Section 4-4-12 – Joint Airports.
Section 4-4-12 Joint airports. Two or more municipalities may jointly acquire real property by condemnation, purchase or gift, for airport purposes, and may jointly establish, construct, equip, maintain and operate an airport thereon for the joint benefit of such municipalities. The governing body of each participating municipality shall adopt a resolution authorizing and directing the […]
Section 4-4-13 – Procedure for Sale of Airports; Disposition of Proceeds of Sale.
Section 4-4-13 Procedure for sale of airports; disposition of proceeds of sale. (a) When any city, town or other municipal corporation in this state is or may hereafter be the owner of any airport or landing field for the use of airplanes and other aircraft and the board of aldermen or other governing body of […]
Section 4-4-14 – Municipal Regulation of Private Airports.
Section 4-4-14 Municipal regulation of private airports. The council or other governing body of each municipality of this state shall have power to enact ordinances, not inconsistent with the laws of this state, designed to safeguard the public upon or beyond the limits of private airports or landing fields within such municipality or its police […]
Section 4-4-15 – Police Powers as to Airports.
Section 4-4-15 Police powers as to airports. Each municipality which is now, or which hereafter may be, engaged in the operation of a municipal airport, whether within or without, or partly within and partly without the geographical limits of such municipality, shall have the same police powers over such airport or landing field as it […]
Section 4-4-16 – Provisions of Chapter Cumulative.
Section 4-4-16 Provisions of chapter cumulative. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as a limitation upon any power, right or authority which any municipality of this state may have over any subject mentioned in this chapter by virtue of any other law of this state, the powers, rights and authority conferred by this chapter […]
Section 4-4-1 – Definitions.
Section 4-4-1 Definitions. When used in this chapter, unless the context plainly indicates otherwise, the present tense shall include the future tense and the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) AIRCRAFT. Any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used or designed for navigation of or […]
Section 4-4-2 – Authority to Acquire, Establish, etc., Municipal Airports.
Section 4-4-2 Authority to acquire, establish, etc., municipal airports. Each municipality of this state is hereby authorized to acquire, establish, construct, expand, own, control, equip, improve, maintain, operate and regulate airports or landing fields for the use of airplanes and other aircraft, either within or without the geographical limits thereof. (Acts 1931, No. 136, p. […]
Section 4-4-3 – Use of Parks for Airports, Etc.
Section 4-4-3 Use of parks for airports, etc. Each such municipality shall have power and authority to establish, construct, equip, improve, maintain, operate and regulate airports or landing fields in and upon any public parks or other property now or hereafter owned by such municipality, whether acquired by condemnation or otherwise, and the use of […]
Section 4-4-4 – Municipal, etc., Immunity From Liability for Negligence.
Section 4-4-4 Municipal, etc., immunity from liability for negligence. The construction, maintenance and operation of municipal airports is hereby declared a public governmental function, and no action or suit shall be brought or maintained against any municipality for or on account of the negligence of such municipality or of its officers, agents, servants or employees, […]
Section 4-4-5 – Methods of Acquisition.
Section 4-4-5 Methods of acquisition. Whenever, in the judgment of the council or other governing body of any municipality of this state, it shall appear necessary or expedient for such municipality to acquire privately owned lands for airport uses, either within or without the geographical limits thereof, such municipality shall have power to acquire the […]