Title 26, Military Affairs, Veterans, Disasters, and Aerospace

(a) A member of the militia who (1) is placed in correctional custody by a person authorized to do so, (2) is placed under physical restraint while in correctional custody, and (3) escapes from the physical restraint before the member is released from physical restraint by proper…

(a) A member of the militia who, with intent to deceive, signs a false record, return, regulation, order, or other official document made in the line of duty, knowing it to be false, or makes a false official statement in the line of duty, knowing it to be false, may be punished …

A member of the militia who, without proper authority, (1) sells or otherwise disposes of, (2) wilfully or through neglect damages, destroys, or loses, or (3) wilfully or through neglect suffers to be lost, damaged, destroyed, sold, or wrongfully disposed of, military property of…

A member of the militia who wilfully or recklessly wastes, spoils, or otherwise wilfully and wrongly destroys or damages any property other than military property of the United States or of any state may be punished by up to one year of confinement, by separation with characteriz…

(a) A member of the militia who wilfully and wrongfully hazards or suffers to be hazarded a vehicle, aircraft, or vessel of the armed forces of the United States or the militia of the state may be punished by up to five years of confinement, by separation with characterization up…

(a) A member of the militia who operates or physically controls a nonmilitary vehicle, aircraft, or vessel in a negligent or reckless manner may be punished by separation with characterization up to dishonorable discharge and by such other punishment as a court-martial may direct…

(a) A member of the militia, other than a sentinel or lookout, who (1) is found under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance while on duty, or (2) as a result of the use of any alcoholic beverage or drug, is unable to properly perform the member's duty may be punished…

A sentinel or lookout who (1) as a result of the use of any alcoholic beverage or drug, is unable to properly perform the sentinel's or lookout's duties, (2) is found sleeping on the sentinel's or lookout's post, (3) leaves the sentinel's or lookout's post before being regularly …

A member of the militia who, knowing that another person is a sentinel or lookout, uses wrongful and disrespectful language or behaves in a wrongful and disrespectful manner that is directed toward and within the hearing of the sentinel or lookout while the sentinel or lookout is…

(a) A member of the militia who wrongfully uses, possesses, manufactures, distributes, or imports a controlled substance into the customs territory of the United States, exports from the United States in violation of the laws of the United States or the state, or who wrongfully i…

A member of the militia who, for the purpose of avoiding work, duty, or service, (1) feigns illness, physical disablement, mental lapse, or derangement, or (2) intentionally inflicts self-injury may be punished by up to one year of confinement, by separation with characterization…

A member of the militia who intentionally causes or wilfully participates in a riot or breach of the peace may be punished by up to one year of confinement, by separation with characterization up to dishonorable discharge, and by such other punishment as a court-martial may direc…

(a) A member of the militia who uses provoking or reproachful words or gestures toward another member of the militia may be punished as a court-martial may direct. (b) A court-martial may not impose a sentence of confinement or a discharge under this section.

(a) A member of the militia who commits any of the following acts is guilty of sexual assault and, except as provided under (f) of this section, shall be punished by separation with characterization dishonorable discharge and may, in addition to separation, be punished by up to 1…

(a) A member of the militia who (1) is an officer, a noncommissioned officer, or a petty officer, (2) is in a training leadership position with respect to a specially protected junior member of the armed forces of the United States or of the militia of the state, and (3) engages …

(a) A member of the militia is guilty of stalking and may be punished by up to three years of confinement, by separation with characterization up to dishonorable discharge, and by such other punishment as a court-martial may direct if the member (1) wrongfully engages in a course…

(a) A member of the militia commits the offense of assault if the person attempts or offers to do bodily harm to another person using unlawful force or violence, whether or not the attempt or offer is consummated. A person who commits assault may be punished by up to one year of …

(a) A member of the militia who knowingly commits any of the following acts without legal justification or lawful authorization is guilty of an offense under this section and may be punished by up to seven years of confinement, by separation with characterization up to dishonorab…

(a) A member of the militia who wrongfully takes, obtains, or withholds, by any means, from the possession of the owner or another person any money, personal property, or article of value with intent permanently to deprive or defraud another person of the use and benefit of the p…

A member of the militia who, with intent to defraud, (1) falsely makes or alters a signature to or a part of any writing that would, if genuine, apparently impose a legal liability on another person or change the legal right or liability of the person to their prejudice, or (2) u…

A member of the militia who (1) wilfully and unlawfully alters, conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys a public record or (2) takes a public record with the intent to alter, conceal, remove, mutilate, obliterate, or destroy the public record may be punished by up …

