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AK Stat § 26.10.065 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 26. Military Affairs, Veterans, Disasters, and Aerospace|Chapter 10. Veterans|Article 2. Miscellaneous Provisions.|Sec. 26.10.065. Disposition of remains of state resident armed forces personnel on duty status.

(a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, if a state resident who is a member of the armed forces has executed the United States Department of Defense Military Record of Emergency Data Form (DD Form 93), or its successor form, to serve as a record of emergency data and, on that form, has designated a person who is authorized to direct the disposition of the member's remains if the member dies while in a duty status as described in 10 U.S.C. 1481, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the person authorized to direct the disposition of remains on the executed form has the right to make the decisions concerning the disposition of the member's remains. (b) If a state resident who is a member of the United States Coast Guard has executed the United States Coast Guard Designation of Beneficiaries and Record of Emergency Data Form (CG-2020D), or its successor form, to serve as a record of emergency data and, on that form, has designated a person who is authorized to direct the disposition of the member's remains if the member dies while in a duty status as described in 10 U.S.C. 1481, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the person authorized to direct the disposition of remains on the executed form has the right to make the decisions concerning the disposition of the member's remains.
AK Stat § 26.10.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 26. Military Affairs, Veterans, Disasters, and Aerospace|Chapter 10. Veterans|Article 2. Miscellaneous Provisions.|Sec. 26.10.070. Record of veterans of the armed forces of the United States.

(a) A veteran may record without fee the veteran's armed forces report of separation at a recorder's office of the Department of Natural Resources. (b) [Repealed, § 2 ch 25 SLA 2001.]
AK Stat § 26.10.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 26. Military Affairs, Veterans, Disasters, and Aerospace|Chapter 10. Veterans|Article 2. Miscellaneous Provisions.|Sec. 26.10.080. Death gratuity.

(a) The Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs shall pay, upon application, a death gratuity in the amount of $750 to the surviving spouse of a qualified veteran who was a resident of the state at the time of death. If the veteran has no surviving spouse, the gratuity shall be paid to the personal representative of the veteran. A veteran is qualified under this subsection if the veteran's (1) burial occurred in the state on or after May 13, 1984; or (2) death occurred on or after September 19, 1990. (b) A death gratuity may be paid for a veteran otherwise eligible under (a) of this section even if the veteran died while temporarily absent from the state. (c) The Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs may not pay a death gratuity unless the veteran for whom payment is made received an honorable discharge or a general discharge under honorable conditions. (d) In this section, (1) “personal representative” includes administrator, executor, special administrator, successor personal representative, and persons who perform substantially the same function under the law governing their status; (2) “veteran” means (A) a person who served in a branch of the armed services of the United States (i) who at the time of entry into the service was a resident of the territory or state, who had been a resident for not less than one year immediately before entry into the service, and who returned to the territory or state within one year after discharge as a resident with the intention of remaining in the territory or state; or (ii) who was a resident of the state for not less than one year immediately preceding the time of death; or (B) a person who served in the Alaska Territorial Guard, the Alaska Army National Guard, the Alaska Air National Guard, or the Alaska Naval Militia, or who served in a reserve unit of the United States armed forces in Alaska if the reserve unit required a minimum of one weekend of duty each month and 15 consecutive days of active duty training each year for not less than three years.
AK Stat § 26.10.090 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 26. Military Affairs, Veterans, Disasters, and Aerospace|Chapter 10. Veterans|Article 2. Miscellaneous Provisions.|Sec. 26.10.090. Alaska Territorial Guard veterans included.

In this chapter, except where otherwise indicated, “veteran” includes a person who served in the Alaska Territorial Guard.
AK Stat § 26.23.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 26. Military Affairs, Veterans, Disasters, and Aerospace|Chapter 23. Disasters|Article 1. Alaska Disaster Act.|Sec. 26.23.010. Purposes.

The purposes of this chapter are to (1) reduce the vulnerability of people and communities of this state to damage, injury, and loss of life and property resulting from a disaster; (2) prepare for the prompt and efficient rescue, care, and treatment of persons victimized or threatened by a disaster; (3) provide a setting conducive to the rapid and orderly start of rehabilitation of persons and restoration of property affected by a disaster; (4) clarify and strengthen the roles of the governor, state agencies, and local governments in prevention of, preparation for, response to and recovery from a disaster; (5) authorize and provide for cooperation in disaster prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery; (6) authorize and provide for the coordination of activities relating to disaster prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery by agencies and officers of the state, and similar state-local, inter-state, federal-state, and foreign activities in which the state and its political subdivisions may participate; and (7) assist in the prevention of disasters caused or aggravated by inadequate planning for, and regulation of, public and private facilities and land use.
AK Stat § 26.23.025 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 26. Military Affairs, Veterans, Disasters, and Aerospace|Chapter 23. Disasters|Article 1. Alaska Disaster Act.|Sec. 26.23.025. The legislature and disaster emergencies.

