Section 11 AAC 86.215 - Certificate of location and first rental payment(a) Within 45 days after the date of posting of the notice of location, a locator shall record a certificate of location in conformance with AS 38.05.195. The certificate of location must be recorded in the recording district in which the location is situated, on a form approved by the department or on a substantially similar form meeting the recording requirements of 11 AAC 06.040, and must include (1) the name or number of the location;(2) the dates, including for each date the month, day, and year, of both the locator's discovery and posting of the notice of location;(3) for a traditional location, the length and width of the location in feet, and each meridian, township, range, section, quarter-section, and quarter-quarter section in which the location is situated;(4) for an MTRSC location, the meridian, township, range, section, quarter-section, and if applicable the quarter-quarter-section of the location;(5) the name and current mailing address of each locator, the signature of each locator or of the locator's agent, and, if the location is made on behalf of a trust, the name and mailing address of at least one trustee who is a person described in AS 38.05.190(a)(1) - (5);(6) the name of the recording district in which the location is situated; and(7) a map at an indicated scale of 1:63,360 (one inch = one mile) or a more detailed scale that shows the boundaries of the claim or leasehold location, the dominant physical features of the land, the surveyed section line or, if unavailable, the protracted section lines surrounding the location, and, to the best of the locator's knowledge, the relationship of the location to adjacent or contiguous mining claims, leasehold locations, mining leases, prospecting sites, mineral orders, and non-state land; if the locator is simultaneously recording contiguous locations, a single map showing all locations may be attached to one of the certificates of location and that certificate must be cross-referenced on each other certificate of location to which the map applies.(b) Failure to record a certificate of location within the time specified in (a) of this section constitutes an abandonment of the claim or leasehold location under AS 38.05.265(a).(f) The first annual rental payment for a new location on state land is due within 45 days after the date of posting of the notice of location. The first annual rental payment for a location on state-selected land is due on the date the federal government conveys all or a portion of the land within the location to the state, must be paid within 90 days after that date, and must be paid as provided in 11 AAC 86.107. A rental payment for a new location must be submitted as provided in 11 AAC 86.107 and must be accompanied by a copy of the certificate of location, whether or not it has been recorded. The first rental payment for a location on state land will be considered as rent for the period from the date of posting to noon of the following September 1. Before the date of conveyance, a locator may submit a payment and certificate of location for a location on state-selected land. As provided in 11 AAC 86.115, the payment will be considered a non-refundable deposit credited to the first rental payment if the selection is conveyed to the state.(g) A location that is posted under AS 38.05.195(b) and that includes both a mining claim and a leasehold location must be assigned separate and distinct location numbers for each type of location.Eff. 9/5/74, Register 51; am 12/31/82, Register 84; am 5/30/85, Register 94; am 5/18/90, Register 114; am 8/26/98, Register 147; am 1/19/2002, Register 161; am 10/28/2022, Register 244, January 2023Authority:AS 27.05.010
AS 38.05.020
AS 38.05.195
AS 38.05.205
AS 38.05.211
AS 38.05.265