powers of the board.

(a) The Board of Agriculture and Conservation (AS 03.09.010) may (1) make a loan to (A) an individual resident farmer, homesteader, or a partnership or corporation composed of farmers and homesteaders for (i) clearing land for agricultural purposes; (ii) development of farms; (iii) storage and processing of farm produce; or (iv) the purchase of livestock or machinery; (B) an individual state resident, or a partnership or corporation for (i) storage and processing plants for agricultural products; (ii) the commercial production or processing of horticultural products in the state; (iii) the commercial production or processing of animal feed in the state; or (iv) the raising or care of animals in the state for the purpose of marketing their fur; (2) designate agents and delegate its powers to them as necessary; (3) adopt regulations necessary to carry out its functions, including regulations to establish reasonable fees for services provided and charges for collecting the fees; (4) establish amortization plans for repayment of loans, which may include delayed payments of principal and interest for not to exceed five years; (5) enter into agreements with private lending institutions, other state agencies, or agencies of the federal government to carry out the purposes of this chapter; (6) collect the fees and collection charges established under this subsection. (b) In this section, “horticultural products” means vegetables, fruit plants, grass seed, sod, tree seedlings, ornamental plants, foliage, or flowering plants, grown in a greenhouse or nursery.
AK Stat § 03.10.033 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 10. Alaska Agricultural Loan Act|Sec. 03.10.033. Restructuring of agricultural debt.

(a) To increase the return to the state, the Board of Agriculture and Conservation may restructure loans (1) in existence on January 1, 1987, made by the former Agricultural Revolving Loan Fund Board or by the former Alaska Agricultural Action Council based upon guidelines approved by the Board of Agriculture and Conservation; (2) of a borrower in an area that has been declared a farm disaster area under AS 03.10.058; or (3) of a borrower who has experienced an agricultural disaster based upon regulations adopted by the Board of Agriculture and Conservation. Notwithstanding any other provision of law that relates to loan terms, the restructuring may only include reduction of interest to a fixed rate not less than five percent a year, an extension of the term of the loan, and an improvement to the security interest of the state. It may not reduce the amount of principal and interest owed before the loan is restructured. (b) The maximum term of a loan modified under (a) of this section is 30 years from the date of restructuring. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the Board of Agriculture and Conservation may approve an application for restructuring under this section only upon (1) the applicant's written release of the state, including the University of Alaska, from all potential liability for actions and omissions occurring before the date of restructuring that relate in any way to a state farm project, land sale, land sale relinquishment, farm loan, or loan application or loan modification application, whether granted or denied by the state; and (2) assignment by the applicant to the board of the proceeds from the federal government under 7 U.S.C. 1442 (Conservation Reserve Program) and P.L. 88-26 (Feed Grain Act of 1963), as amended. (d) If the board receives proceeds under (c)(2) of this section that exceed the amount owed and credited to the loan during the year, the board shall refund the extra proceeds to the applicant.
AK Stat § 03.10.035 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 10. Alaska Agricultural Loan Act|Sec. 03.10.035. Use or disposal of mortgaged farm land.

(a) A borrower may not use farm land for a nonfarm use or sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of farm land if that land is encumbered by a mortgage given to secure the payment of a loan under this chapter unless the borrower either (1) pays the outstanding balance of the loan in a lump sum or under other terms agreed to by the Board of Agriculture and Conservation that accelerate payment of the loan; or (2) pays the outstanding principal balance for the remaining term of the loan at the prevailing rate of interest that is charged by commercial banks in the state during the calendar quarter in which the board receives notice of the change of use, sale, lease, or other disposal of the farm land. (b) In this section, “nonfarm use” means a use of land other than for the production of domesticated plants and animals useful to humans, including forage and sod crops, grain and feed crops, fruits, vegetables, and livestock.
AK Stat § 03.10.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 10. Alaska Agricultural Loan Act|Sec. 03.10.040. Agricultural revolving loan fund.

