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What must an Alaska landlord disclose to a tenant, and what must the lease say?

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An Alaska landlord owes a tenant exactly one disclosure: the name and address of the manager and of an owner or someone authorized to act for the owner, in writing at or before the tenancy begins and kept current.

Cited to AS § 34.03.020 (terms and conditions; premises condition statement) (a), (c), (d), (e) and 18 more cited sources · Verified September 13, 2026

There is no duty to write the lease, no duty to give the tenant a copy, no tenant-rights statement, no required lease contents, and no flood, lead, mold, bed-bug, radon, methamphetamine or asbestos disclosure of any kind. A move-in condition statement is the landlord's option: nothing follows from skipping it, but if the landlord uses one the statute dictates its contents and placement, the tenant must sign to verify it, and it becomes presumptive evidence of condition. Four lease clauses are void in both directions — waiving rights under the act, confessing judgment, exculpation or indemnity, and paying the landlord's attorney fees — and willfully using a lease with clauses known to be prohibited exposes the user to the other party's actual damages. The sharpest rule in Alaska is the fee statute: the prevailing party in any proceeding arising out of the act or a rental agreement gets full reasonable attorney fees, not a partial schedule.

Alaska lease disclosures at a glance

Which law governs Alaska's residential rules are in AS 34.03, the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, and the topic is unusually concentrated: section 34.03.080, headed Disclosure, is the chapter's only affirmative landlord disclosure duty, and nothing else in the chapter requires a landlord to tell a tenant anything. The chapter also carries the prohibited-provision roster, the premises condition statement, the deposit rules, the house-rules conditions and the attorney-fee statute. Three bodies of law sit around it. The statute of frauds is AS 09.25.010, and the electronic-transactions act is AS 09.80, which validates an electronic lease but not an eviction or default notice on a primary residence. The residential real property transfer disclosure chapter, AS 34.70, is the sales-side regime, and by its own definitions it reaches only sale-shaped transfers of one- or two-dwelling property, so it never answers a leasing question. And the real-estate licensing title, AS 08.88, with the Real Estate Commission's rules in 12 AAC 64, carries the only prescribed documents that can reach an Alaska tenant — they bind the licensee rather than the landlord. Manufactured home parks have their own provisions inside the same chapter and are on their own page.
Who is covered The chapter applies to and determines rights, obligations and remedies under a rental agreement, wherever made, for a dwelling unit in Alaska, and it reaches any rental agreement, lease or tenancy entered into, extended or renewed by payment of rent on or after March 19, 1974. Eight arrangements sit outside it, each unless created to avoid the chapter: residence at an institution incidental to detention or to medical, geriatric, educational, counseling or religious service; occupancy under a contract of sale by the purchaser; occupancy by a member of a fraternal or social organization in its building; transient occupancy in a hotel, motel, lodgings or other transient facility; occupancy by an employee whose right to occupy is conditioned on performing services, maintenance or repair; occupancy by an owner of a condominium unit or a holder of a proprietary lease in a cooperative; premises used by the occupant primarily for agricultural purposes; and transitional or supportive housing sponsored or operated by a public or nonprofit corporation. Two duty-specific thresholds also apply: the licensee disclosures reach only a tenancy a real estate licensee handles or a rental the licensee owns, and the duty to keep electrical, plumbing and heating facilities in repair may be shifted to the tenant only in a one- or two-family residence where the rent exceeds $2,000 a month.
Written lease, copy and signature rules

No statute requires a residential lease to be in writing beyond the statute of frauds, so an oral tenancy is lawful. No statute requires the landlord to give the tenant a copy of the lease.

