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AK Stat § 09.45.550 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 6. Partition.|Sec. 09.45.550. Investment of proceeds belonging to unknown or nonresident owner.

When there are proceeds of a sale belonging to an unknown owner or to a person outside the state who has no legal representatives inside it, or where there are proceeds arising from the sale of an estate subject to the prior estate of a tenant for life or years that are paid into the court or otherwise deposited by order of the court, the court may order the proceeds to be invested in securities bearing interest for the benefit of the persons entitled to the proceeds.
AK Stat § 09.45.560 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 6. Partition.|Sec. 09.45.560. Security taken and investments made in name of court clerk.

When the security for the proceeds of sale is taken or when an investment of any proceeds is made, it shall be done, except as herein otherwise provided, in the name of the clerk of the court, who shall hold the same for the use and benefit of the parties interested, subject to the order of the court.
AK Stat § 09.45.570 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 6. Partition.|Sec. 09.45.570. Security taken in names of parties when interests ascertained.

When security is taken on a sale and the parties interested in the security agree on the shares and proportions to which they are respectively entitled, or when shares and proportions have been previously adjudged by the court, the securities shall be taken in the names of and payable to the parties respectively entitled to them, and shall be delivered to the parties.
AK Stat § 09.45.580 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 6. Partition.|Sec. 09.45.580. Duties of clerk in securities and investments.

The clerk in whose name a security is taken or by whom an investment is made shall receive the interest and principal as it becomes due, and apply and invest it as the court may direct. The clerk shall deposit in the clerk's office all securities taken, and keep an account in a book provided and kept for that purpose in the clerk's office, free for inspection by all persons, of investments and money received by the clerk from the investments, and their disposition.
AK Stat § 09.45.590 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 6. Partition.|Sec. 09.45.590. Compensation for unequal partition.

When it appears that partition cannot be made equal between the parties according to their respective rights, without prejudice to the rights and interests of some of them, and a partition is ordered, the court may adjudge compensation to be made by one party to another on account of the inequality. However, the compensation may not be required to be made to others by owners unknown or by infants unless it appears that the infant has personal property sufficient for that purpose and that the infant's interest will be promoted by giving compensation.
AK Stat § 09.45.600 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 6. Partition.|Sec. 09.45.600. Payment to guardian of share of infant.

When the share of an infant is sold, the proceeds of the sale may be paid to the general guardian of the infant or the special guardian appointed for the infant in the action upon the guardian's giving the security required by law or directed by order of the court.
AK Stat § 09.45.610 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 6. Partition.|Sec. 09.45.610. Payment to guardian of share of insane or incompetent person.

The guardian who may be entitled to the custody and management of the estate of an insane person or other person adjudged incapable of conducting one's own affairs whose interest in real property has been sold may receive in behalf of that person that person's share of the proceeds of the real property on executing an undertaking, with sufficient sureties and approved by the judge of the court, that the guardian will faithfully discharge the trust reposed in the guardian and will render a true and just account to the person entitled or to the legal representatives of that person.
AK Stat § 09.45.620 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 6. Partition.|Sec. 09.45.620. Apportionment of cost of partition.

The costs of partition, including fees or referees and other disbursements, shall be paid by the parties respectively entitled to share in the lands divided in proportion to their respective interests in the property, and may be included and specified in the judgment. In that case they are a lien on the several shares, and the judgment may be enforced by execution against the parties separately. When, however, a litigation arises between some of the parties only, the court may require the expenses of the litigation to be paid by any or all of the parties to the litigation.
AK Stat § 09.45.630 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 7. Recovery of Possession.|Sec. 09.45.630. Actions for recovery of real property.

A person who has a legal estate in real property and has a present right to the possession of the property may bring an action to recover the possession of the property with damages for withholding it; however, recovery of possession from a tenant shall be made under AS 09.45.060 - 09.45.160.
AK Stat § 09.45.640 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 7. Recovery of Possession.|Sec. 09.45.640. Damages for withholding property and value of improvements as setoff.