(a) There is an agricultural revolving loan fund which may not exceed $75,000,000 to carry out the purpose of this chapter. (b) Money in the fund may be used by the legislature to make appropriations for costs of administering this chapter and for operations of the Board of Agriculture and Conservation.
AK Stat § 03.10.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 10. Alaska Agricultural Loan Act|Sec. 03.10.050. Administration of fund; Board of Agriculture and Conservation.

(a) The Board of Agriculture and Conservation shall administer the agricultural revolving loan fund. A loan may not be made without the approval of a majority of the board, except that emergency loans based upon regulations adopted by the board and not to exceed $50,000 may be made upon the approval, by majority vote, of a committee composed of the chair of the board, another board member, and the director of the board. (b) The board is composed of seven members appointed by the governor and confirmed by the legislature in joint session. Members shall have the following qualifications: (1) one member shall have general business or financial experience; (2) one member shall be a member of a statewide agriculture promotion organization; (3) one member shall be a member of a soil and water conservation district established under AS 41.10.130(a) who is also engaged in commercial production agriculture; (4) four members shall be engaged in commercial production agriculture; each shall represent a different agriculture enterprise from the others, such as livestock production, dairy, vegetable production, grain production, horticultural production, and greenhouse and hydroponic production. (c) A meeting of the board to act on applications for loans is exempt from the public meeting requirements of AS 44.62.310. (d) [Repealed, § 30 ch 81 SLA 2000.] (e) To encourage the prompt payment of loans, the board may establish a program of credits for persons who have a loan from the agricultural revolving loan fund and maintain good financial standing. The credits may be applied against no more than two percentage points a year of the interest due on agricultural revolving loan fund loans. (f) A credit may not be granted under (e) of this section to reduce interest due on a loan if the borrower has an agricultural loan in default, has a loan that has been rewritten, restructured, rolled over, or otherwise had its term extended or interest rate reduced, or has had a land payment or land clearing loan restructured. (g) The board may dispose of property acquired by the agricultural revolving loan fund through foreclosure, default, or other action arising out of agricultural loans or the sale of agricultural land. Disposals shall be conducted under regulations approved by the commissioner. The regulations must ensure that the property is disposed of so as to maximize the return to the state and must require that the parcels of land that are composed primarily of cropland soils be restricted to agricultural uses and disposed of only to persons who are residents of the state.
AK Stat § 03.10.058 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 10. Alaska Agricultural Loan Act|Sec. 03.10.058. Farm disaster area.

The governor may declare a farm disaster in an area of the state if a natural disaster causes a crop failure.
AK Stat § 03.10.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 10. Alaska Agricultural Loan Act|Sec. 03.10.060. Short title.

This chapter may be cited as the Alaska Agricultural Loan Act.
AK Stat § 03.13.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 13. Federal Crop Insurance Contributions|Sec. 03.13.010. Agreement with Federal Crop Insurance Corporation.

The department shall enter into an agreement with the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation under which the department agrees to pay to the corporation a portion of federal crop insurance premiums paid by producers of agricultural commodities in this state. The agreement must provide for a corresponding reduction in the federal crop insurance premium paid by those producers.
AK Stat § 03.13.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 13. Federal Crop Insurance Contributions|Sec. 03.13.020. Amount of contributions.

Under the agreement, the department shall pay to the corporation for each covered producer an amount equal to the amount that the corporation pays for that producer under 7 U.S.C. 1508(b)(3) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 - 1520), except as provided otherwise in this chapter.
AK Stat § 03.13.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 13. Federal Crop Insurance Contributions|Sec. 03.13.030. Limitation.

Thirty percent of each producer's premium, as calculated by the corporation, on coverage of up to 65 percent of the recorded or appraised average yield, as adjusted, shall be paid by the state.
AK Stat § 03.13.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 13. Federal Crop Insurance Contributions|Sec. 03.13.040. Appropriations.

