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      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Alaska Statutes 2025: official statute index",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] The Alaska Statutes 2025 index at https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp lists 47 titles covering general provisions through welfare and social services.",
      "body": "The Alaska Statutes 2025 index at https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp lists 47 titles covering general provisions through welfare and social services.\n\nWhat Alaska State Legislature actually says:\n\n“- Title 1. General Provisions.\n- Title 2. Aeronautics.\n- Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food.\n- Title 4. Alcoholic Beverages.\n- Title 5. Amusements and Sports.\n- Title 6. Banks and Financial Institutions.\n- Title 7. Boroughs.\n- Title 8. Business and Professions.\n- Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure.\n- Title 10. Corporations and Associations.\n- Title 11. Criminal Law.\n- Title 12. Code of Criminal Procedure.\n- Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions.\n- Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums.\n- Title 15. Elections.\n- Title 16. Fish and Game.\n- Title 17. Food and Drugs.\n- Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender.\n- Title 19. Highways and Ferries.\n- Title 20. Infants and Incompetents.\n- Title 21. Insurance.\n- Title 22. Judiciary.\n- Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation.\n- Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying.\n- Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations.\n- Title 26. Military Affairs, Veterans, Disasters, and Aerospace.\n- Title 27. Mining.\n- Title 28. Motor Vehicles.\n- Title 29. Municipal Government.\n- Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities.\n- Title 31. Oil and Gas.\n- Title 32. Partnership.\n- Title 33. Probation, Prisons, Pardons, and Prisoners.\n- Title 34. Property.\n- Title 35. Public Buildings, Works, and Improvements.\n- Title 36. Public Contracts.\n- Title 37. Public Finance.\n- Title 38. Public Land.\n- Title 39. Public Officers and Employees.\n- Title 40. Public Records and Recorders.\n- Title 41. Public Resources.\n- Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs.\n- Title 43. Revenue and Taxation.\n- Title 44. State Government.\n- Title 45. Trade and Commerce.\n- Title 46. Water, Air, Energy, and Environmental Conservation.\n- Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions.”\n\nNote: Anchor record for Alaska Statutes 2025 index",
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      "evidence_quote": "- Title 1. General Provisions.\n- Title 2. Aeronautics.\n- Title 3. Agriculture, Animals, and Food.\n- Title 4. Alcoholic Beverages.\n- Title 5. Amusements and Sports.\n- Title 6. Banks and Financial Institutions.\n- Title 7. Boroughs.\n- Title 8. Business and Professions.\n- Title 9. Code of Civil Procedure.\n- Title 10. Corporations and Associations.\n- Title 11. Criminal Law.\n- Title 12. Code of Criminal Procedure.\n- Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions.\n- Title 14. Education, Libraries, and Museums.\n- Title 15. Elections.\n- Title 16. Fish and Game.\n- Title 17. Food and Drugs.\n- Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender.\n- Title 19. Highways and Ferries.\n- Title 20. Infants and Incompetents.\n- Title 21. Insurance.\n- Title 22. Judiciary.\n- Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation.\n- Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying.\n- Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations.\n- Title 26. Military Affairs, Veterans, Disasters, and Aerospace.\n- Title 27. Mining.\n- Title 28. Motor Vehicles.\n- Title 29. Municipal Government.\n- Title 30. Navigation, Harbors, Shipping, and Transportation Facilities.\n- Title 31. Oil and Gas.\n- Title 32. Partnership.\n- Title 33. Probation, Prisons, Pardons, and Prisoners.\n- Title 34. Property.\n- Title 35. Public Buildings, Works, and Improvements.\n- Title 36. Public Contracts.\n- Title 37. Public Finance.\n- Title 38. Public Land.\n- Title 39. Public Officers and Employees.\n- Title 40. Public Records and Recorders.\n- Title 41. Public Resources.\n- Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs.\n- Title 43. Revenue and Taxation.\n- Title 44. State Government.\n- Title 45. Trade and Commerce.\n- Title 46. Water, Air, Energy, and Environmental Conservation.\n- Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions.",
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      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Alaska Statutes AS 23.10.350(f): adult entertainment business definition",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Alaska Statutes define 'business that offers adult entertainment' as a business where individuals remove clothes, exhibit their body unclothed, or participate in actual or simulated illegal/indecent/lewd exhibitions including sexual penetration, lewd touching of genitals/anus/breast, or bestiality.",
      "body": "Alaska Statutes define 'business that offers adult entertainment' as a business where individuals remove clothes, exhibit their body unclothed, or participate in actual or simulated illegal/indecent/lewd exhibitions including sexual penetration, lewd touching of genitals/anus/breast, or bestiality.\n\nWhat Alaska State Legislature actually says:\n\n“(f) A minor under the age of 18 may not be employed or allowed to work in any capacity on the premises of a business that offers adult entertainment. In this subsection, �business that offers adult entertainment� means a business in which one or more individuals are employed or contracted to, wholly or in part, or permitted to entertain others by\r\n       (1) removing clothes or other items that clothe or hide the person's body;\r\n\r\n (2) dancing or in any other manner exhibiting the individual's body in a completely or almost completely unclothed state;\r\n\r\n (3) participating in an actual or simulated illegal, indecent, or lewd exhibition, act, or practice including\r\n            (A) sexual penetration;\r\n\r\n (B) the lewd exhibition or touching of a person's genitals, anus, or breast; or\r\n\r\n (C) bestiality.”\n\nNote: This is the closest state-level definition to 'sexually oriented business' found in Alaska Statutes. It defines 'business that offers adult entertainment' rather than 'sexually oriented business'. The definition covers removal of clothes, unclothed dancing, and lewd exhibitions including sexual penetration, lewd touching of genitals/anus/breast, or bestiality.",