(a) When the governor declares a condition of disaster emergency under AS 26.23.020(c), concurrently with the issuance of the proclamation, the governor shall prepare and deliver to the presiding officers of the legislature and to the persons who chair the finance committees in each house of the legislature a financing plan describing the amount by fund source of money, including the amount of state match for federal funds, that the governor proposes to use to cope with the disaster, the estimated total expenditures necessary to cope with the disaster, and the estimated time frame necessary to cope with the disaster. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if the declaration of a disaster emergency occurs while the legislature is in session or if a special session is held, actions taken by the governor under this chapter after the close of the session that are not ratified by law adopted during that session are void. (c) The legislature may terminate a disaster emergency at any time by law.
AK Stat § 26.23.045 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 26. Military Affairs, Veterans, Disasters, and Aerospace|Chapter 23. Disasters|Article 1. Alaska Disaster Act.|Sec. 26.23.045. Response corps; depots.

(a) The department may establish a response corps. The corps consists of volunteers who register with the department and agree to be trained in techniques for emergency and disaster response and to be available on short notice to carry out responsibilities of the corps under an applicable incident command system. Members of the corps are entitled to per diem and expenses as determined by the department for training and for days spent in service to the state. (b) The department may maintain emergency response depots in areas of the state identified for that purpose in the state emergency plan developed under AS 26.23.040. The depots shall be equipped in a manner that enables prompt response to emergencies and disasters.
AK Stat § 26.23.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 26. Military Affairs, Veterans, Disasters, and Aerospace|Chapter 23. Disasters|Article 1. Alaska Disaster Act.|Sec. 26.23.050. Financing.

(a) It is the intent of the legislature, and declared to be the policy of the state, that funds to meet disaster emergencies will always be available. (b) Whenever, and to the extent that, money is needed to cope with a disaster, the first recourse shall be to money regularly appropriated to state and local agencies. The second recourse shall be to money available in the disaster relief fund or, for oil or hazardous substances discharges, the oil and hazardous substance release prevention and response fund, as the governor determines appropriate. If money available from these sources is insufficient, and if the governor finds that other sources of money to cope with the disaster are not available or are insufficient, the governor may, notwithstanding the limitations imposed by AS 37.07.080(e), (1) transfer and spend money appropriated for other purposes; or (2) borrow money for a term not to exceed two years. (c) Nothing in this section limits the governor's authority to apply for, receive, administer, and spend grants, gifts, or payments from any source, to aid in disaster prevention, preparedness, response, or recovery.
AK Stat § 26.23.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 26. Military Affairs, Veterans, Disasters, and Aerospace|Chapter 23. Disasters|Article 1. Alaska Disaster Act.|Sec. 26.23.060. Local and interjurisdictional disaster services.

(a) Each political subdivision in the state is within the jurisdiction of, and shall be served by, the Alaska division of homeland security and emergency management. (b) Each political subdivision is responsible for disaster preparedness and coordination of response (1) by itself; (2) in conjunction with other political subdivisions by establishing an interjurisdictional planning and service area under AS 26.23.070; or  (3) in conjunction with the Alaska division of homeland security and emergency management. (c) Each political subdivision that has not established the ability to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters shall designate, and provide to the Alaska division of homeland security and emergency management the name of, a liaison officer to facilitate the cooperation and protection of that political subdivision in the work of disaster prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery. (d) The principal executive officer of each political subdivision in the state shall notify the Alaska division of homeland security and emergency management of the manner in which the political subdivision is providing or securing disaster planning and intends to provide or secure emergency services, identify the person who heads the agency from which the services are or will be obtained, and furnish additional information relating to the services as the Alaska division of homeland security and emergency management requires. (e) Each political subdivision shall ensure that a written local or interjurisdictional disaster emergency plan for its area is prepared, maintained, and distributed to all appropriate officials. The disaster emergency plan must include a clear and complete statement of the emergency responsibilities of all local agencies and officials. (f) [Repealed, § 28 ch 32 SLA 1994.]  (g) To the extent that a plan prepared under this section relates to action required to avert human injury or other damage from a release of a hazardous substance, the plan must be substantially equivalent in relevant respects, including the use of a comparable incident command system, to the local emergency plans prepared under AS 26.23.073 and 26.23.075 and the state and regional master plans prepared by the Department of Environmental Conservation under AS 46.04.200 - 46.04.210. The plan must use an incident command system comparable to the system used in those plans and must be reviewed by the Alaska State Emergency Response Commission under AS 26.23.077.  (h) Notwithstanding the definition of “political subdivision” in AS 26.23.900, this section does not empower a political subdivision to perform responsibilities that it is not otherwise empowered to perform. In this section, “political subdivision” includes only a political subdivision that is otherwise empowered to perform the responsibilities assigned under this section.
AK Stat § 26.23.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 26. Military Affairs, Veterans, Disasters, and Aerospace|Chapter 23. Disasters|Article 1. Alaska Disaster Act.|Sec. 26.23.070. Establishment of interjurisdictional disaster planning and service areas.

