Sec. 44.33.910. Office of broadband; purpose, powers, and duties. [See delayed repeal note]
(a) The office of broadband is established in the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development. (b) The purpose of the office of broadband is to (1) expand broadband access and digital equity in the state through federal, tribal, and local partnerships; (2) focus on broadband infrastructure projects that meet certain speed, latency, reliability, and […]
Sec. 44.33.915. Broadband parity adjustment fund. [See delayed repeal note]
(a) The broadband parity adjustment fund is created as a separate fund in the treasury for the purpose of (1) offsetting the costs of broadband services for consumers under (b) of this section; and (2) making grants to eligible beneficiaries under (c) of this section to improve the performance of and access to broadband across […]
Sec. 44.33.920. Statewide Broadband Advisory Board. [See delayed repeal note]
(a) The Statewide Broadband Advisory Board is established. (b) The purpose of the advisory board is to provide technology-neutral input, recommendations, and advice regarding (1) state broadband policy, goals, and objectives; (2) project proposal processes and criteria for project selection; (3) mapping and data collection and sharing efforts; and (4) progress made on the recommendations […]
Sec. 44.33.930. Definitions. [See delayed repeal note]
In AS 44.33.910 – 44.33.930, (1) “underserved area” means an area that does not have broadband speeds of at least 100 Megabits per second downstream and at least 20 Megabits per second upstream with a latency sufficient to support real-time interactive applications; (2) “unserved area” means an area that does not have broadband speeds of […]
Sec. 44.33.950. Alaska microloan revolving loan fund.
(a) The Alaska microloan revolving loan fund is created in the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development to carry out the purposes of AS 44.33.950 – 44.33.990. (b) The Alaska microloan revolving loan fund consists of the following: (1) money appropriated to, transferred to, or received by gift, grant, devise, bequest, or donation to […]
Sec. 44.33.955. Powers and duties of the department.
The department may (1) make loans to eligible applicants under AS 44.33.950 – 44.33.990 to be used for working capital, equipment, construction, or other commercial purposes by a business located in the state; (2) receive, take, hold, and administer any appropriation, transfer, gift, grant, bequest, devise, or donation of money for the fund; (3) establish […]
Sec. 44.33.960. Eligibility.
(a) For an applicant to be eligible for a loan under AS 44.33.950 – 44.33.990, the applicant shall (1) be a resident of the state, as determined under (b) of this section; (2) provide a reasonable amount of money from other nonstate sources for use on any project or enterprise for which money from a […]
Sec. 44.33.755. Land conveyed in trust.
(a) The commissioner (1) shall accept, administer, and dispose of land conveyed to the state in trust by village corporations under 43 U.S.C. 1613(c)(3) (Sec. 14(c)(3) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act) for the purposes specified in that section; (2) may, with the concurrence of an appropriate village entity recognized by the commissioner under […]
Sec. 44.33.826. Hearings on boundary changes.
A local government boundary change may not be proposed to the legislature unless a hearing on the change has been held in or in the near vicinity of the area affected by the change.
Sec. 44.33.760. Loan information officers.
(a) The department may provide itinerant loan information officers to serve persons who reside outside the major population centers of the state. (b) The loan information officers shall be trained, to the extent that the department considers necessary, in a program administered by the department and approved by the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, the Alaska […]