(a) A regional solid waste management authority may be created in one of the following ways:
(1) the governing body of a municipality may, by ordinance, create a regional solid waste management authority as a public corporation of the municipality;
(2) the governing bodies of two or more municipalities may, by substantially identical ordinances adopted by each of the governing bodies, create a regional solid waste management authority as a public corporation of the municipalities.
(b) One or more municipalities may join an authority established under (a)(1) or (2) of this section upon the adoption of substantially identical ordinances by the governing bodies of each affected municipality.
(c) A regional solid waste management authority created under this section is a body corporate and politic and an instrumentality of the municipality or municipalities creating it but has a separate and independent legal existence.
(d) Creation of a regional solid waste management authority under AS 29.35.800 - 29.35.925 is an exercise of a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction under AS 29.35.020.
(e) The enabling ordinance by which a regional solid waste management authority is established must specify the powers, boundaries, and limitations of the regional solid waste management authority.
(f) An ordinance creating a regional solid waste management authority must be approved by the voters of the municipality or municipalities participating in the authority for the authority to be established.
(g) Nothing in AS 29.35.800 - 29.35.925 prevents a municipality or municipalities from creating or participating in a public corporation, including a regional solid waste management authority, in any form or manner not prohibited by law. However, AS 29.35.800 - 29.35.925 only apply to and may only be used by a regional solid waste management authority created under this section.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Title 29. Municipal Government
Chapter 35. Municipal Powers and Duties
Article 10. Regional Solid Waste Management Authorities.
Sec. 29.35.800. Purpose of authorities.
Sec. 29.35.805. Establishment of regional solid waste management authorities.
Sec. 29.35.810. Dissolution of a regional solid waste management authority.
Sec. 29.35.815. Municipal property.
Sec. 29.35.820. Powers and duties.
Sec. 29.35.825. Bonds of a regional solid waste management authority; superior court jurisdiction.
Sec. 29.35.830. Bonds eligible for investment.
Sec. 29.35.835. Validity of pledge.
Sec. 29.35.840. Credit of state or a municipality not pledged.
Sec. 29.35.845. Pledges of the state and municipalities.
Sec. 29.35.850. Limitation of liability.
Sec. 29.35.855. Limitation on personal liability.
Sec. 29.35.860. Fidelity bond.
Sec. 29.35.865. No taxing authority.
Sec. 29.35.870. Exemption from taxation.
Sec. 29.35.875. Administration of regional solid waste management authorities; board.
Sec. 29.35.885. Bylaws and regulations.
Sec. 29.35.890. Authority subject to public records and open meetings laws.
Sec. 29.35.895. Annual report.