00                      CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 298(TRA)                                                                    
01 "An Act relating to the use of off-road vehicles within five miles of the right-of-way of                               
02 the James Dalton Highway."                                                                                              
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1.  AS 19.40.210 is amended to read:                                                                     
05            Sec. 19.40.210.  Prohibition of off-road vehicles.  North of milepost 235 of                             
06       the highway, off-road [OFF-ROAD] vehicles are prohibited on land within five miles                            
07       of the right-of-way of the highway. However, this prohibition does not apply to                                   
08                 (1)  off-road vehicles necessary for oil and gas exploration,                                           
09       development, production, or transportation;                                                                       
10                 (2)  a person who holds a mining claim in the vicinity of the highway                                   
11       and who must use land within five miles of the right-of-way of the highway to gain                                
12       access to the mining claim; or                                                                                    
13                 (3)  the use of a snow machine to travel across the highway corridor                                    
14       from land outside the corridor to access land outside the other side of the corridor; this                        
01       paragraph does not permit the use of a snow machine for any purpose within the                                    
02       corridor if the use begins or ends within the corridor or within the right-of-way of the                          
03       highway or if the use is for travel within the corridor that is parallel to the right-of-way                      
04       of the highway; in this paragraph, "highway corridor" means land within five miles of                             
05       the right-of-way of the highway.