(a) Where risk of loss is to pass to the lessee and the time of passage is not stated

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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 45.12.220

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • finance lease: means a lease with respect to which
    (A) the lessor does not select, manufacture, or supply the goods. See Alaska Statutes 45.12.103
  • goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures under Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 45.12.103
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See Alaska Statutes 45.12.103
  • lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this chapter and other applicable rules of law. See Alaska Statutes 45.12.103
  • lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Alaska Statutes 45.12.103
  • lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Alaska Statutes 45.12.103
  • supplier: means a person from whom a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased under a finance lease. See Alaska Statutes 45.12.103
(1) if a tender or delivery of goods so fails to conform to the lease contract as to give a right of rejection, the risk of their loss remains with the lessor, or, in the case of a finance lease, the supplier, until cure or acceptance;
(2) if the lessee rightfully revokes acceptance, the lessee, to the extent of a deficiency in the lessee’s effective insurance coverage, may treat the risk of loss as having remained with the lessor from the beginning.
(b) Whether or not risk of loss is to pass to the lessee, if the lessee as to conforming goods already identified to a lease contract repudiates or is otherwise in default under the lease contract, the lessor, or, in the case of a finance lease, the supplier, to the extent of a deficiency in the lessor’s or supplier’s effective insurance coverage may treat the risk of loss as resting on the lessee for a commercially reasonable time.
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