As used in this article 3, unless the context otherwise
requires:
(1) 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 used or
useful as an aid, or constituting an advantage or convenience to the safe taking off,
navigation, and landing of aircraft, or the safe and efficient operation or
maintenance of an airport, and any combination of any or all of such facilities.
(2) Airport means any area of land or water which is used, or intended for
use, for the landing and takeoff of aircraft, and any appurtenant areas which are
used, or intended for use, for airport buildings or other airport facilities or rights-of-way, together with all airport buildings and facilities located thereon however
financed. Such facilities may also include land and buildings, together with all
appurtenances necessary or convenient thereto for the accommodation or
convenience of the public, whether or not the members of the public so
accommodated are directly or indirectly engaged in transportation by air, including,
but not limited to, parking, dining, recreational, and hotel facilities.
(3) Airport hazard means any structure, object of natural growth, or use of
land which obstructs the airspace required for the flight of aircraft in landing or
taking off at an airport, or is otherwise hazardous to such landing or taking off of
aircraft.
(4) Authority means a body corporate and politic and constituting a
political subdivision of the state created for airport purposes under the provisions
of this article.
(5) Board, as distinguished from the governing board defined in subsection
(11) of this section, means the board of commissioners of any airport authority
created pursuant to the provisions of this article.
(6) Bonds means any bonds, notes, interim certificates, debentures, or
similar obligations issued by an authority pursuant to this article.
(7) Clerk means the custodian of the official records of a municipality or
county.
(8) Combination means any combination comprised of two or more
municipalities, two or more counties, or any combination of one or more
municipalities and one or more counties.
(9) County means any county organized under the laws of the state of
Colorado or an adjoining state and includes public entities which are both cities and
counties.
(10) Federal government means the United States, or any of its officers,
agencies, boards, or commissions.
(11) Governing board means the officials authorized by law to exercise by
ordinance or resolution the lawmaking powers of a municipality or county.
(12) Income of the authority means all revenues derived directly or
indirectly by the authority from the use and operation of the airport, including, but
not limited to, interest on investments and all rentals, fees, rates, or other charges
for the use of the airport, or for any services rendered by the authority in the
operation thereof, but excluding, if necessary or appropriate, money received as
grants or gifts from the federal government or the state or other sources, the use of
which is limited by the grantor or donor to the construction of capital improvements
to an airport.
(12.5) Inflation means the annual percentage change in the United States
department of labor, bureau of labor statistics, consumer price index for Denver-Aurora-Lakewood for all items paid by all urban consumers, or its successor index.
(13) Municipality means any city or town, whether incorporated under the
general laws of the state of Colorado or an adjoining state, article XX of the state
constitution, or acts of the council and house of representatives of the territory of
Colorado, but does not include local entities which are both cities and counties.
(14) Person means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company,
association, joint-stock association, or body politic; and the term includes any
trustee, receiver, assignee, or other similar representative thereof.
(15) Resolution means a resolution of the board of county commissioners of
a county or ordinance of a city, city and county, or town, whichever form of action is
necessary or appropriate under the laws of the state of Colorado or an adjoining
state, or under the charter of a city, or city and county, incorporated pursuant to
article XX of the state constitution.
(16) State means the state of Colorado or any of its agencies.