Title 29 — Municipal Government
38 chapters · 509 sections in this title.
AS 29.60.010 Secs. 29.60.010 — 29.60.080. State equalization of tax resources for municipal services; determination of population; determination of millage rate equivalent; reports; limitation on computation and use of payments; tax equalization account; administration; definitions. [Repealed, § 14 ch 12 SLA 2008.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 29.60.100 Secs. 29.60.100 — 29.60.180. State Aid for Miscellaneous Purposes. [Repealed, § 14 ch 12 SLA 2008.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 29.60.280 Secs. 29.60.280 — 29.60.310. Allocation and distribution; qualification for minimum payment; proration of payments; time of payment. [Repealed, § 14 ch 12 SLA 2008.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 29.60.350 Secs. 29.60.350 — 29.60.375. Safe communities program; base amount account distributions; municipalities organized under federal law; per capita account distribution; minimum entitlement; adjustment of payments; definition. [Repealed, § 14 ch 12 SLA 2008.]
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Article 1. Community Facilities Grants.
AS 29.60.400 Grants for community facilities.
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(a) Within the limits of appropriations for the purpose the department shall make matching grants in accordance with the provisions of AS 29.60.410 — 29.60.440 to municipalities or their nonprofit designees equal to (1) 50 percent of the estimated reasonable costs of construction…
AS 29.60.410 Grant procedures.
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(a) An application for a grant under AS 29.60.400 shall be made in a form prescribed by the commissioner. (b) A grant shall be allotted in accordance with an agreement made between the commissioner on behalf of the state and the grantee. The agreement may include any provision ag…
AS 29.60.420 Regulations.
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(a) [Repealed, § 35 ch 126 SLA 1994.] (b) The commissioner shall adopt regulations to carry out the purposes of AS 29.60.400 — 29.60.440.
AS 29.60.430 Allocation of money.
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If the amount of money appropriated by the legislature for grants under AS 29.60.400 is not adequate to satisfy amounts required for approved grant applications, money shall be allocated on the basis of priority established by regulations of the department.
AS 29.60.440 Limitation.
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Article 2. Shared Fisheries Business Taxes. AS 29.60.400 — 29.60.440 do not require that a recipient of a grant for a feasibility study must proceed with construction of the project, regardless of whether the project is determined to be feasible.
AS 29.60.450 Fisheries business tax allocation.
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Article 3. Oil and Hazardous Substance Municipal Impact Assistance.
AS 29.60.500 Purpose and policy.
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(a) The legislature finds and declares that a major release of oil or hazardous substances into the environment presents a real and substantial threat to the economy and public welfare of the municipalities, villages, and school districts that are affected by the release and the …
AS 29.60.510 Municipal impact grants authorized.
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(a) Subject to (b) of this section, the commissioner may use money from the oil and hazardous substance release prevention and response fund to make grants to a municipality, village, or school district that is affected by the release or by the response to the release and that de…
AS 29.60.520 Purposes of municipal impact grants.
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(a) A grant made under AS 29.60.510 may be made (1) only for (A) provision of subsistence resources on which the residents of the municipality, village, or school district rely for subsistence needs; (B) the additional costs of a reasonable and appropriate function or service, in…
AS 29.60.530 Criteria to evaluate grant applications.
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(a) In determining whether an expenditure or proposed expenditure by a municipality, village, or school district is eligible for a grant under AS 29.60.510, the department shall consider the (1) degree to which the effect on the municipality, village, or school district is direct…
AS 29.60.540 Limitations on uses of grants by municipalities and villages.
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(a) A municipality may not use a grant made under AS 29.60.510 to reduce current municipal tax rates or to retire its existing bonded indebtedness. (b) Money received by a municipality, village, or school district under AS 29.60.500 — 29.60.599 may not be used for a capital impro…
AS 29.60.550 Records.
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The department shall maintain records showing the income and expenses of grants made under AS 29.60.510, and shall develop procedures governing the expenditure of, and accounting for, money expended.
AS 29.60.560 Impact assessment and remedial plans.
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(a) For each disaster emergency declared by the governor under AS 26.23.020 based on a release of oil or a hazardous substance or for each other release of oil or a hazardous substance for which money may be expended under AS 46.08.040, the commissioner, after consulting with and…
AS 29.60.590 Regulations.
