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AK Stat § 30.13.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 13. Regional Resource Development Authorities|Sec. 30.13.070. Trust indentures and trust agreements.

In the discretion of the authority, an issue of bonds may be secured by a trust indenture or trust agreement between the authority and a corporate trustee, that may be a trust company, bank, or national banking association, with corporate trust powers, located inside or outside the state, or by a secured loan agreement or other instrument or under a resolution giving powers to a corporate trustee, after this in this section referred to as “trust agreement”, by means of which the authority may (1) make and enter into the covenants and agreements with the trustee or the holders of the bonds that the authority determines necessary or desirable, including, without limitation, covenants, provisions, limitations, and agreements as to (A) the application, investment, deposit, use, and disposition of the proceeds of the bonds of the authority or of money or other property of the authority or in which it has an interest; (B) the fixing and collection of rents or other consideration for, and the other terms to be incorporated in an agreement with respect to a project; (C) the assignment by the authority of its rights in a mortgage or other security interest created with respect to a project to a trustee for benefit of bondholders; (D) the terms and conditions upon which additional bonds of the authority may be issued; (E) the vesting in a trustee of rights, powers, duties, funds, or property in trust for the benefit of bondholders, including, without limitation, the right to enforce payment, performance, and all other rights of the authority or of the bondholders, under a lease, contract of sale, mortgage, security agreement, or trust agreement with respect to a project by mandamus or other proceeding or by taking possession of by agent or otherwise and operating a project and collecting rents or other consideration and applying the same in accordance with the trust agreement; (2) pledge, mortgage, or assign money, leases, agreements, property, or other assets of the authority either presently in hand or to be received in the future, or both; and (3) provide for any other matters that in any way affect the security or protection of the bonds.
AK Stat § 30.13.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 13. Regional Resource Development Authorities|Sec. 30.13.080. Validity of pledge.

It is the intention of the legislature that a pledge made in respect of bonds is perfected and valid and binding from the time the pledge is made; that the money or property so pledged and thereafter received by an authority is immediately subject to the lien of the pledge without physical delivery or further act; and that the lien of the pledge is valid and binding against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise against the authority whether or not the parties have notice. Neither the resolution, trust agreement, nor any other instrument by which a pledge is created need be recorded or filed under the provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code to be perfected or to be valid, binding, or effective against the parties. This section does not affect title to or conveyances of real property, and does not limit the applicability of AS 40.17.080.
AK Stat § 30.13.090 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 13. Regional Resource Development Authorities|Sec. 30.13.090. Nonliability on bonds.

(a) Neither the members of an authority nor a person executing the bonds are liable personally on the bonds or are subject to personal liability or accountability by reason of the issuance of the bonds. (b) The bonds issued by an authority do not constitute an indebtedness or other liability of the state or of a political subdivision of the state, but shall be payable solely from the income and receipts or other funds or property of the authority. The authority may not pledge the faith or credit of the state or of a political subdivision of the state, except the authority, to the payment of a bond, and the issuance of a bond by the authority does not directly or indirectly or contingently obligate the state or a political subdivision of the state to apply money from, levy or pledge any form of taxation to the payment of the bond. (c) An authority issuing bonds shall print the language in (b) of this section in substantial form on the face of the bonds and in any offering circular or statement issued in connection with the bonds.
AK Stat § 30.13.100 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 13. Regional Resource Development Authorities|Sec. 30.13.100. Pledge of the state.

The state pledges to and agrees with the holders of bonds issued under this chapter and with the federal agency which loans or contributes funds in respect to a project, that the state will not limit or alter the rights and powers vested in an authority by this chapter to fulfill the terms of a contract made by the authority with the holders or federal agency, or in any way impair the rights and remedies of the holders until the bonds, together with the interest on them with interest on unpaid installments of interest, and all costs and expenses in connection with an action or proceeding by or on behalf of the holders, are fully met and discharged. The authority is authorized to include this pledge and agreement of the state, insofar as it refers to holders of bonds of the authority, in a contract with the holders, and insofar as it relates to a federal agency, in a contract with the federal agency.
AK Stat § 30.13.110 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 13. Regional Resource Development Authorities|Sec. 30.13.110. Exemption from taxation.

