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2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 50. Exchange of State Land › Sec. 38.50.010. Authorization and procedure for exchange of state land.

(a) When it is in the best interest of the state, and subject to the requirements of this chapter and the notice provisions of AS 38.05.945, the director may, with the consent of the commissioner, dispose of state land or interest in land, including the land estate, the mineral estate, or both, by exchanging it for land, interest in land, or other consideration.
(b) Land or an interest in land exchanged must be of approximately equal value; however, the director may accept from or pay to a party to an exchange cash or other consideration to equalize the value of the property conveyed and received by the state. If the director determines that the property to be exchanged is not of approximately equal value or if the value of the property cannot be ascertained with reasonable certainty, the director may enter into an exchange with a finding that the value of the property received, together with the value of other public benefits, equals or exceeds the value of the property relinquished by the state.
(c) Exchange procedures must comply with applicable statutes and regulations and follow the determination and review procedures provided under AS 38.05.035(e). The director may include in a patent or the written finding stipulations necessary to promote or protect the public interest.
(d) If the value of the state land exchanged exceeds $5,000,000, or if the exchange is not of an approximately equal value, the director shall forward the proposed exchange to the legislature for review under AS 38.50.140 not later than 10 days after the convening of the next legislative session.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 50. Exchange of State Land › Sec. 38.50.030. Parties.

(a) The director may exchange land and interests in land with a government agency, organization, corporation, individual, or other person. At the beginning of discussions concerning a proposed exchange, the director shall require proof that each party to the negotiations is the owner of, or is legally entitled to, the property which the party desires to exchange and proof that a person acting as an agent for a principal has the authority to negotiate an exchange in behalf of the principal.
(b) The director may negotiate an exchange involving more than one party.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 50. Exchange of State Land › Sec. 38.50.060. Reservations and covenants.

The director may include in any patent or other instrument issued under this chapter any reservations and covenants relating to the land which the director considers necessary to protect or promote the public interest. Reservations and covenants may include, but are not limited to, those relating to access, environmental protection, and use or development rights. The director may receive land which is subject to reservations and covenants if the director finds that the reservations and covenants are consistent with the public interest.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 50. Exchange of State Land › Sec. 38.50.070. Valid existing rights.

Conveyances made by the state under this chapter are subject to valid existing rights, including contracts, permits, leases, rights-of-way, and easements. Unless jurisdiction is waived, the appropriate state agency shall continue to administer valid existing rights, and revenue derived from the existing rights continue to accrue to the state until state land is conveyed under AS 38.50.150.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 50. Exchange of State Land › Sec. 38.50.080. Prohibition against future consideration.

(a) The director may not negotiate or enter into a land exchange agreement which requires the identification of land, interest in land, or other consideration, except for the performance of necessary survey work, at any time after the agreement is initially executed.
(b) [Repealed, § 13 ch 57 SLA 2016.]
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 50. Exchange of State Land › Sec. 38.50.120. Public hearings.

(a) For an exchange of state land having an appraised or estimated fair market value of more than $5,000,000, the director shall hold at least two public meetings before the exchange is submitted to the legislature for approval. Meetings under this subsection may be held telephonically, except at least one meeting shall be held in person in a municipality close to the state land proposed for exchange.
(b) [Repealed, § 13 ch 57 SLA 2016.]
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 50. Exchange of State Land › Sec. 38.50.140. Legislative review.

Within 10 days after the convening of a regular legislative session, the governor shall transmit to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives any proposal for a land exchange required to be submitted to the legislature for approval under AS 38.50.010 that is scheduled to occur before the next legislative session. If exigent circumstances seriously affecting state interests so require, the governor may submit the proposed exchange to the legislature at another time. A finding of exigent circumstances shall be carefully documented in the letter of transmittal. The director is authorized to conclude a proposed exchange agreement upon approval by the legislature of the proposed exchange agreement. A decision by the legislature to disapprove a proposed exchange shall be accompanied by a recommendation to the governor with respect to future actions that the director should take concerning the exchange.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 50. Exchange of State Land › Sec. 38.50.150. Execution of exchange.

