00                      CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 114(JUD)                                                                    
01 "An Act relating to the issuance of a search warrant."                                                                  
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1.  AS 12.35.015(a) is amended to read:                                                                  
04            (a)  A judicial officer may issue a search warrant upon the sworn oral                                       
05       testimony of a person communicated by telephone or other appropriate means, or                                    
06       sworn affidavit transmitted by facsimile machine, if the judicial officer finds that there                        
07       is probable cause to believe that                                                                                 
08                 (1)  the presentation of the applicant's affidavit or testimony personally                              
09       before the judicial officer would result in a delay in obtaining or executing a search                    
10       warrant [AND IN EXECUTING THE SEARCH]; and                                                                        
11                 (2)  the delay might result in loss or destruction of the evidence subject                              
12       to seizure or might interfere with an ongoing investigation.