Okla. Stat. tit. 3, § 3-65.2v2
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General powers of municipalities in the establishment,
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acquisition, operation and maintenance of airports, vertiports, and
air navigation facilities.
A. Establishment, Operation, Land Acquisition. Every
municipality is authorized, out of any appropriations or other
monies made available for such purpose, to plan, establish, develop,
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construct, enlarge, improve, maintain, equip, operate, regulate,
protect and police airports, vertiports, and air navigation
facilities, either within the territorial limits of such
municipality or within the territorial boundaries of this state,
including the construction, installation, equipment, maintenance and
operation at such airports of buildings and other facilities for the
servicing of aircraft or for the comfort and accommodation of air
travelers, and the purchase and sale of supplies, goods and
commodities as an incident to the operation of its airport
properties. For such purposes the municipality may use any
available property that it may now or hereafter own or control and
may, by purchase, gift, devise, lease, eminent domain proceedings or
otherwise, acquire property, real or personal, or any interest
therein including easements in airport hazards or land outside the
boundaries of an airport, vertiport, or airport site as are
necessary to permit safe and efficient operation of the airport or
vertiport or to permit the removal, elimination, obstruction-
marking, or obstruction-lighting of airport hazards or to prevent
the establishment of airport hazards.
B. Acquisition of Existing Airports. Any municipality may by
purchase, gift, devise or lease acquire existing airports,
vertiports, and air navigation facilities, provided however it shall
not acquire or take over any airport or air navigation facility
without the consent of the owner thereof.
C. Establishment of Airports on Public Waters and Reclaimed
Lands. For the purposes of the Municipal Airports Act, a
municipality may establish or acquire and maintain, within or
bordering upon the territorial limits of the municipality, airports
in, over and upon, any public waters of this state, any submerged
lands under such public waters, and any artificial or reclaimed
lands which before the artificial making or reclamation thereof
constituted a portion of the submerged lands under such public
waters; and may construct and maintain terminal building, landing
floats, causeways, roadways and bridges for approaches to or
connecting with any such airport, and landing floats and breakwaters
for the protection thereof.
D. Limitation on Design and Operation of Air Navigation
Facilities. All air navigation facilities established or operated
by municipalities shall be supplementary to and coordinated in
design and operation with those established and operated by the
federal and state governments.
air navigation facilities.
A. Establishment, Operation, Land Acquisition. Every
municipality is authorized, out of any appropriations or other
monies made available for such purpose, to plan, establish, develop,
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 3. Aircraft and Airports Page 10
construct, enlarge, improve, maintain, equip, operate, regulate,
protect and police airports, vertiports, and air navigation
facilities, either within the territorial limits of such
municipality or within the territorial boundaries of this state,
including the construction, installation, equipment, maintenance and
operation at such airports of buildings and other facilities for the
servicing of aircraft or for the comfort and accommodation of air
travelers, and the purchase and sale of supplies, goods and
commodities as an incident to the operation of its airport
properties. For such purposes the municipality may use any
available property that it may now or hereafter own or control and
may, by purchase, gift, devise, lease, eminent domain proceedings or
otherwise, acquire property, real or personal, or any interest
therein including easements in airport hazards or land outside the
boundaries of an airport, vertiport, or airport site as are
necessary to permit safe and efficient operation of the airport or
vertiport or to permit the removal, elimination, obstruction-
marking, or obstruction-lighting of airport hazards or to prevent
the establishment of airport hazards.
B. Acquisition of Existing Airports. Any municipality may by
purchase, gift, devise or lease acquire existing airports,
vertiports, and air navigation facilities, provided however it shall
not acquire or take over any airport or air navigation facility
without the consent of the owner thereof.
C. Establishment of Airports on Public Waters and Reclaimed
Lands. For the purposes of the Municipal Airports Act, a
municipality may establish or acquire and maintain, within or
bordering upon the territorial limits of the municipality, airports
in, over and upon, any public waters of this state, any submerged
lands under such public waters, and any artificial or reclaimed
lands which before the artificial making or reclamation thereof
constituted a portion of the submerged lands under such public
waters; and may construct and maintain terminal building, landing
floats, causeways, roadways and bridges for approaches to or
connecting with any such airport, and landing floats and breakwaters
for the protection thereof.
D. Limitation on Design and Operation of Air Navigation
Facilities. All air navigation facilities established or operated
by municipalities shall be supplementary to and coordinated in
design and operation with those established and operated by the
federal and state governments.
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