Alaska Codes

State Board of Education

The governor shall appoint the head of each principal executive department in the state government.  Each appointment is subject to confirmation by a majority of the members of the legislature in joint session.

The principal executive officer of each department and the member of each board within the state government shall take, sign, and file the oath of office required by the constitution before entering upon the duties of office.

A public officer or employee of the state, before entering upon the duties of office, shall take and sign the following oath or affirmation: 

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Alaska, and that I will faithfully discharge my duties as ․․․․․․․․․․ to the best of my ability.”

The principal executive officer of each department and subordinate officials shall furnish corporate surety bonds in the instance and amount required by law or determined by the governor upon recommendation of the commissioner of administration.  The state shall pay the cost of the bond.  The attorney general shall approve the form of the bond.

(a) Each member of the Board of Education and Early Development shall be a citizen of the United States and have been a resident of Alaska for at least three years.

(b) A member of the Board of Education and Early Development may also be a member of a district school board.

a) A person appointed to a board or commission of the state government shall be and have been before the last general election, (1) a registered voter in the state, if the appointment is made at large or (2) a registered voter from the judicial district, if the appointment is made from a specific judicial district.  The student member of the Board of Regents of the University of Alaska appointed under AS 14.40.150(b) , the student member of the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education appointed under AS 14.42.015(d) , and a member of the Alaska Human Relations Commission appointed under AS 44.19.600 , are exempt from the requirement of this subsection if the member was not old enough to be a registered voter in the last general election.

(b) A member of a board or commission of the state government who ceases to reside in the state during the member’s term terminates membership on the board or commission.  For the purposes of this section, the acceptance of employment outside the state for a six-month period or longer, or physical absence from the state for one year or longer, or registration as a voter in a municipal, county, district, state, or national election in a voting precinct outside the state is considered as discontinuing residence in the state.

State Government

There is at the head of the Department of Education and Early Development a Board of Education and Early Development.  The commissioner of education and early development is the principal executive officer of the department.

The Department of Education and Early Development shall

(1) administer the state’s program of education at the elementary, secondary, and adult levels, including, but not limited to, programs of vocational education and training, library services, and correspondence courses, but not including degree programs of postsecondary education;

(2) administer the historical library;  and

(3) plan, finance, and operate related school and educational activities and facilities;

(4) Repealed by Executive Order No. 2003-108, § 88.

Official Bonds

The official bond of an officer or employee of the state required by statute or regulation under authority of law shall be in a form joint and several, and made payable to the state in the penal sum and with the conditions required by law.

Bonds of state officers and employees are in force and obligatory upon the principal and sureties for breach of the condition of the bond committed during the time the officer or employee discharges the duties of or holds the office or appointment.  Each bond is considered in force and obligatory upon the principal and sureties for the faithful discharge of all duties required of the officer or employee by any law enacted after the execution of the bond and this condition shall be set out in the bond.

An official bond executed by a state officer or employee is in force and obligatory upon the principal and sureties to and for the state, and for the use and benefit of all persons injured or aggrieved by the wrongful act or default of the officer or employee in the official capacity or employment of the official or employee.  A person injured or aggrieved may bring suit on the bond in the person’s name.

If a bond does not contain the matter or condition required by law, or there is a defect in the approval or filing of the bond, the bond is not void and the obligor and the obligor’s sureties are bound to the state or party interested, and the state or party may, by action instituted in any court of competent jurisdiction, suggest the defect and recover a proper and equitable demand from the obligor and surety.

(a) If a surety on the bond dies, removes from the state, becomes insolvent or insufficient, or the penalty of the bond becomes insufficient, the Department of Administration shall, on its own motion or on the showing of a person supported by an affidavit, summon the officer or employee to appear before it at a stated time, not less than 15 days after service of the summons, and show cause why the officer or employee should not execute a new bond with good and sufficient sureties.

(b) If the officer or employee after notice fails to appear at the time appointed, the department shall hear and determine the matter in the absence of the officer or employee.  If the department is of the opinion that the bond is insufficient, it shall require a new bond with sureties and in the amount considered necessary.

(c) The new bond shall be executed and filed within the time the department orders.  If the officer or employee fails to execute and file a new bond within the time prescribed, the office or appointment of the officer or employee becomes vacant as provided by AS 39.15.100 .  The new bond has the same force and obligation upon the principal and surety and subjects the officer and the surety to the same liabilities prescribed for an original bond of an officer and employee.

Title 39.15.060 Number of sureties: Unless expressly provided otherwise, each official bond shall have at least two individual sureties or one corporate surety.

Unless expressly provided otherwise, each official bond shall have at least two individual sureties or one corporate surety.

The officer charged with the duty of approving official bonds of officers and employees may not approve a bond unless the surety on the bond is a surety company qualified to do business in the state, or unless each individual surety justifies before an officer authorized to administer oaths that the surety is

(1) a resident and freeholder within the state;  and

(2) worth double the amount for which the surety becomes surety over and above all debts and liabilities in property located in the state that is not exempt from seizure and sale under execution.

Title 39.15.080 Release of sureties:  A surety on an official bond may be released from liability accruing after proceedings are taken under AS 39.15.090

A surety desiring to be released from liability on a bond shall file with the Department of Administration a statement in writing, signed by the surety or someone on the surety’s behalf, setting out the name of the principal and the office, position, or appointment of the principal, the amount for which the surety is liable, and the surety’s desire to be released from further liability.  A notice containing a copy of the statement shall be served personally on the officer or employee.  If the officer or employee is not in the state, the notice may be served by publication for 30 days in a newspaper printed at the capital

(a) If a state officer or employee fails to file a new bond within 15 days from the date of personal service or within 30 days from the date of the first insertion of a publication, the office becomes vacant and the officer or employee forfeits the office.

(b) The office shall be filled as in other cases of vacancy.  The person applying for release from liability on the bond is not liable on it after the office becomes vacant.

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