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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
<br />SESSION F
<br />SESSION LAW 2013 -358
<br />SEDATE BILL 380
<br />AN ACT TO CREATE THE CHARLOTTE DOUGLAS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
<br />COMMISSION UNDER THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE.
<br />The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
<br />SECTION 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Charlotte Douglas
<br />International Airport Commission Act."
<br />SECTION 2. S.L. 2013 -272 is repealed.
<br />SECTION 3. Chapter 5 of the Charter of the City of Charlotte, being S.L. 2000 -26,
<br />is amended by adding a new Article to read:
<br />"ARTICLE III. CHARLOTTE DOUGLAS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT COMMISSION.
<br />"Section 5.51. Charlotte Douglas International Airport Commission.
<br />There is created the Charlotte Douglas International Airport Commission, which shall be an
<br />agency of the City, having the powers, authority, and jurisdiction set out in this Article and
<br />such other and additional powers and authority as shall be conferred upon it by future acts of
<br />the General Assembly.
<br />"Section 5.52. Definitions.
<br />Unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions apply throughout this
<br />Article to the defined words and phrases and their cognates:
<br />(1) "Airport" means Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Mecklenburg
<br />County.
<br />(2) "Airport Facilities" means airport facilities of all kinds, including, but not
<br />limited to, landing fields, hangars, fixed -base operations, shops, restaurants
<br />and catering facilities, terminals, buildings, automobile parking facilities,
<br />and all other facilities necessary, beneficial, and /or helpful for the landing,
<br />taking off, operating, servicing, repairing, and parking of aircraft, the
<br />loading, unloading, and handling of cargo and mail, express and freight, and
<br />the accommodation, convenience, and comfort of crews and passengers,
<br />together with related transportation facilities, all necessary, beneficial,
<br />and /or helpful appurtenances, machinery, and equipment, and all lands,
<br />properties, rights, easements, and franchises relating thereto and considered
<br />necessary, beneficial, and /or helpful by the Commission in connection
<br />therewith.
<br />(3) "Airport Property" means all the real property and improvements thereto
<br />designated as airport property on the Airport Layout Plan or Airport
<br />Development Plan of the Airport conditionally approved by the FAA on
<br />February 13, 2013.
<br />(4) "Appointing Authorities" means the entities described in Section 5.24 of this
<br />Charter who are empowered to appoint members of the Commission and
<br />referred to collectively as "Appointing Authorities and individually as
<br />"Appointing Authority."
<br />(5) "Commission" means the Charlotte Douglas International Airport
<br />Commission created by this Article or, if such Commission is abolished or
<br />otherwise ceases to exist, the authority, board, body, commission, or other
<br />entity succeeding to the principal functions thereof.
<br />(6) "FAA" means the Federal Aviation Administration or any successor agency.
<br />(7) "Member" means an individual who is appointed to the Commission, as
<br />provided by this Article.
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