Alaska Ordinances (2026)

Alaska sets no statewide zoning or minimum-size rule for tiny or manufactured homes: that is local. The statewide law is the Manufactured Home Property Act (AS 34.85), which converts a…

Alaska imposes uniform statewide rules on bee importation, equipment, and disease control. Honey bees brought into Alaska require a health certificate, and used beekeeping equipment is…

Alaska has no statewide leash law for cattle, horses, sheep, goats, or swine: it stays open range unless a district judge establishes a controlled livestock district. Inside a…

Alaska has no standalone hoarding law. Keeping animals below the state's minimum standards of care is prosecuted as cruelty to animals under AS 11.61.140(a)(2), and every neglected…

Alaska regulates vape retailers through a state business-license tobacco endorsement under AS 43.70.075, while boroughs and cities may impose additional licensing, excise taxes, and…

Alaska refuses a license for a new marijuana retail store within 500 feet of a school ground, recreation or youth center, a building used for religious services, or a correctional…

Alaska Statute 17.38.020, enacted by Ballot Measure 2 in 2014, allows adults 21 and older to cultivate up to six marijuana plants (three flowering) per person at their primary…

AS 29.35.085 authorizes Alaska municipalities to enact juvenile curfew ordinances but preempts the maximum penalty. Any conviction under a local curfew may carry a fine of no more than…

Alaska sets a statewide minimum wage under AS 23.10.065 that adjusts annually for inflation, and the state does not preempt local governments from adopting higher minimum wage…

Alaska's 2024 voter-approved Ballot Measure 1 created statewide paid sick leave under AS 23.10, while preserving local authority to enact higher leave standards.

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation administers the Alaska Pollutant Discharge Elimination System under AS 46.03, requiring statewide stormwater permits for…

Alaska regulates fireworks under AS 18.72 through the State Fire Marshal. Endorsed vendors may sell salable consumer (Class C) fireworks year-round, but statute allows discharge…

Alaska Division of Forestry requires a state burn permit for most open burning between April 1 and August 31, with daily activation needed and suspensions during high fire danger…

Alaska designates statewide wildland fire management option zones that determine state response priorities, with the Division of Forestry leading suppression on state-protected lands…

Alaska is a permitless carry state: any person 21 or older who may lawfully possess a firearm may carry concealed without a permit under AS 11.61.220. Concealed carry rules are set…

Alaska Statute 29.35.145 broadly preempts municipalities and boroughs from regulating firearms, ammunition, and related accessories beyond very narrow exceptions allowed by state law.

Alaska law permits adults 21 and older who may lawfully possess firearms to carry loaded handguns concealed or openly in vehicles without a permit, with local rules preempted under AS…

Alaska requires every mobile food unit to hold a food establishment permit from the Department of Environmental Conservation before operating. DEC approves plans, charges a $215 annual…

Alaska bans gambling outright under AS 11.66, but the Department of Revenue's Tax Division issues charitable-gaming permits under AS 05.15 letting municipalities and qualified…

Alaska treats unauthorized gambling as a violation, but AS 11.66.200(b) hands anyone charged an affirmative defense if they were "a player in a social game." AS 11.66.280(10) defines…

Alaska has no legal sportsbook, retail or online. State law defines "gambling" as staking money on the outcome of a "contest of chance" or a "future contingent event not under the…

AS 34.08.390 requires an Alaska association to hold a meeting of the membership at least once each year and to send notice not less than 10 nor more than 60 days ahead, by hand…

Alaska sets no dollar ceiling on a homeowners association fine, but AS 34.08.320(a)(11) lets an association levy one only "after notice and an opportunity to be heard," and only if the…

Alaska associations get a powerful automatic lien and a narrow window in which to use it. Under AS 34.08.470 the lien attaches the moment an assessment or fine falls due, needs no…

Alaska sets no dollar limit on homemade food sales. AS 17.20.332(a) exempts homemade food produced, sold and consumed in compliance with the section from state labeling, licensing…

Alaska requires a state license to run a home child care serving more than four unrelated children, under the centralized licensing law AS 47.32 and regulations 7 AAC 57. The…

