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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 That Sections 1-12-2 through 1-12-9 of the Village Code of McCall, Idaho, be and the same are hereby repealed.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. -2- 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. -5- 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., .SS 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 1 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 1 ($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. lt8/23