Straight answers
Are tiny homes legal in Alaska?
Yes, and Alaska is the state where the least of the answer comes from the state. There is no statewide residential building code. AS 18.70.080(a)(2) limits the standards the Department of Public Safety adopts to commercial, industrial, business, institutional and other public buildings and to buildings used for residential purposes containing four or more dwelling units, and the Division of Fire and Life Safety, which is the State Building Official, exempts residential housing that is three-plex or smaller from its plan review. Which code and which zoning reach a one-family home is a borough or city decision, and in the unorganized borough there is no borough government to make one. In Anchorage, the state's largest municipality, an accessory dwelling unit is allowed in every residential zoning district, the building code has been the 2024 International Residential Code including Appendix BB, the tiny house appendix, since April 2026, and a relocatable dwelling unit may be used as an accessory dwelling only on a permanent foundation.
Figures verified against the sources below · October 15, 2026
01 — The longer answer
What the state decides, and what your borough decides
No statewide residential code, in the statute's own words
This is the fact the rest of Alaska follows from, and it is written into the law rather than left to practice. AS 18.70.080(a) tells the Department of Public Safety to adopt minimum standards for fire detection and suppression equipment, for fire and life safety criteria in commercial, industrial, business, institutional or other public buildings and buildings used for residential purposes containing four or more dwelling units, and for commercial quantities of combustible or explosive materials. AS 18.70.900 then defines building, for that whole chapter, in the same terms. A detached house, a duplex or a triplex is outside it. The regulation the department wrote under that section, 13 AAC 50.020, adopts the International Building Code 2021 edition and revises its scope section so that detached one, two and three family dwellings are an exception, and it deletes the code's references to the International Residential Code entirely. The State Fire Marshal's Plan Review Bureau puts the same thing in one line for an applicant: residential housing that is three-plex or smaller is exempt from the plan review requirement.
The one construction rule that reaches every home in the state
There is an exception worth knowing, and it is short. AS 18.70.095(a) requires smoke detection devices to be installed and maintained in all dwelling units in the state, of a type and in a manner approved by the state fire marshal, and carbon monoxide detection devices in all qualifying dwelling units, installed and maintained according to the manufacturer's recommendations. A qualifying dwelling unit, under (d)(3), is one that contains or is served by a carbon-based-fueled appliance or device producing by-products of combustion, or has an attached garage or carport, or is adjacent to a parking space. A small home heated by a fuel-burning appliance is squarely in that definition. That is the whole of what the state requires of a one-family dwelling as a matter of construction law.
Financing puts the code back, even where no local code applies
The practical answer to "no code" in Alaska is usually the lender, and there is a statute behind it rather than a custom. AS 18.56.300 bars the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation from making or purchasing a housing loan for residential housing built after 30 June 1992 unless the unit complies either with the construction codes of a municipality that has adopted and enforces codes meeting or exceeding the state building code, or with the state building code standards themselves, which is the test that applies where a municipality's codes fall short, where a municipality does not enforce codes, or where the unit is outside a municipality altogether. Subsection (e)(3) is the part to read twice: for building standards the state building code means the version of the building code adopted by the Department of Public Safety under AS 18.70.080, including the provisions applicable to buildings of fewer than four dwelling units, notwithstanding the exclusion of those buildings from the department's jurisdiction. Subsection (b) requires an inspection at five stages, being plan approval, completion of footings and foundations, completion of electrical installation, plumbing and framing, completion of insulation, and final approval, by a municipal building inspector, a registered home inspector for new construction, a registered architect or engineer, or another person the corporation approves. In a rural area, which the section defines as a community of 5,500 or fewer not connected by road or rail to Anchorage or Fairbanks, the inspection may use methods other than a personal physical inspection and variations from the code may be accepted at the corporation's discretion, if the inspector satisfies the corporation that the variation does not affect structural integrity or the health and safety of the residents. So the question to ask early is not whether a code applies, it is whether the build has to be financeable.
