(a) A lobbyist may not

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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 24.45.121

  • action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • 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
  • 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
(1) engage in any activity as a lobbyist before registering under Alaska Stat. § 24.45.041;
(2) do anything with the intent of placing a public official under personal obligation to the lobbyist or to the lobbyist’s employer;
(3) intentionally deceive or attempt to deceive any public official with regard to any material fact pertinent to pending or proposed legislative or administrative action;
(4) cause or influence the introduction of a legislative measure solely for the purpose of thereafter being employed to secure its passage or its defeat;
(5) cause a communication to be sent to a public official in the name of any fictitious person or in the name of any real person, except with the consent of that person;
(6) accept or agree to accept any payment in any way contingent upon the defeat, enactment, or outcome of any proposed legislative or administrative action;
(7) serve as a member of a state board or commission, if the lobbyist’s employer may receive direct economic benefit from a decision of that board or commission;
(8) serve as a campaign manager or director, serve as a campaign treasurer or deputy campaign treasurer on a finance or fund-raising committee, host a fund-raising event, directly or indirectly collect contributions for, or deliver contributions to, a candidate, or otherwise engage in the fund-raising activity of a legislative campaign or campaign for governor or lieutenant governor if the lobbyist has registered, or is required to register, as a lobbyist under this chapter, during the calendar year; this paragraph does not apply to a representational lobbyist as defined in the regulations of the Alaska Public Offices Commission, and does not prohibit a lobbyist from making personal contributions to a candidate as authorized by Alaska Stat. Chapter 15.13 or personally advocating on behalf of a candidate;
(9) offer, solicit, initiate, facilitate, or provide to or on behalf of a person covered by Alaska Stat. Chapter 24.60 a gift, other than food or a nonalcoholic beverage for immediate consumption under Alaska Stat. § 24.60.080 (a)(2)(A), or a compassionate gift under Alaska Stat. § 24.60.075; however, this paragraph does not prohibit a lobbyist from providing

(A) a gift to a legislator or legislative employee who is a member of the lobbyist’s immediate family as defined in Alaska Stat. § 24.60.990 (a), if the gift is unconnected to the recipient’s legislative status;
(B) tickets to a charity event described in Alaska Stat. § 24.60.080 (a)(2)(B); or
(C) a contribution to a charity event under Alaska Stat. § 24.60.080 (c)(10);
(10) make or offer a gift or a campaign contribution whose acceptance by the person to whom it is offered would violate Alaska Stat. Chapter 24.60 or Alaska Stat. Chapter 39.52.
(b) A person may not employ for pay or any consideration, or pay or agree to pay consideration to, a person to lobby who is not registered under Alaska Stat. § 24.45.041 unless that person registers and that person does in fact so register before engaging in lobbying.
(c) A former member of the legislature may not engage in activity as a lobbyist before the legislature for a period of one year after the former member has left the legislature. This subsection does not prohibit a former member from acting as a volunteer lobbyist described in Alaska Stat. § 24.45.161 (a)(1) or a representational lobbyist as defined under regulations of the commission.
(d) An individual may not, at any time that Alaska Stat. Chapter 39.52 prohibits that individual from engaging in activity as a lobbyist, register as a lobbyist under this chapter or engage in any activity as a lobbyist. This subsection does not prohibit registration or service as a volunteer lobbyist described in Alaska Stat. § 24.45.161 (a)(1) or a representational lobbyist, as defined in regulation by the commission.
(e) The spouse or domestic partner of a legislator may not engage in activity as a lobbyist. This subsection does not prohibit the spouse or domestic partner from acting as a volunteer lobbyist under Alaska Stat. § 24.45.161 (a)(1) or a representational lobbyist, as defined in regulation by the commission.
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