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VA Code § 5.1-34 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 3 - Municipal and County Airports and Other Air Navigation Facilities|§ 5.1-34. Acquisition of property; exercise of right of eminent domain

Private property needed by any city, incorporated town or county for an airport or landing field shall be acquired by purchase, if the city, town or county is able to agree with the owners on the terms thereof. The cities, incorporated towns or counties are hereby granted full power to exercise the right of eminent domain in the acquisition of any lands, easements and privileges that are necessary for airport and landing field purposes. Proceedings for the acquisition of such lands, easements and privileges by condemnation may be instituted and conducted in the name of such county, city or town, and the procedure shall be mutatis mutandis the same as in the acquisition of land by condemnation proceedings instituted by railroads and may acquire in like manner, for a term of years or perpetually, the right of easement to remove and control the growth of any tree or vegetation standing or growing in said land outside the boundaries of any airport or landing field and the right of easement to place and maintain suitable signs or markers or lights to adequately locate and mark objects or structures that are hazardous to aircraft using such airports or landing fields, of ingress and egress to and from such airport hazards for the purpose of maintaining and repairing such signs, markers and lights and cutting of trees or other growing vegetation penetrating the approach and departure slope easement. The right of condemnation granted herein shall be subject to the same provisions as are provided in § 25.1-102 concerning the condemnation of property belonging to a corporation possessing the power of eminent domain by another public service corporation.Code 1950, §§ 5-23, 5-31; 1966, c. 576; 2003, c. 940.
VA Code § 5.1-35 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 3 - Municipal and County Airports and Other Air Navigation Facilities|§ 5.1-35. Powers may be exercised jointly by two or more political subdivisions

All powers, rights, and authority granted to counties, cities, and towns under this article may be exercised and enjoyed jointly by any two or more of such political subdivisions within or without the territorial limits of either or any of them, or if one or more of such political subdivisions is a county, then within such county or one of such counties, and the political subdivisions so acting jointly may enter into such agreements with each other as may be necessary or proper for the exercise and enjoyment of the joint powers hereby granted, and for joint action in carrying out the general purposes of this article. The powers granted by this section shall include the power to seek and obtain loans for the purpose of capital improvements to any airport or landing field established pursuant to this article.Code 1950, § 5-24; 1966, c. 576; 1989, c. 234.
VA Code § 5.1-36 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 3 - Municipal and County Airports and Other Air Navigation Facilities|§ 5.1-36. Agreement for joint exercise of powers; governing board, etc., to act on behalf of political subdivisions; powers of board, etc.

The agreement provided for in § 5.1-35 may provide for the creation of a governing board, commission, authority or body empowered to have and exercise, on behalf of the several political subdivisions which are parties to such agreement, the powers, rights and authority conferred on such political subdivisions by this article. Members of the governing bodies of the several political subdivisions may serve as a member of a board, commission, authority or body formed pursuant to § 5.1-35. Such agreement shall specify the name of the board, commission, authority or body and its composition and prescribe its powers and duties which may include powers to establish, construct, manage, and operate an airport, acquire, hold and dispose of property but on behalf of the several political subdivisions, including the exercise on their behalf of the power of eminent domain. If any such board, commission, authority or body is created, all proceedings in connection with the establishment, construction, management and operation of the airport, including application for and issuance of any license required therefor, shall be in its name. The intent of § 5.1-35 and this section is that any such board, commission, authority or body established by two or more political subdivisions or through action of the General Assembly may have the same powers granted to a city, town and county but in no case will such powers be greater than those granted to a city, town or county. Any joint airport authority created pursuant to this chapter and in existence on July 1, 1994, shall be continued in lawful existence under the terms and provisions of this chapter even though all the political subdivisions except one withdraw from the joint airport authority.Code 1950, § 5-24.1; 1958, c. 523; 1966, c. 576; 1970, c. 717; 1993, c. 81; 1995, c. 453.
VA Code § 5.1-36.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 3 - Municipal and County Airports and Other Air Navigation Facilities|§ 5.1-36.1. Contributions by counties to construction of certain airports

The governing body of any county is authorized to make appropriations of public funds to contribute to the initial construction of an airport by a city or town adjoining such county or by a city or town within a county adjoining such county.Code 1950, § 5-24.2; 1966, c. 415.
VA Code § 5.1-37 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 3 - Municipal and County Airports and Other Air Navigation Facilities|§ 5.1-37. Public waters and submerged lands

