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AK Stat § 38.04.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 04. Policy for Use and Classification of State Land Surface|Article 3. Inventory, Planning, and Classification.|Sec. 38.04.070. Management categories.

State land classified for uses and purposes involving retention in public ownership may be included in the following management categories: (1) state public reserve land: areas of public land to be managed for a wide variety of compatible uses and purposes in accordance with the principles of multiple use and sustained yield; land designated to this category may include, but need not be limited to, state forest reserves and state wildlife reserves as well as land classified for public purposes within settlement impact areas; (2) state parks: areas with special recreational, scenic, cultural, historical, wilderness, or similar values, to be managed primarily for the public use and enjoyment of these values; (3) state trails: a system of public historic or recreational trails; (4) wild and scenic rivers: a system of rivers and adjacent state land with special natural, scenic, and recreational values located within or adjacent to a wild and scenic river area managed as part of the national system of wild and scenic rivers in accordance with 16 U.S.C. 1271 - 1287 (Wild and Scenic Rivers Act); (5) state public domain: land within areas designated on regional plans as settlement and settlement impact which are not part of the management categories listed in (1) - (4) of this section; through classification, this land may be made available for private use, settlement, and development as well as for public uses associated with settlement and development.
AK Stat § 38.04.200 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 04. Policy for Use and Classification of State Land Surface|Article 4. Access to State Land and Fishing Streams.|Sec. 38.04.200. Traditional means of access.

(a) The commissioner may not manage state land, water, or land and water so that a traditional means of access for traditional outdoor activities is restricted for the purpose of protecting aesthetic values of the land, water, or land and water or is prohibited unless the restriction or prohibition is (1) for an area of land, water, or land and water that encompasses 640 contiguous acres or less; (2) temporary in nature and effective cumulatively less than eight months in a three-year period; (3) for the protection of public safety and public or private property; (4) for the development of natural resources and a reasonable alternative for the traditional means of access across the land, water, or land and water for traditional outdoor activities on other land, water, or land and water is available and approved by the commissioner; or (5) authorized by act of the legislature. (b) In this section, (1) “aesthetic values” means those values that exist as an expression of the social or cultural viewpoint held by a portion of the population; (2) “traditional means of access” means those types of transportation on, to, or in the state land, water, or land and water, for which a popular pattern of use has developed; the term includes flying, ballooning, boating, using snow vehicles, operation of all-terrain vehicles, horseback riding, mushing, skiing, snowshoeing, and walking; (3) “traditional outdoor activities” means those types of activities that people may use for sport, exercise, subsistence, including the harvest of foodstuffs, or personal enjoyment, including hunting, fishing, trapping, gathering, or recreational mining, and that have historically been conducted as part of an individual, family, or community life pattern on or in the state land, water, or land and water.
AK Stat § 38.04.205 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 04. Policy for Use and Classification of State Land Surface|Article 4. Access to State Land and Fishing Streams.|Sec. 38.04.205. Fishing stream access report.

(a) The department, in consultation with the commissioner of fish and game, shall annually, not later than the 10th day of each regular legislative session, provide to the legislature and the governor, and post on the department's Internet website, an electronic report (1) detailing the department's efforts during the previous year to maintain or enhance access to and along fishing streams; (2) stating the department's objectives for enhancing and maintaining access to and along fishing streams by the public in the upcoming year. (b) In this section, “fishing stream” means a stream with an appreciable sport, personal use dip net, commercial, or subsistence fish population.
AK Stat § 38.04.900 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 04. Policy for Use and Classification of State Land Surface|Article 5. General Provisions.|Sec. 38.04.900. Regulations.

(a) The commissioner shall adopt under the Administrative Procedure Act (AS 44.62) regulations believed necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. (b) A municipality has standing to petition the commissioner for the adoption of a regulation, or for the amendment or repeal of an existing regulation, or to appeal a decision of the commissioner with respect to classification, management, or disposal of land made under authority of a regulation adopted under (a) of this section with respect to state land outside the corporate boundaries of the municipality to protect any interest which the municipality is authorized to regulate outside its boundaries under AS 29.35.020. (c) If the regulations adopted by the commissioner under (a) of this section fail to provide for a process by which decisions of the commissioner may be appealed, an interested person may petition for reconsideration of a decision. The petition shall contain the information required to be submitted by AS 44.62.220 and shall be acted upon by the commissioner in the manner provided in AS 44.62.230. For purposes of this subsection, a municipality is an interested person with respect to its interests in land defined in (b) of this section.
AK Stat § 38.04.910 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 04. Policy for Use and Classification of State Land Surface|Article 5. General Provisions.|Sec. 38.04.910. Definitions.

