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AK Stat § 34.35.155 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 3. Mines and Wells.|Sec. 34.35.155. Liens not exclusive.

(a) Liens under AS 34.35.125 - 34.35.170 are not exclusive of one another. The lien shall attach and may be claimed by the same labor upon the mine, mining claim, mill, or machine used in mining or working, and the dump or mass of mineral, gold, or gold dust, if the facts relative to the labor warrant. (b) A lienor may claim a lien on one or more of the different classes of property subject to a lien for the same labor if (1) the amount claimed against each class of property is separately stated; (2) the property sought to be charged is described so that it can be identified; and (3) the name of the owner or reputed owner is given.
AK Stat § 34.35.160 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 3. Mines and Wells.|Sec. 34.35.160. Claim of lien.

(a) A person who claims the benefit of AS 34.35.125 - 34.35.170 shall, within 90 days after the performance of the services or the cessation of the work mentioned in AS 34.35.125 - 34.35.170, record the claim of lien in the recorder's office of the recording district in which the mine or mining claim, or other property on which the lien is claimed is located or used. (b) The claim of lien must contain (1) a statement of the demand; (2) the amount of the demand, after deducting all credits and offsets; (3) the name of the person by whom the claimant was employed; (4) a statement of the terms and conditions of the contract of employment; (5) the date of starting and stopping the work; (6) a description of the property on which the lien is claimed, sufficient for identification; and (7) the name of the owner or reputed owner. (c) The lien claim shall be verified by the oath of the lien claimant or someone on behalf of the lien claimant having personal knowledge of the facts. If there is no express contract of employment, the claim must state the reasonable value of the work and services.
AK Stat § 34.35.165 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 3. Mines and Wells.|Sec. 34.35.165. Duration of lien.

(a) A lien under AS 34.35.125 - 34.35.170 does not bind a property for more than six months after notice of the lien is filed for record, unless suit is brought before the proper court to enforce the lien within that time, or if credit is given, with six months after the expiration of the credit. (b) A lien may not be continued in force for more than one year from the stopping of work by an agreement to give credit.
AK Stat § 34.35.170 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 3. Mines and Wells.|Sec. 34.35.170. Definitions.

(a) In AS 34.35.125 - 34.35.170, (1) “dump” or “mass” means the mineral-bearing sands, gravel, earth, ore, stone, coal, oil, gas, other fluids or minerals extracted, hoisted, and raised from a mine or mining claim, while in mass at the mine or on the mining claim or adjacent to it, whether it is deposited in dumps or piles, or placed in hoppers, tanks, or reservoirs, or in sluice boxes or bunkers or other receptacles and whether partially or wholly reduced from its primary state or not; (2) “mill” or “machine” includes a dredge, steam, internal combustion or electric shovel, dragline, tractor, scraper, hoist, engine and boiler, derrick, drill, roasting or reduction works, stamp, roller or other mill, concentrator, conveyor, elevator, or other machinery used in or about a mine in digging, hoisting, conveying, washing, or blocking out mineral contents, or reducing the mineral contents to a commercial value, while the mill or machine is used in connection with the operation of the mine, and is not a fixture and included in the term “mine” as defined in this section; (3) “mine” or “mining claim” means a block or parcel of mining ground, consisting of a part of a mining location, a mining location, or two or more contiguous mining locations, or an oil, gas, or other well or claim, possessed and held under one ownership, or mined under one management and worked through a common shaft, tunnel, incline, pit, well, or other opening, or over one tram; and all valuable mineral deposits, including coal, oil, gas, or other fluid, and all lodes, veins, or rock in place containing minerals; and all shafts, tunnels, stopes, ways, and other openings, roads, appliances, machinery, timbering, and structure below the surface of the ground; and all structures, buildings, mills, and machines on the surface of the ground and affixed to the ground and used in the working, mining, and development; and all ditches, water rights, pipelines, roads, trams, flumes, and other appurtenances; (4) “mineral” includes coal, oil, gas, and inorganic substances subject to location, appropriation, acquisition, or enjoyment under the laws of the United States or the state. (b) When the phrase “different classes or kinds of property subject to lien” is used, it refers to mines as defined in this section as one class; mills and machines as another class; and the dump or mass as a third class.
AK Stat § 34.35.175 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 4. Improvement of Chattels.|Sec. 34.35.175. Improvement lien on personal property.