(a) The payments to the corporation shall be made from funds appropriated from the general fund to the department for that purpose. (b) If for any year the amount appropriated is insufficient to fully fund the contribution required by AS 03.13.020, the department shall allocate funds on a first come basis.
AK Stat § 03.13.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 13. Federal Crop Insurance Contributions|Sec. 03.13.050. Definitions.

In this chapter, “corporation” means the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (7 U.S.C. 1503).
AK Stat § 03.22.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 22. Plant Materials Center|Sec. 03.22.010. Establishment of plant materials center.

The Department of Natural Resources, in cooperation with the college or department of the University of Alaska responsible for the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, shall establish and maintain a plant materials center.
AK Stat § 03.22.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 22. Plant Materials Center|Sec. 03.22.020. Purpose of center.

The objectives of the plant materials center, in cooperation with the college or department of the University of Alaska responsible for the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, are to (1) assemble, evaluate, select, and increase plant materials needed in soil and water conservation, agriculture, and industry, and maintain genetic purity of these materials; (2) increase promising plant materials for field scale testing; (3) test the promising materials in field plantings on sites that represent soil and climatic conditions not found at the center; (4) maintain and provide for increase of basic seed stocks of plant materials for agricultural and conservation interests; (5) make seed and plant materials available, for a fee if necessary, in such a manner as to avoid monopolistic control of basic stocks of these materials and encourage the development of a seed industry, noncommercial transfer of seed, and community seed libraries established under AS 03.20.120; (6) support but not duplicate activities carried on by state or federally funded research programs in the state; (7) prepare, publish, and disseminate a summary report on all studies as they are completed.
AK Stat § 03.22.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 22. Plant Materials Center|Sec. 03.22.030. Center site, buildings, and equipment.

The department shall obtain a site, either by donation, lease, or purchase, and erect suitable buildings on the site, if they are needed for the use of the plant materials center. The department shall also acquire the agricultural land, scientific instruments, and equipment necessary to carry on the work of the center. Acquisition of scientific instruments and equipment under this section is governed by AS 36.30 (State Procurement Code).
AK Stat § 03.22.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 22. Plant Materials Center|Sec. 03.22.040. Personnel.

The department shall ensure that competent professional, secretarial, and subprofessional personnel necessary to carry on the work of the center are employed. The administrator of the plant materials center is a joint appointment between the Department of Natural Resources and the college or department of the University of Alaska responsible for the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station.
AK Stat § 03.22.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 22. Plant Materials Center|Sec. 03.22.050. Department to cooperate.

The department shall cooperate with the college or department of the University of Alaska responsible for the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station and the United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, by a formal memorandum of understanding and may cooperate with any department or agency of federal, state, or local government, research organization, or other organization concerned with conservation or agriculture.
AK Stat § 03.22.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 22. Plant Materials Center|Sec. 03.22.060. Reports.

The department shall annually prepare a detailed report of the operation of the center and notify the legislature that the report is available. The report must include a statement of all receipts and disbursements.
AK Stat § 03.22.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 22. Plant Materials Center|Sec. 03.22.070. Acceptance of assistance.

The department may request, accept, and receive from federal, state, and nongovernment sources financial and other aid and assistance, including personnel and equipment, for the construction, equipment, maintenance, and operation of the center.
AK Stat § 03.22.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 22. Plant Materials Center|Sec. 03.22.080. Payments and vouchers.

Appropriations made by the state for the construction, maintenance, and operation of the center shall be expended upon vouchers approved by the department in the manner prescribed by it.
AK Stat § 03.30.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 30. Fences|Sec. 03.30.020. Duty to keep barbed wire fences in repair.

A person having a barbed wire fence shall keep it in good repair. When a domesticated animal is killed or injured by coming in contact with a barbed wire fence that is not at the time of injury kept in substantial compliance with this section and AS 03.30.030, the owner of the animal may recover from the owner of the fence a sum equal to the amount of damages sustained in the killing or injury to the animal.
AK Stat § 03.30.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 30. Fences|Sec. 03.30.030. Fence as nuisance.

