A. Categories Of Aircraft: Final determination as to proper category designation of any aircraft shall rest with the airport manager. Rates and charges shall be determined according to the following classifications:
1. Private:
a. Privately owned aircraft operated noncommercially by owner or owners.
b. Private aircraft may be used by persons other than the owner, provided no part of the cost of operation of the aircraft is received in money or other consideration by the owner for such use.
c. Private aircraft can be used in connection with the owner's business, comparable to an owner's use of his private automobile, provided said owner is not engaged in the business of air transportation.
d. Company and corporation owned aircraft that are operated for the free transportation of their and other personnel and/or products are classified as private aircraft and subject to the restrictions as listed under subsection A1b of this section.
e. Club aircraft must be owned and operated by a nonprofit partnership or nonprofit corporation, and each club member must be a bona fide owner of a part of the aircraft or a shareholder in the corporation. The club may not derive greater revenue from the use of its aircraft than the amount necessary for the operation, maintenance and replacement of its aircraft and will file and keep up to date with the airport manager a list of its membership. At any time the airport manager has reason to believe a club aircraft is being so operated that it falls under the "commercial" classification hereunder, he shall so notify such club and if it fails to remedy conditions complained of, the airport manager shall reclassify the aircraft until such conditions are remedied.
2. Commercial:
a. Aircraft used to carry passengers for hire on local flights.
b. Aircraft used for rental, hire or charter.
c. Aircraft used for student instruction and its kindred occupations.
3. Other: Aircraft used for commercial purposes and not otherwise covered in these regulations.
B. Authority To Close Airport; Prohibit Or Restrict Landings, Takeoffs: The airport manager may prohibit any aircraft from landing or taking off at any time when he deems such landing or takeoff likely to endanger any person or property.
C. Conformance With FAA And CAB Rules And Regulations: No person shall navigate any aircraft, land aircraft upon, fly aircraft from or conduct any aircraft operations on or from the airport, except in conformity with the rules and regulations of the federal aviation administration and civil aeronautics board or any successor agency.
D. Negligent Operations Prohibited: No aircraft shall be operated on the surface of a landing area, ramp and apron area, passenger ramp and apron area, cargo ramp and apron area or aircraft parking and storage area in a careless or negligent manner or in disregard of the rights and safety of others, or without due caution and circumspection, or at a speed or in a manner which endangers unreasonably, or is likely to endanger unreasonably persons or property, or while the pilot, or other persons aboard controlling any part of the operation thereof, is under the influence of intoxicating liquor, or any narcotic or habit forming drug, or if such aircraft is so constructed, equipped or loaded as to endanger unreasonably persons or property.
E. Landing Of Motorless Aircraft Prohibited: No motorless aircraft may land or take off at the airport without permission having first been obtained from the airport manager.
F. Jet Or Turboprop Aircraft:
1. Taxiing: No aircraft shall be taxied at the airport where the exhaust or propeller blast may cause injury to persons or damage to property. If it is impossible to taxi such aircraft in compliance with this rule, then the engine must be shut off and the aircraft towed to the desired destination.
2. Starting: No engines shall be started while the aircraft is parked on the airport where exhaust blast may cause injury to persons or damage to property.
3. Location Of Operation: No jet or turbo prop aircraft engine shall be run except in areas authorized by the airport manager.
G. Refueling And Defueling Aircraft; Dispensary: No aircraft shall be refueled or defueled except by authorized fuel dispensary designated by the airport manager.
H. Clearance Of Landing Runway: Aircraft landing at the airport shall make the landing runway available to others by leaving the line of traffic as promptly as possible.
I. Accident Reports: Persons involved in aircraft accidents occurring on the airport shall make a full report thereof to the airport manager as soon after an accident as possible, which shall include their names and addresses. When a written report of an accident is required by the civil air regulations, a copy of such report may be submitted to the airport manager in lieu of the report required above.
J. Authority Of Airport Manager: The airport manager may delay or restrict any flight or other operation at the airport and may refuse takeoff clearance to any aircraft for any reason he believes justifiable. The airport manager may also prohibit the use of all or any part of the airport for any purpose by an individual or group.
K. Demonstrations: No experimental flight or ground demonstrations shall be conducted at the airport without the express approval of the airport manager.
L. Traffic And Taxi Patterns: The following rules will govern the conduct of all aircraft in flight within the airport control zone, or in motion, or parked on the runways, taxiways, aprons, hardstands or ramps of the airport, unless exceptions are specifically provided for in federal regulations or authorized by the airport manager:
1. No person shall taxi an aircraft to or from the hangar line or to or from an approved parking space until he has ascertained that there will be no danger of collision with other aircraft, persons or objects in the immediate area. Aircraft shall be taxied at speeds that will ensure complete control at all times. No taxiing shall be done except on areas designated for taxiing.
2. All landings and takeoffs shall be made on runways only, except in an emergency.
3. No aircraft shall make a one hundred eighty degree (180°) turn after landing on a runway unless instructed to do so by the airport manager.
4. Operators of aircraft entering or leaving the traffic pattern of the airport or using the runways or movement areas for the purpose of landing or taking off, shall be the holders of a valid, current, student pilot, private pilot or commercial pilot certificate with ratings appropriate to the type of aircraft operated and conditions under which they are operating. Reciprocal certificates issued by foreign governments are acceptable if authorizations contained in the certificates are comparable to the domestic certificates mentioned and are so accepted by the federal aviation administration.
5. Aircraft owners, their pilots or agents, shall be responsible for the prompt removal of disabled aircraft and parts thereof unless required or directed by the airport manager or the federal aviation administration to delay such action pending an investigation of an accident. In the event of failure to promptly remove such disabled aircraft at the direction of the city, the airport manager will cause the aircraft to be removed and bill the owners thereof for all charges incurred in the removal of same. (Ord. C66-163, 9-24-1978)