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AK Stat § 44.33.755 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 10. Alaska Capstone Avionics Revolving Loan Fund.|Sec. 44.33.755. Land conveyed in trust.

(a) The commissioner (1) shall accept, administer, and dispose of land conveyed to the state in trust by village corporations under 43 U.S.C. 1613(c)(3) (Sec. 14(c)(3) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act) for the purposes specified in that section; (2) may, with the concurrence of an appropriate village entity recognized by the commissioner under (b) of this section or, in the absence of an appropriate village entity, under procedures prescribed by regulations of the commissioner, accept, administer, and dispose of land conveyed in trust by a state or federal agency and by the dissolution of a municipality under AS 29.06.450 - 29.06.530. (b) Transfer of land by sale, lease, right-of-way, easement, or permit, including transfer of surface resources, may be made by the commissioner only after approval of an appropriate village entity such as the traditional council, a village meeting, or a village referendum. This approval shall be by resolution filed with the department. (c) Within one complete state fiscal year after the incorporation of a municipality in the village or of a municipality that includes all or part of the village, land acquired under this section shall be conveyed without cost to the municipality, and the municipality shall succeed to all the entrusted interest in the land. (d) Separate accounts shall be maintained in the name of each village for the land, including the revenue from the land, acquired from each village corporation under this section. (e) Upon the conveyance of land to a municipality under this section, the commissioner shall account to the municipality for all profits including interest generated from the land. The municipality may then request the governor to submit a request to the legislature for an appropriation for the amount due the municipality. (f) Title to or an interest in land acquired by the department under this section may not be acquired by adverse possession or prescription. Notwithstanding (a) - (e) of this section, on the dissolution of a municipality under AS 29.06.450 - 29.06.530, unimproved land that was owned by the municipality on the date of its dissolution and received by the municipality from the state under a municipal land grant entitlement program is transferred to the commissioner of natural resources. (g) For the purposes of this section, “municipality” includes only first and second class cities incorporated under the laws of the state.
AK Stat § 44.33.760 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 10. Alaska Capstone Avionics Revolving Loan Fund.|Sec. 44.33.760. Loan information officers.

(a) The department may provide itinerant loan information officers to serve persons who reside outside the major population centers of the state. (b) The loan information officers shall be trained, to the extent that the department considers necessary, in a program administered by the department and approved by the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, and the principal departments of the executive branch that administer loan programs. (c) A majority of the loan information officers shall be persons who are conversant in Alaska Native languages that are spoken by a significant number of Alaska Natives. The department shall provide brochures and other printed materials, written in easily understandable English and in the Alaska Native languages that are spoken by a significant number of Alaska Natives, for distribution by the loan information officers. The brochures and printed materials must explain the purposes of the various state loan programs, the minimum qualifications under the programs, the method for obtaining assistance in the completion of applications for the programs, and other information the department determines will improve the access of persons in rural areas to the state's loan programs. (d) The department shall coordinate its efforts under this section with local financial institutions and community groups to determine the proper itinerary and travel schedule of the loan information officers and to provide adequate notice to persons in rural areas of the itinerary and travel schedule of the loan information officers. (e) The department shall assign the loan information officers to rural areas based on the current and potential future demands for loans in those areas and shall establish offices for the loan information officers in rural areas if the department determines it is necessary to provide familiarity with the area served by the loan information officers and to reduce travel costs.
AK Stat § 44.33.780 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 10. Alaska Capstone Avionics Revolving Loan Fund.|Sec. 44.33.780. Definitions.

In AS 44.33.740 - 44.33.780, (1) “commissioner” means the commissioner of commerce, community, and economic development; (2) “department” means the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development.
AK Stat § 44.33.782 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 12. Planning Assistance.|Sec. 44.33.782. Planning assistance to platting authorities.

