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AK Stat § 22.25.800 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 22. Judiciary|Chapter 25. Retirement and Death Benefits|Sec. 22.25.800. Pension forfeiture.

The provisions of AS 37.10.310 apply to pension benefits under this chapter.
AK Stat § 22.25.900 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 22. Judiciary|Chapter 25. Retirement and Death Benefits|Sec. 22.25.900. Definitions.

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, (1) “actuarial equivalent” means the adjustment necessary to obtain equality in value of the aggregate expected payments under two different forms of pension payments, considering expected mortality and interest earnings on the basis of assumptions, factors, and methods specified in regulations issued under the system that are formally adopted by the Alaska Retirement Management Board that clearly preclude employer discretion in the determination of the amount of any justice's, judge's, or member's benefit; (2) “judge” means a judge of the court of appeals, a superior court judge, or a district court judge; (3) “justice” means a supreme court justice; (4) “member” means an administrative director of the Alaska Court System who is eligible to participate in the system, a justice, or a judge; (5) “qualified domestic relations order” means a divorce or dissolution judgment under AS 25.24, including an order approving a property settlement, that (A) creates or recognizes the existence of an alternate payee's right to, or assigns to an alternate payee the right to, receive all or a portion of the member contributions and interest or benefits payable with respect to a justice or judge; (B) sets out the name and last known mailing address, if any, of the justice or judge and of each alternate payee covered by the order; (C) sets out the amount or percentage of the justice's or judge's benefit, or of any survivor's benefit, to be paid to the alternate payee, or sets out the manner in which that amount or percentage is to be determined; (D) sets out the number of payments or period to which the order applies; (E) sets out the plan to which the order applies; (F) does not require any type or form of benefit or any option not otherwise provided by this chapter; (G) does not require an increase of benefits in excess of the amount provided by this chapter, determined on the basis of actuarial value; (H) does not require the payment, to an alternate payee, of benefits that are required to be paid to another alternate payee under another order previously determined to be a qualified domestic relations order.
AK Stat § 22.30.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 22. Judiciary|Chapter 30. Judicial Conduct|Sec. 22.30.010. Commission on Judicial Conduct.

The Commission on Judicial Conduct shall consist of nine members as follows: three persons who are justices or judges of state courts, elected by the justices and judges of the state courts; three members who have practiced law in this state for 10 years, appointed by the governor from nominations made by the governing body of the organized bar and subject to confirmation by a majority of the members of the legislature in joint session; and three citizens who are not judges, retired judges, or members of the state bar, appointed by the governor and subject to confirmation by a majority of the members of the legislature in joint session. Commission membership terminates if a member ceases to hold the position that qualified that person for appointment. A person may not serve on the commission and on the judicial council simultaneously. A quorum of the commission must include at least one person who is a justice or judge, at least one person appointed by the governor who has practiced law in the state for 10 years, and at least one citizen member who is not a justice, judge, or member of the state bar. The commission shall elect one of its members to serve as chairman for a term prescribed by the commission. A vacancy shall be filled by the appointing power for the remainder of the term.
AK Stat § 22.30.011 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 22. Judiciary|Chapter 30. Judicial Conduct|Sec. 22.30.011. Powers and duties of the commission.

(a) The commission shall on its own motion or on receipt of a written complaint inquire into an allegation that a judge (1) has been convicted of a crime punishable as a felony under state or federal law or convicted of a crime that involves moral turpitude under state or federal law; (2) suffers from a disability that seriously interferes with the performance of judicial duties and that is or may become permanent; (3) within a period of not more than six years before the filing of the complaint or before the beginning of the commission's inquiry based on its own motion, committed an act or acts that constitute (A) wilful misconduct in office; (B) wilful and persistent failure to perform judicial duties; (C) conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice; (D) conduct that brings the judicial office into disrepute; or (E) conduct in violation of the code of judicial conduct; or (4) is habitually intemperate. (b) After preliminary informal consideration of an allegation, the commission may exonerate the judge, informally and privately admonish the judge, or recommend counseling. Upon a finding of probable cause, the commission shall hold a formal hearing on the allegation. A hearing under this subsection is public. Proceedings and records pertaining to proceedings that occur before the commission holds a public hearing on an allegation are confidential, subject to the provisions of AS 22.30.060(b). (c) A judge appearing before the commission at the hearing is entitled to counsel, may present evidence, and may cross-examine witnesses. (d) The commission shall, after a hearing held under (b) of this section, (1) exonerate the judge of the charges; or (2) refer the matter to the supreme court with a recommendation that the judge be reprimanded, suspended, removed, or retired from office or publicly or privately censured by the supreme court. (e) [Repealed, § 3 ch 135 SLA 1990.]  (f) [Repealed, § 3 ch 135 SLA 1990.]  (g) If the commission exonerates a judge, a copy of the proceedings and report of the commission may be made public on the request of the judge. (h) If a judge has been publicly reprimanded, suspended, or publicly censured under this section and the judge has filed a declaration of candidacy for retention in office, the commission shall report to the judicial council for inclusion in the statement filed by the judicial council under AS 15.58.050 each public reprimand, suspension, or public censure received by the judge (1) since appointment; or (2) if the judge has been retained by election, since the last retention election of the judge.
AK Stat § 22.30.015 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 22. Judiciary|Chapter 30. Judicial Conduct|Sec. 22.30.015. Term of office.