The powers herein granted to counties, cities and towns include the power to establish, maintain and operate airports and landing areas and other air navigation facilities in, over and upon any public waters of this Commonwealth, or any submerged land under such public waters, within the limits or jurisdiction of or bordering on such counties, cities or towns.Code 1950, § 5-26; 1966, c. 576.
VA Code § 5.1-38 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 3 - Municipal and County Airports and Other Air Navigation Facilities|§ 5.1-38. Right to zone property not limited

The rights of any counties, cities or towns to zone property shall not be limited by the provisions of this article.Code 1950, § 5-27; 1966, c. 576.
VA Code § 5.1-39 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 3 - Municipal and County Airports and Other Air Navigation Facilities|§ 5.1-39. Use, disposal and termination of rights acquired

No easements, rights or privileges acquired under the terms of this article by any county, city or town shall be employed or disposed of except to accomplish the purposes for which they were originally acquired; except that when such easements, rights, or privileges have been transferred to the Virginia Aviation Board, they may be held, used, and disposed of in accordance with §§ 5.1-2.2 and 5.1-2.2:1. Upon the abandonment of any airport or landing field acquired pursuant to this article all easements, rights and privileges which shall have been so acquired over or with respect to adjacent lands shall thereupon terminate and revert back to the person from whom the easement, right or privilege was obtained or his successor in interest.Code 1950, § 5-28; 1966, c. 576; 1980, c. 721.
VA Code § 5.1-39.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 3 - Municipal and County Airports and Other Air Navigation Facilities|§ 5.1-39.1. Use of airport property for industrial development purposes

Notwithstanding § 5.1-39, any county, city, town, or airport commission may use, lease or convey for any industrial development purposes any airport property described in § 5.1-39 with the written approval of the Director of Aviation on such terms and conditions as the Director may require. When any easement, rights, or privileges have been pledged as a sponsor's share to secure funds from the Federal Aviation Administration, written approval of the Federal Aviation Administration shall also be required.1980, c. 59.
VA Code § 5.1-40 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 3 - Municipal and County Airports and Other Air Navigation Facilities|§ 5.1-40. Lease of land acquired; approval by Department

Any political subdivision or privately owned, licensed public use airport acquiring land under the provisions of this article may individually, or jointly where so operated, lease the same, or any part thereof, to any individual or corporation desiring to use the same for the purpose of operating an airport or landing field, or for the purpose of landing or starting airplanes therefrom or for other aviation purposes, and on such terms and subject to such conditions and regulations as may be provided; and any political subdivision or privately owned, licensed public use airport may enter into a contract in the form of a lease providing for the use of such land, or any part thereof, by the government of the United States for the use by the government of such land for aviation, mail delivery or other aviation purposes upon nominal or other rental or without consideration, provided the political subdivision or privately owned, licensed public use airport certifies that the lease meets the terms and provisions of any and all state and federal grants.Code 1950, § 5-38; 1966, c. 576; 1979, c. 272; 2012, cc. 28, 805, 836.
VA Code § 5.1-41 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 3 - Municipal and County Airports and Other Air Navigation Facilities|§ 5.1-41. Operation by local governing body or special officer or board

The governing body, or other proper authority, of a county, city, or town which has established an airport or landing field and acquired, leased, or set apart property for such purpose, may construct, improve, equip, maintain and operate the same, or may vest jurisdiction for the construction, improvement, equipment, maintenance and operation thereof in any suitable officer, board or body of such county, city, or town. A member of the governing body of any such county, city, or town may also serve as a member of any board or body established to manage an airport or landing field. No such city, town or county, however, shall operate an airport without first obtaining the permission of the Board as now or hereafter provided by law. In addition to other powers conferred by this section, any such governing body or other authority of a county, city, or town shall have the power to seek and obtain loans for the purpose of capital improvements to any airport or landing field established pursuant to this article.Code 1950, § 5-34; 1966, c. 576; 1979, c. 272; 1989, c. 234; 1993, c. 81.
VA Code § 5.1-41.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 3 - Municipal and County Airports and Other Air Navigation Facilities|§ 5.1-41.1. Local governing bodies authorized to require boarding fee

The governing body of any county, city or town which operates an airport or an airport authority, after approval of its governing bodies, shall have the power by ordinance or by bylaw to require a boarding fee on passengers boarding aircraft at local airports, where the trip of such passenger originates at such airport. Such fee shall be in such amount and on such terms as the governing body of the locality or airport authority may by ordinance or by bylaw prescribe, not to exceed two dollars per person. Nothing herein contained shall affect any authority heretofore granted to any local government or airport authority to require a boarding fee.1973, c. 536.
VA Code § 5.1-42 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 3 - Municipal and County Airports and Other Air Navigation Facilities|§ 5.1-42. Payment of purchase price or award for land acquired; issuance of bonds