When property is recovered from a defendant who, in good faith, holds the property under color of title adversely to the claim of the plaintiff, the value of any permanent improvements that the defendant or those under whom the defendant claims have made to the property shall be allowed as a setoff against damages allowed for the withholding of the property. The plaintiff may recover damages for withholding the property for a term of six years before the commencement of the action and for the period from the commencement to the verdict, both excluding the use of permanent improvements made by the defendant.
AK Stat § 09.45.650 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 7. Recovery of Possession.|Sec. 09.45.650. Termination of right to recover property during pendency of action.

Where the plaintiff shows a right to recover at the time the action was commenced, but it appears that the plaintiff's right has terminated during the pendency of the action, the plaintiff may only recover damages for the withholding of the property.
AK Stat § 09.45.660 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 7. Recovery of Possession.|Sec. 09.45.660. Order for survey and measurement of property.

The court in which the action is pending may allow a party and the party's surveyors to go on the property to make a survey for the purposes of the action.
AK Stat § 09.45.670 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 7. Recovery of Possession.|Sec. 09.45.670. Effect of alienation by person in possession.

An action for the recovery of the possession of real property against a person in possession cannot be prejudiced by an alienation made by that person either before or after the commencement of the action. If the alienation is made after the commencement of the action and the defendant does not satisfy the judgment recovered for damages for withholding the possession, the damages may be recovered by action against the purchaser.
AK Stat § 09.45.680 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 7. Recovery of Possession.|Sec. 09.45.680. Mortgage not a conveyance.

A mortgage of real property is not a conveyance that will enable the owner of the mortgage to recover possession of the real property without a foreclosure and sale.
AK Stat § 09.45.690 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 7. Recovery of Possession.|Sec. 09.45.690. Failure to pay rent.

Unless otherwise provided in the lease, a landlord has a right to re-enter leased premises when a tenant fails to pay rent, and may bring action to recover the possession of the premises and the action is equivalent to a demand of the rent. If, at any time before judgment, the lessee or a successor in interest pays the amount of rent in arrears with interest and costs of the action and performs the other covenants or agreements, the lessee or successor is entitled to continue in possession unless otherwise provided in the lease.
AK Stat § 09.45.700 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 7. Recovery of Possession.|Sec. 09.45.700. Judgment in actions to recover possession.

The judgment in an action to recover the possession of real property is conclusive as to the estate in the property and the right to the possession so far as it is determined upon the party against whom it is given and against all persons claiming from, through, or under that party after the commencement of the action. However, when service of the summons is by publication and judgment is given for failure of a party to answer, that party or a successor in interest is at any time within two years from the entry of the judgment, upon application to the court, entitled to an order vacating the judgment and granting that party or a successor a new trial upon the payment of the costs of the action.
AK Stat § 09.45.710 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 7. Recovery of Possession.|Sec. 09.45.710. Possession when new trial granted.

If the judgment is set aside and a new trial granted as provided in AS 09.45.700, after the plaintiff has taken possession of the property, the plaintiff shall remain in possession. But if judgment is given for the defendant in the new trial, the defendant is entitled to restitution by execution as if the defendant were plaintiff.
AK Stat § 09.45.730 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 8. Trespass.|Sec. 09.45.730. Trespass by cutting or injuring trees or shrubs.

A person who without lawful authority cuts down, girdles, or otherwise injures or removes a tree, timber, or a shrub on (1) the land of another person or on the street or highway in front of a person's house, or (2) a village or municipal lot, or cultivated grounds, or the commons or public land of a village or municipality, or (3) the street or highway in front of land described in (2) of this section, is liable to the owner of that land, or to the village or municipality for treble the amount of damages that may be assessed in a civil action. However, if the trespass was unintentional or involuntary, or the defendant had probable cause to believe that the land on which the trespass was committed was the defendant's own or that of the person in whose service or by whose direction the act was done, or where the timber was taken from unenclosed woodland for the purpose of repairing a public highway or bridge on or adjoining the land, only actual damages may be recovered.
AK Stat § 09.45.735 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 8. Trespass.|Sec. 09.45.735. Trespass related to geotechnical surveys and mining.

A person who trespasses upon the land of another to gather geotechnical data or take mineral resources is liable to the owner of the land for treble the amount of damages that may be assessed in a civil action. If the trespass is unintentional or involuntary or the defendant had probable cause to believe that the land on which the trespass was committed was the defendant's own or that of the person in whose service or by whose direction the act was done, only actual damages may be recovered.
AK Stat § 09.45.740 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 9. Waste.|Sec. 09.45.740. Right of action for waste.

