Alaska HOA Short-Term Rentals

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Last verified: July 17, 2026

Section 1: Overview — Can an HOA restrict short-term rentals in Alaska?

Yes, an Alaska homeowners association can restrict or prohibit short-term rentals. That authority comes from the recorded declaration — the CC&Rs — backstopped for communities formed on or after January 1, 1986 by the Alaska Common Interest Ownership Act, ACIOA, AS 34.08.¹ Alaska has no statewide short-term rental statute that overrides that authority. Condominiums created before January 1, 1986 instead fall under the Horizontal Property Regimes Act, AS 34.07, unless the community has elected into ACIOA.² Because ACIOA lets the declaration vary many statutory defaults, most disputes turn on what the declaration actually says, read against ACIOA. Local short-term rental ordinances, most notably in the Municipality of Anchorage, govern the relationship between the owner and local government — registration, permitting, zoning, and lodging taxes. They neither grant nor remove an association's private, declaration-based authority. To add or strengthen a rental restriction in a post-1986 community, an association amends the declaration. Whether that amendment binds owners who bought before it passed becomes the central operational question, since ACIOA requires unanimous consent to change the uses to which a unit is restricted, under AS 34.08.250(d).⁴ On the national spectrum, Alaska sits among the states that regulate short-term rentals primarily at the local level, with no statewide framework overriding association authority, which stays declaration-driven. The sections below lay out the legal framework, the operational tools and enforcement mechanics, and recent legislative and judicial activity.

Section 2: The legal framework for HOA short-term rental restrictions

2A. Source and scope of HOA authority over rentals

Every rental restriction starts with the recorded declaration — the contract among owners that binds the units and runs with the land. For common interest communities formed on or after January 1, 1986, covering condominiums, planned communities, and cooperatives alike, ACIOA, AS 34.08, supplies the statutory framework. AS 34.08.010 states that the chapter applies to communities created after that date and that AS 34.07 and AS 10.15 do not apply to them.¹ Condominiums created before January 1, 1986 remain under the Horizontal Property Regimes Act, AS 34.07, which applies wherever a declaration or master deed has been executed and recorded.² ACIOA draws from the 1982 Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act; the Community Associations Institute counts Alaska among the states that enacted the 1982 version rather than the 2008 version.⁸ ACIOA expressly lets the declaration vary many of its defaults, so in practice the operative rule is a declaration-plus-statute analysis rather than a pure statutory reading.

ACIOA does not define "short-term rental" or set a minimum lease term. The distinction that matters separates authority over leasing generally from authority over transient, short-term use. A declaration that says only "residential use only" or "no commercial use" does not clearly bar short-term rentals, because courts have split on whether short-term occupancy still counts as "residential." A declaration that sets a minimum lease term — say, no rental for fewer than 30 consecutive days — speaks directly to the question. The association's rule-making and enforcement powers appear in AS 34.08.320, which lists the powers of the unit owners' association, subject to the declaration.⁶

2B. State law, local ordinances, and the preemption question

Alaska has no statewide statute regulating short-term rentals, and none preempts association authority over them. Short-term rental regulation happens at the local level. The Municipality of Anchorage adopted AO 2025-115(S-2), amending Title 10 of the Anchorage Municipal Code to require registration of all short-term rentals; the Anchorage Assembly passed it 10-2 at its December 16, 2025 meeting.^11,12 Registration opened May 1, 2026 and costs nothing; existing operators had until July 30, 2026 to register, and after that deadline, listings without a municipal registration number are not permitted.¹³ Anchorage also levies a 12 percent room tax on stays of fewer than 30 days under AMC Chapter 12.20.¹⁴ The City and Borough of Juneau has required short-term rental registration since 2023 under Ordinance 2023-26(c)(am) and imposes a 5 percent sales tax plus a 9 percent hotel room tax on such rentals.¹⁵ Other localities have acted, or chosen not to: the Homer City Council rejected a registration ordinance, Ordinance 23-61(S),¹⁶ and the Kenai Peninsula Borough considered a borough lodging-tax ballot question, Resolution 2024-029.¹⁷

These local requirements regulate only the owner-to-government relationship. They do not grant, expand, or limit an association's authority under its declaration. The two layers operate independently, and that independence sets a trap for operators: an owner who holds a valid Anchorage registration and pays the room tax can still violate the declaration if the CC&Rs prohibit short-term rentals, and an owner who complies with the declaration must still register and pay tax under the local code. Meeting one layer's requirements says nothing about the other.

