Applicability

(a) This chapter applies to (1) requests made to a public agency for the disclosure of public records; (2) the format used and the fees charged by a public agency in providing or disclosing public records; and (3) the electronic services and products, including software copyrights, that a public agency may provide to access public records. (b) Records that are readily available for public inspection are not subject to the procedures of this chapter. In this subsection, "readily available" means available during state business hours in an agency's office or in a public library. Records that are readily available for public inspection include records in unrestricted state archives, state recorder offices; records pertaining to a public agency's regularly conducted and regularly recorded activities, including its adjudicatory proceedings; library books; books still in print; statutes; case law reporters; magazines; journals; published regulations; state land plats; natural resource case files; motor vehicle records; and treatises. If records that are defined as readily available under this subsection are withheld or access is denied, then the records are no longer considered to be readily available for public inspection. (c) Notwithstanding this chapter, a public agency may adopt its own procedures for administrative appeals of a public agency's denial, in whole or part, of a public records request. (d) This chapter does not prescribe substantive standards for determining if information and records are disclosable or nondisclosable. (e) The provisions of this chapter apply to records of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority to the extent that they are consistent with the procedures contained in the booklet entitled Procedures for Inspection of Records, revised as of July 2012, prepared by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority and adopted by reference in this subsection.