Sec. 13b-50. Cooperation with federal government. State assistance to municipalities and owners of commercial airports.
Sec. 13b-50. Cooperation with federal government. State assistance to municipalities and owners of commercial airports. (a) The commissioner is authorized to
cooperate with the government of the United States or any agency or department thereof
in the acquisition, construction, improvement, maintenance and operation of airports,
heliports, landing fields and other aeronautical facilities in this state where federal financial aid is received and to comply with the provisions of the laws of the United States
and any regulations made thereunder for the expenditure of federal moneys upon such
airports, heliports and facilities. The commissioner is authorized to accept, receive and
receipt for federal or other moneys for and in behalf of this state or any political subdivision thereof for the acquisition, construction, improvement, maintenance and operation
of facilities within this state. All moneys accepted for disbursement by the commissioner
pursuant to this subsection shall be deposited in the state treasury and disbursed in
accordance with the provisions of the respective grants.
(b) Any municipality is authorized to accept, receive and receipt for federal moneys
and other moneys, either public or private, for the acquisition, construction, enlargement,
improvement, maintenance, equipment or operation of airports and other air navigation
facilities and sites therefor and 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 upon such airports and facilities. No municipality shall submit to the administrator of civil aeronautics of the United States any project application under the provisions
of Section 9(a) of Public Law 377, 79th Congress, or any amendment thereof, unless
the project and the project application have been approved by the commissioner.
(c) Any municipality is authorized to designate by ordinance the commissioner as
its agent to accept, receive and receipt for federal moneys in its behalf for airport purposes
and to contract for the acquisition, construction, enlargement, improvement, maintenance, equipment or operation of such airports or other air navigation facilities, and
may enter into an agreement with the commissioner prescribing the terms and conditions
of such agency in accordance with federal laws, rules and regulations and applicable
laws of this state. Such moneys as are paid by the United States government shall be
paid to such municipality under such terms and conditions as may be imposed by the
United States in making such grant.
(d) All contracts for the acquisition, construction, enlargement, improvement,
maintenance, equipment or operation of airports or other air navigation facilities, made
by the municipality itself or through the commissioner, shall be made pursuant to the
laws of this state governing the making of like contracts; provided, where such acquisition, construction, improvement, enlargement, maintenance, equipment or operation is
financed wholly or partly with federal moneys, the municipality, or the commissioner
as its agent, may let contracts in the manner prescribed by the federal authorities, acting
under the laws of the United States, and any rules or regulations made thereunder, notwithstanding any other state law to the contrary.
(e) The commissioner may render financial assistance by grant of funds to any
municipality or municipalities acting jointly in the planning, acquisition, construction
or improvement of an airport owned or controlled, or to be owned or controlled, by such
municipality or municipalities, out of appropriations made by the General Assembly
for such purposes. Such financial assistance may be furnished in connection with federal
or other financial aid for the same purposes for not more than seventy-five per cent
of the cost exclusive of federal aid. The commissioner may, by regulation, establish
procedure to be followed in granting funds under this subsection and may prescribe
forms to be used in connection therewith.
(f) The commissioner may, whenever he considers such assistance desirable or feasible, make available engineering and other technical services of the department, with
or without charge, to any municipality or owner of a commercial airport requesting
such services in connection with the planning, acquisition, construction, improvement,
maintenance or operation of airports or aeronautical facilities.
(g) Any town, city or borough may lease any airport or contract for any airport
facilities or privileges from any person, firm or corporation, municipal or private, operating a municipal or private airport in any location which has been approved by the
commissioner.
(1969, P.A. 768, S. 45; P.A. 77-472; P.A. 85-262, S. 4; 85-427, S. 4.)
History: P.A. 77-472 provided for application of authorized assistance to owners of commercial airports in Subsec. (f);
P.A. 85-262 extended the provisions of this section to heliports; P.A. 85-427 amended Subsec. (e) by limiting the amount
the commissioner may grant municipalities to no more than 75% of the cost exclusive of federal aid, where previously
amount was calculated on 75% state share and 25% local share matching basis.
Cited. 201 C. 700.