Alaska Administrative Code
Title 8 - Labor and Workforce Development
Part 3 - Workers' Compensation
Chapter 45 - Compensation, Medical Benefits, and Proceedings Before the Alaska Workers' Compensation Board
8 AAC 45.105 - Code of conduct

(a) Nothing in this section relieves a board member's duty to comply with the provisions of AS 39.52.010-39.52.960 (Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act) and 9 AAC 52.010 - 9 AAC 52.990. A board member holds office as a public trust, and an effort to benefit from a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust. A board member is drawn from society and cannot and should not be without personal and financial interests in the decisions and policies of government. An individual who serves as a board member retains rights to interests of a personal or financial nature. Standards of ethical conduct for a board member distinguish between those minor and inconsequential conflicts that are unavoidable in a free society, and those conflicts of interests that are substantial and material.

(b) The provisions of this section do not prevent a board member from following other independent pursuits, if those pursuits do not interfere with the full and faithful discharge of a board member's public duties and responsibilities under AS 23.30 and this chapter.

(c) The recusal of a board panel member for a conflict of interest under the procedures set out in 8 AAC 45.106 may occur only if the recusal is based on clear and convincing evidence that the board panel member

(d) The recusal of a board panel member to avoid impropriety or the appearance of impropriety under the procedures set out in 8 AAC 45.106 may occur only if the recusal is based on clear and convincing evidence that the board panel member

(e) Unethical conduct is prohibited, but there is no substantial impropriety or substantial appearance of impropriety if, as to a specific matter, the standards of AS 39.52.110(b) would permit participation.