Alaska § 40.19.040 - Duties of recorder.
Full text of Alaska Alaska Statutes § 40.19.040 — Duties of recorder., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 40.19.040. Duties of recorder.
(a) If a notice of federal lien, a rerecording of notice of federal lien, or a notice of revocation of a certificate described in (b) of this section is presented to the recorder under AS 40.17 , the recorder shall endorse on the notice an identification and the date and time of recording and enter it first in the daily log of documents and then in an alphabetical index showing the name of the person named in the notice, the date and time of recording, the title of the official or entity certifying the lien, and the total amount appearing on the notice of lien.
(b) If a rerecorded notice of federal lien referred to in (a) of this section or a certificate of release, nonattachment, discharge, or subordination of lien or a revocation of any of these certificates is presented to the recorder for recording, the recorder shall record it in the way a document listed in (a) of this section would be recorded and shall enter the rerecorded notice or the certificate or revocation with the date of recording in the alphabetical index together with a reference to the recording information for the original notice or certificate to which it relates.
(c) A lien on file with records of a recording district on January 1, 1989 is considered to have been recorded at the date and time it was filed.
(d) The provisions of this section apply to a notice of a lien created under AS 14.43.149 (a) and to documents relating to that lien.
(e) In this section, “rerecording” includes recording of a lien previously filed.
Source: official Alaska text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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