ALASKA COURT RULES

(b) Permissive Intervention. Upon timely application anyone may be permitted to intervene in an action when an applicant’s claim or defense and the main action have a question of law or fact in common. When a party to an action relies for ground of claim or defense upon any statute or executive order administered by a state governmental officer or agency or upon any regulation, order, requirement, or agreement issued or made pursuant to the statute or executive order, the officer or agency upon timely application may be permitted to intervene in the action. In exercising its discretion the court shall consider whether the intervention will unduly delay or prejudice the adjudication of the rights of the original parties. federal or (c) Procedure. A person desiring to intervene shall serve a motion to intervene upon the parties as provided in Rule 5. The motion shall state the ground therefor and shall be accompanied by a pleading setting forth the claim or defense for which intervention is sought. When the constitutionality of a state statute affecting the public interest is drawn in question in any action to which the state or an officer, agency, or employee thereof is not a party, the court shall notify the Attorney General of Alaska of such fact, and the state shall be permitted to intervene in the action. (Adopted by SCO 5 October 9, 1959; amended by SCO 258 effective November 15, 1976; corrected January, 1993; amended by SCO 1153 effective July 15, 1994; by SCO 1342 effective September 15 1998; by SCO 1713 effective May 16, 2009; and by SCO 1716 effective July 1, 2009) Note: AS 10.06.628, as enacted by ch. 166, § 1, SLA 1988, amended Civil Rule 24 by allowing a shareholder or creditor of a corporation to intervene in an action for involuntary dissolution of the corporation under AS 10.06.628. Note: Chapter 105 SLA 1998 adopts AS 13.36.175 pertaining to contract actions against a trustee. According to section 23 of the act, subsection (c) of this statute amends Civil