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Alaska Stat. § 18.80.300 (2026)
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Sec. 18.80.300. Definitions.
In this chapter,
(1) “blockbusting” means an unlawful discriminatory practice by a real estate broker, real estate salesperson, or employee or agent of a broker or another individual, corporation, partnership, or organization for the purpose of inducing a real estate transaction from which any such person or its stockholders or members may benefit financially, to represent directly or indirectly that a change has occurred or will or may occur from a composition with respect to race, religion, color, or national origin of the owners or occupants of the block, neighborhood, or area in which the real property is located, and to represent directly or indirectly that this change may or will result in undesirable consequences in the block, neighborhood, or area in which the real property is located, including the lowering of property values, an increase in criminal or antisocial behavior, or decline in the quality of the schools or other facilities;
(2) “commission” means the State Commission for Human Rights;
(3) “complainant” means a person who is aggrieved by a discriminatory practice prohibited by this chapter and who has filed a complaint as provided in AS 18.80.100;
(4) “employee” means an individual employed by an employer but does not include an individual employed in the domestic service of any person;
(5) “employer” means a person, including the state and a political subdivision of the state, who has one or more employees in the state but does not include a club that is exclusively social, or a fraternal, charitable, educational, or religious association or corporation, if the club, association, or corporation is not organized for private profit;
(6) “employment agency” means a person undertaking to procure employees or opportunities to work;
(7) “executive director” means the executive director of the State Commission for Human Rights;
(8) “financial institution” means a commercial bank, trust company, mutual savings bank, cooperative bank, homestead association, mutual savings and loan association, or an insurance company;
(9) “labor organization” means an organization and an agent of the organization, for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective bargaining, dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms or conditions of employment, or of other mutual aid or protection of employees;
(10) “major life activities” means functions such as caring for one's self, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working;
(11) “national origin” includes ancestry;
(12) “pay” means wages; salaries; commissions; amounts an employer contributes to retirement, health, or other fringe benefit plans; and other forms of remuneration paid to an employee for personal services;
(13) “person” means one or more individuals, labor unions, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint-stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers, employees, employers, employment agencies, or labor organizations;
(14) “physical or mental disability” means
(A) a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities;
(B) a history of, or a misclassification as having, a mental or physical impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities;
(C) having
(i) a physical or mental impairment that does not substantially limit a person's major life activities but that is treated by the person as constituting such a limitation;
(ii) a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a person's major life activities only as a result of the attitudes of others toward the impairment; or
(iii) none of the impairments defined in this paragraph but being treated by others as having such an impairment; or
(D) a condition that may require the use of a prosthesis, special equipment for mobility, or service animal;
(15) “physical or mental impairment” means
(A) physiological disorder or condition, cosmetic disfigurement, or anatomical loss affecting one or more of the following body systems: neurological, musculoskeletal, special sense organs, respiratory including speech organs, cardiovascular, reproductive, digestive, genito-urinary, hemic and lymphatic, skin, and endocrine;
(B) mental or psychological disorder, including intellectual disability, organic brain syndrome, emotional or mental illness, and specific learning disabilities;
(16) “public accommodation” means a place that caters or offers its services, goods, or facilities to the general public and includes a public inn, restaurant, eating house, hotel, motel, soda fountain, soft drink parlor, tavern, night club, roadhouse, place where food or spiritous or malt liquors are sold for consumption, trailer park, resort, campground, barber shop, beauty parlor, bathroom, resthouse, theater, swimming pool, skating rink, golf course, cafe, ice cream parlor, transportation company, and all other public amusement and business establishments, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all persons;
(17) “real property” means a building or portion of a building, whether constructed or to be constructed, structures, real estate, lands, tenements, leaseholds, interests in real estate cooperatives, condominiums, and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal, or any interest therein;
(18) “state” includes the University of Alaska and the judicial, legislative, and executive branches of state government including all departments, agencies, commissions, councils, boards, divisions, and sections.
Chapter 85. Public Defender Agency.