The purchase price or award for real property acquired for an airport or landing field may be paid for by the appropriation of moneys available therefor or wholly or partly paid from the proceeds of the sale of bonds of the city, town or county as the governing body of the city, town or county shall determine. Such city, town or county is hereby authorized to issue bonds for such purpose or purposes, subject, however, to the approval of such bond issue at a referendum thereon, if such approval is a prerequisite to the issuance of bonds by any such political subdivision of the Commonwealth for public purposes generally.Code 1950, § 5-33; 1966, c. 576.
VA Code § 5.1-43 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 3 - Municipal and County Airports and Other Air Navigation Facilities|§ 5.1-43. Expenses of construction, operation, etc., to be paid by political subdivision

The expenses of such construction, improvement, equipment, maintenance and operation shall be paid by such political subdivision, from available funds, subject to all applicable constitutional provisions.Code 1950, § 5-35; 1966, c. 576.
VA Code § 5.1-44 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 3 - Municipal and County Airports and Other Air Navigation Facilities|§ 5.1-44. Rules and regulations; fees and charges

The governing body of such city, town or county, or a board, commission, authority or body created under § 5.1-36, may adopt regulations not in conflict with the rules and regulations adopted and promulgated by the Board from time to time and establish fees or other charges for the use of such airport or landing field or may authorize an officer representing such city, town, county, board, commission, authority or body to adopt such regulations and establish such fees and charges.Code 1950, § 5-36; 1966, c. 576; 1970, c. 717; 1979, c. 272.
VA Code § 5.1-45 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 3 - Municipal and County Airports and Other Air Navigation Facilities|§ 5.1-45. Appropriations by local authorities

The governing body of any city, town or county to which this chapter is applicable may appropriate or cause to be raised by taxation in such city, town or county a sum sufficient to carry out the provisions of this chapter.Code 1950, § 5-39; 1966, c. 576.
VA Code § 5.1-46 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 3 - Municipal and County Airports and Other Air Navigation Facilities|§ 5.1-46. Receipt and handling of federal and other funds

Any county, city or town in Virginia may accept, receive and receipt for federal moneys, and other moneys, either public or private, for the acquisition, construction, enlargement, improvement, maintenance and operation of airports and landing fields and other air navigation facilities, and is authorized and empowered to comply with the provisions of the laws of the United States and any rules and regulations made thereunder for the expenditure of federal moneys in connection with such airports, landing fields and air navigation facilities.Code 1950, § 5-25; 1966, c. 576; 1979, c. 272; 1988, c. 70.
VA Code § 5.1-47 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 3 - Municipal and County Airports and Other Air Navigation Facilities|§ 5.1-47. Project and application to be approved by Department

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no county, city or town, whether acting alone or jointly with another county, city or town or with the Commonwealth, shall submit to the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States any project application under the provisions of any act of Congress which provides airport construction, planning and development funds for the expansion and improvement of the airport system insofar as such act shall pertain to the Commonwealth of Virginia, unless the project and the project application have been first approved by the Department.Code 1950, § 5-39.1; 1966, c. 576; 1972, c. 374; 1979, c. 272.
VA Code § 5.1-49 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 4 - Commonwealth Transportation Board|§ 5.1-49. Roads to airports and landing fields; cooperation with Department as to aviation facilities

The Department of Transportation is authorized to build roads to airports and landing fields open to public use, and may pay out of highway funds, which have been allocated by the Commonwealth Transportation Board, the cost of such roads. The Department of Transportation may, in cooperation with the Department of Aviation and either on an actual cost or contract basis, construct, maintain and improve airports, landing fields and other aviation facilities licensed for public use, the actual cost thereof to the Department of Transportation to be paid by the Department of Aviation.Code 1950, § 5-40; 1966, c. 576; 1979, c. 272; 2013, cc. 585, 646.
VA Code § 5.1-50 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 4 - Commonwealth Transportation Board|§ 5.1-50. Flight strips, airfields and roads requested by federal agency