The term of office for a commission member is four years.
AK Stat § 22.30.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 22. Judiciary|Chapter 30. Judicial Conduct|Sec. 22.30.020. Employment and compensation generally.

The commission may employ officers, assistants, and other employees that it considers necessary for the performance of the duties and exercise of the powers conferred upon the commission; it may arrange for and compensate medical and other experts and reporters, may arrange for the attendance of witnesses, including witnesses not subject to subpoena, and may pay from funds available to it all expenses reasonably necessary for effectuating the purposes of § 10, art. IV, Constitution of the State of Alaska. The attorney general shall, if requested by the commission, act as its counsel generally or in any particular investigation or proceeding. The commission may employ special counsel from time to time when it considers it necessary.
AK Stat § 22.30.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 22. Judiciary|Chapter 30. Judicial Conduct|Sec. 22.30.030. Travel expenses and per diem.

Each member of the commission shall be allowed travel expenses and per diem as provided by AS 39.20.180, but may not receive compensation for services.
AK Stat § 22.30.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 22. Judiciary|Chapter 30. Judicial Conduct|Sec. 22.30.040. Preparation of budget.

The commission shall be responsible for preparing and presenting to the legislature its proposed annual budgets.
AK Stat § 22.30.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 22. Judiciary|Chapter 30. Judicial Conduct|Sec. 22.30.050. Validity of acts of the commission.

An act of the commission is not valid unless concurred in by a majority of the members serving on the commission at the time the act is taken.
AK Stat § 22.30.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 22. Judiciary|Chapter 30. Judicial Conduct|Sec. 22.30.060. Rules and confidentiality.

(a) The commission shall adopt rules implementing this chapter and providing for confidentiality of proceedings. (b) All proceedings, records, files, and reports of the commission are confidential and disclosure may not be made except (1) upon waiver in writing by the judge at any stage of the proceedings; (2) if the subject matter or the fact of the filing of charges has become public, in which case the commission may issue a statement in order to confirm the pendency of the investigation, to clarify the procedural aspects of the proceedings, to explain the right of the judge to a fair hearing, or to state that the judge denies the allegations; or (3) upon filing of formal charges, in which case only the charges, the subsequent formal hearing, and the commission's ultimate decision and minority report, if any, are public; even after formal charges are filed, the deliberations of the commission concerning the case are confidential.
AK Stat § 22.30.066 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 22. Judiciary|Chapter 30. Judicial Conduct|Sec. 22.30.066. Inquiry.

(a) The commission may subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, take the testimony of any person under oath, and require the production for examination of documents or records relating to its inquiry under AS 22.30.011. (b) In the course of an inquiry under AS 22.30.011 into judicial misconduct or the disability of a judge, the commission may request the judge to submit to a physical or mental examination. If the judge refuses to submit to the examination, the commission shall determine the issue for which the examination was required adversely to the judge.
AK Stat § 22.30.068 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 22. Judiciary|Chapter 30. Judicial Conduct|Sec. 22.30.068. Minority reports.

A member of the commission who believes that the commission failed to impose an appropriate disciplinary measure after a hearing under AS 22.30.011(b) may submit a report recommending a different disciplinary measure. The report shall accompany the majority report and may be submitted by the member to the chief justice of the supreme court, the attorney general, and the chair of the senate and house judiciary committees.
AK Stat § 22.30.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 22. Judiciary|Chapter 30. Judicial Conduct|Sec. 22.30.070. Disqualification, suspension, removal, retirement, and censure of judges.

