Title 10 — Corporations and Associations
13 chapters · 986 sections in this title.
AS 10.25.560 Manner of computing telephone cooperative gross revenue.
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Gross revenue of a telephone cooperative includes all revenue earned from local and toll services.
AS 10.25.570 Refund to local governments.
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The proceeds of the telephone cooperative gross revenue tax and the electric cooperative tax, less the amount expended by the state in their collection, shall be refunded to an organized borough or a city of any class incorporated under state law, in the proportion that the reven…
AS 10.25.580 Inventory and fixtures subject to taxation.
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The inventory and fixtures of a business operated by a cooperative incidental to the furnishing of central station electric service, including, without limitation, appliance stores or departments, are not exempt from ad valorem taxes. The inventory and accounts of these businesse…
AS 10.25.590 Connection and interconnection of facilities.
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A telephone cooperative organized or doing business under this chapter, hereafter designated as applicant, may require a person furnishing telephone service to the public in the state, hereafter designated as company, to interconnect its lines, facilities or systems with, or othe…
AS 10.25.600 Correction of defectively organized cooperatives.
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Article 5. General Provisions. If a cooperative has filed defective articles of incorporation, or has failed to do all things necessary to perfect its corporate organization, it may file corrected articles of incorporation, or amend the original articles, and do and perform all a…
AS 10.25.610 [Renumbered as AS 10.25.810.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 10.25.620 [Renumbered as AS 10.25.820.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 10.25.630 [Renumbered as AS 10.25.830.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 10.25.640 [Renumbered as AS 10.25.840.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 10.25.650 [Renumbered as AS 10.25.850.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 10.25.810 Purpose.
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Cooperative, nonprofit, membership corporations may be organized under this chapter for the purpose of supplying electric energy or telephone or related telecommunications service and promoting and extending the use of these services.
AS 10.25.820 Chapter extended to existing cooperatives.
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This chapter applies to all nonprofit cooperatives organized under any other law of the state for the purpose of supplying electric energy and power, or telephone or related telecommunications service, to its members, or for the purpose of promoting and extending the use of elect…
AS 10.25.830 Construction of chapter.
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This chapter is complete in itself and is controlling. The provisions of any other law of the state relating to the organization of a corporation, except as provided in this chapter, do not apply to a cooperative organized under this chapter. The enumeration of an object, purpose…
AS 10.25.840 Definitions.
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In this chapter, (1) “commissioner” means the commissioner of commerce, community, and economic development; (2) “cooperative” means a corporation organized under this chapter or that becomes subject to this chapter in the manner provided in this chapter; (3) “person” means a nat…
AS 10.25.850 Short title.
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This chapter may be cited as the Electric and Telephone Cooperative Act.
AS 10.30.010 Formation of cemetery association.
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Five or more persons who are residents of the same recording district may form themselves into a cemetery association, and elect at least three of their members to serve as trustees, and one member as clerk. The trustees and the clerk hold office at the pleasure of the associatio…
AS 10.30.020 Records.
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The clerk shall keep a record of the proceedings of the meetings of the association, certify to and record one copy of the record together with the name of the association with the recorder in the recording district in which the meeting is held, and file one copy in the office of…
AS 10.30.030 Effect of filing and recording.
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Upon filing and recording the record as required in AS 10.30.020 the trustees and members of the association and successors are invested with the powers, privileges, and immunities incident to aggregate corporations.
AS 10.30.040 Succession and powers of trustees.
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The trustees of a cemetery association have perpetual succession, and may contract, and prosecute and defend actions.
AS 10.30.050 Bylaws.
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A cemetery association may enact bylaws necessary for the proper management of the association and may prescribe the terms on which members may be admitted, the number of its trustees and officers, and the time and manner of their election or appointment, and the time and place o…
AS 10.30.055 Formation of nonprofit cemetery corporation.
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As an alternative to the provisions of AS 10.30.010 — 10.30.050, a cemetery may be incorporated under AS 10.20. A nonprofit cemetery corporation is subject to the provisions of AS 10.20 except to the extent that those provisions conflict with the provisions of this chapter relati…
AS 10.30.058 Other transactions.
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A cemetery association and a nonprofit cemetery corporation may enter into mergers, interest exchanges, conversions, and domestications under AS 10.55 (Alaska Entity Transactions Act).
AS 10.30.060 Power to acquire and dispose of lands, and exemption from execution, taxation, and public appropriation.
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A cemetery association or nonprofit cemetery corporation may buy or take by gift or devise, and hold, land not exceeding 80 acres, for the sole purpose of a cemetery. The land is exempt from execution, and from any appropriation to public purposes, and from taxation if intended t…
AS 10.30.070 Creation and use of irreducible fund.
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A cemetery association or nonprofit cemetery corporation may by its bylaws provide that a stated percentage of the money realized from the sale of cemetery lots and donations constitutes an irreducible fund, which may be invested in the manner or loaned upon the securities the as…
AS 10.30.080 Disposition of income from cemetery land.
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After paying for the land, the future receipts and income of a cemetery association or nonprofit cemetery corporation, subject to the creation of an irreducible fund, whether from the sale of lots, from donations, rents, or otherwise, shall be applied exclusively to laying out, p…
AS 10.30.090 Debts of association or corporation.
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A cemetery association or nonprofit cemetery corporation may contract debts in anticipation of future receipts for the original purchase of cemetery land, the laying out and embellishment of the grounds and avenues of the cemetery, the construction and repair of a building, mauso…
AS 10.30.100 Transfer of cemetery lots.