Zoning belongs to a borough or a city, and much of Alaska has neither
AS 29.40.010(a) requires a first or second class borough to provide for planning, platting and land use regulation on an areawide basis, and AS 29.40.040(a) is the power itself: the assembly shall adopt provisions governing the use and occupancy of land, which may include zoning regulations restricting the use of land by geographic districts and land use permit requirements. Outside the organized boroughs the arrangement is different. AS 29.03.010 provides that areas of the state not within the boundaries of an organized borough constitute a single unorganized borough, which has no assembly of its own, and AS 29.03.020 lets the legislature establish service areas within it to provide special services that may include land use regulations. AS 29.03.030 leaves the Department of Natural Resources as the platting authority for the state except within a municipality that has the power of land use regulation and is exercising it. We also looked for a state accessory dwelling statute of the kind Washington, New Hampshire and Rhode Island have, and found none: AS 29.40, the chapter that confers these powers, does not use the words accessory dwelling at all. Whether a second home is allowed in a yard is a local question in Alaska in a stronger sense than in most states.
Anchorage allows an accessory dwelling in every residential district
Anchorage's rules are in AMC 21.05.070.D.1, in the Title 21 consolidation dated 1 September 2026. Accessory dwelling units are allowed in all residential zoning districts, one per parcel. The gross floor area, not counting a related garage, may be up to 900 square feet or 40 percent of the total gross floor area of the principal dwelling excluding the unit and garages, whichever is greater, and may not exceed 1,200 square feet. Read that against the way these caps are usually reported: it is the greater of the two figures, not the lesser. Height is capped at 25 feet, or 30 feet where the unit sits above a garage. Setbacks are those of the underlying zone, except that a unit may encroach into a side or rear setback abutting an alley, and a detached unit taller than 15 feet keeps a 10 foot side setback where it abuts a neighbouring R-1 or R-1A lot. The unit is to be connected to the water, sewer, gas and electric utilities of the single family dwelling so far as law and utility tariff allow, although a lot on its own water or septic may have a separate system for the unit. Units are not counted in the density calculation for the site. The approval is a building or land use permit from the Development Services Department, which constitutes the ADU permit, and the code provides for a letter of pre-approval confirming a property is eligible, specifically so it can be used to secure financing. The requirements the section lists do not include an owner-occupancy condition.
Anchorage will hand you a pre-approved plan
This is new and it is unusual enough to be worth planning around. The Municipality launched a pre-approved accessory dwelling unit programme in spring 2026: you apply for a plan from a catalogue of designs that have already been through the Municipality's plan review, and the plan itself is free. Construction permits are still required, and a property may still need utility, steep slope or floodplain review, which is what the published checklist walks through. Two designs were listed when we read the page, the Williwaw at 811 square feet of one-bedroom apartment over a 563 square foot two-car garage and a 176 square foot entry, and the Near Point at 460 square feet with a vaulted kitchen, dining and living space, a flex room and a stacked washer and dryer by the door. The Municipality publishes its own construction cost estimate for each one and invites designers to submit further designs to the catalogue. If the plan is a backyard home in Anchorage, compare what you want against that catalogue before paying for drawings.
Anchorage's code is the 2024 IRC, with the tiny house appendix
AMC 23.05.010 is the adopting section, and AO No. 2026-33, passed 14 April 2026, replaced the previous set. For a house it adopts the International Residential Code 2024 edition by reference, including Appendices BA, BB and BG. Appendix BB is the tiny house appendix in the 2024 edition, written for a dwelling of 400 square feet or less and the provision that makes a sleeping loft, its access and its reduced headroom buildable to code instead of treated as an undersized house. Older pages call it Appendix Q, which was its letter before the 2024 edition. Appendix BA is the manufactured housing appendix, and Anchorage amends its ground anchor section to require anchors extending at least 60 inches below exterior grade, or deeper where the Building Official requires it for poor soils, except where a permanent foundation bearing at least 42 inches below grade is shown by calculation to resist the forces in Chapter 16 of the International Building Code. The same chapter also amends the code's sleeping loft section locally. One more line in that chapter decides a great deal: under AMC 23.05.030 the requirements to apply for and complete the building permit, plan review and building inspection processes are optional outside the Anchorage Building Safety Service Area, whose boundaries are mapped in AMC 27.30.700, while the rest of Title 23 still applies throughout the municipality.
