Alaska Statutes Title 16, Chapter 16.51 - Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute

• Sec. 16.51.010 Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute Established.
  There is established the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute. The institute is a public corporation of the state. It is an instrumentality of the state...
• Sec. 16.51.020 Board of Directors.
  (a) The governing body of the institute is a board of directors. The board consists of seven voting members appointed by the governor. In...
• Sec. 16.51.030 Term of Office.
  The members of the board appointed by the governor under AS 16.51.020 serve three-year terms and may be reappointed. Terms shall be staggered. An...
• Sec. 16.51.040 Removal and Vacancies.
  The members of the board appointed by the governor under AS 16.51.020 serve at the governor's pleasure. A vacancy on the board occurring other...
• Sec. 16.51.050 Quorum.
  Four members of the board appointed under AS 16.51.020 constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and the exercise of the powers and...
• Sec. 16.51.060 Compensation of Board Members.
  Board members receive no salary, but are entitled to per diem and travel expenses authorized by law for other state boards and commissions under...
• Sec. 16.51.070 Meetings.
  The board shall meet at least once a year. A meeting of the board shall occur at the call of the chairman, or upon...
• Sec. 16.51.080 Employment of Personnel.
  The board may employ and determine the salary of an executive director. The executive director may, with the approval of the board, select and...
• Sec. 16.51.090 Powers of Board.
  In carrying out the powers of the institute, the board may(1) adopt, alter, and use a corporate seal;(2) prescribe, adopt, amend, and repeal bylaws;(3)...
• Sec. 16.51.095 Executive Budget Act.
  The operating budget of the institute shall be prepared and submitted in accordance with AS 37.07 (Executive Budget Act).
• Sec. 16.51.100 Duties of Board.
  The board shall(1) conduct programs of education, research, advertising, or sales promotion designed to accomplish the purposes of this chapter;(2) promote all species of...
• Sec. 16.51.110 Prohibited Promotions.
  The board may not promote or make a contract that promotes seafood by(1) geographic origin other than from the state generally;(2) geographic region of...
• Sec. 16.51.120 Seafood Marketing Assessment.
  (a) A seafood marketing assessment shall be levied on the value of seafood products produced in Alaska as provided in (b), (c), (d), (e),...
• Sec. 16.51.130 Termination of the Seafood Marketing Assessment.
  (a) A seafood marketing assessment levied under AS 16.51.120 (b), (c), (d), (e), (h), or (i) shall be terminated by the commissioner of revenue...
• Sec. 16.51.140 Procedures for an Election to Approve or Terminate a Seafood Marketing Assessment.
  (a) The institute may conduct an election under this section after the director of elections approves(1) the notice to be published by the institute;(2)...
• Sec. 16.51.150 Determination of Value.
  (a) Upon request from the director of elections, the commissioner of revenue shall determine(1) the total value of seafood products produced in Alaska during...
• Sec. 16.51.160 Collection of Assessments and Disposition of Proceeds.
  (a) Each processor shall remit to the Department of Revenue before April 1 of each year the total amount of the seafood marketing assessment...
• Sec. 16.51.170 Enforcement of Assessments.
  The provisions of AS 43.05 and AS 43.10 apply for the enforcement and collection of the seafood marketing assessment.
• Sec. 16.51.180 Definitions.
  In this chapter,(1) "board" means the board of directors of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute;(2) "eligible processor" means a processor who would be liable...

Last modified: November 15, 2016