Title 42, Aeronautics

The municipality may by purchase, gift, devise, lease, eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, acquire existing airports and air navigation facilities; provided, that it shall not acquire or take over any airport or air navigation facility owned or controlled by another municipa…

For the purposes of this chapter, a municipality may establish or acquire and maintain, within or bordering upon the territorial limits of the municipality, airports in, over and upon any public waters of this state, any submerged lands under such public waters, and any artificia…

All air navigation facilities established or operated by municipalities shall be supplementary to and coordinated in design and operation with those established and operated by the federal and state governments.

Any airport so acquired, owned, leased, controlled or occupied by municipalities shall be and is declared to be acquired, owned, leased, controlled or occupied for a public purpose.

(a) In the acquisition of property by eminent domain proceedings authorized by this chapter, the municipality shall proceed in the manner provided by title 29, chapter 16. For the purpose of making surveys and examinations relative to any eminent domain proceedings, it is lawful …

Except as may be limited by the terms and conditions of any grant, loan or agreement pursuant to § 42-5-119, every municipality may, by sale, lease or otherwise, dispose of any airport, air navigation facility or other property, or portion thereof or interest therein, acquired pu…

(a) Municipal Operation. (1) In operating an airport or air navigation facility owned, leased or controlled by a municipality, the municipality may, except as may be limited by the terms and conditions of any grant, loan or agreement pursuant to § 42-5-119, enter into contracts, …

To enforce the payment of any charges for repairs or improvements to, or storage or care of, any personal property made or furnished by the municipality or its agents in connection with the operation of an airport or air navigation facility owned or operated by the municipality, …

Any authority vested by this chapter in a municipality or in the governing body thereof, for the planning, establishment, development, construction, enlargement, improvement, maintenance, equipment, operation, regulation, protection and policing of airports or other air navigatio…

(a) (1) A municipality that has established or acquired, or that may hereafter establish or acquire, an airport or air navigation facility, is authorized to adopt, amend and repeal such reasonable ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations and orders as it shall deem necessar…

(a) The governing body of any municipality having power to appropriate and raise money is authorized to appropriate and to raise by taxation or otherwise sufficient moneys to carry out the provisions and purposes of this chapter. (b) Regardless of any limitation by general or spe…

The cost of planning, acquiring, establishing, developing, constructing, enlarging, improving, maintaining or equipping an airport or air navigation facility, or the site therefor, including buildings, structures and other facilities incidental to the operation thereof or relatin…

(a) Any acquisition of property previously made, within or without the limits of any municipality or the state, for the purposes authorized by this chapter, and any other action previously taken by a municipality in furtherance of those purposes, including, but not limited to, th…

All bonds issued prior to March 17, 1961, and all proceedings taken by any municipality of this state prior to March 17, 1961, to authorize the issuance of bonds for airport purposes of whatsoever nature, including, but not limited to, the cost of planning, acquiring, establishin…

The revenues obtained by a municipality from the ownership, control or operation of any airport or air navigation facility, including proceeds from the sale of any airport or portion thereof or air navigation facility property, may, subject to any contractual obligations with res…

(a) Acceptance Authorized; Conditions. Except as otherwise provided by law, every municipality is authorized to accept, receive, receipt for, disburse and expend federal and state moneys and other moneys, public or private, made available by grant or loan or both to accomplish in…

A municipality may enter into any contracts necessary to the execution of the powers granted it, and for the purposes provided by this chapter.

If any municipality determines that the public interest and the interests of the municipality will be served by assisting any other municipality or municipalities in exercising the powers and authority granted by this chapter, the municipality may furnish assistance by gift of re…

(a) The acquisition of any land or interest in land pursuant to this chapter, the planning, acquisition, establishment, development, construction, improvement, maintenance, equipment, operation, regulation, protection, and policing of airports and air navigation facilities, inclu…

Any property in this state acquired by a municipality for airport purposes pursuant to this chapter, and any income derived by such municipality from the ownership, operation or control of that property, shall be exempt from taxation to the same extent as other property used for …

In addition to the general and special powers conferred by this chapter, every municipality is authorized to exercise such powers as are necessarily incidental to the exercise of such general and special powers.

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to limit any right, power or authority of a municipality to regulate airport hazards by zoning.

This chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to make uniform as far as possible the laws and regulations of this state and other states and of the government of the United States having to do with the subject of municipal airports.

