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Alaska Title 38 — State Proprietary Land Preemption (Parcel-Level) (AK)

Tracked preemption from the Alaska overlay bundle.

Overview

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Effective
1959-01-03
Sunset
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Authority
state
Scope
state:AK
Other Alaska preemptions
Alaska — No Statewide Short-Term Rental PreemptionAlaska — No Statewide Density / ADU / IZ / Design PreemptionAlaska Coastal Management Program — Terminated 2011 (No Statewide Coastal Overlay)Alaska AS 29.40.010 — Borough-Level Zoning Enabling (No State Override)Alaska AS 29.10.200 — Home-Rule Procedural FloorAlaska AS 29.40.020 — Comprehensive Plan Consistency DoctrineAlaska AS 29.40.130 — State-Owned Airport Noise & Hazard CoordinationAlaska — Federal & ANCSA Native Lands Parcel Layer (Non-Zoned)

Trigger predicate

When this evaluates true for a parcel, the law's preempted fields take precedence over base zoning.

parcel.ownership_class == state_proprietary

Preempted fields

2 fields on the base district schema are rewritten when the trigger fires.

FieldOpValueNote
base_districts[*].applies_to_parceloverrideFalseState activities on state land (DNR trust land, AS 38.05.180 oil/gas leasing, AS 38.04.065 state forest management) preempt local zoning under the sovereign-proprietary-action doctrine
base_districts[*].applies_to_parceloverrideTruePrivate lessees of state land are subject to local zoning as any other private owner, per Totemoff v. State (Alaska 1995), but local rules may not effectively defeat the state leasehold purpose

Citation

Authority source
Alaska Statutes Title 38 (Public Land); AS 38.05.020 management powers; AS 38.05.180; AS 38.04.065; Totemoff v. State (Alaska 1995); Anchorage v. State, Dept. of Natural Resources
§ AS 38 (Public Land)
https://law.justia.com/codes/alaska/title-38/

Research notes

DNR manages approximately 100 million acres of state-owned land. The doctrine resolves the tension between state sovereign ownership and local land-use regulation. Surface as a parcel-level jurisdictional layer for cities containing significant state land (Anchorage, Mat-Su, Kenai Peninsula, Fairbanks North Star, Juneau). Do not represent state-proprietary parcels as zoned by the municipality.