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AK Stat § 34.08.780 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 08. Common Interest Ownership|Article 5. General Provisions.|Sec. 34.08.780. Severability.

If a provision of this chapter or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable.
AK Stat § 34.08.800 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 08. Common Interest Ownership|Article 5. General Provisions.|Sec. 34.08.800. Obligation of good faith.

A contract or duty governed by this chapter imposes an obligation of good faith in its performance or enforcement.
AK Stat § 34.08.810 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 08. Common Interest Ownership|Article 5. General Provisions.|Sec. 34.08.810. Remedies to be liberally administered.

(a) The remedies provided by this chapter shall be liberally administered to the end that the aggrieved party is put in as good a position as if the other party had fully performed. Consequential, special, or punitive damages may not be awarded except as specifically provided in this chapter or by other rule of law. (b) A right or obligation declared by this chapter is enforceable by judicial proceeding.
AK Stat § 34.08.820 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 08. Common Interest Ownership|Article 5. General Provisions.|Sec. 34.08.820. Adjustment of dollar amounts.

(a) The dollar amounts specified in AS 34.08.030 and 34.08.510(b)(7) change under (b) and (c) of this section, according to and to the extent of changes in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers: U.S. City Average, All Items 1967 equal 100, compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor, (the “Index”). The Index for December, 1979, which was 230, is the Reference Base Index. (b) The dollar amounts specified in AS 34.08.030 and 34.08.510(b)(7) and any amount stated in the declaration pursuant to those sections change on July 1 of each year if the percentage of change, calculated to the nearest whole percentage point, between the Index at the end of the preceding year and the Reference Base Index is 10 percent or more, except that (1) the portion of the percentage change in the Index in excess of a multiple of 10 percent shall be disregarded and the dollar amounts shall change only in multiples of 10 percent of the amounts appearing in this chapter on January 1, 1986; (2) the dollar amounts may not change if the amounts required by this section are those currently in effect under this chapter as a result of an earlier application of this section; and (3) in no event may the dollar amounts be reduced below the amounts appearing in this chapter on January 1, 1986. (c) If the Index is revised after December 1979, the percentage of change under this section shall be calculated on the basis of the revised Index. If the revision of the Index changes the Reference Base Index, a revised Reference Base Index must be determined by multiplying the Reference Base Index then applicable by the rebasing factor furnished by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. If the Index is superseded, the index referred to in this section is the one represented by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as reflecting most accurately changes in the purchasing power of the dollar for consumers.
AK Stat § 34.08.830 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 08. Common Interest Ownership|Article 5. General Provisions.|Sec. 34.08.830. Transfer of unit in a cooperative.

If a unit in a cooperative is owned by a unit owner or is sold, conveyed, voluntarily or involuntarily encumbered, or otherwise transferred by the unit owner, the interest in the unit that is owned, sold, conveyed, encumbered, or otherwise transferred is the right to possession of the unit under a proprietary lease, coupled with the allocated interests of the unit, and the association's interest in the unit is not affected by the transfer.
AK Stat § 34.08.995 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 08. Common Interest Ownership|Article 5. General Provisions.|Sec. 34.08.995. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act.
AK Stat § 34.15.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 1. Form and Effect.|Sec. 34.15.010. Manner of executing conveyances.

(a) A conveyance of land, or of an estate or interest in land, may be made by deed, signed and sealed by the person from whom the estate or interest is intended to pass, who is of lawful age, or by the lawful agent or attorney of the person, and acknowledged or proved, and recorded as directed in this chapter, without any other act or ceremony whatever. (b) In a deed or conveyance of the family home or homestead by a married man or a married woman, the husband and wife shall join in the deed or conveyance. (c) The requirement that a spouse of a married person join in a deed or conveyance of the family home or homestead does not create a proprietary right, title, or interest in the spouse not otherwise vested in the spouse. (d) Failure of the spouse to join in the deed or conveyance does not affect the validity of the deed or conveyance, unless the spouse appears on the title. The deed or conveyance is sufficient in law to convey the legal title to the premises described in it from the grantor to the grantee when the deed or conveyance is otherwise sufficient, and (1) no suit is filed in a court of record in the judicial district in which the land is located within one year from the date of recording of the deed or conveyance by the spouse who failed to join in the deed or conveyance to have the deed or conveyance set aside, altered, changed, or reformed; or (2) the spouse whose interest in the property is affected does not record, within one year in the office of the recorder for the recording district where the property is situated, a notice of an interest in the property.
AK Stat § 34.15.015 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 1. Form and Effect.|Sec. 34.15.015. Use of recorded master form.

