Alaska Statutes Title 45, Chapter 45.50, Article 03 - Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection

• Sec. 45.50.470 [Repealed, Sec. 1 Ch 246 Sla 1970].
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 45.50.471 Unlawful Acts and Practices.
  (a) Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of trade or commerce are declared to be unlawful.(b)...
• Sec. 45.50.472 Junk Telephone Calls. [Repealed, Sec. 5 Ch 142 Sla 1996].
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 45.50.473 Disclosure of Costs of Certain Telephone Services.
  (a) A person may not provide an alternate operator service without disclosing to the consumer before a charge is incurred the cost of the...
• Sec. 45.50.474 Required Disclosures in Promotions and Shoreside Sales on Board Cruise Ships.
  (a) A person may not conduct a promotion on board a cruise ship that mentions or features a business in a state port that...
• Sec. 45.50.475 Unlawful, Unwanted Telephone Advertisements and Solicitations.
  (a) A person is in violation of AS 45.50.471 (b)(41) if the person(1) [Repealed, Sec. 35 ch 55 SLA 2004]. (2) engages in the...
• Sec. 45.50.477 Use of Titles Relating to Industrial Hygiene.
  (a) A person may not use the title "industrial hygienist," the initials "I.H.," another term that includes the phrase "industrial hygiene" or similar words,...
• Sec. 45.50.479 Limitation on Electronic Mail.
  (a) A person may not send unsolicited commercial electronic mail to another person from a computer located in this state or to an electronic...
• Sec. 45.50.480 [Repealed, Sec. 1 Ch 246 Sla 1970].
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 45.50.481 Exemptions.
  (a) Nothing in AS 45.50.471 - 45.50.561 applies to(1) an act or transaction regulated by a statute or regulation administered by the state, including...
• Sec. 45.50.490 [Repealed, Sec. 1 Ch 246 Sla 1970].
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 45.50.491 Regulations.
  The attorney general, in accordance with AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act), may adopt regulations interpreting and forms necessary for administering the provisions of AS...
• Sec. 45.50.495 Investigative Power of Attorney General.
  (a) If the attorney general has cause to believe that a person has engaged in, is engaging in, or is about to engage in...
• Sec. 45.50.500 [Repealed, Sec. 1 Ch 246 Sla 1970].
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 45.50.501 Restraining Prohibited Acts.
  (a) When the attorney general has reason to believe that a person has used, is using, or is about to use an act or...
• Sec. 45.50.510 [Repealed, Sec. 1 Ch 246 Sla 1970].
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 45.50.511 Assurances of Voluntary Compliance.
  In the administration of AS 45.50.471 - 45.50.561, the attorney general may accept an assurance of voluntary compliance with respect to any act or...
• Sec. 45.50.521 When Information and Evidence Confidential and Nonadmissible.
  (a) [Repealed by Sec. 6 ch 53 SLA 1974].(b) Subject to the provisions of AS 45.50.501 (a), the attorney general may not make public...
• Sec. 45.50.531 Private and Class Actions.
  (a) A person who suffers an ascertainable loss of money or property as a result of another person's act or practice declared unlawful by...
• Sec. 45.50.535 Private Injunctive Relief.
  (a) Subject to (b) of this section and in addition to any right to bring an action under AS 45.50.531 or other law, any...
• Sec. 45.50.536 Mediation.
  Notwithstanding the other provisions of AS 45.50.471 - 45.50.561, a civil action under AS 45.50.531 or 45.50.535 may be submitted to mediation under the...
• Sec. 45.50.537 Attorney Fees, Costs, and Damages.
  (a) In an action brought by a private person under AS 45.50.471 - 45.50.561, a prevailing plaintiff shall be awarded costs as provided by...
• Sec. 45.50.541 Nonnegotiability of Consumer Paper.
  (a) If a contract for sale or lease of consumer goods or services on credit entered into between a retail seller and a retail...
• Sec. 45.50.542 Provisions Not Waivable.
  A waiver by a consumer of the provisions of AS 45.50.471 - 45.50.561 is contrary to public policy and is unenforceable and void.
• Sec. 45.50.545 Interpretation.
  In interpreting AS 45.50.471 due consideration and great weight should be given the interpretations of 15 U.S.C. 45(a)(1) (Sec. 5(a)(1) of the Federal Trade...
• Sec. 45.50.551 Civil Penalties.
  (a) A person who violates the terms of an injunction or restraining order issued under AS 45.50.501 shall forfeit and pay to the state...
• Sec. 45.50.561 Definitions; Short Title.
  (a) In AS 45.50.471 - 45.50.561(1) "advertising" includes the attempt directly or indirectly by publication, dissemination, solicitation, endorsement, or circulation, display in any manner,...

Last modified: November 15, 2016