Texas Transportation Code Title 3, Chapter 22 - County And Municipal Airports

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 22.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Air navigation facility" means: (A) a facility, other than one owned and operated by the United States, used in or available...
• Texas Section 22.002 - Public Purpose; County Or Municipal Purpose
  (a) Subject to Chapter 101, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, the following functions are public and governmental functions, exercised for a public purpose, and matters...

SUBCHAPTER B ESTABLISHMENT, ACQUISITION, OPERATION, MAINTENANCE, AND DISPOSAL OF AIRPORTS AND AIR NAVIGATION FACILITIES

• Texas Section 22.003 - Interpretation And Construction
  This chapter shall be interpreted to make uniform as far as possible the laws and regulations of this state, other states, and the United States...
• Texas Section 22.011 - General Powers Regarding Airports And Air Navigation Facilities
  (a) A local government may plan, establish, construct, improve, equip, maintain, operate, regulate, protect, and police an airport or air navigation facility in or outside:...
• Texas Section 22.012 - Financing Of Airport Facilities
  Under Section 52-a, Article III, Texas Constitution, a local government may finance facilities to be located on airport property, other than those described by Section...
• Texas Section 22.013 - Establishment Of Airports On Public Waters
  For the purposes of this chapter, a local government may: (1) establish, acquire, or maintain, in or bordering the territory of the local government, an...
• Texas Section 22.014 - Rules And Jurisdiction
  (a) A local government may adopt ordinances, resolutions, rules, and orders necessary to manage, govern, and use an airport or air navigation facility under its...
• Texas Section 22.015 - Enforcement Of Rules
  To enforce an ordinance, resolution, rule, or order adopted under Section 22.014(a), a local government, by ordinance or resolution as appropriate, may appoint airport guards...
• Texas Section 22.016 - Relationship To Zoning
  This chapter does not: (1) authorize a local government to adopt an ordinance, resolution, rule, or order that establishes zones or otherwise regulates the height...
• Texas Section 22.017 - Delegation Of Authority To Officer, Board, Or Agency
  (a) The governing body of a local government by resolution may delegate to an officer, board, or other local governmental agency any power granted by...
• Texas Section 22.018 - Designation Of Texas Department Of Transportation As Agent In Contracting And Supervising
  (a) A local government or an owner of an eligible airport may designate the Texas Department of Transportation as its agent in contracting for and...
• Texas Section 22.019 - Contracts
  A local government may enter into a contract necessary to the execution of a power granted the local government and for a purpose provided by...
• Texas Section 22.020 - Operation Of Airport By Another
  (a) A local government, by contract, lease, or other arrangement, on a consideration fixed by the local government and for a term not to exceed...
• Texas Section 22.021 - Use Of Airport By Another
  (a) In operating an airport or air navigation facility that it owns, leases, or controls, a local government may enter into a contract, lease, or...
• Texas Section 22.022 - Duration Of Certain Leases
  (a) A lease of real property may not exceed 40 years if: (1) the lease is made under Section 22.011(c) or (d), Section 22.020, or...
• Texas Section 22.023 - Liens
  A local government has a lien on personal property to enforce the payment of a charge for repairs or improvements to, or the storage or...
• Texas Section 22.024 - Disposal Of Airport Property By Local Government
  (a) A local government may dispose of an airport or air navigation facility or other property, or a portion of or interest in property, acquired...
• Texas Section 22.025 - Limitation On Design And Operation Of Air Navigation Facilities
  An air navigation facility established or operated by a local government shall be supplementary to and coordinated in design and operation with those established and...
• Texas Section 22.026 - Noise Abatement
  (a) The governing body of a municipality that owns an airport and is a party to an executory grant agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration...

SUBCHAPTER C AIRPORT FINANCING

• Texas Section 22.027 - Municipal Permission For Ground Transportation; Offense
  (a) In this section, "ground transportation business" means the transportation by motor vehicle of persons or baggage for compensation, and includes transportation by a bus...
• Texas Section 22.051 - Taxation
  (a) The governing body of a local government may impose an annual property tax not to exceed five cents on each $100 valuation to improve,...
• Texas Section 22.052 - Bonds
  (a) A local government may pay wholly or partly from the proceeds of the sale of bonds the cost of planning, acquiring, establishing, constructing, improving,...
• Texas Section 22.053 - Time Warrants
  (a) The commissioners court of a county with a population of 14,300 to 14,500 may issue time warrants to: (1) condemn or purchase land to...
• Texas Section 22.054 - Application Of Airport Revenue And Sale Proceeds
  A local government shall deposit the revenue received by the local government from the ownership, control, or operation of an airport or air navigation facility,...

