Section 08.18.161. Exemptions.

To the extent that this chapter governs contractors, this chapter does not apply to
        (1) an authorized representative of the United States government, the State of Alaska, or a political subdivision or agency of the state;
        (2) an officer of a court when acting within the scope of office;
        (3) a public utility operating under the regulations of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska in construction, maintenance, or development work incidental to its own business;
        (4) a construction, repair, or operation incidental to the discovering or producing of petroleum or gas, or the drilling, testing, abandoning, or other operation of a petroleum or gas well or a surface or underground mine or mineral deposit when performed by an owner or lessee;
        (5) the sale or installation of finished products, materials, or articles of merchandise that are not actually fabricated into and do not become a permanent, fixed part of a structure;
        (6) construction, alteration, or repair of personal property;
        (7) a person who only furnished materials, supplies, or equipment without fabricating them into, or consuming them in the performance of, the work of the contractor;
        (8)   [Repealed Sec. 5 ch 70 SLA 2014].  
        (9) an owner who contracts for a project with a registered contractor;
        (10) a person working on that person's own property, whether occupied by the person or not, and a person working on that person's own residence, whether owned by the person or not;
        (11) an owner or tenant of commercial property who uses the owner's or tenant's own employees to do maintenance, repair, and alteration work upon that property;
        (12) an owner who acts as the owner's own contractor and in doing so hires workers on an hourly basis, hires subcontractors, purchases materials and, as such, sees to the paying for all labor, subcontractors, and materials; in this case, the owner shall be limited to construction of one home, duplex, triplex, four-plex, or commercial building every two years;
        (13) a person performing construction work incidental to farming, dairying, agriculture, horticulture, stock or poultry raising, mining, logging, fishing, clearing, or other work upon the land in rural districts for fire prevention purposes, or access road building, unless the person is a licensee.

Authorities

37.05.800

Notes

Recent Bills that will modify this

HB 81 EXEMPTION: LICENSING OF CONTRACTORS
SB 161 EXEMPTION: LICENSING OF CONTRACTORS

References

12 AAC 21.470
AS 37.05.800 Restriction on use of state money for residential contracting.

History

(Sec. 2 ch 100 SLA 1968; am Sec. 1 ch 51 SLA 1976; am Sec. 2, 3 ch 108 SLA 1982; am Sec. 3 ch 121 SLA 1990; am Sec. 32 ch 134 SLA 2003; am Sec. 2 ch 144 SLA 2004; am Sec. 5 ch 9 SLA 2006; am Sec. 5 ch 70 SLA 2014)