HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 552 General Airport RulesORDINANCE NO. s-67.2.
AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE McCALL MUNICIPAL
AIRPORT; REPEALING SECTIONS 1-12-2 through 1-12-9
OF THE VILLAGE CODE OF McCALL, IDAHO' AMENDING
TITLE VIII OF THE VILLAGE CODE OF -McCALL, IDAHO,
BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW CHAPTER 14, TITLE VIII,
OF THE VILLAGE CODE OF McCALL, IDAHO, TO PROVIDE
GENERAL AIRPORT RULES, TO PROVIDE FOR GROUND RULES,
TO PROVIDE TAXIING RULES, TO PROVIDE LANDING AND
TAKE -OFF RULES, TO PROVIDE AIRPORT FIRE REGULATIONS,
TO PROVIDE TIE -DOWN AREA RENTAL FEES, TO PROVIDE
LANDING FEES, TO PROVIDE MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR FIXED
BASE OPERATORS, AIRPORT TENANTS AND COMMERCIAL
OPERATORS, TO PROVIDE PENALTIES, TO PROVIDE FOR
SEVERABILITY, AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF McCALL, IDAHO, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. That Sections 1-12-2 through 1-12-9 of the
Village Code of McCall, Idaho, be and the same are hereby repealed.
Section 2. That Title VIII of the Village Code of McCall,
Idaho, be, and the same is hereby amended by the addition thereto
of a NEW CHAPTER, to be known and designated as Chapter 14 of
Title VIII of the Village Code of McCall, Idaho, and to read as
follows:
8-14-1: AIRPORT RULES -GENERAL:
(A) All aeronautical activities at the McCall Municipal
Airport, and all flying of aircraft departing from or arriving
at the Municipal Airport, shall be conducted in conformity with
the current pertinent provisions of the Federal Air Regulations
(FAR) promulgated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
(B) The Airport Manager, may suspend or restrict any or all
operations without regard to weather conditions whenever such
action is deemed necessary in the interest of safety.
(C) The Airport Manager shall at all times have authority
to take such actions as may be necessary to safeguard the Public
in attendance at the airport. Every pilot, mechanic or other
person employed at or using the airport shall cooperate with
the airport management to enforce these rules andto see that
all persons upon the premises use due care and caution to prevent
injury to persons or damage to property.
(D) Instructors shall fully acquaint their students with
these rules and shall be responsible for the conduct of students
under their direction during the dual instruction. When a
student is flying solo, it shall be his sole responsibility to
observe and abide by these rules.
(E) The term "person" shall mean any individual, firm,
co -partnership, corporation, company, association, joint-stock
association, or body politic; and include any trustee, receiver,
assignee, or any similar representative thereof.
8-14-2: GROUND RULES:
(A) Aircraft engines shall be started or warmed up so as
not to endanger life or property. At no time shall engines be
turned up when hangars, shops, other buildings, or persons in
the observation area, are in the path of the propeller stream
or jet blast. When aircraft engines are started a competent
operator shall be at all times at the controls and the wheels
of the aircraft chocked.
(B) Aircraft shall be parked only in areas and in the
manner designated by the Airport Manager.
(C) All repairs to aircraft or engines, except emergency
repairs, shall be made in the spaces designated for this purpose
and not in the area reserved for landing and taking off.
(D) No person or persons, except airmen, authorized person-
nel, or persons being conducted by airmen or airport attendants
shall be permitted to enter the landing areas, aircraft parking
ramps and taxiing. This does not give any Person or persons so
excepted the privilege of unrestricted use of this space. These
privileges are confined to the necessary use of this space in
connection with flights, inspections or routine duties.
(E) Aircraft shall be properly blocked and tied down by
the owner or operator when parked for overnight or when condi-
tions otherwise warrant.
(F) No motor vehicle shall be driven onto the landing area
proper without the express permission of the Airport Manager or
his designated representative, nor otherwise than in accordance
with his instructions. Fuel trucks and emergency vehicles are
excepted.
(G) No automobile shall be parked on the airport property
except in areas designated for that purpose by the airport
Manager.
