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Jamie Heinz

90:36 - 90:54

“he found one of those and it says in state law that we're supposed to be certifying on the first Monday following, or we're supposed to be taking oaths on the first certification immediately after certification. Certification, our practice.”
Community
Alaska News
Location
Anchorage
Captured at
October 8, 2026

From the transcript

The term membership and qualifications of members. When you work with Dean long enough, you're going to get an email that says, I found this obscure section of law that we haven't considered in a while. And so he found one of those and it says in state law that we're supposed to be certifying on the first Monday following, or we're supposed to be taking oaths on the first certification immediately after certification. Certification, our practice. And so just make sure everything is copacetic.

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