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AK Stat § 40.15.360 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 15. Subdivisions and Dedications|Article 4. Platting in Areas Outside Certain Municipalities.|Sec. 40.15.360. Applicability.

The provisions of AS 40.15.300 - 40.15.380 do not apply to maps, site plans, or other graphic representations prepared for (1) the purpose of transferring a leasehold interest; the extraction of natural resources; or solely for the issuance of licenses or permits; or (2) disposing of land by aliquot part descriptions of 40 acres or more within surveyed sections provided that the least aliquot part unit shall be not less than a 1/4 1/4 section.
AK Stat § 40.15.370 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 15. Subdivisions and Dedications|Article 4. Platting in Areas Outside Certain Municipalities.|Sec. 40.15.370. Regulations.

The commissioner may adopt regulations to implement the provisions of AS 40.15.300 - 40.15.380, but only those that are necessary and that are in accordance with the purposes stated in AS 40.15.300.
AK Stat § 40.15.900 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 15. Subdivisions and Dedications|Article 5. General Provisions.|Sec. 40.15.900. Definitions.

In this chapter, (1) “commissioner” means the commissioner of natural resources; (2) “monument” means a fixed physical object marking a point on the surface of the earth used to commence or control a survey or to establish a lot corner; (3) “plat” means a map or delineated representation of a tract or parcel of land showing the subdivision of land into lots, blocks, streets, or other divisions; (4) “street” means an access way in common use including all of the land lying within a dedicated right-of-way as delineated on a plat showing streets, whether improved or unimproved; (5) “subdivision” (A) means the division of a tract or parcel of land into two or more lots by the landowner or by the creation of public access, excluding common carrier and public utility access; (B) does not include cadastral plats or cadastral control plats created by or on behalf of the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, regardless of whether these plats include easements or other public dedications; (6) “surveyor” means an individual licensed to practice land surveying in the state under AS 08.48.
AK Stat § 40.21.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 21. Management and Preservation of Public Records|Article 1. Public Records.|Sec. 40.21.010. Purpose.

The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the orderly management of current state and local public records and to preserve noncurrent public records of permanent value for study and research.
AK Stat § 40.21.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 21. Management and Preservation of Public Records|Article 1. Public Records.|Sec. 40.21.020. Archival and records management program creation and administration.

There is established in the Department of Education and Early Development the Alaska State Archives. The department shall establish and administer a state archives and records management program. To implement the program and head the Alaska State Archives, the department shall create the position of state archivist, and shall appoint as state archivist a person qualified by special training or experience in archival or historical work. The state archivist shall be the official custodian of the archival resources of the state.
AK Stat § 40.21.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 21. Management and Preservation of Public Records|Article 1. Public Records.|Sec. 40.21.040. Gifts, bequests, or endowments of money.

Gifts, bequests, or endowments of money shall be deposited in a separate account in the general fund and may be invested in a manner not inconsistent with the investment of other state funds. Proceeds of invested funds shall be used to carry out the purposes for which the money was given.
AK Stat § 40.21.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 21. Management and Preservation of Public Records|Article 1. Public Records.|Sec. 40.21.050. Regulations.

The department shall adopt regulations necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
AK Stat § 40.21.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 21. Management and Preservation of Public Records|Article 1. Public Records.|Sec. 40.21.060. Duties of chief executive officers of state agencies.

The chief executive officer of each state agency shall (1) make and preserve public records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the agency, and designed to furnish the information necessary to protect the legal and financial rights of the state and of persons directly affected by the agency's activities; (2) establish and maintain an active, continuing program for the efficient management of the records of the agency under the procedures prescribed by the department, including effective controls over the creation, maintenance, and use of records in the conduct of current business; (3) submit to the department, in accordance with the standards established by it, records retention schedules proposing the length of time which records having administrative, legal, or historical value shall be retained; (4) apply the provisions of approved records retention schedules to ensure the orderly disposition of state records including transfer to a state records center; (5) identify, segregate, and protect records vital to the continuing operation of an agency in the event of natural, man-made, or war-caused disaster; (6) cooperate with the department in conducting surveys made by it under the provisions of this chapter; (7) establish safeguards against unauthorized or unlawful removal or loss of state records; (8) comply with the regulations, standards, and procedures relating to records management and archives established by the department; (9) appoint a records officer who shall act as a liaison between the department and the agency on all matters relating to the records management program.
AK Stat § 40.21.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 21. Management and Preservation of Public Records|Article 1. Public Records.|Sec. 40.21.070. Records management for local records.