2C. Amending the declaration to restrict rentals; grandfathering

In a post-1986 community, an association adds or strengthens a rental restriction by amending the declaration under AS 34.08.250. The general threshold in AS 34.08.250(a) calls for a vote or agreement of unit owners holding at least 67 percent of the allocated interests, or a larger percentage the declaration specifies; the statute allows a smaller percentage only where all units are restricted to nonresidential use.³ That default doesn't end the analysis for a rental restriction, though. AS 34.08.250(d) provides that, except where the chapter expressly permits or requires otherwise, an amendment cannot change "the uses to which a unit is restricted" without the unanimous consent of the unit owners.⁴ A new restriction that prohibits or materially narrows short-term rentals changes the permitted use of the units, which points toward the unanimous-consent requirement rather than the 67 percent default.

Alaska never adopted the 2008 UCIOA amendments.⁸ That means the 2008 owner-protection provision — under which a rental-restricting amendment does not bind a non-consenting owner until the unit changes hands — is not part of ACIOA and should not be imported into an Alaska analysis. A 1998 bill, HB 477, would have added an 80 percent use-restriction mechanism modeled on that later approach, but it stalled in the House Labor and Commerce Committee and never became law.⁹ Under the current statute, grandfathering is effectively built into AS 34.08.250(d): since changing permitted uses requires unanimous consent, an owner who withholds consent isn't bound by a newly adopted rental restriction. No Alaska Supreme Court decision squarely resolves whether a validly adopted rental restriction reaches a non-consenting existing owner,²¹ so the conservative and well-supported reading holds that it does not, absent unanimous consent or clear authority in the declaration's own amendment clause. An action challenging the validity of an amendment must be brought within one year of recording, under AS 34.08.250(b).⁵

Section 3: Operational mechanics and enforcement

Adopting a valid restriction (the tools)

The most common and most defensible tool is a minimum-lease-term restriction — a covenant, for instance, prohibiting rentals shorter than a stated number of days. A clear duration restriction speaks directly to short-term use and sidesteps the interpretive uncertainty of a bare "residential use" clause. Alaska's general rule that courts enforce clear restrictive covenants by their plain terms backs this approach.¹⁹ A rental cap — a limit on the percentage of units that may be rented at one time — offers a second tool; ACIOA neither authorizes nor forbids percentage caps, so a cap must rest on the declaration. Associations may also require internal registration of rentals, owner and tenant contact information, and copies of leases as a management measure, to the extent the declaration or validly adopted rules allow it. Because AS 34.08.250(d) requires unanimous consent to change permitted uses, boards should treat a new short-term-rental prohibition as a declaration-amendment question and bring in counsel before proceeding, rather than leaning on a simple board rule.⁴

Enforcement

Before levying a fine for a short-term-rental violation, an association must give the owner notice and a chance to be heard. AS 34.08.320(a)(11) authorizes the association to "levy a reasonable fine for a violation of the declaration, bylaws, rules, and regulations" only "after notice and an opportunity to be heard."⁶ That's a statutory default tied to the association's power; the declaration and bylaws typically supply the specific hearing procedure. Available remedies include reasonable fines, injunctive relief through the courts, and enforcement of unpaid fines as assessments. Under AS 34.08.470(a), fines imposed against a unit owner become a lien on the unit from the time they come due, and unless the declaration says otherwise, fees, charges, late charges, fines, and interest charged under AS 34.08.320(a)(10)–(12) are enforceable as assessments, which the lien secures.⁷ Association enforcement runs independent of local-government enforcement: a municipality can pursue its own penalties for unregistered listings — Anchorage bars listings without a municipal registration number after the compliance deadline — while the association separately enforces the declaration.¹³ An owner can face both.

