§ 3-65.5v1 — Operation and use privileges.

A. Under Municipal Operation. In operating an airport, vertiport, air navigation facility or aircraft maintenance or manufacturing facility owned, leased or controlled by a municipality, such municipality may, except as may be limited by the terms and conditions of any grant, loan, or agreement pursuant to Section 65.13 of this title, enter into contracts, leases and other arrangements for a primary term not exceeding fifty (50) years with any persons: 1. Granting the privilege of using or improving such airport, vertiport, air navigation facility or aircraft maintenance or manufacturing facility or any portion or facility thereof, or space therein for commercial purposes; 2. Conferring the privilege of supplying goods, commodities, things, services or facilities at such airport, vertiport, air navigation facility or aircraft maintenance or manufacturing facility; or 3. Making available services to be furnished by the municipality or its agents at such airport, vertiport, air navigation facility or aircraft maintenance or manufacturing facility. In each case the municipality may establish the terms and conditions and fix the charges, rentals or fees for the privileges or services, which shall be reasonable and uniform for the same class of privilege or service and shall be established with due regard to the property and improvements used and the expenses of operation to the municipality. B. Under Other Operation. Except as may be limited by the terms and conditions of any grant, loan, or agreement pursuant to Section 65.13 of this title, a municipality may by contract, lease or other arrangement, upon a consideration fixed by it, grant to any qualified person for a term not to exceed five (5) years the privilege of operating, as agent of the municipality or otherwise, any airport or vertiport owned or controlled by the municipality; provided, that no such person shall be granted any authority to operate such airport or vertiport other than as a public facility or to enter into any contracts, leases, or other arrangements in connection with the operation of the airport or vertiport which the municipality might not have undertaken under subsection A of this section.

Legislative History

Added by Laws 1947, p. 17, § 5. Amended by Laws 1991, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 1, § 1, emerg. eff. Jan. 18, 1991; Laws 2019, c. 156, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019; Laws 2024, c. 18, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2024.