Title 14 — Education, Libraries, and Museums
36 chapters · 1,018 sections in this title.
AS 14.57.010 The state museum.
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(a) The department shall manage and have complete charge of all of the property contained in the institution known as the state museum. The museum is designated as a repository of natural and cultural history collections and shall be operated and maintained as a designated reposi…
AS 14.57.012 Designated natural and cultural history repositories.
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(a) The department may designate natural and cultural history repositories in addition to the state museum as provided under this section. (b) An institution located in the state that seeks designation as a natural and cultural history repository may apply on a form and under pro…
AS 14.57.015 Accounting and disposition of receipts. [Repealed, § 92 ch 36 SLA 1990.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 14.57.020 Museum Collections Advisory Committee.
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(a) There is created in the department the State Museum Collections Advisory Committee consisting of five members appointed by the board to serve at the board's pleasure for staggered three-year terms. The appointees shall be broadly representative of the public's interest in the…
AS 14.57.030 Officers; meetings, rules of procedure, quorum.
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(a) The committee shall elect a chair from among its members. (b) The committee shall meet at least once every six months and at the call of its chair, on petition of a majority of its members, or at the call of the commissioner, or the director of the museum, at a mutually conve…
AS 14.57.040 Compensation; per diem, travel expenses.
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The members of the committee serve without compensation, but they are entitled to per diem and travel expenses as authorized by law for boards and commissions.
AS 14.57.050 Collections management; acquisitions and dispositions.
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(a) On recommendation of the committee, the department shall adopt regulations governing the museum's in-house acquisitions committee, and the management and disposition of artifacts, natural history specimens, art objects, collections or other items, materials, or properties tha…
AS 14.57.060 Advisory duties.
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The committee shall act in an advisory capacity to the board as to the general acquisition and deaccession policies and programs of the state museum.
AS 14.57.070 Conflict of interest.
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(a) A member of the committee may not act on a matter relating to the state museum in which the member's relationship with another person or with respect to the acquisition or disposition of an item owned by, in custody of, or proposed to be acquired by or for the state museum cr…
AS 14.57.080 Definition.
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Article 2. Use of Net Income of Alaska Heritage Endowment Fund. In AS 14.57.020 — 14.57.080, “committee” means the state Museum Collections Advisory Committee.
AS 14.57.100 Acquisitions.
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Subject to appropriation by the legislature under AS 37.14.530, the director may use the balance of the net income account of the Alaska heritage endowment fund to acquire culturally or historically significant artifacts, natural history specimens, art objects, collections, and o…
AS 14.57.110 Ownership of acquired items.
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Except when ownership of an item is transferred under AS 14.57.120, an item acquired under AS 14.57.100 becomes the property of the state museum.
AS 14.57.120 Criteria applicable to acquisitions from the fund.
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Subject to approval given by the Museum Collections Advisory Committee under AS 14.57.050(b), the director may (1) establish by contract the terms and conditions of custody, protection, conservation, and exhibition of an item acquired by the state museum if the item is acquired a…
AS 14.57.130 Disposition of acquired items.
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Subject to approval of the Museum Collections Advisory Committee under AS 14.57.050(b), the director may establish a deaccession policy under which the director may exchange or otherwise convey title to an item acquired from the net income account of the fund in accordance with g…
AS 14.57.199 Definitions.
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Article 3. Property Held by Museums. In AS 14.57.100 — 14.57.199, (1) “director” means the director of the division of the department that has responsibility for state libraries, archives, and museums; (2) “fund” means the Alaska heritage endowment fund established in AS 37.14.50…
AS 14.57.200 Acquisition of title to loaned property.
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(a) A museum may acquire the title to documented property loaned to the museum if (1) at least seven years have passed after the expiration date of the loan without written or other contact between the lender and the museum; or (2) the loan does not have an expiration date and at…
AS 14.57.210 Acquisition of title to undocumented property.
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(a) A museum may acquire title to undocumented property held by a museum for seven years or longer if (1) the seven-year holding period is verified by the written records of the museum; (2) when this paragraph is applicable, the museum has notified by mail all corporations, excep…
AS 14.57.220 Reclamation of property.
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In addition to any other right of reclamation the person may have under 25 U.S.C. 3001 — 3013 (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act), after title to documented property or undocumented property is acquired by a museum under AS 14.57.200 — 14.57.290, the lender o…
AS 14.57.230 Museum obligations regarding loaned property.
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(a) A museum shall keep written records regarding loaned property for at least two years from the date of acquiring title to the property under AS 14.57.200 or 14.57.210. (b) A museum shall keep written records on all property it acquires by loan. The records must contain the own…
AS 14.57.240 Obligation of lenders.
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A lender shall notify the museum of a change of address or a change in the ownership of the loaned property in order to ensure the retention of rights to the loaned property.
AS 14.57.250 Relationship to other laws.
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If AS 14.57.200 — 14.57.290 conflict with another provision of state law, AS 14.57.200 — 14.57.290 govern to the extent of the conflict.
AS 14.57.290 Definitions.
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In AS 14.57.200 — 14.57.290, unless the context indicates otherwise, (1) “documented property” means property in the possession of a museum for which the museum has a reasonable means of determining the owner; (2) “lender” means a person whose name appears on the records of a mus…