Does Alaska have its own lead paint disclosure law?

No. Alaska has no state-specific lead paint disclosure statute. We checked the primary text rather than assuming: the Alaska Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, AS 34.03, does not contain the word lead anywhere in the chapter, and its only disclosure requirement is AS 34.03.080, which compels a landlord to give the name and address of the manager and the owner. The lead duty in Alaska is entirely federal, under 42 U.S.C. 4852d with implementing rules at 40 CFR Part 745 Subpart F and 24 CFR Part 35 Subpart A. Alaska law matters in one adjacent way: the habitability duty at AS 34.03.100 applies independently to deteriorated paint.

Which Alaska rentals require a lead paint disclosure?

Any residential rental built before 1 January 1978, which the rule calls target housing. Units built in 1978 or later are outside the rule. Narrow exemptions cover zero-bedroom dwellings, leases of 100 days or less with no renewal, certified lead-free housing, and housing for the elderly or persons with disabilities. Only one of them carries a child condition: under 40 CFR 745.103, housing for the elderly or persons with disabilities loses the exclusion where a child under six resides or is expected to reside there. The zero-bedroom, 100-day, and certified lead-free exemptions do not depend on whether a child lives in the unit. The child parenthetical in the definition attaches to the elderly-or-disabled limb alone, so a studio is not target housing even when a young child lives there, a point many charts get wrong by reading the parenthetical onto the wrong clause.

Are studio apartments exempt from the Alaska lead paint disclosure?

Yes. A zero-bedroom dwelling is excluded from target housing under 40 CFR 745.103, and that exclusion is unconditional. The definition reads: target housing means any housing constructed prior to 1978, except housing for the elderly or persons with disabilities or any 0-bedroom dwelling (unless any child who is less than 6 years of age resides or is expected to reside in such housing). The child-under-six parenthetical sits inside the elderly-or-disabled limb and governs that limb alone; or any 0-bedroom dwelling is a separate exclusion with no child condition, so a studio is not target housing even if a child under six lives there. A 0-bedroom dwelling is any residential dwelling in which the living area is not separated from the sleeping area, and the term includes efficiencies, studio apartments, dormitory housing, military barracks, and rentals of individual rooms. A common misreading pushes the parenthetical onto the 0-bedroom limb; read the sentence structure and it plainly does not. The practical trap is the opposite one: a unit with a separate sleeping area is not a studio and is fully covered.

Do I have to give Alaska tenants 10 days to inspect for lead?

No. The 10-day inspection opportunity is a sales rule, not a rental rule. 40 CFR 745.110(a) provides that before a purchaser is obligated under any contract to purchase target housing, the seller shall permit the purchaser a 10-day period, unless the parties mutually agree in writing upon a different period of time, to conduct a risk assessment or inspection. Every operative noun there is a sales noun. The lessor requirements at 40 CFR 745.113(b) contain no inspection-opportunity item at all, and the EPA lessor form does not include one. An Alaska landlord may offer an inspection window voluntarily as a matter of good practice, but no federal rule compels it for a lease, and you should not print a line claiming a tenant received or waived a right the rule never gave them.

Does an Alaska landlord have to test for lead-based paint?

No. The rule requires disclosure of what you actually know, not investigation. 40 CFR 745.107(a) states expressly that nothing in the section implies a positive obligation on the seller or lessor to conduct any evaluation or reduction activities. EPA likewise states that the rule does not require landlords to test or remove lead-based paint or lead-based paint hazards. If the unit has never been tested and you hold no reports, no knowledge is the honest and lawful answer. What you may not do is check no knowledge while sitting on a report, a prior abatement record, or knowledge of a child's elevated blood-lead result in the unit.

How long must an Alaska landlord keep the signed disclosure?

At least three years from the commencement of the leasing period, under 40 CFR 745.113(c)(1). Keep the signed disclosure, a note of which pamphlet edition was delivered, and copies of every record you handed over. The rule adds an important qualifier at 745.113(c)(2): the recordkeeping requirement is not intended to place any limitations on civil suits under the Act, or to otherwise affect a lessee's or purchaser's rights under the civil penalty provisions of 42 U.S.C. 4852d(b)(3). Three years is how long you must retain the file, not a measure of how long you can be sued, so retaining it for the life of ownership is the safer practice.

What must an Alaska landlord do when renovating an occupied pre-1978 rental?

This is a separate duty from the leasing disclosure. Under the EPA Renovation, Repair and Painting rule at 40 CFR Part 745 Subpart E, a renovation that disturbs painted surfaces in a pre-1978 unit requires lead-safe work practices by a certified firm, and occupants must receive lead hazard information no more than 60 days before work begins. If common areas are affected, 40 CFR 745.84(b)(2) requires the firm to do one of two things: distribute written notice to each affected unit describing the general nature and locations of the work and its expected starting and ending dates, or post informational signs where the occupants of all affected units are likely to see them. Note that this federal rule is what governs disturbing old paint in Alaska; AS 18.63 is a separate state certification regime about applying hazardous coatings and does not substitute for it.

