00                            HOUSE BILL NO. 279                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to the Local Boundary Commission; and providing for an effective                                       
02 date."                                                                                                                  
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1. AS 44.33.810 is amended to read:                                                                    
05 Sec. 44.33.810. Local Boundary Commission. There is in the Department of                                              
06 Commerce, Community, and Economic Development a Local Boundary Commission.                                              
07 The Local Boundary Commission consists of five members appointed by the governor                                        
08 for overlapping five-year terms. One member shall be appointed from each of the four                                    
09 judicial districts described in AS 22.10.010 and one member shall be appointed from                                     
10 the unorganized borough. The members from each judicial district must                                               
11 maintain a principal place of abode and be registered to vote in a precinct in that                                 
12 district. The governor shall designate one member as [STATE AT LARGE. THE                                           
13 MEMBER APPOINTED FROM THE STATE AT LARGE IS] the chair of the                                                           
14       commission.                                                                                                       

01    * Sec. 2. AS 44.33.812(a) is amended to read:                                                                      
02            (a)  The Local Boundary Commission shall                                                                     
03                 (1)  make studies of local government boundary problems;                                                
04 (2)  adopt regulations providing standards and procedures for municipal                                                 
05 incorporation, annexation, detachment, merger, consolidation, reclassification, and                                     
06 dissolution; the regulations providing standards and procedures are subject to                                          
07       AS 29.04 - AS 29.10;                                                                                              
08                 (3)  consider a local government boundary change requested of it by the                                 
09       legislature, the commissioner of commerce, community, and economic development,                                   
10 or a political subdivision of the state; "boundary change" may not be construed to                                      
11       include a borough incorporation; [AND]                                                                            
12 (4)  develop standards and procedures for the extension of services and                                                 
13 ordinances of incorporated cities into contiguous areas for limited purposes upon                                       
14 majority approval of the voters of the contiguous area to be annexed and prepare                                        
15 transition schedules and prorated tax mill levies as well as standards for participation                                
16 by voters of these contiguous areas in the affairs of the incorporated cities furnishing                                
17       services; and                                                                                                 
18 (5)  maintain, for each community in the state, a record of that                                                    
19 community's population according to the most recent decennial census conducted                                      
20       by the United States Bureau of the Census.                                                                    
21    * Sec. 3. This Act takes effect January 31, 2025.