No Alaska statute requires a residential rental agreement to be in writing, and none requires the landlord to give the tenant a copy of a signed one. The chapter regulates what a written agreement may contain and what happens when one is unsigned or undelivered: the parties may include clauses and conditions not prohibited by the chapter or by law, and unless the agreement fixes a definite term the tenancy is week to week for a tenant who pays weekly rent and month to month otherwise. A landlord who does not sign and deliver an agreement the tenant signed and delivered is bound on accepting rent without reservation, and the mirror rule binds a tenant who accepts possession or pays rent; but an agreement given effect that way is effective for only one year however long its stated term. A lease for more than a year must be written and subscribed to be enforceable. Alaska sets no language, translation, plain-language or type-size rule for a lease. One notice condition is worth knowing: the landlord's house rules must be posted prominently on the premises, and a rule binds the tenant only if, among other conditions, the tenant had notice of it when entering the agreement; a rule adopted later binds only on reasonable notice and only if it does not work a substantial modification of the agreement.

Statute of frauds: An agreement for leasing for a longer period than one year is unenforceable unless it, or some note or memorandum of it, is in writing and subscribed by the party charged or that party's agent, and no estate or interest in real property other than a lease for a term not exceeding one year may be created, transferred or declared except by operation of law or by a written instrument subscribed by the party creating it (section 09.25.010). The usual exceptions for full performance, an error in the memorandum and a judicial admission are preserved (section 09.25.020).

Electronic leases and signatures: Alaska's electronic-transactions act makes an electronic record satisfy a writing requirement and an electronic signature satisfy a signature requirement, so a lease may be signed and delivered electronically (section 09.80.040). Two limits matter. The act applies only to transactions between parties each of whom has agreed to conduct transactions electronically (section 09.80.020). And it does not reach a notice of default, acceleration, repossession, foreclosure or eviction, or of the right to cure, under a rental agreement for an individual's primary residence (section 09.80.010), so those notices cannot ride on the electronic-transactions act alone. The landlord-tenant chapter itself contains no rule about electronic mail or electronic delivery.
Owner and agent identity

Yes — a statute requires the landlord to disclose the owner's or managing agent's identity to the tenant, in a separate writing.

The landlord, or anyone authorized to enter a rental agreement for the landlord, must disclose to the tenant in writing at or before the commencement of the tenancy the name and address of the person authorized to manage the premises, and the name and address of an owner of the premises or a person authorized to act for the owner for service of process and for receiving and receipting for notices and demands (section 34.03.080). Name and address only: no telephone number and no email address. The statute says in writing and nothing more, so it need not be in the lease and there is no posting alternative. The information must be kept current, and the duty extends to and is enforceable against any successor landlord, owner or manager. No threshold applies. The consequence is a change of status rather than money: a person who fails to comply becomes an agent of each person who is a landlord for service of process and receipting, and for performing the landlord's obligations under the chapter and the agreement and spending the rent collected from the premises on them. The chapter's definition of landlord makes the point sharper still — it includes a manager of the premises who fails to disclose, so a non-disclosing manager is a landlord for every duty in the chapter. The section states no damages figure and no fee award. Alaska has no landlord or rental-property registration. A landlord who is not an Alaska resident, or a corporation not authorized to do business here, MAY designate an agent for service of process by a written designation filed with the commissioner of commerce, community, and economic development, and that agent must be the same person disclosed to the tenant; where no designation is filed, or process cannot be served on the designated agent, process may be served on the commissioner (section 34.03.340). On a sale, the notice is conditional rather than mandatory: a landlord who conveys in a good faith sale to a bona fide purchaser is relieved of liability under the agreement and the chapter only as to events after written notice of the conveyance to the tenant, and the same shape applies when a manager's management ends (section 34.03.110). A landlord who never gives that notice simply keeps the liability; the tenant has no remedy for the silence.
Required statements and lease text

No general statement or document is prescribed, but the statutes or rules fix some of what the lease must say, listed here.

