(a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, a person may not bring an action for the recovery of real property or for the recovery of the possession of it unless the action is commenced within 10 years. An action may not be maintained under this subsection for the recovery unless it appears that the plaintiff, an ancestor, a predecessor, or the grantor of the plaintiff was seized or possessed of the premises in question within 10 years before the commencement of the action.
(b) An action may be brought at any time by a person who was seized or possessed of the real property in question at some time before the commencement of the action or whose grantor or predecessor was seized or possessed of the real property in question at some time before commencement of the action, and whose ownership interest in the real property is recorded under AS 40.17, in order to
(1) quiet title to that real property; or
(2) eject a person from that real property.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure
Chapter 10. Limitations of Actions
Sec. 09.10.010. General limitations on civil actions.
Sec. 09.10.030. Actions to recover real property.
Sec. 09.10.040. Action upon judgment or sealed instrument in 10 years.
Sec. 09.10.050. Certain property actions to be brought in six years.
Sec. 09.10.053. Contract actions to be brought in three years.
Sec. 09.10.054. Limits on when certain design, construction, and remodeling actions may be brought.
Sec. 09.10.055. Statute of repose of 10 years.
Sec. 09.10.060. Actions for certain statutory penalties to be brought in three years.
Sec. 09.10.065. Commencement of actions for acts constituting sexual offenses.
Sec. 09.10.075. Actions related to claims based on medical assistance payment fraud.
Sec. 09.10.080. Actions related to escape to be brought in one year.
Sec. 09.10.090. Actions for penalty.
Sec. 09.10.100. Other actions in 10 years.
Sec. 09.10.110. Accrual of cause of action upon mutual, open, and current account.
Sec. 09.10.120. Actions in name of state, political subdivisions, or public corporations.
Sec. 09.10.130. Effect of absence from state or concealment.
Sec. 09.10.140. Disabilities of minority and incompetency.
Sec. 09.10.160. Disability of alien during war.
Sec. 09.10.170. Commencement stayed by injunction or statute.
Sec. 09.10.180. Time at which disability exists.
Sec. 09.10.190. Coexisting disabilities.
Sec. 09.10.200. Acknowledgment or promise.
Sec. 09.10.210. Past due payments.
Sec. 09.10.220. Action arising in other jurisdictions between nonresidents.
Sec. 09.10.230. Certain actions relating to real property.
Sec. 09.10.240. Commencement of action after dismissal or reversal.