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For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions and meanings shall apply unless otherwise specified:
AEROBATICS: Maneuvers intentionally performed by an aircraft involving an abrupt change in its attitude, an abnormal attitude, or an abnormal acceleration, or deceleration.
AIR CARRIER: Any person who undertakes directly, by lease, or other arrangement, to engage in air transportation of persons or things. They operate, in various categories, under authority or certification by the California public utilities commission. Categories include certificated route air carriers, trunk carriers, flag carriers, local service carriers, all-cargo carriers, helicopter carriers, commercial air operators, air taxi operators, and charter air carriers.
AIR OPERATIONS AREA: Any area used for landing, taking off, taxiing or surface maneuvering aircraft.
AIR TRAFFIC: Aircraft operating in the air or on an airport surface, exclusive of loading ramps or parking areas.
AIR TRAFFIC CLEARANCE: An authorization issued by air traffic control personnel for an aircraft to proceed under specified traffic conditions within controlled airspace.
AIRCRAFT: A device that is used, or intended to be used, for flight in the air. This includes airplanes, helicopters and gliders, and lighter than air devices such as blimps or balloons, but does not include hang gliders. (See Ultralights FARs part 103.)
AIRPORT: The Porterville municipal airport, its buildings and facilities, all lands owned by the city adjacent to the airport, including airspace above such land and the designated approaches thereto.
AIRPORT OPERATIONS MANAGER: That person or his designee (airport operations supervisor), designated by the city of Porterville, as the competent authority charged with the safe and efficient operation of the airport and the enforcement of the regulations herein.
AUTO ROTATION: A rotor craft flight condition in which the lifting rotor is driven entirely by the action of air when the rotor craft (helicopter) is in motion.
BALLOON: A lighter than air aircraft that is not engine driven.
BASED AIRCRAFT: Any aircraft which utilizes the airport as a base of operations and is assigned a permanent parking space, tie down, or hangar space on the airport or adjoining property, for the period of at least one month, by virtue of a lease agreement.
CEILING: The height above the earth's surface of the lowest layer of clouds or obscuring phenomena, that is reported as "broken", "overcast", or "obscuration", and is not classified "thin" or "partial".
CITY: The city of Porterville.
COMMERCIAL OPERATOR: Any person who, for compensation or hire, engages in the carriage of persons, property or mail in air commerce, or engages in other aerial activity such as flight instruction, aerial photography, firefighting, agricultural aviation activities, and/or traffic surveillance.
COMMERCIAL USE: Use of the Porterville municipal airport for revenue producing commercial activities.
COMMON USE AREA: All runways for landing and takeoff, all runway markers, guidance, signal, and beacon lights used to guide aircraft operations; all apparatus or equipment for disseminating weather and wind information, for signaling, for radio directional finding, or for radio or other electrical communication and any other structure, equipment or mechanism having similar purpose for guiding or controlling flight in the air or the landing and takeoff of aircraft, and together with such aprons, ramps, tie down area, taxiway and improvements.
COUNCIL: The city council of the city of Porterville, who, as governing body of the municipality which owns the airport, is final authority in all matters of policy and procedure in the operation of the airport.
FIXED BASE OPERATOR (FBO): Any person who rents, leases or owns facilities located in an area designated for FBOs at the Porterville municipal airport, who, by virtue of his specific type of aviation (or aviation related) activity, requires the occupancy of a site with contiguous aircraft apron and direct access to the aircraft operation area, and who engages in a business activity providing aviation sales or services, including, but not limited to, any of the following:
A. Selling and/or servicing new and used aircraft and component parts.
B. Aircraft maintenance and repairs.
C. Sales and/or repair of avionics.
D. Aviation training (including ground or flight instruction).
E. Aerial photography.
F. Air ambulance service.
G. Aircraft agricultural operations (crop dusting, spraying, or the application of seed, fertilizers, pesticides, defoliants, etc.).
H. Aircraft rental, charter, and leasing.
I. Hangar rentals in support of FBOs.
FLIGHT VISIBILITY: The average forward horizontal distance from the cockpit of an aircraft in flight, at which prominent unlighted objects may be seen and identified by night.
GROUND VISIBILITY: Prevailing horizontal visibility near the earth's surface.
HELICOPTER: A rotor driven aircraft (rotorcraft) that, for its horizontal motion, depends primarily on its engine driven rotors.
IFR: Instrument flight rules covering meteorological conditions below the minimums for flight under visual (VFR) conditions.
MAINTENANCE: Inspection, overhaul, repair, preservation and the replacement of parts, but excludes preventive maintenance.
MAXIMUM GROSS LANDING WEIGHT: The maximum landing weight stipulated for a particular aircraft by the federal aviation administration (FAA).
MOTOR VEHICLE: As defined in section 415 of the California Vehicle Code.
NIGHT: The time between the end of evening civil twilight and the beginning of morning civil twilight as published in the American air almanac, converted to local time.
PERSON: An individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock association, or governmental entity, and includes a trustee, receiver, assignee or similar representative of any of them.
RAMP: The area used for the parking and maneuvering, loading, and servicing of aircraft while they are on the ground.
TRAFFIC PATTERN: The traffic flow that is prescribed for aircraft landing at, or taking off from, the Porterville municipal airport.
TRANSIENT AIRCRAFT: All aircraft not permanently based at the airport (as opposed to based aircraft).
ULTRALIGHT: A vehicle to be used as an in-air manned operation for recreation or sport. If powered, weighs less than two hundred fifty four (254) pounds empty, having a maximum fuel capacity of five (5) U.S. gallons, not capable of more than fifty five (55) knots at full power at level flight and having a power off stall speed of twenty four (24) knots or less.
VFR: Visual flight rules covering meteorological conditions, above those requiring flight under IFR conditions.
WORD CONSTRUCTION: The following construction applies throughout this chapter:
A. Words importing the singular include the plural.
B. Words importing the plural include the singular.
C. Words importing the masculine gender include the feminine. (Ord. 1652 § B, 4-20-2004)
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