No person shall land any aircraft of any type, including fixed wing and rotary wing craft, within the corporate limits of the city, except if the same shall be landed at the municipal airport of the city in accordance with all FAA regulations and in accordance with the traffic pattern practices then in existence and in other areas and manners so designated by the city council by resolution; except, that the chief of police or designated representative, or such other person exercising the authority of the chief of police in his absence, may direct a helicopter to be landed within the corporate limits of the city when an emergency or other public need exists requiring the immediate use of a helicopter and that the use of the same in such a situation would not impose a hazard or otherwise jeopardize the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the city; and excepting that float pontoon equipped aircraft weighing less than ten thousand (10,000) pounds may takeoff and land from the surface of Lake Mitchell if piloted by a pilot who has been certified for such operations with proper certification annotated either in the pilot's log book or on the pilot's FAA airman's certificate as required by the applicable FAA regulation, that the pilot be in possession of the medical certificate required for such flight operations. Such takeoffs and landings shall be accomplished in a safe manner without interference to or from any other surface craft of the lake. Such flight operations must be conducted such that no overflight of any residence or other populated area is made at an altitude of less than five hundred feet (500') above ground level. (1984 Code § 25-33; amd. Ord. 2445, 7-15-2013)