Terms Used In Michigan Laws 259.144

  • Air navigation: means the operation or navigation of aircraft in the airspace over the land and waters of this state. See Michigan Laws 259.2
  • Airport: means a publicly owned airport licensed by the department under section 86 and includes all airport facilities at the airport. See Michigan Laws 259.138
  • Airport facilities: means any of the following at an airport:
  (i) Real or personal property, or an interest in real or personal property, used for the landing, taking off, taxiing, parking, or storing of aircraft, or for receiving or discharging passengers or cargo, an appurtenant area used for an airport building or other facility, and any appurtenant right-of-way. See Michigan Laws 259.138
  • Approval date: means , for airports certificated under 14 C. See Michigan Laws 259.138
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Local government: means a county, city, township, or village that creates the regional authority. See Michigan Laws 259.138
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 259.7
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Regional authority: means a regional airport authority created under section 139 and governed by a board. See Michigan Laws 259.138
  • Sponsor: means a public agency authorized by 49 USC 47101 to 47134 to submit requests for, accept, and be responsible for performing all of the assurances associated with accepting grant agreements with respect to airports from the FAA or this state, and to perform some duties and responsibilities previously assumed by the local government that owns or operates the airport before the transfer of operational jurisdiction of the airport to an authority created under this chapter by virtue of the local government's acceptance before the approval date of grants for the benefit of the airport from the FAA or another agency of the United States or this state. See Michigan Laws 259.138
  •   (1) All of the following occur on the approval date:
      (a) The regional authority may acquire, and shall assume the exclusive right, responsibility, and authority to occupy, operate, control, and use, the airport and the airport facilities owned by the local government on that date, subject only to any restrictions imposed by this act.
      (b) The local government shall convey title to or enter into a lease of the real property comprising the airport with the regional authority, which shall otherwise acquire and succeed to all rights, title, and interests in and to the fixtures, equipment, materials, furnishings, and other personal property owned and used for purposes of the airport on that date by the local government. The officers of the local government shall execute the instruments of conveyance, assignment, and transfer that are necessary and appropriate to comply with this subdivision.
      (c) The regional authority shall assume, accept, and become solely liable for all of the lawful obligations, promises, covenants, commitments, and other requirements in respect of the airport of the local government, whether known or unknown, contingent or matured, except for any full faith and credit pledge of the local government in respect of bonds issued by the local government for airport purposes, and shall perform all of the duties and obligations and is entitled to all of the rights of the local government in respect of the airport under any ordinances, agreements, or other instruments and under law. Consistent with this chapter, this assumption includes, and any person shall transfer to the regional authority, all licenses, permits, approvals, or awards related to the airport; all grant agreements, grant preapplications, and the right to receive the balance of any money payable under the agreements; the right to receive any money, including any passenger facility charges, payable to the local government on the approval date and money paid to the local government after the approval date; the benefit of contracts and agreements; and all of the local government’s duties, liabilities, responsibilities, and obligations as sponsor of the airport, except for any obligation or liabilities contested in good faith by the regional authority.
      (2) All lawful actions, commitments, and proceedings, including, but not limited to, revenue bond financings for which a notice of intent resolution has been adopted, of the local government made, given, or undertaken before the date of assumption by the regional authority under this section are ratified, confirmed, and validated on assumption by the regional authority. All actions, commitments, or proceedings undertaken shall, and all actions, commitments, or proceedings of the local government in respect of the airport in the process of being undertaken by, but not yet a commitment or obligation of, the local government in respect of the airport may, from and after the date of assumption by the regional authority under this section, be undertaken and completed by the regional authority in the manner and at the times provided in this chapter or other applicable law and in any lawful agreements made by the local government before the date of assumption by the regional authority under this section.
      (3) The exclusive right and authority to occupy, operate, control, and use the airport facilities includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:
      (a) Operational jurisdiction over all real property of the airport, including, but not limited to, terminals, runways, taxiways, aprons, hangars, aids to air navigation, vehicles or facilities, parking facilities for passengers and employees, and buildings and facilities used to operate, maintain, and manage the airport, subject to any liens on the real property and restrictions and limitations on the use of the real property.
      (b) The local government’s right, title, and interest in, and all of the local government’s responsibilities arising under, leases, concessions, and other contracts for airport facilities.
      (4) The acquisitions, assumptions, successions, or transfers described under this section include, but are not limited to, all of the following:
      (a) All contracts and other obligations with airlines, tenants, concessionaires, leaseholders, and others at the airport.
      (b) All financial obligations secured by revenues and fees generated from the operations of the airport, including, but not limited to, airport revenue bonds, special facilities revenue bonds, and all bonded indebtedness associated with the airport.
      (c) All cash balances and investments relating to or resulting from operations of the airport for which operational jurisdiction has been transferred to a regional authority, all money held under an ordinance, resolution, or indenture related to or securing obligations of the local government that have been assumed by the regional authority, all of the accounts receivable or choses in action arising from operations of the airport, and all benefits of contracts and agreements.
      (d) All office equipment, including, but not limited to, computers, records and files, software, and software licenses required for financial management, personnel management, accounting and inventory systems, and general administration.