Title 34, Property

(a) A person who claims a lien under AS 34.35.235 within 60 days after the completion of the service or after the close of the work must record a claim with the recorder of the recording district in which the timber is cut. (b) The claim must contain (1) a statement of the demand…

A person who permits another to go upon the person's land and cut timber has a lien upon the timber for the price agreed to be paid for the privilege, or for the price the privilege would reasonably be worth if there is no express agreement fixing the price.

(a) A person who claims a lien under AS 34.35.245 must record, within 90 days from the cutting of the timber, a claim with the recorder of the recording district in which the saw timber is cut. (b) The claim must be in substance the same as provided in AS 34.35.240 and must be ve…

(a) Liens under AS 34.35.230 — 34.35.315 are preferred liens and are prior to other liens. A sale or transfer of timber does not divest a lien on it under AS 34.35.230 — 34.35.315. (b) As between liens under AS 34.35.230 — 34.35.315 those for work and labor are preferred. (c) As …

(a) A lien under AS 34.35.230 — 34.35.315 does not bind property for more than six months after notice of the lien is recorded, unless suit is brought to enforce the lien in the proper court within that time or if credit is given, within six months after the expiration of the cre…

(a) The lien provided for saw logs and shingle bolts is not released or lost by the manufacture of the saw logs or shingle bolts into lumber or shingles, and the lien may be enforced against the lumber and shingles manufactured from them. (b) A lien may not be acquired upon or en…

(a) The commissioner of public safety or a peace officer designated by the commissioner shall be the receiver, when one is appointed, and the superior court, upon a showing made, shall appoint the receiver, without notice. (b) The receiver is entitled to fees which seem just to t…

The court shall conclusively presume that a party purchasing the property liened upon within the 60 days given to claimants to record their liens is not an innocent third party and is not a bona fide owner of the property, unless it appears that (1) the purchaser has paid full va…

(a) The following persons may demand that a lien under AS 34.35.230 — 34.35.315 be enforced: (1) a person who brings an action to enforce the lien; or (2) a person who has a lien under AS 34.35.230 — 34.35.315, and who is made a party to an action to enforce a lien under those se…

A person who, as a contractor, supplies lumber under a contract is entitled to the lien under AS 34.35.230 — 34.35.315 to the amount due on the contract. However, the lien is subject and subsequent to the liens of the laborers under AS 34.35.230 — 34.35.315 for the amounts due th…

(a) The court or judge may in vacation, upon motion supported by affidavit showing that the property is liable to loss or destruction, order that property subject to a lien under AS 34.35.230 — 34.35.315 be sold by the peace officer before judgment is rendered, as personal proper…

(a) A person who eloigns, injures, or destroys or who makes difficult, uncertain, or impossible the identification of timber upon which there is a lien under AS 34.35.230 — 34.35.315, without the express consent of the lienholder, is liable to the lienholder for the damages to th…

(a) A person who performs work or assists in manufacturing timber into lumber has a lien upon the lumber while it remains at the mill where it is manufactured, or in the possession or under the control of the manufacturer, whether the work is done at the instance of the owner of …

(a) A person who desires to claim the benefit of AS 34.35.300 shall, within 60 days after the close of the service mentioned in that section, record with the recorder of the recording district where the lumber is manufactured, a notice of claim of lien. (b) The notice must contai…

(a) After a lien attaches to property mentioned in AS 34.35.230 — 34.35.315, the owner of the property or a person on behalf of the owner may file with the clerk of the superior court in the judicial district in which the property is located a bond (1) in a sum double the amount …

In AS 34.35.230 — 34.35.315, (1) “lumber” includes timber, or lumber or shingles manufactured from it; (2) “timber” includes saw logs, piles, spars, cordwood, fuelwood, shingle bolts, or other timber.

(a) A person who contributes to the preparation of fish or aquatic animals for food, fish, meal, fertilizer, oil, or other article of commerce by furnishing material or labor for it has a lien for the value of the labor and material upon (1) the product or output of the cannery, …

The person performing the service or doing the work or furnishing the material mentioned in AS 34.35.320 is only entitled to a lien under AS 34.35.320 — 34.35.390 for service, work, or material furnished for the six months, or a shorter period, preceding the recording of a claim …

(a) A person who claims the benefit of AS 34.35.320 — 34.35.390 shall, within 90 days after the completion of the work or the furnishing of material mentioned in AS 34.35.320, record a claim of lien in the recorder's office of the recording district where (1) the product or outpu…

A lien under AS 34.35.320 — 34.35.390 binds all the right, title, and interest of the person at whose instance or request or for whom the work is performed or material furnished, to the full extent of the interest that the person has at the commencement of the work or at the time…

(a) A lien under AS 34.35.320 — 34.35.390 is preferred, prior, and superior to a mortgage, attachment, claim, or demand made or recorded in the recorder's office of the recording district where the property subject to the lien is located after (1) the commencement of the work for…

(a) A lien under AS 34.35.320 — 34.35.390 does not bind the property for more than six months after the lien is recorded, unless suit is brought before the proper court within that time to enforce the lien or if credit is given, within six months after the expiration of the credi…