If reference is made in a document to a recorded master form, a copy of the form, or so much of it as is incorporated by reference, must be provided to each party to the transaction by the party that furnished the document.
AK Stat § 34.15.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 1. Form and Effect.|Sec. 34.15.030. Form of warranty deed.

(a) A warranty deed for the conveyance of land may be substantially in the following form, without express covenants:“The grantor (here insert the name or names and place of residence) for and in consideration of (here insert consideration) in hand paid, conveys and warrants to (here insert the grantee's name or names) the following described real estate (here insert description), located in the State of Alaska.“Dated this .......... day of ......, 2......” (b) A deed substantially in the form set forth in (a) of this section, when otherwise duly executed, is considered a conveyance in fee simple to the grantee and the heirs and assigns of the grantee, with the following covenants by the grantor: (1) that at the time of the making and delivery of the deed the grantor is lawfully seized of an indefeasible estate in fee simple to the premises described, and has the right and power to convey the premises; (2) that at the time of making and delivery of the deed the premises are free from encumbrances; and (3) that the grantor warrants the quiet and peaceable possession of the premises, and will defend the title to the premises against all persons claiming the premises. The covenants are binding upon a grantor and the heirs and personal representative of a grantor as if written in the deed.
AK Stat § 34.15.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 1. Form and Effect.|Sec. 34.15.040. Form of quitclaim deed.

(a) A quitclaim deed may be substantially in the following form:“The grantor (here insert the name or names and place of residence), for and in consideration of (here insert consideration) conveys and quitclaims to (here insert grantee's name or names) all interest which I (we) have, if any, in the following described real estate (here insert description), located in the State of Alaska.“Dated this ........ day of .........., 2......” (b) A deed substantially in the form set out in (a) of this section, when otherwise duly executed, is considered a sufficient conveyance, release and quitclaim to the grantee and the heirs and assigns of the grantee, in fee of all the existing legal and equitable rights of the grantor in the premises described in the deed.
AK Stat § 34.15.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 1. Form and Effect.|Sec. 34.15.050. Effect of quitclaim.

A deed of quitclaim and release for the form in common use is sufficient to pass all the real estate which the grantor can convey by a deed of bargain and sale.
AK Stat § 34.15.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 1. Form and Effect.|Sec. 34.15.060. Passage of fee.

The term “heirs” or other words of inheritance are not necessary to create or convey an estate in fee simple.
AK Stat § 34.15.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 1. Form and Effect.|Sec. 34.15.070. Passage of grantor's entire estate.

(a) A conveyance of real estate passes all the real estate of the grantor, unless the intent to pass a less estate appears by express terms or is necessarily implied in the terms of the grant. (b) A conveyance by a tenant for life or years purporting to grant a greater estate than the tenant possesses or can convey does not work a forfeiture of the estate, but passes to the grantee all the estate that the tenant can convey.
AK Stat § 34.15.075 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 1. Form and Effect.|Sec. 34.15.075. Receipt of after-acquired title or interest.

(a) In addition to any estate passed by the grantor under AS 34.15.070, whenever a person purports by a warranty deed, or, for Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act real property, a quitclaim deed, to grant real property in fee or in fee simple to a grantee and subsequently acquires title to, or an interest in, the real property, the subsequently acquired title or interest passes by operation of law to the grantee or the grantee's successors. (b) In this section, “Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act real property” means real property that, at some point in that real property's chain of title, was conveyed by the federal government under 43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq. (Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act) to a corporation established under 43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.
AK Stat § 34.15.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 1. Form and Effect.|Sec. 34.15.080. Covenants not implied.

No covenant is implied in a conveyance of real estate, whether the conveyance contains special covenants or not.
AK Stat § 34.15.090 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 1. Form and Effect.|Sec. 34.15.090. Covenant not implied in mortgage.

A mortgage may not be construed as implying a covenant for the payment of the sum intended to be secured by the mortgage. When there is no express covenant for payment contained in the mortgage, and no bond or other separate instrument to secure payment is given, the remedies of the mortgagee are confined to the land mentioned in the mortgage.
AK Stat § 34.15.100 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 1. Form and Effect.|Sec. 34.15.100. Conveyance of lands held adversely.

A grant or conveyance of land or interest in land is not void because at the time of the execution the land is in the actual possession of another claiming adversely.
AK Stat § 34.15.105 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 1. Form and Effect.|Sec. 34.15.105. Transfer fee covenants prohibited.