If a guardian, tenant for life or years, or tenant in common of real property commits waste on the property, a person injured by the waste may bring an action for damages for the injury. In an action for waste there may be judgment for treble damages. Where the plaintiff has a reversionary interest and the injury due to waste equals or exceeds the value of the interest held by the one committing the waste, or the waste is committed with malice, judgment may be for forfeiture of the estate and eviction.
AK Stat § 09.45.800 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 10. Earthslide Relief Act.|Sec. 09.45.800. Prerequisite earthslide changing land boundaries.

If the boundaries of land, owned either by public or by private persons have been moved by an act of God, consisting of an earthslide, so that they are in a location different from that at which, by solar survey, they were located before the earthslide, an action in rem to recognize the boundaries as they presently exist and to quiet title within the boundaries in the persons judicially found entitled to title under AS 09.45.800 - 09.45.880, is authorized, maintainable by the persons and with the procedures in AS 09.45.800 - 09.45.880 for the handling of the emergencies dealt with in AS 09.45.800 - 09.45.880.
AK Stat § 09.45.805 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 10. Earthslide Relief Act.|Sec. 09.45.805. Parties.

(a) An action authorized by AS 09.45.800 - 09.45.880 may be commenced by (1) a borough with the joinder of a city or cities included in the borough; (2) a city not included within the boundaries of a borough, if the earthslide has affected land in the city, or land outside the city as to which outside land the city has statutory power to approve a land map; (3) a school district that has statutory power to approve a land map; or (4) any other entity or person, granted permission by the court to bring the action. (b) In an action authorized by AS 09.45.800 - 09.45.880 every person in actual and peaceable possession of, or having an estate or interest in any of the land affected by the action, whose possession or evidence of estate or interest is either recorded or known to the plaintiffs, must be designated in the complaint of the action, and given notice in the manner required by AS 09.45.800 - 09.45.880 and the court rules of civil procedure. (c) All unknown parties, including owners, claimants, heirs, devisees, legatees, or assigns, may be described in the caption and complaint as “all persons claiming any interest in or lien upon, the real property herein described or any part of it.”
AK Stat § 09.45.810 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 10. Earthslide Relief Act.|Sec. 09.45.810. Separate actions as to separate slide areas.

An entity that is a permissible plaintiff under AS 09.45.805, may, in its discretion, bring a separate action under AS 09.45.800 - 09.45.880 with respect to each separate slide area located within its boundaries and its decision regarding the desirability of the separate action, and regarding the area to be dealt with in each action is final.
AK Stat § 09.45.815 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 10. Earthslide Relief Act.|Sec. 09.45.815. Complaint.

The complaint must substantially include (1) a statement of the facts making the provisions in AS 09.45.800 - 09.45.880 applicable; (2) a description of the entire real property sought to be affected by the action; (3) a specification of the estate, title, and interest owned, and in the actual possession of the plaintiff or plaintiffs in described parts of the entire real property sought to be affected by the action; (4) a specification of the estate, title, and interest, so far as they are known to the plaintiffs or either of them, and so far as they are capable of being discovered by reasonably diligent search by the plaintiff or plaintiffs, in each separate part of the entire real property sought to be affected by the action; (5) a specification of the street areas offered by the plaintiff, or plaintiffs, to be vacated in whole or in part for judicial equitable allocation to landowners for the mitigation of the losses inflicted upon the landowners by the act of God consisting of the earthslide; (6) a proposed replatting of the entire real property sought to be affected by the action, embodying the land boundaries as fixed by the act of God, except as these have been liberalized by judicially directed use of the vacated lands.
AK Stat § 09.45.820 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 10. Earthslide Relief Act.|Sec. 09.45.820. Publication and posting of notice.

The notice required by Rule 4(e)(4), Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure shall be published as provided in the rules, and a copy of the notice shall be posted in a conspicuous place on each separate parcel of the entire real property described in the complaint within 20 days after the first publication of the notice.
AK Stat § 09.45.825 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 10. Earthslide Relief Act.|Sec. 09.45.825. Procedure applicable.

