STATE, DEPT OF NAT. RESOURCES v. CITY OF HAINES

No. 5067.

627 P.2d 1047 (1981)

STATE of Alaska, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, Appellant, v. CITY OF HAINES, an Alaska Municipal Corporation, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

May 8, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Thomas Koester, Asst. Atty. Gen., Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellant.

James R. Webb, Faulkner, Banfield, Doogan & Holmes, Juneau, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ., and DIMOND, Senior Justice.


OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

This case presents for review the matter of the proper construction to be given to AS 38.05.320(b) (granting to home rule cities and cities of the first class incorporated on or before April 1, 1964, the right to conveyance of tidelands1 seaward of their boundaries).2 The issue is whether the right should be limited to city boundaries as of April 1, 1964, or whether...

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