Title 35, Public Buildings, Works, and Improvements

If a contractor or person in charge of the construction of a public building in the state fails to perform the work in a good and workmanlike manner and does not perform the work in accordance with the plans and specifications of the contract, the department shall direct what leg…

The department shall, from time to time, examine all existing public buildings and report the condition of each and any necessary additional construction that is needed on them.

The department may inspect and test materials, supplies, equipment, and machinery used by a contractor constructing or maintaining public works, and may develop methods and procedures for inspection and testing.

The department may gather, investigate, and compile information concerning the use, construction, and maintenance of public works, the practices and methods of efficient organization, financing and such other information, data and statistics of the state, and the extent of natura…

Not later than February 1 of each year, the department shall prepare a statement showing the public works authorized within the past six-year period and the completion schedule as of that date, together with recommendations regarding the need for additional public works construct…

The department shall apply in the name of the state, as applicant, to the appropriate federal agency for the construction or assistance in the construction of boat harbor, dike, jetty, or breakwater harbor facilities where the facilities are necessary, feasible, and appropriate t…

The department shall prepare the preliminary determination of need for each project of the type described in AS 35.10.090 and its feasibility and appropriateness through representations and data submitted to it by the residents of each community desiring a project, and from other…

The department may contract with a community for the participation of the community either in the financing of projects or, instead of local financial participation, to contract with the community for its installing necessary piling, floats, and related equipment and facilities w…

The department may lease for a period up to 50 years or may sell for a nominal sum to an incorporated city, public utility district, or other incorporated area marine or harbor facilities constructed or rebuilt with territorial funds or state funds or with territorial or state an…

Each public work shall be constructed in a completed manner within the appropriation and limits imposed by the legislature.

There is established within the Office of the Governor, office of management and budget a public facility planning fund. The fund is a capital fund and consists of (1) money appropriated by the legislature, (2) money reimbursed to it from the proceeds of the sales of general obli…

The legislature finds that since the needs of the state for physical facilities of all kinds are diverse, the planning, design, and procurement of public facilities through lease or construction should be executed in accordance with facility procurement policies developed by the …

In addition to other duties prescribed by statute, the department shall (1) develop facility procurement policies for the planning, design, lease, construction, maintenance, and operation of public facilities of the state; (2) develop and maintain an inventory of physical facilit…

(a) The department shall develop and keep current by periodic revision physical facility procurement and planning policies for public buildings and other state facilities and shall develop regulations and guidelines for the implementation of these policies. (b) In developing and …

(a) The department shall coordinate the procurement of physical facilities through lease or construction for the state to insure the greatest cost savings of planning, design, and contractual techniques. (b) When the state or an agency of the state determines that a public facili…

The contractual techniques for the procurement of labor, materials, and contractual services, including facility procurement through lease or construction, under this chapter must conform to the requirements of AS 36.30 (State Procurement Code).

In AS 35.10.160 — 35.10.200, (1) “life cycle costs” means analytic techniques that provide data to describe the first cost of procurement of public facilities through lease or construction, and the maintenance cost, operation cost, and occupancy cost of the facilities; (2) “polic…

A utility facility may be constructed, placed, or maintained across, along, over, under, or within a state public facility only in accordance with regulations adopted or procedures prescribed by the department and only if authorized by a written permit issued by the department. T…

(a) If, incident to the construction of a public facility project, the department determines and orders that a utility facility located across, along, over, under, or within a state public facility must be changed, relocated, or removed, the utility owning or maintaining the faci…

An encroachment may be constructed, placed, changed, or maintained across or within a public facility, but only in accordance with regulations or procedures adopted by the department. An encroachment may not be constructed, placed, maintained, or changed until it is authorized by…

If, incidental to the construction or maintenance of a state public facility, the department determines and orders that an encroachment previously authorized by written permit must be changed, relocated, or removed, the owner of the encroachment shall change, relocate, or remove …

If an unauthorized encroachment exists in, on, under, or over a state public facility, the department may require the removal of the encroachment, at the expense of the owner, in the manner provided in AS 35.10.260 — 35.10.270.

Notice shall be given the owner, occupant, or person in possession of an unauthorized encroachment, or to another person causing or permitting the encroachment to exist, by serving upon any of them a notice demanding the removal of the encroachment within a time limit set by the …

After a failure of the owner of an unauthorized encroachment to comply with the notice or order of the department under AS 35.10.220, 35.10.240, or 35.10.260, the department may remove the encroachment, or cause it to be removed. The owner of the unauthorized encroachment shall p…