Alaska requires no tenant-rights statement, no summary of the act, no agency form and no prescribed general lease text. There is not even a duty to tell the tenant where the act can be read. The only prescribed documents that can reach an Alaska tenant come from the real-estate licensing rules and bind a licensee rather than a landlord: a commission Consumer Disclosure that explains the types of licensee relationship, and a separately titled Licensee Relationships paragraph in the contract. Both are listed above with their licensee condition, and neither is counted here, because they tell a tenant whom the licensee acts for and nothing about tenancy rights. Alaska also prescribes no list of subjects a lease must address; what it has instead is a handful of conditional content rules that bite only when the parties choose a particular arrangement.

Listed, but not a general duty counted above:

Alaska Real Estate Commission Consumer Disclosure — a state-prescribed document to be handed over or attached; issued by the Alaska Real Estate Commission, Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing, Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development. Before a real estate licensee provides specific assistance to a person, or when entering into a contract with the person to provide specific assistance, the licensee must give the person a copy of the commission's Consumer Disclosure, which outlines the duties of the types of licensee relationships the statute identifies (section 08.88.615; rule 12 AAC 64.118). The commission sets the contents and format by rule and adopts the document by reference with its date; the physical pamphlet is produced and paid for by the real estate broker rather than published by the state. A companion form, the commission's Waiver of Right to Be Represented, also dated April 2024, carries a neutral licensee's written consent. This duty binds a licensee, not a landlord as such, so it is listed here without being counted; it reaches a tenancy only where a licensee handles the transaction, or where the landlord is itself a licensee. A licensee who owns rental property must additionally disclose the same items to each prospective lessee or tenant along with the licensee's ownership (rule 12 AAC 64.570), and must tell all tenants and prospective tenants in writing that the licensee holds a real estate license and the name of the affiliated company (rule 12 AAC 64.550). The consequence of a failure is licensing discipline; no remedy runs to the tenant. Revision: Dated April 2024, as named in the rule that adopts the document by reference; the document is adopted with its date, so a new edition requires a rule change. Given before signing, handed over. Threshold: Only where a real estate licensee provides specific assistance in the transaction, or where the landlord is itself a licensee. The prescribing section. (AS § 08.88.615(a)(6); AS § 08.88.685(b)(2), (c); 12 AAC 64.118) Not counted as a general duty.

Licensee Relationships paragraph — words or content the lease itself must carry. Where a real estate licensee handles the transaction, the licensee must give the person, when the person signs an offer, a written statement saying whether the licensee represents the buyer, the seller, the lessee or the lessor, or provides specific assistance to both sides as a neutral licensee. The statement must be contained in a separate paragraph entitled Licensee Relationships in the contract between the lessee and lessor, or in a separate document with that title (section 08.88.615). The licensee must also obtain, before providing specific assistance, a document signed by the person disclosing the licensee's relationship with them. Because the duty binds a licensee rather than a landlord, it is listed here without being counted, and it tells the tenant whom the licensee acts for rather than anything about tenancy rights. Given at signing, inside the lease itself. The statute fixes the substance, not the words. Typography: A separate paragraph entitled Licensee Relationships, or a separate document with that title. No type size is prescribed. Threshold: Only where a real estate licensee handles the transaction, or where the landlord is itself a licensee. (AS § 08.88.615(a)(7), (a)(8)) Not counted as a general duty.

Lease contents the statutes or rules address, each in the circumstance it names:

• Where the parties agree to mediate or to arbitrate disputes, the scope of that agreement must be included within the rental agreement, incorporated by reference in it, or added as a separate attachment (section 34.03.345).

• A waiver of the landlord's duty to supply running water or hot water is valid only where the premises have no well and no direct public-utility connection and the rental agreement specifically states that the duty is waived by the tenant (section 34.03.100).

• Where the landlord requires a premises condition statement or contents inventory, it must be within the rental agreement, incorporated by reference in it, or added as a separate attachment, and it becomes part of the agreement once both parties sign (section 34.03.020).

• Where a real estate licensee handles the transaction, a separate paragraph entitled Licensee Relationships in the contract, or a separate document with that title (section 08.88.615).