If a deed, contract of exchange, or other instrument of conveyance which the director receives to effectuate an exchange is properly executed, acknowledged, and authorized by the appropriate party, the director shall accept conveyance of title to the land and other property which the state is to receive as consideration, and shall issue a patent, contract of exchange, or other instrument of conveyance to the appropriate party for the property which the director is then obligated to convey. Before acceptance by the director of a deed, contract of exchange, or other instrument, no action taken by the director or by any other state official creates a right against the state with respect to state land.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 50. Exchange of State Land › Sec. 38.50.170. Definitions.

In this chapter, unless otherwise specified,
(1) “commissioner” means the commissioner of natural resources;
(2) “director” means the director of the division of lands;
(3) “state land” means all land, including shoreland, tideland, and submerged land or unsevered resources belonging to or acquired by the state excluding interests in land severed or constructively severed from the land.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 95. Miscellaneous Provisions › Article 1. Manner of Conveying State's Interest in Land under Its Jurisdiction. › Sec. 38.95.010. State's interest may not be obtained by adverse possession or prescription.

No prescription or statute of limitations runs against the title or interest of the state to land under the jurisdiction of the state. No title or interest to land under the jurisdiction of the state may be acquired by adverse possession or prescription, or in any other manner except by conveyance from the state.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 95. Miscellaneous Provisions › Article 2. Contracts with Native Corporations. › Sec. 38.95.050. Land management contracts with Native corporations.

A corporation organized under state law pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq. (Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act) may contract with the Department of Natural Resources for the management of land; however, a sale, lease, exchange or other disposal of this land may not be made without the approval of the corporation owning it. The contract is terminable upon reasonable notice by either party to it; it may cover all or a portion of the land of the corporation, and shall provide for the terms of management by reference to law or regulation or otherwise. The Department of Natural Resources is authorized to receive and expend, subject to appropriation, funds necessary to carry out its functions under this section.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 95. Miscellaneous Provisions › Article 3. Trapping Cabins. › Sec. 38.95.075. Permits for the use of trapping cabins.

Except where a resource management conflict exists, the commissioner shall issue a nonexclusive, nontransferable permit to an individual for the use of a trapping cabin when the applicant provides to the commissioner a verified statement by the local fish and game advisory committee of the area in which the cabin is located that states that
(1) the applicant had used the cabin on a regular basis for trapping before August 1, 1984;
(2) the past, present, and intended use of the cabin is for temporary shelter while trapping; and
(3) the applicant is the owner of the cabin or has the concurrence of the owner of the cabin or there is no owner of the cabin.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 95. Miscellaneous Provisions › Article 3. Trapping Cabins. › Sec. 38.95.080. Trapping cabin construction permits.

(a) The commissioner may issue a nontransferable permit for the construction of a trapping cabin on state land to a person who meets the following qualifications:
(1) the person must have an established trapline with proof of regular use;
(2) the person must have a trapline of sufficient length to justify the need for cabin construction.
(b) Nothing in (a) of this section prevents the director from issuing a permit to more than one qualified person for the construction and use of the same trapping cabin.
(c) The director shall establish, by regulation, conditions attaching to the permit issued under (a) and (b) of this section. These conditions shall include the following:
(1) permits shall be issued for a period of not more than 10 years, with succeeding 10-year renewal options, if periodic use and occupancy is established, and the qualifications of (a) of this section continue to be met;
(2) a cabin shall be constructed and maintained according to reasonable specifications established by the director; one cabin constructed under a permit may contain not more than 400 square feet; however, in no case may another cabin constructed under the same permit exceed 192 square feet;
(3) a permit shall specify the number of cabins allowed to be constructed and indicate their specific geographical location; the director may establish a maximum number of cabins per person or otherwise limit their number because of the probability of adverse consequences;
(4) adequate provision must be made for waste and garbage disposal, as determined by the director;
(5) the payment of a trapping cabin permit fee of $10.
(d) A permit issued under (a) and (b) of this section entitles its holder to use timber in the immediate vicinity of the cabin for personal noncommercial purposes only. No ownership rights to the land are conveyed by the issuance of a trapping cabin permit under this section.
(e) A person who makes a false statement as to any material fact relating to a permit issued under this section is guilty of a misdemeanor. A person who violates this subsection or any of the terms and conditions of a permit issued under this section may have the permit immediately revoked and is subject to payment of all costs required in dismantling the cabin structure.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 95. Miscellaneous Provisions › Article 3. Trapping Cabins. › Sec. 38.95.085. Definitions for AS 38.95.075 - 38.95.085.