(a) If the governor finds that two or more adjoining political subdivisions would be better served by an interjurisdictional arrangement than by maintaining separate disaster agencies and services, the governor may designate by order an interjurisdictional area adequate to plan for, prevent, or respond to a disaster in that area, and direct steps to be taken as necessary, including the creation of an interjurisdictional relationship, a joint disaster emergency plan, mutual aid, or an area organization for emergency planning and services. A finding by the governor under this subsection must be based on one or more factors related to the difficulty of maintaining an efficient and effective disaster prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery system without an interjurisdictional relationship, such as (1) small or sparse population; (2) limitations on public financial resources severe enough to make maintenance of a separate disaster agency and services unreasonably burdensome; (3) unusual vulnerability to disaster as evidenced by a past history of disasters, topographical features, drainage characteristics, disaster potential, and presence of disaster-prone facilities or operations; (4) the interrelated character of the political subdivisions in an area; or (5) other relevant conditions or circumstances. (b) If the governor finds that a vulnerable area lies only partly within the state and includes territory in a foreign jurisdiction, and that it would be desirable to establish an international relationship, mutual aid, or an area organization for disaster, the governor shall take steps to that end as desirable. If this action is taken with jurisdictions that have enacted the Emergency Management Assistance Compact substantially as contained in AS 26.23.136, any resulting agreement may be considered a supplementary agreement under Article VII of that compact. (c) If a jurisdiction with which the governor proposes to cooperate under (b) of this section has not enacted the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, the governor may negotiate a special agreement with that jurisdiction. (d) To the extent that a plan prepared under this section relates to action required to avert human injury or other damage from a release of a hazardous substance, the plan must be substantially equivalent in relevant respect to the local emergency plans prepared under AS 26.23.073 and 26.23.075 and the state and regional master plans prepared by the Department of Environmental Conservation under AS 46.04.200 - 46.04.210. The plan must use an incident command system comparable to the system used in those plans and must be reviewed by the Alaska State Emergency Response Commission under AS 26.23.077.
AK Stat § 26.23.075 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 26. Military Affairs, Veterans, Disasters, and Aerospace|Chapter 23. Disasters|Article 1. Alaska Disaster Act.|Sec. 26.23.075. Emergency plans.

(a) An emergency plan prepared under AS 26.23.073 must include (1) identification of facilities subject to the requirements of 42 U.S.C. 11001 - 11005 that are within the emergency planning district, identification of routes likely to be used for the transportation of substances on the list of extremely hazardous substances referred to in 42 U.S.C. 11002(a), and identification of additional facilities contributing or subjected to additional risk due to their proximity to facilities subject to the requirements of 42 U.S.C. 11001 - 11005 such as hospitals or natural gas facilities; (2) methods and procedures to be followed by facility owners and operators and local emergency and medical personnel to respond to a release of hazardous substances or a release of substances on the list of extremely hazardous substances referred to in 42 U.S.C. 11002(a); (3) designation of an emergency coordinator, as required under AS 26.23.060(d), and facility emergency coordinators, who shall make determinations necessary to implement the emergency plan; (4) procedures providing reliable, effective, and timely notification by the facility emergency coordinators to persons designated in the emergency plan, and to the public, that a release has occurred, consistent with the emergency notification requirements of 42 U.S.C. 11004; (5) methods for determining the occurrence of a release and the area or population likely to be affected by that release; (6) a description of emergency equipment and facilities in the community and at each facility in the community subject to the requirements of 42 U.S.C. 11001 - 11005, and an identification of the persons responsible for the equipment and facilities; (7) evacuation plans, including provisions for a precautionary evacuation and alternative traffic routes; (8) training programs, including schedules for training of local emergency response and medical personnel; and (9) methods and schedules for exercising the emergency plan. (b) An emergency plan prepared under AS 26.23.073 may include descriptions, procedures, and programs related to disasters other than those caused by releases of hazardous substances. (c) Each emergency plan prepared under AS 26.23.073 must incorporate within it an incident command system. The incident command system must be substantially equivalent in relevant respects to the incident command systems established under AS 46.04.200 - 46.04.210 and meet the requirements of AS 26.23.077.
AK Stat § 26.23.077 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 26. Military Affairs, Veterans, Disasters, and Aerospace|Chapter 23. Disasters|Article 1. Alaska Disaster Act.|Sec. 26.23.077. Plan review; incident command systems.