• The inverse rule: in a dwelling other than a one- or two-family residence, an agreement for the tenant to perform the landlord's duties must be set out in a SEPARATE writing signed by the parties and supported by adequate consideration, and it may not be treated as a condition of the rental agreement (section 34.03.100).
Move-in condition report

No mandatory report — a statute dictates the form only if the landlord chooses to require one.

Alaska requires no move-in report, but it dictates one when the landlord chooses to use one. If the landlord requires it, the landlord and tenant must include within the rental agreement, incorporate by reference in it, or add as a separate attachment a premises condition statement setting out the condition of the premises including fixtures but excluding the other contents, and, where applicable, a contents inventory itemizing or describing all furnishings and other contents and specifying the condition of each. Both describe the premises and contents at the commencement of the term. The tenant SHALL acknowledge or verify the accuracy of the statement and inventory by signature, and once signed by both parties they become part of the rental agreement. The tenant cannot demand one and there is no deadline. Nothing follows from not using one: no penalty, no deposit forfeiture and no bar on withholding, because the deposit rules are not conditioned on a condition statement anywhere in their text. What follows from using one is evidentiary and substantial. The statement and inventory may be used as the basis for deciding whether prepaid rent or a deposit goes to pay for damage and for computing other damages, and in an action under the chapter they are presumptive evidence of the condition of the premises and contents at the commencement of the term. Unless the party against whom they are offered rebuts their authenticity by clear and convincing evidence, they may be offered without additional supporting evidence as the basis for computing damages. They also survive a sale: each remains valid between the purchaser and the tenant until a new one is made between them.

When and who signs: No deadline is stated. The statement describes the premises and their contents at the commencement of the term of occupancy covered by the agreement. The tenant must acknowledge or verify its accuracy by signature, and once both landlord and tenant have signed it becomes part of the rental agreement.

Deposit notice at signing: The landlord must provide to the tenant the terms and conditions under which prepaid rent or a security deposit, or parts of them, may be withheld (section 34.03.070). No form, no deadline and no penalty are stated in the subsection. The deposit cap, the pet deposit, the return deadlines and the willful-noncompliance damages are on the security-deposits page.
Hazard disclosures

No in-force state hazard disclosure duty applies at signing beyond the federal lead-paint rule. No state duty exists for lead, mold, bed bugs, radon, methamphetamine, asbestos, or any other hazard.

Every state duty and every stated absence, hazard by hazard:

Lead (state add-on to the federal rule) — no state duty. Alaska adds nothing to the federal lead-paint rules for landlords: no state form, registration, certificate, pamphlet or renewal re-disclosure, and no state provision that references or extends them. The phrase lead-based paint appears nowhere in the statutes, and the three places it appears in the administrative code are premises standards for licensed child-care, assisted-living and residential facilities, not lease disclosures.

Mold — no state duty. Alaska has no mold disclosure duty. The word does not appear anywhere in the property title, and the statutory and administrative mentions of it are professional licensing, state land, food and commodity, marijuana testing, licensed-facility, air-quality and environmental provisions. None of them binds a landlord.

Bed bugs — no state duty. Alaska requires no bed-bug disclosure, history or notice. The term appears nowhere in the statutes and nowhere in the administrative code.

Radon — no state duty. Alaska requires no radon disclosure and has no radon program that touches a lease. The word appears nowhere in the statutes, and its single appearance in the administrative code is a drinking-water definition recording that gross alpha particle activity does not include the radioactivity of radon and uranium.

Methamphetamine — no state duty. Alaska requires no methamphetamine or drug-lab disclosure, and it does not bar renting an affected property either — so it is not one of the states that substitutes a prohibition for a disclosure. Every statutory mention of methamphetamine is a controlled-substance offense, a scheduling provision, a release condition, a sentencing rule or a militia-code provision; the administrative code's single mention is a toxic-exposure reporting rule. The property title contains none at all, and Alaska has no contaminated-property clean-up or certification regime that reaches a tenancy.

