(a) When the attorney general has reason to believe that a person has used, is using, or is about to use an act or practice declared unlawful in AS 45.50.471, and that proceedings would be in the public interest, the attorney general may bring an action in the name of the state against the person to restrain by injunction the use of the act or practice. The action may be brought in the superior court in the judicial district in which the person resides or is doing business or has the person's principal place of business in the state, or, with the consent of the parties, in any other judicial district in the state.
(b) The court may make additional orders or judgments that are necessary to restore to any person in interest any money or property, real or personal, which may have been acquired by means of an act or practice declared to be unlawful by AS 45.50.471.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Chapter 50. Competitive Practices, Regulation of Competition, Consumer Protection
Article 3. Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection.
Sec. 45.50.471. Unlawful acts and practices.
Sec. 45.50.473. Disclosure of costs of certain telephone services.
Sec. 45.50.474. Required disclosures in promotions and shoreside sales on board cruise ships.
Sec. 45.50.475. Unlawful, unwanted telephone advertisements and solicitations.
Sec. 45.50.477. Use of titles relating to industrial hygiene.
Sec. 45.50.479. Limitation on electronic mail.
Sec. 45.50.495. Investigative power of attorney general.
Sec. 45.50.501. Restraining prohibited acts.
Sec. 45.50.511. Assurances of voluntary compliance.
Sec. 45.50.521. When information and evidence confidential and nonadmissible.
Sec. 45.50.531. Private and class actions.
Sec. 45.50.535. Private injunctive relief.
Sec. 45.50.537. Attorney fees, costs, and damages.
Sec. 45.50.541. Nonnegotiability of consumer paper.
Sec. 45.50.542. Provisions not waivable.
Sec. 45.50.545. Interpretation.