The real and personal property of an authority and its assets, income, and receipts are declared to be the property of a political subdivision of the state and, together with any project financed under this chapter, are exempt from all taxes and special assessments of the state or a political subdivision of the state. All bonds of an authority are declared to be issued by a political subdivision of the state and for an essential public and governmental purpose and to be a public instrumentality, and the bonds, and the interest on them, the income from them and the transfer of the bonds, and all assets, income, and receipts pledged to pay or secure the payment of the bonds, or interest on them, shall at all times be exempt from taxation by or under the authority of the state, except for inheritance and estate taxes and taxes on transfers by or in contemplation of death. Nothing in this section affects or limits an exemption from license fees, property taxes, or excise, income, or other taxes, provided under any other law, nor does it create a tax exemption with respect to the interest of any business enterprise or other person, other than the authority, in any property, assets, income, receipts, project, or lease whether or not financed under this chapter.
AK Stat § 30.13.120 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 13. Regional Resource Development Authorities|Sec. 30.13.120. Bonds as legal investments for fiduciaries.

The bonds of an authority are securities in which all public officers and bodies of the state and all municipalities and municipal subdivisions, all insurance companies and associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks, savings associations, including without limitation savings and loan associations and building and loan associations, investment companies and other persons carrying on banking business, all administrators, guardians, executors, trustees and other fiduciaries, and all other persons who are now or may afterward be authorized to invest in bonds or other obligations of the state may properly and legally invest money including capital in their control or belonging to them. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the bonds of an authority are also securities that may be deposited with and may be received by all public officers and bodies of the state and all municipalities and municipal subdivisions for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or other obligations of the state is now or may afterward be authorized.
AK Stat § 30.13.125 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 13. Regional Resource Development Authorities|Sec. 30.13.125. Audit.

The legislative auditor shall audit or shall cause to have audited annually the financial records of an authority. The legislative auditor may prescribe the form and content of the financial records of an authority and shall have access to these records at any reasonable time.
AK Stat § 30.13.130 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 13. Regional Resource Development Authorities|Sec. 30.13.130. Equal use and access.

If an authority owns, leases, or otherwise operates or controls, or participates in the financing of, a facility, the authority shall, to the maximum extent possible, provide for equal rights of access to and use of the facility by members of the public and other persons or entities upon terms and conditions that are fair and reasonable. However, this section does not prevent an authority from establishing fair and reasonable limitations on use of or access to a facility to the extent the limitations are necessary in connection with the nature of the facility or the demand for use of or access to the facility. This section applies to the establishment of rates and rate structures as well as all other factors, terms, and conditions relating to the use of or access to the facility, including without limitation the design and location of the facility. The members of the authority shall make a written finding concerning compliance of the facility with the provisions of this section. A written finding signed by at least three of the five elected members and two of the three appointed members that the facility complies with the provisions of this section shall constitute a conclusive presumption of compliance.
AK Stat § 30.13.150 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 13. Regional Resource Development Authorities|Sec. 30.13.150. Succession.

Whenever a borough of the first or second class or a home rule municipality is created with an area coterminous with or inclusive of the area of an authority, the authority shall be integrated into the borough or home rule municipality within one year of incorporation. On integration the borough or home rule municipality succeeds to all the rights, powers, duties, assets, and liabilities of the authority, except that any indebtedness of an authority does not constitute a general obligation of the borough or home rule municipality payable from taxes levied by the borough or home rule municipality. The borough or home rule municipality may not levy any taxes to pay the indebtedness.
AK Stat § 30.13.900 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 13. Regional Resource Development Authorities|Sec. 30.13.900. Definitions.