Any wire fence so dilapidated as to be of no practical use as a fence that is a menace to livestock is a public nuisance and may be abated by a court in a proceeding instituted for that purpose.
AK Stat § 03.30.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 30. Fences|Sec. 03.30.060. Failure to close roadside gate used for retaining livestock.

A person failing to close a roadside gate after opening the same is presumed to be negligent and liable for all consequent damage upon proof thereof. For the purposes of this section, a roadside gate is a contrivance located alongside or near a public or private road made for the purpose of passing through a fence that is used for or intended to be used for the retention of livestock.
AK Stat § 03.35.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 35. Controlled Livestock Districts|Sec. 03.35.010. Establishment of controlled livestock districts; prohibition against animals at large.

(a) A district judge may establish a controlled livestock district within a municipality or in other settled areas of the state, as provided in this chapter, to consist of a contiguous area of not less than 1,280 acres. (b) The owner and the person having custody and control of a domestic animal kept within a controlled livestock district may not with criminal negligence permit the domestic animal to graze or run at large. (c) Violation of (b) of this section is a class B misdemeanor.
AK Stat § 03.35.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 35. Controlled Livestock Districts|Sec. 03.35.020. Petition for establishment, addition, elimination, or dissolution.

(a) A controlled livestock district may be established upon petition of not less than 60 percent of the resident owners and lessees of the land within the area to be included in the district who own or lease 30 percent of the land described in the petition. The petition must contain a statement of its purpose, define the boundaries of the area to be included within the district, be signed by the required resident owners and lessees within the area described, and be filed with the district judge for the district within which the land is situated. (b) An addition to an established controlled livestock district may be made under the same procedures set out for creating the district if the addition has at least 160 acres and is contiguous to the established district. (c) A portion of a controlled livestock district may be eliminated or a district may be dissolved if 60 percent of the resident owners and lessees of the land within the district who own or lease 30 percent of the land within the district petition for the elimination or dissolution under the procedure set out in this section for the establishment of a controlled livestock district.
AK Stat § 03.35.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 35. Controlled Livestock Districts|Sec. 03.35.030. Notice, hearing, and order.

Upon receipt of a petition for the establishment, addition, elimination, or dissolution of a controlled livestock district, the district judge shall set a time for hearing the petition not less than 30 days after its receipt. Notice of the time and place of the hearing and its purpose shall be posted in not fewer than three conspicuous public places within the proposed district for a period of at least 30 days before the hearing. If, at the hearing, the district judge finds that the petition meets the requirements established under AS 03.35.020 and that notice of the hearing has been given, the district judge shall enter an order granting the request contained within the petition. The boundaries of the district are those proposed within the petition. The district judge shall certify to the clerk of the superior court for the judicial district a copy of the findings and order. The district judge shall send a copy of the order to the commissioner.
AK Stat § 03.35.035 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 35. Controlled Livestock Districts|Sec. 03.35.035. Identification of domestic animals within controlled livestock district.

(a) Within 60 days of the establishment of a controlled livestock district or of the addition to an established controlled livestock district under AS 03.35.010, the person having custody and control of domestic animals located within the district shall identify the animals under AS 03.40, use identification collars to indicate ownership, or otherwise use a reliable system for the identification of the ownership of the animal. (b) A person who violates (a) of this section commits a violation.
AK Stat § 03.35.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food|Chapter 35. Controlled Livestock Districts|Sec. 03.35.040. Liability for damages; lien.

(a) The owner of land within a controlled livestock district, whether the land is fenced or unfenced, is entitled to recover, from the owner or person having custody and control of a domestic animal, for any injury done by the animal when grazing or running at large within a controlled livestock district contrary to the provisions of this chapter, and has a lien upon the domestic animal for the amount of the damage done. (b) A claim for damages may not exceed $500 against any one animal for any one trespass.