Alaska § 19.40.210 - Prohibition of off-road vehicles.

§ 19.40.210. Prohibition of off-road vehicles.

 (a) Off-road vehicles are prohibited on land within the highway corridor. However, this prohibition does not apply to        (1) off-road vehicles necessary for oil and gas exploration, development, production, or transportation;

 (2) a person who holds a mining claim in the vicinity of the highway and who must use land in the highway corridor to gain access to the mining claim;

 (3) the use of a snow machine to travel across the highway corridor from land outside the corridor to access land outside the other side of the corridor; this paragraph does not permit the use of a snow machine for any purpose within the corridor if the use begins or ends within the corridor or within the right-of-way of the highway or if the use is for travel within the corridor that is parallel to the right-of-way of the highway; or

 (4) a person who must use land in the highway corridor to gain access to private property that             (A) is located outside the corridor; and

 (B) has an established history of use as a homestead.

 (b) Nothing in this section authorizes a person to access the land of another person unlawfully.

 (c) The commissioner of transportation and public facilities may authorize facilities and access roads in the highway right-of-way and the commissioner of natural resources may authorize easements on state land within the corridor from the E. L. Patton Bridge north to the southern boundary of the North Slope Borough to facilitate access under (a)(1) — (4) of this section and to provide motorized access to        (1) adjacent federal land;

 (2) Native allotments; and

 (3) land conveyed to and held by Alaska Native corporations under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

 (d) Nothing in this section affects the validity of regulations adopted by the Board of Game under AS 16.05.255 relating to hunt qualifications or the permissible means of accessing certain hunting opportunities.

 (e) In this section, “highway corridor” or “corridor” means land within five miles of the right-of-way of the highway.