In AS 38.95.075 - 38.95.085,
(1) “commissioner” means the commissioner of natural resources;
(2) “director” means the director of the division of lands.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 95. Miscellaneous Provisions › Article 5. Survey and Improvement of State Land. › Sec. 38.95.150. Survey of state land.

A professional land surveyor registered to practice under AS 08.48 shall certify the location and monumentation of boundaries and the platting and subdivision of state land. This section does not apply to surveys, monumentation, platting, or subdivision performed by the federal government.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 95. Miscellaneous Provisions › Article 5. Survey and Improvement of State Land. › Sec. 38.95.160. Improvements on state land.

(a) The location and design of a publicly financed improvement on state land that costs more than $100,000 shall be supervised by a professional registered to practice under AS 08.48. A lease, easement, right-of-way, or other similar agreement that permits the use and improvement of state land under this section shall be documented by a recorded plat.
(b) In this section,
(1) “publicly financed improvement” means an improvement financed with state or federal money that is constructed by the state or an instrumentality of the state and includes, but is not limited to, onshore or offshore oil drilling or pumping operations, roads, bridges, pipelines, seismic lines, logging and mining operations, dams, buildings, and electric power transmission lines;
(2) “state land” does not include land owned by the Board of Regents of the University of Alaska.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 95. Miscellaneous Provisions › Article 6. Real Property Escheated to State. › Sec. 38.95.200. Real property subject to escheat.

(a) Real property in an intestate estate for which no taker can be found and real property devised by will for which no devisee, heir, or other claimant can be found escheats to the state.
(b) Real property of a defunct organization or corporation, for which no proceeding for distribution has been instituted within four years after the organization becomes defunct, escheats to the state.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 95. Miscellaneous Provisions › Article 6. Real Property Escheated to State. › Sec. 38.95.210. Enforcement of rights by department.

(a) When the Department of Natural Resources is informed or has reason to believe that real property has escheated to the state, the department shall bring an action in superior court to establish whether the property has escheated to the state.
(b) The department may maintain an action to recover the possession of escheated property, or for the enforcement of the state's right to the property.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 95. Miscellaneous Provisions › Article 6. Real Property Escheated to State. › Sec. 38.95.220. Judgment of escheat.

(a) If the superior court determines that the real property has escheated to the state, the superior court shall issue a judgment of escheat.
(b) A court order approving settlement of an estate that distributes real property to the state is a judgment of escheat.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 95. Miscellaneous Provisions › Article 6. Real Property Escheated to State. › Sec. 38.95.230. Management of escheated real property by department.

(a) After a judgment of escheat under AS 38.95.220, the department may sell, lease, exchange, assign, or otherwise manage real property that has escheated to the state. In determining the proper disposition of escheated real property the department shall, within two years after the judgment of escheat under AS 38.95.220, make a written finding that it is in the best interests of the state either to
(1) obtain an appraisal of the fair market value of the real property and sell, lease, exchange, assign, or otherwise manage the property, including retention in state management; or
(2) retain the real property in state management without obtaining an appraisal.
(b) The appraised value of property handled under (a)(1) of this section, or the selling price from a sale under AS 38.05.055 if it is lower, less the expenses of sale or appraisal, is the established value of the property for purposes of redemption by an heir or other taker under AS 38.95.240(c).
(c) Seven years after the judgment of escheat, real property that has not been otherwise disposed of by the department becomes general state land for classification, disposal, and use.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 95. Miscellaneous Provisions › Article 6. Real Property Escheated to State. › Sec. 38.95.240. Time within which to claim escheated real property.

