Alaska Statutes
Title 26. Military Affairs, Veterans, Disasters, and Aerospace
Chapter 23. Disasters

Article 1. Alaska Disaster Act.

Sec. 26.23.010. Purposes. - The purposes of this chapter are to (1) reduce the...

Sec. 26.23.020. The governor and disaster emergencies. - (a) The governor is responsible for meeting the dangers presented...

Sec. 26.23.025. The legislature and disaster emergencies. - (a) When the governor declares a condition of disaster emergency...

Sec. 26.23.040. Homeland security duties of the Alaska division of homeland security and emergency management. - (a) The Alaska division of homeland security and emergency management...

Sec. 26.23.045. Response corps; depots. - (a) The department may establish a response corps. The corps...

Sec. 26.23.050. Financing. - (a) It is the intent of the legislature, and declared...

Sec. 26.23.060. Local and interjurisdictional disaster services. - (a) Each political subdivision in the state is within the...

Sec. 26.23.070. Establishment of interjurisdictional disaster planning and service areas. - (a) If the governor finds that two or more adjoining...

Sec. 26.23.071. Alaska State Emergency Response Commission. - (a) The Alaska State Emergency Response Commission is established in...

Sec. 26.23.073. Emergency planning districts and committees. - (a) The commission shall set the boundaries of local emergency...

Sec. 26.23.075. Emergency plans. - (a) An emergency plan prepared under AS 26.23.073 must include...

Sec. 26.23.077. Plan review; incident command systems. - (a) The commission shall review and make recommendations about local,...

Sec. 26.23.080. Federal disaster loans to political subdivisions. - Whenever, at the request of the governor, the President has...

Sec. 26.23.090. Grants to disaster victims. - (a) Whenever the President, at the request of the governor,...

Sec. 26.23.100. Temporary housing. - (a) Whenever the governor has proclaimed a disaster emergency, or...

Sec. 26.23.110. Debris and wreckage removal in disaster emergency or major disaster. - (a) When the governor has declared a disaster emergency, or...

Sec. 26.23.135. Emergency Management Assistance Compact enacted and entered into. - The Emergency Management Assistance Compact is hereby enacted into law...

Sec. 26.23.136. Compact terms. - The terms and provisions of the compact referred to in...

Sec. 26.23.140. Local disaster emergencies. - (a) A local disaster emergency may be declared only by...

Sec. 26.23.150. Disaster prevention. - (a) In addition to disaster prevention measures as included in...

Sec. 26.23.160. Compensation. - (a) Personal services may not be compensated by the state...

Sec. 26.23.170. Communications. - (a) The Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs shall ascertain...

Sec. 26.23.180. Mutual aid. - (a) Political subdivisions not participating in interjurisdictional arrangements under AS...

Sec. 26.23.190. Emergency powers. - (a) If entry is reasonably necessary to actually alleviate or...

Sec. 26.23.200. Limitations. - Nothing in AS 26.23.010 - 26.23.220 (1) interferes with or...

Sec. 26.23.205. Confiscation of firearms. - (a) A person convicted of official misconduct under AS 11.56.850,...

Sec. 26.23.210. Relationship to homeland security and civil defense laws. - (a) In the event of a conflict between this chapter...

Sec. 26.23.220. Administration. - AS 26.23.010 - 26.23.220 shall be administered by the Department...

Sec. 26.23.240. Short title. - AS 26.23.010 - 26.23.240 and 26.23.900 may be cited collectively...

Article 2. Disaster Relief Fund.

Sec. 26.23.300. Disaster relief fund. - (a) There is in the Office of the Governor a...

Article 3. Fuel Emergency.

Sec. 26.23.400. Fuel emergency fund. - There is established in the Office of the Governor the...

Article 4. Alaska Intrastate Mutual Aid System.

Sec. 26.23.500. Alaska intrastate mutual aid system established. - (a) The Alaska intrastate mutual aid system is established to...

Sec. 26.23.510. Requests for assistance from another political subdivision. - (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a political...

Sec. 26.23.515. Qualifications of emergency responders. - An emergency responder holding a license, certificate, or other permit...

Sec. 26.23.520. Emergency responder not an employee of a requesting political subdivision. - An emergency responder from a political subdivision that responds to...

Sec. 26.23.525. Workers' compensation and benefits following injury to or death of emergency responder. - An emergency responder that is responding to and rendering assistance...

Sec. 26.23.530. Reimbursement for assistance provided and disputes relating to reimbursement. - (a) A political subdivision that has received assistance from another...

Sec. 26.23.540. Tort liability of participating political subdivisions and emergency responders. - For purposes of liability, all persons responding under the operational...

Sec. 26.23.549. Definitions. - In AS 26.23.500 - 26.23.549, (1) “assistance” means emergency responders...

Article 5. General Provisions.

Sec. 26.23.900. Definitions. - In this chapter, (1) “commission” means the Alaska State Emergency...