§ 8-21-9-2 — Definitions

(a) As used in this chapter, the term:
(1) "Airport" means any location on land, water or upon any
building or other structure which is used for the landing and
taking off of aircraft, which provides for the shelter, supply or
care of aircraft, or a place used for receiving or discharging
passengers or cargo by air.
(2) "Airport facility" includes the following: lands, access roads,
parking facilities, railroad siding facilities, snow removal or
impacting equipment, fire and ambulance equipment, motor
vehicles, apparatus or equipment for disseminating weather
information, for signaling, for radio directional finding or for
radio or other electrical communication, any structure or
mechanism for guiding or controlling flight in the air or the
landing and take-off of aircraft or otherwise in aid of air
navigation, piers, docks, wharves, warehouses, sheds, transit
sheds, elevators, compressors, refrigeration, storage plants,
hangars, shops, buildings, structures and other facilities,
appurtenances and equipment necessary or useful in connection
with the operation of a modern airport and every kind of terminal
or storage structure or facility designed for use in the handling,
storage, loading or unloading of freight or passengers at airports,
and every kind of transportation facility designed for use in
connection with an airport. The term "airport facility" includes the
term "airport".
(3) "Commissioner" refers to the commissioner of the department.
(4) "Cost", as applied to an airport facility, includes the cost of
construction; the cost of acquisition of all land, rights-of-way,
property, rights, easements and interests acquired by the authority
for the construction; the cost of demolishing or removing
buildings or structures on land so acquired, including the cost of
acquiring lands to which buildings or structures may be moved;
the cost of relocating public roads, railroads, public utility
facilities, including the cost of land or easements, the cost of all
machinery and equipment, financing charges, interest prior to and
during construction and for not exceeding two (2) years after the
estimated date of completion of construction; cost of engineering,
architectural and legal expenses, plans, specifications, surveys,
estimates of traffic and revenues; other expenses necessary or
incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of
constructing any airport facility; administrative expenses; and
other expenses as are necessary or incident to the construction of
an airport facility, the financing of the construction, and the
placing of the airport facility in operation. The term includes the
payment or reimbursement of obligations incurred or loans or
advances made by or to the department for any of the foregoing.
The cost of an airport facility may include, instead of the cost of
the acquisition of the land constituting the site of such facility, the
value of the land as determined by the department. The proceeds
of revenue bonds representing the value of the land shall be
deposited in the "Airport Fund".
(5) "Current expenses" means the department's reasonable and
necessary costs of maintaining, repairing and operating the
projects and includes all administrative expenses, insurance
premiums, engineering expenses relating to operation and
maintenance, legal expenses, charges of the paying agents, taxes
lawfully imposed on the department or its income or operations
or the property under its control and reserves for taxes and
payments in lieu of taxes, ordinary and usual expenses of
maintenance and repair, including expenses not annually
recurring, expenses incurred in the performance of the powers
under this chapter and other expenses required to be paid by the
department under a trust agreement securing revenue bonds or by
law. The term does not include any allowance for depreciation or
transfers to the credit of the sinking fund for the revenue bonds.
(6) "Department" refers to the Indiana department of
transportation.
(7) "Existing airport facilities" means the properties which are
acquired by the department from public or private entities under
this chapter.
(8) "Project" means the existing airport facilities or any airport
facility acquired, constructed, controlled or operated by the
department, together with all property, rights, easements and
interest appertaining to the facility, acquired for the construction
or operation of the facility.
(b) Other words and phrases when used in this chapter shall, for the
purposes of this chapter, have the meanings found in IC 8-21-1, except
as otherwise provided in this chapter.
Formerly: Acts 1971, P.L.105, SEC.2. As amended by Acts
1980, P.L.74, SEC.342; P.L.18-1990, SEC.158.