(a) The commissioner of public safety or a peace officer designated by the commissioner is the receiver, when one is appointed, and the superior court upon a showing made may appoint the receiver without notice. (b) The receiver is entitled to the fees that seem just to the court…

The court shall conclusively presume that a party who purchases property on which a lien is claimed, within the time allowed for the filing of the lien, is not an innocent purchaser for value and is not a bona fide owner of the property subject to the lien, unless it appears that…

(a) A person who brings a suit to enforce the lien, or a person having a lien, who is made a party to the action, may demand that the lien be enforced against the whole or a part of the property upon which the person performs labor or for which the person furnishes material. (b) …

When it appears, during the term or in vacation, that the property is liable to loss or destruction, the court shall order it sold, free of the lien, by a peace officer, in the manner provided for the sale of personal property under execution, before judgment is rendered. The pro…

(a) A person who eloigns, injures, or destroys, or who makes difficult, uncertain, or impossible the identification of a property on which there is a lien under AS 34.35.320 — 34.35.390, without the written consent of the lienholder, is liable to the lienholder for the damages to…

(a) After a lien attaches upon property mentioned in AS 34.35.320 — 34.35.390, the owner of the property or a person on behalf of the owner may file with the clerk of the superior court in the judicial district in which the property is located, a bond (1) in a sum double the amou…

A person who removes or has removed from the state fish, fish products, or the products of an aquatic animal, or fishing appliances, upon which there is a lien or right of lien under AS 34.35.320 — 34.35.390, unless a bond under AS 34.35.375 is filed, is guilty of a misdemeanor, …

(a) A person who sells or otherwise disposes of fish or the products of fish or aquatic animals or other property upon which there is a lien under AS 34.35.320 — 34.35.390 is a trustee for the lien claimant of the consideration received or promised to be paid for the property and…

(a) When a person employs another to work at a cannery, saltery, or other plant or establishment in this state for the catching or preparation of fish or aquatic animals for food, fish meal, fertilizer, oil, or other articles of commerce, and the plant or establishment, at the ti…

(a) A person who sells fish to a fish processor as defined in AS 16.10.296, or to a primary fish buyer as defined in AS 16.10.296, or to a cooperative corporation organized under AS 10.15, and receives a fish ticket or a record of purchase as described in AS 16.05.690 has a lien …

A person employed as watchman for real or personal property has a lien upon the property for the wages or salary earned as a watchman for the property.

The person performing the services or doing the work named in AS 34.35.395 is only entitled to a lien under AS 34.35.395 — 34.35.425 for services or work for the nine months or a shorter period preceding the recording of the claim of lien under AS 34.35.405.

(a) A person who claims a lien under AS 34.35.395 — 34.35.425 shall, within 90 days after the completion of the services or the cessation of the labor, record a claim of lien in the recorder's office of the recording district in which the property is located. (b) The lien claim m…

(a) The recorder shall record the lien claim in a record book or computer-readable medium kept for that purpose. The record book shall be indexed. (b) The recorder is entitled to receive the same fees allowed by law for recording deeds and other instruments.

(a) A lien under AS 34.35.395 — 34.35.425 does not bind property for more than six months after the lien is recorded, unless suit is brought before the proper court to enforce the lien within that time or if credit is given, within nine months after the expiration of the credit. …

The lien provided in AS 34.35.395 — 34.35.425 binds all the right, title, and interest of the person at whose instance or request or for whom the work or services are performed, to the full extent of the interest that the person has at the commencement of the work or services for…

(a) A lien under AS 34.35.395 — 34.35.425 is preferred, prior, and superior to a mortgage, attachment, claim, or demand made or recorded in the recorder's office of the recording district in which the property is located, after the commencement of the work or services for which t…

(a) An attorney has a lien for compensation, whether specially agreed upon or implied, as provided in this section (1) first, upon the papers of the client that have come into the possession of the attorney in the course of the professional employment; (2) second, upon money in t…

When a clerk, accountant, bookkeeper, waiter, waitress, cook, maid, porter, servant, employee, artisan, craftsman, factory operator, mill operator, mechanic, quarryman, common laborer, or farmhand labors or performs a service in an office, store, hotel, rooming house, boardinghou…

(a) When a person or an agent, receiver, or trustee of the person, fails or refuses to make wage payments as prescribed by law or agreement between the parties, the employee who has performed the service shall make an account of service, showing the amount due the employee for th…

(a) The lien created by AS 34.35.435 — 34.35.445 is not operative for more than six months after the lien is recorded and indexed, unless suit to enforce the lien is brought before the proper court within that time or if a credit is given, six months after the expiration of the c…

(a) An operator of a hospital in the state, a licensed special nurse in a hospital in the state, or a physician who furnishes service to a person who has a traumatic injury has a lien upon any sum awarded to the injured person or the personal representative of the injured person …

Except as otherwise provided, a lien under AS 34.35.450 — 34.35.480 may not be allowed for hospitalization or the services of a physician or licensed special nurse furnished after a settlement is made by or on behalf of the person causing the injury unless the settlement is made …

(a) To perfect the lien described in AS 34.35.450 — 34.35.480, the hospital or the owner or operator of the hospital, or the physician or licensed special nurse, shall, not later than 90 days after the date of injury, or in no event later than 90 days after the discharge of the i…