Code of Alabama - Title 4: Aviation - Chapter 4 - Municipal Airports and Regulations

• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 4-4-6 Acquisition of lands by condemnation
  In the event any municipality shall resort to condemnation proceedings for the acquisition of lands for airport uses, such proceedings shall be governed in all...
• Section 4-4-7 Control of airports by municipal governing bodies; delegation of powers to other bodies or officers
  When any municipality has acquired or set apart land for use as a municipal airport, the council or other governing body of such municipality shall...
• Section 4-4-8 Municipality may provide goods, services, etc.; grant of concessions
  Any municipality which has established, or which shall hereafter establish, a municipal airport shall have authority to furnish or supply upon said airport, to persons...
• Section 4-4-9 Municipal liens for supplies, services, etc.; liens of concessionaires; priority and enforcement of liens
  Each municipality which is operating a municipal airport shall have a lien upon any civil aircraft for the reasonable price of supplies, space, facilities or...
• Section 4-4-10 Abatement or removal of hazards; acquisition of air rights; markers or lights on hazards
  Any municipality of this state which has established and is operating a municipal airport shall have the power and authority to condemn, or acquire by...
• Section 4-4-11 Bonds for airport purposes
  Each municipality in this state shall have full and continuing power and authority, within the limits of the constitution now or hereafter in effect, to...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...

Last modified: May 3, 2021