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AK Stat § 36.90.300 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 36. Public Contracts|Chapter 90. Miscellaneous Provisions|Article 4. Required Contract Provision.|Sec. 36.90.300. Indemnification, defense, and hold harmless provision in certain construction-related contracts.

(a) A public agency shall include in a construction-related professional services contract entered into by the public agency a provision under which the consultant agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the public agency from claims or liability for the negligent acts, errors, or omissions of the consultant. The provision must include an apportionment of the indemnification, defense, and hold harmless obligation on a comparative fault basis. (b) A provision that reads substantially as follows satisfies the requirement of (a) of this section:The consultant shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the contracting agency from and against any claim of, or liability for, negligent acts, errors, and omissions of the consultant under this agreement. The consultant is not required to indemnify, defend, or hold harmless the contracting agency for a claim of, or liability for, the independent negligent acts, errors, and omissions of the contracting agency. If there is a claim of, or liability for, a joint negligent act, error, or omission of the consultant and the contracting agency, the indemnification, defense, and hold harmless obligation of this provision shall be apportioned on a comparative fault basis. In this provision, “consultant” and “contracting agency” include the employees, agents, and contractors who are directly responsible, respectively, to each. In this provision, “independent negligent acts, errors, and omissions” means negligence other than in the contracting agency's selection, administration, monitoring, or controlling of the consultant, or in approving or accepting the consultant's work. (c) In this section, (1) “construction” means the process of building, altering, repairing, maintaining, improving, demolishing, planning, and designing a public highway, a structure, a building, a utility, infrastructure, or another public improvement to real property, but does not mean the routine operation of a public improvement; (2) “consultant” means a person who contracts with a public agency to provide professional services; (3) “professional services” has the meaning given in AS 36.30.990; (4) “public agency” means a department, institution, board, commission, division, authority, public corporation, committee, school district, political subdivision, or other administrative unit of a municipality, of a political subdivision, or of the executive or legislative branch of state government, including the University of Alaska, the Alaska Aerospace Corporation, the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, the Alaska Energy Authority, the Alaska Railroad Corporation, and a regional educational attendance area.
AK Stat § 37.05.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 37.05.010. Bond of commissioner of administration.

The commissioner of administration, before entering upon official duties, shall execute a good and sufficient bond in the sum of $10,000 payable to the state, conditioned upon the faithful performance of duties imposed by law. The premium on each bond shall be paid in the same manner as other expenses of the department.
AK Stat § 37.05.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 37.05.020. Regulations.

The Department of Administration shall adopt regulations for the performance of its powers or duties, the execution of its business, and its relations to and business with other state agencies.
AK Stat § 37.05.035 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 37.05.035. Annual state loan reports.

Each state agency that makes or purchases a loan shall prepare an annual report of the aggregate of all loans, by type, made or purchased by the state agency during the preceding fiscal year. The report must include the estimated rate of interest that would have been charged if the loan had been made or purchased at prevailing market rates and must include the difference between the return on the loan that would have been realized under that estimated rate of interest and the return on the loans under the interest rate actually charged. In the absence of a prevailing market rate in the state, the state agency shall use a rate that, in the judgment of the agency, is comparable to a prevailing market rate. The report must also include an analysis of the income groups benefited under the loan programs. By January 30 of each year the state agency shall notify the legislature that the report prepared under this section is available.
AK Stat § 37.05.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 37.05.040. Legal custody of records.

The commissioner has the legal custody of all records, memoranda, writing, entries, prints, representations, or combinations of them, of any act, transaction, occurrence, or event of the department.
AK Stat § 37.05.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 37.05.050. Federal funds.

Federal funds received by an agency shall be deposited in the state treasury and disbursed in the same manner as other state money. Federal funds are subject to the fiscal controls imposed by this chapter, except where federal laws or regulations prevent the funds from being deposited, appropriated, allocated, accounted for, or expended as provided by this chapter and other laws not inconsistent with this chapter.
AK Stat § 37.05.130 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 2. Uniform Accounting.|Sec. 37.05.130. General powers.

The Department of Administration is responsible for all accounts and purchases.
AK Stat § 37.05.140 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 2. Uniform Accounting.|Sec. 37.05.140. Accounting system.

(a) The Department of Administration shall maintain centralized accounting records that include the general and controlling accounts of the state. The state agencies shall prepare and transmit the documents prescribed by the department and shall submit the reports and statements required in order to carry out this chapter. Statistical or cost accounts related to the control accounts may be maintained by the department or by the agency as determined by the department, after consultation with the head of the agency concerned. Duplicate accounting records may not be maintained, except in the office of the Department of Administration as it directs. (b) [Repealed, § 18 ch 9 SLA 1994.]  (c) [Repealed, § 18 ch 9 SLA 1994.]  (d) The Department of Administration, after consultation with the head of the agency concerned, may decide not to maintain all or any part of the accounting records for an agency if the department finds that to do so would result in an appreciable loss of federal grant-in-aid funds to defray the administrative costs of maintaining the records.
AK Stat § 37.05.142 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 2. Uniform Accounting.|Sec. 37.05.142. Accounting for program receipts.