What Anchorage makes a small building design for
The design criteria are published, which spares a phone call. AMC 23.85 Table R301.2 adds to the code's climatic and geographic table a ground snow load of 50 pounds per square foot allowable and 80 pounds per square foot ultimate for use with ASCE 7, a seismic design category of D2, severe weathering, no windborne debris zone, a required ice barrier underlayment, a winter design temperature of minus 7 degrees with a note that the ASHRAE 99 percent figure may not suit every part of the municipality, an air freezing index of 3,500 and a mean annual temperature of 35 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind speed comes from the municipality's own Anchorage Bowl three second gust map rather than the code's figure. Footing depths come from AMC 23.85 Table R403.1, and this is where the numbers that circulate for Alaska come from: a perimeter footing is 42 inches minimum for a warm foundation and 60 for a cold one, an interior continuous or isolated spread footing 8 inches warm and 60 cold, a cast-in-place concrete pier 42 inches warm and 120 cold, which may be 60 in non-frost-susceptible material, and an exterior isolated foundation 120 inches. The table's own notes say the minimum depths may not be adequate in frost-susceptible soils, that a cold footing is to be founded below the frost line or protected from freezing, and that uplift from frost jacking on the side of a cold foundation has to be resisted. Elsewhere in the state the governing figures come from the borough or city that adopted them, and outside that from the engineer of record.
On wheels in Anchorage: 90 days as a visitor, a foundation as a home
Anchorage answers this directly, which most codes do not. AMC 21.05.070.E.4 provides that in all zoning districts recreational vehicles and travel trailers may not be used as an accessory use for a permanent or temporary residence, with one exception for a temporary use elsewhere in the chapter, and that an RV or travel trailer may be used as visitor accommodation for not more than 90 days in a calendar year. The same paragraph ends with the sentence that matters for a factory-built home: relocatable dwelling units may be used as an accessory dwelling unit only if placed on a permanent foundation. A relocatable dwelling unit is defined at AMC 21.05.070.D.7 as a form of transportable housing that can be certified as safe for habitation by the municipal Building Official, including dwellings meeting federal requirements for manufactured housing, and its own standard is that it be placed on a permanent foundation unless it is in a relocatable dwelling unit community. So in Anchorage a transportable home can be the backyard dwelling, and the route runs through the Building Official and a foundation, not through the wheels.
Fairbanks: the borough has no building code, but you still need a zoning permit
The Fairbanks North Star Borough states it in its own words. Building permits are required only within the City of Fairbanks and the City of North Pole, and because the borough has not adopted a building code, building permits are not required in the borough at large outside those two cities. The borough adds the two qualifications that catch people out: a zoning permit may still be required whether you are inside or outside city limits, and a commercial project may still need State Fire Marshal approval. On the zoning permit, FNSBC 18.104.080.B requires one before any excavation, construction, relocation or installation is started for a new use, and the only exceptions are property within a General Use district outside a special landscape area overlay zone, or a lot that is only being cleared or graded. The borough notes that even in a General Use district an owner may choose to file a zoning permit anyway, to establish the starting point of a use or the construction date of a structure, which is how grandfather rights are affirmed later. The State Fire Marshal's list of communities that handle plan review locally names the City of Fairbanks, not the borough.
