In this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise, the
following words and phrases have the following meanings:
(1) "
ANCSA" means the Alaska Native Claims
Settlement Act of 1971, P.L. 92-203, 85 Stat.
688, as amended (
43 U.S.C.
1601 et seq.);
(2) "bona fide village resident" means a
natural person who is at least 18 years of age or who is the head of a
household if less than 18 years of age, as to whom residency in the village can
be established on the date for which a determination of residency is required
by application of the rules set out in
AS
15.05.020;
(3) "commissioner" means the commissioner of
the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development of the State of
Alaska acting as the trustee of municipal trust land, whose incumbent is
responsible under
AS
44.33.755 to accept, administer, and dispose
of such land;
(4) "fair market
value" means the appraised price attributable to a parcel of municipal trust
land, including the value of any survey which identifies and describes the
land, which a willing and knowledgeable buyer would pay and which a willing and
knowledgeable seller would accept, with respect to that parcel;
(5) "improved land" means the land conveyed
under ANCSA to village corporations which is so changed from its natural state
through valuable additions made to the land or through regular use by the
residents of the village, that failure to treat that land as municipal trust
land would substantially and adversely affect the community as a whole, of
which it forms a part;
(6)
"less-than-fee interest," where used in reference to land held by a village
corporation, means an interest in land which is less than the entire estate in
the land which was received by the village corporation from the United States
under ANCSA; and, when used in reference to municipal trust land, means an
interest in land which is less than the entire estate in the land which was
received from the village corporation by the state in trust for any future city
in the Native village;
(7)
"municipal land trust officer" means that position within the Department of
Commerce, Community, and Economic Development whose incumbent is principally
responsible, under delegation and general direction of the commissioner, to
carry out municipal trust land program activities under
AS
44.33.755 and the regulations of this
chapter;
(8) "municipal trust land"
means land the legal or equitable title to which is held by the State of Alaska
in trust for a future first or second class city under ANCSA, sec. 14(c)(3) and
AS
44.33.755;
(9) "person" means any qualified person,
firm, corporation, cooperative association, partnership, or other legal entity
legally capable of entering into an agreement or contract;
(10) "state fiscal year" means the fiscal
year described in
AS
37.05.920;
(11) "
Tundra Times" means
that state-wide newspaper which is owned and edited by Eskimo, Indian, Aleut
Publishing Corporation, 639 I Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501;
(12) "village" or "Native village" means any
unincorporated community, vicinity, or locality which was certified by the
Secretary of the Interior under ANCSA as having selection rights under secs.
12(a) or 16(b) of ANCSA, as amended, and includes all those persons living in
the same community, vicinity, or locality, irrespective of race or enrollment
under sec. 5 of ANCSA, who have common community ties or interests;
(13) "village council" means an active local
social organization, which need not be a formal organization having its own
independent legal identity, functioning in the Native village under tradition
which is fundamentally representative of all residents of the Native
village;
(14) "
village entity"
means an organization or group officially recognized by the
commissioner under
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AAC 190.150 as being "an appropriate
village entity"
within the meaning of
AS
44.33.755.