(a) Subject to appropriation, the office of victims’ rights is authorized to pay outstanding balances on orders of restitution under Alaska Stat. § 12.55.045 or Alaska Stat. § 47.12.120. The office of victims’ rights shall coordinate and make payments from the restorative justice account (Alaska Stat. § 43.23.048) in accordance with the priority in (b) of this section. A crime victim may receive not more than $10,000 from the restorative justice account, regardless of the amount of the order of restitution.
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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 24.65.105

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • 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
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • 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) The office of victims’ rights shall make restitution payments to eligible victims in the following priority order:

(1) a natural person;
(2) private businesses;
(3) state and local governments.
(c) The office of victims’ rights shall adopt regulations under Alaska Stat. Chapter 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) to establish a process for payments of restitution balances from the restorative justice account established in Alaska Stat. § 43.23.048.
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