Alaska Administrative Code › Title 11 - Natural Resources › Part 6 - Lands › Chapter 54 - Disposal of Lands › Article 3 - General Provisions and Definitions › 11 AAC 54.510 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
In these regulations the following terms shall have the
					 meaning indicated unless the context clearly requires a different
					 meaning:
(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 non-industrial business purposes;
(7) "commissioner" means the Commissioner of
				  the Department of Natural Resources of Alaska;
(8) "contract of sale" shall mean the legal
				  agreement in writing wherein the state contracts to sell and the vendee agrees
				  to buy certain lands;
(9)
				  "department" means the Department of Natural Resources;
(10) "director" means the Director of the
				  Division of Lands, Department of Natural Resources;
(11) "division" means Division of Lands
				  within the Department of Natural Resources;
(12) "escheat lands" means those lands
				  acquired by the state through the State Escheat Laws;
(13) "fair market value" means the highest
				  price, described 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;
(14) "foreclosed lands" means
				  those lands acquired by the state through foreclosure;
(15) "grazing lands" means those lands which
				  have the physical and climatic features that make them primarily useful for the
				  pasturing of domestic livestock;
(16) "industrial lands" means those lands
				  which, because of location, physical features, or adjacent developments, may
				  best be utilized for industrial purposes;
(17) "land" means all land including shore,
				  tide and submerged lands, or resources belonging to or hereafter in any manner
				  acquired by Alaska;
(18) "lease"
				  means a surface lease issued or held pursuant to the Act and applicable
				  regulations;
(19) "material lands"
				  means those lands that are chiefly valuable for materials, including, but not
				  limited, to the common varieties of sand, gravel, stone, pumice, pumicite,
				  cinders and clay and where the removal of the material would seriously
				  interfere with surface utilization;
(20) "mental health lands" means those lands
				  acquired by the state under Public Law 830 (70 Stat. 709);
(21) "mineral lands" means those lands that
				  are chiefly valuable for minerals, including, but not limited to coal,
				  phosphate, oil shale, sodium, sulphur and potash and where the removal of the
				  material would seriously interfere with surface utilization;
(22) "principal sum" shall be the total
				  purchase price exclusive of filing fees, deposit or other costs;
(23) "private recreation lands" means those
				  lands which because of location, physical features or adjacent developments are
				  chiefly valuable as outdoor rural areas and may best be utilized by private
				  non-commercial development;
(24)
				  "public recreation lands" means those lands which, because of location,
				  physical features of adjacent development, may best be utilized by the public
				  for, but not limited to, natural and developed recreational and historical
				  areas;
(25) "regulations" means the
				  sale regulations contained in this chapter, as well as all other pertinent
				  regulations promulgated by the department;
(26) "reserved use lands" means those lands
				  which have been transferred, assigned or designated for present or future
				  public use, or for use by a governmental or quasi-governmental agency, or for
				  future development of new townsites, or for future expansion of existing
				  townsites;
(27) "residential lands"
				  means those lands which because of location, physical features or adjacent
				  development may best be utilized for single or multiple unit
				  dwellings;
(28) "sale" means the
				  transferring of title to real property from the state to another for a
				  consideration;
(29) "school lands"
				  means all Sections 16 and 36 of surveyed rectangulars reserved to Alaska under
				  provisions of 38 Stat. 1214 as amended (48 U.S.C.
				  353), and any other lands which may be
				  hereafter designated solely for school revenues;
(30) "state" means State of Alaska;
(31) "timber land" means those lands which,
				  because of physical, climatic and vegetative conditions, are presently or
				  potentially chiefly valuable for the production of timber and other forest
				  products;
(32) the masculine gender
				  includes the feminine and the neuter;
(33) the singular number includes the
				  plural;
(34) "unclassified lands"
				  means all lands not otherwise classified;
(35) "university lands" means all Sections 33
				  reserved to the University under 38 Stat. 1214, as amended (48 U.S.C.
				  353), and all lands presently or hereafter
				  reserved for the benefit of the University of Alaska;
(36) "vendee" shall mean the
				  purchaser;
(37) "vendor" shall mean
				  the State of Alaska;
(38)
				  "open-to-entry lands" means those lands which meet the criteria as established
				  by AS 38.05.077;
(39) "resource
				  management lands" means those lands containing an association of surface and/or
				  subsurface resources which are especially suited to multiple-use management.
				  Such management may be accomplished in whole or in part pursuant to an
				  inter-agency agreement.
Authority:
AS
						38.05.020
AS 38.05.035
AS 41.20.020