In Alaska Stat. § 08.76.100 – 08.76.590,

(1) “amount financed” means the amount of money, excluding a finance fee, charged by a pawnbroker for a pawn transaction;

Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 08.76.590

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. Source: Federal Reserve
  • municipality: means a political subdivision incorporated under the laws of the state that is a home rule or general law city, a home rule or general law borough, or a unified municipality. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • 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
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • property: includes real and personal property. 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
(2) “business” includes advertising;
(3) “claim” means a claim under Alaska Stat. § 08.76.370;
(4) “claimant” means a person who makes a claim;
(5) “department” means the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development;
(6) “evidentiary hold order” means an evidentiary hold order authorized under Alaska Stat. § 08.76.330;
(7) “finance fee” means all the amounts that a pawnbroker may charge under Alaska Stat. § 08.76.210;
(8) “governmental fee” means a fee imposed by a governmental agency on a pawnbroker to hold or transfer a firearm or conduct a background check required by the governmental agency;
(9) “grace period” means the 30-day period after a maturity date during which a pawnbroker is required by Alaska Stat. § 08.76.270(b) to retain possession of pledged property;
(10) “hold order” means a police hold order or an evidentiary hold order;
(11) “identification” means

(A) a government-issued identification document that contains a photograph; or
(B) an electronic image of a document identified under (A) of this paragraph;
(12) “knowingly” has the meaning given in Alaska Stat. § 11.81.900;
(13) “law enforcement agency” means

(A) the police department of a municipality where a pawnshop is located;
(B) the Department of Law;
(C) the Department of Public Safety;
(14) “law enforcement officer” means

(A) a police officer of the municipality where a pawnshop is located; or
(B) a state trooper if a pawnshop is located in the unorganized borough or if a pawnshop is located in a municipality that does not provide police protection services;
(15) “law enforcement report” means a report required by Alaska Stat. § 08.76.410;
(16) “lease” means any form of rental;
(17) “license” means a license to engage in business as a pawnbroker issued under Alaska Stat. § 08.76.110;
(18) “licensee” means a person who holds a license;
(19) “maturity date” means the date by which a pledgor is required to pay a pawnbroker the amount financed and the finance fee for a pawn transaction, but does not include a grace period;
(20) “misappropriated” means pledged or sold to a pawnbroker

(A) after being stolen; or
(B) while being leased to the pledgor or seller by another person if the property has a permanent label or other conspicuous mark identifying it as another person’s property;
(21) “pawnbroker” means a person who lends money in exchange for a pledge of property;
(22) “pawnbroker transaction” means a pawn transaction or purchase;
(23) “pawn transaction” means a pledge given in exchange for a loan by a pawnbroker;
(24) “personal property” means tangible personal property, but does not include a security, a title to property, a deed, a bill of sale, or printed evidence of indebtedness;
(25) “pledge” means a deposit of property as security for payment of financial obligations to a pawnbroker in a pawn transaction;
(26) “pledged property” means the property that is pledged in a pawn transaction;
(27) “pledgor” means

(A) a person who delivers property to a pawnbroker for a pawn transaction; or
(B) the principal, if the person who delivers property to a pawnbroker for a pawn transaction discloses that the delivery person is acting for a principal;
(28) “police hold order” means a hold order authorized under Alaska Stat. § 08.76.320;
(29) “property” means personal property;
(30) “purchase” means a purchase of property by a pawnbroker that is not a pawn transaction;
(31) “redeem” means to obtain the return of pledged property under Alaska Stat. § 08.76.270;
(32) “register” means the register required to be maintained by Alaska Stat. § 08.76.180;
(33) “registration fee” means a fee for registering a firearm;
(34) “seller” means a person who sells property to a pawnbroker, but does not include a pledgor;
(35) “transaction agreement” means the transaction agreement required by Alaska Stat. § 08.76.200.
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