Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 72 > Chapter 10 > Part 1 - Uniform Aeronautical Regulatory Act

• Advanced air mobility system: includes each component of a system described in Subsection (2)(a), including:
            (2)(b)(i) the aircraft, including payload;
            (2)(b)(ii) communications equipment;
            (2)(b)(iii) navigation equipment;
            (2)(b)(iv) controllers;
            (2)(b)(v) support equipment; and
            (2)(b)(vi) remote and autonomous functions. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Aeronautics: means transportation by aircraft, air instruction, the operation, repair, or maintenance of aircraft, and the design, operation, repair, or maintenance of airports, or other air navigation facilities. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Air instruction: means the imparting of aeronautical information by any aviation instructor or in any air school or flying club. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Air school: means any person engaged in giving, offering to give, or advertising, representing, or holding himself out as giving, with or without compensation or other reward, instruction in aeronautics, flying, or ground subjects, or in more than one of these subjects. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Aircraft: means any contrivance now known or in the future invented, used, or designed for navigation of or flight in the air. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Airport: means any area of land, water, or both, that:
       (8)(a) is used or is made available for landing and takeoff;
       (8)(b) provides facilities for the shelter, supply, and repair of aircraft, and handling of passengers and cargo;
       (8)(c) meets the minimum requirements established by the department as to size and design, surface, marking, equipment, and operation; and
       (8)(d) includes all areas shown as part of the airport in the current airport layout plan as approved by the Federal Aviation Administration. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Airport authority: means a political subdivision of the state, other than a county or municipality, that is authorized by statute to operate an airport. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Airport operator: means a municipality, county, or airport authority that owns or operates a commercial airport. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Airworthiness: means conformity with requirements prescribed by the Federal Aviation Administration regarding the structure or functioning of aircraft, engine, parts, or accessories. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Civil aircraft: means any aircraft other than a public aircraft. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Commercial airport: means a landing area, landing strip, or airport that may be used for commercial operations. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Commercial operations: means :
       (18)(a) any operations of an aircraft for compensation or hire or any services performed incidental to the operation of any aircraft for which a fee is charged or compensation is received, including the servicing, maintaining, and repairing of aircraft, the rental or charter of aircraft, the operation of flight or ground schools, the operation of aircraft for the application or distribution of chemicals or other substances, and the operation of aircraft for hunting and fishing; or
       (18)(b) the brokering or selling of any of these services; but
       (18)(c) does not include any operations of aircraft as common carriers certificated by the federal government or the services incidental to those operations. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Commission: means the Transportation Commission created under Section 72-1-301. See Utah Code 72-1-102
• Construction: means the construction, reconstruction, replacement, and improvement of the highways, including the acquisition of rights-of-way and material sites. See Utah Code 72-1-102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• County executive: means :
       (7)(a) the county commission, in the county commission or expanded county commission form of government established under Title 17, Chapter 52a, Changing Forms of County Government;
       (7)(b) the county executive, in the county executive-council optional form of government authorized by Section 17-52a-203; or
       (7)(c) the county manager, in the council-manager optional form of government authorized by Section 17-52a-204. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the Department of Transportation created in Section 72-1-201. See Utah Code 72-1-102
• Equal: means , with respect to biological sex, of the same value. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Experimental aircraft: means :
       (21)(a) any aircraft designated by the Federal Aviation Administration or the military as experimental and used solely for the purpose of experiments, or tests regarding the structure or functioning of aircraft, engines, or their accessories; and
       (21)(b) any aircraft designated by the Federal Aviation Administration as:

            (21)(b)(i) being custom or amateur built; and

            (21)(b)(ii) used for recreational, educational, or display purposes. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Flight: means any kind of locomotion by aircraft while in the air. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Flying club: means five or more persons who for neither profit nor reward own, lease, or use one or more aircraft for the purpose of instruction, pleasure, or both. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Glider: means an aircraft heavier than air, similar to an airplane, but without a power plant. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Highway: means any public road, street, alley, lane, court, place, viaduct, tunnel, culvert, bridge, or structure laid out or erected for public use, or dedicated or abandoned to the public, or made public in an action for the partition of real property, including the entire area within the right-of-way. See Utah Code 72-1-102
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Land: includes :
       (18)(a) land;
       (18)(b) a tenement;
       (18)(c) a hereditament;
       (18)(d) a water right;
       (18)(e) a possessory right; and
       (18)(f) a claim. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Mechanic: means a person who constructs, repairs, adjusts, inspects, or overhauls aircraft, engines, or accessories. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Person: means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, or association of individuals. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes :
       (25)(a) money;
       (25)(b) goods;
       (25)(c) chattels;
       (25)(d) effects;
       (25)(e) evidences of a right in action;
       (25)(f) a written instrument by which a pecuniary obligation, right, or title to property is created, acknowledged, transferred, increased, defeated, discharged, or diminished; and
       (25)(g) a right or interest in an item described in Subsections (25)(a) through (f). See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Pilot: means any person who operates the controls of an aircraft while in-flight. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Public aircraft: means an aircraft used exclusively in the service of any government or of any political subdivision, including the government of the United States, of the District of Columbia, and of any state, territory, or insular possession of the United States, but not including any government-owned aircraft engaged in carrying persons or goods for commercial purposes. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Registration number: means the number assigned by the Federal Aviation Administration to any aircraft, whether or not the number includes a letter or letters. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Road: includes :
       (33)(a) a public bridge;
       (33)(b) a county way;
       (33)(c) a county road;
       (33)(d) a common road; and
       (33)(e) a state road. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Roadable aircraft: means an aircraft capable of taking off and landing from a suitable airfield and is also designed to be driven on a highway as a conveyance. See Utah Code 72-10-102 v2
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testify: means to make an oral statement under oath or affirmation. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Town: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Unmanned aircraft: means an aircraft that is:
       (37)(a) capable of sustaining flight; and
       (37)(b) operated with no possible direct human intervention from on or within the aircraft. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Unmanned aircraft system: means the entire system used to operate an unmanned aircraft, including:
       (38)(a) the unmanned aircraft, including payload;
       (38)(b) communications equipment;
       (38)(c) navigation equipment;
       (38)(d) controllers;
       (38)(e) support equipment; and
       (38)(f) autopilot functionality. See Utah Code 72-10-102
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.