5.1-2.2:1 - Further powers and duties of the Board
§ 5.1-2.2:1. Further powers and duties of the Board.
The Board shall have all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out thepurposes of this chapter including, but not limited to, the power:
1. To sue in its own name, to have a seal, and to have perpetual succession;
2. To execute such contracts and other instruments and take such other actionas may be necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of this chapter;
3. To plan, establish, develop, construct, enlarge, improve, maintain, equip,operate, regulate, and protect airports and air navigation facilities, withinthis Commonwealth and within any adjoining state, including the acquisition,construction, installation, equipment, maintenance, and operation at suchairports of buildings and other facilities for the servicing of aircraft orfor the comfort and accommodation of air travelers, and the purchase and saleof supplies, goods, and commodities as an incident to the operation of itsairport properties. For such purposes the Board may, by purchase, gift,devise, lease, condemnation, or otherwise, acquire property, real orpersonal, or any interest therein, including easements in airport hazards orland outside the boundaries of an airport or airport site, as are necessaryto permit the removal, elimination, obstruction marking or obstructionlighting of airport hazards or to prevent the establishment of airporthazards, or for the enlargement of an airport constructed or acquired underthis subdivision 3; provided, however, such power of eminent domain shall notextend to the taking of any radio or television towers or installation inexistence on June 27, 1958;
4. To acquire, by purchase, gift, devise, or lease, existing airports and airnavigation facilities;
5. To establish or acquire and maintain airports in, over, and upon anypublic waters of this Commonwealth or any submerged lands under such publicwaters; and to construct and maintain terminal buildings, landing floats,causeways, roadways, and bridges for approaches to or connecting with anysuch airport, and landing floats and breakwaters for the protection thereof;
6. To construct, or permit the construction of, for sale or lease, on suchterms and conditions as the Board may deem proper, industrial, commercial orrecreational facilities and approaches thereto and appurtenances thereof, onany lands of the Board not acquired by eminent domain and not needed foroperational use of an airport owned or operated by it; provided, that anysuch factory or manufacturing facility shall be so constructed as not toconstitute an airport hazard. In the exercise of the powers conferred by thissubdivision, the Board shall comply with any applicable zoning restrictionsof the political subdivision in which any airport or facility is, or isproposed to be located.
(1980, c. 750.)