Section 23-1-350 Purpose of article. It is the purpose of this article to facilitate the development of aeronautics, promote safety in aeronautics, and provide a uniform mechanism for overseeing and regulating aeronautics within the state by repealing existing statutes establishing the Alabama Department of Aeronautics and the Alabama Aeronautics Commission and transferring their functions, authority, […]
Section 23-1-351 Transfer of property, funds, authority, and jurisdiction to the State Department of Transportation. All matters of any nature whatsoever which have heretofore come under the authority, jurisdiction, or purview of, or have been administered, overseen, or executed by the Alabama Department of Aeronautics or the Alabama Aeronautics Commission, as well as all physical […]
Section 23-1-352 Definitions. For the purpose of the laws of this state relating to aeronautics, the following words, terms, and phrases shall have the meanings herein given, unless otherwise specifically defined, or unless another intention clearly appears or the context requires otherwise: (1) AERONAUTICS or AERONAUTICAL ACTIVITIES. The science and art of flight including, but […]
Section 23-1-353 Transfer of personnel. The current Director of the Alabama Department of Aeronautics shall be transferred to the Alabama State Department of Transportation into a Merit System position classified as Aeronautics Administrator, which position shall be assigned an appropriate pay range by the State Personnel Board as set forth in the Merit System Act […]
Section 23-1-354 Aeronautics Commission – Composition; qualifications; appointment; terms of office; compensation; removal. The Alabama Aeronautics Commission, previously created pursuant to Section 4-2-30, shall serve in an advisory capacity to the Director of the Alabama State Department of Transportation. The commission shall consist of the Director of Public Safety, the Director of the Alabama Development […]
Section 23-1-355 Aeronautics Commission – Responsibilities. The commission shall serve in an advisory capacity to the Director of the Alabama State Department of Transportation and shall have the responsibility to advise the director in all phases of aeronautics and other matters that seriously affect aeronautical interests within the state. (Act 2000-220, p. 328, §8.)
Section 23-1-356 Aeronautics Commission – Meetings; election of officers. (a) The commission shall hold a regular annual meeting on the second Tuesday in June at a time and place designated by the director. Additional meetings of the commission may be held as the needs of aeronautics may require at a time and place specified by […]
Section 23-1-357 Department – General supervision over aeronautics; cooperation with federal government and political subdivisions of the state; promulgation of rules and regulations. (a) The department shall have general supervision over all phases of aeronautics within the state pertaining to the planning and development of the state airport system plan and the inspection, acquisition, establishment, […]
Section 23-1-358 Director – Powers and duties generally. In addition to all other responsibilities prescribed for the department by this article, the director shall have the following powers and duties with respect to aeronautics activities within this state: (1) Cooperate with the United States government and any agency or department thereof in the acquisition, construction, […]
Section 23-1-359 Authority and procedure for adoption of rules and regulations. (a) The department may adopt all reasonable and necessary rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this article. (b) The rules and regulations previously promulgated by the Alabama Department of Aeronautics and the Alabama Aeronautics Commission pursuant to authority granted under Section […]
Section 23-1-360 Financial and technical assistance to municipalities in connection with acquisition, construction of airports, landing fields, or other navigational facilities. The department pursuant to appropriations made for aeronautics and aeronautical activities, may render financial assistance, and, insofar as is reasonably possible, may offer engineering or other technical services of the department to any municipality […]
Section 23-1-361 Authority to accept and receive federal funds for state acquisition, construction, etc., of airports and other navigational facilities; authority to act as agent of municipalities for same purpose; terms and conditions for disbursement of federal funds. (a) The department may accept, receive, and receipt for federal and other monies, for and on behalf […]
Section 23-1-362 Authority to audit financial records of municipality, county, and airport authority receiving funds. The department may audit the financial records of any municipality, county, and airport authority which receives any of the funds appropriated or allocated by the state insofar as may be necessary to determine that the funds are used solely and […]
Section 23-1-363 Authority to receive grants, donations, loans, etc., disposition of same for general promotion, advancement, of aeronautics. The department may receive grants, donations, gifts, and loans of funds, monies, equipment, materials, and services from any state, county, or municipal governments or any agencies thereof, or from any other person, and the department shall keep […]
Section 23-1-364 State Airports Development Fund. A fund known as the State Airports Development Fund is hereby created. The following shall be deposited in the fund to the credit of the department: (1) The revenue received from all taxes levied on aircraft fuel and other aeronautical facilities or services or persons engaged in aeronautical activities. […]
Section 23-1-365 Disposition and disbursement of State Airports Development Fund and other funds. All monies deposited into the State Airports Development Fund shall be expended for the purposes for which the monies are allocated in accordance with this article. In addition to the State Airports Development Fund, other special funds shall be created into which […]
Section 23-1-366 Disbursement of state appropriated funds; exception as to funds deposited in Surplus Military Fields Fund. (a) The distributions, expenditures, withdrawals, and disbursements of any state appropriated funds in the State Treasury to the credit of, or under the supervision and control of, the department as specified by this article shall be only in […]
Section 23-1-367 Enforcement of aeronautics law; enforcement powers generally. It shall be the duty of the director, and every state, county, and municipal officer charged with the enforcement of state and municipal laws to enforce and assist in the enforcement of this article and of all rules and regulations issued pursuant thereto and of all […]
Section 23-1-368 Investigations; administration of oaths; subpoena of witnesses; enforcement of subpoena. The director may conduct investigations and hold inquiries relating to this article. All investigations conducted shall be open to the public. The director may administer oaths and affirmations, certify official acts, issue subpoenas, and compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the […]
Section 23-1-369 Reports of investigations; limitations on use; prohibitions against compulsion of testimony. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in order to facilitate the making of investigations by the director in the interest of public safety and promotion of aeronautics, the public interest requires, and it is therefore provided, that the reports […]