Certain land not to be used as heliport — Heliports on such land
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Riggs v. Burson (1997)
Most recently applied in Lewis v. Cleveland Municipal Airport Authority (September 2008)
Acts 1992, ch. 727, § 3.
(1) Land in a tourist resort county within nine (9) miles of the boundary of a national park established pursuant to 16 U.S.C. § 403 cannot be used as a heliport.
(2) The department of transportation shall not issue or renew licenses pursuant to chapter 2 of this title for any heliport located on land subject to the prohibition in subsection (a), except that licenses may be renewed for heliports allowed to continue to operate under § 42-8-103.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.