Title 19, Highways and Ferries

The department shall classify, designate, and mark highways under its jurisdiction and shall provide a uniform system of marking and posting these highways. The system of marking and posting must correlate with and, as far as possible, conform to the recommendations of the Manual…

The department shall prescribe types of traffic control signals to regulate traffic on highways. These signals must correlate with and, as far as possible, conform to the recommendations of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices as adopted by the American Association of St…

(a) The department, with respect to highways under its jurisdiction, may (1) establish limitations on weight, size, and load of vehicles, except as otherwise provided in AS 19.10.065; (2) prohibit the operation or impose restrictions on vehicular use of highways during certain se…

(a) Implements of husbandry, as defined by regulation under AS 28.05.011, are not subject to restrictions adopted under AS 19.10.060(a)(1) unless the implement is the load of another vehicle. Implements of husbandry may be operated on highways subject to the department's jurisdic…

The department may conduct investigations with the assistance of the Department of Public Safety and shall determine safe speed limits and safe speed zones on highways and other roadways under its jurisdiction.

(a) In determining safe speed limits and safe speed zones, the department shall consider the following factors in the order of priority listed: (1) neighborhood safety, including the presence of children and pedestrian traffic; (2) the presence of schools, houses, parks, and cros…

(a) To promote traffic safety, the department may designate a portion of a highway to be a traffic safety corridor. The commissioner shall establish criteria for the designation and continuation of traffic safety corridors. In establishing the criteria, the commissioner may consi…

The department may designate through highways by erecting stop signs at the entrances to them.

(a) A highway constructed by the department under AS 19.05 — AS 19.40 may be given a name only by law. (b) This section does not apply to (1) a road constructed by a municipality under a grant authorized by AS 19.05 — AS 19.40; (2) local service roads and trails.

The department may erect and maintain guard rails, stretch wires, and other devices on highways.

The department may erect and maintain signs encouraging the use of safety belts and child safety devices at the site of a motor vehicle accident where a fatality occurred as the result of a person's failing to use a safety belt or child safety device. This section does not limit …

When it is necessary to exclude traffic from any portion of a highway, the department may close that portion of the highway by posting in a conspicuous manner, at each end of the portion closed, suitable signs warning the public that the road is closed under authority of law, and…

The department may collect, analyze, and interpret physical and economic data needed to measure existing and estimated future highway characteristics such as origin and destination, volumes, speeds, accidents, congestion, parking, pedestrian use of highways, and the economic loss…

The department may gather, investigate, and compile information concerning the use, construction, and maintenance of highways, the practices and methods of efficient highway organization, financing, and other information, data and statistics of the state and the extent of the nat…

The department may inspect and test materials, supplies, equipment, and machinery used by it or by a contractor constructing or maintaining highways in the state, and develop methods and procedures for this inspection and testing.

Before February 2 of each year, the department shall prepare a statement showing what construction work has been requested and proposed and may be undertaken by the department. The statement must set forth a general itemization of the estimated cost for each project and the total…

(a) The department shall prepare and adopt uniform standard plans and specifications for the establishment, construction, and maintenance of highways in the state. The department may amend the plans and specifications as it considers advisable. The standards must conform as close…

(a) Except as provided in AS 44.33.300, it is the general policy of the state to require the construction of all highways under bid contract in accordance with AS 36.30 (State Procurement Code). However, subject to the provisions of (b) of this section, when the estimated cost of…

Requests for public bids are governed by AS 36.30 (State Procurement Code). The request for public bids may require the contractor to furnish equipment, labor, materials, and supplies for the project, or it may state that the department will furnish the materials and supplies. If…

The award of a contract for highway construction work is governed by AS 36.30 (State Procurement Code), AS 19.05 — AS 19.25, and regulations adopted under those laws.

A highway constructed or reconstructed shall be designed to permit water to drain from it into ditches which shall drain into coulees, rivers, and lakes according to the surface and terrain where the highway is constructed in accordance with scientific highway construction and en…

Whenever the department enters into a contract for the construction of a highway, it shall, as a condition of the contract, provide that the contractor shall place suitable warning signs that can be read from a distance of 100 feet in daytime, and that the contractor shall erect …

A contractor, foreman, or person in charge of work or repairs on a highway who fails or neglects to erect and maintain suitable warning signs as provided in AS 19.10.240 is punishable by a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $50, or by imprisonment in jail for not more than 6…

The department shall (1) replace all permanent markers on private or municipal property that were destroyed or lost during highway construction to permit persons to determine accurately new boundary lines resulting from the construction; (2) file and record in the local recording…

(a) A person may not construct, reconstruct, relocate, or extend a federal-aid highway within two miles of an airport, airstrip, or private air facility without first obtaining the written approval of the commissioner, as provided by regulation. (b) The commissioner may not appro…

(a) A person who carries passengers, freight for hire intrastate in a commercial motor vehicle, a person who carries freight in a motor vehicle for commercial purposes, or a person who rents or leases a motor vehicle for the use of another to carry freight shall procure and maint…

A commercial motor vehicle may not be operated without a certificate of inspection. An owner or operator of a commercial motor vehicle shall renew a certificate of inspection at least annually. An owner or operator of a commercial motor vehicle shall provide proof of annual inspe…

A person conducting annual commercial motor vehicle inspections shall issue a certificate of inspection to the owner or operator after determining that the motor vehicle is in a safe and mechanically sound condition as required by law. The owner or operator of a commercial motor …

The commissioner shall adopt regulations to implement AS 19.10.310 — 19.10.399.

(a) If a peace officer or an employee of the department authorized by the commissioner to issue citations finds a commercial motor vehicle in operation without a current and valid certificate of inspection under this chapter, the commercial motor vehicle may be impounded. The com…

A person who violates a provision of AS 19.10.310 — 19.10.399 is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.

In AS 19.10.300 — 19.10.399, (1) “commercial motor vehicle” means a self-propelled or towed motor vehicle (A) used to transport passengers or property for commercial purposes; (B) used on a highway or vehicular way or area; (C) that (i) has a gross vehicle weight rating or gross …