(a) A document that conveys real estate may not include a provision that requires a subsequent grantee or grantor to pay a transfer fee to convey the real estate, except a document that conveys real estate may include a provision that requires a transfer fee if the fee is (1) a loan assumption fee or similar fee charged by a person holding a lien on the property; or (2) a fee or commission paid to a licensed real estate broker for brokerage services. (b) In this section, “transfer fee” does not include (1) a tax, assessment, fee, or charge imposed by a governmental authority; (2) a recording fee; (3) a fee payable to a nonprofit, mandatory homeowners' association, condominium association, or cooperative under an applicable declaration or covenant; or (4) a fee payable to an organization described in 26 U.S.C. 501(c)(3) or (c)(4) (Internal Revenue Code) used exclusively for cultural, educational, charitable, recreational, environmental, conservation, or similar activities that benefit the real estate conveyed. (c) A provision that violates this section is void.
AK Stat § 34.15.110 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 1. Form and Effect.|Sec. 34.15.110. Conveyances construed as creating tenancy in common.

(a) A conveyance or devise of land or an interest in land made to two or more persons, other than to executors and trustees, as such, shall be construed to create a tenancy in common in the estate, except as provided in (b) of this section and AS 34.77.100. (b) A husband and wife who acquire title in real property hold the estate as tenants by the entirety, except as provided by AS 34.77.100 or unless it is expressly declared otherwise in the conveyance or devise. The conveyance shall recite the marital status of the parties acquiring title to the real property.
AK Stat § 34.15.120 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 1. Form and Effect.|Sec. 34.15.120. Remedy of tenant in common.

A tenant in common may maintain an action against a cotenant for receiving more than the fair share of the rents and profits of the estates owned by them in common.
AK Stat § 34.15.130 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 1. Form and Effect.|Sec. 34.15.130. Joint tenancy abolished.

Joint tenancy, with the exception of interests in personalty and tenancy by the entirety, is abolished. Except as provided in AS 34.15.110(b) and AS 34.77.100, persons having an undivided interest in real property are considered tenants in common.
AK Stat § 34.15.140 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 1. Form and Effect.|Sec. 34.15.140. Tenancy by the entirety.

(a) The right to hold an estate in land as tenants by the entirety, with the right of survivorship, is recognized. (b) [Repealed, § 91 ch 6 SLA 1984.] (c) The right of a spouse to convey to self and the other spouse as tenants by the entirety, or as tenants in common, is confirmed.
AK Stat § 34.15.145 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 1. Form and Effect.|Sec. 34.15.145. Solar easement.

(a) An easement obtained for the purpose of protecting the exposure of property to the direct rays of the sun must be created in writing and is subject to the recording requirements for other conveyances of real property. (b) An instrument creating a solar easement must include, but is not limited to, (1) the vertical and horizontal angles, expressed in degrees, at which the solar easement extends over the real property subject to the solar easement; (2) any terms or conditions under which the solar easement is granted or under which it will be terminated; (3) any provisions for compensation of the owner of the property benefiting from the solar easement in the event of interference with the enjoyment of the solar easement, or compensation of the owner of the property subject to the solar easement for maintaining the solar easement.
AK Stat § 34.15.150 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 2. Acknowledgment and Proof.|Sec. 34.15.150. Execution of conveyances.

(a) A conveyance executed in the state of land or an interest in land in the state shall be acknowledged before a person authorized to take acknowledgments in AS 09.63.010 or proved in accordance with AS 34.15.210 or 34.15.220. The officer taking an acknowledgment shall endorse on it a certificate of the acknowledgment of the conveyance and the date of making the acknowledgment. (b) A conveyance executed before March 12, 1953, in due form but without two witnesses is validated, shall be received in evidence in all courts of the state, and is evidence of the title to the land or interest in land against the grantor and the heirs and assigns of the grantor.
AK Stat § 34.15.160 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 2. Acknowledgment and Proof.|Sec. 34.15.160. Conveyances executed outside the state.

If a conveyance is executed in a state, territory, or district of the United States, the conveyance may be executed according to the laws of that state, territory, or district, and the execution of the conveyance may be acknowledged under AS 09.63.050 - 09.63.130.
AK Stat § 34.15.180 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 2. Acknowledgment and Proof.|Sec. 34.15.180. Execution and acknowledgment of conveyance in foreign country.