(a) Within seven years after a judgment of escheat under AS 38.95.220, a person who is not a party to the escheat proceeding may bring an action in the superior court to prove the person's claim to the real property. If the plaintiff establishes the claim and establishes that the plaintiff had no knowledge of the prior escheat proceeding, the court shall award the plaintiff the property if it has been managed under AS 38.95.230(a)(2), or the appraised value of the property under AS 38.95.230(b) if the property has been managed under AS 38.95.230(a)(1).
(b) If it is determined that the plaintiff is entitled to the property, the department shall deliver the property to the plaintiff. The rents, profits, interest, or dividends that accrue to the state during its possession of the property are the property of the state and may not be recovered.
(c) If it is determined that the plaintiff is entitled to the appraised value of property that has been disposed of under AS 38.95.230(a)(1), at the department's discretion it may offer to the plaintiff land owned by the state and available for disposal that is of comparable value to the appraised value under AS 38.95.230(a)(1). If the department does not offer land of comparable value, or if the plaintiff refuses the department's offer, the plaintiff is entitled to the established value of the property under AS 38.95.230(b).
(d) The time limitation of seven years does not apply to a minor or an incapacitated person as defined by AS 13.26.005, but such a person must bring an action to prove the person's claim to the real property within one year after the incapacity ceases.
(e) This section does not prevent the state from transferring escheated real property to a person who provides proof satisfactory to the department that the person is the owner of the real property when the department determines the transfer to be appropriate.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 95. Miscellaneous Provisions › Article 6. Real Property Escheated to State. › Sec. 38.95.250. Proceeds of sale or redemption.

(a) The department shall deposit the proceeds of real property sold under AS 38.95.230(a)(1) less the expenses of sale, including attorney fees and appraisal and publication costs, in an escheated real property trust account. The department shall maintain the proceeds in the account for a period of at least seven years after the date of the judgment of escheat. The department may use money in the trust account to pay claims made under AS 38.95.240.
(b) All money collected under (a) of this section not required to be kept in the escheated real property trust account shall be deposited in the general fund.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 95. Miscellaneous Provisions › Article 6. Real Property Escheated to State. › Sec. 38.95.260. Disposition of sale proceeds seven years after the judgment of escheat.

Seven years after the judgment of escheat, net proceeds from the sale of escheated real property may be transferred from the escheated real property trust account to the general fund and credited to the land disposal income account under AS 38.04.022, unless a person who was the owner or one of the owners of the property when the property escheated to the state has outstanding child support obligations, in which case the proportion of the net proceeds that is attributable to the ownership interest of the person shall be applied to the satisfaction of the child support obligations and the balance remaining after the satisfaction shall be credited to the land disposal income account.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 38. Public Land › Chapter 95. Miscellaneous Provisions › Article 7. No Obligation to Provide Services to Disposals of State Land; No Limitation on Further Disposals. › Sec. 38.95.300. Disclaimer applicable to state land disposals.

Except as otherwise specifically provided, nothing in this title
(1) obligates the state to provide services to land that is disposed of by the state, or any grantee of the state, or is the subject of any disposal program;
(2) limits the authority of the state to dispose of land or any interest in land or resources in the area of the current disposal, provides any exclusive right or interest in the area of the disposal, or implies or requires that any disposals made will be limited in type or any other manner.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 05. Qualifications, Appointment, and Tenure › Sec. 39.05.035. Commission of office.

After each appointment of a state officer, the governor shall execute a commission, which states that the person to whom it is issued is appointed and sets out the office to and the term for which the officer is appointed. The attorney general shall prescribe the form of the commission.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 05. Qualifications, Appointment, and Tenure › Sec. 39.05.045. Oaths for other employees.

A public officer or employee of the state, before entering upon the duties of office, shall take and sign the following oath or affirmation:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Alaska, and that I will faithfully discharge my duties as ............... to the best of my ability.”
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 05. Qualifications, Appointment, and Tenure › Sec. 39.05.050. Surety bonds.

The principal executive officer of each department and subordinate officials shall furnish corporate surety bonds in the instance and amount required by law or determined by the governor upon recommendation of the commissioner of administration. The state shall pay the cost of the bond. The attorney general shall approve the form of the bond.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 05. Qualifications, Appointment, and Tenure › Sec. 39.05.055. Staggered initial terms.

The terms of the initially appointed members of a board, commission, council, or other multi-member body that will have a continuing existence shall be set by the governor as follows:
(1) in the case of three-member boards, for one, two, and three years;
(2) in the case of four-member boards, for one, two, three, and four years;
(3) in the case of five-member boards, for one, two, three, four, and five years;
(4) in the case of six-member boards, two members serve for one year, two for two years, and two for three years;
(5) in the case of seven-member boards, two members serve for one year, two for two years, and three for three years;
(6) in the case of eight-member boards, two members serve for one year, two for two years, two for three years, and two for four years;
(7) in the case of nine-member boards, three members serve for one year, three for two years, and three for three years;
(8) in the case of 10-member boards, two members serve for one year, two for two years, two for three years, two for four years, and two for five years.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 05. Qualifications, Appointment, and Tenure › Sec. 39.05.060. Appointment, qualifications, and terms of office of members of departmental boards, councils, or commissions.

