Title 01 — General Provisions
3 chapters · 24 sections in this title.
AS 01.05.006 Adoption of Alaska Statutes; notes, headings, and references not law.
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The bulk formal revision of the laws of Alaska which was authorized by AS 24.20.070 and prepared under the direction of the Alaska Legislative Council and published by The Michie Company, legal publishers, of Charlottesville, Virginia, and titled “Alaska Statutes,” as set out in …
AS 01.05.010 Adoption of revision. [Repealed, § 2 ch 1 SLA 1963.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 01.05.011 Designation and citation.
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The bulk formal revision of Alaska law adopted and enacted into law by AS 01.05.006 and as amended and supplemented is known as the “Alaska Statutes” and may be cited “AS” followed by the number of the title, chapter, and section, separated by periods. For example, this title may…
AS 01.05.016 Effect of adoption.
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(a) The adoption and enactment of the Alaska Statutes do not repeal, affect, or modify (1) a special, local, or temporary law; (2) a law making an appropriation; (3) a law affecting a bond issue or by which a bond issue may have been authorized; (4) the running of the statutes of…
AS 01.05.020 Prima facie evidence. [Repealed, § 2 ch 1 SLA 1963.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 01.05.021 Effect of repeal on prior offenses and punishments.
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(a) No fine, forfeiture, or penalty incurred under laws existing before the time the Alaska Statutes take effect is affected by repeal of the existing law, but the recovery of the fines and forfeitures and the enforcement of the penalties are effected as if the law repealed had s…
AS 01.05.026 Supplements and pamphlets prima facie evidence of law; temporary and special acts; authentication.
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The laws contained in the most recent cumulative supplement to and replacement pamphlets for the Alaska Statutes constitute prima facie a part of the Alaska Statutes, and the laws contained in the Temporary and Special Act pamphlets constitute prima facie the temporary and specia…
AS 01.05.030 Citing, amending, or repealing. [Repealed, § 2 ch 1 SLA 1963.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 01.05.031 Revision of statutes.
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(a) Subject to the general policies that may be adopted by the legislative council for the preparation and publication of the annual cumulative supplement to and replacement pamphlets for the Alaska Statutes and of the accompanying Temporary and Special Act pamphlets, the revisor…
AS 01.05.036 Improvement of statutes.
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The Legislative Affairs Agency, working in cooperation with the revisor, shall make recommendations to the legislative council concerning deficiencies, conflicts, or obsolete provisions in and the need for reorganization or revision of the statutes, and, at the direction of the l…
AS 01.10.010 Applicability of common law.
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Article 2. General Definitions, Residency, and Rules of Statutory Construction. So much of the common law not inconsistent with the Constitution of the State of Alaska or the Constitution of the United States or with any law passed by the legislature of the State of Alaska is the…
AS 01.10.020 Applicability of AS 01.10.040 — 01.10.090.
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The provisions of AS 01.10.040 — 01.10.090 shall be observed in the construction of the laws of the state unless the construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the legislature.
AS 01.10.030 Severability.
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Any law heretofore or hereafter enacted by the Alaska legislature which lacks a severability clause shall be construed as though it contained the clause in the following language: “If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held inva…
AS 01.10.040 Words and phrases; meaning of “including”.
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(a) Words and phrases shall be construed according to the rules of grammar and according to their common and approved usage. Technical words and phrases and those that have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning, whether by legislative definition or otherwise, shall be const…
AS 01.10.050 Tense, number, and gender.
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(a) Words in the present tense include the past and future tenses, and words in the future tense include the present tense. (b) Words in the singular number include the plural, and words in the plural number include the singular. (c) Words of any gender may, when the sense so ind…
AS 01.10.055 Residency.
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(a) A person establishes residency in the state by being physically present in the state with the intent to remain in the state indefinitely and to make a home in the state. (b) A person demonstrates the intent required under (a) of this section (1) by maintaining a principal pla…
AS 01.10.060 Definitions.
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(a) In the laws of the state, unless the context otherwise requires, (1) “action” includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal; (2) “daytime” means the period between sunrise and sunset; (3) “month” means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed; (4) “munici…
AS 01.10.065 Registered mail, certified mail.
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Article 3. Effect and Effective Date of Statutes. When the use of registered mail is authorized or required by the laws of the state, certified mail, with return receipt requested, may be used.
AS 01.10.070 Time statutes become law and take effect.
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(a) All bills passed by the legislature become law upon the governor's signature or upon the governor's veto being overridden or, when the governor allows a bill to become law without signature, on the day after expiration of the period allowed for gubernatorial action by art. II…
AS 01.10.080 Computation of time.
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The time in which an act provided by law is required to be done is computed by excluding the first day and including the last, unless the last day is a holiday, and then it is also excluded.
AS 01.10.090 Retrospective statutes.
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No statute is retrospective unless expressly declared therein.
AS 01.10.100 Effect of repeals or amendments.
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Article 4. The Statehood Act. (a) The repeal or amendment of a law does not release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred or right accruing or accrued under that law, unless the repealing or amending act so provides expressly. The law shall be treated as re…
AS 01.10.110 Effect of amendments to Statehood Act.
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No amendment (enacted after September 16, 1976) that affects an interest of the state under the Alaska Statehood Act (72 Stat. 339) is effective as to the state unless approved by law enacted by the legislature or the people of the state.
AS 01.15.100 Recognition of tribes.
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The state recognizes the special and unique relationship between the United States government and federally recognized tribes in the state. The state recognizes all tribes in the state that are federally recognized under 25 U.S.C. 5130 and 5131. Nothing in this section diminishes…