Title 15 — Elections
20 chapters · 453 sections in this title.
AS 15.13.010 Applicability.
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(a) This chapter applies (1) in every election for governor, lieutenant governor, a member of the state legislature, a delegate to a constitutional convention, or judge seeking judicial retention; (2) to every candidate for election to a municipal office in a municipality with a …
AS 15.13.011 Inapplicability to presidential primary. [Repealed, § 1 ch 2 SLA 1984.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 15.13.020 Alaska Public Offices Commission.
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(a) There is created in the Department of Administration the Alaska Public Offices Commission consisting of five members. The governor shall appoint all members of the commission in the manner prescribed in (b) and (c) of this section, subject to confirmation by a majority of the…
AS 15.13.030 Duties of the commission.
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The commission shall (1) develop and provide all forms for the reports and statements required to be made under this chapter, AS 24.45, and AS 39.50; (2) prepare and publish a manual setting out uniform methods of bookkeeping and reporting for use by persons required to make repo…
AS 15.13.040 Contributions, expenditures, and supplying of services to be reported.
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(a) Except as provided in (g) and (l) of this section, each candidate shall make a full report, upon a form prescribed by the commission, (1) listing (A) the date and amount of all expenditures made by the candidate; (B) the total amount of all contributions, including all funds …
AS 15.13.045 Investigations, hearings.
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(a) The commission may issue subpoenas, administer oaths, hold hearings, and conduct investigations. (b) In conjunction with (a) of this section, the commission may compel the attendance of witnesses and production of papers, books, records, accounts, documents, and testimony, an…
AS 15.13.050 Registration before expenditure.
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(a) Before making an expenditure in support of or in opposition to a candidate or before making an expenditure in support of or in opposition to a ballot proposition or question or to an initiative proposal application filed with the lieutenant governor under AS 15.45.020, each p…
AS 15.13.052 Independent expenditures; political activities accounts.
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(a) Before making an independent expenditure in support of or in opposition to a candidate or before making an independent expenditure in support of or in opposition to a ballot proposition or question, each person other than an individual, candidate, or nongroup entity with an a…
AS 15.13.060 Campaign treasurers.
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(a) Each candidate and group shall appoint a campaign treasurer who is responsible for receiving, holding, and disbursing all contributions and expenditures, and for filing all reports and statements required by law. A candidate may be a campaign treasurer. (b) Each group shall f…
AS 15.13.065 Contributions.
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(a) Individuals, groups, nongroup entities, and political parties may make contributions to a candidate. An individual, group, or nongroup entity may make a contribution to a group, to a nongroup entity, or to a political party. (b) A political party may contribute to a subordina…
AS 15.13.067 Who may make expenditures.
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Only the following may make an expenditure that is not an independent expenditure in an election for candidates for elective office: (1) the candidate; (2) an individual; (3) a group that has registered under AS 15.13.050; and (4) a nongroup entity that has registered under AS 15…
AS 15.13.068 Expenditures and contributions by foreign-influenced corporations and foreign nationals.
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(a) A foreign-influenced corporation or foreign national may not, directly or indirectly, in connection with an election under this chapter, make a contribution or expenditure or make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or expenditure. (b) The provisions of this …
AS 15.13.069 Certain expenditures that comply with charitable gaming provisions permitted.
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Notwithstanding another provision of this title, a charitable gaming permittee that is a qualified organization under AS 05.15.690 may use the net proceeds of a raffle or lottery to make expenditures for the purposes permitted under AS 05.15.150(a)(3).
AS 15.13.070 Limitations on amount of political contributions.
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(a) An individual or group may make contributions, subject only to the limitations of this chapter and AS 24.45, including the limitations on the maximum amounts set out in this section. (b) An individual may contribute not more than (1) $500 per year to a nongroup entity for the…
AS 15.13.072 Restrictions on solicitation and acceptance of contributions.
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(a) A candidate or an individual who has filed with the commission the document necessary to permit that individual to incur election-related expenses under AS 15.13.100 may not solicit or accept a contribution from (1) a person not authorized by law to make a contribution; (2) a…
AS 15.13.074 Prohibited contributions.
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(a) A person, group, or nongroup entity may not make a contribution if the making of the contribution would violate this chapter. (b) A person or group may not make a contribution anonymously, using a fictitious name, or using the name of another. Individuals, persons, nongroup e…
AS 15.13.076 Authorized recipients of contributions.
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A contribution to a (1) candidate may be received only by (A) the candidate; or (B) the candidate's campaign treasurer or a deputy campaign treasurer; (2) group may be received only by the group's campaign treasurer or a deputy treasurer.
AS 15.13.078 Contributions and loans from the candidate.
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(a) The provisions of this chapter do not prohibit the individual who is a candidate from giving any amount of the candidate's own money or other thing of value to the campaign of the candidate. Donations made by the candidate to the candidate's own campaign shall be reported as …
AS 15.13.080 Statement by or on behalf of contributor. [Repealed, § 11 ch 1 TSSLA 2002.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 15.13.082 Limitations on expenditures.
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(a) A candidate or group may not make an expenditure in cash that exceeds $100 unless the candidate, or the campaign treasurer or deputy campaign treasurer, obtains a written receipt from the person to whom the expenditure is made. (b) A person, other than an individual exempt fr…
AS 15.13.084 Prohibited expenditures.
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A person may not make an expenditure (1) anonymously, unless the expenditure is (A) paid for by an individual acting independently of any person; (B) made to influence the outcome of a ballot proposition as that term is defined by AS 15.13.065(c); and (C) made for (i) a billboard…
AS 15.13.086 Authorized makers of expenditures.
