Briefly, the Alaskan legal system is composed of a system similar to the United States as a whole. We have a number of legal forms available for immediate download for this jurisdiction which you can access by clicking on the download now button.
Government of Alaska
The Governor of Alaska is the senior-most official of the Alaska executive branch; see List of Governors of Alaska. Alaska executive branch agencies include the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Alaska Division of Juvenile Justice, the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, the Alaska Permanent Fund, the Alaska Volcano Observatory, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Alaska Department of Education & Early Development, Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, and the Alaska State Pension Investment Board.
Alaska has a well-functioning Legislature and court system.
Administrative divisions
Alaska is divided into 16 boroughs (including unified municipalities),[1] as opposed to “counties.” The function is the same, but whereas some states use a three-tiered system of decentralization — state/county/township — most of Alaska only uses two tiers — state/borough. Owing to the state’s low population density, most of the land is located in the Unorganized Borough which, as the name implies, has no intermediate borough government of its own, but is administered directly by the state government. Currently (2000 census) 57.71 percent of Alaska’s land area has this status; however, its population comprises only 13.05 percent of the state’s total. For statistical purposes the United States Census Bureau divides this territory into census areas. Anchorage merged the city government with the Greater Anchorage Area Borough in 1971 to form the Municipality of Anchorage, containing the city proper, and the bedroom communities of Eagle River, Chugiak, Peters Creek, Girdwood, Bird, and Indian. Fairbanks, on the other hand, has a separate borough (the Fairbanks North Star Borough) and municipality (the City of Fairbanks).
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait. Approximately half of Alaska’s 710,231 residents (as per the 2010 United States Census) live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska is the least densely populated state of the U.S.
Alaska was purchased from Russia on March 30, 1867, for $7.2 million ($113 million in today’s dollars) at approximately two cents per acre ($4.74/km²). The land went through several administrative changes before becoming an organized (or incorporated) territory on May 11, 1912, and the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.