Persons renting the tie -down spaces may leave one vehicle
within their rented aircraft parking space when the aircraft
is absent therefrom.
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Any vehicles narked in a tie -down area other than as herein
provided shall be deemed to be involved in an extraordinary cir-
cumstance and a threat to public safety and the same shall immedi-
ately be towed away and imnounded under the direction of the McCall
Police Department and all costs of towing, impounding and storage
shall be paid prior to redemption of any such vehicle, as provided
by Chapter 18, Title 49, Idaho Code, which chanter is hereby
adopted by this reference.
Crossing the taxiway adjacent to the tie -down area in a
vehicle is permitted though due caution must be exercised by the
operator thereof.
(H) Vehicle parking areas at the airno.tt are intended for
airport users only. Commercial truck and bus parking not related
to airport use is prohibited.
8-10-3: TAXIING RULES:
(A) No person shall taxi an aircraft to or from the hangar
line or to or from an approved parking space until he has ascer-
tained that there will be no danger of collision with any person
or object in the immediate area by visual inspection of the area
and, when available, through information furnished by airnort
attendants.
(B) No aircraft shall be taxied except at a safe and reason-
able speed.
(C) No aircraft not ecruipped with adequate brakes shall be
taxied near buildings or parked aircraft unless an attendant is
at a wing of the aircraft to assist the pilot.
(D) Taxiing aircraft shall be stopped behind holding line
marking before entering the active runway for engine run-up and
while awaiting take -off clearance.
8-14-4: LANDING AND TAKE -OFF RULES:
(A) Landings and take -offs shall be made directly into the
wind or on the runway or landing strip most nearly aligned with
the wind except when winds are light. Winds of less than five
(5) miles per hour are considered light.
(B) No landing or take -off shall be made except at a safe
distance from buildings and aircraft.
(C) No turn shall be made after take -off until the airport
boundary has been reached and the pilot has attained an altitude
of at least four hundred feet (400') and has ascertained there
will be no danger of collision with other aircraft.
(D) Unless a control tower is in operation, fixed wing
aircraft taking off or landing, or flying in the traffic pattern
at the McCall Airport shall use the standard left-hand traffic
pattern.
(E) "Straight in" landings are prohibited.
(F) Helicopters shall avoid the flow of fixed wing aircraft.
(G) Whenever possible, all aircraft shall monitor the common
traffic advisory frequency (CATF-formerly called UNICOM), 122.8
ME and announce intentions to use the runway.
(H) When preparing for take -off aircraft on the around
shall yield to all aircraft beginning final landing approach.
(I) Touch and go landings shall be permitted with safe
spacing of aircraft and traffic.
8-14-5: AIRPORT FIRE REGULATIONS:
(A) All persons using in any way the airport area or the
facilities of the airport shall exercise the utmost care to
guard against fire and injury to persons and property.
(B) No person shall store or stock material or equipment
in such a manner as to constitute a fire hazard.
(C) No person shall smoke within fifty feet (50') of the
aircraft.
(D) No aircraft shall be fueled while the engine is running
or while such aircraft is in the hangar.
(E) All aircraft shall properly be grounded when being
serviced with gaslline.
(F) No aircraft shall be fueled inside a hangar without
proper ventilation and safety precautions having been taken.
The airport manager shall post the foreginq rules in a
conspicuous place at the McCall "Municipal Airport.
8-14-6: TIE -DOWN AREA RENTAL FEES:
(A) There is hereby imposed aircraft tie -down rental fees
at the McCall Municipal Airport, which fees shall be in the
amount hereinafter set forth opposite the type of area of tie -
down:
Hard -surfaced tie -down areas $15.00 per mo. each
All other tie -down areas 7.50 per mo. each
Itinerant aircraft parking fees for overnight parking shall
be $2.00 per night.
(B) All fees shall be paid in advance to the Airport
Manager. Monthly fees Haid in advance for six (6) months or
more shall be reduced by ten percent (10%).
