(a) As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(1) Aircraft: Any airplane, gas bag, flying machine, balloon, helicopter or other device now known or hereinafter invented, used or designed for navigation of or flight in the air, except a parachute or other device used primarily as safety equipment.
(2) Airport: Bluegrass Field or such other landing strips or fields as are now or may be in the future authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
(3) Heliport: An approved area dedicated to the exclusive use of helicopter operations, said operations including landing, taking off, loading, discharging, fueling, maintenance and/or transient storage of helicopters.
(4) Helicopter landing site: An approved area used for helicopter operations, not including facilities for maintenance, fueling or long-term storage of helicopters.
(b) Except while taking off or landing at an established airport, heliport or helicopter landing site, no person shall fly or permit any aircraft to be flown within the urban county except at a height sufficient to permit a reasonably safe emergency landing, which in no case shall be less than the minimum altitude established by FAA.
(c) Except in case of emergency, no person shall land an aircraft within the urban county except upon a regularly established airport, heliport or helicopter landing site, except as and hereinafter provided; further, heliports and helicopter landing sites shall be for the sole use of helicopters.
(d) No person shall make exhibition flights by carrying banners on or operating a loudspeaker from any aircraft flying within or over the urban county without first obtaining a permit to do so from the chief administrative officer and paying a permit fee of five dollars ($5.00) for each flight. The chief administrative officer shall issue the permit if the person who will operate the aircraft is a duly licensed pilot by the FAA, the aircraft to be used is licensed by the FAA, and the safety of inhabitants of the urban county will not be endangered by the proposed flight; provided the permits provided for in this subsection may be issued by the chief administrative officer for a six-month period, rather than for individual flights, upon payment of a permit fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and compliance with the above set out requirements. Such six-month permit shall be revoked by the chief administrative officer upon violation of any provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. No. 219-75, § 1, 8-7-75)