Code of Alabama - Title 4: Aviation - Chapter 6 - Airport Zoning

• Section 4-6-1 Short title
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Airport Zoning Act."
• Section 4-6-2 Definitions
  As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1)...
• Section 4-6-3 Airport hazards contrary to public interest; elimination, alteration, etc., of hazards declared public purpose
  It is hereby found that an airport hazard endangers the lives and property of users of the airport and of occupants of land in its...
• Section 4-6-4 Authority of counties and municipalities to adopt regulations; zoning jurisdiction of counties and municipalities
  (a) Counties. - In order to prevent the creation or establishment of airport hazards, any county having an airport hazard area within its zoning jurisdiction,...
• Section 4-6-5 Airport zoning commission
  Prior to the initial zoning of any airport hazard area under this chapter, the political subdivision which is to adopt the regulations shall be authorized...
• Section 4-6-6 Procedure for adoption of regulations
  The legislative body of such political subdivision in question shall provide for the manner in which such regulations and restrictions and the boundaries of such...
• Section 4-6-7 Reasonableness of regulations; standards for adoption of regulations; nonconforming uses
  (a) Reasonableness. - All airport zoning regulations adopted under this chapter shall be reasonable, and none shall impose any requirement or restriction which is not...
• Section 4-6-8 Permits; variances; installation, etc., of markers and lights upon airport hazards
  (a) Permits. - Any airport zoning regulations adopted under this chapter may require that a permit be obtained before any new structure or use may...
• Section 4-6-9 Administration and enforcement of regulations
  All airport zoning regulations adopted under this chapter shall provide for the administration and enforcement of such regulations by an administrative agency which may be...
• Section 4-6-10 Powers and duties of administrative agency; procedure and records of official actions of agency
  (a) All airport zoning regulations adopted under this chapter shall provide for an administrative agency to have and exercise the following powers: (1) To hear...
• Section 4-6-11 Appeals from action of administrative agency or governing body
  (a) Any person aggrieved by any decision of an administrative agency made in its administration of airport zoning regulations adopted under this chapter or any...
• Section 4-6-12 Remedies for correction, abatement, etc., of violations of regulations, etc
  In case any building or structure is erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, repaired, converted or maintained, or any building, structure or land is used in violation...
• Section 4-6-13 Acquisition of air rights, easements, etc
  In any case in which: (1) It is desired to remove, lower or otherwise terminate a nonconforming structure or use; or (2) The approach protection...
• Section 4-6-14 Chapter not to affect existing municipal zoning ordinances, boundaries, etc
  Nothing contained in this chapter shall be held to repeal, modify or change in any way, any regulations, restrictions, boundaries or ordinances existing or in...
• Section 4-6-15 Relation of airport zoning regulations to comprehensive zoning regulations
  (a) Incorporation. - In the event that a political subdivision has adopted, or hereafter adopts, a comprehensive zoning ordinance regulating, among other things, the height...

Last modified: May 3, 2021