(C) All fees collected by the Airport r°anager under this
Chapter shall be remitted by him to the City Clerk at least
once per month and shall by the Clerk be deposited in the City
Airport Fund.
(D) Itinerant tie -down areas shall be divided as nearly
equally as ^ossible between the fixed base operators at the
McCall i:.unicipal Airport.
8-14-7: LANDING FEES:
(A) There is hereby imposed on all owners and operators
of commercial aircraft landing in the McCall Municipal Airport,
landing fees as follows:
Fifty cents ($.50) per thousand (1,000) pounds Gross
weight of each aircraft, with a minimum fee of three
dollars ($3.00) per aircraft Per landing.
(B) The Airport Manager shall collect such landing
fees and remit them each week to the city Clerk who shall credit
such fees to the airport fund.
(C) This Ordinance shall not apply to fixed base operators
at the McCall Municipal Airport, flights by or for the United
States Forest Service and student training flights.
8-14-8: MINIMUM STANDARDS: The rules, regulations, stand-
ards and requirements set forth in that document entitled "Minimum
Standards for Fixed Base Operators and Airport Tenants at the
McCall Municipal Airport, .McCall, Idaho", as the same may be here-
after amended, is hereby ratified and adopted as the Minimum
Standards for Fixed Base Operators and Airport Tenants at the
McCall Municipal Airport, and as ratified and adopted shall be
the rules, regulations, standards and requirements governing the
use of the McCall Municipal Airport by all commercial operators
for all commercial operations at the McCall Municipal Airport.
Three copies of said "Minimum Standards for Fixed Base Operators
and Airport Tenants at the McCall municipal Airport, McCall,
Idaho", are now on file in the office of the city clerk for in-
spection and examination. As such minimum standards are amended
as may be deemed necessary or desirable by the City Council, three
copies of such amendments shall be placed on file with said
"Minimum Standards for Fixed Base Operators and Airport Tenants
at the McCall Municipal Airport, McCall, Idaho", in the office
of the city clerk for inspection and examination.
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8-14-9: PENALTIES: (a) In addition to penalties otherwise
provided in this Code, any person violating this chapter or
refusing to comply therewith and any person failing or refusing
to comply with the "Minimum Standards for Fixed Base Operators
and Airport Tenants at the McCall Municipal Airport, McCall,
Idaho", may be promptly removed or ejected from the airport by
or under the authority of the Airport Manager, and upon the
order of the Airport Manager may be deprived of the further use
of the airport and its facilities for such length of time as
may be required to insure the safeguarding of the same and the
public and its interests therein and as may be required to insure
compliance with said minimum standards.
(b) Any person convicted of a violation of this chapter
or a violation of said Minimum Standards for Fixed Base Opera-
tors and Airport Tenants, McCall Municipal Airport, shall be
punished by a fine not to exceed Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00)
or by imprisonment in the Valley County Jail not to exceed six
(6) months or by both such fine and imprisonment.
8-14-10: SEVERABILITY: The provisions of this Ordinance are
hereby declared to be severable and if any provision of this ordi-
nance or the application of such provision to any person or cir-
cumstance is declared invalid for any reason, such declaration
shall not affect the validity of remaining portions of this
ordinance.
8-14-11: EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall be in full
force and effect from and after the 1st day of August, 1989.
Passed and approved this //t -L2 day of 989.
Pryor
Publisher's Affidavit of Publication
STATE OF IDAHO.,
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County of Valley
I, Maggie Aganew, being duly sworn and say, I am the receptionist of
The Central Idaho Star -News, a weekly newspaper published at McCall, in the
County of Valley, State of Idaho; that said newspaper is in general circulation
in the county of aforesaid and is a legal newspaper; that the ORDINANCE NO.
552, a copy of which is enclosed hereto and is a part hereof, was published in
said newspaper once a week for one consecutive week in the regular and
entire issue of every number there of during the period of time of publication,
and was published in the newspaper proper and not in a supplement; and that
publication of such notice began August 23, 1989, and ended August 23,
1989.
Subscribed and sworn before me this the 24th day of August, 1989.
