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In adopting, administering, and enforcing any airport zoning regulations under this chapter, the political subdivision or subdivisions shall consider the airport airspace plan prepared by the airport corporation and the further considerations outlined in § 1-3-4.

All airport zoning regulations adopted under this chapter shall be reasonable and none shall impose any requirement or restriction which is not reasonably necessary to effectuate the purpose of the chapter. In addition, each political subdivision and zoning board shall consider t…

No airport zoning regulations adopted under this chapter shall require the removal, lowering, or other change or alteration of any structure or tree not conforming to the regulations when adopted or amended, or otherwise interfere with the continuance of any nonconforming use, ex…

This chapter shall be known and cited as the “Uniform Aeronautical Regulatory Act”.

The president and CEO shall adopt and promulgate, and may amend or repeal, rules and regulations establishing minimum standards with which all air navigation facilities, air schools, and flying clubs must comply, and shall adopt and enforce, and may amend or repeal rules, regulat…

(a) Negligent, careless, or reckless operation. No person may operate an aircraft in a negligent, careless, or reckless manner so as to endanger the life or property of another. (b) Aerobatic flight. No person may operate an aircraft in aerobatic flight: (1) Over any congested or…

It shall be unlawful: (1) For any person to operate or authorize the operation of any civil aircraft which does not possess a valid identification mark assigned by the federal government. (2) For any resident to own or authorize the operation of any civil aircraft owned by him or…

(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…

(a) The Rhode Island airport corporation is authorized and directed to coordinate with the federal aviation administration to complete a memorandum of agreement between the Rhode Island airport corporation and the federal aviation administration (FAA) to provide for the continuin…

The Rhode Island airport corporation will prepare a report on a quarterly basis pertaining to the volume and quantity and flight track of air traffic at the Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport in the city of Warwick, occurring during each quarter being reported on. Thes…

The Rhode Island airport corporation, on a biannual basis, beginning in January 2005, will present the reports provided for in § 1-5-2 to the general public at public hearings to be held within the cities of Warwick and Cranston. The Rhode Island airport corporation shall report …

As used in this chapter: (1) “Administrator” means the state tax administrator. (2) “District” means the Warwick airport parking district, being the district that runs from a point on Main Avenue in the city of Warwick at the southerly boundary of Rhode Island T.F. Green Internat…

All surcharges collected by a parking facility operator in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and all surcharges collected by any parking facility operator from persons paying transient parking surcharges under color of these provisions, constitute a trust fund until…

The surcharges authorized by § 1-6-2 shall apply notwithstanding § 42-64-20; provided, however, that the case of any transient parking facility operator as to which § 42-64-20 otherwise applies: (1) The transient parking facility operator shall not be required to pay any permit f…

There is imposed on all transient parking in the district a surcharge in an amount equal to five percent (5%) of transient parking receipts. The surcharge shall be collected by the operator of each facility providing transient parking in the district and remitted by the operator …

(a) Every person desiring to provide transient parking in the district shall file with the tax administrator an application for a permit for each place of business where transient parking will be provided. The application shall be in a form, include information, and bear any sign…

The administrator may require the filing of periodic reports, not more frequently than monthly, setting out any information that the tax administrator may require. The surcharge for the transient parking shown or which should be shown on the report shall be due with the report; p…

(a) If the tax administrator is not satisfied with the return or returns or the amount of surcharges paid to the tax administrator by any person, the tax administrator may compute and determine the amount required to be paid upon the basis of the facts contained in the return or …

Prior to the sale or transfer by any operator other than receivers, assignees under a voluntary assignment for the benefit of creditors, trustees in bankruptcy, or public officers acting under judicial process of a parking facility, the parking operator, at least five (5) days be…

(a) Every operator shall keep books, records, receipts, invoices, and other pertinent papers in the form the tax administrator may require, that those books, records, receipts, invoices, and other papers shall at all reasonable times be open to the inspection of the tax administr…

The tax administrator may prescribe rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, to carry into effect the provisions of this section, which rules and regulations, when reasonably designed to carry out the intent and purpose of this section, are prima facie evidence of their …

Any operator who is not a resident of this state shall, as a condition precedent to engaging in the transient parking business and by engaging in that business, does consent that any process issued in the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter may be served upon the direct…

(a) The Rhode Island airport corporation (RIAC) shall design, acquire, install, operate, and maintain a long-term air-quality-monitoring program in the vicinity of Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport. The corporation may hire a consultant to perform these tasks. (b) The…

The general assembly hereby finds and declares as follows: (a) Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport is located in a densely populated, primarily residential area of the city of Warwick. (b) Many of the airport operations and activities result in emissions of a number of …

The following words and phrases, for the purposes of this chapter, have the following meanings: (1) “Corporation” means the Rhode Island airport corporation as established in § 1-2-1.1. (2) “Monitoring program” means the long-term, air-quality monitoring program as established by…

An “air quality monitoring public advisory committee” shall be established to advise the corporation on the development and implementation of the long-term, air-quality monitoring program, and the preparation of annual work plans. The public advisory committee shall be made up of…

(a) The corporation shall provide the department of health with funding in an amount not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), half to be paid in fiscal year 2008 and the other half to be paid in fiscal year 2009, which funds the department of health will use for an …

(a) The corporation shall provide the department of environmental management with an inventory of greenhouse gas pollutants, including, but not limited to, carbon dioxide and methane, and an annual inventory of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and carbon monoxide. The inventories…