Mat-Su, and reading the state's deferral list for the rest
The Matanuska-Susitna Borough opens its zoning page with a warning rather than a summary: zoning, land use and building regulations do exist in the borough, permits may be required, and developers and land owners are responsible for knowing the rules. What follows is a list of activities that must comply with borough regulations, among them development within designated residential land use districts, building structures near lot lines, public easements, rights of way or a shoreline, development in flood hazard areas, use of lakes and creeks, mobile home parks, multifamily development and subdividing land. The borough points every question at its Permit Center in Palmer, and that is the right call for a specific parcel. For anywhere else in the state, one state-published list is worth reading: the Fire Marshal's Plan Review Bureau names the communities that have received deferrals and handle plan review locally, currently Anchorage Fire Department, Anchorage Building Safety, the City of Palmer, Juneau, Fairbanks, Kenai, Ketchikan, Seward, Kodiak, Sitka, Soldotna, the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Central Mat-Su Fire Service Area. That is a list about the state's own plan review, not a list of residential codes, and a community missing from it may still run a building department. It is still the quickest way to see where a local office exists to ask.
From a vehicle title to real property
If the home arrives on a chassis there is a statutory way to stop it being a vehicle, and Alaska's version is clean. AS 34.85.150, in the Manufactured Home Property Act, provides that a manufactured home is permanently affixed when it is anchored to real property by attachment to a permanent foundation, constructed in accordance with applicable state and local building codes and the manufacturer's specifications as provided in the federal Model Manufactured Home Installation Standards at 24 CFR 3285, and connected to a residential utility, including water, gas, electricity, sewer or septic service. Once that is done, or is intended, AS 28.10.262 and AS 28.10.263 let the owner apply to the Department of Administration to cancel the manufacturer's certificate of origin or the certificate of title, and when the department cancels it the home is no longer subject to the vehicle title chapter. AS 28.10.264 covers the case where the paperwork cannot be produced, through a bond of one and one-half times the home's value. The limit of all this is the definition: manufactured home in that Act takes the meaning in AS 45.29.102, which is the federal one, being a structure transportable in one or more sections that is eight body feet or more wide or 40 body feet or more long in the travelling mode, or 320 square feet or more when erected on site, built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling, and including a smaller structure for which the manufacturer voluntarily files the certification required by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. A unit that is not a manufactured home in that sense is not on this path, and a trailer-mounted house with no such certification is a vehicle for titling purposes. The Division of Motor Vehicles states the ordinary position plainly: manufactured homes are titled but not registered in Alaska, they may also be affixed to legal property, and Form 870 is to be completed for any manufactured home transaction. If the home sits on a trailer somebody built rather than a manufacturer, the DMV's homebuilt trailer route applies, being an inspection by a law enforcement officer or a Division representative to verify the vehicle identification number and the identity of the vehicle, a notarised Homebuilt Trailer Affidavit executed by the person who built it, a weight slip, and an application for title and registration.
The honest summary for Alaska is that the state answer is short and the local answer is everything. No residential code applies on its own, so the first three questions for a specific parcel are which borough or city it sits in, whether that jurisdiction has adopted a building code and a zoning ordinance, and whether the build has to be financeable, because an Alaska Housing Finance Corporation loan brings the state's building standards and a five-stage inspection with it wherever local enforcement stops. In Anchorage the path is well mapped: an accessory dwelling in any residential district, the 2024 IRC with the tiny house appendix, a published design table, a plan catalogue, and a permanent foundation for anything transportable. Factory-built approval is a separate question in every state, so ask any manufacturer, ours included, how a unit would be approved for your address before ordering.
03 — Sources
Each figure above links to the authority it came from.