The Department of Administration shall establish and maintain separate accounts by program source for all program receipts that state agencies deposit under AS 37.10.050 or under another statute if the program receipts are exempted by law from the deposit requirements of AS 37.10.050.
AK Stat § 37.05.144 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 2. Uniform Accounting.|Sec. 37.05.144. Appropriations based on program receipts.

The annual estimated balance in each account maintained under AS 37.05.142 may be used by the legislature to make appropriations to state agencies to administer the programs generating the program receipts, to implement the laws related to the functions generating the program receipts, or to cover costs associated with the collection of the program receipts.
AK Stat § 37.05.150 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 2. Uniform Accounting.|Sec. 37.05.150. Funds and accounts.

The accounting system shall be in accordance with accepted principles of governmental (fund) accounting and shall include both budgetary and property accounts. The system must provide records showing at all times by funds, accounts, and other pertinent classifications the amounts appropriated, the estimated revenue, actual revenue or receipts, the amounts available for expenditure, the total expenditures, the unliquidated obligations, actual balances on hand, and the unencumbered balances of appropriations for each state agency.
AK Stat § 37.05.160 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 2. Uniform Accounting.|Sec. 37.05.160. Property records.

The Department of Administration shall direct the use of inventory records by all state agencies to show all fixed and movable property of the state. The records must be based on a physical inventory and charged with all subsequent purchases and shall be reduced by all property traded in, condemned, or disposed of. The accuracy of the property record shall be verified periodically by actual inspection of the property by the department. The state agencies may be required to take physical inventory of properties annually and at other times as the department directs.
AK Stat § 37.05.165 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 2. Uniform Accounting.|Sec. 37.05.165. Petty cash accounts.

The Department of Administration shall determine the amount of the petty cash accounts needed by each state agency and inspect the petty cash accounts at least once each year to determine that the total plus amounts of receipts for unreplenished disbursements is equal to the fixed sum of cash set aside. Shortages in petty cash accounts are a personal liability of the responsible head of the agency to whom the account is set aside. The department shall adopt necessary regulations governing use and replenishment of petty cash funds.
AK Stat § 37.05.170 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 2. Uniform Accounting.|Sec. 37.05.170. Restrictions on payments and obligations.

Payment may not be made and obligations may not be incurred against a fund unless the Department of Administration certifies that its records disclose that there is a sufficient unencumbered balance available in the fund and that an appropriation or expenditure authorization has been made for the purpose for which it is intended to incur the obligation.
AK Stat § 37.05.180 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 2. Uniform Accounting.|Sec. 37.05.180. Limitation on payment of warrants.

A warrant upon the state treasury may not be paid unless presented at the office of the commissioner of revenue within six months of the date of its issuance. A warrant not presented within that time is presumed abandoned, except where the warrant is for the payment of a permanent fund dividend or a benefit payment or refund under AS 14.25, AS 22.25, AS 26.05, AS 39.30, AS 39.35, former AS 39.37, or AS 39.45. Money held for an abandoned warrant shall be delivered to the custody of the Department of Revenue to be administered as unclaimed property under AS 34.45.
AK Stat § 37.05.190 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 2. Uniform Accounting.|Sec. 37.05.190. Pre-audit of claims.

(a) The Department of Administration shall examine and audit every receipt, account, bill, claim, refund, and demand on the funds in the state treasury arising from activities carried on by state agencies. It shall determine whether or not the obligation is incurred in accordance with laws and regulations adopted under authority of law, and that the amount is correct and is unpaid. (b) The department may not approve for payment an account, bill, claim, refund, or demand on funds in the state treasury unless the claim is ordered by act of the legislature or is contracted against the state by an authorized officer or agent of the state.
AK Stat § 37.05.200 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 2. Uniform Accounting.|Sec. 37.05.200. Pre-audit of receipts.

The Department of Revenue shall transmit to the Department of Administration copies of receipt documents showing all receipts received by the Department of Revenue. The receipt documents shall be audited, examined, and the amounts entered in the proper accounts in the records of the Department of Administration. The Department of Administration may adopt regulations to establish the system for providing current receipt documents.
AK Stat § 37.05.210 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 2. Uniform Accounting.|Sec. 37.05.210. Fiscal reporting and statistics.

(a) The Department of Administration shall (1) file with the governor and with the legislative auditor before December 16 a report of the financial transactions of the preceding fiscal year and of the financial condition of the state as of the end of that year, prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and audited by the legislative auditor in accordance with generally accepted audit standards, with comments and supplementary data that the Department of Administration considers necessary; this report shall be printed for the information of the legislature and the public; (2) compile statistics necessary for the budget and other statistics required by the governor; (3) file a travel and compensation report with the legislature by January 31 of each year containing detailed information for the previous calendar year of the salaries, per diem, travel expenses, relocation expenses, and any additional allowances for (A) the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the chiefs of staff of the governor and lieutenant governor; (B) the president and vice-president of the University of Alaska and the chancellors of the individual campuses of the university; (C) the commissioners or other executive heads of the principal departments in the executive branch of state government, and the deputy commissioners and division directors in those departments; and (D) the executive heads of public corporations created by law, including the Alaska Railroad Corporation. (b) By January 21 of each year, the University of Alaska and each public corporation shall provide the information related to salaries, per diem, travel expenses, relocation expenses, and any additional allowances to the Department of Administration in the form and manner prescribed by the department.
AK Stat § 37.05.285 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 3. Payment for State Purchases.|Sec. 37.05.285. Payment for state purchases.

