Airport Zoning Act

Texas · LG · §§ 241.001 to 241.903 · 28 sections

Overview

The act addresses obstructions to air navigation around airports, treating structures, trees, and uses of land that intrude on the airspace needed for aircraft landing and takeoff as airport hazards subject to public regulation. It authorizes the state aeronautics agency and political subdivisions — acting individually or through a joint airport zoning board where an airport's approach area crosses jurisdictional lines — to prepare airport approach plans and adopt airport zoning regulations that carry those plans out, working through an airport zoning commission and requiring notice and hearing, while setting rules for conflicts with other zoning regulations and for uses that already exist when the regulations take effect. Day-to-day administration runs on permits, variances, hazard marking and lighting requirements, and a board of appeals whose decisions are subject to judicial review, and the regulatory scheme is backed by authority to acquire air rights, including through eminent domain, along with enforcement remedies.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.

Sections covered

Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.001SHORT TITLE
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.002LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.003DEFINITIONS
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.004AIRPORT USED IN INTEREST OF PUBLIC
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.005ADOPTION OF REGULATION INCLUDES AMENDMENT OR OTHER CHANGE
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.011AIRPORT HAZARD AREA ZONING REGULATIONS
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.012AIRPORT COMPATIBLE LAND USE ZONING REGULATIONS
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.013EXTRATERRITORIAL ZONING IN POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS WITH POPULATION OF MORE THAN 45,000
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.014JOINT AIRPORT ZONING BOARD
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.015INCORPORATION OF AIRPORT ZONING REGULATION INTO COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.016AIRPORT ZONING COMMISSION
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.017PROCEDURAL LIMITATIONS APPLYING TO ADOPTION OF ZONING REGULATIONS
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.018REASONABLENESS OF AIRPORT ZONING REGULATIONS
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.019NONCONFORMING USES AND STRUCTURES
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.020PERMITS
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.031ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.032BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.033AUTHORITY OF BOARD
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.034VARIANCES
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.035HAZARD MARKING AND LIGHTING
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.036APPEAL TO BOARD
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.041JUDICIAL REVIEW OF BOARD DECISION
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.042TRIAL BY COURT
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.043EFFECT OF HOLDING OF THE COURT
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.044ADDITIONAL REMEDIES
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.901CONFLICT OF AN AIRPORT HAZARD AREA ZONING REGULATION WITH ANOTHER REGULATION
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.902CONFLICT OF AN AIRPORT COMPATIBLE LAND USE ZONING REGULATION WITH ANOTHER REGULATION
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 241.903ACQUISITION OF AIR RIGHTS OR OTHER PROPERTY

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