Iowa Code 330A.11 – Transfer of existing facilities to authority
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1. Any municipality, airport commission, authority, or person may, and they are hereby authorized to sell, lease, lend, grant, or convey to the authority, any aviation facilities or any part or parts thereof, or any interest in real or personal property, which are within or without geographical boundaries of one or more of the municipal members and which may be used by an authority in the construction, improvement, maintenance, leasing, or operation of any aviation facilities. Any municipality, airport commission, authority, or person is additionally authorized hereby to transfer, assign, and set over to an authority any contract or contracts which may have been awarded by said municipality, airport commission, authority, or person for the construction of aviation facilities not begun or, if begun, not completed.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 330A.11
- Commission: means the natural resource commission of the department. See Iowa Code 321I.1
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Days: means calendar days. See Iowa Code 322G.2
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Owner: means a person, other than a lienholder, having the property right in or title to an all-terrain vehicle. See Iowa Code 321I.1
- Person: includes any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, joint adventure, or association, and the plural as well as the singular number. See Iowa Code 321H.2
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
2. The proposed action of an authority, and the proposed agreement to acquire, shall be approved by the governing body of the owner of the aviation facilities. Whenever the governing body of any municipality, airport commission, or authority, shall desire to sell, lease, lend, grant, or convey to the authority, any aviation facilities or any part or parts thereof, as aforesaid, it shall adopt a resolution signifying its intention to do so and shall publish said resolution at least one time in a newspaper of general circulation in said municipality and in a newspaper or newspapers, if necessary, of general circulation of the area served by said airport commission or authority giving notice of a hearing to be held on the question of said sale, lease, loan, grant, or conveyance. Such resolution shall be published at least fourteen days prior to the date of hearing. After the hearing and if in the public interest, said municipality shall enact an ordinance authorizing said sale, lease, loan, grant, or conveyance and said airport commission or authority shall pass a resolution authorizing said sale, lease, loan, grant, or conveyance.
3. An owner, transferring existing facilities to an authority under the provisions of this section must notify the authority of and make provision in the transfer documents for, where necessary, existing rights, liens, securities, and rights of reentry belonging to the state and federal government.
4. This section, without reference to any other law, shall be deemed complete authority for the acquisition by agreement, of aviation facilities as defined in this chapter, any provision of other laws to the contrary notwithstanding, and no proceedings or other action shall be required except as herein prescribed.