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(a) Authority to take. The president and CEO or any police officer of the Rhode Island airport corporation, upon discovery of any aircraft or aircraft parts apparently abandoned, or of any aircraft without a currently effective state of Rhode Island or federal registration certif…

(a) Every general rule, regulation, and order of the president and CEO shall be posted for public inspection in the main office of the president and CEO at least five (5) days before it becomes effective, and shall be given any further publicity, by advertisement in a newspaper o…

The president and CEO has the power to conduct investigations, inquiries, and hearings concerning matters covered by the provisions of this chapter and accidents or injuries incident to the operation of aircraft occurring within this state. The president and CEO has the power to …

The reports of investigations or hearings, or any part of the reports, shall not be admitted in evidence or used for any purpose in any suit, action, or proceeding growing out of any matter referred to in those investigations or hearings, or in any report, except in the case of c…

(a) It is the duty of the president and CEO, and every state and municipal officer charged with the enforcement of state laws to enforce and assist in the enforcement of this chapter. The president and CEO is further authorized in the name of the state to enforce the provisions o…

In any case where the president and CEO, pursuant to this chapter, issues any order requiring or prohibiting certain things to be done, the president and CEO shall set forth his or her reasons for the order and state the requirements to be met before approval is given or the rule…

Any person against whom an order is entered may obtain a judicial review of that order under the provisions of chapter 35 of title 42.

If an appeal is not taken from the order of the president and CEO within the fixed period, the party against whom the order was entered shall be deemed to have waived the right to have the reasonableness or lawfulness of the order reviewed by a court and that issue shall not be t…

Any person failing to comply with the requirements, or violating any of the provisions of this chapter, or the rules, regulations, or orders adopted by the director is guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment fo…

When used in this chapter: (1) “Aeronautics” means transportation by aircraft, air instruction, the operation, repair, or maintenance of aircraft, and the design, operation, repair, or maintenance of airports, landing fields, or other air navigation facilities. (2) “Aircraft” mea…

If any provision of this chapter, or the application of this chapter to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application and to this …

Whenever any aircraft is used, operated, or caused to be operated in this state and an action is begun to recover damages for injuries arising to the person or to the property or for the death of a person, arising out of an accident or collision in which that aircraft was involve…

The operator of an aircraft involved in an accident or incident as defined in 49 C.F.R. 830 shall immediately notify the Rhode Island airport corporation operations department. This notification shall be in addition to any duty to notify and provide a report to the National Trans…

No flight of civil aircraft, other than a foreign aircraft, shall be made or authorized to be made within this state unless the aircraft is possessed of valid aircraft registration and airworthiness or experimental certificates issued by the government of the United States, nor i…

No person shall operate any civil aircraft within this state unless that person is the holder of an effective pilot’s license, permit, or certificate issued by the government of the United States. This restriction shall not apply to any person operating any aircraft licensed by a…

(a) All owners and operators, or owners or operators, of all aircraft, and dealers in aircraft, based or primarily used in the state of Rhode Island shall register the federal certificates of their aircraft and dealer registration as the president and CEO may by regulation prescr…

A required pilot’s license, permit, or certificate shall be kept in the personal possession of the pilot while the pilot is operating an aircraft within this state. Required aircraft certificates shall be carried in the aircraft at all times and shall be conspicuously posted in c…

It shall be the duty of the president and CEO to foster aeronautics within this state in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and for that purpose the president and CEO shall: (1) Encourage the establishment of airports and other air navigation facilities; (2) Make reco…

(a) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, the president and CEO has supervision over aeronautics within the state, including: (1) The establishment, location, maintenance, operation, and use of airports, landing fields, air markings, air beacons, and other ai…