Ketchikan Gateway Borough Special Warranty Deed (Partnership Grantor) Form

On this Alaska special warranty deed, the grantor is a partnership, and the deed is executed in the partnership name by a single authorized partner. The form is set up for Alaska real property whose record title stands in the name of a general partnership or limited liability partnership, conveyed to a new owner with an express warranty that reaches only the grantor's own period of ownership.

A deed executed in the partnership name

Alaska's Uniform Partnership Act treats a partnership as an entity distinct from its partners, and AS 32.06.302 provides that partnership property held in the name of the partnership may be transferred by an instrument executed by a partner in the partnership name. The form follows that pattern: the grantor section identifies the partnership and its mailing address, the execution section restates the partnership name above a single partner signature line, and the notary certificate is the AS 09.63.100 partnership acknowledgment, completed for the partner who signs on the partnership's behalf. A partnership selling a commercial building it has held for decades, a family partnership conveying a parcel out of the business, and a limited liability partnership disposing of land while winding down its Alaska operations all present the record pattern this deed recites: title in the partnership's name, one partner signing for the entity. Title standing in the names of individual partners rather than the partnership itself follows a different execution pattern under AS 32.06.302, and this form is not set up as an individual or trustee conveyance.

Alaska law also supplies a recorded companion for the authority question. A statement of partnership authority under AS 32.06.303, filed with the state and recorded in the district where the land lies, names the partners authorized to execute instruments transferring the partnership's real property; that statement is filed and recorded separately and is not included in this package.

A warranty limited to the grantor's own time on title

Alaska publishes statutory forms for a full warranty deed and a quitclaim deed, but no statutory special warranty form, and AS 34.15.080 provides that no covenant is implied in a conveyance of real estate. This form therefore carries its warranty expressly: the partnership covenants to warrant and defend the title against claims arising by, through, or under the partnership itself, and against no others. Buyers and title examiners searching for a limited warranty deed will recognize the same instrument under that name; the covenant is the middle ground between the statutory warranty deed's full title covenants and a quitclaim's absence of any covenant. Defects and encumbrances that predate the partnership's ownership sit outside the covenant, which is why deeds in this form commonly travel with title examination and title insurance on the buyer's side of the transaction.

Recording in Alaska's district system

Alaska records deeds through a statewide system administered by the Department of Natural Resources Recorder's Office, organized into 34 recording districts rather than county offices. The form identifies the recording district on its first page, reserves the top two inches of page one for the recorder's stamp under 11 AAC 06.040, and carries the return address block that AS 40.17.030 requires of every recordable document. Recording fees run $20 for the first page and $5 for each additional page, and Alaska imposes no statewide transfer tax on deeds, so the recording package for an ordinary conveyance is the deed and the fee. Once recorded in the district where the land lies, the deed gives constructive notice to later purchasers under AS 40.17.080.

The download includes the fill-in-the-blank deed, a completed example showing a partnership conveyance of an Anchorage parcel, and a guide that walks through each section of the form, the partnership execution rules, and the recording process. The materials are informational and are not legal advice; an Alaska attorney can address how these statutes operate on a particular title or transaction.