(1) There is hereby created and established within the cabinet, a commission to be known as the “Kentucky Airport Zoning Commission” which, notwithstanding the provisions of KRS Chapters 100 and 147, shall be empowered to issue orders, rules, and regulations pertaining to use of land within and around the facilities identified in subsection (2) of this section as will promote the public interest and protect and encourage the proper use of the airports and their facilities.
(2) The commission shall have jurisdiction over land use issues around the following facilities in the Commonwealth:

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 183.861

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

(a) All military airports;
(b) All public-use facilities of the following types:
1. Airports;
2. Heliports; and
3. Seaplane bases; and
(c) All private-use airports which have a paved runway in excess of two thousand nine hundred (2,900) feet.
Effective: June 27, 2019
History: Amended 2019 Ky. Acts ch. 121, sec. 2, effective June 27, 2019. — Amended
2004 Ky. Acts ch. 112, sec. 1, effective July 13, 2004. — Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch.
80, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000. — Created 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 179, sec. 52, effective March 25, 1960.

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