STATE OF IDAHO
COUNTY OF VALLEY
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On this24th day of August, in the year of 1989, before me, a Notary
Public, personally appeared Maggie Aganew, known or identified to me to be
the person whose name subscribed to the within instrument, and being by me
first duly sworn, declared that the statements therein are true, and acknowl-
edged to me that she executed the same.
Tom Grote
Notary Public for Idaho
Residing at McCall, Idaho
Commission Expires: 1993
ORDINANCE NO. 552
AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE
McCALL MUNICIPAL AIRPORT;
REPEALING SECTIONS 1-12-2 through 1-
12-9 OF THE VILLAGE CODE OF
McCALL, IDAHO; AMENDING TITLE VIII
OF THE VILLAGE CODE OF McCALL,
IDAHO BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW
CHAPTER 14, TITLE VIII, OF THE
VILLAGE CODE OF McCALL, IDAHO, TO
PROVIDE GENERAL AIRPORT RULES,
TO PROVIDE FOR GROUND RULES, TO
PROVIDE TAXIING RULES, TO PROVIDE
LANDING AND TAKE -OFF RULES, TO
PROVIDE AIRPORT FIRE REGULATIONS,
TO PROVIDE TIE -DOWN AREA RENTAL
FEES, TO PROVIDE LANDING FEES, TO
PROVIDE MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR
FIXED BASE OPERATORS, AIRPORT
TENANTS AND COMMERCIAL
OPERATORS, TO PROVIDE PENALTIES,
TO PROVIDE FOR SEVERABILITY, AND
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR
AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF McCALL,
IDAHO, AS FOLLOWS:
.Section 1. That Sections 1-12-2 through
1-12-9 of the Village Code of McCall,
Idaho, be and the same are hereby repealed.
Section 2. That Title VIII of the Village
Code of McCall, Idaho, be, and the same is
hereby amended by the addition thereto of
a NEW CHAPTER to be known and
designated as Chapter 14 of the Title VIII
of the Village Code of McCall, Idaho, and
to read as follows:
8-14-1: AIRPORT RULES -GENERAL:
(A) All aeronautical activities at the
McCall Municipal Airport, and all flying
of aircraft departing from or arriving at the
Municipal Airport, shall be conducted in
conformity with the current pertinent
provisions of the Federal Air Regulations
(FAR) promulgated by the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA).
(B) The Airport Manager, may suspend
or restrict any or all operations without
regard to weather conditions whenever
such action is deemed necessary in the
interest of safety.
(C) The Airport Manager shall at all
times have authority to take such actions
as may be necessary to safeguard the
public in attendance at the airport. Every
pilot, mechanic or other person employed
at or using the airport shall cooperate with
the airport management to enforce these
rules and to see that all persons upon the
premises use due care and caution to
prevent injury to persons or damage to
(D) Instructors shall fully acquaint their
students with these rules and shall be
responsible for the conduct of students
under their direction during the dual
instruction. When a student is flying solo,
it shall be his sole responsibility to
observe and abide by these rules.
(E) The term "person" shall mean any
individual, firm, co -partnership,
corporation, company, association, joint-
stock association, or body politic; and
include any trustee, receiver, assignee, or
any similar representative thereof.
8-14-2: GROUND RULES:
(A) Aircraft engines shall be started or
warmed up so as not to endanger life or
property. At no time shall engines be
turned up when hangars, shops, other
buildings, or persons in the observation
area, are in the path of the propeller stream
or jet blast. When aircraft engines are
started a competent operator shall be at all
times at the controls and the wheels of the
aircraft chocked.
(B) Aircraft shall be parked only in
areas and in the manner designated by the
Airport Manager.
(C) All repairs to aircraft or engines,
except emergency repairs, shall be made in
the spaces designated for this purpose and
not in the area reserved for landing and
taking off.
(D) No person or persons, except
airmen, authorized personnel, or persons
being conducted by airmen or airport
attendants shall be permitted to enter the
landing areas, aircraft parking ramps and
taxiing. This does not give any person or
persons so excepted the privilege of
unrestricted use of this space. These
privileges are confined to the necessary
use of this space in connection with
flights, inspections or routine duties.