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An expenditure (1) authorized by or in behalf of a candidate may be made only by (A) the candidate; or (B) the candidate's campaign treasurer or a deputy campaign treasurer; (2) authorized by AS 15.13.067(3) by or in behalf of a group may be made only by the group's campaign trea…
AS 15.13.090 Identification of communication.
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(a) All communications shall be clearly identified by the words “paid for by” followed by the name and address of the person paying for the communication. In addition, except as provided by (d) of this section, a person shall clearly (1) provide the person's address or the person…
AS 15.13.095 False statements in telephone polling and calls to convince.
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(a) A candidate who is damaged as the result of a false statement about the candidate made with knowledge that it was false, or with reckless disregard for whether it was false or not, made as part of a telephone poll or an organized series of calls, and made with the intent to c…
AS 15.13.100 Expenditures before filing.
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A political campaign expenditure may not be made or incurred by a person in an election or by a person or group with the person's knowledge and on the person's behalf before the date upon which the person files for nomination for the office which the person seeks, except for pers…
AS 15.13.110 Filing of reports.
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(a) Each candidate, group, and nongroup entity shall make a full report in accordance with AS 15.13.040 for the period ending three days before the due date of the report and beginning on the last day covered by the most recent previous report. If the report is a first report, it…
AS 15.13.111 Preservation of records.
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(a) Each person required to report under this chapter shall preserve all records necessary to substantiate information required to be reported under this chapter for a period of six years from the date of the election for which the information was required to be reported, unless …
AS 15.13.112 Uses of campaign contributions held by candidate or group.
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(a) Except as otherwise provided, campaign contributions held by a candidate or group may be used only to pay the expenses of the candidate or group, and the campaign expenses incurred by the candidate or group, that reasonably relate to election campaign activities, and in those…
AS 15.13.114 Disposition of prohibited contributions.
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(a) A candidate, group, or nongroup entity that receives and accepts a contribution given in violation of AS 15.13.072 or 15.13.074 shall immediately, upon discovery that the contribution is prohibited, return it to the contributor. A candidate, group, or nongroup entity that rec…
AS 15.13.116 Disbursement of campaign assets after election.
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(a) A candidate who, after the date of the general, special, municipal, or municipal runoff election or after the date the candidate withdraws as a candidate, whichever comes first, holds unused campaign contributions shall distribute the amount held on February 1 for a general e…
AS 15.13.120 [Renumbered as AS 15.13.380.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 15.13.122 [Renumbered as AS 15.13.385.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 15.13.125 [Renumbered as AS 15.13.390.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 15.13.130 Definitions. [Repealed, § 28 ch 48 SLA 1996.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 15.13.135 Independent expenditures for or against candidates.
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(a) An independent expenditure supporting or opposing a candidate for election to public office, except an independent expenditure made by a nongroup entity with an annual operating budget of $250 or less, shall be reported in accordance with AS 15.13.040 and 15.13.100 — 15.13.11…
AS 15.13.140 Independent expenditures for or against ballot proposition or question.
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(a) [Repealed, § 19 ch 36 SLA 2010.] (b) An independent expenditure for or against a ballot proposition or question (1) shall be reported in accordance with AS 15.13.040 and 15.13.100 — 15.13.110 and other requirements of this chapter; and (2) may not be made if the expenditure i…
AS 15.13.145 Money of the state and its political subdivisions.
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(a) Except as provided in (b) and (c) of this section, each of the following may not use money held by the entity to influence the outcome of the election of a candidate to a state or municipal office: (1) the state, its agencies, and its corporations; (2) the University of Alask…
AS 15.13.150 Election educational activities not prohibited.
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This chapter does not prohibit a person from engaging in educational election-related communications and activities, including (1) the publication of the date and location of an election; (2) the education of students about voting and elections; (3) the sponsorship of candidate d…
AS 15.13.155 Restrictions on earned income and honoraria.
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(a) A candidate for the state legislature, for governor, or for lieutenant governor, including an individual campaigning as a write-in candidate for the office, may not (1) seek or accept compensation for personal services that involves payments that are not commensurate with the…
AS 15.13.374 Advisory opinion.
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(a) Any person may request an advisory opinion from the commission concerning this chapter, AS 24.45, AS 24.60.200 — 24.60.260, or AS 39.50. (b) A request for an advisory opinion (1) must be in writing or contained in a message submitted by electronic mail; (2) must describe a sp…
AS 15.13.380 Violations; limitations on actions.
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(a) Promptly after the final date for filing statements and reports under this chapter, the commission shall notify all persons who have become delinquent in filing them, including contributors who failed to file a statement in accordance with AS 15.13.040, and shall make availab…
AS 15.13.385 Legal counsel.
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(a) The attorney general is legal counsel for the commission. The attorney general shall advise the commission in legal matters arising in the discharge of its duties and represent the commission in actions to which it is a party. If, in the opinion of the commission, the public …
AS 15.13.390 Civil penalty; late filing of required reports.
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(a) A person who (1) fails to register when required by AS 15.13.050(a) or who fails to file a properly completed and certified report within the time required by AS 15.13.040, 15.13.060(b) — (d), 15.13.110(a)(1), (3), or (4), (e), or (f) is subject to a civil penalty of not more…
AS 15.13.400 Definitions.
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In this chapter, (1) “candidate” (A) means an individual who files for election to the state legislature, for governor, for lieutenant governor, for municipal office, for retention in judicial office, or for constitutional convention delegate, or who campaigns as a write-in candi…