Can the Alaska lead paint disclosure be signed electronically?

Yes. Electronic disclosure and signature are permitted under the E-SIGN Act, 15 U.S.C. 7001. EPA attaches conditions: give a clear statement of the right to receive paper documents, explain the procedure to withdraw consent and its consequences, explain how to access and retain the electronic records, and obtain the tenant's consent demonstrating they can actually access the materials. A link alone is not delivery. This matters more in Alaska than in most states, because remote and rural tenancies are frequently papered entirely by email. Retain the electronic record for the same three years.

What is the Lead Warning Statement?

It is the fixed federal paragraph required by 40 CFR 745.113(b)(1) that must be attached to or inserted into the lease. It states that housing built before 1978 may contain lead-based paint, that lead exposure is especially harmful to young children and pregnant women, that lessors must disclose the presence of lead-based paint and hazards in the dwelling, and that lessees must also receive a federally approved pamphlet on lead poisoning prevention. It is prescribed wording, so rewriting or improving it can defeat the disclosure. The generator on this page reproduces it.

What are the penalties for skipping the disclosure?

Two separate exposures. First, 42 U.S.C. 4852d(b)(3) makes a knowing violator jointly and severally liable to the lessee for three times the amount of damages that person incurred, and 4852d(b)(4) lets the court award court costs together with reasonable attorney fees and expert witness fees. Second, government civil money penalties, which EPA adjusts for inflation each year with the operative amounts published in the table at 40 CFR 19.4. We deliberately print no dollar figure for that second limb: the maximum moves every January, and the per-violation numbers quoted on most form sites are stale and drawn from different authorities and years without saying which. Check the current table rather than trusting any number in a blog post. Knowing violations can also carry criminal exposure.

Does the disclosure apply to lease renewals?

A fresh disclosure is required for a new lease with a new lessee. Renewals are addressed directly by 40 CFR 745.101(d), which exempts renewals of existing leases in target housing in which the lessor has previously disclosed all information required under 40 CFR 745.107 and where no new information described in 745.107 has come into the possession of the lessor. Watch that cross-reference: 745.101(d) points at 745.107, not at 745.113(b), and pages that cite 745.113 here have followed the wrong thread. Both conditions must hold. The rule adds that renewal includes both renegotiation of existing lease terms and ratification of a new lease. Redisclosing at each renewal is the conservative practice and costs nothing.

Do I have to disclose records for other units in the building?

Yes, where they exist. 40 CFR 745.107(a)(4) requires the lessor to provide any records or reports available concerning lead-based paint in the target housing, and states expressly that this requirement includes records or reports regarding common areas, and also includes records regarding other residential dwellings in multifamily target housing where that information is part of an evaluation or reduction of lead-based paint in the target housing as a whole. If a building-wide risk assessment identified hazards in a stairwell, a laundry room, or a neighbouring unit, that report is within scope for a pre-1978 building.

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Free Alaska Lead Paint Disclosure

Q: What about AS 18.63, Alaska's hazardous painting certification law?

AS 18.63 is a painter certification regime, not a landlord disclosure duty, and the two are routinely confused. The chapter does not contain the word lead at all. AS 18.63.010(a) says a person may not employ or contract with a professional painter to perform hazardous painting for compensation unless that painter holds a current valid hazardous painting certificate from the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. AS 18.63.100(2) defines hazardous painting as the application of a coating containing a toxic or hazardous substance, which is a worker-safety concept about applying paint, not about disturbing old paint. It imposes no disclosure, testing, registration, or tenant-notice obligation, and leasing does not trigger it. It can still reach an Alaska landlord who hires a painting contractor, and AS 18.63.070 allows a civil fine as a penalty of up to $200 for a first violation and up to $1,000 for a subsequent one.

The federal disclosure every Alaska landlord must deliver before leasing housing built before 1978. Authority is 42 U.S.C. 4852d and 40 CFR Part 745 Subpart F. Alaska adds no lead paint statute of its own — and the 10-day inspection window you see on other sites is a sales rule, not a rental rule.

