Senate Bill 0110c1

    Florida Senate - 1998                            CS for SB 110

    By the Committee on Transportation and Senator Hargrett





    306-584-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to airports; amending s.

  3         330.30, F.S.; exempting certain airports used

  4         exclusively for aerial application or spraying

  5         of crops on a seasonal basis from a provision

  6         of law providing for the approval of airport

  7         sites and the licensing of airports; requiring

  8         memorandums of understanding; providing an

  9         effective date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Paragraph (f) is added to subsection (3) of

14  section 330.30, Florida Statutes, to read:

15         330.30  Approval of airport sites and licensing of

16  airports; fees.--

17         (3)  EXEMPTIONS.--The provisions of this section do not

18  apply to:

19         (f)  An airport that meets the criteria of s.

20  330.27(11) and is used exclusively for aerial application or

21  spraying of crops on a seasonal basis, not to include any

22  licensed airport where permanent crop aerial application or

23  spraying facilities are installed, if the period of operation

24  does not exceed 30 days per calendar year. Such proposed

25  airports that will be located within 3 miles of existing

26  airports or approved airport sites shall establish safe

27  air-traffic patterns with such existing airports or approved

28  airport sites by memorandums of understanding or by letters of

29  agreement between the parties representing those airports or

30  sites.

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CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 1998                            CS for SB 110
    306-584-98




  1         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

  2  law.

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  4          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  5                         Senate Bill 110

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  7  The CS directs temporary airports used exclusively for aerial
    application or spraying of crops on a seasonal basis to
  8  provide for safe air-traffic patterns through agreement with
    the parties representing any airport or approved airport site
  9  within three miles of the temporary airport.

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