{"id":"DUT-AK-012","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Alaska","state":"AK","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, Division of Environmental Health, Food Safety and Sanitation Program (regulation)","authority":"AS 17.20 and AS 44.46.020 (as the Alaska Food Code recites); 18 AAC 31 (Alaska Food Code), art. 9, Compliance Procedures","instrument":"18 AAC 31.905","title":"Permit suspension and establishment closure","dateIssued":"2026-09-28","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"2026-09-28","endDate":"","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","CLOSE"],"addressees":["specified businesses: permitted food establishments"],"clause":"The department may, without prior warning, notice, or hearing, suspend a permit and require that the food establishment immediately stop operating if (1) an imminent health hazard exists and no immediate correction or containment... is available... the operator may not resume operating until (1) a reinspection shows that the conditions that caused the stoppage no longer exist","enforcement":"Permit suspension; immediate cessation of operation; closure notice affixed at the establishment ((d)); informal review or adjudicatory hearing under AS 44.62 within 30 days ((e))","functions":[],"notes":"Exposed every permitted food establishment to immediate, unheard suspension and a stop-operating order for an imminent health hazard, with reopening only after reinspection or a written agreement acceptable to the department; the vehicle by which the sanitary code, independent of the Health Mandates, compelled food establishments to contain communicable-disease hazards on their premises.","sourceUrl":"https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/alaska/18-AAC-31.905","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":99674,"grade":"primary","character":"sanitary_code_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-AK","url":"/library/DUT-AK-012","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-AK-012","citation":"Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, Division of Environmental Health, Food Safety and Sanitation Program (regulation), 18 AAC 31.905 (standing) (Ex. DUT-AK-012)","stateName":"Alaska","related":["DUT-AK-011","DUT-AK-013","DUT-AK-018"]}