00                            HOUSE BILL NO. 216                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to obstruction or interference with a person's free passage on or use of                               
02 navigable water; and amending the definition of 'navigable water' under the Alaska                                      
03 Land Act."                                                                                                              
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
05    * Section 1. AS 38.05.965(14) is amended to read:                                                                  
06                 (14)  "navigable water" means any water of the state forming a river,                                   
07       stream, lake, pond, slough, creek, bay, sound, estuary, inlet, strait, passage, canal, sea                        
08       or ocean, or any other body of water or waterway within the territorial limits of the                             
09       state or subject to its jurisdiction [,] that is navigable in fact in any season and for any                  
10       useful public purpose, including [BUT NOT LIMITED TO] water suitable for                                          
11       commercial navigation, floating of logs, harvesting of ice, state or federal military                         
12       training, landing and takeoff of aircraft, operation of boats or other watercraft,                        
13       hovercraft, snow machines, and motorized or nonmotorized vehicles, and                                        
14       [PUBLIC BOATING,] trapping, hunting waterfowl and aquatic animals, fishing, or                                    

01       other public recreational purposes;                                                                               
02    * Sec. 2. AS 38.05.128(a)(1) is repealed.