The governing body of each political subdivision of the state shall promote the principles of efficient records management for local public records kept in accordance with state law. The governing body shall, as far as practical, follow the program established for the management of state records. The department shall, upon request of the governing body of a political subdivision, provide advice and assistance in the establishment of a local records management program.
AK Stat § 40.21.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 21. Management and Preservation of Public Records|Article 1. Public Records.|Sec. 40.21.080. Disposal of public records by political subdivision.

An official of a political subdivision of the state having legal custody of public records that are considered by the official to be without legal or administrative value or historical interest may compile lists of these records sufficiently detailed to identify them and submit the lists to the governing body of the political subdivision. The governing body may authorize the disposal and the method of disposal of the records in the list that it finds to be without legal or administrative value or historical interest. The governing body may also, upon request of the legal custodian of the records, authorize in advance the periodic disposal of routine records that the governing body considers to have no legal, administrative, or historical value. After receipt of written authorization from the governing body, the legal custodian of the records may dispose of the records. The legal custodian shall file in the office from which the records were drawn a descriptive list of the records disposed of and a record of the disposal itself. Copies of these documents shall be transmitted to the governing body, which shall file and preserve them.
AK Stat § 40.21.090 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 21. Management and Preservation of Public Records|Article 1. Public Records.|Sec. 40.21.090. Transfer of public records of political subdivision to department.

The governing body of a political subdivision of the state may authorize the transfer to the department of records that have legal, administrative, or historical value but that are not required for the transaction of current business. The official of the political subdivision having custody of the records shall prepare a list describing the records transferred in sufficient detail to identify them. Copies of the list shall be filed with the department and with the public corporation or political subdivision transferring the records. The department shall acknowledge receipt of the list. Listed records approved by the department for transfer may be transferred to a records center designated by the department. The records center shall transfer any permanent records to the archives. Records transferred remain the property of the political subdivision. The department is the legal custodian of records in its possession.
AK Stat § 40.21.100 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 21. Management and Preservation of Public Records|Article 1. Public Records.|Sec. 40.21.100. Assistance to legislative and judicial branches.

Upon request, the department shall assist in the establishment of records management programs in the legislative and judicial branches of the state government and shall provide program services similar to those available to the executive branch of state government.
AK Stat § 40.21.110 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 21. Management and Preservation of Public Records|Article 1. Public Records.|Sec. 40.21.110. Care of records.

Except for public records lawfully in the possession of a person other than the state, public records of existing or defunct agencies of the state, territorial, and Russian governments in Alaska are the property of the state and shall be created, maintained, preserved, stored, transferred, destroyed or disposed of, and otherwise managed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and AS 45.48.500 - 45.48.530. Records shall be delivered by outgoing officials and employees to their successors, and may not be removed, destroyed, or disposed of, except as provided in this chapter and AS 45.48.500 - 45.48.530.
AK Stat § 40.21.120 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 21. Management and Preservation of Public Records|Article 1. Public Records.|Sec. 40.21.120. Standards of clarity, accuracy, and permanency of copies.

When a public officer performing duties under this chapter is required or authorized by law to record, copy, recopy, or replace any public record, the officer may do so by photostatic, photographic, microphotographic, microfilm, or other mechanical or optical disk imaging system process that produces a clear and accurate copy or reproduction of the original record. If a record is considered to be of permanent or archival value, a reproduction of the record must meet archival standards approved by the department.
AK Stat § 40.21.130 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 21. Management and Preservation of Public Records|Article 1. Public Records.|Sec. 40.21.130. Alteration and replacement of public records.

