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AK Stat § 38.05.230 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 8. Mining Rights.|Sec. 38.05.230. Lien for performance of annual labor.

(a) The person performing or causing to be performed annual labor upon an unpatented mining claim as provided in AS 38.05.225 shall have a lien upon the claim for the assessment work, including the reasonable cost of transportation to and from the claim incurred in doing the work. The lien is enforced either as in other suits for the foreclosure of liens upon real property or as supplemental accruing costs in an action, if any, then pending in which the claim has been levied upon by attachment, execution, or other court process. (b) A person claiming a lien under this section shall, within 90 days after the completion of the annual labor for which the lien is claimed, record in the office of the recorder of the recording district in which the property on which the lien is claimed is situated a notice of claim of lien, verified by the oath of the person claiming the lien or that of some other person having knowledge of the facts, and stating the name of the owner or reputed owner of the property, the amount of the claim, the time of the performance of the annual labor for which the lien is claimed, the nature of the labor done or improvements made, and the amount of the claim, including costs of transportation, after deducting all just credits and offsets. (c) An independent suit or action brought to enforce a lien under this section shall be commenced within six months after the recording of the notice of claim of lien.
AK Stat § 38.05.235 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 8. Mining Rights.|Sec. 38.05.235. Lien for annual labor is independent of other liens.

The lien given for the performance of annual labor by AS 38.05.230, if the work is done in good faith and necessarily for the protection either of possession under a certificate of sale or of an attachment, levy, mortgage, judgment, or other lien, remains in effect notwithstanding the contemporaneous or subsequent vacation, dissolution, or setting aside of, or redemption from, the certificate of sale, attachment, levy, mortgage, judgment, or other lien.
AK Stat § 38.05.240 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 8. Mining Rights.|Sec. 38.05.240. Labor defined for AS 38.05.210 - 38.05.235.

In AS 38.05.210 - 38.05.235, “labor” includes work performed or improvements made in good faith on or for the benefit of a mining claim, leasehold location, or mining lease that is directly related to exploring for, developing, or producing minerals, including  (1) excavating, tunneling, drilling, or clearing land; (2) constructing or maintaining roads, trails, or landing strips;  (3) extracting or producing ore;  (4) performing a metallurgical analysis, an environmental study, or an economic feasibility study, or conducting engineering or permitting activity; (5) constructing settling ponds, water supplies, or other utilities;  (6) providing worker housing;  (7) performing reclamation activities under a reclamation plan approved under AS 27.19.030;  (8) transporting workers and equipment in the state to or from a mining site; the claimed value of transportation under this paragraph may not exceed 50 percent of the total value of labor in a statement of annual labor recorded under AS 38.05.210(b) for the assessment work year;  (9) conducting a geological, geochemical, geophysical, or airborne survey by a qualified expert and verified by a report filed in the recording district office in which the claim, leasehold location, or mining lease is located that sets out (A) the location of the survey in relation to the boundaries of the claim, leasehold location, or mining lease; (B) the nature, extent, and cost of the survey; and (C) the name, address, and professional background of the person conducting the work; the commissioner, by regulation, shall define the nature of acceptable survey work and the qualifications of a person competent to perform the work; an airborne survey conducted under this paragraph shall be nonrepetitive of any previous survey on the same claim, leasehold location, or mining lease.
AK Stat § 38.05.242 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 8. Mining Rights.|Sec. 38.05.242. Definitions for AS 38.05.210 - 38.05.240.

In AS 38.05.210 - 38.05.240, (1) “airborne survey” means a survey from the air for mineral deposits by the proper application of magnetometers, electromagnetic input systems, infrared detectors, side-looking radar, vertical and panoramic cameras, and other devices as they relate to the search for and discovery of mineral deposits; (2) “geochemical surveys” means surveys on the ground for mineral deposits by the proper application of the principles and techniques of the science of chemistry as they relate to the search for and discovery of mineral deposits; (3) “geological surveys” means surveys on the ground for mineral deposits by the proper application of the principles and techniques of the science of geology as they relate to the search for and discovery of mineral deposits; (4) “geophysical surveys” means surveys on the ground for mineral deposits through the employment of generally recognized equipment and methods for measuring physical differences between rock types or discontinuances in geological formations; (5) “MTRSC system” means the system described in AS 38.05.195(b)(1) based on the ground location of a complete quarter section or quarter-quarter section of a township on a rectangular survey system; (6) “qualified expert” means an individual qualified by education or experience to conduct geological, geochemical, or geophysical surveys, as the case may be.
AK Stat § 38.05.245 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 8. Mining Rights.|Sec. 38.05.245. Prospecting sites.

