Oesau v. City of Dillingham

OPINION

DIMOND, Justice.

Prior to 1963, the platted townsite of Dillingham, Alaska was not an incorporated municipality, but was a part of a larger area which had been incorporated as the Dillingham Public Utility District No. 1. In enacting legislation pertaining to borough government in Alaska, the legislature provided that special service districts, such as the Dillingham Public Utility District, would “continue to exercise their powers and functions under existing law until July 1, 1964.” 1 Thus, the dissolution of the Dillingham Public Utility District No. 1 was foreordained.

In 1963 there…