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Statement of Nondiscrimination

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Rural Utilities Service

In accordance with Federal and U.S. Department of Agriculture’s policy, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age or disability. To file a complaint of discrimination, write USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, Room 326-W, Whitten Building, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410, or call 202-720- 5964 (voice or TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity employer. Alaska Statutes Section 42.20.030. Civil liability for taking utility service and for damages to or interference with a utility line. (a) A person is civilly liable to the utility whose property is damaged in sum equal to three times the amount of the actual damages sustained and three times the value of the service taken if the person intentionally or in the exercise of gross negligence (1) damages a pole, tree, pipeline, or other object used in a utility line; (2) damages an insulator in use in the line or damages or removes from its insulator any wire used in a utility line; (3) damages the insulation of the line or interrupts the transmission of the service through it or damages the protective wrapping of a water, oil or gas pipeline; (4) damages property or materials belonging to a utility; (5) interferes with the use of a utility line, or obstructs or postpones the transmission of service over a utility line; (6) procures or advises damage to any utility line; (7) interferes with or alters a meter or other device for measuring of service from a utility; or (8) without the permission of a utility takes service from the utility or taps a wire or line used for transmission of service or procures or advises this to be done. (b) A person is civilly liable to the utility whose property is negligently damaged under (a) (1), (2), (3), (4), or (5) of this section in a sum equal to the amount of the damages sustained. Section 42.20.310. Eavesdropping. (a) A person may not (1) use an eavesdropping device to hear or record all or part of an oral conversation without the consent of a party to the conversation; (2) use or divulge any information which the person knows or reasonably should know was obtained through the illegal use of an eavesdropping device for personal benefit or another’s benefit; (3) publish the existence, contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning of any conversation the person has heard through the illegal use of an eavesdropping device; (4) divulge, or publish the existence, contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning of any conversation the person has become acquainted with after the person knows or reasonably should know that the conversation and the information contained in the conversation was obtained through the illegal use of an eavesdropping device. (b) In this section “eavesdropping device” means any device capable of being used to hear or record oral conversation whether the conversation is conducted in person, by telephone, or by any other means; provided that this definition does not include devices used for the restoration of the deaf or hard-of-hearing to normal or partial hearing.

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