(E) Aircraft shall be properly blocked
and tied down by the owner or operator
when parked for overnight or when
conditions otherwise warrant.
(F) No motor vehicle shall be driven
onto the landing area proper without the
express permission of the Airport
Manager or his designated representative,
nor otherwise than in accordance with his
instructions. Fuel trucks and emergency
vehicles are excepted.
(G) No automobile shall be parked on
the airport property except in areas
designated for that purpose by the airport
Manager.
Persons renting the tie -down spaces
may leave one vehicle within their rented
aircraft parking space when the aircraft is
absent therefrom.
Any vehicles parked in a tie -down area
other than as herein provided shall be
deemed to be involved in an extraordinary
circumstance and a threat to public safety
and the same shall immediately be towed
away and impounded under the direction of
the McCall Police Department and all costs
of towing, impounding and storage shall
be paid prior to redemption of any such
vehicle, as provided by Chapter 18, Title
49, Idaho Code, which chapter is hereby
adopted by this reference.
Crossing the taxiway adjacent to the
tie -down area in a vehicle is permitted
though due caution must be exercised by
the operator thereof.
(I-1) Vehicle parking areas at the airport
are intended for airport users only.
Commercial truck and bus parking not
related to airport use is prohibited.
8-10-3: TAXIING RULES:
(A) No person shall taxi an aircraft to or
from the hangar line or to or from an
approved parking space until he has
ascertained that there will be no danger of
collision with any person or object in the
immediate area by visual inspection of the
area and, when available, through
information furnished by airport
attendants.
(B) No aircraft shall be taxied except at
a safe and reasonable speed.
(C) No aircraft not equipped with
adequate brakes shall be taxied near
buildings or parked aircraft unless an
attendant is at a wing of the aircraft to
assist the pilot.
(D) Taxiing aircraft shall be stopped
behind holding line marking before
entering the active runway for engine run-
up and while awaiting take -off clearance.
8-14-4: LANDING AND TAKE -OFF
RULES:
(A) Landings and take -offs shall be
made directly into the wind or on the
runway or landing strip most nearly
aligned with the wind except when winds
are light. Winds of less than five (5) miles
per hour are considered light.
(B) No landing or take -off shall be made
except at a safe distance from buildings and
aircraft.
(c) No turn shall be made after take -off
until the airport bou ' has been reached
and the pilot has at. i an altitude of at
least four hundred Leet (400') and has
ascertained there will be no danger of
collision with other aircraft.
(D) Unless a control tower is in
operation, fixed win 'raft taking off or
landing, or flying iitraffic pattern at
the McCall Airport shall use the standard
left-hand traffic pattern.
(E) "Straight in" landings are prohibited.
(F) Helicopters shall avoid the flow of
fixed wing aircraft.
(G) Whenever possible, all aircraft shall
monitor the common traffic advisory
frequency (CATF-formerly called
UNICOM), 122.8 MH and announce
intentions to use the runway.
(H) When preparing for take -off aircraft
on the ground shall yield to all aircraft
beginning final landing approach.
(I) Touch and go landings shall be
permitted with safe spacing of aircraft and
traffic.
8-14-5: AIRPORT FIRE
REGULATIONS:
(A) All persons using in any way the
airport area or the facilities of the airport
shall exercise the utmost care to guard
gainst fire and injury to persons and
property.
(B) No person shall store or stock
material or equipment in such a manner as
to constitute a fire hazard.
(C) No person shall smoke within fifty
feet (50') of the aircraft.
(D) No aircraft shall be fueled while the
engine is running or while such aircraft is
in the hangar.
(E) All aircraft shall properly be
grounded when being serviced with
gasoline.
(F) No aircraft shall be fueled inside a
hangar without proper ventilation and
safety precautions having been taken.
The airport manager shall post the
foregoing rules in a conspicuous place at
the McCall Municipal Airport.