(a) Before the discovery of valuable minerals, an exclusive right to prospect by geophysical, geochemical, and similar methods may be acquired by establishing a prospecting site in accordance with the MTRSC system and regulations prescribed by the commissioner. A certificate of location shall be recorded in the recording district where the prospecting site is located within 45 days after posting the notice of location. The locator of a prospecting site has the exclusive right to stake mining claims or leasehold locations within the boundaries of the site. In this subsection, “MTRSC system” means the system described in AS 38.05.195(b)(1) based on the ground location of a complete quarter section or quarter-quarter section of a township. (b) A prospecting site location may not include within its exterior boundaries, nor shall its boundaries be coincident with more than one boundary of any mining claim, mining leasehold location, or land under a mining lease, unless the locator of the prospecting site is also the owner, optionee, or lessee of said mining property. If such mining property or area is so included or bounded, the prospecting site is void. (c) A prospecting site remains in effect for two years after the notice of location is attached to a monument at the northeast corner of the site if the one-time rental payment is made within 45 days of location and the work requirements are met. The two-year term begins on the date the notice of location is attached to the monument and may not be extended. During each year, work of a type compatible with the purpose of this section and acceptable to the director shall be done. The minimum expenditure for the work shall be established by the commissioner uniformly for all prospecting sites. Where adjacent prospecting sites are held in common, the expenditure may be made on any one or more locations. If a prospecting site expires, neither the locator nor a successor in interest of the locator may again hold the same prospecting site or any portion of it, as a prospecting site, for a period of one year following the date of expiration or abandonment.
AK Stat § 38.05.252 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 8. Mining Rights.|Sec. 38.05.252. Extralateral rights under shore, tide, and submerged land.

(a) Extralateral rights under shoreland, tideland, and submerged land are confirmed and granted to an owner of a lode mining claim located before January 3, 1959, under the mining laws of the United States. (b) In this section, “extralateral rights” means rights given to an owner of a mining claim under 30 U.S.C. 26 to follow, and mine, any vein or lode the apex of which lies within the boundaries of the location of the surface of the mining claim, notwithstanding that the course of the vein or lode on its dip or downward direction may so far depart from the perpendicular as to extend beyond the planes which would be formed by the vertical extension downwards of the sidelines of the location.
AK Stat § 38.05.255 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 8. Mining Rights.|Sec. 38.05.255. Surface use of land or water.

(a) Surface uses of land or water included within a mining property by the owners, lessees, or operators shall be limited to those necessary for the prospecting for, extraction of, or basic processing of minerals and shall be subject to reasonable concurrent uses. Leases for millsites, tailings disposal, and other mine related facilities may be issued by the director. The leases shall be conditioned upon payment of a reasonable annual rent for the lease and restricted to uses approved by the director. Timber from land open to mining without lease, except timberland, may be used by a mining claimant or prospecting site locator for the mining or development of the location or adjacent claims under common ownership. On other land, timber may be acquired as provided in this chapter. Use of water shall be made in accordance with AS 46.15. (b) A lease issued under this section is exempt from the provisions of AS 38.05.075 - 38.05.080.
AK Stat § 38.05.265 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 8. Mining Rights.|Sec. 38.05.265. Abandonment.

