Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 58 - Leasing of Lands › Article 4 - Short Title and Definitions › 11 AAC 58.910 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
In this chapter
(1) "agricultural lands" means those lands
				  which, because of location, adjacent development, physical and climatic
				  features, are or may be made suitable for the production of agricultural
				  crops;
(2) "Act" means the Alaska
				  Land Act, AS 38.05;
(3) "Alaska"
				  means State of Alaska;
(4) "Alaska
				  lands" means all lands including shore, tide and submerged lands, or resources
				  belonging to or hereafter in any manner acquired by Alaska;
(5) "classification" means the designation of
				  lands according to their apparent best use;
(6) "commercial lands" means those lands
				  which, because of location, physical features or adjacent developments, may
				  best be utilized for nonindustrial business purposes;
(7) "commissioner" means the Commissioner of
				  the Department of Natural Resources;
(8) "department" means the Department of
				  Natural Resources;
(9) "director"
				  means the Director of the Division of Lands, Department of Natural
				  Resources;
(10) "division" means
				  Division of Lands within the Department of Natural Resources. Administrative
				  powers and other delegated duties as prescribed by law or regulations are
				  vested in the director;
(11) "fair
				  market value" means the highest price, estimated in terms of money, which the
				  property would bring if exposed for sale for a reasonable time in the open
				  market, with a seller, willing but not forced to sell, and a buyer, willing but
				  not forced to buy, both being fully informed of all the purposes for which the
				  property is best adapted or could be used;
(12) "grazing lands" means those lands which
				  in their natural state have the physical and climatic features that make them
				  primarily useful for the pasturing of domestic livestock;
(13) repealed 2/8/2001;
(14) "land" means all lands under the
				  jurisdiction of the division;
(15)
				  "lease" means a surface lease issued or held pursuant to the Act and these
				  regulations;
(16) repealed
				  2/8/2001;
(17) repealed
				  2/8/2001;
(18) repealed
				  2/8/2001;
(19) "private recreation
				  lands" means those lands which because of their location, physical features or
				  adjacent development are chiefly valuable as outdoor recreational areas and may
				  best be utilized by private noncommercial development;
(20) "regulations" means the leasing
				  regulations contained in this chapter, as well as all other pertinent
				  regulations promulgated by the department;
(21) "reserved use lands" means those lands
				  which have been transferred, assigned or designated for present or future use
				  by a governmental or quasi-governmental agency or for townsite
				  development;
(22) "residential
				  lands" means those lands which because of location, physical features or
				  adjacent development may best be utilized for single or multiple unit
				  dwellings;
(23) "sale" means the
				  transferring of title to real property from the state to another for a
				  consideration;
(24) "state" means
				  State of Alaska;
(25) repealed
				  2/8/2001;
(26) repealed
				  2/8/2001;
(27) repealed
				  2/8/2001;
(28) repealed
				  2/8/2001;
(29) repealed
				  2/8/2001;
(30) repealed
				  2/8/2001;
(31) "youth encampment"
				  means a program, offered by a nonprofit organization, that provides organized,
				  supervised experiences and opportunities in outdoor recreation and living, and
				  personal and social development for children and young adults, that includes
				  daytime facilities or area for overnight camping, and that is used during any
				  three months of a year;
(32)
				  "rental" means any form of compensation that the lease requires the lessee to
				  pay, as set out in
				  AS
				  38.05.073(m).
Authority:
AS
						38.05.020
AS 38.05.035
AS 38.05.097
AS
						38.05.810