Federally Required 42 U.S.C. 4852d 40 CFR Part 745 Alaska Free PDF

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An Alaska lead paint disclosure is the federally mandated form a landlord delivers to a prospective tenant before any lease of residential property built before 1978. It carries the fixed federal lead warning statement, states the lessor’s actual knowledge of lead-based paint and hazards, lists the records being handed over, documents the tenant’s receipt of the EPA pamphlet Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home, captures any agent’s acknowledgment, and is signed and dated by every party. Authority is 42 U.S.C. 4852d (Section 1018 of Title X, the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992), implemented at 40 CFR Part 745 Subpart F (EPA) and 24 CFR Part 35 Subpart A (HUD). Alaska imposes no separate lead paint disclosure statute — we checked the primary text rather than assuming, and the word “lead” does not appear anywhere in the Alaska Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. What Alaska does add is an independent habitability duty under AS 34.03.100 for deteriorated paint, covered in our Alaska habitability laws guide. Generate the form below, then read on for exactly what the rule requires.

Key Takeaways

Pre-1978 is the only trigger. Original construction before 1 January 1978 makes the unit “target housing” and the disclosure mandatory. The build date controls even if the unit was gutted and rebuilt in 1995.
Alaska has no lead paint statute. The duty is 100% federal. AS 34.03, the Alaska landlord-tenant act, does not contain the word “lead” at all. Alaska’s contribution is habitability (AS 34.03.100) and a landlord-identity disclosure (AS 34.03.080).
AS 18.63 is not a lead law. Alaska’s “Hazardous Painting Certification” chapter is a painter-certification regime and never says “lead”. It is the one Alaska statute landlords mistake for a lead duty. It is not one.
The 10-day inspection window does not apply to leases. 40 CFR 745.110 gives it to purchasers only. The lessor rules at 40 CFR 745.113(b) contain no such item.
You never have to test. 40 CFR 745.107(a) says nothing in it implies a positive obligation to conduct any evaluation. “No knowledge” is honest and lawful when nothing has been tested and you hold no reports.
Deliver before the tenant is obligated, not at move-in and not with the keys. Late delivery is the same violation as no delivery.
Retain the signed disclosure three years from the commencement of the leasing period (40 CFR 745.113(c)). It is your only real defence in an enforcement inquiry.
Renovation is a second, separate duty. Disturbing paint in an occupied pre-1978 unit triggers the RRP rule and a 60-day lead-hazard-information notice.

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Alaska lead paint disclosure overview

Alaska Lead Paint Disclosure at a Glance

Trigger

Built before 1978

Authority

42 U.S.C. 4852d

Alaska Statute

None — federal only

Retention

3 years

Timing

Before lease obligation

Pamphlet

EPA, mandatory

Duty to test

10-day inspection

Sales only

The one-line answer: if your Alaska rental was built before 1978 and the lease runs longer than 100 days, you must hand the tenant this signed disclosure plus the EPA pamphlet before they are obligated under the lease, and keep the signed copy for three years. Nothing in Alaska law changes that; nothing in Alaska law adds to it.

What the Alaska lead paint disclosure does

The lead paint disclosure — often called the Section 1018 disclosure, after the 1992 statute that created it — is the formal federal notice an Alaska landlord delivers to a prospective tenant for any residential property built before 1978. It does four things in one document.

First, it puts the tenant on notice of potential lead exposure through the federally mandated lead warning statement, the fixed language at 40 CFR 745.113(b)(1) that must be attached to or included within the lease.

Second, it transmits the lessor’s actual knowledge of lead-based paint or hazards in the dwelling. The lessor picks one of exactly two positions: known lead-based paint or hazards are present, with a description of what is known; or the lessor has no knowledge of lead-based paint or hazards in the housing. There is no third box, and there is no “maybe”.

Third, it transmits any reports the lessor holds from prior inspections, risk assessments, or hazard-reduction work. The lessor either provides copies of all available records and lists them, or affirmatively states that no reports or records exist.

Fourth, it documents the tenant’s receipt of the disclosure and of the EPA pamphlet. The signed acknowledgment is the landlord’s primary defence in any later EPA or HUD inquiry or private civil action.

The disclosure is not optional and the duty is not waivable by agreement. A pre-1978 Alaska rental leased without one exposes the landlord to government civil penalties and to a tenant’s private action for triple damages plus fees. Compliance takes fifteen minutes; non-compliance is the most expensive paperwork failure in pre-1978 rental practice.

Does Alaska have its own lead paint law?

No. Alaska has no state-specific lead paint disclosure statute, and this page will not invent one. That is a short answer, but it is the answer the whole search result set is missing, so it is worth showing the work rather than asserting it.

We pulled the primary text from the Alaska Legislature’s own database rather than relying on a summary. The Alaska Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, AS 34.03, runs to roughly 64,000 characters and does not contain the word “lead” even once. Its only disclosure requirement is AS 34.03.080, which obliges a landlord to disclose in writing, at or before the start of the tenancy, the name and address of the person authorised to manage the premises and of the owner or a person authorised to act for the owner. That is a landlord-identity rule, not a lead rule. Unlike the handful of states that layer their own lead registry, testing, or certification requirements on top of the federal rule, Alaska does not. Every substantive requirement described on this page comes from federal law: 42 U.S.C. 4852d, 40 CFR Part 745 Subpart F, and 24 CFR Part 35 Subpart A.