To facilitate planning in municipalities that exercise planning and zoning authority, the department may provide planning assistance, including but not limited to surveys, land use studies, urban renewal plans, technical services, model acts that include regulations designed to encourage development and use of energy systems not dependent on oil or gas, and other planning work to a city, borough, or other platting authority. In an area under the jurisdiction, for planning purposes, of a city, borough, or other platting authority, the department may not perform the planning work except at the request or with the consent of the local authority.
AK Stat § 44.33.784 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 12. Planning Assistance.|Sec. 44.33.784. Assistance by cities and platting authorities.

A city or platting authority may make funds under its control available to the department for the purposes of obtaining planning work or planning assistance, or both, for its area. The department may contract for, accept, and expend the funds for urban planning for the local jurisdiction.
AK Stat § 44.33.786 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 12. Planning Assistance.|Sec. 44.33.786. Land use planning and state facility procurement plan.

The department shall make recommendations to the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities and to appropriate program agencies concerning the effect upon the comprehensive plan or other land use plans or proposals of municipalities and unincorporated communities with respect to the facility procurement plan required to be prepared in accordance with AS 35.10.170.
AK Stat § 44.33.788 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 12. Planning Assistance.|Sec. 44.33.788. Other planning powers.

The department may accept and expend grants from the federal government and other public or private sources, may contract with reference to them, and may enter into contracts and exercise all other powers necessary to carry out AS 44.33.782 - 44.33.788.
AK Stat § 44.33.790 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 12. Planning Assistance.|Sec. 44.33.790. Definition.

In AS 44.33.782 - 44.33.790, “department” means the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development.
AK Stat § 44.33.810 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 13. Local Boundary Commission.|Sec. 44.33.810. Local Boundary Commission.

There is in the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development a Local Boundary Commission. The Local Boundary Commission consists of five members appointed by the governor for overlapping five-year terms. One member shall be appointed from each of the four judicial districts described in AS 22.10.010 and one member shall be appointed from the state at large. The member appointed from the state at large is the chair of the commission.
AK Stat § 44.33.812 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 13. Local Boundary Commission.|Sec. 44.33.812. Powers and duties.

(a) The Local Boundary Commission shall (1) make studies of local government boundary problems; (2) adopt regulations providing standards and procedures for municipal incorporation, annexation, detachment, merger, consolidation, reclassification, and dissolution; the regulations providing standards and procedures are subject to AS 29.04 - AS 29.10; (3) consider a local government boundary change requested of it by the legislature, the commissioner of commerce, community, and economic development, or a political subdivision of the state; “boundary change” may not be construed to include a borough incorporation; and (4) develop standards and procedures for the extension of services and ordinances of incorporated cities into contiguous areas for limited purposes upon majority approval of the voters of the contiguous area to be annexed and prepare transition schedules and prorated tax mill levies as well as standards for participation by voters of these contiguous areas in the affairs of the incorporated cities furnishing services. (b) The Local Boundary Commission may (1) conduct meetings and hearings to consider local government boundary changes and other matters related to local government boundary changes, including extensions of services by incorporated cities into contiguous areas and matters related to extension of services; and (2) present to the legislature during the first 10 days of a regular session proposed local government boundary changes, including gradual extension of services of incorporated cities into contiguous areas upon a majority approval of the voters of the contiguous area to be annexed and transition schedules providing for total assimilation of the contiguous area and its full participation in the affairs of the incorporated city within a period not to exceed five years.
AK Stat § 44.33.814 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 13. Local Boundary Commission.|Sec. 44.33.814. Meetings and hearings.

The chair of the commission or the commissioner of commerce, community, and economic development with the consent of the chair may call a meeting or hearing of the Local Boundary Commission. All meetings and hearings shall be public.
AK Stat § 44.33.816 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 13. Local Boundary Commission.|Sec. 44.33.816. Minutes and records.

The Local Boundary Commission shall keep minutes of all meetings and hearings. If the proceedings are transcribed, minutes shall be made from the transcription. The minutes are a public record. All votes taken by the commission shall be entered in the minutes.
AK Stat § 44.33.818 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 13. Local Boundary Commission.|Sec. 44.33.818. Notice of public hearings.

