Ketchikan Gateway Borough Warranty Deed (LLC Grantor) Form

When an Alaska limited liability company conveys real property, the deed carries a signing architecture of its own: the company is the grantor, and one authorized member or manager signs in the company name. This fillable Alaska warranty deed is built for exactly that configuration. It conveys with the full statutory covenants of AS 34.15.030, and its signature and acknowledgment blocks are laid out for a single company signer rather than for individual owners.

A company grantor with full statutory covenants

Alaska's warranty deed statute, AS 34.15.030, gives the operative words conveys and warrants their force. A deed substantially in the statutory form conveys a fee simple with covenants that the grantor holds an indefeasible estate, has good right and full power to convey, that the premises are free from encumbrances except as stated, and that the grantor warrants quiet and peaceable possession and will defend the title against lawful claims. Because AS 34.15.080 bars implied covenants in Alaska conveyances, those covenants exist only where a deed carries the statutory operative language, and this form carries it verbatim. AS 34.15.075 adds that title later acquired by the grantor passes to the grantee by operation of law under a warranty deed. Customers searching for a general warranty deed or a statutory warranty deed in Alaska are looking at this instrument family; this version of it is drawn for a business entity in the grantor position.

Who signs for the company

Under AS 10.50.250, a member of a member-managed company, or the manager of a manager-managed company, is the company's agent, and that person's execution of an instrument in the company name binds the company when performed in the usual and customary way of conducting business, subject to the exceptions the statute states. The form's signature section reflects that structure: a line for the company name, a By signature line for the authorized member or manager, and printed name, title, and date lines. The acknowledgment certificate follows the AS 09.63.100(a)(3) short form pattern for a limited liability company, with Alaska's judicial district venue and a county alternative for a deed signed in another state. The deed states the capacity in which the signer acts; the authority itself lives in the articles of organization and the operating agreement.

Recording in Alaska's district system

Alaska has no county recorders. The Department of Natural Resources Recorder's Office runs a single statewide system organized into 34 recording districts, and the deed identifies its recording district on the first page, an element AS 40.17.030 requires. The same statute calls for complete mailing addresses for the grantor and the grantee and for a return name and address, and the recording rules set a 2 inch top margin on the first page with 1 inch margins elsewhere; the form reserves that space and meets the 10 point type minimum. Alaska imposes no transfer tax and no transfer declaration on an ordinary deed, so the recording package is the deed and the fee: twenty dollars for the first page and five dollars for each additional page. Once recorded, the deed gives constructive notice under AS 40.17.080; an unrecorded conveyance is void against a later innocent purchaser in good faith for value whose conveyance is recorded first.

What the deed collects and performs

The form gathers the elements Alaska's recorder reviews: the recording district, the company grantor with its mailing address, the grantee, the consideration, the legal description, the property address, the source of title, and the matters the conveyance remains subject to, which set the boundary of the covenant against encumbrances. The operative section then performs the conveyance in the statutory words, with a capacity statement identifying the signer as an authorized member or manager acting on behalf of the company. The form recites exactly one company grantor and one authorized signature; a sole individual owner, a married couple, or a trustee conveying in a fiduciary capacity presents a different signing and recital pattern.

The download includes the fillable warranty deed form, a completed example showing an Anchorage Recording District conveyance by an Alaska LLC, and a guide that walks through each section of the form, the member and manager signing rules, and recording with the Alaska recorder's office. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.