(a) A person who makes, alters, repairs, or labors upon an article of personal property at the request of the owner or lawful possessor has a lien on the property for the just and reasonable charges for the labor performed and material furnished. The person may keep possession of the article until the charges are paid. (b) If the charges are not paid within three months after the labor or materials, or both, are performed or furnished, the person having the lien may sell the article at public auction and apply the proceeds of the sale, first, to the payment of the expenses of sale, second, to the discharge of lien, and third, the balance to the owner of the article. (c) The sale shall be held in the recording district where the article is left to be altered or repaired. (d) Before the sale is made, notice of the sale shall be given to the debtor by registered letter directed to the last known place of residence of the debtor, if the residence is known, and also by posting notice of the sale in three public places in the recording district for 10 days before the day of sale. The notice must contain a particular description of the article to be sold, the name of the owner or reputed owner, the amount due on the lien, and the time and place of the sale.
AK Stat § 34.35.180 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 4. Improvement of Chattels.|Sec. 34.35.180. Chattel lien; surrender of possession.

A person who expends labor, skill, or materials upon a chattel, at the request of its owner, reputed owner, or authorized agent of the owner, or lawful possessor of the chattel, has a lien upon the chattel for the contract price of the expenditure, or in the absence of a contract price, for the reasonable worth of the expenditure, for a period of six months from the expenditure, notwithstanding the fact that the possession of the chattel is surrendered to the owner or lawful possessor.
AK Stat § 34.35.185 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 4. Improvement of Chattels.|Sec. 34.35.185. Lien notice.

(a) The lien claimant shall, before delivery of the chattel to the owner or the authorized agent of the owner, record a lien notice in the office of the recorder of the recording district where the chattel is situated and in which the labor, skill, and materials are expended on the chattel. (b) The notice must state the name of the claimant, the name of the owner, or reputed owner, a description of the chattel, sufficient for identification, upon which the claimant has expended labor, skill, and material, the amount for which the lien is claimed, and the date upon which the expenditure was completed. The notice shall be verified by the oath of the claimant, or by some one on behalf of the claimant, who has personal knowledge of the facts, and may be substantially in the following form:....................................................., Claimant, v...................................................... DefendantNotice is hereby given that ..................................................... claims a lien upon ..................................................... (describe the property) for, and on account of labor, skill, and materials expended upon the ..................................................... (property); that the name of the owner, or reputed owner is, .....................................................; that the labor, skill, and materials were expended upon the property between the .......... day of .........., and the day of .........., and the rendition of the labor, skill, and materials so expended by the claimant above named was closed on the .......... day of ..........; that the amount claimant demands for labor, skill, and materials so expended is $..........; that no part of it has been paid except $.........., and there is now due and remaining unpaid on it, after deducting all just credits and offsets, the sum of $.........., in which amount a lien is claimed upon the property.State of Alaska..................................................... Judicial District ss:..................................................... ClaimantI,....................................................., being first duly sworn, on oath say that I am ..................................................... named in the foregoing claim; that I have heard the claim read, know the contents of it, and believe it is true...................................................... ClaimantSubscribed and sworn to before me this .......... day of ...............................................................
AK Stat § 34.35.190 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 4. Improvement of Chattels.|Sec. 34.35.190. Duty of recorder.

Upon the presentation of the notice to the recorder, the recorder shall record the notice and index it in a book or computer-readable medium kept for that purpose and called “Index of Liens upon Chattels.” The recorder is entitled to charge and receive from the person recording the notice of lien a fee provided for recording and indexing chattel mortgages.
AK Stat § 34.35.195 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 4. Improvement of Chattels.|Sec. 34.35.195. Persons considered owner of chattel.

The following persons are considered the owner of a chattel, or the authorized agent of the owner, for the purpose of AS 34.35.175 - 34.35.215: (1) a person in possession of the chattel under an agreement to purchase it, whether the title to it is in the person or the vendor; (2) a person in lawful possession of the chattel.
AK Stat § 34.35.200 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 4. Improvement of Chattels.|Sec. 34.35.200. Priority.

A lien under AS 34.35.180, when recorded in accordance with AS 34.35.185, is superior to and preferred to (1) a lien, mortgage, or encumbrance that attaches to the chattel after the starting of labor or services or the furnishing of the material mentioned in that section; (2) a lien, mortgage, or other encumbrance that attaches before that time, when the person furnishing the material or performing the services did not have notice of the prior lien, mortgage, or encumbrance, or the prior lien, mortgage, or encumbrance was not recorded or filed in the manner provided by law.
AK Stat § 34.35.205 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 4. Improvement of Chattels.|Sec. 34.35.205. Duration of lien.

(a) A lien does not bind a property for more than six months after the lien is recorded, unless suit is brought in the superior court to enforce the lien within that time, or if credit is given, within six months after the expiration of the credit. (b) A lien may not be continued in force for more than one year from stopping of work or services, or after the material is furnished, by an agreement of the parties. (c) The practice and procedure to enforce a lien shall be governed by the law applicable to the foreclosure of mechanics' and materialmen's liens.
AK Stat § 34.35.210 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 4. Improvement of Chattels.|Sec. 34.35.210. Release or discharge of lien.

