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Alaska Statutes.

Title 29. Municipal Government

Chapter 35. Municipal Powers and Duties

Section 450. Service Areas.

AS 29.35.450. Service Areas.

(a) A service area to provide special services in a borough or unified municipality may be established, operated, altered, or abolished by ordinance, subject to (c) of this section. Special services include services not provided by the unified municipality or a higher or different level of services. Special services include services not provided by a borough on an areawide or nonareawide basis in the borough or a higher or different level of services than that provided on an areawide or nonareawide basis. A borough may include a city in a service area if

(1) the city agrees by ordinance; or

(2) approval is granted by a majority of voters residing in the city, and by a majority of voters residing inside the boundaries of the proposed service area but outside of the city.

(b) A new service area may not be established if, consistent with the purposes of Alaska Const., art. X, the new service can be provided by an existing service area, by annexation to a city, or by incorporation as a city.

(c) If voters reside within a service area that provides road, fire protection, or parks and recreation services, abolishment of the service area is subject to approval by the majority of the voters residing in the service area who vote on the question. A service area that provides road, fire protection, or parks and recreation services in which voters reside may not be abolished and replaced by a larger service area unless that proposal is approved, separately, by a majority of the voters who vote on the question residing in the existing service area and by a majority of the voters who vote on the question residing in the area proposed to be included within the new service area but outside of the existing service area. A service area that provides road, fire protection, or parks and recreation services in which voters reside may not be altered or combined with another service area unless that proposal is approved, separately, by a majority of the voters who vote on the question and who reside in each of the service areas or in the area outside of service areas that is affected by the proposal. This subsection does not apply to a proposed change to a service area that provides fire protection services that would result in increasing the number of parcels of land in the service area or successor service area if the increase is no more than six percent and would add no more than 1,000 residents.

(d) This section applies to a home rule or general law municipality.

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Last modified 9/3/2005