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, (1) “authority” means a public body created under AS 30.13.010; (2) “bonds” means bonds or other obligations issued under this chapter; (3) “cost” includes the cost of acquisition or construction of all or any part of transportation facilities and of all or any property, rights, easements, and franchises considered by an authority to be necessary, useful, or convenient, including without limitation reimbursements to the authority or any other person of money expended for the purposes of the authority and interest or discount on bonds to finance those expenses, engineering and inspection costs and legal expenses, the cost of financial, professional, and other advice, and the cost of issuance of bonds; (4) “district” means the area within the boundaries of an authority; (5) “person” includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, society, state or agency or subdivision of the state, municipality of the state, or an authority, as well as a natural person; (6) “transportation facilities”, or “facilities”, or “projects” means harbor, port, shipping and transportation facilities of all kinds, including harbors, channels, turning basins, anchorage areas, jetties, breakwaters, waterways, canals, locks, tidal basins, wharves, docks, piers, slips, bulkheads, public landings, warehouses, terminals, refrigerating and cold storage plants, rolling stock, car ferries, tugs, boats, conveyors, tunnels, bridges, highways, roads and railroads, and appliances of all kinds for the handling, storage, inspection, and transportation of freight and natural resource products; it also includes all property, rights, easements, and franchises relative to a facility and necessary or convenient for the acquisition, construction, or operation of the facility, but does not include airport facilities.
AK Stat § 30.15.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 15. State Participation in Port Facilities and Development|Sec. 30.15.010. State grants for port facilities construction.

To the extent funds are appropriated by the legislature, or from the proceeds from the sale of bonds, the state may make grants to municipalities to finance a portion of the cost of constructing local, regional, or state port facilities. The state shall participate only in those projects approved by the governor on recommendation of the commissioner.
AK Stat § 30.15.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 15. State Participation in Port Facilities and Development|Sec. 30.15.020. Criteria for establishing eligibility.

(a) Before a grant may be awarded under this chapter, the commissioner shall determine that (1) the grant is for a feasible project; (2) the project is endorsed by resolution of the governing body of the sponsoring municipality on its own behalf, or on behalf of a service area in an organized borough if a service area is established to finance and construct port facilities and operate and maintain them once constructed; and (3) the municipality can clearly demonstrate its ability to finance the local share of project costs. (b) A grant may not be awarded under this chapter for a port facility development project until a study of its feasibility is conducted and submitted with the application for the grant. The project also must be justifiable on the basis of public convenience and necessity. The study shall be conducted by consultants, engineers, or other technical experts, who may be officers or employees of the municipality in making application for a grant.
AK Stat § 30.15.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 15. State Participation in Port Facilities and Development|Sec. 30.15.030. Limitation on grants.

Grants for the development of port facilities may not exceed (1) 90 percent of project costs for municipalities under 5,000 population; (2) 80 percent of project costs for municipalities 5,000 population and over.
AK Stat § 30.15.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 15. State Participation in Port Facilities and Development|Sec. 30.15.040. Disposition of state land for port facilities development projects.

The division of lands in the Department of Natural Resources, subject to the applicable provisions of AS 38.05 and AS 38.10, may convey title or other interests in state land, provide for the exchange of state land, or make other arrangements with respect to state land that may be necessary to complete a project for which a state grant is approved under this chapter.
AK Stat § 30.15.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 15. State Participation in Port Facilities and Development|Sec. 30.15.050. Combined port and ferry terminal facilities.

A grant may be awarded under this chapter for a port facilities development project that includes, or combines, state ferry terminal facilities as a part of the project. However, the state shall pay the proportionate project costs attributable to the ferry terminal including but not limited to vehicle staging areas, transfer spans and aprons, passenger terminal facilities and offices, docks and other docking facilities for ferry vessels.
AK Stat § 30.15.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 15. State Participation in Port Facilities and Development|Sec. 30.15.060. Regulations.

The commissioner shall adopt regulations under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) that the commissioner considers necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
AK Stat § 30.15.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 15. State Participation in Port Facilities and Development|Sec. 30.15.070. Definitions.