Asbestos — no state duty. No Alaska statute or rule requires an asbestos disclosure to a tenant. The state's asbestos provisions are a certification and abatement program for asbestos workers and projects, together with school and worker-safety rules. None of them imposes a duty on a landlord or a notice to a tenant.

Other hazard notices (pesticide, ordnance, contamination, pool) — no state duty. Alaska prescribes no other hazard notice to a tenant. The property title contains no pesticide-application notice, no military ordnance or noise-zone notice and no contamination notice of any kind; its only mentions of the word hazard are insurance clauses in the condominium chapters. Smoke and carbon-monoxide detectors are a supply-and-maintenance duty rather than a disclosure, and they sit on the habitability page.
Flood disclosure

No.

Alaska requires no flood disclosure to a tenant, and unusually it requires none on a sale either. The word flood does not appear anywhere in the property title. The state's residential disclosure chapter reaches only transfers by sale, exchange, installment land sale contract, lease with an option to purchase, other option to purchase, or a ground lease coupled with improvements, and only property whose primary purpose is to provide one or two single-family dwellings; its duty runs to a transferee before a written offer, and its remedies run to the transferee. The contents that chapter prescribes for the disclosure statement name only two items, a sex-offender-vicinity notice and an agricultural-operations notice, so flood is not among them. The state's other flood provisions are insurance regulation, disaster and mining-reclamation statutes, and the flood rules in the administrative code are floodplain-management, water and waste rules for municipalities and permit holders.
Disclosures about the property's situation No statutory disclosure of this kind
What need not be disclosed None — no statute says a fact about the property need not or may not be disclosed in a rental, or bars a claim over its non-disclosure.
Utility, fee and payment disclosures Alaska prescribes none of the usual utility, fee or payment disclosures. There is no shared-meter, submetering or ratio-billing disclosure, no duty to state fees or a total monthly payment in the lease, no rent-receipt duty, and no payment-method, payment-location, rent-concession, renter's-insurance, smoking-policy or rent-reporting disclosure; the word insurance does not appear in the landlord-tenant chapter at all. What exists instead are lease-content conditions on shifting duties. A waiver of the landlord's duty to supply running water or hot water is valid only where the premises have no well and no direct public-utility connection and the rental agreement specifically states the waiver. In a one- or two-family residence the parties may agree in writing that the tenant perform certain of the landlord's maintenance duties, and the duty to keep electrical, plumbing, heating and other facilities in good repair may be shifted only where the rent exceeds $2,000 a month; elevators may never be shifted. For any other dwelling, an agreement for the tenant to perform the landlord's duties must be a separate writing signed by the parties and supported by adequate consideration, entered in good faith, and the landlord may not treat performance of it as a condition of the rental agreement. Rent is payable without demand or notice at the time and place the parties agree; unless otherwise agreed it is payable at the dwelling unit on the same date each month until the tenancy ends. Deposits are on the security-deposits page; Alaska has no late-fee statute and no statutory rent-increase notice.
Lease clauses that are void or prohibited

Yes — the statute lists the lease provisions that are void or prohibited.

Alaska's roster is short, sits in one section and binds both sides: the section opens by saying a rental agreement may not provide that the TENANT OR LANDLORD does any of four things, and the exculpation item names both parties' liability. Only the attorney-fee item runs one way, against a clause making either party pay the LANDLORD's fees. The first item is a general bar on waiving rights or remedies under the chapter rather than a list of named sections, which makes it the widest item in the roster. A separate subsection carries four prohibitions for mobile home park agreements, which are on the manufactured-housing page and share the same willful-use remedy. Alaska has no unconscionability provision of the kind several states pair with a roster.

Using a prohibited clause carries a statutory sanction; the statute's own measure follows.

