Title 14, Education, Libraries, and Museums

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.

(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…

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.

(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…

In AS 14.57.020 — 14.57.080, “committee” means the state Museum Collections Advisory Committee.

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…

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.

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…

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…

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 37.14.500; (3) “net income account” means the…

(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…

(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…

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…

(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…

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.

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.

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…