A lien under AS 34.35.175 - 34.35.215 may be released and discharged by the lien claimant or the agent of the lien claimant by an entry upon the “Index of Liens upon Chattels.”
AK Stat § 34.35.215 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 4. Improvement of Chattels.|Sec. 34.35.215. Penalty for refusal to discharge lien.

A person who refuses to discharge a lien after the lien is paid is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction is punishable by a fine of not more than $500 and in addition is liable in damages to the person injured by the refusal in an amount equal to three times the damage sustained.
AK Stat § 34.35.220 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 5. Transportation, Storage, and Agistment.|Sec. 34.35.220. Persons entitled to carrier, warehouse, and livestock liens.

The following persons have liens on personal property for their just and reasonable charges for the labor, care, and attention provided and the food furnished, and may retain possession of the property until the charges are paid: (1) a person who is a common carrier, or who, at the request of the owner or lawful possessor of personal property, transports the property from one place to another; (2) a person who safely keeps or stores personal property at the request of the owner or lawful possessor of the property; and (3) a person who pastures or feeds livestock, or bestows labor, care, or attention on the livestock at the request of the owner or lawful possessor of the livestock.
AK Stat § 34.35.225 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 5. Transportation, Storage, and Agistment.|Sec. 34.35.225. Sale to enforce lien.

(a) If just and reasonable charges are not paid within three months after the care, attention, and labor is performed or food is furnished, the person having the lien may proceed to sell at public auction, as provided in AS 34.35.175, the property mentioned in AS 34.35.220, or a part of it, sufficient to pay the just and reasonable charges. (b) Nothing in this section may be construed to authorize a person to sell more of the property than is sufficient to pay charges due the person on the property. (c) A person who sells, loans, or otherwise disposes of property contrary to the provisions of AS 34.35.220 and this section without the consent of the owner of the property shall, for each offense, forfeit and pay to the owner a sum equal to the market value of the property, and 50 percent of the market value in addition as a penalty. In this subsection, “market value” means the price the property bears at the time the owner makes demand on the person for it. (d) The remedies available under this section are in addition to any remedies available under AS 45.07.210.
AK Stat § 34.35.230 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 6. Timber and Lumber.|Sec. 34.35.230. Construction.

The purpose of AS 34.35.230 - 34.35.315 is remedial to secure laborers, contractors, and subcontractors the amount due them for labor performed in producing, or furnishing lumber. AS 34.35.230 - 34.35.315 shall be liberally construed to effect this purpose.
AK Stat § 34.35.235 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 6. Timber and Lumber.|Sec. 34.35.235. Persons entitled to timber lien.

(a) The following persons shall have liens upon timber for the work done upon, or in obtaining or securing, or for services rendered in towing, transporting, hauling, or driving it: (1) a person who performs labor upon, or who assists in obtaining or securing timber; (2) the owner of a tugboat or towboat that tows or assists in towing timber from one place to another within the state; (3) the owner of a team or a logging or traction engine that hauls or assists in hauling timber from one place to another within the state; and (4) the owner of a logging road over which timber is transported and delivered. (b) The lien attaches under (a) of this section whether the work or services are done, rendered, or performed at the instance of the owner of the timber or an agent of the owner. (c) The cook and other laborers in and about the logging or wood camp, the teamsters transporting the timber, and the laborers on roads and trails, not including public roads or trails, used for the transportation of the timber are considered persons who assist in obtaining, securing, and delivering the timber mentioned in this section.
AK Stat § 34.35.245 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 6. Timber and Lumber.|Sec. 34.35.245. Landowner's lien for timber.

A person who permits another to go upon the person's land and cut timber has a lien upon the timber for the price agreed to be paid for the privilege, or for the price the privilege would reasonably be worth if there is no express agreement fixing the price.
AK Stat § 34.35.250 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 6. Timber and Lumber.|Sec. 34.35.250. Landowner's lien claim.

(a) A person who claims a lien under AS 34.35.245 must record, within 90 days from the cutting of the timber, a claim with the recorder of the recording district in which the saw timber is cut. (b) The claim must be in substance the same as provided in AS 34.35.240 and must be verified as provided in that section.
AK Stat § 34.35.255 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 6. Timber and Lumber.|Sec. 34.35.255. Priority.

