Alaska Statutes.
Title 29. Municipal Government
Chapter 5. Incorporation
Section 190. Organization Grants to Boroughs and Unified Municipalities.
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AS 29.05.190. Organization Grants to Boroughs and Unified Municipalities.

(a) For the purpose of defraying the cost of transition to borough government and to provide for interim governmental operations, each borough or unified municipality incorporated after December 31, 1985, is entitled to organization grants as follows:

(1) $300,000 for the municipality's first full or partial fiscal year;

(2) $200,000 for the municipality's second fiscal year; and

(3) $100,000 for the municipality's third fiscal year.

(b) The department shall disburse the first organization grant to a borough or unified municipality within 30 days after certification of the election favoring incorporation, or as soon after that as money is appropriated and available for the purpose. The second grant shall be disbursed within 30 days after the beginning of the municipality's second fiscal year, or as soon after that as money is appropriated and available for the purpose. The third grant shall be disbursed within 30 days after the beginning of the municipality's third fiscal year, or as soon after that as money is appropriated and available for the purpose.

(c) Except as provided in (d) of this section, this section does not apply to a borough incorporated by consolidation or to a unified municipality that occupies the area formerly occupied by a borough.

(d) For the purpose of defraying the cost of government transition, each third class borough that merges or consolidates with a city after January 1, 2002, and each municipality that unifies after January 1, 2002, in an area formerly occupied by a third class borough is entitled to an organization grant of $200,000 for the municipality's first full or partial fiscal year after the merger or consolidation or after unification.

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