Sanction as the statute states it: A provision prohibited by the section and included in a rental agreement is unenforceable. If a landlord or tenant willfully uses a rental agreement containing provisions known by that person to be prohibited, the other party may recover the amount of actual damages (section 34.03.040). The trigger is use rather than an attempt to enforce; the recovery is actual damages only, with no multiple and no statutory floor; and the subsection awards no fees of its own, though the chapter's separate fee statute reaches any proceeding arising out of the chapter or a rental agreement. There is no cure window.

The listed provisions:

• An agreement that the tenant or the landlord waives or forgoes rights or remedies under the landlord-tenant chapter — a general bar, not a list of named sections.

• An agreement authorizing a person to confess judgment on a claim arising out of the rental agreement.

• An agreement to the exculpation or limitation of any liability of the landlord or of the tenant arising under the law, or to indemnify either of them for that liability or the costs connected with it.

• An agreement to pay the landlord's attorney fees — the one item in the list that runs only one way.
Attorney-fee clauses

Attorney fees go to the prevailing party by statute, whatever the lease says. Separately, a lease clause making a party pay the landlord's attorney fees is void, as the section cited states.

Attorney fees shall be allowed to the prevailing party in any proceeding arising out of the landlord-tenant chapter or a rental agreement (section 34.03.350). The award is mandatory, symmetric and wider than most, because it reaches proceedings on the lease as well as proceedings under the chapter. The Alaska Supreme Court has construed it to mean FULL reasonable fees rather than the partial schedule the civil rules would otherwise supply, reasoning that if only partial fees were intended the statute would have had no work to do; it is an abuse of discretion to award a prevailing landlord a small fraction of fees actually incurred without explanation. A later decision confirms the rule and adds its limit: a claim joined in the same suit that is not governed by the chapter or the lease — a personal-injury claim, for example — falls back to the ordinary partial schedule. The companion rule is a clause ban running one way: a rental agreement may not provide that either party pays the LANDLORD's attorney fees, and such a clause is unenforceable, with actual damages available against a party who willfully uses a lease containing provisions known to be prohibited. So a one-way landlord fee clause is void, and the statute awards full reasonable fees to whoever prevails.
When, how, and what happens on a failure Alaska's timing pegs are few. The owner and manager identity goes to the tenant in writing at or before the commencement of the tenancy and must be kept current. The premises condition statement and contents inventory, where the landlord elects to use them, describe the premises at the commencement of the term and must be signed by the tenant to verify their accuracy; there is no deadline. The terms and conditions under which a deposit may be withheld are provided to the tenant. The landlord's house rules are posted prominently on the premises and bind only if the tenant had notice of them when entering the agreement, or, for a later rule, on reasonable notice and without a substantial modification of the agreement. Written notice of a conveyance, or of the end of a manager's management, is conditional rather than compulsory. Where a real estate licensee is involved, the licensee gives the commission's Consumer Disclosure before providing specific assistance and the Licensee Relationships paragraph when the person signs an offer. Nothing in this topic recurs annually or at renewal, no landlord disclosure requires a signed acknowledgment — the only signature the chapter demands is the tenant's on a condition statement — and the chapter contains no rule about electronic delivery. Remedies are sparse but pointed. A failure to disclose the owner or manager changes the non-discloser's status: that person becomes an agent of each landlord for service and for performing the landlord's obligations out of collected rent, and a non-disclosing manager becomes a landlord for the whole chapter. Willfully using a lease containing provisions known to be prohibited exposes the user to the other party's actual damages. And the chapter's fee statute gives full reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party in any proceeding arising out of the chapter or a rental agreement, which is what does most of the enforcement work. Three duties state no penalty at all: the deposit terms-and-conditions writing, the conveyance notice and the manager-termination notice. Omitting a condition statement carries no penalty either; using one carries an evidentiary presumption instead.
Can cities add their own rules Alaska law says nothing either way about local lease-disclosure or lease-content rules. The chapter's application section says only that the chapter determines rights, obligations and remedies under a rental agreement, wherever made, for a dwelling unit in the state, and then lists the arrangements outside it; municipalities are not mentioned. The local-government title's limitation on home-rule powers works by enumeration — only the listed provisions of that title apply to home rule municipalities as prohibitions on acting otherwise — and its list of sixty-seven items covers subjects from annexation and public meetings to sales tax, firearms and enhanced 911, with no landlord-tenant, rental-registration, lease-content or rent item among them. There is also no rent-control preemption: the state's own emergency residential rent regulation and control chapter was repealed in the 1970s, which leaves an administrative chapter on the same subject orphaned — it still sits in the code and still carries a notice duty to prospective tenants, but it operates only where the governor has declared a housing emergency under a statute that no longer exists, so it is not a live duty. No Alaska city carries a lease-packet or tenant-disclosure requirement on this page.
How state law refers to the federal rules State law adds nothing to, and refers to nothing in, the federal rules, which are listed further down this page
Changes already signed into law No signed act is waiting beyond any not-yet-in-force duty already stated on this page
Leading court decisions