In this chapter,
(1) “blockbusting” means an unlawful discriminatory practice by a real estate broker, real estate salesperson, or employee or agent of a broker or another individual, corporation, partnership, or organization for the purpose of inducing a real estate transaction from which any such person or its stockholders or members may benefit financially, to represent directly or indirectly that a change has occurred or will or may occur from a composition with respect to race, religion, color, or national origin of the owners or occupants of the block, neighborhood, or area in which the real property is located, and to represent directly or indirectly that this change may or will result in undesirable consequences in the block, neighborhood, or area in which the real property is located, including the lowering of property values, an increase in criminal or antisocial behavior, or decline in the quality of the schools or other facilities;
(2) “commission” means the State Commission for Human Rights;
(3) “complainant” means a person who is aggrieved by a discriminatory practice prohibited by this chapter and who has filed a complaint as provided in AS 18.80.100;
(4) “employee” means an individual employed by an employer but does not include an individual employed in the domestic service of any person;
(5) “employer” means a person, including the state and a political subdivision of the state, who has one or more employees in the state but does not include a club that is exclusively social, or a fraternal, charitable, educational, or religious association or corporation, if the club, association, or corporation is not organized for private profit;
(6) “employment agency” means a person undertaking to procure employees or opportunities to work;
(7) “executive director” means the executive director of the State Commission for Human Rights;
(8) “financial institution” means a commercial bank, trust company, mutual savings bank, cooperative bank, homestead association, mutual savings and loan association, or an insurance company;
(9) “labor organization” means an organization and an agent of the organization, for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective bargaining, dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms or conditions of employment, or of other mutual aid or protection of employees;
(10) “major life activities” means functions such as caring for one's self, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working;
(11) “national origin” includes ancestry;
(12) “pay” means wages; salaries; commissions; amounts an employer contributes to retirement, health, or other fringe benefit plans; and other forms of remuneration paid to an employee for personal services;
(13) “person” means one or more individuals, labor unions, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint-stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers, employees, employers, employment agencies, or labor organizations;
(14) “physical or mental disability” means
(A) a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities;
(B) a history of, or a misclassification as having, a mental or physical impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities;
(C) having
(i) a physical or mental impairment that does not substantially limit a person's major life activities but that is treated by the person as constituting such a limitation;
(ii) a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a person's major life activities only as a result of the attitudes of others toward the impairment; or
(iii) none of the impairments defined in this paragraph but being treated by others as having such an impairment; or
(D) a condition that may require the use of a prosthesis, special equipment for mobility, or service animal;
(15) “physical or mental impairment” means
(A) physiological disorder or condition, cosmetic disfigurement, or anatomical loss affecting one or more of the following body systems: neurological, musculoskeletal, special sense organs, respiratory including speech organs, cardiovascular, reproductive, digestive, genito-urinary, hemic and lymphatic, skin, and endocrine;
(B) mental or psychological disorder, including intellectual disability, organic brain syndrome, emotional or mental illness, and specific learning disabilities;
(16) “public accommodation” means a place that caters or offers its services, goods, or facilities to the general public and includes a public inn, restaurant, eating house, hotel, motel, soda fountain, soft drink parlor, tavern, night club, roadhouse, place where food or spiritous or malt liquors are sold for consumption, trailer park, resort, campground, barber shop, beauty parlor, bathroom, resthouse, theater, swimming pool, skating rink, golf course, cafe, ice cream parlor, transportation company, and all other public amusement and business establishments, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all persons;
(17) “real property” means a building or portion of a building, whether constructed or to be constructed, structures, real estate, lands, tenements, leaseholds, interests in real estate cooperatives, condominiums, and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal, or any interest therein;
(18) “state” includes the University of Alaska and the judicial, legislative, and executive branches of state government including all departments, agencies, commissions, councils, boards, divisions, and sections.
Chapter 85. Public Defender Agency.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 12
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1976–2026 · leading case: United States Jaycees v. Richardet, 666 P.2d 1008 (Alaska 1983).
United States Jaycees v. Richardet, 666 P.2d 1008 (Alaska 1983). “We are persuaded that AS 18.80.300(7) should not be construed to encompass a membership organization such as the Jaycees, and therefore hold that the exclusion of women from full membership in the Jaycees does not violate AS 18.”
United States Jaycees v. Massachusetts Comm'n Against Discrimination, 463 N.E.2d 1151 (Mass. 1984). “The Alaska case is particularly noteworthy because the relevant statute, Alaska Stat. § 18.80.300 (7) (1981), closely tracks G.”
Gilbert v. Sperbeck, 126 P.3d 1057 (Alaska 2005). “Sperbeck’s is a “public accommodation” as that term is defined in AS 18.80.300(14). 30 *1062 It is unnecessary for us to consider these issues here because Gilbert has waived any possible claim she had under AS 18.”
Todeschi v. Sumitomo Metal Mining Pogo, LLC, 394 P.3d 562 (Alaska 2017). “Although Alaska Civil Rule 50(b) generally limits motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict to parties who have moved for directed verdict “at the close of all the evidence," Todes-chi was not required to make a directed verdict motion in order to preserve his motion for…”
Pulcino v. Fed. Express Corp., 9 P.3d 787 (Wash. 2000). “These states are: Alaska ( Alaska Stat. § 18.80.300 (12) (Lexis)); Arizona ( Ariz.”
