R.I. Gen. Laws § 1-4-2

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§ 1-4-2. Definitions.

Official statutory text

When used in this chapter:

(1) €œAeronautics€ means transportation by aircraft, air instruction, the operation, repair, or maintenance of aircraft, and the design, operation, repair, or maintenance of airports, landing fields, or other air navigation facilities.

(2) €œAircraft€ means any contrivance now known or invented, used, or designed for navigation of, or flight in, the air, except a parachute or other contrivance designed for air navigation but used primarily as safety equipment.

(3) €œAir instruction€ means the imparting of aeronautical information by any aviation instructor or in any air school or flying club.

(4) €œAirport€ means any area of land, water, or both, which is used or is made available for the landing and take off of aircraft, and which provides facilities for the shelter, supply, and repair of aircraft and which, as to size, design, surface, marking, equipment, and management meets the minimum requirements established from time to time by the president and CEO.

(5) €œAir school€ means any person engaged in giving, offering to give, or advertising, representing, or holding himself or herself out as giving, with or without compensation or other award, instruction in aeronautics €” in flying, in ground subjects, or in both.

(6) €œAviation instructor€ means any individual engaged in giving, or offering to give, instruction in aeronautics €” in flying, in ground subjects, or in both €” either with or without compensation or other reward, without advertising his or her occupation, without calling his or her facilities €œair school€ or any equivalent term, and without employing or using other instructors.

(7) €œCertificated aircraft€ means any aircraft for which an aircraft certificate other than a registration certificate has been issued by the government of the United States.

(8) [Deleted by P.L. 2024, ch. 74, § 2 and P.L. 2024, ch. 110, § 2.]

(9) €œCivil aircraft€ means any aircraft other than a public aircraft.

(10) €œDealer in aircraft€ or €œaircraft dealer€ means any person who engages in a business, a substantial part of which consists of the manufacture, selling, or exchanging of aircraft and who is registered as a dealer with the federal government.

(11) [Deleted by P.L. 2024, ch. 74, § 2 and P.L. 2024, ch. 110, § 2.]

(12) €œFlying club€ means any person (other than an individual) who, neither for profit nor reward, owns, leases, or uses one or more aircraft for the purpose of instruction, pleasure, or both.

(13) €œLanding field€ means any area of land, water, or both, which is used or is made available for the landing and take off of aircraft, which may or may not provide facilities for the shelter, supply, and repair of aircraft, and which, as to size, design, surface, marking, equipment, and management meets the minimum requirements established from time to time by the president and CEO.

(14) €œMilitary aircraft€ means public aircraft operated in the service of the United States Army, Air Force, National Guard, Navy, Marine Corps, Space Force, or Coast Guard.

(15) €œOperate€ means, with respect to aircraft, to use, cause to use, or authorize to use an aircraft, for the purpose of engine start, movement on the ground (taxi), or air navigation including the piloting of aircraft, with or without the right of legal control (as owner, lessee, or otherwise).

(16) €œOperator€ means a person who operates or is in actual physical control of an aircraft.

(17) €œOwner€ means the legal title holder or any person, firm, copartnership, association, or corporation having the lawful possession or control of an aircraft under a written sale agreement.

(18) €œPerson€ means any individual, or any corporation or other association of individuals.
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(16) €œOperator€ means a person who operates or is in actual physical control of an aircraft.

(17) €œOwner€ means the legal title holder or any person, firm, copartnership, association, or corporation having the lawful possession or control of an aircraft under a written sale agreement.

(18) €œPerson€ means any individual, or any corporation or other association of individuals.

(19) €œPolitical subdivision€ means any city or town or any other public corporation, authority, or district, or any combination of two (2) or more, which is or may be authorized by law to acquire, establish, construct, maintain, improve, and operate airports.

(20) €œPresident and CEO€ means the president and chief executive officer of the Rhode Island airport corporation.

(21) €œPublic aircraft€ means an aircraft used exclusively in the governmental service.

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