This matters because a lot of “Alaska lead paint disclosure” pages imply an Alaska rule exists and then describe the federal one. If you are searching for the Alaska statute number, there isn’t one to find. What Alaska contributes is three adjacent things worth knowing:

Habitability — AS 34.03.100. The landlord must make all repairs and do whatever is necessary to put and keep the premises in a fit and habitable condition, and keep all common areas in a clean and safe condition. That duty applies independently of disclosure. Deteriorated lead paint can be a habitability defect on its own, whether or not you disclosed it. Disclosure does not cure a hazard; it only discloses one.
Landlord identity — AS 34.03.080. The genuinely Alaska-specific disclosure landlords actually owe at the start of a tenancy. It is a wholly separate duty from lead, and it is not satisfied by this form.
Local codes. Alaska municipalities and boroughs can run their own housing-code or rental-registration programmes that add inspection or notice obligations. These are municipal, not statewide, and we make no claim about any specific ordinance here. Check with local code enforcement before assuming none applies.

Because the obligation is federal rather than state-specific, the same disclosure applies to a rental in any state — our federal lead-based paint disclosure form is the generic version of the Alaska form on this page.

AS 18.63: the Alaska statute that looks like a lead law and isn’t

There is exactly one Alaska statute that landlords, and a fair number of training vendors, mistake for a state lead-paint duty: AS 18.63, “Hazardous Painting Certification.” Search for an Alaska lead law and this chapter is what surfaces. No competing page on this topic explains it, so here it is, read from the statute rather than from a course brochure.

The chapter never mentions lead. Not once, in the entire chapter. That alone should settle most of the confusion, but the substance settles the rest.

What it actually says. AS 18.63.010(a) provides that a person may not employ or contract with a professional painter to perform hazardous painting for compensation unless the painter holds a current valid hazardous painting certificate issued by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. AS 18.63.020 makes the certificate valid for three years and conditions it on completing an approved training programme. AS 18.63.050 directs the department to inspect job sites and issue citations. AS 18.63.070 permits a civil fine as a penalty of not more than $200 for a first violation and not more than $1,000 for a subsequent violation of the chapter.

Why it is not a lead rule. AS 18.63.100(2) defines “hazardous painting” as the application of a substance containing or combined with a toxic or hazardous substance to create a coating that will adhere to a surface — expressly excluding water-based paint that does not contain emulsion epoxies or isocyanates. That is a rule about putting new coatings on, aimed at protecting the painter from what they are spraying. It is not a rule about disturbing the old lead paint already on a 1962 building’s window trim. The definition of “toxic or hazardous substance” it borrows from AS 18.60.105 works entirely by cross-reference to federal occupational lists and does not name lead either.

The distinction that matters for an Alaska landlord

AS 18.63 is a contractor-certification regime; it is not a landlord disclosure duty. It imposes no obligation to disclose anything, to test anything, to register anything, or to notify a tenant of anything, and leasing a property does not trigger it. It can still touch you: if you hire a professional painter to do hazardous painting for compensation, AS 18.63.010(a) puts the duty on you to make sure that painter is certified. But the rule that governs disturbing old paint in a pre-1978 Alaska rental is the federal RRP rule at 40 CFR Part 745 Subpart E, covered further down this page — not AS 18.63. Do not treat a hazardous painting certificate as RRP certification. They are different programmes, run by different governments, for different hazards.

What the rule actually requires: the six elements of 40 CFR 745.113(b)

Most guides list “three things” a landlord must do. The regulation is more precise than that. 40 CFR 745.113(b) requires six distinct elements in the lease or an attachment to it. A disclosure missing any one of them is defective, regardless of how professional the form looks. This is the checklist to audit your own paperwork against.

Element	What 40 CFR 745.113(b) requires	Who completes it
(b)(1) Lead warning statement	The fixed federal paragraph, reproduced in its prescribed wording, attached to or inserted into the lease.	Pre-printed on the form
(b)(2) Lessor’s disclosure of known paint and hazards	A statement disclosing the presence of known lead-based paint and hazards, including any additional information available (for example the basis for the determination, the location, and the condition of painted surfaces) — or a statement of no knowledge.	Lessor
(b)(3) List of records and reports	A list of any records or reports available to the lessor that were provided to the lessee — or a statement that no such records exist.	Lessor
(b)(4) Lessee’s acknowledgment	A statement by the lessee affirming receipt of the information in (b)(2) and (b)(3) and of the lead hazard information pamphlet required under 15 U.S.C. 2696.	Lessee (initials)
(b)(5) Agent’s statement	Where an agent is involved on behalf of the l