Alaska USA Fed. Credit Union v. Fridriksson, 642 P.2d 804 (Alaska 1982). “"Employer" is defined in AS 18.80.300(3) as excluding "a club that is exclusively social, or a fraternal, charitable, educational, or religious association or a corporation, if the club, association or corporation is not organized for private profit.”
Morris v. City of Soldotna, 553 P.2d 474 (Alaska 1976). “At the time of this litigation the term “employer” was defined in AS 18.80.300(3) as follows: “ ‘[E]mployer’ means an employer of one or more persons in the state.”
Foreman v. Anchorage Equal Rights Comm'n, 779 P.2d 1199 (Alaska 1989). “” 5 AS 18.80.300(11); *1202 AMC 05.20.010(M).”
Brown v. Wood, 575 P.2d 760 (Alaska 1978). “220(5); AS 18.80.300(3). In addition, they point out that AS 23.”
Adams v. Pipeliners Union 798, 699 P.2d 343 (Alaska 1985). “AS 18.80.300(1). Moreover, if the benefits of the law were limited to Alaska inhabitants, serious and substantial questions concerning the constitutionality of such a limitation under the equal rights clause of the state constitution, [14] the equal protection clause of the…”
Michael Carey-Thomann v. Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks & Bd. of Regents (Alaska 2026). “§ 12102 (1)(A) (defining “disability” under the ADA as “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities”); AS 18.80.300(14)(A) (applying same definition of “disability” under AHRA).”
Hewitt v. Union Oil Co. of California, Inc., 44 F. App'x 827 (9th Cir. 2002). “Alaska Stat. § 18.80.300 (12). REVERSED and REMANDED for further proceedings consistent with this disposition.”
— Alaska Stat. § 18.80.300(1) — 1 case
Adams v. Pipeliners Union 798, 699 P.2d 343 (Alaska 1985). “AS 18.80.300(1). Moreover, if the benefits of the law were limited to Alaska inhabitants, serious and substantial questions concerning the constitutionality of such a limitation under the equal rights clause of the state constitution, [14] the equal protection clause of the…”
— Alaska Stat. § 18.80.300(10) — 1 case
Todeschi v. Sumitomo Metal Mining Pogo, LLC, 394 P.3d 562 (Alaska 2017). “Although Alaska Civil Rule 50(b) generally limits motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict to parties who have moved for directed verdict “at the close of all the evidence," Todes-chi was not required to make a directed verdict motion in order to preserve his motion for…”
— Alaska Stat. § 18.80.300(11) — 1 case
Foreman v. Anchorage Equal Rights Comm'n, 779 P.2d 1199 (Alaska 1989). “” 5 AS 18.80.300(11); *1202 AMC 05.20.010(M).”
— Alaska Stat. § 18.80.300(14) — 1 case
Gilbert v. Sperbeck, 126 P.3d 1057 (Alaska 2005). “Sperbeck’s is a “public accommodation” as that term is defined in AS 18.80.300(14). 30 *1062 It is unnecessary for us to consider these issues here because Gilbert has waived any possible claim she had under AS 18.”
— Alaska Stat. § 18.80.300(14)(A) — 2 cases
Todeschi v. Sumitomo Metal Mining Pogo, LLC, 394 P.3d 562 (Alaska 2017). “Although Alaska Civil Rule 50(b) generally limits motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict to parties who have moved for directed verdict “at the close of all the evidence," Todes-chi was not required to make a directed verdict motion in order to preserve his motion for…”
Michael Carey-Thomann v. Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks & Bd. of Regents (Alaska 2026). “§ 12102 (1)(A) (defining “disability” under the ADA as “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities”); AS 18.80.300(14)(A) (applying same definition of “disability” under AHRA).”
— Alaska Stat. § 18.80.300(3) — 3 cases
Alaska USA Fed. Credit Union v. Fridriksson, 642 P.2d 804 (Alaska 1982). “"Employer" is defined in AS 18.80.300(3) as excluding "a club that is exclusively social, or a fraternal, charitable, educational, or religious association or a corporation, if the club, association or corporation is not organized for private profit.”
Morris v. City of Soldotna, 553 P.2d 474 (Alaska 1976). “At the time of this litigation the term “employer” was defined in AS 18.80.300(3) as follows: “ ‘[E]mployer’ means an employer of one or more persons in the state.”
Brown v. Wood, 575 P.2d 760 (Alaska 1978). “220(5); AS 18.80.300(3). In addition, they point out that AS 23.”
— Alaska Stat. § 18.80.300(7) — 1 case
United States Jaycees v. Richardet, 666 P.2d 1008 (Alaska 1983). “We are persuaded that AS 18.80.300(7) should not be construed to encompass a membership organization such as the Jaycees, and therefore hold that the exclusion of women from full membership in the Jaycees does not violate AS 18.”
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