Ketchikan Gateway Borough Warranty Deed (Executed by Attorney-in-Fact) Form

On this Alaska warranty deed, the signature line belongs to an attorney-in-fact: the agent named in a power of attorney signs and acknowledges the deed, and the owner of record conveys with the full covenants of a statutory warranty deed. The form prepares that instrument for one Alaska property owner, sometimes searched as a POA deed or a deed signed under power of attorney, from the recital of the agent's authority through the representative notary certificate, under AS 34.15.030 and AS 34.15.010.

The power behind the signature

AS 34.15.010(a) lets an Alaska conveyance be executed by the owner's lawful agent or attorney, and the power of attorney statutes supply the machinery. A statutory form power of attorney under AS 13.26.645 grants real estate authority when the principal marks that category, and AS 13.26.665(a) construes the grant to authorize the agent to sell, exchange, convey, quitclaim, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of an estate or interest in land. Timing belongs to the same statutes: a power of attorney terminates at the principal's death under AS 13.26.620, and one that is not durable terminates at the principal's incapacity, so the deed's power of attorney section identifies the instrument by date and, where it has been recorded, by serial number and recording district, putting the source and vintage of the signature's authority on the face of the record.

A full warranty, made through an agent

The operative words are the statutory pair, conveys and warrants. Under AS 34.15.030, a deed substantially in the statutory form carries three covenants: seisin of an indefeasible fee simple with the right to convey, freedom of the property from encumbrances except as stated, and a defense of title against all lawful claimants. The form states those covenants at length and ties the encumbrances covenant to the matters listed in Section 10, so the listing marks the warranty's boundary. Agency execution narrows none of this; the covenants bind the grantor and the grantor's heirs and personal representatives exactly as the statute provides.

What the attorney-in-fact configuration carries

The form recites exactly one grantor acting through one attorney-in-fact. The agent signs the single signature line in the agent's own name, and the single acknowledgment certificate carries the representative wording of Alaska's statutory short form, in the style of Benjamin T. Aldrich, as attorney-in-fact on behalf of Katherine M. Voss, mirroring AS 09.63.100(a)(5). An owner wintering outside Alaska while a sale closes, a principal whose durable power of attorney continues through incapacity, and a deployed servicemember whose agent completes the closing present the pattern this deed recites. A deed signed personally by the owner, and a conveyance of a married owner's family home in which both spouses join under AS 34.15.010(b), follow execution patterns this form does not carry.

Recording in Alaska's district system

Alaska records deeds through a statewide system of recording districts administered by the Department of Natural Resources, not through county recorders, and the form's first section names the district where the property lies, an item Alaska recording law requires on the face of the document. The power of attorney has its own place in that system: once acknowledged it is a recordable document under AS 40.17.110, and recording it engages the presumption of AS 40.17.090(b)(6), under which a person purporting to act as attorney-in-fact under a recorded power held that position and acted with authority, the footing a title examiner looks for behind an agent-executed deed. Recording fees are statewide, $20 for the first page and $5 for each additional page, and Alaska collects no transfer tax on an ordinary deed.

The download includes the blank warranty deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example filled in for an Anchorage Recording District fact pattern, and a plain-language guide that walks through each numbered section, the signing formalities, and recording with the Alaska Recorder's Office. The materials describe Alaska law in general terms and are not legal advice.