An original public record that is worn or damaged may be replaced by a reproduction made in accordance with this chapter. Certification by the agency having custody of the record that the replacement is a true and correct copy of the original shall appear at the end of the reproduction. When original public records are photographed or otherwise mechanically reproduced under the provisions of this chapter and the photographic or other mechanical reproductions are placed in conveniently accessible files and provisions made for preserving and using them, the original records from which they were made may be destroyed only with the approval of the state archivist.
AK Stat § 40.21.140 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 21. Management and Preservation of Public Records|Article 1. Public Records.|Sec. 40.21.140. Use of copies and replacements as evidence.

Reproductions or replacements of records made under this chapter are considered original records for all purposes and are admissible in evidence as original records.
AK Stat § 40.21.150 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 21. Management and Preservation of Public Records|Article 2. General Provisions.|Sec. 40.21.150. Definitions.

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, (1) “agency” or “state agency” means a department, office, agency, state board, commission, public corporation, or other organizational unit of or created under the executive branch of the state government; the term does not include the University of Alaska; (2) “archives” means (A) the noncurrent records of a state agency or political subdivision of the state preserved, after appraisal, because of their value; also referred to as archival material or archival holdings; (B) the agency responsible for selecting, preserving, and making available archival material; also referred to as an archival agency; or (C) the building or part of a building where archival material is located; also referred to as an archival depository; (3) “department” means the Department of Education and Early Development; (4) “electronic record” means any information that is recorded in machine readable form; (5) “local record” means a public record of a city or borough of any class, villages, district, authority, or other political subdivision unless the record is designated or treated as a state record under state law; (6) “record” means any document, paper, book, letter, drawing, map, plat, photo, photographic file, motion picture film, microfilm, microphotograph, exhibit, magnetic or paper tape, punched card, electronic record, or other document of any other material, regardless of physical form or characteristic, developed or received under law or in connection with the transaction of official business and preserved or appropriate for preservation by an agency or a political subdivision, as evidence of the organization, function, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities of the state or political subdivision or because of the informational value in them; the term does not include library and museum material developed or acquired and preserved solely for reference, historical, or exhibition purposes, extra copies of documents preserved solely for convenience of reference, or stocks of publications and processed documents; (7) “records center” means a records depository in the department for the storage and disposition of noncurrent records; (8) “state record” means a record of a department, office, commission, board, public corporation, or other agency of the state government, including a record of the legislature or a court and any other record designated or treated as a public record under state law.
AK Stat § 40.25.100 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 25. Public Record Disclosures|Article 1. Inspection and Copying of Public Records.|Sec. 40.25.100. Disposition of tax information.

(a) Information in the possession of the Department of Revenue that discloses the particulars of the business or affairs of a taxpayer or other person, including information under AS 38.05.020(b)(11) that is subject to a confidentiality agreement under AS 38.05.020(b)(12), is not a matter of public record, except as provided in AS 43.05.230(i) - (l) or for purposes of investigation and law enforcement. The information shall be kept confidential except when its production is required in an official investigation, administrative adjudication under AS 43.05.405 - 43.05.499, or court proceeding. These restrictions do not prohibit the publication of statistics presented in a manner that prevents the identification of particular reports and items, prohibit the publication of tax lists showing the names of taxpayers who are delinquent and relevant information that may assist in the collection of delinquent taxes, or prohibit the publication of records, proceedings, and decisions under AS 43.05.405 - 43.05.499. (b) If a copy of a record of tax information is requested under (a) of this section for the purposes of child support administration, the copy may be released only to the child support services agency created in AS 25.27.010 or a child support enforcement agency of another state. The Department of Revenue shall provide the requesting agency with a copy of the record. The requesting agency receiving information under this subsection may use it only for child support purposes authorized under law.
AK Stat § 40.25.105 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 25. Public Record Disclosures|Article 1. Inspection and Copying of Public Records.|Sec. 40.25.105. Disclosure of information for compliance with the tobacco product Master Settlement Agreement.

