§ 14-361-111 - Jurisdiction and regulation. - Arkansas Statutes

14-361-111. Jurisdiction and regulation.

(a) Scope. (1) (A) A municipality, which has established or acquired an airport or air navigation facility is authorized to adopt, amend, and repeal such reasonable ordinances, resolutions, rules, regulations, and orders as it shall deem necessary for the management, government, and use of the airport or air navigation facility under its control, whether situated within or without the territorial limits of the municipality.

(B) (i) For the enforcement of them, the municipality, by ordinance or resolution as may by law be appropriate, may appoint airport guards or police, with full police powers, and fix penalties, within the limits prescribed by law, for the violation of the ordinances, resolutions, rules, regulations, and orders.

(ii) The penalties shall be enforced in the same manner in which penalties prescribed by other ordinances or resolutions of the municipality are enforced.

(2) To the extent that an airport or other air navigation facility controlled and operated by a municipality is located outside the territorial limits of the municipality, it shall, subject to federal and state laws, rules, and regulations, be under the jurisdiction and control of the municipality controlling or operating it, and no other municipality shall have any authority to charge or exact a license fee or occupation tax for operations thereon.

(b) Conformity to Federal and State Law. No ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation, or order adopted by a municipality pursuant to this chapter shall be inconsistent with, or contrary to, any act of the Congress of the United States or laws of this state, or to any regulations promulgated or standards established pursuant to them.