(a) Each member of the following shall be a citizen of the United States:
(1) Local Boundary Commission;
(2) Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.
(b) The governor shall appoint each member on the basis of interest in public affairs, good judgment, knowledge and ability in the field of action of the department for which appointed, and with a view to providing diversity of interest and points of view in the membership. Appointments are subject to confirmation by a majority of the members of the legislature in joint session.
(c) [Repealed, § 56 ch 21 SLA 1985.]
(d) A vacancy occurring during a term of office is filled in the same manner as the original appointment is made and, except as provided in AS 39.05.080(4), is filled for the balance of the unexpired term. Except as otherwise provided by law, each member holds office at the pleasure of the governor notwithstanding the member's term.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 05. Qualifications, Appointment, and Tenure › Sec. 39.05.065. Qualifications of members of the Board of Education and Early Development.

(a) Each member of the Board of Education and Early Development shall be a citizen of the United States and have been a resident of Alaska for at least three years.
(b) A member of the Board of Education and Early Development may also be a member of a district school board.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 05. Qualifications, Appointment, and Tenure › Sec. 39.05.070. Purpose of AS 39.05.070 - 39.05.200.

It is the purpose of AS 39.05.070 - 39.05.200 to provide procedural uniformity in the exercise of appointive powers conferred by the legislature to eliminate, insofar as possible, recess or interim appointments except in the event of death, resignation, inability to act, or other removal from office and the exercise, insofar as possible, of appointive powers only when the legislature is in session.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 05. Qualifications, Appointment, and Tenure › Sec. 39.05.100. Qualifications for appointment.

(a) A person appointed to a board or commission of the state government shall be and have been before the last general election, (1) a registered voter in the state, if the appointment is made at large or (2) a registered voter from the judicial district, if the appointment is made from a specific judicial district. The student member of the Board of Regents of the University of Alaska appointed under AS 14.40.150(b), the student member of the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education appointed under AS 14.42.015(d), and a member of the Alaska Human Relations Commission appointed under AS 44.19.600, are exempt from the requirement of this subsection if the member was not old enough to be a registered voter in the last general election.
(b) A member of a board or commission of the state government who ceases to reside in the state during the member's term terminates membership on the board or commission. For the purposes of this section, the acceptance of employment outside the state for a six-month period or longer, or physical absence from the state for one year or longer, or registration as a voter in a municipal, county, district, state, or national election in a voting precinct outside the state is considered as discontinuing residence in the state.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 05. Qualifications, Appointment, and Tenure › Sec. 39.05.200. Definitions.

In this chapter,
(1) “confirmation” means confirmation or approval by the legislature of a name submitted for appointment to a position or membership;
(2) “position or membership” means an executive position or membership on a state board, commission, authority, council, or committee that by law requires appointment by the governor and confirmation by the legislature.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 15. Official Bonds › Sec. 39.15.020. Obligation and effect.

Bonds of state officers and employees are in force and obligatory upon the principal and sureties for breach of the condition of the bond committed during the time the officer or employee discharges the duties of or holds the office or appointment. Each bond is considered in force and obligatory upon the principal and sureties for the faithful discharge of all duties required of the officer or employee by any law enacted after the execution of the bond and this condition shall be set out in the bond.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 15. Official Bonds › Sec. 39.15.030. Action on bond.

An official bond executed by a state officer or employee is in force and obligatory upon the principal and sureties to and for the state, and for the use and benefit of all persons injured or aggrieved by the wrongful act or default of the officer or employee in the official capacity or employment of the official or employee. A person injured or aggrieved may bring suit on the bond in the person's name.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 15. Official Bonds › Sec. 39.15.040. Recovery on defective bond.

If a bond does not contain the matter or condition required by law, or there is a defect in the approval or filing of the bond, the bond is not void and the obligor and the obligor's sureties are bound to the state or party interested, and the state or party may, by action instituted in any court of competent jurisdiction, suggest the defect and recover a proper and equitable demand from the obligor and surety.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 15. Official Bonds › Sec. 39.15.050. Procedure when bond becomes insufficient.