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      "source_link": "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp?media=print&secStart=23.10.350&secEnd=23.10.350",
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      "evidence_quote": "(f) A minor under the age of 18 may not be employed or allowed to work in any capacity on the premises of a business that offers adult entertainment. In this subsection, �business that offers adult entertainment� means a business in which one or more individuals are employed or contracted to, wholly or in part, or permitted to entertain others by\r\n       (1) removing clothes or other items that clothe or hide the person's body;\r\n\r\n (2) dancing or in any other manner exhibiting the individual's body in a completely or almost completely unclothed state;\r\n\r\n (3) participating in an actual or simulated illegal, indecent, or lewd exhibition, act, or practice including\r\n            (A) sexual penetration;\r\n\r\n (B) the lewd exhibition or touching of a person's genitals, anus, or breast; or\r\n\r\n (C) bestiality.",
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      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Alaska Statutes AS 11.66.300: adult entertainment business minor prohibition",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] The owner or agent of a business offering adult entertainment may not with criminal negligence allow a person under 18 to enter and remain on premises where adult entertainment is offered; violation is a class A misdemeanor.",
      "body": "The owner or agent of a business offering adult entertainment may not with criminal negligence allow a person under 18 to enter and remain on premises where adult entertainment is offered; violation is a class A misdemeanor.\n\nWhat Alaska State Legislature actually says:\n\n“Sec. 11.66.300. Prohibiting minors from being present at an adult entertainment business.  ** (a) The owner or an agent or employee of the owner of a business that offers adult entertainment may not with criminal negligence allow a person under the age of 18 years to enter and remain within premises where adult entertainment is offered.    (b) In this section, �business that offers adult entertainment� has the meaning given in [AS 23.10.350](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp#23.10.350)(f).    (c) A person who violates this section is guilty of a class A misdemeanor. Each violation is a separate offense.”\n\nNote: References AS 23.10.350(f) for the definition of adult entertainment business",
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      "source_link": "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp?media=print&secStart=11.66.300&secEnd=11.66.300",
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      "evidence_quote": "Sec. 11.66.300. Prohibiting minors from being present at an adult entertainment business.  ** (a) The owner or an agent or employee of the owner of a business that offers adult entertainment may not with criminal negligence allow a person under the age of 18 years to enter and remain within premises where adult entertainment is offered.    (b) In this section, �business that offers adult entertainment� has the meaning given in [AS 23.10.350](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp#23.10.350)(f).    (c) A person who violates this section is guilty of a class A misdemeanor. Each violation is a separate offense.",
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      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Alaska Statutes AS 29.40.040: land use regulation framework",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Alaska Statutes authorize borough and city assemblies to adopt zoning regulations restricting land use by geographic district as part of a comprehensive plan under AS 29.40.",
      "body": "Alaska Statutes authorize borough and city assemblies to adopt zoning regulations restricting land use by geographic district as part of a comprehensive plan under AS 29.40.\n\nWhat Alaska State Legislature actually says:\n\n“Sec. 29.40.040. Land use regulation.  ** (a) In accordance with a comprehensive plan adopted under [AS 29.40.030](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp#29.40.030) and in order to implement the plan, the assembly by ordinance shall adopt or amend provisions governing the use and occupancy of land that may include, but are not limited to,\r\n       (1) zoning regulations restricting the use of land and improvements by geographic districts;\r\n\r\n (2) land use permit requirements designed to encourage or discourage specified uses and construction of specified structures, or to minimize unfavorable effects of uses and the construction of structures;\r\n\r\n (3) measures to further the goals and objectives of the comprehensive plan.\r\n\r\n (b) A variance from a land use regulation adopted under this section may not be granted if\r\n       (1) special conditions that require the variance are caused by the person seeking the variance;\r\n\r\n (2) the variance will permit a land use in a district in which that use is prohibited;\r\n\r\n (3) the variance is sought solely to relieve pecuniary hardship or inconvenience.”\n\nNote: This is the state-level framework for zoning. It does not define home occupations or list adult-content filming as permitted or prohibited. Specific zoning classifications and use tables are in municipal codes.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp?media=print&secStart=29.40.040&secEnd=29.40.040",
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      "evidence_quote": "Sec. 29.40.040. Land use regulation.  ** (a) In accordance with a comprehensive plan adopted under [AS 29.40.030](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp#29.40.030) and in order to implement the plan, the assembly by ordinance shall adopt or amend provisions governing the use and occupancy of land that may include, but are not limited to,\r\n       (1) zoning regulations restricting the use of land and improvements by geographic districts;\r\n\r\n (2) land use permit requirements designed to encourage or discourage specified uses and construction of specified structures, or to minimize unfavorable effects of uses and the construction of structures;\r\n\r\n (3) measures to further the goals and objectives of the comprehensive plan.\r\n\r\n (b) A variance from a land use regulation adopted under this section may not be granted if\r\n       (1) special conditions that require the variance are caused by the person seeking the variance;\r\n\r\n (2) the variance will permit a land use in a district in which that use is prohibited;\r\n\r\n (3) the variance is sought solely to relieve pecuniary hardship or inconvenience.",
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