Dawson v. Temanson, 107 P.3d 892 (Alaska 2005) (Supreme Court of Alaska; residential setting; bears on attorney-fee clauses): Construing the landlord-tenant chapter's fee statute for the first time, the court held that it provides for an award of full, reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party, not the partial schedule the civil rules supply — reasoning that if only partial fees were intended the statute would have had no reason to address fees at all. It was an abuse of discretion to award a prevailing landlord $750 against fees exceeding $15,000 without explanation, and the award was vacated and remanded. The tenancy was a basement apartment let by a resident owner.

Guilford v. Weidner Investment Services, Inc., 522 P.3d 1085 (Alaska 2023) (Supreme Court of Alaska; residential setting; bears on attorney-fee clauses): Restating the full-fees rule, the court held that the chapter's fee statute permits an award to the prevailing party in any proceeding arising out of the chapter or a rental agreement, and added the limit that matters in practice: a claim joined in the same suit that the chapter does not govern — there, a personal-injury claim — reverts to the ordinary partial fee schedule under the civil rules.

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Alaska Lease Disclosure Laws & Required Lease Terms (verified September 13, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/lease-disclosures/alaska/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Everything above is cited in the citations section below.

Alaska hazard disclosures at a glance

No row below is an in-force state duty to disclose, hand over, attach or post a hazard notice; the federal lead-paint rule still applies to housing built before 1978. Each row's full text, trigger, threshold and remedy are in the table above.

Hazard Status When Form Prescribed document
Lead (state add-on to the federal rule) None — — —
Mold None — — —
Bed bugs None — — —
Radon None — — —
Methamphetamine None — — —
Asbestos None — — —
Other hazard notices (pesticide, ordnance, contamination, pool) None — — —

Documents named in the required-statements row: Alaska Real Estate Commission Consumer Disclosure (Alaska Real Estate Commission, Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing, Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development) — listed, not counted.

Federal rules that apply in every state

The federal layer for the lease-disclosures topic, carried once for the whole site. Every row names who it binds: most federal lease attachments bind only a landlord who takes a voucher or holds HUD-assisted or HUD-insured property, and the one rule that binds every landlord (the lead-paint disclosure rule) is a floor that state law may add to. No state record restates these rows; a state record says only where its own law references or extends them. Each row below says who it binds before it says what it requires. The full text of each row, with its citations, is on the 50-state page.