In order to further the interests of national security, the Commonwealth Transportation Board may, at the request of the Army and Navy Departments, Federal Highway Administration or other agency of the United States, construct and maintain, or cooperate with any such federal agency in the construction and maintenance of flight strips, airfields, and roads leading thereto from public highways. To carry out this purpose the Department, acting through the Commissioner of Highways may acquire in the name of the Commonwealth by gift or purchase or by the exercise of the power of eminent domain such real property, or interest therein, including the rights in the air above real property, as may be needed for such flight strips, airfields and roads. The exercise of the power of eminent domain hereby conferred shall be in the same manner and pursuant to the same procedure that is now, or may hereafter be, provided by law for the acquisition of real property by the Commissioner of Highways for highway purposes, and in order that the construction work may proceed without delay, the Department may, in the same manner and under the same conditions and procedure as is provided in the case of real property needed for highway purposes, enter upon and take possession of such real property as may be needed for the purposes of this section, and proceed with the construction work prior to the acquisition of title to the property in condemnation proceedings. In carrying out the purposes of this section, the Department may expend only such funds as may be provided for such purposes by the federal government.If requested to do so by the federal agency which provided the funds with which the Department acquired the property for any such flight strips, airfields or roads, the Department may authorize and direct the Commissioner of Highways to convey, by deed executed in the name of the Commonwealth, such property to the United States to be used in the interests of national security. If title to such property is retained by the Commonwealth, the Department may authorize any agency of the United States to use such property to further the interest of national security. Whenever the Department finds that property heretofore or hereafter acquired by it for any such flight strips, airfields or roads is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was acquired, it may sell the same for such consideration as it deems adequate to any private person, firm or corporation and may authorize and direct the Commissioner of Highways to execute a deed in the name of the Commonwealth conveying such property to the purchaser. The proceeds from any such sale shall be paid into the treasury of Virginia to the credit of the highway fund unless the terms of any grant to the Department or the Commonwealth provide otherwise, in which case such proceeds shall be disposed of in accordance with the terms of such grant.Code 1950, § 5-41; 1966, c. 576; 1979, c. 272.
VA Code § 5.1-51 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 5 - Special Fund for Administration of Aviation Laws|§ 5.1-51. Special fund accumulated from taxes, fees, etc.

All funds accumulated from any special sales tax, excise tax or use tax, now or which may hereafter be imposed under the laws of this Commonwealth on aviation motor fuel purchased or used in this Commonwealth in the propulsion of aircraft, and all funds heretofore or hereafter accumulated from any fees for licensing or registering of airmen, aircraft and airports, now or hereafter imposed under the laws of this Commonwealth, and all funds heretofore, and which may hereafter be, appropriated to the Department for the purpose of the promotion and development of aviation and airports, including the expense of the administration by the Department of the laws pertaining to aviation, as now or as may be hereafter enacted, and the jurisdiction for the administration thereof conferred on the Department, are hereby constituted a special fund within the Commonwealth Transportation Fund for the administration of the aviation laws, heretofore or hereafter enacted, insofar as the administration has been, or shall be, imposed upon the Department, for the construction, maintenance and improvement of airports and landing fields and for the promotion of aviation in the interest of operators and in the interest of the public. However, of the moneys expended for the construction, maintenance and improvement of airports at least thirty-five percent thereof computed over a period of three years shall be expended on carrier and reliever airports. Beginning July 1, 1998, any balances remaining in this fund at the end of the year shall be available for use in subsequent years for the purposes set forth in this chapter, and any interest income on such fund shall accrue to the fund.In considering or evaluating the application for or award of any grant of moneys under this section, the Board shall take into account the capacities of all airports within the affected geographic region.Code 1950, § 5-42; 1966, c. 576; 1970, c. 717; 1974, c. 388; 1979, c. 272; 1997, c. 423; 1998, c. 480.
VA Code § 5.1-52 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 5.1 - Aviation|Chapter 5 - Special Fund for Administration of Aviation Laws|§ 5.1-52. Expenditure for planning, construction and maintenance of airports and landing fields

Such special fund shall be expended and disbursed by order of the Department, through the medium of warrants drawn by the Comptroller, for the reasonable and necessary costs of administration of the Department and for the planning, construction, maintenance and improvement of airports and landing fields, to which the public now has, or which it is proposed shall have, access, and for the promotion of aviation in the interest of operators generally. Such expenditures and disbursements may be in the form of grants or loans to such person or persons as may be, in the discretion of the Board, entitled thereto in the interest of the public. Such grants or loans shall be made under such terms and conditions, as may be fixed by the Board and, in the case of loans, the rate of interest and the terms of repayment thereof as may be fixed by the Board.In considering or evaluating the application for or award of any grant of moneys under this section, the Board shall take into account the capacities of all airports within the affected geographic region.Code 1950, § 5-43; 1966, c. 576; 1970, c. 717; 1979, c. 272; 1998, c. 480.