(a) The commission shall review and make recommendations about local, interjurisdictional, regional, and state emergency plans, including the Alaska intrastate mutual aid system established in AS 26.23.500, other plans prepared under this chapter and AS 46.04.200 - 46.04.210, and all emergency plans prepared by state agencies under other authorities. (b) When making recommendations about a plan, the commission shall suggest changes that ensure that the plan includes an incident command system that describes the respective roles of affected persons and agencies in a clear and specific manner and that the respective roles of state agencies are consistent with their statutory duties. The commission shall also suggest changes that ensure that the plans are well-integrated with related plans. (c) To the extent consistent with other law, an incident command system recommended under this section or included in a plan reviewed under this section must provide that the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs has a major role in mobilization of personnel and resources, communications, transportation planning, and other logistics involved in a state response to a disaster or other emergency.
AK Stat § 26.23.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 26. Military Affairs, Veterans, Disasters, and Aerospace|Chapter 23. Disasters|Article 1. Alaska Disaster Act.|Sec. 26.23.080. Federal disaster loans to political subdivisions.

Whenever, at the request of the governor, the President has declared a major disaster to exist in this state, the governor may (1) upon the governor's determination that a political subdivision of the state will suffer a substantial loss of tax and other revenue from the disaster and has demonstrated a need for financial assistance to perform its governmental functions, apply to the federal government, on behalf of the political subdivision, for a loan; the governor may receive and disburse the proceeds of any approved loan to any applicant political subdivision; (2) determine the amount needed by any applicant political subdivision to restore or resume its governmental functions, and to certify the amount to the federal government; (3) recommend to the federal government, based upon review by the governor, the cancellation of all or any part of repayment when, for the first three full fiscal years following the major disaster, the revenue of the political subdivision is insufficient to meet its operating expenses, including additional disaster-related expenses of a municipal operation character.
AK Stat § 26.23.090 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 26. Military Affairs, Veterans, Disasters, and Aerospace|Chapter 23. Disasters|Article 1. Alaska Disaster Act.|Sec. 26.23.090. Grants to disaster victims.

(a) Whenever the President, at the request of the governor, has declared a major disaster to exist in this state, the governor may (1) upon the governor's determination that financial assistance is essential to meet disaster-related necessary expenses or serious needs of individuals or families adversely affected by a major disaster that cannot be otherwise adequately met from other means of assistance, accept a grant by the federal government to fund that financial assistance, subject to the terms and conditions that may be imposed upon the grant; (2) enter into an agreement with the federal government, or any officer or agency of it, pledging the state to participate in the funding of the financial assistance authorized in (1) of this subsection, in an amount not to exceed 25 percent of the assistance and, if state funds are not otherwise available to the governor, to accept an advance of the state's share from the federal government to be repaid when the state is able to do so. (b) The governor is authorized to make financial grants to an individual or family to meet disaster-related necessary expenses or serious needs of individuals or families adversely affected by the disaster that cannot otherwise adequately be met from other means of assistance. The governor may make a grant to an individual and family under this subsection as follows: (1) when the President declares a major disaster, the governor may make a grant of an amount whose total of federal and state shares does not exceed the maximum amount authorized by 42 U.S.C. 5174(h) for grants payable to individuals and families; (2) when the President does not declare a major disaster but the governor declares a disaster emergency, the governor may make a grant of an amount not to exceed one-half of the maximum grant amount established under (1) of this subsection. (c) [Repealed, § 18 ch 178 SLA 1990.]