(a) Liens under AS 34.35.230 - 34.35.315 are preferred liens and are prior to other liens. A sale or transfer of timber does not divest a lien on it under AS 34.35.230 - 34.35.315. (b) As between liens under AS 34.35.230 - 34.35.315 those for work and labor are preferred. (c) As between liens for work claimed by several laborers on the same timber, the claim or claims for work done or performed on the identical timber proceeded against, to the extent that the timber can be identified, are preferred as against the general claim of liens for work recognized and provided for in AS 34.35.230 - 34.35.315. (d) The person performing the service or doing the work named in AS 34.35.235 is only entitled to the liens provided in AS 34.35.230 - 34.35.315 for services or work for six calendar months or a shorter period preceding the recording of the claim. (e) The person granting the privilege mentioned in AS 34.35.245 is only entitled to the lien under that section for timber cut during the six months preceding the recording of the claim as provided in AS 34.35.240.
AK Stat § 34.35.260 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 6. Timber and Lumber.|Sec. 34.35.260. Duration of lien.

(a) A lien under AS 34.35.230 - 34.35.315 does not bind property for more than six months after notice of the lien is recorded, unless suit is brought to enforce the lien in the proper court within that time or if credit is given, within six months after the expiration of the credit.  (b) A lien may not be continued in force for more than one year from the stopping of the work or by an agreement to give credit.
AK Stat § 34.35.265 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 6. Timber and Lumber.|Sec. 34.35.265. Enforcement of lien against manufactured product.

(a) The lien provided for saw logs and shingle bolts is not released or lost by the manufacture of the saw logs or shingle bolts into lumber or shingles, and the lien may be enforced against the lumber and shingles manufactured from them. (b) A lien may not be acquired upon or enforced against lumber or logs after the lumber or logs are used in the construction of a building or structure, or upon spars, piles, or other timber mentioned in AS 34.35.230 - 34.35.315 after they are put to the use for which they are intended.
AK Stat § 34.35.270 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 6. Timber and Lumber.|Sec. 34.35.270. Commissioner of public safety as receiver.

(a) The commissioner of public safety or a peace officer designated by the commissioner shall be the receiver, when one is appointed, and the superior court, upon a showing made, shall appoint the receiver, without notice. (b) The receiver is entitled to fees which seem just to the court, and shall account for the fees in the same manner as other fees collected in an official capacity. (c) When property subject to a lien under AS 34.35.230 - 34.35.315 is in the custody of the receiver, a person who claims an interest in the property may deposit with the clerk of the court in which the action is pending a sum of money equal to the claim sued upon, together with $100 to cover costs and interest, unless the court makes an order fixing a different amount to cover the costs and interest, and may demand and receive the possession and custody of the property from the receiver immediately.
AK Stat § 34.35.275 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 6. Timber and Lumber.|Sec. 34.35.275. Bona fide purchasers.

The court shall conclusively presume that a party purchasing the property liened upon within the 60 days given to claimants to record their liens is not an innocent third party and is not a bona fide owner of the property, unless it appears that (1) the purchaser has paid full value for the property; and (2) the purchase money has been applied to the payment of the bona fide claims that are entitled to liens upon the property under AS 34.35.230 - 34.35.315 according to the priorities established in those sections.
AK Stat § 34.35.280 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 6. Timber and Lumber.|Sec. 34.35.280. Enforceability.

(a) The following persons may demand that a lien under AS 34.35.230 - 34.35.315 be enforced: (1) a person who brings an action to enforce the lien; or (2) a person who has a lien under AS 34.35.230 - 34.35.315, and who is made a party to an action to enforce a lien under those sections. (b) The lien may be enforced against the whole, or a part of the lumber, when, during the six months preceding the recording of the lien, (1) the person has performed labor on it; (2) the person has assisted in securing or obtaining it; or (3) it has been cut on the person's land. (c) The lien demand recorded must be for (1) all the labor upon or all the assistance in obtaining or securing the lumber during the whole or a part of the six months mentioned in AS 34.35.260; or (2) timber cut during the whole or a part of the six months mentioned above. (d) The priority of the liens shall be determined under AS 34.35.255 where (1) proceedings are started against a lot of lumber; (2) some of the lienors claim liens against specific lumber to secure their claims for work and labor; and (3) other lienors claim liens against the lumber generally to secure their claims for work and labor.
AK Stat § 34.35.285 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 35. Liens|Article 6. Timber and Lumber.|Sec. 34.35.285. Contractor's lien.

A person who, as a contractor, supplies lumber under a contract is entitled to the lien under AS 34.35.230 - 34.35.315 to the amount due on the contract. However, the lien is subject and subsequent to the liens of the laborers under AS 34.35.230 - 34.35.315 for the amounts due them for labor on the lumber.