(a) Payment for purchases of goods or services provided a state agency shall be made by a required payment date that is (1) the date on which payment is due under the terms of a contract; or (2) 30 days after receipt of a proper billing for the amount of the payment due, if a date on which payment is due is not established by contract and if the billing contains or is accompanied by documents required by the contract or purchase order. (b) If a seller offers a discount from the amount otherwise due for property or services in exchange for payment within a specified period of time, the state agency may make payment in an amount equal to the discounted price only if payment is made within the specified period of time. (c) If payment for goods or services purchased by the state is not made on or before a required payment date under (a) of this section, the state shall pay interest on the unpaid balance from the required payment date at the rate of 1.5 percent a month, unless an agreement exists between the seller and the state that establishes a lower rate of interest or precludes the charging of interest. If the interest-bearing period of time is either (1) a fraction of a month or (2) one or more full months plus a fraction of a month, the state agency shall pay the same amount of interest for the fraction of a month as it would pay for a full month. (d) This section does not apply (1) if the cost of the goods or services purchased exceeds $500,000; (2) to payment for specific goods or services in dispute after a seller of goods or services receives notice from the state official responsible for authorizing payment for goods and services that the amount of the invoice or quality of specific goods or services is in dispute and stating the reasons for the dispute; the state agency shall pay for the specific goods or services in dispute within 30 days after resolution of the dispute; or (3) to a contract covered by AS 36.90.200 - 36.90.290. (e) Interest paid under (c) of this section shall be charged to the budget of the state agency that purchased the goods or services. (f) In this section, (1) “dispute” means a determination by the state official responsible for authorizing the payments for the purchase of goods or services that the performance or price charged is not in compliance with the terms of the contract or purchase order; (2) payment is considered made on the date when the payment is personally delivered to the seller or agent of the seller or on the date the payment is mailed; (3) “state agency” has the meaning given in AS 37.05.990 and also includes the legislative and judicial branches.
AK Stat § 37.05.287 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 4. Risk Management.|Sec. 37.05.287. Insurance for state assets.

(a) The Department of Administration shall obtain or provide, in an amount and in the form that the department determines to be appropriate, casualty, property, and other insurance for protection of state assets and for the operation of state government. The department may provide for insurance coverage, in whole or in part, through a self-insurance program. (b) The Department of Administration shall annually review the state insurance program to ensure that, to the extent reasonable, adequate insurance coverage or reserves are maintained to satisfy all reasonably foreseeable claims or judgments for which payment may be due under the state insurance program during the next fiscal year. The department shall annually obtain an independent actuarial assessment of the state insurance program. No later than February 1 of each calendar year, the department shall submit to the presiding officers of each house of the legislature a review of the state insurance program, an independent actuarial assessment, and a certified audit of the state insurance catastrophe reserve account.
AK Stat § 37.05.289 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 4. Risk Management.|Sec. 37.05.289. State insurance catastrophe reserve account.

(a) There is established in the general fund a state insurance catastrophe reserve account consisting of assets appropriated to it by the legislature, assets allocated to the account by the Department of Administration as provided in this section, and amounts deposited into the account as provided in this section. Assets of the account may be used to obtain insurance, to establish reserves for the self-insurance program, and to satisfy claims or judgments arising under the program. Interest earned on money in the account shall be remitted to the Department of Revenue in accordance with AS 37.10.050. (b) The Department of Administration may allocate to the state insurance catastrophe reserve account, from the appropriations to all state agencies for insurance-related purposes, an amount that the commissioner of administration determines to be necessary to provide an adequate insurance program for the operations of state government. Money remaining in the account at the end of a fiscal year is not a one-year appropriation under AS 37.25.010 and does not lapse, except for amounts determined by the commissioner of administration to be unnecessary to maintain this account at an appropriate level and not to exceed $5,000,000. If the amount necessary to satisfy claims or judgments for which payment may be due under the state insurance program in a fiscal year exceeds the unexpended balance of the amounts allocated to the account, the department may charge an additional amount from the unencumbered balance of any appropriation that is determined by the commissioner of administration to be available for lapse at the end of the fiscal year. (c) The $5,000,000 cap, set in (b) of this section, on money that may be retained in the state insurance catastrophe reserve account applies only to unobligated money in the account at the end of a fiscal year. (d) Amounts received in settlement of insurance claims or as recovery for losses shall be deposited into the state insurance catastrophe reserve account.