(a) If a surety on the bond dies, removes from the state, becomes insolvent or insufficient, or the penalty of the bond becomes insufficient, the Department of Administration shall, on its own motion or on the showing of a person supported by an affidavit, summon the officer or employee to appear before it at a stated time, not less than 15 days after service of the summons, and show cause why the officer or employee should not execute a new bond with good and sufficient sureties.
(b) If the officer or employee after notice fails to appear at the time appointed, the department shall hear and determine the matter in the absence of the officer or employee. If the department is of the opinion that the bond is insufficient, it shall require a new bond with sureties and in the amount considered necessary.
(c) The new bond shall be executed and filed within the time the department orders. If the officer or employee fails to execute and file a new bond within the time prescribed, the office or appointment of the officer or employee becomes vacant as provided by AS 39.15.100. The new bond has the same force and obligation upon the principal and surety and subjects the officer and the surety to the same liabilities prescribed for an original bond of an officer and employee.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 15. Official Bonds › Sec. 39.15.070. Justification of sureties.

The officer charged with the duty of approving official bonds of officers and employees may not approve a bond unless the surety on the bond is a surety company qualified to do business in the state, or unless each individual surety justifies before an officer authorized to administer oaths that the surety is
(1) a resident and freeholder within the state; and
(2) worth double the amount for which the surety becomes surety over and above all debts and liabilities in property located in the state that is not exempt from seizure and sale under execution.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 15. Official Bonds › Sec. 39.15.090. Proceedings for release of sureties.

A surety desiring to be released from liability on a bond shall file with the Department of Administration a statement in writing, signed by the surety or someone on the surety's behalf, setting out the name of the principal and the office, position, or appointment of the principal, the amount for which the surety is liable, and the surety's desire to be released from further liability. A notice containing a copy of the statement shall be served personally on the officer or employee. If the officer or employee is not in the state, the notice may be served by publication for 30 days in a newspaper printed at the capital.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 15. Official Bonds › Sec. 39.15.100. Failure to file new bond.

(a) If a state officer or employee fails to file a new bond within 15 days from the date of personal service or within 30 days from the date of the first insertion of a publication, the office becomes vacant and the officer or employee forfeits the office.
(b) The office shall be filled as in other cases of vacancy. The person applying for release from liability on the bond is not liable on it after the office becomes vacant.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 1. Salaries. › Sec. 39.20.010. Annual salary of governor.

(a) The annual salary of the governor shall be in accordance with AS 39.23.
(b) [Repealed, § 7 ch 53 SLA 2005.]
(c) [Repealed, § 7 ch 53 SLA 2005.]
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 1. Salaries. › Sec. 39.20.030. Annual salary of lieutenant governor.

(a) The annual salary of the lieutenant governor shall be in accordance with AS 39.23.
(b) [Repealed, § 7 ch 53 SLA 2005.]
(c) [Repealed, § 7 ch 53 SLA 2005.]
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 1. Salaries. › Sec. 39.20.050. Exclusive compensation.

The compensation fixed by law for the governor and lieutenant governor is in full for all services rendered by each of them in any official capacity or employment whatsoever during their respective terms of office, and shall be paid throughout their respective terms of office unless the office becomes vacant.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 1. Salaries. › Sec. 39.20.060. Exclusion of governor and lieutenant governor from personnel laws.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the governor and lieutenant governor are not considered employees of the state for the purpose of state personnel laws relating to hours of employment, annual leave, sick leave, overtime, compensatory time, and travel allowances. This section does not deprive the governor and lieutenant governor of the right to participate in the state retirement system or in state group insurance plans.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 1. Salaries. › Sec. 39.20.070. Subsequent legislation relating to AS 39.20.050 and 39.20.060.

AS 39.20.050 and 39.20.060 are not superseded or modified by any subsequent legislation except to the extent that the legislation does so expressly.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 1. Salaries. › Sec. 39.20.080. Salary of executive department head and deputy.

(a) The monthly salary of the head of each principal executive department of the state shall be in accordance with AS 39.23.
(b) The monthly salary of a deputy head of a principal executive department of the state is equal to a step in Range 28 of the salary schedule in AS 39.27.011.
(c) Except as provided by a general law applicable to all officers of the state, the compensation of the head of each principal executive department of the state may not be reduced during the executive's tenure in office.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 1. Salaries. › Sec. 39.20.090. Salaries and expenses.

