Sec. 13b-50p. Complaints re repeated landings or takeoffs by aircraft from real property not licensed as an airport or other air navigation facility.
Sec. 13b-50p. Complaints re repeated landings or takeoffs by aircraft from
real property not licensed as an airport or other air navigation facility. (a) The
Commissioner of Transportation, upon receipt of a written complaint, in such form and
containing such information as the commissioner may require, from any person alleging
that there have been repeated landings or takeoffs by aircraft from any real property not
licensed as an airport, heliport, restricted landing area or other air navigation facility
under the provisions of section 13b-46, may require the owner of such property to keep
records of all landings and takeoffs made by aircraft from such property for a period of
one year. Upon receipt of such records the commissioner shall, within ten days, forward
them to the chief elected official of the municipality in which such area or facility is
located. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any landing or takeoff made
by military aircraft or an emergency medical service organization, any landing made
for emergency purposes or to any landing or takeoff made at an annual special event or
for agricultural purposes.
(b) The Commissioner of Transportation shall adopt regulations in accordance with
chapter 54 to implement the provisions of subsection (a) of this section. The regulations
shall include, but not be limited to, the type of information the property owner may be
required to record, the procedures for transmitting such information to the commissioner
and standards for determining what constitutes an annual special event and agricultural
purposes.
(c) Any person who violates any provision of this section or any regulation adopted
pursuant to this section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars.
(d) In addition to the fine imposed pursuant to subsection (c) of this section, a municipality may, by ordinance, establish a fine of not more than two hundred fifty dollars
for violating any provision of this section.
(P.A. 97-258, S. 1, 2; P.A. 98-78.)
History: P.A. 97-258 effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 98-78 amended Subsec. (a) to require the commissioner to forward,
within ten days, the records of landings and takeoffs at an air navigational facility to the chief elected official of the
municipality where such facility is located and added Subsec. (d) allowing a municipality to establish, by ordinance, a fine
of not more than $250.