(a) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Governing body” means the governing body of a county or municipality and the head of the agency if the public agency is other than a county or municipality; and(2) “Public agency” includes a municipality, as def…

(a) Any two (2) or more public agencies may enter into agreements with each other for joint action pursuant to this part. Concurrent action by ordinance, resolution or otherwise of the governing bodies of the participating public agencies shall constitute joint action. (b) Each s…

(a) Public agencies acting jointly pursuant to this part shall create a joint board, which shall consist of members appointed by the governing body of each participating public agency. (b) The number of members to be appointed, and the length of term and compensation, if any, sha…

(a) Expenditures. The total expenditures to be made by the joint board for any purpose in any fiscal year shall be determined by a budget approved by the governing bodies of its constituent public agencies on or before thirty (30) days preceding the first day of the fiscal year. …

(a) For the purpose of providing a joint board with moneys for the necessary expenditures in carrying out this part, a joint fund shall be created and maintained, into which shall be deposited the share of each of the constituent public agencies as provided by the joint agreement…

(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Airport” means any area of land or water designed and set aside for the landing and taking off of aircraft and utilized or to be utilized in the interest of the public for such purposes;(2) “Airport hazard” m…

(a) It is found that an airport hazard endangers the lives and property of users of the airport and of occupants of land in its vicinity, and also, if of the obstruction type, in effect reduces the size of the area available for the landing, taking off and maneuvering of aircraft…

(a) In order to prevent the creation or establishment of airport hazards, every municipality or county having an airport hazard area within its territorial limits shall adopt, administer and enforce, under the police power and in the manner and upon the conditions prescribed in t…

(a) In the event a political subdivision has adopted, or hereafter adopts, a zoning ordinance under powers granted by title 13, chapter 7, part 1 or title 13, chapter 7, part 2, or by a private act regulating, among other things, the height of buildings, any airport zoning regula…

Before the chief legislative body of a political subdivision may exercise the powers granted by § 42-6-103, the zoning plan shall be certified by the agency of the state government charged with fostering civil aeronautics and by a municipal or regional planning commission created…

Before enacting the zoning ordinance or any amendment thereof, the chief legislative body shall hold a public hearing on the ordinance or amendment, at least fifteen (15) days' notice of the time and place of which shall be published in the official municipal journal or in a news…

The zoning ordinance, including the maps, may from time to time be amended, but no amendment shall become effective unless it be first submitted to and approved by the agencies originally certifying the ordinance or, if disapproved, shall receive the favorable vote of a majority …

(a) (1) The chief legislative body shall create a board of zoning appeals of three (3) or five (5) members, and shall specify the mode of appointment of members to the board and their terms, which terms shall be of such length and so arranged that the term of one (1) member shall…

(a) Appeals to the board of appeals may be taken by any person aggrieved or by any officer, department, board or bureau of the municipality or other political subdivision affected by any grant or refusal of a building permit or other act or decision of the enforcing official or o…

(a) The chief legislative body may provide for the enforcement of any ordinance enacted under this chapter. (b) A violation of any such ordinance is a Class A misdemeanor. (c) In case any building or structure is or is proposed to be erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, …

(a) All airport zoning regulations adopted under this chapter shall be reasonable, and none shall impose any requirements or restrictions that are not reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. (b) In determining what regulations it may adopt, each political…

No airport zoning regulation 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, exc…

(1) In any case in which:(1) It is desired to remove, lower, or otherwise terminate a nonconforming use;(2) The approach protection necessary cannot, because of constitutional limitations, be provided by airport zoning regulations under this law; or(3) It appears advisable that t…

Whenever the regulations made under authority of this chapter require a lower height of buildings or impose other higher standards than are required in any other law, provision made under regulations or authority of this chapter shall govern.

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed to supplant or modify the provisions of any special or private act relating to the zoning or zoning powers of any municipality or county to which the special or private act is applicable, and all the provisions of the special or p…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding this chapter or any zoning ordinance or resolution created under the powers granted pursuant to title 13, chapter 7, part 1 or 2, or pursuant to any private act, no structure shall be erected or use of land approved that would create an incompatible use. T…

The functions of the Tennessee wing, civil air patrol, and of its various groups and squadrons, are declared to be for public purposes, and the organizations are entitled to receive appropriations, gifts, grants and allotments of moneys, for the carrying out of their several acti…

(a) An employee of this state who is a member of the United States air force auxiliary civil air patrol who participates in a training program for the civil air patrol, or in emergency and disaster services, as defined in § 58-2-101, shall be entitled to a leave of absence with p…