The salaries and expenses of officers, boards, commissions, and bureaus established by the laws of the state shall be paid from appropriations made for that purpose, as other expenses of the state are paid.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 2. Travel Regulations. › Sec. 39.20.110. Per diem allowance.

Officials and employees of the state agencies, while traveling on official business and away from their designated post of duty, shall be allowed, instead of their actual expenses for subsistence and all fees or tips, a per diem allowance to be prescribed by the commissioner of administration under the regulatory authority set out in AS 39.20.160, and in consultation with the head of the agency concerned.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 2. Travel Regulations. › Sec. 39.20.130. Mileage allowance.

Officials and employees of state agencies shall, under regulations adopted by the commissioner of administration, and whenever the mode of transportation is authorized or approved as more advantageous to the state, be paid an amount, instead of actual expenses of transportation, not to exceed a mileage allowance set by the commissioner of administration for the use of privately-owned automobiles or airplanes, when engaged in official travel inside or outside their designated posts of duty or places of service. In addition to the mileage allowance, there may be allowed reimbursement for the actual cost of ferry fares, and bridge, road, and tunnel tolls. When two or more officials or employees are traveling in the same direction, and it is possible to share a privately-owned automobile or airplane, the mileage permitted shall be allowed only once.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 2. Travel Regulations. › Sec. 39.20.140. Travel costs and travel outside the state.

(a) The Department of Administration may not pay an official or employee for per diem or transportation costs unless the travel is clearly necessary to benefit the state.
(b) The Department of Administration may not reimburse an official or employee or pay for more than the lowest tourist class fare for the most direct route unless
(1) tourist class accommodation is not available;
(2) waiting for tourist class accommodation would occasion a delay harmful to the state; or
(3) the Department of Administration finds that travel by tourist class accommodation is not in the best interest of the state, and authorizes other accommodation.
(c) When the Department of Administration authorizes more expensive travel under (b)(3) of this section, it shall file a justification for that authorization with the travel voucher. When fares other than tourist class are authorized under (b) of this section, the Department of Administration may not reimburse the official or employee or pay for more than the lowest first class fare available.
(d) Officials and employees are authorized to travel only the least number of days necessary to transact the business involved, to secure return passage, and to return.
(e) Every official and employee shall, unless otherwise authorized by law to travel outside the state, obtain prior approval for travel outside the state from the head of the official's or employee's department or from an immediate supervisor, or from the Department of Administration if the official or employee is not within a department or is not under the direct supervision of an official or supervisor. If an employee deviates materially from the travel authorized under this section, the employee must obtain approval for the deviation from the person who approved the travel before the Department of Administration may reimburse the employee for the travel.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 2. Travel Regulations. › Sec. 39.20.150. Advances and recovery.

(a) An agency may advance, through proper disbursing methods, to a person entitled to per diem or mileage allowance under AS 39.20.110 - 39.20.170 the sums considered advisable considering the character and probable duration of the travel to be performed.
(b) Sums advanced and not used for allowable travel expense are recoverable by setoff against salary due, or otherwise, from the person to whom advanced, or the person's estate, by deduction from any amount due from the state, or by other legal methods of recovery that may be necessary.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 2. Travel Regulations. › Sec. 39.20.160. Regulations.

The fixing and payment under AS 39.20.110 - 39.20.170 of travel and per diem allowances and of advances and recovery and reimbursement of travel expenses shall be in accordance with regulations adopted by the commissioner of administration. The regulations shall be uniform for all officials and employees, and all agencies and departments. The regulations shall also govern the use of public transportation facilities by officials and employees. The regulations relate to the internal management of state agencies and their adoption is not subject to AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act).
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 2. Travel Regulations. › Sec. 39.20.170. Construction of AS 39.20.110 - 39.20.170.

AS 39.20.110 - 39.20.170 may not be construed to modify or repeal a law providing for the travel expenses of the governor, or members of the legislature, or members of boards or commissions of the state government.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 2. Travel Regulations. › Sec. 39.20.180. Transportation and per diem expenses for members of boards, commissions, etc.

