Title XXV, Aviation

The Department of Transportation shall, within the resources provided to the department:(1) Provide coordination and assistance for the development of a viable aviation system in this state. To support the system, a statewide aviation system plan shall be developed and periodical…

(1) Federal funding of individual local airport projects shall continue to be wholly between the local airport sponsors and the appropriate federal agencies; however, the Department of Transportation is authorized to receive federal grants for statewide projects when no local spo…

(1) As used in this section, the term:(a) “Commercial service airport” means an airport providing commercial service, including large, medium, small, and nonhub airports as classified by the Federal Aviation Administration.(b) “Consent agenda” means an agenda which consists of it…

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit the department’s authority under s. 331.360.History.—s. 5, ch. 99-256; s. 70, ch. 2025-208.

The following words, terms, and phrases shall in ss. 332.01-332.12 have the meanings herein given, unless otherwise specifically defined, or unless another intention clearly appears, or the context otherwise requires:(1) “Municipality” means any county, city, village, or town of …

(1) Every municipality is hereby authorized through its governing body, to acquire property, real or personal, for the purpose of establishing, constructing, and enlarging airports and other air navigation facilities and to acquire, establish, construct, enlarge, improve, maintai…

The acquisition of any lands for the purpose of establishing airports or other air navigation facilities; the acquisition of airport protection privileges; the acquisition, establishment, construction, enlargement, improvement, maintenance, equipment, and operation of airports an…

(1) The cost of investigation, surveying, planning, acquiring, establishing, constructing, enlarging, or improving or equipping airports and other air navigation facilities, and the sites therefor, including structures and other property incidental to their operation, in accordan…

The governing bodies having power to appropriate moneys within the municipalities in this state acquiring, establishing, constructing, enlarging, improving, maintaining, equipping, or operating airports and other air navigation facilities under the provisions of ss. 332.01-332.12…

(1) In addition to the general powers in ss. 332.01-332.12 conferred and without limitation thereof, a municipality that has established or may hereafter establish airports, restricted landing areas, or other air navigation facilities, or that has acquired or set apart or may her…

A municipality is authorized to accept, receive, and receipt for federal moneys, and other moneys, either public or private, for the acquisition, construction, enlargement, improvement, maintenance, equipment, or operation of airports and other air navigation facilities, and site…

It shall be lawful for and full power and authority is hereby conferred upon municipalities in any area of the state to cooperate in the exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon municipalities under the provisions of ss. 332.01-332.12, and such municipalities shall s…

(1) An eligible agency may acquire, construct, and operate all equipment, appurtenances, and land necessary to establish, maintain, and operate, or to license others to establish, maintain, operate, or use, a transportation corridor connecting an airport operated by such eligible…

Sections 332.01-332.12 may be cited as the “Airport Law of 1945.”History.—s. 13, ch. 22846, 1945.

Any multicounty airport authority created as an independent special district which is subject to a development-of-regional-impact development order and which has conducted a noise study in accordance with 14 C.F.R. part 150 shall, in fiscal year 2002, establish a noise-mitigation…

(1) There is established at the Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority an airport pilot program. The purpose of the pilot program is to determine the long-term feasibility of alternative airport permitting procedures, such as those provided in ss. 553.80, 1013.30, 1013.33, and 1013.3…

The Department of Transportation shall:(1) Address the need for vertiports, advanced air mobility, and other advances in aviation technology in the statewide aviation system plan required under s. 332.006(1) and, as appropriate, in the department’s work program.(2) Designate a su…