Alaska Statutes
Title 8. Business and Professions
Chapter 76. Pawnbrokers and Secondhand Dealers

Article 1. Records of Secondhand Article Transactions.

Sec. 08.76.010. Transactions to be entered in book kept at place of business; electronic records. - (a) A person engaged in the business of buying and...

Sec. 08.76.020. Manner of recording entry. - The entries in the book required by AS 08.76.010 shall...

Sec. 08.76.030. Criminal liability. - A person who violates AS 08.76.010 or 08.76.020 is guilty...

Article 2. Licensing and Regulation of Pawnbrokers.

Sec. 08.76.100. Licensing required. - (a) A person may not engage in business as a...

Sec. 08.76.110. Requirements for license. - The department may issue a license to a person if...

Sec. 08.76.130. Withdrawal of application. - The department may consider that a person has withdrawn the...

Sec. 08.76.140. Duration and renewal of license. - (a) A license is valid for two years. (b) A...

Sec. 08.76.160. Limit on pawn transaction amount. - A licensee may not enter into a pawn transaction that...

Sec. 08.76.170. Customer and transaction limitations. - (a) A pawnbroker may not knowingly enter into a pawnbroker...

Sec. 08.76.180. Register of pawnbroker transactions. - (a) A pawnbroker shall maintain a register in which the...

Sec. 08.76.190. Recording requirements. - The records required to be maintained in a register by...

Sec. 08.76.200. Transaction agreement. - A pawnbroker shall provide to a pledgor or seller a...

Sec. 08.76.210. Finance fee. - (a) Except as provided in AS 08.76.280, for each 30-day...

Sec. 08.76.220. Other charges allowed. - (a) Except as provided in AS 08.76.280, a pawnbroker may...

Sec. 08.76.230. Insurance. - A pawnbroker may not sell to a pledgor or otherwise...

Sec. 08.76.240. Return of pledged property. - A pawnbroker shall return pledged property to a pledgor when...

Sec. 08.76.250. Extension of grace period. - A pawnbroker and a pledgor may agree to extend the...

Sec. 08.76.260. Retention, storage, and lease. - A pawnbroker shall store pledged property in a secure area...

Sec. 08.76.270. Redemption. - (a) Unless there is a hold order on the pledged...

Sec. 08.76.280. Military personnel. - A pawnbroker shall waive the unpaid amount financed and the...

Sec. 08.76.290. Business operation method and hours. - A pawnbroker may not engage in the business of being...

Sec. 08.76.300. Waiver prohibited. - A pawnbroker may not require or allow a person to...

Sec. 08.76.310. Employees. - A pawnbroker may not knowingly employ a person to work...

Sec. 08.76.320. Issuance of police hold order. - (a) When a law enforcement officer has probable cause to...

Sec. 08.76.330. Evidentiary hold order. - (a) When property in the possession of the pawnbroker may...

Sec. 08.76.340. Contents and form of hold order. - A hold order must be in writing and contain (1)...

Sec. 08.76.350. Duration of police hold order. - (a) A police hold order may not exceed 30 days....

Sec. 08.76.360. Noncompliance with hold order. - The department may suspend or revoke a pawnbroker's license if...

Sec. 08.76.370. Claim notification. - (a) If a person believes that property in the possession...

Sec. 08.76.380. Court action on claim. - If a claimant and a pawnbroker do not resolve a...

Sec. 08.76.390. Liability of pledgor. - A pledgor or seller of property to a pawnbroker is...

Sec. 08.76.400. Recovery of leased property. - (a) If property in the possession of a pawnbroker was...

Sec. 08.76.410. Law enforcement reports. - (a) A pawnbroker shall provide a law enforcement officer with...

Sec. 08.76.420. Contents of law enforcement reports. - (a) A law enforcement report must contain (1) a complete...

Sec. 08.76.430. Inspection by law enforcement entities. - If a law enforcement agency provides the case number assigned...

Sec. 08.76.440. Discipline. - (a) The department may, after notice to the licensee and...

Sec. 08.76.450. Civil penalty. - If a licensee, or an officer, agent, or employee of...

Sec. 08.76.460. Municipal regulation. - (a) Subject to (b) of this section, a municipality with...

Sec. 08.76.470. Regulations. - (a) The department may adopt regulations to implement AS 08.76.100...

Sec. 08.76.500. Exemptions. - This chapter does not apply to (1) a financial institution...

Sec. 08.76.590. Definitions. - In AS 08.76.100 - 08.76.590, (1) “amount financed” means the...