Alabama Codes

Title 4 - Aviation

Chapter 1 - 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...