Section 50-13-12 - Location of air highway--Altitudes--Excepted areas.

50-13-12. Location of air highway--Altitudes--Excepted areas. The air space established by § 50-13-11 consists of the space above an altitude of one thousand feet above the highest obstacle within a horizontal radius of two thousand feet from the aircraft to the ground when over congested areas such as municipalities or settlements, or an open air space assembly of persons, and over other than a congested area the air space above an altitude of five hundred feet above the surface except over open water or sparsely populated areas, which in such event the freedom of transit of an aircraft is no closer than five hundred feet over any person, vessel, vehicle, or structure.

Source: SL 1966, ch 2, § 1; SL 1992, ch 60, § 2.