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of AS 40.25.100(a), the Department of Revenue may disclose information submitted to the Department of Revenue relating to cigarette and tobacco products, cigarette and tobacco product manufacturers, and cigarette and tobacco product retailers to the attorney general and to other parties as the Department of Revenue determines necessary to monitor and enforce compliance by cigarette and tobacco product manufacturers with the tobacco product Master Settlement Agreement described in AS 45.53.010 - 45.53.100. (b) A person receiving information under this section shall maintain the confidentiality that the Department of Revenue is required to extend under AS 43.05.230 to the returns, reports, documents, determinations, and workpapers furnished to that person under this section.
AK Stat § 40.25.121 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 25. Public Record Disclosures|Article 1. Inspection and Copying of Public Records.|Sec. 40.25.121. Copies of public records for veterans.

When a copy of a public record is required by the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs, the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, or by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to be used in determining the eligibility of a person to participate in benefits, the official custodian of the public record shall, without charge, provide the applicant for the benefits, a person acting on behalf of the applicant, or an authorized representative of the department or the United States Department of Veterans Affairs with a certified copy of the record.
AK Stat § 40.25.122 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 25. Public Record Disclosures|Article 1. Inspection and Copying of Public Records.|Sec. 40.25.122. Litigation disclosure.

A public record that is subject to disclosure and copying under AS 40.25.110 - 40.25.120 remains a public record subject to disclosure and copying even if the record is used for, included in, or relevant to litigation, including law enforcement proceedings, involving a public agency, except that with respect to a person involved in litigation, the records sought shall be disclosed in accordance with the rules of procedure applicable in a court or an administrative adjudication. In this section, “involved in litigation” means a party to litigation or representing a party to litigation, including obtaining public records for the party.
AK Stat § 40.25.123 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 25. Public Record Disclosures|Article 1. Inspection and Copying of Public Records.|Sec. 40.25.123. Supervision and regulation.

(a) The Department of Administration shall supervise and adopt regulations for the operation and implementation of AS 40.25.110 - 40.25.140 by public agencies in the executive branch, except the Alaska Railroad Corporation. (b) The legislative council shall supervise and adopt procedures for the operation and implementation of AS 40.25.110 - 40.25.140 by public agencies in the legislative branch. (c) The administrative director of the Alaska Court System shall supervise and adopt procedures for the operation and implementation of AS 40.25.110 - 40.25.140 by public agencies in the judicial branch. (d) The Board of Regents of the University of Alaska shall supervise and adopt procedures for the operation and implementation of AS 40.25.110 - 40.25.140 by the University of Alaska. (e) The regulations and procedures adopted under this section must include the establishment of procedures for making an administrative appeal of public agency action that is taken under AS 40.25.110 - 40.25.140. (f) In this section, (1) “action” includes the calculation of a fee, the denial of a fee reduction or waiver, and the denial of a request to inspect or copy a public record; (2) “public agency” does not include a municipality.
AK Stat § 40.25.124 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 25. Public Record Disclosures|Article 1. Inspection and Copying of Public Records.|Sec. 40.25.124. Appeals.

A person may appeal to the superior court the final administrative order made by a public agency under AS 40.25.110 - 40.25.140.
AK Stat § 40.25.125 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 25. Public Record Disclosures|Article 1. Inspection and Copying of Public Records.|Sec. 40.25.125. Enforcement: injunctive relief.

A person having custody or control of a public record who denies, obstructs, or attempts to obstruct, or a person not having custody or control who aids or abets another person in denying, obstructing, or attempting to obstruct, the inspection of a public record subject to inspection under AS 40.25.110 or 40.25.120 may be enjoined by the superior court from denying, obstructing, or attempting to obstruct, the inspection of public records subject to inspection under AS 40.25.110 or 40.25.120. A person may seek injunctive relief under this section without exhausting the person's remedies under AS 40.25.123 - 40.25.124.
AK Stat § 40.25.140 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 40. Public Records and Recorders|Chapter 25. Public Record Disclosures|Article 1. Inspection and Copying of Public Records.|Sec. 40.25.140. Confidentiality of library records.

(a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, the names, addresses, or other personal identifying information of people who have used materials made available to the public by a library shall be kept confidential, except upon court order, and are not subject to inspection under AS 40.25.110 or 40.25.120. This section applies to a library operated by the state, a municipality, or a public school, including the University of Alaska. (b) Records of a public elementary or secondary school library identifying a minor child shall be made available on request to a parent or guardian of that child.