1. (a) A heating assistance payment may only be used for

   1. (1) the purchase of fuel oil, kerosene, propane, natural gas, electricity, wood, coal, or other petroleum products used for home heating, lighting, or cooking in the household's dwelling;
   2. (2) gasoline and two-cycle oil for a snowmachine or chain saw used to harvest and transport wood if the household cuts its own wood for home heating and self-harvested wood is the household's primary heating source; or
   3. (3) payment of incidental charges, including deposits, delivery charges, connection fees, and late-payment charges associated with purchase or delivery.
2. (b) A heating assistance payment may not be used for any purpose not described in (a) of this section. A household or vendor may not sell or barter heating fuel purchased with a heating assistance payment under this section.
3. (c) A household paying home heating costs indirectly through rent or lease payments shall apply the heating assistance payment toward those rent or lease payments.

(Eff. 12/23/80, Register 77; am 5/21/81, Register 78; am 6/2/82, Register 82; am 3/30/84, Register 89; am 11/1/89, Register 112; am 12/22/94, Register 132; am 10/1/99, Register 151; am 11/5/2011, Register 200)

Authority: AS 47.05.010