Indiana Code 8-21-9-14. Promotion of airport facilities; cooperation with federal government; title to airport property
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Terms Used In Indiana Code 8-21-9-14
- Airport: means any location on land, water or upon any building or other structure which is used for the landing and taking off of aircraft, which provides for the shelter, supply or care of aircraft, or a place used for receiving or discharging passengers or cargo by air. See Indiana Code 8-21-9-2
- Airport facility: includes the following: lands, access roads, parking facilities, railroad siding facilities, snow removal or impacting equipment, fire and ambulance equipment, motor vehicles, apparatus or equipment for disseminating weather information, for signaling, for radio directional finding or for radio or other electrical communication, any structure or mechanism for guiding or controlling flight in the air or the landing and take-off of aircraft or otherwise in aid of air navigation, piers, docks, wharves, warehouses, sheds, transit sheds, elevators, compressors, refrigeration, storage plants, hangars, shops, buildings, structures and other facilities, appurtenances and equipment necessary or useful in connection with the operation of a modern airport and every kind of terminal or storage structure or facility designed for use in the handling, storage, loading or unloading of freight or passengers at airports, and every kind of transportation facility designed for use in connection with an airport. See Indiana Code 8-21-9-2
- Department: refers to the Indiana department of transportation. See Indiana Code 8-21-9-2
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
Sec. 14. The department shall prepare sketches, plans and descriptive material relating to any such airport, or airport facility, as in its discretion may seem feasible; to compile data and prepare literature as to the necessity or advisability thereof; and to do other acts and things which it considers necessary to promote any such airport or airport facility and deems to be in the public interest; to carry on in its discretion negotiations and enter into agreements and contracts with the federal government or agencies thereof for or relating to the building and construction of any airport or airport facility to be located within the State of Indiana; to locate and acquire a suitable site for any such airport or airport facility; and to construct, develop, maintain and operate the same in cooperation with the federal government, or any agency thereof, or otherwise, in such manner and on such terms as will, in the discretion of the department, best serve the commercial, industrial and agricultural interests of the state. The title to all property included in any such airport or airport facility shall be taken in the name of the state of Indiana.
Formerly: Acts 1971, P.L.105, SEC.2. As amended by Acts 1980, P.L.74, SEC.345.