(a) Except for business licenses, the department shall adopt regulations that establish the amount and manner of payment of application fees, examination fees, license fees, registration fees, permit fees, investigation fees, and all other fees as appropriate for the occupations covered by this chapter.

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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 08.01.065

  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • 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(b)[Repealed, Sec. 4 ch 34 SLA 1992].
(c) Except as provided in (f) – (j) of this section, the department shall establish fee levels under (a) of this section so that the total amount of fees collected for an occupation approximately equals the actual regulatory costs for the occupation. The department shall annually review each fee level to determine whether the regulatory costs of each occupation are approximately equal to fee collections related to that occupation. If the review indicates that an occupation’s fee collections and regulatory costs are not approximately equal, the department shall calculate fee adjustments and adopt regulations under (a) of this section to implement the adjustments. In January of each year, the department shall report on all fee levels and revisions for the previous year under this subsection to the office of management and budget. If a board regulates an occupation covered by this chapter, the department shall consider the board’s recommendations concerning the occupation’s fee levels and regulatory costs before revising fee schedules to comply with this subsection. In this subsection, “regulatory costs” means costs of the department that are attributable to regulation of an occupation plus

(1) all expenses of the board that regulates the occupation if the board regulates only one occupation;
(2) the expenses of a board that are attributable to the occupation if the board regulates more than one occupation.
(d) The license fee for a business license is set by Alaska Stat. § 43.70.030 (a). The department shall adopt regulations that establish the manner of payment of the license fee.
(e)[Repealed, Sec. 28 ch 90 SLA 1991].
(f) Notwithstanding (c) of this section, the department shall establish fee levels under (a) of this section so that the total amount of fees collected by the State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors approximately equals the total regulatory costs of the department and the board for all occupations regulated by the board. The department shall set the fee levels for the issuance and renewal of a certificate of registration issued under Alaska Stat. § 08.48.211 so that the fee levels are the same for all occupations regulated by the board.
(g) Notwithstanding (c) of this section, the department shall establish fee levels under (a) of this section so that the total amount of fees collected by the department for all occupations regulated under Alaska Stat. Chapter 08.11 approximately equals the total regulatory costs of the department for all occupations regulated by the department under Alaska Stat. Chapter 08.11. The department shall set the fee levels for the issuance and renewal of licenses issued under Alaska Stat. Chapter 08.11 so that the fee levels are the same for all occupations regulated by the department under Alaska Stat. Chapter 08.11.
(h) Notwithstanding (c) of this section, the department shall establish fee levels under (a) of this section so that the total amount of fees collected by the Board of Barbers and Hairdressers approximately equals the total regulatory costs of the department, the board, and the Department Of Environmental Conservation for all occupations regulated by the board. For purposes of this subsection, the regulatory costs of the Department of Environmental Conservation for the occupations regulated by the board include the cost of inspections under Alaska Stat. § 08.13.210 (b), the cost of developing and adopting regulations under Alaska Stat. § 44.46.020 for barbershop, hairdressing, hair braiding, manicuring, esthetics, body piercing, ear piercing, tattooing, and permanent cosmetic coloring establishments, and the cost to the Department of Environmental Conservation of enforcing the regulations for body piercing, tattooing, and permanent cosmetic coloring establishments. The department shall set the fee levels for the issuance and renewal of a practitioner’s license issued under Alaska Stat. § 08.13.100 so that the license and license renewal fees are the same for all occupations regulated by the Board of Barbers and Hairdressers.
(i) Notwithstanding (c) of this section, the department shall establish fee levels under (a) of this section so that the total amount of fees collected by the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development for specialty contractors, home inspectors, and associate home inspectors approximately equals the total regulatory costs of the department for those three registration categories. The department shall set the fee levels for the issuance and renewal of a certificate of registration issued under Alaska Stat. Chapter 08.18 so that the fee levels are the same for all three of these registration categories and so that the fee level for a home inspector with a joint registration is not different from the fee level for a home inspector who does not have a joint registration. In this subsection, “joint registration” has the meaning given in Alaska Stat. § 08.18.171.
(j) The department shall establish for real estate appraisal management companies registered under Alaska Stat. Chapter 08.87 a registry fee in an amount that equals the amount determined by the federal Appraisal Subcommittee established under 12 U.S.C. § 3310 as a national registry fee for each real estate appraiser of the appraiser panel of a real estate appraisal management company under 12 U.S.C. § 3338 (Title XI, Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989), as amended by 12 U.S.C. § 53015641 (Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act); the department may annually remit fees paid under this subsection to the Appraisal Subcommittee for participation in the national registry for real estate appraisal management companies.