(a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, it is the obligation of each person committed to the custody of the commissioner to provide for the appropriate disposition of all of the person’s property remaining at a correctional facility within 90 days of the date of the person’s release or transfer from the correction facility.
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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 33.30.251

  • 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
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • property: includes real and personal property. 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) The commissioner shall provide for the shipment to the receiving facility of a reasonable amount of the prisoner’s property, as determined by the commissioner, when the prisoner is transferred from one correctional facility to another.
(c) A prisoner’s personal property that remains at a correctional facility after 90 days from the date of the prisoner’s release or transfer is considered abandoned, and shall be delivered to the Department of Administration for disposal under Alaska Stat. § 44.68.110.
(d) The state is not liable for any loss or damage to personal property properly determined to be abandoned under (c) of this section.
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