Section 4: Recent legislative and judicial activity

Recent bills

Alaska's legislature has not enacted a short-term rental statute or an association-specific rental-authority statute in the past 24 months. One relevant measure from the prior legislature shows the pattern.

No qualifying bill in the current 34th Legislature (2025–2026) creates a statewide STR framework or alters association rental authority.

Recent Alaska Supreme Court rulings

No Alaska Supreme Court decision — not in the past 36 months, not ever — squarely decides whether short-term rentals violate a "residential use only" covenant, or resolves whether a declaration amendment adding a rental restriction binds owners who purchased before it.²¹ The controlling authorities are older interpretive decisions that an Alaska court would apply to such a dispute.

Active legislative or local debates

The active debate plays out locally, not statewide. Anchorage's registration ordinance took effect in 2026 with a July 30, 2026 compliance deadline, and localities including the Kenai Peninsula Borough and the City of Homer keep weighing lodging taxes and registration. No statewide STR bill is advancing in the 34th Legislature.

Section 5: National positioning and related coverage

Across the country, states on short-term rentals and associations fall into broad groups. One group preempts local-government STR bans while leaving private association authority intact, so cities cannot ban short-term rentals but HOAs still can through their declarations — Arizona, Florida, and Texas are commonly cited examples. A second group, which includes Alaska, regulates short-term rentals primarily at the local level, with no statewide framework overriding association authority. A third group has little STR-specific law at any level. Even in the preemption states, association authority derives from the recorded declaration and doesn't disappear under state-versus-local preemption, which restrains governments rather than private covenants. For a multi-state operator entering Alaska, the practical implication is a declaration-driven, local-overlay model: read the CC&Rs first for any rental restriction, then layer on the applicable municipal registration, permit, zoning, and lodging-tax rules.

HOA Weekly's Alaska Short-Term Rentals coverage updates quarterly as the legislature, the Alaska Supreme Court, and major localities such as Anchorage and Juneau act. Federal frameworks — the Fair Housing Act, the ADA, the FDCPA, the SCRA, and the FCC's OTARD rule — also apply to Alaska associations regardless of the state framework.

