North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 15A - Environmental Quality › Chapter 02 - Environmental Management › Subchapter B - SURFACE WATER AND WETLAND STANDARDS › Section .0600 - WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLANS › Section 02B .0610 - MANAGING ACTIVITIES WITHIN RIPARIAN BUFFERS: DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
For the purposes of this Section, the following words and
					 phrases shall mean:
(1) "Airport
				  Facilities" means all properties, facilities, buildings, structures, and
				  activities that satisfy or otherwise fall within the scope of one or more of
				  the definitions or uses of the words or phrases "air navigation facility,"
				  "airport," or "airport protection privileges" under
				  G.S.
				  63-1; the definition of "aeronautical
				  facilities" in
				  G.S.
				  63-79(1); the phrase
				  "airport facilities" as used in
				  G.S.
				  159-48(b)(1); the phrase
				  "aeronautical facilities" as defined in
				  G.S.
				  159-81 and
				  G.S.
				  159-97; and the phrase "airport facilities
				  and improvements" as used in Article V, Section 13, of the North Carolina
				  Constitution. The term shall include:
(a)
				  airports;
(b) airport maintenance
				  facilities;
(c) aeronautic
				  industrial facilities that require direct access to the airfield;
(d) clear zones;
(e) drainage ditches;
(f) fields;
(g) hangars;
(h) landing lighting;
(i) airport and airport-related
				  offices;
(j) parking
				  facilities;
(k) related
				  navigational and signal systems;
(l) runways;
(m) stormwater outfalls;
(n) terminals;
(o) terminal shops;
(p) all appurtenant areas used or suitable
				  for airport buildings or other airport facilities; and
(q) all appurtenant rights-of-way; restricted
				  landing areas; any structures, mechanisms, lights, beacons, marks,
				  communicating systems, or other instrumentalities or devices used or useful as
				  an aid, or constituting an advantage or convenience to the safe taking off,
				  navigation, and landing of aircraft, or the safe and efficient operation or
				  maintenance of an airport or restricted landing area; easements through, or
				  interests in, air space over land or water, interests in airport hazards
				  outside the boundaries of airports or restricted landing areas, and other
				  protection privileges, the acquisition or control of which is necessary to
				  ensure safe approaches to the landing areas of airports and restricted landing
				  areas, and the safe operation thereof and any combination of any or all of such
				  facilities.
The following shall not be included in the definition of
					 "airport facilities": Satellite parking facilities; retail and commercial
					 development outside of the terminal area, such as rental car facilities; and
					 other secondary development, such as hotels, industrial facilities,
					 free-standing offices and other similar buildings, so long as these facilities
					 are not directly associated with the operation of the airport, and are not
					 operated by a unit of government or special governmental entity such as an
					 airport authority, in which case they are included in the definition of
					 "airport facilities."