SUBCHAPTER D JOINT OPERATIONS

• Texas Section 22.055 - Federal And State Aid; Other Grants And Loans
  (a) A local government may accept, give a receipt for, disburse, and spend money from grants and loans for any of the purposes of this...
• Texas Section 22.071 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Constituent agency" means a public agency that is a party to an agreement under Section 22.072 to act jointly under this...
• Texas Section 22.072 - Joint-action Agreement
  (a) Two or more public agencies may enter into an agreement with each other for joint action under this chapter. Concurrent action by ordinance, resolution,...
• Texas Section 22.073 - Additional Authorization
  A power or privilege granted to a local government by this chapter may be exercised jointly with a public agency of another state or the...
• Texas Section 22.074 - Joint Board
  (a) Public agencies acting jointly under this subchapter shall create a joint board consisting of members appointed by the governing authority of each participating public...
• Texas Section 22.0745 - Nonconstituent Municipality Representation On Joint Board
  (a) In this section, "nonconstituent municipality" means a municipality that has territory within the boundaries of an airport that is governed by a joint board...
• Texas Section 22.075 - Acquisition Of Property By Populous Home-rule Municipalities
  (a) A joint board for which the constituent agencies are populous home-rule municipalities may not acquire in fee simple property in a municipality to enlarge...
• Texas Section 22.076 - Treatment Of Hazardous Waste Prohibited
  (a) A joint board may not construct a facility to treat hazardous waste as defined by Section 361.003, Health and Safety Code, in an area...
• Texas Section 22.077 - Certain Activities Near Airport Boundaries Prohibited
  (a) A joint board for which the constituent agencies are populous home-rule municipalities may not begin construction in a prohibited area of any of the...
• Texas Section 22.078 - Intergovernmental Agreement With Political Subdivision
  A joint board for which the constituent agencies are populous home-rule municipalities may make an intergovernmental agreement with a political subdivision of the state. Acts...
• Texas Section 22.0781 - Revenue Sharing Agreement With Municipality
  (a) A municipality, a joint board for which the constituent agencies are populous home-rule municipalities, and the constituent agencies may make an agreement under which...
• Texas Section 22.079 - Budget
  On or before December 1 of each year, the governing authority of each constituent agency of a joint board shall approve a budget determining the...
• Texas Section 22.080 - Acquisition And Disposal Of Property
  (a) A joint board may not, without the consent of each governing authority of the board's constituent agencies: (1) acquire an airport, air navigation facility,...
• Texas Section 22.081 - Licensing Of Vehicles For Hire And Passenger Transportation Services
  (a) A joint board may license taxicabs transporting passengers to or from the airport and impose fees for issuing the licenses. (b) A joint board...
• Texas Section 22.0815 - Offense: Unauthorized Ground Transportation
  Sec. 22.0815. OFFENSE: UNAUTHORIZED GROUND TRANSPORTATION. (a) In this section, "ground transportation business" means the transportation by motor vehicle of persons or baggage for compensation....
• Texas Section 22.082 - Rules
  A resolution, rule, or order of a joint board dealing with a subject authorized by Section 22.014 or 22.081 is effective only on approval of...
• Texas Section 22.083 - Joint Fund
  (a) Each constituent agency shall deposit in a joint fund created and maintained to provide the joint board with money for expenditures necessary to carry...
• Texas Section 22.084 - Airport Revenue And Revenue Bond Proceeds; Contracting Opportunities For Minority- And Women-owned Businesses
  (a) If constituent agencies or a nonprofit corporation created under Section 22.152 issues revenue bonds to finance the construction or acquisition of a facility or...
• Texas Section 22.085 - Insurance
  (a) A joint board, through self-insurance, purchased insurance, or both, may insure the joint board and its contractors and subcontractors against liability arising from the...
• Texas Section 22.086 - Acceptance Of Credit Cards
  A joint board may: (1) accept credit cards in payment of fees for all or certain categories of services provided by or on behalf of...
• Texas Section 22.087 - Use Of Terminal Facilities By Manufacturers And Concessionaires
  A joint board may: (1) use the property, including terminal buildings, of a jointly owned airport to display, demonstrate, market, and sell aircraft and aircraft-related,...
• Texas Section 22.088 - Expenditure Of Bond Revenue By Joint Board Without Competitive Bidding
  (a) A joint board may spend or agree to spend the proceeds of revenue bonds under its control to acquire and install furniture, fixtures, and...
• Texas Section 22.089 - Airport Revenue Of Nonconstituent Municipalities
  (a) In this section: (1) "Airport revenue" means revenue that is not already pledged or dedicated for another purpose and is received by a nonconstituent...

SUBCHAPTER E NONPROFIT AIRPORT FACILITY FINANCING CORPORATIONS

• Texas Section 22.090 - Retail Development Within Airport Boundaries In Nonconstituent Municipality
  (a) A person may not develop a retail establishment in an area of a nonconstituent municipality, as defined by Section 22.089, that is separated from...
• Texas Section 22.151 - Definitions
  The definitions in Subchapter D apply to this subchapter. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
• Texas Section 22.152 - Nonprofit Airport Facility Financing Corporations
  (a) The public agencies, by concurrent order, ordinance, or resolution, may authorize the incorporation of a nonprofit airport facility financing corporation under this chapter to...
• Texas Section 22.153 - Approval Of Articles Of Incorporation; Appointment Of Board Of Directors
  (a) The concurrent order, ordinance, or resolution of the constituent agencies authorizing incorporation of the nonprofit airport facility financing corporation must approve the articles of...
• Texas Section 22.154 - Incorporation
  A nonprofit airport facility financing corporation may be incorporated under this chapter by filing its articles of incorporation with the secretary of state in the...
• Texas Section 22.155 - Bylaws
  The joint board under whose authority the jointly owned airport is operated shall approve or prescribe the bylaws of the corporation. The bylaws may prescribe...
• Texas Section 22.156 - Applicable Laws
  The corporation has the powers granted by this chapter, the Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act (Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), and all other...
• Texas Section 22.157 - Bonds
  (a) A nonprofit airport facility financing corporation may provide financing for the purposes described by Section 22.152(a) by issuing bonds, notes, or other forms of...
• Texas Section 22.158 - Earnings
  (a) No part of a nonprofit airport facility financing corporation's net earnings remaining after payment of its expenses and other obligations may benefit an individual,...

SUBCHAPTER Z MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 22.159 - Alteration Or Termination Of Corporation
  The constituent agencies that authorize the incorporation of a nonprofit airport facility financing corporation may alter the structure, organization, programs, or activities of the corporation...
• Texas Section 22.901 - Disposal Of Abandoned Aircraft
  (a) A local government that is unable to determine the ownership of an aircraft that has been located for more than 90 days at an...

Last modified: September 28, 2016