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The commissioner and the commissioner of environmental conservation shall jointly develop and adopt regulations that are necessary to implement the purposes of AS 29.60.500 — 29.60.599.
AS 29.60.599 Definitions.
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Article 4. Human Services Community Match Program. In AS 29.60.500 — 29.60.599, (1) “barrel” when used with reference to oil has the meaning given in AS 43.20.144; (2) “containment and cleanup” has the meaning given in AS 46.08.900; (3) “disaster emergency” means a disaster decla…
AS 29.60.600 Human services community matching grants.
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(a) Within the limits of appropriations for the purpose, the Department of Health shall, upon application, make a matching grant to a qualified municipality equal to 70 percent of the estimated reasonable costs of providing essential human services through private nonprofit agenc…
AS 29.60.610 Grant procedure; contract.
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(a) If a qualified municipality wishes to apply for a grant under AS 29.60.600, the municipality shall apply for a grant for a fiscal year by submitting a form prescribed by the commissioner of health before October 1 of the preceding fiscal year. The application must generally d…
AS 29.60.620 Allocation of money.
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(a) If the amount of money appropriated by the legislature for human services community matching grants under AS 29.60.600 is not adequate to satisfy amounts required for the qualified municipalities who have applied for grants, the money shall be allocated proportionately among …
AS 29.60.650 Definitions.
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Article 5. Bulk Fuel Bridge Loan Fund and Program. In AS 29.60.600 — 29.60.650, (1) “essential human services” and “services” have the meaning given “social services” in AS 47.75.060 except that they include only services whose unavailability would subject persons needing the ser…
AS 29.60.660 Bulk fuel bridge loan fund and program. [Repealed, § 6, ch 46, SLA 2012. For current law, see AS 42.25.299.]
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Article 6. Reimbursement for Costs of Port and Harbor Bonds.
AS 29.60.700 Reimbursement for costs of municipal capital projects.
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Article 7. Harbor Facility Grant Program. (a) Subject to appropriations for the purpose, during each fiscal year, the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities shall allocate to each municipality an amount to reimburse the costs paid by the municipality during the immedi…
AS 29.60.800 Harbor facility grant fund.
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(a) There is established the harbor facility grant fund consisting of money appropriated to the fund. Each fiscal year, the legislature may appropriate money to the fund from the watercraft fuel tax account (AS 43.40.010(f)) and from the fisheries business tax collected under AS …
AS 29.60.810 Grant applications.
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A municipality or regional housing authority that owns a harbor facility may submit to the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities an application for a harbor facility grant to be used for construction, expansion, major repair, or major maintenance of a harbor facility…
AS 29.60.820 Award of grants.
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(a) The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities may award a harbor facility grant during a fiscal year only for a proposed project eligible under AS 29.60.810 based on a grant application filed during the immediately preceding fiscal year before February 1. The total a…
AS 29.60.830 Definition.
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Article 8. Community Assistance Program. In AS 29.60.800 — 29.60.830, “regional housing authority” means a regional housing authority established under AS 18.55.996.
AS 29.60.850 Community Assistance Fund.
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(a) The community assistance fund is established in the general fund for the purpose of making community assistance payments to municipalities, reserves, and communities for any public purpose. The fund consists of appropriations. Income earned on money in the fund may be appropr…
AS 29.60.855 Basic community assistance payments.
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(a) The basic amount used for determining the basic community assistance payment for a fiscal year is $300,000. However, if the amount available for payments for that fiscal year under AS 29.60.850(c) is less than the amount necessary to make the payments under (b) of this sectio…
AS 29.60.860 Per capita payment increases.
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(a) Subject to (b) of this section, if the amount available for distribution under AS 29.60.850(c) exceeds the amount needed to fully fund all the basic community assistance payments, the balance shall be distributed on a per capita basis to municipalities, to reserves, and to co…
AS 29.60.865 Eligibility requirements for reserves and communities.
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(a) The department, with advice from the Department of Law, shall determine whether there is in each community or reserve an incorporated nonprofit entity or a Native village council that will agree to receive and spend the community assistance payment. If there is more than one …
AS 29.60.879 Definitions.
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In AS 29.60.850 — 29.60.879, (1) “community” means a place in the unorganized borough, in a borough, or in a unified municipality that is not incorporated as a municipality, that is not a reserve, and in which 25 or more individuals reside as a social unit; (2) “reserve” means a …