(a) Failure to perform the labor or make improvements or make a payment in lieu of labor under AS 38.05.210(a), timely record a certificate of location or statement of annual labor, timely pay any required annual rental, or timely pay any required production royalty under AS 38.05.212 constitutes abandonment of all rights acquired under the mining claim, leasehold location, or prospecting site involved, and the claim, leasehold location, or prospecting site is subject to relocation by others, unless the failure constituting the abandonment is cured under (b) of this section. A locator or claimant of an abandoned location or a successor in interest may not relocate the claim, leasehold location, or prospecting site until one year after abandonment. The locator of an abandoned prospecting site may locate a claim or leasehold location on that site at any time. If an annual rental or a royalty payment is deficient but is otherwise timely paid, abandonment does not result if full payment is made within (1) the period prescribed by a deficiency notice from the department; or (2) 30 days after a final judgment establishing the amount due if the deficiency amount due was contested. (b) Unless another person has located a mining claim or leasehold location that includes all or part of the mining claim or leasehold location abandoned under (a) of this section or the area is closed to mineral location under AS 38.05.185 - 38.05.275, a person may cure the failure to record or pay rents or royalties that constituted the abandonment and cure the abandonment by (1) properly recording a certificate of location or a statement of annual labor, paying any required annual rental, and paying any required production royalty; and (2) paying a penalty equal to the annual rent for the mining claim or leasehold location that was abandoned under (a) of this section.
AK Stat § 38.05.270 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 8. Mining Rights.|Sec. 38.05.270. Transfers.

Evidence of a sale, lease, or other transfer of mining property or interest in mining property shall be recorded.
AK Stat § 38.05.275 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 8. Mining Rights.|Sec. 38.05.275. Recognition of locations.

(a) Mining locations made on state land, including shoreland, tideland, or submerged land, or state selected land, under AS 38.05.185 - 38.05.275 or in the manner described in AS 27.10, acquire for the locator mining rights under AS 38.05.185 - 38.05.275, subject to existing claims and to any denial of or restriction in the tentative approval of state selection or patent of the land to the state. If shoreland, tideland, or submerged land is included in a mining location or within the projected boundaries of a mining location made in accordance with this section, the locator shall record a certificate of location under AS 38.05.195. The certificate of location must identify the position of the mining location in the system of rectangular or protracted surveys. If the mining location is made in the manner described in AS 27.10, the commissioner may require that the locator amend the mining location to conform with AS 38.05.185 - 38.05.275 and thereafter to comply with the requirements of AS 38.05.185 - 38.05.275. A mining location on state selected land located within an active unpatented federal mining claim may be located only by or with the written and recorded permission of the holder of the unpatented federal mining claim. (b) In this section, “state selected land” (1) means land for which the state has filed a selection application with the United States under Sec. 6 of the Alaska Statehood Act, as amended, regardless of the validity or effect of the application, if the selection described in the application has not been rejected or relinquished; (2) does not include land described in (1) of this subsection for which a regional corporation organized under 43 U.S.C. 1606(a), as amended, a village corporation organized under 43 U.S.C. 1607(a), as amended, a Native group corporation that qualifies for a land conveyance under 43 U.S.C. 1613(h)(2), as amended, or a Native urban corporation that qualifies for a land conveyance under 43 U.S.C. 1613(h)(3), as amended, has filed a valid selection application with the United States under 43 U.S.C. 1601 - 1641, as amended, if the selection of the corporation or group has not been rejected or relinquished. (c) Subsection (b) of this section may not be construed to limit the director in the exercise of authority granted by AS 38.05.035(a)(11).
AK Stat § 38.05.285 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 9. Multiple Use of State Land.|Sec. 38.05.285. Multiple use.

Disposal and use of state land shall conform to the constitution of the State of Alaska and the principles of multiple purpose use consistent with the public interest.
AK Stat § 38.05.290 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 10. Land Selection.|Sec. 38.05.290. Selection practice.

(a) The selection of grant, lieu and indemnity land shall conform to this chapter and the policy, orders and regulations adopted by the commissioner. The commissioner shall give preference of selection to the land which will provide the maximum benefits to the people of the state. (b) Consistent with the best interests of the state, in the selection of general grant land it is the policy of the state to make available the maximum land area from which municipalities may fulfill land entitlements under AS 29.65 or former AS 29.18.201 - 29.18.213.
AK Stat § 38.05.295 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 11. Parks and Recreation Areas.|Sec. 38.05.295. Parks and recreation areas.

The commissioner shall establish a policy and adopt regulations by which parks and recreation areas, including public scenic overlooks and cultural sites, shall be developed and managed in a manner that will best serve the interests of the people of the state. The commissioner may classify public land as parks, scenic overlooks, cultural sites, and recreation areas as long as the general intent of this chapter is maintained.
AK Stat § 38.05.300 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 12. Classification of Land.|Sec. 38.05.300. Classification of land.

