Minnesota Statutes 270.071 – Definitions
Subdivision 1.Applicability.
The following words and phrases, when used in sections 270.071 to 270.079, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section.
Subd. 2.Air commerce.
Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes 270.071
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
- state: extends to and includes the District of Columbia and the several territories. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes 270.071
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
- state: extends to and includes the District of Columbia and the several territories. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
“Air commerce” means the transportation by aircraft of persons or property for hire in interstate, intrastate, or international transportation on regularly scheduled flights or on intermittent or irregularly timed flights by airline companies and includes transportation by any airline company making three or more flights in or out of Minnesota, or within Minnesota, during a calendar year.
Subd. 3.Aircraft.
“Aircraft” means any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used or designed for navigation of or flight in the air.
Subd. 4.Airline company.
“Airline company” means any person who undertakes, directly or indirectly, to engage in the business of air commerce.
Subd. 5.Commissioner.
“Commissioner” means state commissioner of revenue.
Subd. 6.Equated plane hours.
“Equated plane hours” means hours spent by aircraft in flight weighted according to the cargo capacity of each aircraft.
Subd. 7.Flight property.
“Flight property” means all aircraft and flight equipment used in connection therewith, including spare flight equipment. Flight property also includes computers and computer software used in operating, controlling, or regulating aircraft and flight equipment. Flight property does not include aircraft with a maximum takeoff weight of less than 30,000 pounds.
Subd. 7a.Intermittent or irregularly timed flights.
“Intermittent or irregularly timed flights” means any flight in which the departure time, departure location, and arrival location are specifically negotiated with the customer or the customer’s representative, including but not limited to charter flights.
Subd. 8.Person.
“Person” means an individual, trust, estate, fiduciary, partnership, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, governmental unit or agency, public or private organization of any kind, or other legal entity.
Subd. 9.Small or medium sized community.
“Small or medium sized community” means a home rule charter or statutory city or town in Minnesota with a population of 100,000 or fewer that is not located in Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, or Washington Counties.