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, (1) “commissioner” means the commissioner of natural resources; (2) “director” means the director of the division of lands of the Department of Natural Resources; (3) “fair market value” means the price at which a willing seller and a willing buyer will trade; (4) “long-term lease” means a lease for a term of more than 10 years; (5) “multiple use” means the management of state land and its various resource values so that it is used in the combination that will best meet the present and future needs of the people of Alaska, making the most judicious use of the land for some or all of these resources or related services over areas large enough to provide sufficient latitude for periodic adjustments in use to conform to changing needs and conditions; it includes (A) the use of some land for less than all of the resources; and (B) a combination of balanced and diverse resource uses that takes into account the short-term and long-term needs of present and future generations for renewable and nonrenewable resources, including, but not limited to, recreation, range, timber, minerals, watershed, wildlife and fish, and natural scenic, scientific, and historic values; (6) “official cadastral survey” means a United States public land survey or a survey executed under survey instructions issued by the division for the purpose of preparing a cadastral survey plat, and approved and accepted by the division for the state's official records; (7) “official control survey” means a position marked on the ground by triangulation or traverse stations established in conformity with standards adopted by United States Coastal and Geodetic Survey for first, second and third order work, whose geodetic positions have been rigidly adjusted on the North American datum of 1927 and approved by the division; (8) “short-term lease” means a lease for a term of 10 years or less; (9) “state park” means an area of state land designated by law to be managed for public use and enjoyment of recreational, scenic, cultural, historical, wilderness, and similar values, and includes roadside rests and recreational beaches, state monuments and historic sites, state recreation areas and state parks, including marine parks; (10) “state trail” means an area designated by law to be managed as a public historic or recreational trail including but not limited to (A) trails designated under AS 41.21.850 - 41.21.860, wilderness trails and campsites; and (B) trails and footpaths designated under AS 41.21.864 - 41.21.872; (11) “subdivision” has the meaning given in AS 40.15.900; (12) “sustained yield” means the achievement and maintenance in perpetuity of a high level annual or regular periodic output of the various renewable resources of the state land consistent with multiple use; (13) “wild and scenic river” means a free-flowing river or stream designated as provided in 16 U.S.C. 1271 - 1287 (Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, 82 Stat. 906).
AK Stat § 38.05.005 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 38.05.005. Division of lands.

The commissioner shall control and supervise the division of lands created and established under the Department of Natural Resources. The director has administrative powers and other delegated duties, as prescribed by law or regulation.
AK Stat § 38.05.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 38.05.010. Appointment of director.

The commissioner shall appoint a director. The director is the executive officer of the division of lands.
AK Stat § 38.05.015 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 38.05.015. Director serves at pleasure of commissioner.

The director serves at the pleasure of the commissioner.
AK Stat § 38.05.023 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 38.05.023. Terms in an agreement or contract related to a North Slope natural gas project.

(a) An agreement or contract to which the state or an entity of the state is a party that is negotiated under AS 38.05.020(b)(11) must include a requirement that the state or an entity of the state shall have access to data developed under the agreement or contract in which the state or an entity of the state has directly participated financially. Access by the state or an entity of the state to the data must be on the same or substantially similar terms applicable to any other party in a North Slope natural gas project. (b) A proposed agreement or contract associated with a North Slope natural gas project may not include a provision that changes the property tax on property that was previously taxable under AS 43.56. (c) A proposed agreement or contract associated with a North Slope natural gas project must provide the means for allocating infrastructure costs between the state and other parties in the project. The allocation must take into consideration the extent to which infrastructure is used by the project and used by the public and the difference between the normal expected or actual life-cycle costs for the infrastructure as used by the project and the expected or actual life-cycle costs of the same infrastructure if subject only to general public use. The proposed agreement or contract may not require the state to pay infrastructure costs that are directly related to the project and not designed for general public use in a proportionate amount that is greater than the state's share of participation in the project. (d) An agreement or contract to which the state or an entity of the state is a party that is negotiated under AS 38.05.020(b)(11) must include principles based on commercially reasonable terms for delivering natural gas to public utilities in the state when the demand for natural gas by the utilities exceeds the amount of the state's royalty natural gas and natural gas delivered to the state as payment of tax that is available in a North Slope natural gas project.
AK Stat § 38.05.025 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 38.05.025. Continuing regulations, agreements, etc.

