§ 42-5-110. Operation and Use Privileges
Municipal Operation. In operating an airport or air navigation facility owned, leased or controlled by a municipality, the municipality may, except as may be limited by the terms and conditions of any grant, loan or agreement pursuant to § 42-5-119, enter into contracts, leases, agreements, grants or other arrangements for a term not exceeding fifty […]
§ 42-5-111. Liens
To enforce the payment of any charges for repairs or improvements to, or storage or care of, any personal property made or furnished by the municipality or its agents in connection with the operation of an airport or air navigation facility owned or operated by the municipality, the municipality shall have liens on the property […]
§ 42-5-112. Delegation of Authority to Airport Officer or Board
Any authority vested by this chapter in a municipality or in the governing body thereof, for the planning, establishment, development, construction, enlargement, improvement, maintenance, equipment, operation, regulation, protection and policing of airports or other air navigation facilities established, owned or controlled, or to be established, owned or controlled by the municipality, may be vested by […]
§ 42-5-113. Regulations and Jurisdiction — Scope — Conformity to Federal and State Law
A municipality that has established or acquired, or that may hereafter establish or acquire, an airport or air navigation facility, is authorized to adopt, amend and repeal such reasonable ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations and orders as it shall deem necessary for the management, government and use of the airport or air navigation facility under […]
§ 42-5-114. Appropriations and Taxation
The governing body of any municipality having power to appropriate and raise money is authorized to appropriate and to raise by taxation or otherwise sufficient moneys to carry out the provisions and purposes of this chapter. Regardless of any limitation by general or special law or charter as to the amount or total of taxes […]
§ 42-5-115. Bond Issues — Notes — Financing Acquisition Costs and Improvements
The cost of planning, acquiring, establishing, developing, constructing, enlarging, improving, maintaining or equipping an airport or air navigation facility, or the site therefor, including buildings, structures and other facilities incidental to the operation thereof or relating thereto, the acquisition of avigation easements, and the acquisition or elimination of airport hazards, may be paid for wholly […]
§ 42-5-101. Short Title
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Municipal Airport Act.”
§ 42-5-102. Chapter Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: “Air navigation facility” means any facility, other than one owned and operated by the United States, used in, available for use in, or designed for use in, aid of air navigation, including any structures, mechanisms, lights, beacons, markers, communicating systems, or other instrumentalities, or devices […]
§ 42-5-103. Establishment of Airports and Air Navigation Facilities — Operation — Land Acquisition
Every municipality is authorized, out of any appropriations or other moneys made available for such purposes, to plan, establish, develop, construct, enlarge, improve, maintain, equip, operate, regulate, protect and police airports and air navigation facilities, either within or without the territorial limits of such municipality and within or without the territorial boundaries of this state, […]
§ 42-5-104. Acquisition of Existing Airports
The municipality may by purchase, gift, devise, lease, eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, acquire existing airports and air navigation facilities; provided, that it shall not acquire or take over any airport or air navigation facility owned or controlled by another municipality or public agency of this or any other state without the consent of the […]