Title 19 — Highways and Ferries
16 chapters · 239 sections in this title.
AS 19.05.010 Department to supervise highway system.
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The department is responsible for the planning, construction, maintenance, protection, and control of the state highway system.
AS 19.05.020 Regulations.
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The department shall adopt regulations necessary to carry out the purpose of AS 19.05 — AS 19.25. The regulations may not conflict with AS 36.30 (State Procurement Code) or regulations adopted by the Department of Administration to implement that chapter.
AS 19.05.030 Duties of department.
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The department has the following duties: (1) direct approved highway planning and construction and maintenance, protection, and control of highways; (2) employ assistants and employees; (3) certify and approve vouchers; (4) provide a program of highway research; (5) prepare a bud…
AS 19.05.040 Powers of department.
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The department may (1) acquire property; (2) exercise the power of eminent domain; (3) take immediate possession of real property, or any interest in real property under a declaration of taking or by other lawful means; (4) acquire rights-of-way for present or future use; (5) con…
AS 19.05.043 Child safety device loan program.
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(a) There is established a child safety device loan program in the highway safety planning agency in the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. (b) The director of the highway safety planning agency shall design the child safety device loan program to work in conjunc…
AS 19.05.045 Relocation payments. [Repealed, § 2 ch 60 SLA 1969.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 19.05.046 Accounting and disposition of receipts from nonstate entities. [Repealed, § 28 ch 90 SLA 1991.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 19.05.050 Roads in tourist and trailer camps.
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The department may adopt regulations governing the use of roads in tourist, trailer, and other camps when public and private roads in or through the camps are used by, or are open to, the general public.
AS 19.05.060 Sale of obsolete equipment and material.
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The department may sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of obsolete machinery, equipment, and material no longer needed, required, or useful for construction or maintenance purposes. Money derived from the sale of the property shall be credited to the funds from which the purchas…
AS 19.05.070 Vacating and disposing of land and rights in land.
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Article 2. Acquisition of Property. (a) The department may vacate land, or part of it, or rights in land acquired for highway purposes, by executing and filing a deed in the appropriate recording district. Upon filing, title to the vacated land or interest in land inures to the o…
AS 19.05.080 Acquisition of land, easements, and materials by purchase or eminent domain.
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The department on behalf of the state and as part of the cost of constructing or maintaining a highway may purchase in the open market, acquire, take over, or condemn under the right and power of eminent domain land in fee simple or easements that it considers necessary for prese…
AS 19.05.090 Declaration of taking.
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A declaration of taking in the form of an order signed by the commissioner, or by a designee of the commissioner within the department, declaring that the real property, or interest in it, or an easement, is necessary for the public use of the state vests title in the state. Howe…
AS 19.05.100 Acquisition of excess land.
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When a part of a parcel of land is taken and the remainder is in a shape or condition that is of little value to its owner, or gives rise to claims or litigation concerning severance or other damage, the department may acquire the whole parcel and may sell the remainder or exchan…
AS 19.05.110 Authority to condemn property for purpose of exchange for public land.
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When property that is devoted to or held for another public use for which the power of eminent domain may be exercised is taken for highway purposes, the department may, with the consent of the person or agency in charge of the other public use, condemn real property to be exchan…
AS 19.05.120 Authority to purchase property for the purpose of exchange.
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When the commissioner formally declares that it is in the best public interest of the state to do so, the department may acquire by purchase or otherwise privately or publicly owned land or an interest in it for the purpose of exchanging it for privately or publicly owned land wh…
AS 19.05.122 Utility corridor and railroad right-of-way for extension of the Alaska Railroad. [Repealed, § 2 ch 45 SLA 2004. For related provisions, see AS 42.40.460 — 42.40.465.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 19.05.123 Fairbanks — Seward Peninsula transportation and utility corridor.
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Article 3. General Provisions. (a) Subject to legislative appropriation, the department shall identify and delineate a proposed transportation and utility corridor between Fairbanks and the western end of the Seward Peninsula. (b) In performing the work required by (a) of this se…
AS 19.05.125 Purpose.
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The purpose of AS 19.05 — AS 19.25 is to establish a highway department capable of carrying out a highway planning, construction, and maintenance program that will provide a common defense to the United States and the state, a network of highways linking together cities and commu…
AS 19.05.130 [Renumbered as AS 19.59.001.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 19.05.140 [Renumbered as AS 19.59.002.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 19.10.010 Dedication of land for public highways.
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A tract 100 feet wide between each section of land owned by the state, or acquired from the state, and a tract four rods wide between all other sections in the state, is dedicated for use as public highways. The section line is the center of the dedicated right-of-way. If the hig…
AS 19.10.015 Establishment of highway widths.
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(a) It is declared that all officially proposed and existing highways on public land not reserved for public uses are 100 feet wide. This section does not apply to highways that are specifically designated to be wider than 100 feet. (b) Notwithstanding (a) of this section, a muni…
AS 19.10.020 Designation of state highway system.
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The department may designate, locate, create, and determine what highways constitute the state highway system. In designating, locating, creating, and determining the several routes of the state highway system, the department shall strive to attain the purposes and objectives set…
AS 19.10.030 Responsibility for system.
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The department is responsible for the construction and maintenance of the state highway system.
AS 19.10.040 Uniform system of marking and posting.
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The department shall classify, designate, and mark highways under its jurisdiction and shall provide a uniform system of marking and posting these highways. The system of marking and posting must correlate with and, as far as possible, conform to the recommendations of the Manual…
AS 19.10.050 Traffic control signals.