AS 18.70.080(a): the Department of Public Safety shall adopt regulations establishing minimum standards for (1) fire detection and suppression equipment; (2) fire and life safety criteria in commercial, industrial, business, institutional, or other public buildings, and buildings used for residential purposes containing four or more dwelling units; (3) commercial quantities of combustible or explosive materials; (4) conditions or activities outside such a building. AS 18.70.900: in that chapter, "building" means a structure used or intended for use as a commercial, industrial, business, institutional, other public building, or residential building containing four or more dwelling units. AS 18.70.095(a): smoke detection devices shall be installed and maintained in all dwelling units in the state, and carbon monoxide detection devices in all qualifying dwelling units; (d)(3) defines a qualifying dwelling unit as one containing or served by a carbon-based-fueled appliance producing by-products of combustion, or with an attached garage or carport, or adjacent to a parking space
akleg.gov13 AAC 50.020: the International Building Code 2021 Edition, Chapters 1 to 12, 14 to 28 and 30 to 35, and Appendix C, are adopted by reference to regulate all occupancies and buildings, revised so that Chapter 1 deletes the references to the International Residential Code and so that the Section 101.2 exception reads "1. Detached one-, two-, and three-family dwellings" and townhouses of not more than three stories; and (3) plans for construction occurring out of state or manufactured offsite must be sealed by a registered design professional of this state in accordance with AS 08.48 to have a plan review completed before the construction is placed on its foundation. 13 AAC 50.075: the state fire marshal may defer building fire safety inspection and enforcement to local authorities on stated conditions
akleg.govAlaska State Fire Marshal's Office, Plan Review Bureau: the Division of Fire and Life Safety is the State Building Official, and before any commercial construction begins plans must be reviewed and approved for fire and life safety compliance. "Exemption: Residential housing that is three-plex or smaller is exempt from this requirement." Deferred Jurisdictions, being the communities that have received deferrals and handle plan review locally: Anchorage Fire Department, Anchorage Building Safety, City of Palmer, Juneau, Fairbanks, Kenai, Ketchikan, Seward, Kodiak, Sitka, Soldotna, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Central Mat-Su FSA. Authority: AS 18.70.080, 13 AAC 50.027
dps.alaska.govAS 18.56.300: the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation may not make or purchase a housing loan for residential housing the construction of which begins after June 30, 1992 unless the unit complies with the construction codes of a municipality that has adopted and enforces codes meeting or exceeding the state building code, or with the comparable standards established by the state building code where the unit is in a municipality whose codes do not meet those standards, in a municipality that does not enforce construction codes, or outside a municipality. (b): inspection is required at plan approval, completion of footings and foundations, completion of electrical installation, plumbing and framing, completion of installation of insulation, and final approval, by a municipal building inspector, a person registered under AS 08.18 to perform home inspections for new construction, a registered architect or engineer, or another person approved by the corporation; in a rural area methods other than personal physical inspection may be used and variations from the applicable code may be accepted at the corporation's discretion. (e)(2): "rural area" means a community with a population of 5,500 or less that is not connected by road or rail to Anchorage or Fairbanks. (e)(3)(A): for building standards, "state building code" means the standards in the version of the building code adopted by the Department of Public Safety under AS 18.70.080, including the provisions of that code applicable to buildings used for residential purposes containing fewer than four dwelling units, notwithstanding the exclusion of those buildings from the department's jurisdiction made by AS 18.70.080(a)(2)
akleg.govAS 29.40.010(a): a first or second class borough shall provide for planning, platting, and land use regulation on an areawide basis. AS 29.40.040(a): the assembly by ordinance shall adopt or amend provisions governing the use and occupancy of land that may include zoning regulations restricting the use of land and improvements by geographic districts and land use permit requirements. AS 29.03.010: areas of the state that are not within the boundaries of an organized borough constitute a single unorganized borough. AS 29.03.020: the legislature may establish, alter, or abolish service areas within the unorganized borough to provide special services that may include schools, utilities, land use regulations, and fire protection. AS 29.03.030: the Department of Natural Resources is the platting authority for the state except within a municipality that has the power of land use regulation and that is exercising platting authority. Read 2026-10-15: AS 29.40 does not use the term accessory dwelling