Except as otherwise provided by law, the provisions in this section relating to per diem and transportation govern exclusively with respect to a member of a state board, commission, committee, judicial council, or other similar body of persons of the state organized or established under the authority of law, but excluding any other state employee other than a legislator, who is otherwise entitled by law to receive from the state payments for expenses of transportation, and for reimbursement or for per diem in lieu of reimbursement for other expenses incident to duties as such member:
(1) for transportation, the member is entitled either to the use of state transportation requests, or to be reimbursed for expenses of transportation to the same extent, in the same manner, and under the same conditions as provided for state officials and employees by the provisions of AS 39.20.110 - 39.20.170;
(2) for reimbursement for other expenses, the member is entitled to a per diem allowance prescribed by the commissioner of administration under the regulatory authority set out in AS 39.20.160 for each day or portion of a day spent in actual meeting or on authorized official business incident to duties as a member.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 2. Travel Regulations. › Sec. 39.20.185. Per diem prohibited in community of residence.

A state official or employee who is a member of the judicial council or a state official or employee appointed by the governor to a state board, commission, or committee established under the authority of law is not entitled to per diem when the meeting or other business takes place in the community of which the member is a resident.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 2. Travel Regulations. › Sec. 39.20.190. Definitions.

In AS 39.20.110 - 39.20.190,
(1) “employee” or “state employee” means a person employed by a state agency;
(2) “official” or “state official” means the appointive head of a state agency;
(3) “official travel” means travel inside or outside the state on official business of the state, for which payment or reimbursement is expected or authorized;
(4) “per diem allowance” means a daily flat rate of payment instead of actual expenses;
(5) “state agency,” “agency,” or “department” means department, office, institution, board, commission, bureau, division, or other administrative unit forming the state government;
(6) “subsistence” means lodging, meals, and other necessary expenses incidental to the personal sustenance or comfort of the traveler;
(7) “traveler” means the official or employee engaged in official travel for the state.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 3. Leaves of Absence. › Sec. 39.20.200. Computation of personal leave.

(a) Officers and employees of the state who are first employed before July 1, 2013, in a position for which leave may accrue are entitled to personal leave with pay that accrues as follows:
(1) two days for each full monthly pay period in the case of officers and employees with less than two years of service;
(2) two and one-quarter days for each full monthly pay period in the case of officers and employees with two but less than five years of service;
(3) two and one-half days for each full monthly pay period in the case of officers and employees with five but less than 10 years of service;
(4) three days for each full monthly pay period in the case of officers and employees with 10 years or more of service.
(b) Personal leave accrued by an officer or employee during each pay period shall be converted monthly to a cash value by multiplying the hours accrued during the pay periods in that month by the officer's or employee's annualized hourly rate of pay for the pay period. The resulting amount shall be added to the cash value amounts calculated for previous pay periods. The total of all of the cash values is the cash value of the officer's or employee's personal leave balance.
(c) Officers and employees of the state who are first employed on or after July 1, 2013, in a position for which leave may accrue are entitled to personal leave with pay that accrues as follows:
(1) one and three-quarters days for each full monthly pay period in the case of officers and employees with less than two years of service;
(2) two days for each full monthly pay period in the case of officers and employees with two but less than five years of service;
(3) two and one-quarter days for each full monthly pay period in the case of officers and employees with five but less than 10 years of service;
(4) two and one-half days for each full monthly pay period in the case of officers and employees with 10 but less than 15 years of service;
(5) three days for each full monthly pay period in the case of officers and employees with 15 years or more of service.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 3. Leaves of Absence. › Sec. 39.20.210. Determining years of service.

In determining years of service for the purpose of computing personal leave, all service with the Territory and State of Alaska is included. A change in the rate of accrual of personal leave by an officer or employee takes effect upon the beginning of the monthly pay period following the monthly pay period in which the officer or employee completes the prescribed period of service.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 3. Leaves of Absence. › Sec. 39.20.220. Requirement that employment be continuous.

Notwithstanding AS 39.20.200, an officer or employee is entitled to personal leave only after having been employed currently for a continuous period of 30 days under one or more appointments without break in service. When an officer or employee completes a period of continuous employment of 30 days, an amount of personal leave is credited to the officer or employee equal to the amount which, but for this section, would have accrued under AS 39.20.200 during the period.