2022 Alaska Statutes
Title 35. Public Buildings, Works, and Improvements
Chapter 40. Names of Public Works
Sec. 35.40.210. Purple Heart Trail.
(a) The Alaska Highway from the Alaska-Canada Border to Delta Junction, the Richardson Highway between Delta Junction and Fairbanks, the George Parks Highway between Fairbanks and Wasilla, the Glenn Highway between Wasilla and Anchorage, the Seward Highway between Anchorage and the Seward-Sterling highway junction, the Sterling Highway to its termination at the end of the Homer Spit, and the Alaska marine highway system are concurrently designated the Purple Heart Trail.
(b) The department shall erect and maintain appropriate signs on each vessel of the Alaska marine highway system and facing the oncoming traffic in both directions along the Glenn Highway below Gold Star Peak near a site designated for a Gold Star Families Memorial Monument and entering the highway at Fairbanks, Delta Junction, Tok Junction, the Alaska Border, the Veterans Memorial at Byers Lake, Wasilla, Anchorage, the junction of the Seward and Sterling highways, Soldotna, Homer, and at points determined by the department between those locations designating the highways described in (a) of this section as the Purple Heart Trail. Each sign must
(1) display a replica of the Purple Heart Medal;
(2) contain the following statement: “Purple Heart Trail.”
(c) At not fewer than six pullouts along the Purple Heart Trail, selected by the commissioner, the department shall erect informational displays including
(1) a replica of the Purple Heart Medal;
(2) the following statement: “Purple Heart Trail”;
(3) information pertinent to the Purple Heart Medal and Purple Heart Trail and their history.
(d) The department shall determine the appropriate size for the signs to be erected under (b) of this section and informational displays described in (c) of this section.
(e) Notwithstanding the absence of separate accounting authority under AS 37.05.146, The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities may accept gifts, donations, and grants from a person or agency for the purpose of providing signage and informational displays required by (b) and (c) of this section. Gifts, donations, and grants shall be used in accordance with a memorandum of understanding agreed on by the donor and the department.
(f) The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities may create and erect the signs and informational displays required by (b) and (c) of this section, as funding for the signs and displays is made available through appropriation or donation to the department, regardless of whether the department has sufficient funding to create and erect all the signs and informational displays required by (b) and (c) of this section.