akleg.govAnchorage Municipal Code Title 21, Land Use Planning, consolidation dated September 1, 2026, section 21.05.070.D.1, Accessory Dwelling Unit: ADUs are allowed in all residential zoning districts; one ADU is allowed per parcel; all ADUs shall be built to the adopted municipal building code standards; the gross floor area of the ADU, not including any related garage, shall be up to 900 square feet or 40 percent of the total gross floor area of the principal dwelling unit excluding the ADU and garages, whichever is greater, and an ADU shall not exceed 1200 SF; ADUs are subject to the same setbacks of the underlying zone except that an ADU may encroach into the side or rear setback abutting an alley, and detached accessory units taller than 15 feet shall adhere to a 10-foot side setback abutting a neighboring R-1 or R-1A lot; height maximum 25 feet, or 30 feet above a garage; the ADU shall be connected to the water, sewer, gas and electric utilities of the single family dwelling unit to the extent allowed by law and utility tariff, though lots with on-site water or septic may have a separate system; ADUs are not included in the density calculations for a site; any landowner shall obtain a building or land use permit from the Development Services Department and the permit shall constitute an ADU permit; for purposes of securing financing a landowner may request a letter of pre-approval. Section 21.05.070.D.7, Dwelling Unit, Relocatable: a form of transportable housing that can be certified as safe for habitation by the MOA Building Official, including dwellings that meet federal requirements for manufactured housing; it shall be placed on a permanent foundation unless located within a relocatable dwelling unit community. Section 21.05.070.E.4: except as allowed by 21.05.080B.3.d., in all zoning districts recreational vehicles and travel trailers may not be used as an accessory use for a permanent or temporary residence, however an RV or travel trailer may be used as visitor accommodation for not more than 90 days in any calendar year, and relocatable dwelling units may be used as an accessory dwelling unit only if placed on a permanent foundation
muni.orgMunicipality of Anchorage, Pre-Approved ADUs: the programme launched in spring 2026; an application receives a plan, free of charge, from a catalogue of designs already approved through the Municipality's plan review process; construction permits are still required and some properties need further permits and reviews; ADUs are allowed in all residential zones in Anchorage and most residential zones in Chugiak-Eagle River and Girdwood; the Williwaw is an 811 SF one-bedroom apartment over a 563 SF two-car garage and a 176 SF entryway; the Near Point is a 460 SF one-bedroom unit with a vaulted kitchen, dining and living space, a flex room, and a stacked washer and dryer in the entry; a checklist, hold harmless agreement and private well or septic resources are published alongside. The ADU project page records that the ADU regulations were completed with the passage of AO 2022-107, As Amended, on January 10, 2023
muni.orgAnchorage Municipal Code section 23.05.010, Adoption of codes (AO No. 2026-33, 4-14-2026, which repealed AO No. 2020-85): the Municipality adopts by reference, with local amendment, the International Residential Code 2024 edition including Appendices BA, BB and BG (AMC chapter 23.85), the International Building Code 2024 including Appendices A, C and H, the International Mechanical Code 2024, the Uniform Plumbing Code 2024, the National Electrical Code 2023, the International Fire Code 2024, the International Energy Conservation Code 2024, the International Existing Building Code 2024 and the International Fuel Gas Code 2024. Section 23.05.030: all provisions of title 23 apply throughout the municipality, except that the requirements to apply for and complete the building permit, plan review, and building inspection processes shall be optional in areas outside the Anchorage Building Safety Service Area, which is defined in AMC 27.30.040 and mapped in AMC 27.30.700
ecode360.comAnchorage Municipal Code chapter 23.85, Local Amendments to the International Residential Code (AO No. 2026-33, 4-14-2026). Table R301.2, Climatic and Geographic Design Criteria, adds: ground snow load 50 PSF (allowable), 80 PSF (ultimate, for use with ASCE 7); wind speed per AMC chapter 23.85 Figure R301.2(5)A; topographic effects and special wind region per site; windborne debris zone No; seismic design category D2; weathering Yes, severe; frost line depth per AMC chapter 23.85 Table R403.1; termite No; winter design temperature minus 7 degrees, with a note that the ASHRAE 99 percent design temperature may not be appropriate for all areas within the MOA; ice barrier underlayment required Yes; flood hazards Yes; air freezing index 3500; mean annual temperature 35 degrees F. Table R403.1, Footing depths, minimum footing depth in inches, warm foundation then cold foundation: perimeter footing 42 and 60; interior continuous or isolated spread footing 8 and 60; cast-in-place concrete pier 42 and 120; exterior isolated foundation N/A and 120; with notes that the minimum footing depth for cold foundations installed in non-frost-susceptible material may be 60 inches, that the minimum depths may not be adequate for frost susceptible soils, that cold footings shall be founded below the frost line or protected from freezing, and that provisions shall be made to resist uplift forces due to frost jacking. The chapter also amends R315.1, Sleeping lofts, and the manufactured housing appendix section on ground anchors, requiring anchors to extend at least 60 inches below exterior grade, or deeper if required by the Building Official because of poor soils, except where a permanent foundation bearing at least 42 inches below grade is demonstrated by calculation to resist the forces determined by Chapter 16 of the International Building Code