8-14-6: TIE -DOWN AREA RENTAL
FEES:
(A) There is hereby imposed aircraft tie -
down rental fees at the McCall Municipal
Airport, which fees shall be in the amount
hereinafter set forth opposite the type of
area of tide -down:
Hard -surfaced tie -down areas $15.00 per
mo. each.
All other tie -down area $7.50 per mo.
each.
Itinerant aircraft parking fees for
overnight parking shall be $2.00 per
night.
(B) All fees shall be paid in advance to
the Airport Manger. Monthly fees paid in
advance for six (6) months or more shall
be reduced by ten percent (10%).
(C) All fees collected by the Airport
Manger under this Chapter shall be
remitted by him to the City Clerk at least
once per month and shall be the Clerk be
deposited in the City Airport Fund.
(D) Itinerant tie -down areas shall be
divided as nearly equally as possible
between the fixed base operators at the
McCall Municipal Airport.
8-14-7: LANDING FEES:
(A) There is hereby imposed on all
owners and operators of commercial
aircraft landing in the McCall Municipal
Airport, landing fees as follows:
Fifty cents ($.50) per thousand (1,000)
pounds gross weight of each aircraft, with
a minimum fee of three dollars ($3.00) per
aircraft per landing.
(B) The Airport Manager shall collect
such landing fees and remit them each week
to the city Clerk who shall credit such fees
to the airport fund.
(C) This Ordinance shall not apply to
fixed base operators at the McCall
Municipal Airport, flights by or for the
United States Forest Service and student
training flights.
8-14-8: MINIMUM STANDARDS: The
rules, regulations, standards and
requirements set forth in that document
entitled "Minimum Standards for Fixed
Base Operators and Airport Tenants at the
McCall Municipal Airport, McCall,
Idaho", as the same may be hereafter
amended, is hereby ratified and adopted as
the Minimum Standards for Fixed Base
Operators and Airport Tenants at the
McCall Municipal Airport, and as ratified
and adopted shall be the rules, regulations,
standards and requirements governing the
use of the McCall Municipal Airport by all
commercial operators for all commercial
operations at the McCall Municipal
Airport. Three copies of said "Minimum
Standards for Fixed Base Operators and
Airport Tenants at the McCall Municipal
Airport, McCall, Idaho", are now on file in
the office of the city clerk for inspection
and examination. As such minimum
standards are amended as may be deemed
necessary or desirable by the City Council,
three copies of such amendments shall be
placed on file with said "Minimum
Standards for Fixed Base .ators and
Airport Tenants at the Mc Municipal
Airport, McCall, Idaho", in the office of
the city clerk for inspection and
examination.
8-14-9: PENALTIES: (a) " lddition to
penalties otherwise provide his Code,
any person violating this .tiapter or
refusing to comply therewith and any
person failing or refusing to comply with
the "Minimum Standards for Fixed Base
Operators and Airport Tenants at the
McCall Municipal Airport, McCall,
Idaho", may be promptly removed or
ejected from the airport by or under the
authority of the Airport Manager, and upon
the order of the Airport Manager may be
deprived of the further use of the airport
and its facilities for such length of time as
may be required to insure the safeguarding
of the same and the public and its interests
therein and as may be required to insure
compliance with said minimum standards.
(b) Any person convicted of a violation
of this chapter or a violation of said
Minimum Standards for Fixed Base
Operators and Airport Tenants, McCall
Municipal Airport, shall be punished by a
fine not to exceed Three Hundred Dollars
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($300.00) or by imprisonment in the
Valley County Jail not to exceed six (6)
months or by both such fine and
imprisonment.
8-14-10: SEVERABILITY: The
provisions of this Ordinance are hereby
declared to be severable and if any
provision of this ordinance or the
application of such provision to any
person or circumstance is declared invalid
for any reason, such declaration shall not
affect the validity of remaining portions of
this ordinance.
8-14-11: EFFECTIVE DATE: This
ordinance shall be in full force and effect
froin and after this 1st day of August,
1989.
Passed and approved this 11th day of
August, 1989.
John Allen, Mayor
Attest: A Schmidt, City Clerk.
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