Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 29 > Chapter 65 - General Grant Land

• action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• approved selection: means a municipal land selection that has been approved in writing by the director for transfer by patent to a municipality. See Alaska Statutes 29.65.130
• board: means the state Board of Education and Early Development. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• department: means the Department of Education and Early Development. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• director: means the director of lands, Department of Natural Resources. See Alaska Statutes 29.65.130
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Joint session: When both chambers of a legislature adopt a concurrent resolution to meet together.
• 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}
• mental health land: means land granted under Title II, Sec. See Alaska Statutes 29.65.130
• municipal land selection: means a request by a municipality, filed in writing with the director under authority of former Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 29.65.130
• municipality: means a political subdivision incorporated under the laws of the state that is a home rule or general law city, a home rule or general law borough, or a unified municipality. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• patent: means a document, issued by the director to a municipality for a previously approved selection, that conveys and quitclaims all the right, title, and interest of the state without reservation or condition except as may be required by law. See Alaska Statutes 29.65.130
• 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
• property: includes real and personal property. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• school land: means those rectangular sections 16 and 36 within each township surveyed on or before January 3, 1959, and confirmed and transferred to the State of Alaska upon its admission under Sec. See Alaska Statutes 29.65.130
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• university land: has the meaning given in Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 29.65.130
• writing: includes printing. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060