(a) A judge is disqualified from acting as a judge, without loss of salary, while there is pending (1) an indictment or an information charging the judge in the United States with a crime punishable as a felony under Alaska or federal law, or (2) a recommendation to the supreme court by the commission for the removal or retirement of the judge. (b) On recommendation of the commission, the supreme court may reprimand, publicly or privately censure, or suspend a judge from office without salary when in the United States the judge pleads guilty or no contest or is found guilty of a crime punishable as a felony under state or federal law or of a crime that involves moral turpitude under state or federal law. If the conviction is reversed, suspension terminates, and the judge shall be paid the judge's salary for the period of suspension. If the judge is suspended and the conviction becomes final, the supreme court shall remove the judge from office. (c) On recommendation of the commission, the supreme court may (1) retire a judge for disability that seriously interferes with the performance of duties and that is or may become permanent, and (2) reprimand, publicly or privately censure, or remove a judge for action occurring not more than six years before the commencement of the judge's current term which constitutes wilful misconduct in the office, wilful and persistent failure to perform duties, habitual intemperance, conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice, or conduct that brings the judicial office into disrepute. The effective date of retirement under (1) of this subsection is the first day of the month coinciding with or after the date that the supreme court files written notice with the commissioner of administration that the judge was retired for disability. A duplicate copy of the notice shall be filed with the judicial council. (d) A judge retired by the supreme court shall be considered to have retired voluntarily. A judge removed by the supreme court is ineligible for judicial office for a period of three years. (e) A supreme court justice who has participated in proceedings involving a judge or justice of any court may not participate in an appeal involving that judge or justice in that particular matter.
AK Stat § 22.30.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 22. Judiciary|Chapter 30. Judicial Conduct|Sec. 22.30.080. Definitions.

In this chapter, (1) “commission” means the Commission on Judicial Conduct provided for in § 10, art. IV, Constitution of the State of Alaska and this chapter; (2) “judge” means a justice of the supreme court, a judge of the court of appeals, a judge of the superior court, or a judge of the district court who is the subject of an investigation or proceeding under § 10, art. IV, Constitution of the State of Alaska and this chapter, including a justice or judge who is serving in a full-time, part-time, permanent, or temporary position.
AK Stat § 22.35.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 22. Judiciary|Chapter 35. Miscellaneous Provisions|Sec. 22.35.020. Copies of records for child support purposes.

If a copy of a court record is requested by the child support services agency created in AS 25.27.010 or a child support agency of another state, the official custodian of the record shall provide the requesting agency with a copy of the record, including any social security number that the record might contain. If the requested record is maintained by the court system in an electronic data base, the record may be supplied by providing the requesting agency with a copy of the electronic record and a statement certifying its contents. A requesting agency receiving otherwise confidential information under this section may use it only for child support purposes authorized by law.
AK Stat § 22.35.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 22. Judiciary|Chapter 35. Miscellaneous Provisions|Sec. 22.35.030. Records concerning criminal cases resulting in acquittal or dismissal.

The Alaska Court System may not publish a court record of a criminal case on a publicly available website if 60 days have elapsed from the date of acquittal or dismissal and (1) the defendant was acquitted of all charges filed in the case; (2) all criminal charges against the defendant in the case have been dismissed and were not dismissed as part of a plea agreement in another criminal case under Rule 11, Alaska Rules of Criminal Procedure; (3) the defendant was acquitted of some of the criminal charges in the case and the remaining charges were dismissed; or (4) all criminal charges against the defendant in the case have been dismissed after a suspended entry of judgment under AS 12.55.078.
AK Stat § 23.25.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 25. Employer's Liability for Negligence|Sec. 23.25.010. Liability to employees for defects or insufficiency of machinery.

A person engaged in manufacturing, mining, constructing, building, or other business or occupation carried on by means of machinery or mechanical appliances is liable to an employee or, in the event of the employee's death, to the employee's personal representative for the benefit of the employee's surviving spouse and children, if any, or if none, then for the employee's parents, or, if neither surviving spouse, nor children nor parents, then for the employee's next of kin dependent upon the employee, for all damages that may result from the negligence of any of the employer's officers, agents, or employees, or by reason of defect or insufficiency due to the employer's negligence in the machinery, appliances, and works.
AK Stat § 23.25.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 25. Employer's Liability for Negligence|Sec. 23.25.020. Contributory negligence not a defense.

In an action against a master or employer under AS 23.25.010 the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence does not bar a recovery where the employee's contributory negligence was slight and the negligence of the employer was gross in comparison, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to the employee. All questions of negligence and contributory negligence are for the jury.
AK Stat § 23.25.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 25. Employer's Liability for Negligence|Sec. 23.25.030. Contract, insurance, or indemnity is not a defense.