All rules, regulations, procedures, funds, contracts, and agreements established or entered into by the Department of Lands before May 2, 1959, under the authority of ch. 126, SLA 1953, as amended, and ch. 184, SLA 1957, are continued, and are subject to amendment by the commissioner except where inconsistent with this chapter.
AK Stat § 38.05.027 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 38.05.027. Cooperative resource management or development agreements.

(a) Consistent with the authority of the commissioner under law, the commissioner, after determining that the agreement is in the best interests of the public and the state, may enter into cooperative resource management or development agreements with the federal government, a state agency, a village or municipality, or a person. Specific guidelines to protect the state and public interest shall be established, if necessary, by the commissioner before entering into an agreement under this section. (b) A summary of agreements entered into under this section shall be submitted to the legislature within five days of the beginning of each regular session.
AK Stat § 38.05.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 38.05.030. Exceptions.

(a) [Repealed, § 88 ch 152 SLA 1984.] (b) The provisions of this chapter do not apply to any power, duty or authority now or in the future granted to the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities in the name of the state, to acquire, use, lease, dispose of, or exchange real property, or any interest in real property. Land assigned by the division of lands to the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities shall be returned to the management of the division of lands when it is no longer needed for the purposes assigned. (c) The agencies referred to in (b) of this section and other state agencies with authority to acquire or dispose of land shall give written notification of the fact of acquisition, lease, disposal, or exchange to the commissioner within three months after the date that they make the acquisition, lease, disposal, or exchange. (d) Except for land that is required to be returned to the department under (b) of this section, the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities may dispose of real property acquired by it under AS 02.15.070, AS 19.05.040(1) and (2), 19.05.080 - 19.05.120, AS 35.05.040(1) and (2), and AS 35.20.010 - 35.20.050. Land conveyed under this section to a municipality for less than fair market value shall be credited against the municipality's entitlement under AS 29.65. (e) [Repealed, § 20 ch 182 SLA 1978.] (f) Land owned by the Board of Regents of the University of Alaska is not subject to this chapter. (g) This chapter does not authorize the commissioner or any employee of the department to acquire title to real property through the use of lease-purchase agreements or lease-financing agreements in which the department is the lessor. For purposes of this section, “lease-purchase agreement” and “lease-financing agreement” have the meanings given those terms in AS 36.30.990.
AK Stat § 38.05.037 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 38.05.037. Zoning regulations in the unorganized borough.

(a) In areas of the state outside first, second, or third class boroughs where there is no municipality with a zoning power, the division of lands shall exercise the zoning power by adopting zoning regulations. (b) The division of lands may exercise its zoning power (1) within federal land in the unorganized borough only at the times and in the areas it is requested to do so by the Secretary of the Interior to facilitate sales of federal land within the unorganized borough under P.L. 88-608, 78 Stat. 988; (2) [Repealed, § 44 ch 24 SLA 2003.]  (c) Any zoning done by the division of lands under (b) of this section is final unless disapproved by concurrent resolution at the next regular session of the legislature.
AK Stat § 38.05.045 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 2. Sale of Land.|Sec. 38.05.045. Generally.

All land owned in fee by the state or to which the state may become entitled, excepting tide, submerged, or shoreland, and timber or grazing land, may be sold as provided in AS 38.05.045 - 38.05.069 and AS 38.08. However, this section does not prevent the disposition of land as provided in AS 38.05.300, 38.05.321, 38.05.810 - 38.05.870, 38.05.920, 38.05.945 and 38.05.946.
AK Stat § 38.05.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 2. Sale of Land.|Sec. 38.05.050. Disposal of land for private ownership.