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A cemetery association or nonprofit cemetery corporation may adopt regulations the association or corporation considers expedient for disposing of and conveying cemetery lots.
AS 10.30.110 Sale of unsuitable land.
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The trustees of a cemetery association or nonprofit cemetery corporation may, whenever in their opinion a portion of cemetery land is unsuitable for burial purposes, sell the portion and apply the proceeds to the general purposes of the association or corporation.
AS 10.30.120 Purpose of cemetery lots sold; exemptions.
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Cemetery lots sold by a cemetery association or a nonprofit cemetery corporation are for the sole purpose of interment and are exempt from taxation, execution, attachment, or any other claim, lien, or process, if used exclusively for burial purposes without an intention to obtain…
AS 10.30.130 Plans of grounds and cemetery lots.
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A cemetery association or nonprofit cemetery corporation shall have a plan of its grounds and cemetery lots as laid out made and recorded in a book kept for that purpose by the clerk of the association or the secretary of the corporation. The cemetery lots shall be numbered by co…
AS 10.30.140 Maintenance of cemetery land.
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A cemetery association or nonprofit cemetery corporation may enclose, improve, and adorn the grounds and avenues, erect buildings for the use of the association or corporation, adopt rules for the designation and adornment of cemetery lots and for erecting monuments in the cemete…
AS 10.30.150 Annual financial statement.
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An annual statement of the financial affairs of a cemetery association or a nonprofit cemetery corporation shall be made by the clerk of the association or the secretary of the corporation.
AS 10.30.155 Definition.
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In this chapter, “cemetery lot” means a lot, plot, space, grave, niche, mausoleum, crypt, vault, or columbarium, used or intended to be used for the interment of human remains.
AS 10.35.010 Reservation of name.
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The exclusive right to the use of a business name may be reserved by a person intending to start a business or a person intending to change the name of the person's business.
AS 10.35.020 Application to reserve name; availability of name.
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(a) Reservation of a business name is made by filing an application with the commissioner. Upon finding that the name is available for business use, the commissioner shall reserve it for the exclusive use of the applicant for a period of 120 days. A name is not available for busi…
AS 10.35.030 Transfer of reserved name.
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The holder of a reserved name may transfer the right to the exclusive use of the name to another person by filing with the commissioner a notice of transfer that is signed by the holder and specifies the name and address of the transferee.
AS 10.35.040 Registration of name.
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(a) A person conducting a business may register its name if the name is distinguishable on the records of the department from the name of any other organized entity and from a reserved or registered name. In this subsection, (1) “organized entity” means (A) a corporation under AS…
AS 10.35.050 Procedure for registration of name.
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Registration of a business name is made by filing with the commissioner an application for registration. The application must be executed by an owner of the business and must contain the owner's name and address, the name and addresses of the business, the name and address of eac…
AS 10.35.060 Fee for and duration of registered name.
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The fee for the initial registration of a business name shall be established by the department by regulation. The year in which the registration becomes effective is considered a full year of registration and the registration is effective until the close of the fifth calendar yea…
AS 10.35.070 Renewal of registered name.
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A registered business name may be renewed every five years if an application for renewal is filed. An application for renewal must set out the facts required in an original application for registration and be accompanied by a renewal fee to be established by the department by reg…
AS 10.35.075 Accounting and disposition of fees. [Repealed, § 28 ch 90 SLA 1991.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 10.35.080 Business names not registered.
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This chapter does not abrogate any rights between persons who have not registered a business name under those sections.
AS 10.35.085 Cancellation of filings.
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The provisions in AS 10.06 (Alaska Corporations Code) relating to the cancellation of certain corporate filings apply to business names.
AS 10.35.500 Definitions.
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In this chapter, (1) “business” means any commercial or industrial enterprise which is not incorporated and which may be owned by a person or persons, partnership, firm, association, or organization; (2) “commissioner” means the commissioner of commerce, community, and economic d…
AS 10.40.010 Authorized purposes.
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A corporation may be formed for acquiring, holding, or disposing of church or religious society property, for the benefit of religion, for works of charity and education, and for public worship.
AS 10.40.015 Distinguishable name.
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A corporate name must be distinguishable on the records of the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development from the name of another organized entity and from a reserved or registered name. The department may adopt regulations to enforce this section. In this secti…
AS 10.40.020 Execution of articles of incorporation.
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An archbishop, bishop, president, trustee in trust, president of stake, president of congregation, overseer, presiding elder, or clergyman, of a church or religious society, who has been chosen, elected, or appointed in conformity with the constitution, canons, rites, regulations…
AS 10.40.030 Filing and recording of articles of incorporation.
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One copy of the articles shall be filed with the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development; one copy shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the superior court in the judicial district in which the principal place of business of the corporation is to be loc…
AS 10.40.040 Contents of articles of incorporation.
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The articles of incorporation must specify (1) the name of the corporation; (2) the purpose of the corporation; (3) the estimated value of its property at the time of executing the articles of incorporation; (4) the title of the person executing the articles; and (5) the name and…
AS 10.40.050 Amendment of articles and change of seal.
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A corporation formed under this chapter may alter or amend its articles of incorporation and change its seal. The amendment and change of seal shall be made by the corporation and executed by the person who executed the original articles of incorporation, or by a successor in off…