Notes and caveats

Common questions: Alaska lease disclosures

Each answer is the verified value from the table above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

Does Alaska require a landlord to give the tenant a written statement of tenant rights?
No general statement or document is prescribed, but the statutes or rules fix some of what the lease must say, listed here. Alaska requires no tenant-rights statement, no summary of the act, no agency form and no prescribed general lease text.
Does an Alaska landlord have to disclose the owner's name and address?
Yes — a statute requires the landlord to disclose the owner's or managing agent's identity to the tenant, in a separate writing. The landlord, or anyone authorized to enter a rental agreement for the landlord, must disclose to the tenant in writing at or before the commencement of the tenancy the name and address of the person authorized to manage the premises, and the name and address of an owner of the premises or a person authorized to act for the owner for service of process and for receiving and receipting for notices and demands (section 34.03.080).
Is a move-in inspection checklist required in Alaska?
No mandatory report — a statute dictates the form only if the landlord chooses to require one. Alaska requires no move-in report, but it dictates one when the landlord chooses to use one.
What hazards must an Alaska landlord disclose to a tenant?
No in-force state hazard disclosure duty applies at signing beyond the federal lead-paint rule. No state duty exists for lead, mold, bed bugs, radon, methamphetamine, asbestos, or any other hazard.
Does Alaska require flood disclosure to renters?
No. Alaska requires no flood disclosure to a tenant, and unusually it requires none on a sale either. The word flood does not appear anywhere in the property title.
Does Alaska void or prohibit specific lease clauses?
Yes — the statute lists the lease provisions that are void or prohibited. Alaska's roster is short, sits in one section and binds both sides: the section opens by saying a rental agreement may not provide that the TENANT OR LANDLORD does any of four things, and the exculpation item names both parties' liability.

Citations

How this record was verified: Statutory text read directly from the Alaska State Legislature's own statute print view, whose banner reads Alaska Statutes 2025 with the session selector 34th Legislature (2025-2026). The Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, AS 34.03.010 to 34.03.380, was read in full as one document and its 42 live sections inventoried individually; all of Title 34 was then read as one document and termed for every hazard, flood and disclosure word, with hit counts recorded. The statute of frauds, the electronic-transactions act, the residential real property transfer disclosure chapter, the real-estate licensee duties, the detector statute and the home-rule limitation section were each read in full on the same host. Code-wide term counts and enumerated hits were taken from the Legislature's own full-text search over the statutes. Because the served compilation is the 2025 statutes, which predate the 2026 session's adjournment on May 20, 2026, an enactment check was mandatory and was run two ways: the Passed Legislation roll for the 34th Legislature was enumerated at 228 passed measures and its chapter designations gap-checked to chapters 1 to 25 of the 2025 session laws and chapters 1 to 61 of the 2026 session laws, with disposition read from each row's own status cell; and the per-statute bill ledger was run for the landlord-tenant chapter and its disclosure and prohibited-provision sections, the sales chapter, the licensing chapter and the statute of frauds, across the 34th and 33rd Legislatures. The one enacted act in a searched chapter was read from its enrolled text and touches nothing here. The Alaska Administrative Code was read on the same host, the whole of 12 AAC 64 and of 3 AAC 90 in the print view, with the code-wide search run for the hazard terms and paginated to exhaustion for landlord, tenant and rental agreement so those enumerations are complete; every landlord-facing rule was read. The code host serves no Register number and no effective-date history lines, so administrative-code currency could not be established from the code host and is bounded instead by the Lieutenant Governor's own statement of the filing and publication process and by the state's Online Public Notice System list of adopted and filed regulations, newest filed notice 11 AAC 05, adopted September 3, 2026; that limit is stated in the negative basis. Dawson v. Temanson, 107 P.3d 892 (Alaska 2005), and Guilford v. Weidner Investment Services, Inc., 522 P.3d 1085 (Alaska 2023), were read in full, and Fyffe v. Wright, 93 P.3d 444 (Alaska 2004), was read as supporting authority; the subsequent history of Dawson was checked and it is followed, not questioned. The Real Estate Commission's own host refused every request with an access-check page, so the Consumer Disclosure's title and April 2024 date were taken from the rule that adopts it by reference and its file itself was not opened. Verified September 13, 2026.

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