Public notice of a hearing of the Local Boundary Commission shall be given in the area in which the hearing is to be held at least 15 days before the date of the hearing. The notice of the hearing must include the time, date, place, and subject of the hearing. The commissioner of commerce, community, and economic development shall give notice of the hearing at least three times in the press, through other news media, or by posting in a public place, whichever is most feasible.
AK Stat § 44.33.820 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 13. Local Boundary Commission.|Sec. 44.33.820. Quorum.

Three members of the commission constitute a quorum for the conduct of business at a meeting. Two members constitute a quorum for the conduct of business at a hearing.
AK Stat § 44.33.822 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 13. Local Boundary Commission.|Sec. 44.33.822. Boundary change.

A majority of the membership of the Local Boundary Commission must vote in favor of a proposed boundary change before it may be presented to the legislature.
AK Stat § 44.33.824 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 13. Local Boundary Commission.|Sec. 44.33.824. Expenses.

Members of the Local Boundary Commission receive no pay but are entitled to the travel expenses and per diem authorized for members of boards and commissions under AS 39.20.180.
AK Stat § 44.33.826 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 13. Local Boundary Commission.|Sec. 44.33.826. Hearings on boundary changes.

A local government boundary change may not be proposed to the legislature unless a hearing on the change has been held in or in the near vicinity of the area affected by the change.
AK Stat § 44.33.828 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 13. Local Boundary Commission.|Sec. 44.33.828. When boundary change takes effect.

When a local government boundary change is proposed to the legislature during the first 10 days of any regular session, the change becomes effective 45 days after presentation or at the end of the session, whichever is earlier, unless disapproved by a resolution concurred in by a majority of the members of each house.
AK Stat § 44.33.840 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 14. Borough Feasibility Studies.|Sec. 44.33.840. Borough feasibility studies.

The commissioner may contract for studies of the feasibility of establishing boroughs in the unorganized borough. A study may be conducted under this section only if (1) appropriations are available for that purpose; and (2) the study is requested by a person residing in the area to be studied or by a city located in the area to be studied.
AK Stat § 44.33.842 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 14. Borough Feasibility Studies.|Sec. 44.33.842. Requests for studies.

A request for a study of the feasibility of establishing a borough in the unorganized borough shall be submitted to the commissioner in writing and must include (1) a description of the boundaries of the area of the proposed study; and (2) an indication of local interest in the proposed study consisting of either (A) a petition requesting the study containing the signatures and addresses of five percent of the voters residing in the area of the proposed study based on the number of voters who voted in the area in the last statewide election; or (B) resolutions requesting the study adopted by the governing bodies of at least five percent of the cities within the area of the proposed study.
AK Stat § 44.33.844 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 14. Borough Feasibility Studies.|Sec. 44.33.844. Boundaries.

The boundaries of an area studied shall conform to the boundaries indicated in the request for the study under AS 44.33.842 unless the commissioner, after a public hearing held in the area of the proposed study, determines that the boundaries should be altered. In determining the boundaries of an area to be studied, the commissioner shall consider (1) the standards applicable to the incorporation of boroughs under AS 29.05.031; (2) boundaries of regional corporations established under 43 U.S.C. 1606; (3) census divisions of the state used for the 1980 census; and (4) boundaries of the regional educational attendance areas established under AS 14.08.031.
AK Stat § 44.33.846 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 14. Borough Feasibility Studies.|Sec. 44.33.846. Contracts.

(a) The commissioner shall contract for a study of the feasibility of establishing a borough in the unorganized borough by following the procedures under AS 36.30 (State Procurement Code). The commissioner shall include terms in the contract that provide for (1) public participation in the preparation of the study; (2) completion of the study not later than June 30 of the third year after the year the contract is executed. (b) A study under this section must include (1) a recommendation for or against incorporation of a borough containing all or part of the area studied; (2) an evaluation of the economic development potential of the area studied; (3) an evaluation of capital facility needs of the area studied; (4) an evaluation of demographic, social, and environmental factors affecting the area studied; (5) an evaluation of the relationships among regional educational attendance areas, coastal resource service areas, and other regional entities responsible for providing services in the area studied; (6) an evaluation of the relationships between the existing cities within the area studied and regional entities responsible for providing services in the area; and (7) specific recommendations for (A) organization of a home rule or general law borough government if one is recommended; (B) changes in organization of cities in the area studied; or (C) the improvement of the delivery of services to the public by the state in the area studied.
AK Stat § 44.33.849 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 14. Borough Feasibility Studies.|Sec. 44.33.849. Definition.