(a) The commissioner shall classify for surface use land in areas considered necessary and proper. This section does not prevent reclassification of land where the public interest warrants reclassification, nor does it preclude multiple purpose use of land whenever different uses are compatible. If the area involved contains more than 640 contiguous acres, state land, water, or land and water area may not, except by act of the state legislature, (1) be closed to multiple purpose use, or (2) be otherwise classified by the commissioner so that mining, mineral entry or location, mineral prospecting, or mineral leasing is precluded or is designated an incompatible use, except when the classification is necessary for a land disposal or exchange or is for the development of utility or transportation corridors or projects or similar projects or infrastructure, or except as allowed under (c) of this section. (b) [Repealed, § 35 ch 126 SLA 1994.] (c) Notwithstanding (a)(2) of this section, if the commissioner considers it necessary and proper, the commissioner may provide by order for an interim classification that precludes, or designates as an incompatible use, mining, mineral entry or location, mineral prospecting, or mineral leasing. Within 10 days after the convening of each regular legislative session, the commissioner shall transmit to the legislature for consideration all the interim classification orders issued under this subsection during the preceding calendar year. Unless the legislature approves by law an interim classification contained in an order transmitted under this subsection, that order expires on the 90th day of that legislative session or upon adjournment of that session, whichever occurs first. Approval by the legislature of an interim classification satisfies the requirement of (a) of this section for an act of the state legislature.
AK Stat § 38.05.500 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 13. State Control of Certain Land.|Sec. 38.05.500. Electorate determinations.

The people of the State of Alaska determine that: (1) the intent of the framers of the Constitution of the United States was to guarantee to each of the states sovereignty over all matters within its boundaries except for those powers specifically granted to the United States as agent of the states; (2) the attempted imposition upon the State of Alaska by the Congress of the United States of a requirement in the Statehood Act that the State of Alaska and its people “disclaim all right and title to any land or other property not granted or confirmed to the state or its political subdivisions by or under the authority of this Act, the right or title to which is held by the United States or is subject to disposition by the United States,” as a condition precedent to acceptance of Alaska into the Union, was an act beyond the power of the Congress of the United States and is thus void; (3) the purported right of ownership and control of the public land in the State of Alaska by the United States is without foundation and violates the clear intent of the Constitution of the United States; and (4) the exercise of that dominion and control of the public land in the State of Alaska by the United States works a severe, continuous and debilitating hardship upon the people of the State of Alaska.
AK Stat § 38.05.501 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 13. State Control of Certain Land.|Sec. 38.05.501. Management.

(a) The Department of Natural Resources shall manage the land which is the subject of AS 38.05.500 - 38.05.505. The department will use the provisions of this chapter for the management of the land except to the extent that the provisions of AS 38.05.500 - 38.05.505 provide to the contrary. (b) The department shall manage the land in an orderly and beneficial manner. (c) The department may adopt regulations for the management of the land. No regulation which imposes a limitation upon the people of the state is effective until approved by the legislature. (d) The department may sell, lease, exchange, or encumber the land when specifically authorized to do so by law and under the terms and conditions established by the law.
AK Stat § 38.05.502 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 13. State Control of Certain Land.|Sec. 38.05.502. Property of the people.

Subject to valid existing rights of applicants for land, upon February 21, 1983, all land in the state and all minerals not previously appropriated are the exclusive property of the people of the state and the state holds title to the land and minerals in trust for the people of the state.
AK Stat § 38.05.503 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 13. State Control of Certain Land.|Sec. 38.05.503. Treaties and compacts.

Land in the state which has been administered by the United States under international treaties and interstate compacts will continue to be administered by the state in conformity with those treaties and compacts.
AK Stat § 38.05.504 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 13. State Control of Certain Land.|Sec. 38.05.504. Proceeds to the general fund.

The proceeds of sales, fees, rents, royalties or other receipts from the land paid to the state under the provisions of AS 38.05.500 - 38.05.505 shall be deposited in the general fund, and the legislature may provide for payments in lieu of taxes to local governments.
AK Stat § 38.05.505 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 13. State Control of Certain Land.|Sec. 38.05.505. Exclusive enforcement.

(a) The state has exclusive jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of AS 38.05.500 - 38.05.505. (b) An individual may institute a civil action to recover damages for injury or loss sustained as the result of a violation of the provisions of AS 38.05.500 - 38.05.505 or for the failure of the state to enforce its trust responsibilities to the people of the state.