Title 19 — Highways and Ferries
16 chapters · 239 sections in this title.
AS 19.05.010 Department to supervise highway system.
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The department is responsible for the planning, construction, maintenance, protection, and control of the state highway system.
AS 19.05.020 Regulations.
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The department shall adopt regulations necessary to carry out the purpose of AS 19.05 — AS 19.25. The regulations may not conflict with AS 36.30 (State Procurement Code) or regulations adopted by the Department of Administration to implement that chapter.
AS 19.05.030 Duties of department.
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The department has the following duties: (1) direct approved highway planning and construction and maintenance, protection, and control of highways; (2) employ assistants and employees; (3) certify and approve vouchers; (4) provide a program of highway research; (5) prepare a bud…
AS 19.05.040 Powers of department.
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The department may (1) acquire property; (2) exercise the power of eminent domain; (3) take immediate possession of real property, or any interest in real property under a declaration of taking or by other lawful means; (4) acquire rights-of-way for present or future use; (5) con…
AS 19.05.043 Child safety device loan program.
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(a) There is established a child safety device loan program in the highway safety planning agency in the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. (b) The director of the highway safety planning agency shall design the child safety device loan program to work in conjunc…
AS 19.05.045 Relocation payments. [Repealed, § 2 ch 60 SLA 1969.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 19.05.046 Accounting and disposition of receipts from nonstate entities. [Repealed, § 28 ch 90 SLA 1991.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 19.05.050 Roads in tourist and trailer camps.
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The department may adopt regulations governing the use of roads in tourist, trailer, and other camps when public and private roads in or through the camps are used by, or are open to, the general public.
AS 19.05.060 Sale of obsolete equipment and material.
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The department may sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of obsolete machinery, equipment, and material no longer needed, required, or useful for construction or maintenance purposes. Money derived from the sale of the property shall be credited to the funds from which the purchas…
AS 19.05.070 Vacating and disposing of land and rights in land.
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Article 2. Acquisition of Property. (a) The department may vacate land, or part of it, or rights in land acquired for highway purposes, by executing and filing a deed in the appropriate recording district. Upon filing, title to the vacated land or interest in land inures to the o…
AS 19.05.080 Acquisition of land, easements, and materials by purchase or eminent domain.
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The department on behalf of the state and as part of the cost of constructing or maintaining a highway may purchase in the open market, acquire, take over, or condemn under the right and power of eminent domain land in fee simple or easements that it considers necessary for prese…
AS 19.05.090 Declaration of taking.
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A declaration of taking in the form of an order signed by the commissioner, or by a designee of the commissioner within the department, declaring that the real property, or interest in it, or an easement, is necessary for the public use of the state vests title in the state. Howe…
AS 19.05.100 Acquisition of excess land.
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When a part of a parcel of land is taken and the remainder is in a shape or condition that is of little value to its owner, or gives rise to claims or litigation concerning severance or other damage, the department may acquire the whole parcel and may sell the remainder or exchan…
AS 19.05.110 Authority to condemn property for purpose of exchange for public land.
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When property that is devoted to or held for another public use for which the power of eminent domain may be exercised is taken for highway purposes, the department may, with the consent of the person or agency in charge of the other public use, condemn real property to be exchan…
AS 19.05.120 Authority to purchase property for the purpose of exchange.
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When the commissioner formally declares that it is in the best public interest of the state to do so, the department may acquire by purchase or otherwise privately or publicly owned land or an interest in it for the purpose of exchanging it for privately or publicly owned land wh…
AS 19.05.122 Utility corridor and railroad right-of-way for extension of the Alaska Railroad. [Repealed, § 2 ch 45 SLA 2004. For related provisions, see AS 42.40.460 — 42.40.465.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 19.05.123 Fairbanks — Seward Peninsula transportation and utility corridor.
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Article 3. General Provisions. (a) Subject to legislative appropriation, the department shall identify and delineate a proposed transportation and utility corridor between Fairbanks and the western end of the Seward Peninsula. (b) In performing the work required by (a) of this se…
AS 19.05.125 Purpose.
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The purpose of AS 19.05 — AS 19.25 is to establish a highway department capable of carrying out a highway planning, construction, and maintenance program that will provide a common defense to the United States and the state, a network of highways linking together cities and commu…
AS 19.05.130 [Renumbered as AS 19.59.001.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 19.05.140 [Renumbered as AS 19.59.002.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]