In AS 44.33.840 - 44.33.849, “commissioner” means the commissioner of commerce, community, and economic development.
AK Stat § 44.33.900 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 15. Alaska Regional Economic Assistance Program.|Sec. 44.33.900. Alaska forest products research and marketing program.

(a) The Alaska Forest Products Research and Marketing Program is established in the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development. (b) The program is established to provide a statewide information clearinghouse and coordinator to gather and disseminate information relating to research and development, including technical, logistical, financing, marketing, and other relevant information regarding the manufacture of specific value-added wood products and the establishment of new high value-added manufacturing facilities in the state, and to assist in coordinating existing research and development efforts by state and federal agencies and other public and private entities. (c) The program coordinator shall identify unfilled needs and problems impeding the development of a high value-added wood products industry in the state, gather information and conduct analyses, and propose solutions by exploring successful models in other states and nations.
AK Stat § 44.33.950 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 17. Alaska Microloan Revolving Loan Fund.|Sec. 44.33.950. Alaska microloan revolving loan fund.

(a) The Alaska microloan revolving loan fund is created in the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development to carry out the purposes of AS 44.33.950 - 44.33.990. (b) The Alaska microloan revolving loan fund consists of the following: (1) money appropriated to, transferred to, or received by gift, grant, devise, bequest, or donation to the fund; (2) principal and interest payments or other income earned on loans or investments of the fund; (3) money chargeable to principal or interest that is collected through liquidation by foreclosure or other process on loans made under AS 44.33.950 - 44.33.990. (c) Money in the fund may be used by the legislature to make appropriations for costs of administering AS 44.33.950 - 44.33.990.
AK Stat § 44.33.955 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 17. Alaska Microloan Revolving Loan Fund.|Sec. 44.33.955. Powers and duties of the department.

The department may (1) make loans to eligible applicants under AS 44.33.950 - 44.33.990 to be used for working capital, equipment, construction, or other commercial purposes by a business located in the state; (2) receive, take, hold, and administer any appropriation, transfer, gift, grant, bequest, devise, or donation of money for the fund; (3) establish amortization plans for repayment of loans, including extensions of the terms of loans; (4) allow an assumption of a loan if (A) the applicant meets the requirements established under this section; and (B) approval of the assumption would be consistent with the purposes of AS 44.33.950 - 44.33.990; (5) establish the rate of interest for loans consistent with law; (6) charge and collect fees for services provided under AS 44.33.950 - 44.33.990; (7) adopt regulations under AS 44.62 necessary to carry out the provisions of AS 44.33.950 - 44.33.990, including regulations to establish reasonable fees for services provided; and (8) designate agents and delegate powers as necessary to the agents.
AK Stat § 44.33.960 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 44. State Government|Chapter 33. Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development|Article 17. Alaska Microloan Revolving Loan Fund.|Sec. 44.33.960. Eligibility.

(a) For an applicant to be eligible for a loan under AS 44.33.950 - 44.33.990, the applicant shall (1) be a resident of the state, as determined under (b) of this section; (2) provide a reasonable amount of money from other nonstate sources for use on any project or enterprise for which money from a loan will be used; and (3) if the requested loan amount is more than $35,000, provide to the department a document from a state financial institution stating that (A) the applicant has been denied a loan for the same purpose; or (B) a loan from the financial institution is contingent on the applicant also receiving a loan from the fund. (b) To meet the residency requirements of (a) of this section, the applicant (1) shall physically reside in this state and maintain a domicile in this state during the 12 consecutive months preceding the date of application for the program; and (2) may not have (A) declared or established residency in another state; or (B) received residency or a benefit based on residency from another state.