Alaska has no microenterprise home kitchen permit, and the reason is stronger than silence: 18 AAC 31.020(d) states that the Department of Environmental Conservation will not issue a…

The Alaska Legislature has never authorised a sobriety checkpoint. Read across all forty-six titles of the Alaska Statutes, the word checkpoint appears exactly once, in AS…

Alaska has no statute that expressly protects filming a police officer, and it has no general obstruction offence that could be used against someone who does. The controlling provision…

Alaska has no stop-and-identify statute. Nothing in the Alaska Statutes makes it an offence to decline to give a police officer your name, and there is no general obstruction offence…

Alaska has no statute about consenting to a vehicle search. Searching every title of the Alaska Statutes for the phrases a legislature would use returns nothing for consent to a…

Alaska runs two separate tracks. A low-speed vehicle, defined in AS 28.90.990(a)(19) as a four-wheeled machine built to reach at least 20 and no more than 25 miles an hour, is a…

Aircraft noise in Alaska is regulated almost exclusively by the Federal Aviation Administration under the Federal Aviation Act, which preempts state and local rules on flight…

Alaska Statute 28.11 sets statewide procedures for removing, storing, notifying owners of, and disposing of abandoned vehicles. Municipalities handle local enforcement, but the state…

When an Alaska vehicle is towed from private property without the owner consent, AS 28.10.502 gives the towing company a possessory lien, but a narrow one: the lien "is limited to…

Alaska Stat. § 34.03.220 requires a 7-day written notice to pay or quit for nonpayment of rent and a 10-day notice to cure for other material lease violations. After notice expires…

Alaska Stat. § 34.03.100 requires landlords to keep rental premises fit and habitable: structural repairs, clean common areas, working plumbing, heat, hot water, and essential…

Under Alaska Stat. § 34.03.140, a landlord must give the tenant at least 24 hours' notice before entering and may enter only at reasonable times. Permitted reasons include inspections…

Under Alaska Stat. § 34.03.290, either party may end a month-to-month tenancy with at least 30 days' written notice, or a week-to-week tenancy with 14 days. Fixed-term leases run to…

Under Alaska Stat. 34.03.070, a landlord may not collect a security deposit (plus prepaid rent) exceeding two months' rent, unless monthly rent tops $2,000. Deposits must be returned…

Alaska Stat. § 09.45.052 allows adverse possession after 7 years of possession under color and claim of title, or 10 years based on a good-faith but mistaken boundary belief. Bare…

Alaska delegates most agricultural zoning to organized boroughs under AS 29.40, while state agricultural land sales under AS 38.05.321 carry covenants requiring continued farming use.

Alaska requires charitable organizations and paid solicitors to register annually with the Department of Law before soliciting contributions in the state, with disclosures required at…

Alaska requires every public swimming pool and spa to carry specific lifesaving equipment, keep the water clear enough to see a test disk on the bottom, employ a certified operator…

Alaska law makes it a violation to sell or give tobacco, e-cigarettes, or vapor products to any person under 19 under AS 11.76.105, with federal Tobacco 21 raising the effective age to…

Alaska regulates add-on lighting in 13 AAC 04.145. Any auxiliary light, spotlight or other front-facing lamp brighter than 300 candlepower is counted toward a cap of four illuminated…

Alaska has no statute or regulation that carves out a legal mounting square on the windshield, so a dash cam is judged by two other rules. 13 AAC 04.225(a) and (b) forbid driving with…

Lane splitting and filtering are both prohibited in Alaska, but the ban lives in a Department of Public Safety regulation rather than in a statute. 13 AAC 02.427(b) says a motorcycle…

Alaska has never enacted a license plate cover statute. Nothing in AS 28.10 or in the Department of Public Safety equipment regulations names a plate cover, shield, frame, tint or…

A radar detector is lawful in a private vehicle anywhere in Alaska. No provision of the Alaska Statutes regulates one, and 13 AAC 04, the Department of Public Safety's vehicle…

Alaska is one of the few states whose studded tire season depends on where in the state you are driving. AS 28.35.155(a) makes it unlawful to run studded tires or tires with chains…

Alaska sets its window tint limits by regulation rather than by statute. Under 13 AAC 04.223 the driver and front passenger side windows must still pass at least 70 percent of light…