§ 7-3.106. Regulations of Use of Airport.

Special services may be rendered or special facilities may be provided at the airport on such terms as the Council or the Airport Manager may prescribe from time to time.

(a)

No person shall use the airport as a base for the carrying for hire of passengers, freight, express or mail, for instruction in aviation in any of its branches, for the sale of fuels, refreshments, aircraft, or any commodity unless a permit for such activity has been granted by the Council, and the appropriate permit fees have been paid.

(b)

All persons wishing to film, tape, photograph or otherwise record activity that they wish to stage on the airport premises must seek and obtain a permit from the Airport Manager. Applications for such permits must be made a minimum of twenty-four (24) hours in advance of the proposed activity.

(1)

The Airport Manager may impose reasonable time, place and manner restrictions as conditions of the permit. Appropriate insurance requirements shall be construed as such reasonable restrictions. Other time, place or manner restrictions shall serve the purpose of protecting the public health, safety, welfare and/or preventing interference with the scheduled flights and other regularly occurring or previously scheduled airport activity.

(2)

No permit shall be denied on the basis of the content of the proposed film, tape, recording or photograph. However, if an activity that is to be staged for purposes of filming, taping, photographing or recording, or the manner in which such filming, taping, photographing or recording is proposed to be done, presents a physical threat to public health, safety or welfare and such threat cannot be eliminated through the use of time, place or manner restrictions, the Airport Manager may refuse to grant the requested permit. The Airport Manager may also refuse to grant a permit where the proposed activities would substantially interfere with the conduct of normal airport activity and the proposed activities cannot reasonably be restricted to minimize such interference.

(c)

The permit requirement contained in Section 7-3.106(b) above shall not apply to newscasters, journalists, radio announcers or others who engage in filming, taping, photographing, recording or broadcasting events which transpire at the airport but which were not prearranged, created or staged by the individuals, corporations or other groups engaged in the announcing, broadcasting, filming, taping, photographing or related activity.

(d)

Both the Council and the Airport Manager shall have the power to restrict the number of persons using the airport facility.

(Ord. 891-N.S., amended by Ord. 2434-C.S., § 1, effective 7-17-86)