Sec. 09.10.060. Actions for certain statutory penalties to be brought in three years.
 (a) [Repealed, § 2 ch 70 SLA 1996.]
 (b) A person may not bring an action upon a statute for penalty or forfeiture where the action is given to the party aggrieved or to that party and the state unless the action is brought within three years, except where the statute imposing it prescribes a different limitation.

 (c) [Renumbered as AS 09.10.065.]




Sec. 09.10.065. Commencement of actions for acts constituting sexual offenses.
 (a) A person may bring an action at any time for conduct that would have, at the time the conduct occurred, violated provisions of any of the following offenses:
     (1) felony sexual abuse of a minor;

     (2) felony sexual assault;

     (3) unlawful exploitation of a minor;

     (4) felony sex trafficking; or

     (5) felony human trafficking.

 (b) Unless the action is commenced within three years of the accrual of the claim for relief, a person may not bring an action for conduct that would have, at the time the conduct occurred, violated the provisions of any of the following offenses:
     (1) misdemeanor sexual abuse of a minor;

     (2) misdemeanor sexual assault;

     (3) incest; or

     (4) felony indecent exposure.




Sec. 09.10.070. Actions for torts, for injury to personal property, for certain statutory liabilities, and against peace officers and coroners to be brought in two years.
 (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, a person may not bring an action (1) for libel, slander, assault, battery, seduction, or false imprisonment, (2) for personal injury or death, or injury to the rights of another not arising on contract and not specifically provided otherwise; (3) for taking, detaining, or injuring personal property, including an action for its specific recovery; (4) upon a statute for a forfeiture or penalty to the state; or (5) upon a liability created by statute, other than a penalty or forfeiture; unless the action is commenced within two years of the accrual of the cause of action.

 (b) A person may not bring an action against a peace officer or coroner upon a liability incurred by the doing of an act in an official capacity or by the omission of an official duty, including the nonpayment of money collected upon an execution, unless brought within two years. This subsection does not apply to an action for an escape.




Sec. 09.10.075. Actions related to claims based on medical assistance payment fraud.
Except as provided in AS 09.58.070, a person may not bring an action under AS 09.58.010 — 09.58.025 unless the action is commenced by (1) six years after the act or omission was committed, or (2) three years after the date when facts material to the action were known, or reasonably should have been known, by the attorney general or the Department of Health, whichever is later, but in no event more than 10 years after the date the violation under AS 09.58.010 occurred.