(a) No contract of employment, insurance, relief benefit, indemnity for injury or death entered into by or on behalf of an employee, nor the acceptance of insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity by the person entitled to it constitutes a bar or defense to an action brought to recover damages for personal injuries to or death of the employee. (b) Upon trial of the action the defendant may set off the sum contributed by the employer toward the insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity paid to the employee, or in case of the employee's death to the employee's personal representative. (c) Contributions for insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity exacted from or paid by the employee may not be allowed as set off.
AK Stat § 23.25.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 25. Employer's Liability for Negligence|Sec. 23.25.040. Prerequisites to maintenance of action.

An action may not be maintained under this chapter unless (1) it is shown that there exist beneficiaries as provided in AS 23.25.010; (2) the action is brought within two years from the time the cause of action accrued.
AK Stat § 23.35.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 35. Commercial Fishermen's Fund|Sec. 23.35.010. Creation of Fishermen's Fund Advisory and Appeals Council.

There is within the Department of Labor and Workforce Development a Fishermen's Fund Advisory and Appeals Council.
AK Stat § 23.35.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 35. Commercial Fishermen's Fund|Sec. 23.35.020. Appointment and composition of council.

The council is composed of the commissioner of labor and workforce development or a person designated by the commissioner and five members appointed by the governor for overlapping five year terms. The governor shall appoint one member from each of the following districts:District 1: Wrangell and areas south;District 2: Areas north of Wrangell to include Yakutat;District 3: Areas west of Yakutat to East Coast of Alaska Peninsula, including Prince William Sound, Cook Inlet, and Kodiak;District 4: Areas west of Alaska Peninsula to Cape Newenham, including Bristol Bay;District 5: Areas north of Cape Newenham, including Kuskokwim, Yukon, Kotzebue, and the Arctic.
AK Stat § 23.35.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 35. Commercial Fishermen's Fund|Sec. 23.35.030. Commissioner or designee as chair.

The commissioner of labor and workforce development or the person designated by the commissioner serves as the chair of the council.
AK Stat § 23.35.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 35. Commercial Fishermen's Fund|Sec. 23.35.040. Duties of commissioner and council.

(a) The council shall (1) review all denials of benefits made by the person responsible for the administration of the fund; and (2) make all initial determinations regarding claims for additional benefits under AS 23.35.140. (b) Under regulations adopted by the department, the commissioner shall hear all appeals from the council's denial of benefits and denials of claims for additional benefits under AS 23.35.140. The commissioner's decision is final and may be appealed as provided under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act).
AK Stat § 23.35.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 35. Commercial Fishermen's Fund|Sec. 23.35.050. Regulations.

The department may adopt regulations to carry out the purposes of this chapter, including those that are necessary or advisable to protect the fund by limiting or suspending payments from the fund. The regulations must be uniform in application.
AK Stat § 23.35.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 35. Commercial Fishermen's Fund|Sec. 23.35.060. Creation and administration of fishermen's fund.

(a) There is created a fund, designated as the “fishermen's fund.” The Department of Revenue is the custodian of the fund, and the Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall administer it. The fund shall be composed of (1) 39 percent of the money derived by the state from all commercial fishermen's licenses, not to exceed a maximum of $50 for each license holder for each year; and (2) money appropriated to carry out the purpose of this chapter. (b) The legislature may appropriate up to 50 percent of the interest income earned by the state on the balance of the fishermen's fund for a grant for statewide marine safety training and education programs.
AK Stat § 23.35.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 35. Commercial Fishermen's Fund|Sec. 23.35.070. Benefits.

A fisherman, upon becoming disabled, is entitled to receive benefits as follows: immediately after the fisherman sustains an injury or disability arising out of an accident directly connected with operations as a fisherman, either ashore in the state or in Alaska water, or suffers an occupational disease, the fisherman is entitled to emergency treatment, transportation to the nearest place where approved medical facilities are available, medical care, and hospitalization. In this section, “Alaska water” means the inland and territorial water of the state and the fishery conservation zone adjacent to the state established by 16 U.S.C. 1811 (§ 101, Fisheries Conservation and Management Act of 1976).
AK Stat § 23.35.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 35. Commercial Fishermen's Fund|Sec. 23.35.080. Emergency treatment for cardio-vascular diseases.

The department may pay the costs, within the maximum limitations, of emergency treatment, transportation, medical care, and hospitalization, necessitated by a cardio-vascular disease, if the department determines that the disease is attributable, directly or indirectly, to the fishing endeavor.
AK Stat § 23.35.090 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 35. Commercial Fishermen's Fund|Sec. 23.35.090. Assistance after discharge.

A fisherman is also entitled to such assistance after discharge from the hospital during period of convalescence as the department allows in consideration of the condition of the fund.