1. Alaska Stat. ch. 34.08 (Common Interest Ownership Act); AS 34.08.010 (applicability to communities created after January 1, 1986), Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency statutes text. ↩
2. Alaska Stat. ch. 34.07 (Horizontal Property Regimes Act), Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency statutes text. ↩
3. Alaska Stat. § 34.08.250(a) (declaration amendment by at least 67 percent of allocated interests, or a larger percentage the declaration specifies). ↩
4. Alaska Stat. § 34.08.250(d) (amendment may not change "the uses to which a unit is restricted" without unanimous consent of the unit owners, except as expressly permitted or required elsewhere in the chapter). ↩
5. Alaska Stat. § 34.08.250(b) (action to challenge validity of an amendment must be brought within one year after recording). ↩
6. Alaska Stat. § 34.08.320(a)(11) (association may levy a reasonable fine for a violation "after notice and an opportunity to be heard"). ↩
7. Alaska Stat. § 34.08.470(a) (lien on a unit for assessments and fines; fines and related charges under § 34.08.320(a)(10)–(12) enforceable as assessments unless the declaration provides otherwise). ↩
8. Community Associations Institute, Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act (listing Alaska among states that enacted the 1982 UCIOA version, not the 2008 version). ↩
9. Alaska State Legislature, HB 477, 20th Legislature (1997–1998), "Common Interest Communities" (status: House Labor and Commerce; did not become law). ↩
10. Alaska State Legislature, HB 184, 33rd Legislature (2023–2024), "Short-Term Rental Unit Registry" (Rep. Gray; remained in House Labor and Commerce). ↩
11. Municipality of Anchorage, AO No. 2025-115 (amending Anchorage Municipal Code to require short-term rental registration). ↩
12. Alaska Business Magazine, "Anchorage Short-Term Rental Registration Starts in May" (AO 2025-115(S-2) passed 10-2 at the December 16, 2025 Assembly meeting). ↩
13. Municipality of Anchorage, press release, "Municipality of Anchorage will require registration for short-term rentals" (free online registration; existing operators to register by the stated 2026 deadline). ↩
14. Municipality of Anchorage Treasury, Room Tax ("AMC Chapter 12.20 authorizes the collection of a 12% tax on short-term room rental transactions, which are rentals of less than 30 days of continuous occupancy"). ↩
15. City and Borough of Juneau, Finance – Short Term Rentals (Ordinance 2023-26(c)(am) creating STR registration; STR sales subject to 5 percent sales tax and 9 percent hotel-room tax; STR defined as fewer than 30 consecutive days). ↩
16. City of Homer, Short-Term Rentals (Ordinance 23-61(S) failed to be adopted). ↩
17. Kenai Peninsula Borough Resolution 2024-029 (proposed ballot question on a borough tax of up to 12 percent on short-term accommodation rentals). ↩
18. Alaska Court System, Court System Information (Supreme Court must accept appeals from final Superior Court decisions in civil cases; Superior Court is the trial court of general jurisdiction; the Court of Appeals hears criminal and quasi-criminal matters). ↩
19. Hurst v. Victoria Park Subdivision Addition No. 1 Homeowners' Ass'n, 59 P.3d 275 (Alaska 2002) (canons for construing restrictive covenants), Alaska Supreme Court slip opinion. ↩
20. Persson-Mokvist v. Anderson, 942 P.2d 1154 (Alaska 1997) (bed-and-breakfast as permissible use incidental to residential use under a plat note), Alaska Supreme Court opinion. ↩
21. Birch Horton Bittner & Cherot, "The Battle Over Short-Term Rentals in Alaska's HOAs and Condos" (Jan. 15, 2026) ("There is no Alaska Supreme Court decision that definitively answers the short-term rental question in HOAs and condos"). ↩

Quick-Reference Table

Last verified: July 17, 2026

Section 1: Overview — Can an HOA restrict short-term rentals in Alaska?

Yes, an Alaska homeowners association can restrict or prohibit short-term rentals. That authority comes from the recorded declaration — the CC&Rs — backstopped for communities formed on or after January 1, 1986 by the Alaska Common Interest Ownership Act, ACIOA, AS 34.08.¹ Alaska has no statewide short-term rental statute that overrides that authority. Condominiums created before January 1, 1986 instead fall under the Horizontal Property Regimes Act, AS 34.07, unless the community has elected into ACIOA.² Because ACIOA lets the declaration vary many statutory defaults, most disputes turn on what the declaration actually says, read against ACIOA. Local short-term rental ordinances, most notably in the Municipality of Anchorage, govern the relationship between the owner and local government — registration, permitting, zoning, and lodging taxes. They neither grant nor remove an association's private, declaration-based authority. To add or strengthen a rental restriction in a post-1986 community, an association amends the declaration. Whether that amendment binds owners who bought before it passed becomes the central operational question, since ACIOA requires unanimous consent to change the uses to which a unit is restricted, under AS 34.08.250(d).⁴ On the national spectrum, Alaska sits among the states that regulate short-term rentals primarily at the local level, with no statewide framework overriding association authority, which stays declaration-driven. The sections below lay out the legal framework, the operational tools and enforcement mechanics, and recent legislative and judicial activity.

Section 2: The legal framework for HOA short-term rental restrictions

2A. Source and scope of HOA authority over rentals

Every rental restriction starts with the recorded declaration — the contract among owners that binds the units and runs with the land. For common interest communities formed on or after January 1, 1986, covering condominiums, planned communities, and cooperatives alike, ACIOA, AS 34.08, supplies the statutory framework. AS 34.08.010 states that the chapter applies to communities created after that date and that AS 34.07 and AS 10.15 do not apply to them.¹ Condominiums created before January 1, 1986 remain under the Horizontal Property Regimes Act, AS 34.07, which applies wherever a declaration or master deed has been executed and recorded.² ACIOA draws from the 1982 Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act; the Community Associations Institute counts Alaska among the states that enacted the 1982 version rather than the 2008 version.⁸ ACIOA expressly lets the declaration vary many of its defaults, so in practice the operative rule is a declaration-plus-statute analysis rather than a pure statutory reading.