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The department shall prescribe types of traffic control signals to regulate traffic on highways. These signals must correlate with and, as far as possible, conform to the recommendations of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices as adopted by the American Association of St…
AS 19.10.052 [Renumbered as AS 19.20.017.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 19.10.060 Size, weight, and load provisions; restriction on use of highways; regulations.
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(a) The department, with respect to highways under its jurisdiction, may (1) establish limitations on weight, size, and load of vehicles, except as otherwise provided in AS 19.10.065; (2) prohibit the operation or impose restrictions on vehicular use of highways during certain se…
AS 19.10.065 Operation of farm equipment on highways.
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(a) Implements of husbandry, as defined by regulation under AS 28.05.011, are not subject to restrictions adopted under AS 19.10.060(a)(1) unless the implement is the load of another vehicle. Implements of husbandry may be operated on highways subject to the department's jurisdic…
AS 19.10.070 Speed limits and zones.
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The department may conduct investigations with the assistance of the Department of Public Safety and shall determine safe speed limits and safe speed zones on highways and other roadways under its jurisdiction.
AS 19.10.072 Procedures for determination of speed limits and zones.
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(a) In determining safe speed limits and safe speed zones, the department shall consider the following factors in the order of priority listed: (1) neighborhood safety, including the presence of children and pedestrian traffic; (2) the presence of schools, houses, parks, and cros…
AS 19.10.075 Designation of traffic safety corridors; fines.
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(a) To promote traffic safety, the department may designate a portion of a highway to be a traffic safety corridor. The commissioner shall establish criteria for the designation and continuation of traffic safety corridors. In establishing the criteria, the commissioner may consi…
AS 19.10.080 Designation of through highways.
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The department may designate through highways by erecting stop signs at the entrances to them.
AS 19.10.085 Naming of a highway.
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(a) A highway constructed by the department under AS 19.05 — AS 19.40 may be given a name only by law. (b) This section does not apply to (1) a road constructed by a municipality under a grant authorized by AS 19.05 — AS 19.40; (2) local service roads and trails.
AS 19.10.090 Erection and maintenance of guard rails.
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The department may erect and maintain guard rails, stretch wires, and other devices on highways.
AS 19.10.095 Signs promoting the use of safety belts and child safety devices.
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The department may erect and maintain signs encouraging the use of safety belts and child safety devices at the site of a motor vehicle accident where a fatality occurred as the result of a person's failing to use a safety belt or child safety device. This section does not limit …
AS 19.10.100 Closing highways.
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Article 2. Planning. When it is necessary to exclude traffic from any portion of a highway, the department may close that portion of the highway by posting in a conspicuous manner, at each end of the portion closed, suitable signs warning the public that the road is closed under …
AS 19.10.110 Traffic surveys, plans, and recommendations.
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The department may collect, analyze, and interpret physical and economic data needed to measure existing and estimated future highway characteristics such as origin and destination, volumes, speeds, accidents, congestion, parking, pedestrian use of highways, and the economic loss…
AS 19.10.120 Research on highway development.
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The department may gather, investigate, and compile information concerning the use, construction, and maintenance of highways, the practices and methods of efficient highway organization, financing, and other information, data and statistics of the state and the extent of the nat…
AS 19.10.130 Inspection and testing of materials and equipment.
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The department may inspect and test materials, supplies, equipment, and machinery used by it or by a contractor constructing or maintaining highways in the state, and develop methods and procedures for this inspection and testing.
AS 19.10.140 Long-range program for highway construction and maintenance. [Repealed, § 7 ch 39 SLA 2005.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 19.10.150 Construction program.
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Before February 2 of each year, the department shall prepare a statement showing what construction work has been requested and proposed and may be undertaken by the department. The statement must set forth a general itemization of the estimated cost for each project and the total…
AS 19.10.160 Standard plans and specifications; planning for future traffic.
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Article 3. Construction. (a) The department shall prepare and adopt uniform standard plans and specifications for the establishment, construction, and maintenance of highways in the state. The department may amend the plans and specifications as it considers advisable. The standa…
AS 19.10.170 Construction by department.
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(a) Except as provided in AS 44.33.300, it is the general policy of the state to require the construction of all highways under bid contract in accordance with AS 36.30 (State Procurement Code). However, subject to the provisions of (b) of this section, when the estimated cost of…
AS 19.10.180 Request for public bids; contracts for materials and supplies.
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Requests for public bids are governed by AS 36.30 (State Procurement Code). The request for public bids may require the contractor to furnish equipment, labor, materials, and supplies for the project, or it may state that the department will furnish the materials and supplies. If…
AS 19.10.190 Advertisement, bids, contracts, and informal bids. [Repealed, § 67 ch 106 SLA 1986. For current law, see AS 36.30.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 19.10.200 Procedures for the award of contracts.
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The award of a contract for highway construction work is governed by AS 36.30 (State Procurement Code), AS 19.05 — AS 19.25, and regulations adopted under those laws.
AS 19.10.210 Award of contracts to lowest responsible bidder. [Repealed, § 67 ch 106 SLA 1986. For current law, see AS 36.30.]
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Sec. 19.10.220. Prior contracts unaffected. [Repealed, § 43 ch 85 SLA 1988.] .
AS 19.10.230 Method of construction of highway ditches.
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A highway constructed or reconstructed shall be designed to permit water to drain from it into ditches which shall drain into coulees, rivers, and lakes according to the surface and terrain where the highway is constructed in accordance with scientific highway construction and en…
AS 19.10.240 Warning signs of road construction.
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Whenever the department enters into a contract for the construction of a highway, it shall, as a condition of the contract, provide that the contractor shall place suitable warning signs that can be read from a distance of 100 feet in daytime, and that the contractor shall erect …