Alaska Landlord-Tenant Laws
Alaska Security deposits
Alaska caps security deposits and prepaid rent combined at two months' rent - plus a separate pet deposit of up to one more month for a tenant with a pet that is not a service animal - but the whole deposit statute simply does not apply to units renting for more than $2,000 a month.
Alaska Rent increase notice
Alaska has no statute requiring advance notice of a rent increase - the 30-day figure everyone quotes derives from AS 34.03.290(b), which lets either party end a month-to-month tenancy on at least 30 days' written notice given before the rental due date specified in the notice (14 days for week-to-week tenancies while rent is current), so a rent increase operates as a termination of the old deal plus an offer to re-rent at the new price, and the state's own guidance says a landlord 'should, therefore,' give at least 30 days' notice.
Alaska Late fees
Alaska sets no cap on residential late fees and mandates no grace period - rent is payable without demand or notice at the time and place the parties agreed (AS 34.03.020(c)), and the landlord-tenant act never mentions late charges at all.
Alaska Entry notice
Alaska landlords must give tenants at least 24 hours' notice before entering a rental unit, and non-emergency entry is allowed only at reasonable times and with the tenant's consent - though the tenant may not unreasonably withhold that consent for the statutory purposes: inspections, necessary or agreed repairs and improvements, services, showings to prospective purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers, or contractors, and the Alaska-specific purpose of removing the landlord's own personal property not covered by a written rental agreement.
How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Alaska State Legislature site (www.akleg.gov, Alaska Statutes 2024 infobase; the statutes.asp host 403s automated fetchers but serves full section text to curl with a browser user agent via its media=print endpoint): AS 34.03.070, 34.03.140, and 34.03.290 each fetched twice through independent request paths (single-section fetch plus a different-range fetch) with byte-identical results, and AS 34.03.020 fetched twice to verify the negative (no rent-increase language). The complete chapter (all 44 sections, 34.03.010-34.03.380) was fetched in one pass and every section heading enumerated for the verified-negative sweeps (no late-fee, grace-period, interest, unconscionability, rent-control, or preemption provision). Every load-bearing figure additionally reconciled against three more sources: the enrolled text of HB 282 (28th Leg.), Ch. 27 SLA 2014, read in full on the official BASIS bill-text system (pins the pet-deposit subsection, the per-tenant trust-accounting rules, and the 30-day damages exception to the 14-day return track, all added 2014); the Alaska Department of Law's official 2024 pamphlet 'The Alaska Landlord & Tenant Act: what it means to you' (law.alaska.gov); and the Alaska Court System's PUB-30 handbook (public.courts.alaska.gov, 10/18 ed.). FindLaw's mirror (current through 2025-01-01) matched the official 34.03.070 text verbatim as a second-path check. Preemption negative run against a one-fetch official sweep of AS Title 29 (Municipal Government, chs. 29.10-29.71 including 29.35 powers and 29.40 planning): zero rent-control or landlord-tenant provisions. Legislative check 2026-07-11 on official BASIS: all 97 bills passed by the 34th Legislature (2025-2026, status dates through 2026-07-09) enumerated - none on-topic (SB 50, Ch. 19 SLA 25, is municipal comprehensive planning only); full introduced-bill sweep found one pending on-topic bill, HB 115 (90-day rent-increase notice), idle in House State Affairs since 2025-02-26 - flagged, not incorporated.