The assembly shall enact ordinances against invidious discrimination in housing, public accommodations, employment, education, and financing practices on the basis of race, religion, age, sex, color, national origin, marital status, or physical disability.
(AO No. 93-51, prop. 2, 4-20-1993)
The assembly by ordinance shall establish an equal rights commission and prescribe its duties. The commission shall appoint its principal executive officer with the approval of the mayor. The principal executive officer shall serve at the pleasure of the commission.
An elected municipal officer may not participate in any official action in which the person or a member of the person's household has a substantial financial interest unless after disclosure of the interest his or her participation is approved by a majority of the body. This prohibition shall be implemented in the manner provided by law, including provision for public disclosure of substantial financial interests of assembly members, school board members, and members of regulatory, appellate and quasi-judicial boards and commissions.
The assembly by ordinance shall adopt procedures dealing with conflict of interest on the part of municipal employees.
(AO No. 2013-93, prop. 8, 4-1-2014)
(a) 
Except where authorized by ordinance, an elected official of the municipality may hold no other compensated municipal office or employment or elected position under the state or municipality while in office.[1]
[1]
Editor’s Notes – There are Charter Commission Commentary notes on this section. Said Commentary is included as an attachment to this title.
(b) 
For one year after the assembly member leaves office, an assembly member or school board member elected under this Charter may hold no compensated municipal office or employment which was created, or the salary or benefits of which were specially increased during the assembly member's last year in office by the body of which the assembly member was a member. This section does not apply to employment by or election to a charter commission.
(c) 
An independent contractor engaged through competitive bidding does not hold municipal employment for purposes of this section.
(AO No. 2013-93, prop. 8, 4-1-2014)
(a) 
All meetings of the assembly, the school board and other boards and commissions shall be public. The assembly by ordinance shall adopt procedures for maximum reasonable public notice of all meetings. At each such meeting the public shall have reasonable opportunity to be heard. An executive session may be held to discuss pending litigation or any matter the immediate public knowledge of which would tend to affect adversely the finances of the municipality or to defame or prejudice the character or reputation of any person. The general matter for consideration in executive session shall be expressed in the motion calling for the session. No official action may be taken in executive session.
(b) 
Except in emergency, the assembly, school board, and all municipal boards and commissions may take no official action between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 7:00 a.m., actual time. Action taken in violation of this paragraph is void.
Municipal officers, before taking office, shall take and subscribe to the following oath or affirmation: "I solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of Alaska and the Charter of Anchorage, and that I will faithfully perform the duties of __________ to the best of my ability."
The municipality may use the name "City and Borough of Anchorage" wherever for bonding or other purposes, it is to the advantage of the municipality to do so.
(a) 
Titles and subtitles shall not be used in construing this Charter. Personal pronouns used in this Charter shall be construed as including either sex.
(b) 
References in this Charter to particular powers, duties and procedures of municipal officers and agencies may not be construed as implied limitations on other municipal activities not prohibited by law.
[1]
Editor’s Notes – There are Charter Commission Commentary notes on this section. Said Commentary is included as an attachment to this title.
If any provision of this Charter is held invalid, the other provisions of the Charter shall not be affected thereby. If the application of the Charter or any of its provisions to any person or circumstances is invalid, the application of the Charter and its provisions to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
(a) 
"Appropriation"
means a unit of funding provided for by the assembly in the municipal budget. An appropriation may be specific as to particular expenditures or general as to an entire department or agency, as the assembly deems appropriate.
(b) 
"Categories"
means actual proposed expenditures to be made from an appropriation.
(c) 
"Emergency"
means an unforeseen occurrence or condition which results or apparently will result in an insufficiency of services or facilities substantial enough to endanger the public health, safety or welfare.
(d) 
"Initiative"
means the process of enacting an ordinance or resolution by vote of the people without assembly action.
(e) 
"Interest in lands"
means any estate in real property or improvements thereon excluding revocable permits or licenses, rights-of-way, or easements which the assembly finds to be without substantial value to the municipality.
(f) 
"Law"
means this Charter, the ordinances and resolutions preserved by this Charter, or enacted pursuant to it, and those portions of the statutes of the State of Alaska and the constitutions of the State of Alaska and of the United States which are valid limitations on the exercise of legislative power by home rule governments.
(g) 
"Municipality"
means the unified municipality of Anchorage created upon ratification of this Charter.
(h) 
"Publish"
means to cause to be posted on a municipal website designated for public notices the matter required by law to be published. Unless otherwise provided by the assembly, posting shall be maintained for seven consecutive days. The assembly shall provide for additional modes of dissemination.
(i) 
"Referendum"
means the process of repealing an ordinance or resolution by vote of the people without assembly action.
(j) 
"Resident"
means a person whose habitual, physical dwelling place is within the area in question and who intends to maintain the person's dwelling place in that area.
(k) 
"Utility" or "municipal utility"
means a utility which belonged to a former government and whose rates are subject to regulation by the Alaska Public Utilities Commission on the date this Charter becomes effective.
(AO No. 79-144, prop. 11, 10-2-1979; AO No. 2012-11, prop. 6, 1-31-2012, election of 4-3-2012[1]; AO No. 2013-93, prop. 8, 4-1-2014)
[1]
Editor's Note – Sec. 3 of AO No. 2012-11 states with certification of voter approval in the regular election of April 3, 2012, the ballot proposition shall become effective as of May 1, 2012. Because Municipal Code already allows electronic publication to the extent allowed by law, no further action by the Assembly is required to implement the charter amendment.