Alaska Statutes 15.45.580 – Circulation; prohibitions

(a) The petitions may be circulated only in person throughout the state.

Attorney's Note

Under the Alaska Statutes, punishments for crimes depend on the classification. In the case of this section:

Class	Prison	Fine
Class B misdemeanor	up to 90 days	up to $2,000

For details, see Alaska Stat. § 12.55.135

Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 15.45.580

person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060

(b) A circulator may not receive payment or agree to receive payment that is greater than $1 a signature, and a person or an organization may not pay or agree to pay an amount that is greater than $1 a signature, for the collection of signatures on a petition.

(c) A person or organization may not knowingly pay, offer to pay, or cause to be paid money or other valuable thing to a person to sign or refrain from signing a petition.

(d) A person or organization that violates (b) or (c) of this section is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.

(e) In this section,

(1) “organization” has the meaning given in Alaska Stat. § 11.81.900;

(2) “other valuable thing” has the meaning given in Alaska Stat. § 15.56.030;

(3) “person” has the meaning given in Alaska Stat. § 11.81.900.

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