The commissioner shall determine the land to be disposed of for private use. The commissioner shall determine the time and place of disposal. A public auction sale, a sale by sealed bid, a lottery sale, or a disposal of land for homesites may be held in a community that is near the land to be sold or disposed of.
AK Stat § 38.05.055 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 2. Sale of Land.|Sec. 38.05.055. Auction sale or sealed bid procedures.

Unless another method of sale is required under this chapter, AS 38.08, or AS 38.09, the sale of state land shall be made at public auction or by sealed bid, at the discretion of the director, to the highest qualified bidder as determined by the director. The director may accept bids and sell state land under this section at not less than 70 percent of the appraised fair market value of the land. To qualify to participate under this section in a public auction or sale by sealed bid of state land that is other than commercial, industrial, or agricultural land, a bidder shall have been a resident of the state for at least one year immediately preceding the date of the sale and submit proof of that fact, as the commissioner requires by regulation. A bidder may be represented by an attorney or agent at a public auction. An aggrieved bidder may appeal to the commissioner within five days after the sale for a review of the director's determination. The sale shall be conducted by the director, and, at the time of sale, the successful bidder shall deposit an amount equal to five percent of the purchase price. The director shall immediately issue a receipt containing a description of the land or property purchased, the price bid, and the amount deposited. The receipt shall be acknowledged in writing by the bidder.
AK Stat § 38.05.059 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 2. Sale of Land.|Sec. 38.05.059. Sale of agricultural land.

The commissioner, after consulting with the Board of Agriculture and Conservation (AS 03.09.010), may provide for the sale of land classified under AS 38.05.020(b)(6) for agricultural uses in parcels or tracts described by aliquot parts. The parcels or tracts are subject to state subdivision requirements and municipal ordinances. Money from a sale of agricultural land shall be separately accounted for and may be appropriated to the agricultural revolving loan fund (AS 03.10.040).
AK Stat § 38.05.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 2. Sale of Land.|Sec. 38.05.060. Rejection of bids.

Before the signing of the formal conveyance by the director, the commissioner may reject all bids when the best interests of the state justify this action. Land offered at public sale but not sold may be made available at private sale for not less than its appraised value.
AK Stat § 38.05.067 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 2. Sale of Land.|Sec. 38.05.067. Preference for veterans for unoccupied residential land.

(a) Except as provided in (d) of this section, before offering to the general public any unoccupied residential land, the director shall offer the land at a restricted sale at which only veterans may buy. (b) The director may not sell the land under this section at less than the appraised fair market value. The director shall adopt regulations necessary to ensure that land sold under this section is for bona fide residential use and not for speculation. (c) When not in conflict with this section, other provisions of AS 38.05.045 - 38.05.067 apply to sales under this section. (d) This section does not apply to the sale of state land under AS 38.05.057, AS 38.08, or AS 38.09. (e) In this section, “veteran” means a person with 90 days or more of active service in the armed forces of the United States who has been honorably discharged or a person with 90 days or more of service in the Alaska Territorial Guard.
AK Stat § 38.05.068 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 38. Public Land|Chapter 05. Alaska Land Act|Article 2. Sale of Land.|Sec. 38.05.068. Forest Service permittees' sales preference.

(a) Before offering to the public any land which is subject to a valid existing United States Forest Service permit in effect on the day before that land is tentatively approved for patent to the state, or which is subject to a lease issued under AS 38.05.087, the director shall offer the land for sale to the permittee or a successor in title, if the permittee or a successor in title of the permittee can be found. (b) When not in conflict with this section, the provisions of AS 38.05.045 - 38.05.069 apply to sales under this section. (c) If the permit described in (a) of this section is for a recreational cabin, recreational residence, nonrecreational residence, or a residence of a community nature and the land is used for noncommercial residential or recreational purposes, the purchase price offered to a permittee or the successor of a permittee shall be an amount determined by the commissioner which is equal to the state money required to be spent in order to sell the land plus the cost of survey or resurvey, if the survey or resurvey is made by the department or a contractor of the department. (d) If the permit described in (a) of this section is for a use other than a use listed in (c) of this section, the purchase price offered to a permittee or the successor of a permittee shall be not less than the appraised fair market value of the land.