54-5-710 - Directional signs denoting certain airports.
54-5-710. Directional signs denoting certain airports.
The department is directed to implement a directional signing program on the state's section of the national system of interstate and defense highways denoting airports located not more than ten (10) miles from the highway as follows:
(1) All such airports providing service to five thousand (5,000) commercial passengers per day if the airport is located in a county having a population of more than one hundred thousand (100,000), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census;
(2) All such airports providing service to three thousand (3,000) commercial passengers per day if the airport is located in a county having a population of less than one hundred thousand (100,000), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census; and
(3) All such airports that are regional airports:
(A) Having at least a six thousand foot (6000¢) runway with at least two thousand three hundred feet (2,300¢) of approach lead in strobe lights;
(B) Having at least fifty-eight (58) hangars;
(C) Complying with all federal design/safety standards;
(D) Having an instrument landing system with distance measuring equipment (ILS/DME);
(E) Serving as the prime staging area for regional disaster preparedness and relief; and
(F) Providing full-time trauma hospital flight access service.
[Acts 2008, ch. 1170, § 1.]