(a) A municipality may not enforce a penalty for violation of an ordinance for which a surcharge is required to be imposed under Alaska Stat. § 12.55.039 unless the municipality authorizes the imposition of and provides for the collection of the surcharge. The surcharge shall be deposited into the general fund of the state and accounted for under Alaska Stat. § 37.05.142. Subject to appropriation, the legislature may reimburse a municipality that collects a surcharge required to be imposed under Alaska Stat. § 12.55.039 for the cost to the municipality in collecting the surcharge and transmitting the surcharge to the state. The reimbursement may not exceed 10 percent of the surcharge collected and transmitted to the state.

Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 29.25.074

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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) This section applies to home rule and general law municipalities.
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