ecode360.comFairbanks North Star Borough, Code Enforcement FAQs: "Building permits are only required within the City of Fairbanks and City of North Pole. Since the FNSB has not adopted a building code, building permits are not required in the Borough at-large outside of these two cities. However, a zoning permit may still be required whether within or outside of the city limits and, if commercial, you may still be required to get approval by the State Fire Marshal." And: a zoning permit is required before any excavation, construction, relocation, or installation is started for a new use (FNSBC 18.104.080.B), the only exceptions being property within a General Use zoning district outside of a special landscape area overlay zone, or a lot that is just being cleared or graded (FNSBC 18.104.080.B.1 and 2); within the General Use district an owner may still opt to submit a zoning permit to establish a starting point for a use or the construction date for a structure
fnsb.govMatanuska-Susitna Borough, Zoning: "Zoning, Land Use and Building Regulations DO Exist in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Be advised that permits may be required. Developers and land owners are responsible for knowing the rules." The activities listed as having to comply with borough regulations include development within designated residential land use districts, building structures near lot lines, public easements, rights-of-ways or near a shoreline, developing land in flood hazard areas, use of lakes, creeks and other waterbodies, mobile home parks, multifamily development, subdividing land, driveway installation or modification, tall structures, and development in the cities of Houston, Palmer and Wasilla; questions are directed to the borough Permit Center in Palmer
matsugov.usAlaska Division of Motor Vehicles, Titles: the Division issues titles for passenger vehicles, trucks, buses, vans, motorhomes, manufactured homes, motorcycles and trailers. "Manufactured Homes are Titled but not Registered in Alaska. They may also be affixed to legal property." The MANUFACTURED HOME APPLICATION FORM 870 must be completed for any manufactured home transaction, and the page quotes the AS 45.29.102(a)(65) definition of a manufactured home. Reconstructed or Homebuilt Vehicles: a homebuilt trailer is a trailer that has been built by a person other than a manufacturer; to title and register one the vehicle must be inspected by a law enforcement officer or a representative of the Division to verify the vehicle identification number and the identity of the vehicle, a Homebuilt Trailer Affidavit must be notarised and executed by the person who built it, a weight slip is required, and titles, bills of sale and an Application for Title & Registration are submitted with the inspection
dmv.alaska.govAS 34.85.150, Manufactured Home Property Act: a manufactured home is permanently affixed when it is (1) anchored to real property by attachment to a permanent foundation; (2) constructed in accordance with applicable state and local building codes and manufacturer's specifications as provided in the Model Manufactured Home Installation Standards of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (24 C.F.R. 3285); and (3) connected to a residential utility, including water, gas, electricity, sewer, or septic service. AS 34.85.190(3): "manufactured home" has the meaning given in AS 45.29.102. AS 28.10.262 and AS 28.10.263: where a manufactured home is permanently affixed to real property under AS 34.85.150, or the owner intends to affix it, the owner may apply to cancel the manufacturer's certificate of origin or the certificate of title, and when the department cancels it the manufactured home is not subject to that chapter. AS 28.10.264: confirmation of nonapplication of the chapter where the certificate cannot be produced, on a bond or cash deposit equal to one and one-half times the value of the manufactured home. AS 45.29.102: "manufactured home" means a structure, transportable in one or more sections, that in the traveling mode is eight body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length, or when erected on site is 320 or more square feet, built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes a structure meeting all those requirements except the size requirements for which the manufacturer voluntarily files the certification required by the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
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