ACIOA does not define "short-term rental" or set a minimum lease term. The distinction that matters separates authority over leasing generally from authority over transient, short-term use. A declaration that says only "residential use only" or "no commercial use" does not clearly bar short-term rentals, because courts have split on whether short-term occupancy still counts as "residential." A declaration that sets a minimum lease term — say, no rental for fewer than 30 consecutive days — speaks directly to the question. The association's rule-making and enforcement powers appear in AS 34.08.320, which lists the powers of the unit owners' association, subject to the declaration.⁶

2B. State law, local ordinances, and the preemption question

Alaska has no statewide statute regulating short-term rentals, and none preempts association authority over them. Short-term rental regulation happens at the local level. The Municipality of Anchorage adopted AO 2025-115(S-2), amending Title 10 of the Anchorage Municipal Code to require registration of all short-term rentals; the Anchorage Assembly passed it 10-2 at its December 16, 2025 meeting.^11,12 Registration opened May 1, 2026 and costs nothing; existing operators had until July 30, 2026 to register, and after that deadline, listings without a municipal registration number are not permitted.¹³ Anchorage also levies a 12 percent room tax on stays of fewer than 30 days under AMC Chapter 12.20.¹⁴ The City and Borough of Juneau has required short-term rental registration since 2023 under Ordinance 2023-26(c)(am) and imposes a 5 percent sales tax plus a 9 percent hotel room tax on such rentals.¹⁵ Other localities have acted, or chosen not to: the Homer City Council rejected a registration ordinance, Ordinance 23-61(S),¹⁶ and the Kenai Peninsula Borough considered a borough lodging-tax ballot question, Resolution 2024-029.¹⁷

These local requirements regulate only the owner-to-government relationship. They do not grant, expand, or limit an association's authority under its declaration. The two layers operate independently, and that independence sets a trap for operators: an owner who holds a valid Anchorage registration and pays the room tax can still violate the declaration if the CC&Rs prohibit short-term rentals, and an owner who complies with the declaration must still register and pay tax under the local code. Meeting one layer's requirements says nothing about the other.

2C. Amending the declaration to restrict rentals; grandfathering

In a post-1986 community, an association adds or strengthens a rental restriction by amending the declaration under AS 34.08.250. The general threshold in AS 34.08.250(a) calls for a vote or agreement of unit owners holding at least 67 percent of the allocated interests, or a larger percentage the declaration specifies; the statute allows a smaller percentage only where all units are restricted to nonresidential use.³ That default doesn't end the analysis for a rental restriction, though. AS 34.08.250(d) provides that, except where the chapter expressly permits or requires otherwise, an amendment cannot change "the uses to which a unit is restricted" without the unanimous consent of the unit owners.⁴ A new restriction that prohibits or materially narrows short-term rentals changes the permitted use of the units, which points toward the unanimous-consent requirement rather than the 67 percent default.

Alaska never adopted the 2008 UCIOA amendments.⁸ That means the 2008 owner-protection provision — under which a rental-restricting amendment does not bind a non-consenting owner until the unit changes hands — is not part of ACIOA and should not be imported into an Alaska analysis. A 1998 bill, HB 477, would have added an 80 percent use-restriction mechanism modeled on that later approach, but it stalled in the House Labor and Commerce Committee and never became law.⁹ Under the current statute, grandfathering is effectively built into AS 34.08.250(d): since changing permitted uses requires unanimous consent, an owner who withholds consent isn't bound by a newly adopted rental restriction. No Alaska Supreme Court decision squarely resolves whether a validly adopted rental restriction reaches a non-consenting existing owner,²¹ so the conservative and well-supported reading holds that it does not, absent unanimous consent or clear authority in the declaration's own amendment clause. An action challenging the validity of an amendment must be brought within one year of recording, under AS 34.08.250(b).⁵