A member of the militia who makes, draws, utters, or delivers a check, draft, or order for the payment of money on a bank or other depository, knowing at the time that the maker or drawer has not or will not have sufficient funds in, or credit with, the bank or other depository f…

A member of the militia who, in a judicial proceeding or in a course of justice, under lawful oath or in another form allowed by law to be substituted for an oath, wilfully and corruptly gives false testimony material to the issue or matter of inquiry, or who, in a declaration, c…

(a) A member of the militia is guilty of fraud against the government if the member, (1) knowing it to be false or fraudulent, (A) makes a claim against the United States, the state, or an officer of the United States or the state; or (B) presents to a person in the civil or mili…

(a) A commissioned officer, warrant officer, cadet, candidate, or midshipman of the militia who is convicted of conduct unbecoming an officer may be punished by separation with characterization up to dishonorable discharge and by such other punishment as a court-martial may direc…

(a) Although not specifically mentioned in this chapter, all disorders and acts that prejudice good order and discipline in the militia of the state and all conduct of a nature to bring discredit on the militia of the state shall be considered by a court-martial and punished as a…

(a) A member of the militia who (1) knowingly accesses a government computer with an unauthorized purpose, (2) by accessing the government computer obtains classified information, and (3) with reason to believe the information could be used to the injury of the United States or t…

A member of the militia who is ordered into medical quarantine by a person authorized to issue the quarantine order and who, with knowledge of the quarantine order and the limits imposed under the quarantine order, goes beyond the limits imposed under the quarantine order before …

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, (1) “accuser” means a person who signs and swears to charges, a person who directs that charges nominally be signed and sworn to by another, and any other person who has an interest other than an official interest in the pro…

The Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs shall adopt regulations necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.

The Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs may receive gifts, donations, and grants from any person or agency. All gifts, donations, and grants shall be used in accordance with the donor's instructions.

The Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs may approve expenditures by veterans' organizations and may reimburse them for their expenditures in employing full time service officers, for necessary travel expenses, including travel by service officers outside of the state not…

Payment to a veterans' organization shall first be approved by the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs and so far as possible shall be on an equitable basis for rehabilitation work done.

(a) The provisions of 50 U.S.C. 3808 (Military Selective Service Act), as amended, are extended to this state and its political subdivisions. (b) [Repealed, § 19 ch 8 SLA 2023.]

(a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, if a state resident who is a member of the armed forces has executed the United States Department of Defense Military Record of Emergency Data Form (DD Form 93), or its successor form, to serve as a record of emergency data and, on t…

(a) A veteran may record without fee the veteran's armed forces report of separation at a recorder's office of the Department of Natural Resources. (b) [Repealed, § 2 ch 25 SLA 2001.]

(a) The Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs shall pay, upon application, a death gratuity in the amount of $750 to the surviving spouse of a qualified veteran who was a resident of the state at the time of death. If the veteran has no surviving spouse, the gratuity shall…

(a) A person that provides veterans' benefits services or veterans' benefits appeal services to a veteran or a veteran's dependents, survivors, or personal representative for compensation shall disclose to the veteran or veteran's dependents, survivors, or personal representative…

In this chapter, except where otherwise indicated, “veteran” includes a person who served in the Alaska Territorial Guard.

(a) The Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development shall administer the laws and regulations relating to the veterans' loan program, adopt new regulations, and recommend legislation. (b) The department shall obtain the guarantee of the United States under the Ser…

The deeds, mortgages, assignments, or other documents made, executed, and delivered in conformity with the provisions of this chapter and as otherwise required by law, in which the designation “Veterans' Affairs Commission” appears, whether as grantor, grantee, mortgagee, assigno…

(a) The Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development shall formulate general policies and adopt regulations, including regulations to establish reasonable fees for services provided. (b) The department may hold hearings and subpoena witnesses and documents, and adm…

(a) The commissioner of commerce, community, and economic development may, under regulations and policies, make the following loans: (1) personal loans may be made for educational, domestic, remote area family housing and other personal purposes, not exceeding $10,000; the loans …

The provisions of AS 26.15.040 applying to interest rates apply only to loans made after April 1, 1967. The interest rates on loans made before April 1, 1967 shall be prescribed at the time the loan was made.

(a) The commissioner of commerce, community, and economic development may sell or transfer at par value or at a premium or discount to any bank or other private purchaser for cash or other consideration the mortgages and notes held by the Department of Commerce, Community, and Ec…

The Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development shall dispose of property acquired through default or foreclosure of a loan made under this chapter. Disposal shall be made in a manner that serves the best interests of the state, and may include the amortization of…