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NORTH SLOPE BOROUGH v. SOHIO PETROLEUM CORP.

Nos. 3460, 3513 and 3659.

585 P.2d 534 (1978)

NORTH SLOPE BOROUGH, Appellant, v. SOHIO PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Atlantic Richfield Company, Exxon Corporation, Arco Pipeline Company, Sohio Pipeline Company, Exxon Pipeline Company, Amerada Hess Corporation, Mobil Alaska Pipeline Company, Phillips Petroleum Company, Union Alaska Pipeline Company, BP Pipelines Inc., and BP Alaska Exploration Inc., Appellees. STATE OF ALASKA, Appellant, v. SOHIO PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Atlantic Richfield Company, Exxon Corporation, Arco Pipeline Company, Sohio Pipeline Company, Exxon Pipeline Company, Amerada Hess Corporation, Mobil Alaska Pipeline Company, Phillips Petroleum Company, Union Alaska Pipeline Company, BP Pipelines Inc., and BP Exploration Inc., Appellees. SOHIO PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Atlantic Richfield Company, Exxon Corporation, Arco Pipeline Company, Sohio Pipeline Company, Exxon Pipeline Company, Amerada Hess Corporation, Mobil Alaska Pipeline Company, Phillips Petroleum Company, Union Alaska Pipeline Company, BP Pipelines Inc., and BP Alaska Exploration Inc., Cross-Appellants, v. STATE OF ALASKA and North Slope Borough, Cross-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

October 20, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles K. Cranston, Gallagher, Cranston & Snow, Anchorage, for appellant and cross-appellee, North Slope Borough.

Richard O. Gantz, Carl J.D. Bauman, Hughes, Thorsness, Gantz, Powell & Brundin, Theodore E. Fleischer, Paul DeStefano, Ely, Guess & Rudd, Anchorage, for appellees and cross-appellants.

Joseph K. Donohue, Asst. Atty. Gen., Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellant and cross-appellee, State of Alaska.

Timothy G. Middleton, Wohlforth & Flint, Anchorage, for Alaska Municipal Bond Bank Authority, City and Borough of Juneau and Municipality of Anchorage, amici curiae.

Before BOOCHEVER, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ.

MATTHEWS, Justice.

This is a three-sided property tax case. At issue is whether the appellees should pay $3,785,050.18 to the North Slope Borough, to the State, or to both of them. The Superior Court held that the money should go to the State. We reverse, and hold that it should be paid to the Borough.

An act passed by the 1973 session of the Alaska Legislature levied a tax of 20 mills on the trans-Alaska pipeline...

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