If a conveyance is executed in a foreign country it may be executed according to the laws of that country and the execution of it acknowledged under AS 09.63.050 - 09.63.130.
AK Stat § 34.15.210 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 2. Acknowledgment and Proof.|Sec. 34.15.210. Proof by subscribing witness.

(a) Proof of the execution of a conveyance may be made before an officer authorized to take acknowledgment of conveyances, and shall be made by a subscribing witness, who shall state the witness' own place of residence and that the witness knows the person described in and executing the conveyance. (b) This proof may not be taken unless the officer is personally acquainted with the subscribing witness or has satisfactory evidence that the person is the subscribing witness to the instrument.
AK Stat § 34.15.220 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 2. Acknowledgment and Proof.|Sec. 34.15.220. Proof of conveyance by handwriting.

When a grantor is dead, out of the state, or refuses to acknowledge the conveyance, and all the subscribing witnesses to the conveyance are also dead or reside out of the state, the conveyance may be proved before the superior court, by proving the handwriting of the grantor and of a subscribing witness to it.
AK Stat § 34.15.230 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 2. Acknowledgment and Proof.|Sec. 34.15.230. Subpoena of witness.

An officer authorized to take an acknowledgment or proof of conveyance may issue a subpoena requiring a witness to a conveyance to appear and testify before the officer regarding the execution, upon the application of a grantee, or of a person claiming under the grantee, verified by the oath of the applicant, setting out that (1) the grantor is dead, out of the state, or refuses to acknowledge the conveyance; (2) a witness to the conveyance refuses to appear and testify regarding the execution of the conveyance; and (3) the conveyance cannot be proved without the evidence of the witness.
AK Stat § 34.15.240 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 2. Acknowledgment and Proof.|Sec. 34.15.240. Penalty for refusal to appear or testify.

A person served with a subpoena described in AS 34.15.230 who, without reasonable cause, refuses or neglects to appear, or upon appearing refuses to answer upon oath regarding the execution of a deed, shall forfeit to the injured party $100, and may also be committed to jail for a contempt by the officer who issues the subpoena, to remain in jail until the person submits to answer on oath as required.
AK Stat § 34.15.250 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 15. Conveyances|Article 2. Acknowledgment and Proof.|Sec. 34.15.250. Endorsement by officer.

An officer taking the proof of a conveyance shall certify it, sign it, and in the certificate shall set out the things required by this chapter to be done, known, or proved, together with the names of the witnesses examined before the officer, their places of residence, and the substance of the evidence given by them.
AK Stat § 34.17.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 17. Conservation and Public Recreational Use Easements|Article 1. Uniform Conservation Easement Act.|Sec. 34.17.010. Creation, conveyance, acceptance, and duration.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in AS 34.17.010 - 34.17.060, a conservation easement may be created, conveyed, recorded, assigned, released, modified, terminated, or otherwise altered or affected in the same manner as other easements. (b) A right or duty in favor of or against a holder and a right in favor of a person having a third-party right of enforcement may not arise under a conservation easement before the conservation easement is accepted by the holder and the acceptance is recorded. (c) Except as provided in AS 34.17.020(b), a conservation easement is unlimited in duration unless the instrument creating the conservation easement provides a limitation on duration. (d) An interest in real property in existence at the time a conservation easement is created is not impaired by the conservation easement unless the owner of the interest is a party to or consents to the conservation easement. (e) The state or a municipality may not establish a conservation easement on property by eminent domain.
AK Stat § 34.17.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 17. Conservation and Public Recreational Use Easements|Article 1. Uniform Conservation Easement Act.|Sec. 34.17.020. Judicial actions.

(a) An action affecting a conservation easement may be brought by (1) an owner of an interest in the real property burdened by the easement; (2) a holder of the easement; (3) a person having a third-party right of enforcement; or (4) a person authorized by other law. (b) AS 34.17.010 - 34.17.060 do not affect the power of a court to modify or terminate a conservation easement under the principles of law and equity.
AK Stat § 34.17.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 34. Property|Chapter 17. Conservation and Public Recreational Use Easements|Article 1. Uniform Conservation Easement Act.|Sec. 34.17.030. Validity.

A conservation easement is valid even though (1) it is not appurtenant to an interest in real property; (2) it can be or has been assigned to another holder; (3) it is not of a character that has been recognized traditionally at common law; (4) it imposes a negative burden; (5) it imposes affirmative obligations upon the owner of an interest in the burdened property or upon the holder; (6) the benefit does not touch or concern real property; or (7) there is no privity of estate or of contract.