In this chapter, (1) “commissioner” means the commissioner of transportation and public facilities; (2) “port facilities” means docks, wharves, bulkheads, seawalls, landfills, warehouses, staging areas, transfer spans and aprons, lifting equipment and similar structures together with the necessary equipment and facilities required to accommodate waterborne commerce and shipping, including but not limited to combined port and ferry terminal facilities; (3) “project costs” means the cost of financing or borrowing, site acquisition and rights-of-way, planning, engineering and designing, construction, equipment acquisition and installation, but does not include the cost of operation or maintenance of the port facilities once constructed or the cost of feasibility studies required in making application for a grant under this chapter.
AK Stat § 30.15.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 15. State Participation in Port Facilities and Development|Sec. 30.15.080. Short title.

This chapter may be cited as the Port Facilities Development Act.
AK Stat § 30.50.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 50. Miscellaneous Provisions|Sec. 30.50.010. Interfering with buoys and beacons.

A person who moors a vessel, boat, skiff, barge, scow, raft, or part of a raft to a buoy or beacon placed in the navigable waters of the state, or in a bay, river, or arm of the sea bordering the state by the authority of the United States Coast Guard, or who hangs on with a vessel, boat, skiff, barge, scow, raft, or part of a raft to the buoy or beacon, or who wilfully removes, damages, or destroys the buoy or beacon, or who cuts down, removes, damages, or destroys a beacon erected on land in the state by authority of the United States Coast Guard is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction is punishable by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $200, or by imprisonment in a jail for not less than one month nor more than six months, or by both.
AK Stat § 30.50.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities|Chapter 50. Miscellaneous Provisions|Sec. 30.50.020. Discharging ballast into navigable waters.

A person, whether or not an officer of a vessel, who discharges the ballast of a vessel into the navigable portion or channel of a bay, harbor, or river of the state, or within the jurisdiction of the state, so as to injuriously affect the navigable portion or channel, or to obstruct the navigation of the navigable portion or channel, upon conviction, is punishable by imprisonment in a jail for not less than three months nor more than one year, or by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500.
AK Stat § 31.15.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 31. Oil and Gas|Chapter 15. Common Purchasers of Oil|Sec. 31.15.010. Hearing on question of discrimination.

(a) Upon the complaint of a person having an interest in the production of oil from a field, the commission shall hold a hearing or hearings, or, at the commission's own discretion, the commission may hold a hearing or hearings to determine if there has been unjust and unreasonable discrimination in purchases of oil offered for purchase within the state, (1) in favor of one or more owners of oil produced as against another owner in the same field; or (2) in favor of one or more fields in reasonably close proximity to each other. (b) In determining whether there has been unjust and unreasonable discrimination in favor of one or more owners of oil produced from a field, the commission shall consider the kind and quality of the oil, the sales prices of the oil, and other related matters. (c) In determining whether there has been unjust and unreasonable discrimination in favor of one or more fields in reasonably close proximity to each other, the commission shall consider the kind and quality of the oil, the sales prices of the oil, the size and location of the fields, the maximum efficient rate of production from the pools, the cost and mode of transporting the oil from the fields, the term of the offerings, and other related matters.
AK Stat § 31.15.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 31. Oil and Gas|Chapter 15. Common Purchasers of Oil|Sec. 31.15.020. Determination of common purchaser.

(a) Where a purchaser is purchasing from a field and the commission finds that the purchaser has unjustly and unreasonably discriminated in purchases with regard to oil offered for sale in favor of one or more owners of oil produced in the field, the commission shall order the purchaser to be a common purchaser with respect to oil offered for sale from the field. (b) Where a purchaser is purchasing from fields in reasonably close proximity to each other and the commission finds that the purchaser has unjustly and unreasonably discriminated in purchases with regard to oil offered for sale in favor of one or more of the fields, the commission shall order the purchaser to be a common purchaser with respect to oil offered for sale from each field involved. (c) A purchaser cannot be ordered to be a common purchaser on the basis of purchases of oil taken in kind by the United States or the State of Alaska, or on the basis of the payment of royalties, overriding royalties, net profits, carried interests or similar interests, whether in kind or in value or on the basis of a producer taking its own production.