2017 Alaska Statutes
Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities
Chapter 30. Abandoned and Derelict Vessels
Article 3. Vessels Abandoned on Business Premises of Persons Engaged in Repair Business
Sec. 30.30.120. When vessel abandoned.
A vessel is abandoned on the premises of a vessel repair business when all of the following conditions have been satisfied:
(1) the service requested or required by a person whose vessel is towed or brought to a vessel repair business, including but not limited to towing and rendering estimates of the cost of repairs, has been performed;
(2) no authorization is given to perform any further service with respect to the vessel, but the vessel is left on the repair business premises;
(3) the owner of the repair business or the business owner's authorized representative has given notice by registered or certified mail, with a return receipt, to the registered owner of the vessel at the address on record at the vessel repair business and the address on record in a state agency or the United States Coast Guard, and to any person with a recorded interest in the vessel, stating that, if the vessel is not repossessed within 30 days after the mailing of the notice, it will be sold or disposed of; the notice also must contain a description of the vessel and its location, and it need not be sent to an owner or a person with an unrecorded interest in the vessel whose name or address cannot be determined; and
(4) the vessel is not repossessed within the 30-day period specified in (3) of this section.