Except as otherwise provided in AS 09.45.800 - 09.45.880, the Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure shall apply to actions authorized by AS 09.45.800 - 09.45.880.
AK Stat § 09.45.830 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 10. Earthslide Relief Act.|Sec. 09.45.830. Jurisdiction.

Upon the completion of the service, publication and posting of the summons, as may be required by AS 09.45.800 - 09.45.880 and the Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure, the court has complete jurisdiction over the parties plaintiff or plaintiffs and the entire real property described in the complaint as intended to be affected by the action and over the person of everyone having or claiming an estate, right, title, or interest in or to, or lien upon, all or any part of the property and shall be considered to have obtained the possession and control of the property for the purposes of the action with complete jurisdiction to render the judgment provided for in AS 09.45.800 - 09.45.880.
AK Stat § 09.45.835 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 10. Earthslide Relief Act.|Sec. 09.45.835. Answer.

(a) An answer to the complaint must be served within 90 days after the first publication of the notice, or such further time not exceeding 30 days, as the court for good cause may grant. (b) An answer must (1) specifically set out the particulars in which the claimant's estate, right, title, or interest in or to, or lien upon all or any part of the property is different from, or greater than, the interest of the claimant as it is described in the complaint; (2) be confined to rights based on events occurring at the time of, or since the time of the act of God, consisting of the earthslide. (c) To whatever extent, if at all, the answering party has rights against anyone whatsoever, based upon facts or events that occurred before the earthslide, the claims shall remain unaffected by the action brought under AS 09.45.800 - 09.45.880 and shall be assertable subsequent to the conclusion of the action at any time and in any manner permitted by law, notwithstanding the judgment granted in this action, recognizing however the finality of this judgment as to the consequences, with respect to land boundaries, of the earthslide.
AK Stat § 09.45.840 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 10. Earthslide Relief Act.|Sec. 09.45.840. Lis pendens.

A party to an action authorized by AS 09.45.800 - 09.45.880 may record a notice of the pendency of the action in the form and at the place and with the effects specified in AS 09.45.940.
AK Stat § 09.45.845 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 10. Earthslide Relief Act.|Sec. 09.45.845. Vacating of streets in whole or in part.

The vacating of streets in whole or in part by the voluntary action of a municipality, for the purpose of making it possible for the court to mitigate the hardships suffered by individuals because of the change in land boundaries caused by the act of God, consisting of an earthslide, can be accomplished by the offer of the municipality expressed in the complaint followed by the court's approval of it in the action authorized in AS 09.45.800 - 09.45.880, without other formalities. This provision is a special emergency substitute for the provisions contained in AS 29.40.120 - 29.40.160.
AK Stat § 09.45.850 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 10. Earthslide Relief Act.|Sec. 09.45.850. Proof of facts.

In an action of the type authorized in AS 09.45.800 - 09.45.880, judgment may not be given by default, but the court must require proof of the facts alleged in the complaint and other pleadings.
AK Stat § 09.45.855 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 10. Earthslide Relief Act.|Sec. 09.45.855. Scope of judgment.

The judgment shall (1) determine the land boundaries of each parcel of land located within the entire area of real property sought to be affected by the action, whether owned publicly or privately after judicial equitable allocation of lands voluntarily vacated by a municipality under AS 09.45.845; (2) determine the person or persons having estates, rights, titles, interests, and claims in and to each parcel, whether legal or equitable, present or future, vested or contingent, or whether they consist of mortgages or liens of any description; (3) approve and direct the proper filing of a new plat map covering the entire area of real property sought to be affected by the action, as a substitute for the plat maps previously filed, but rendered inaccurate by the act of God, consisting of an earthslide.
AK Stat § 09.45.860 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure|Chapter 45. Actions Relating to Real Property|Article 10. Earthslide Relief Act.|Sec. 09.45.860. Standards for judgment.

In reaching the conclusions called for by AS 09.45.855 the court shall give effect to the changes in land boundaries caused by the earthslide, mitigated, however, so far as can equitably be done, by allocating to contiguous lots parts of the land released by a municipality by its voluntary vacation of areas formerly constituting public ways, which vacatings of streets shall be approved in this judgment.