Section 3: Operational mechanics and enforcement

Adopting a valid restriction (the tools)

The most common and most defensible tool is a minimum-lease-term restriction — a covenant, for instance, prohibiting rentals shorter than a stated number of days. A clear duration restriction speaks directly to short-term use and sidesteps the interpretive uncertainty of a bare "residential use" clause. Alaska's general rule that courts enforce clear restrictive covenants by their plain terms backs this approach.¹⁹ A rental cap — a limit on the percentage of units that may be rented at one time — offers a second tool; ACIOA neither authorizes nor forbids percentage caps, so a cap must rest on the declaration. Associations may also require internal registration of rentals, owner and tenant contact information, and copies of leases as a management measure, to the extent the declaration or validly adopted rules allow it. Because AS 34.08.250(d) requires unanimous consent to change permitted uses, boards should treat a new short-term-rental prohibition as a declaration-amendment question and bring in counsel before proceeding, rather than leaning on a simple board rule.⁴

Enforcement

Before levying a fine for a short-term-rental violation, an association must give the owner notice and a chance to be heard. AS 34.08.320(a)(11) authorizes the association to "levy a reasonable fine for a violation of the declaration, bylaws, rules, and regulations" only "after notice and an opportunity to be heard."⁶ That's a statutory default tied to the association's power; the declaration and bylaws typically supply the specific hearing procedure. Available remedies include reasonable fines, injunctive relief through the courts, and enforcement of unpaid fines as assessments. Under AS 34.08.470(a), fines imposed against a unit owner become a lien on the unit from the time they come due, and unless the declaration says otherwise, fees, charges, late charges, fines, and interest charged under AS 34.08.320(a)(10)–(12) are enforceable as assessments, which the lien secures.⁷ Association enforcement runs independent of local-government enforcement: a municipality can pursue its own penalties for unregistered listings — Anchorage bars listings without a municipal registration number after the compliance deadline — while the association separately enforces the declaration.¹³ An owner can face both.

Section 4: Recent legislative and judicial activity

Recent bills

Alaska's legislature has not enacted a short-term rental statute or an association-specific rental-authority statute in the past 24 months. One relevant measure from the prior legislature shows the pattern.

No qualifying bill in the current 34th Legislature (2025–2026) creates a statewide STR framework or alters association rental authority.

Recent Alaska Supreme Court rulings

No Alaska Supreme Court decision — not in the past 36 months, not ever — squarely decides whether short-term rentals violate a "residential use only" covenant, or resolves whether a declaration amendment adding a rental restriction binds owners who purchased before it.²¹ The controlling authorities are older interpretive decisions that an Alaska court would apply to such a dispute.

Active legislative or local debates

The active debate plays out locally, not statewide. Anchorage's registration ordinance took effect in 2026 with a July 30, 2026 compliance deadline, and localities including the Kenai Peninsula Borough and the City of Homer keep weighing lodging taxes and registration. No statewide STR bill is advancing in the 34th Legislature.

Section 5: National positioning and related coverage

Across the country, states on short-term rentals and associations fall into broad groups. One group preempts local-government STR bans while leaving private association authority intact, so cities cannot ban short-term rentals but HOAs still can through their declarations — Arizona, Florida, and Texas are commonly cited examples. A second group, which includes Alaska, regulates short-term rentals primarily at the local level, with no statewide framework overriding association authority. A third group has little STR-specific law at any level. Even in the preemption states, association authority derives from the recorded declaration and doesn't disappear under state-versus-local preemption, which restrains governments rather than private covenants. For a multi-state operator entering Alaska, the practical implication is a declaration-driven, local-overlay model: read the CC&Rs first for any rental restriction, then layer on the applicable municipal registration, permit, zoning, and lodging-tax rules.

