Alaska Administrative Code
Title 17 - Transportation and Public Facilities
Chapter 15 - Utility and Railroad Permits
Article 2 - Utility Standards and Requirements
17 AAC 15.281 - Routine maintenance

(a) Each permittee shall perform routine maintenance on the utility facility on a continuing basis. Maintenance work may not endanger any highway, airstrip, or other department property or create a hazard to the public.

(b) Each permittee shall secure authorization from the department before performing any maintenance which requires excavation, plowing, jacking, boring within, or in areas immediately adjacent to, a department right-of-way.

(c) If a permittee discontinues maintenance of or abandons a utility facility, the permittee shall notify the department within 30 days. Utility facilities that are not maintained or are abandoned are unauthorized encroachments.

(d) As part of routine maintenance required under (a) of this section, the permittee shall adjust manholes, valves, pull boxes, and any other object that rises to the surface of any paved surface within the highway right-of-way, as required to meet the Alaska Standard Specifications for Highway Construction, adopted by reference in 17 AAC 15.301(d). The department may require additional or emergency adjustment if conditions warrant.

(e) If a permittee's routine maintenance is inadequate, the department may give notice and an opportunity to cure. If a permittee fails to take appropriate corrective actions after notice and a reasonable opportunity to cure, the department may perform the maintenance and charge the permittee for the reasonable associated costs.