Ketchikan Gateway Borough Warranty Deed (Partnership Grantor) Form

When an Alaska partnership sells real estate held in the partnership name, the deed is signed in the partnership name by a partner, not by the owners as individuals. This form prepares that instrument for Alaska: a statutory warranty deed under AS 34.15.030 with a partnership as grantor, a single partner signature block, and an acknowledgment certificate worded for a partner acknowledging on behalf of the partnership.

A deed signed in the partnership name

Under the Alaska Uniform Partnership Act, a partnership is an entity distinct from its partners, and partnership property held in the partnership name is transferred by an instrument of transfer executed by a partner in the partnership name (AS 32.06.302). The form is built around that pattern. Section 1 identifies the grantor as the partnership itself, with the complete mailing address Alaska recording law requires; the signature section carries the partnership name, one partner's signature, and the partner's printed name and date; and the operative section states that the grantor executes the deed in the partnership name under AS 32.06.302, acting by the signing partner. The notary block follows the wording pattern of Alaska's statutory partnership acknowledgment, naming the partner and the representative capacity, partner on behalf of the named partnership.

The form recites exactly one signing partner and a grantor holding record title in the partnership name. A partnership whose internal agreement calls for more than one signature presents additional signers beyond this single-partner layout, and title standing in the names of individual partners rather than the partnership presents a different execution pattern under the same statute.

Full statutory covenants under AS 34.15.030

The operative words are the statutory ones: the grantor conveys and warrants. A deed substantially in the AS 34.15.030 form passes fee simple title with three covenants written into it by law: that the grantor is lawfully seized of an indefeasible estate in fee simple and has the right and power to convey, that the premises are free from encumbrances, and that the grantor warrants quiet and peaceable possession and will defend the title against all persons claiming the premises. Alaska implies no covenants outside the statutory form, so the wording is what carries the warranty. The deed's exceptions section is where recorded easements, plat notes, restrictions, and current-year taxes are excluded from the covenant against encumbrances, and after-acquired title passes to the grantee under AS 34.15.075.

The statement of partnership authority in the land records

Alaska partnership law connects partner authority to the recording system. A partnership may file a statement of partnership authority naming the partners authorized to execute instruments transferring its real property, and a certified copy of that filed statement, recorded in the recording district where the property lies, is conclusive in favor of a buyer who gives value without knowledge to the contrary (AS 32.06.303). A filed statement lapses by operation of law five years after filing or its latest amendment. The deed carries an optional blank identifying any recorded statement by its serial number; the statement itself is a separate instrument, filed with the state and recorded separately, and is not included in this package.

Recording in Alaska's district system

Alaska records deeds through a statewide system of 34 recording districts administered by the Department of Natural Resources Recorder's Office, not through county or borough offices. The form carries the recording district blank that Alaska law makes an eligibility element of every recorded document, along with the grantor and grantee mailing addresses and the return-address block the recorder checks at intake. The layout meets the state format rule: two inches reserved at the top of the first page, one-inch margins elsewhere, and type no smaller than 10 point on opaque white paper. Recording costs $20 for the first page and $5 for each additional page, and Alaska imposes no documentary transfer tax on an ordinary deed.

The download includes the blank warranty deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example documenting a realistic Anchorage Recording District conveyance from a general partnership to an individual buyer, and a plain-language guide that walks through every numbered section, the partner signing formalities, and the recording process. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.