HOA Weekly's Alaska Short-Term Rentals coverage updates quarterly as the legislature, the Alaska Supreme Court, and major localities such as Anchorage and Juneau act. Federal frameworks — the Fair Housing Act, the ADA, the FDCPA, the SCRA, and the FCC's OTARD rule — also apply to Alaska associations regardless of the state framework.

Footnotes

1. Alaska Stat. ch. 34.08 (Common Interest Ownership Act); AS 34.08.010 (applicability to communities created after January 1, 1986), Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency statutes text. ↩
2. Alaska Stat. ch. 34.07 (Horizontal Property Regimes Act), Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency statutes text. ↩
3. Alaska Stat. § 34.08.250(a) (declaration amendment by at least 67 percent of allocated interests, or a larger percentage the declaration specifies). ↩
4. Alaska Stat. § 34.08.250(d) (amendment may not change "the uses to which a unit is restricted" without unanimous consent of the unit owners, except as expressly permitted or required elsewhere in the chapter). ↩
5. Alaska Stat. § 34.08.250(b) (action to challenge validity of an amendment must be brought within one year after recording). ↩
6. Alaska Stat. § 34.08.320(a)(11) (association may levy a reasonable fine for a violation "after notice and an opportunity to be heard"). ↩
7. Alaska Stat. § 34.08.470(a) (lien on a unit for assessments and fines; fines and related charges under § 34.08.320(a)(10)–(12) enforceable as assessments unless the declaration provides otherwise). ↩
8. Community Associations Institute, Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act (listing Alaska among states that enacted the 1982 UCIOA version, not the 2008 version). ↩
9. Alaska State Legislature, HB 477, 20th Legislature (1997–1998), "Common Interest Communities" (status: House Labor and Commerce; did not become law). ↩
10. Alaska State Legislature, HB 184, 33rd Legislature (2023–2024), "Short-Term Rental Unit Registry" (Rep. Gray; remained in House Labor and Commerce). ↩
11. Municipality of Anchorage, AO No. 2025-115 (amending Anchorage Municipal Code to require short-term rental registration). ↩
12. Alaska Business Magazine, "Anchorage Short-Term Rental Registration Starts in May" (AO 2025-115(S-2) passed 10-2 at the December 16, 2025 Assembly meeting). ↩
13. Municipality of Anchorage, press release, "Municipality of Anchorage will require registration for short-term rentals" (free online registration; existing operators to register by the stated 2026 deadline). ↩
14. Municipality of Anchorage Treasury, Room Tax ("AMC Chapter 12.20 authorizes the collection of a 12% tax on short-term room rental transactions, which are rentals of less than 30 days of continuous occupancy"). ↩
15. City and Borough of Juneau, Finance – Short Term Rentals (Ordinance 2023-26(c)(am) creating STR registration; STR sales subject to 5 percent sales tax and 9 percent hotel-room tax; STR defined as fewer than 30 consecutive days). ↩
16. City of Homer, Short-Term Rentals (Ordinance 23-61(S) failed to be adopted). ↩
17. Kenai Peninsula Borough Resolution 2024-029 (proposed ballot question on a borough tax of up to 12 percent on short-term accommodation rentals). ↩
18. Alaska Court System, Court System Information (Supreme Court must accept appeals from final Superior Court decisions in civil cases; Superior Court is the trial court of general jurisdiction; the Court of Appeals hears criminal and quasi-criminal matters). ↩
19. Hurst v. Victoria Park Subdivision Addition No. 1 Homeowners' Ass'n, 59 P.3d 275 (Alaska 2002) (canons for construing restrictive covenants), Alaska Supreme Court slip opinion. ↩
20. Persson-Mokvist v. Anderson, 942 P.2d 1154 (Alaska 1997) (bed-and-breakfast as permissible use incidental to residential use under a plat note), Alaska Supreme Court opinion. ↩
21. Birch Horton Bittner & Cherot, "The Battle Over Short-Term Rentals in Alaska's HOAs and Condos" (Jan. 15, 2026) ("There is no Alaska Supreme Court decision that definitively answers the short-term rental question in HOAs and condos"). ↩