For the purposes of this chapter, known as the YERINGTON MUNICIPAL AIRPORT CODE, certain words and phrases are defined and certain provisions shall be construed as set out in this section unless it becomes apparent from their context that a different meaning is intended.
AIRCRAFT: A vehicle used or designed for navigation of or flight in the air such as any aeroplane, airplane, gas bag, flying machine, balloon, or any flying contrivance now known or hereinafter invented.
AIRPORT: Yerington Municipal Airport.
AIRPORT MANAGEMENT: The management entity or person appointed by the city council to work in this capacity.
BUSINESS, COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY: The use of the airport by any person, group, club, association, or corporation as a base for the conducting of commercial activities for the carrying for hire of passengers, freight, express or mail, for paid instruction in aviation or any aviation-related field, for the sale of fuels, aviation supplies and materials, for aircraft rental, sales, maintenance or service, or for any other aviation or nonaviation commercial activity including the sale of refreshments or any commodity or service.
CAB: Civil Aeronautics Board.
CONTROL ZONE: That airspace of defined geographic-dimensions designated by the FAA above and surrounding the airport within which the control tower exercises authority.
FAA: The federal aviation administration of the United States of America.
LANDING AREA: The public use runway and taxiway system of the air terminal maintained by the city for landing, taking off and taxiing by the public, and includes the areas between the runways and taxiways and the necessary clearance areas.
LESSEES: Qualified lessees of commercial airport facilities at the Yerington municipal airport.
LESSOR: The city acting in the proprietary capacity with respect to the airport.
OPERATIONAL AREAS: Any place on the landing area of the air terminal and also includes the public use taxiways and ramps and the necessary rights of way and clearance areas therefor, but does not include any such areas under lease to a tenant or lessee on the air terminal.
OPERATOR: One who operates aircraft.
OWNER: The registered and/or legal owner of an aircraft according to the files and records of the FAA.
PERSON: An individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock association or body politic, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee or other similar representative thereof.
RAMP: An area designated as a ramp and used for the parking and maneuvering, loading and unloading, and servicing of aircraft while they are on the ground.
ROAD: All areas designated as public use roads or streets for the exclusive use of ground vehicles, but does not include any such areas under lease to a tenant or lessee on the air terminal.
SERVICING OF AIRCRAFT: Only the oiling and fueling thereof.
TAXIWAYS: All areas designated as public use taxiways and used for the exclusive use of aircraft movement while on the ground, but does not include any such areas under lease to a tenant or lessee on the air terminal.
UNDEVELOPED AREAS: All the land on the air terminal except that defined as operational areas and roads, and except that land legally used by or under lease to a tenant or lessee. (1973 Code § 2.32.020)