Alaska Statutes 11.46.484 – Criminal mischief in the fourth degree

(a) A person commits the crime of criminal mischief in the fourth degree if, having no right to do so or any reasonable ground to believe the person has such a right,

Attorney's Note

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

Class	Prison	Fine
Class A misdemeanor	up to 1 year	up to $25,000

For details, see Alaska Stat. § 12.55.135

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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 11.46.484

Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
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
property: includes real and personal property. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060

(1) with intent to damage property of another, the person damages property of another in an amount of $250 or more but less than $750;

(2) the person tampers with a fire protection device in a building that is a public place;

(3) the person knowingly accesses a computer, computer system, computer program, computer network, or part of a computer system or network;

(4) the person uses a device to descramble an electronic signal that has been scrambled to prevent unauthorized receipt or viewing of the signal unless the device is used only to descramble signals received directly from a satellite or unless the person owned the device before September 18, 1984; or

(5) the person knowingly removes, relocates, defaces, alters, obscures, shoots at, destroys, or otherwise tampers with an official traffic control device or damages the work on a highway under construction.

(b) Criminal mischief in the fourth degree is a class A misdemeanor.

(c)[Repealed, Sec. 11 ch 71 SLA 1996].

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