Sec. 15-44. Enforcement of aeronautics laws.
Sec. 15-72a. Liability insurance required for aircraft.
Sec. 15-76. Abandoned aircraft. Lien for storage charges. Notice to executive director.
Sec. 15-90. Airport approach plan.
Sec. 15-44. Enforcement of aeronautics laws. The executive director of the Connecticut Airport Authority, aeronautics inspectors of the authority, each state, county and municipal officer charged with the enforcement of state and municipal laws and each special police officer, appointed under section 29-19, shall enforce and assist in the enforcement of this chapter and of all regulations made pursuant thereto, and of all other laws of this state relating to aeronautics.
(1949 Rev., S. 4789; 1961, P.A. 57; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 171; 1972, P.A. 134, S. 3; P.A. 77-614, S. 553, 610; P.A. 15-192, S. 29; P.A. 23-135, S. 24.)
History: 1961 act substituted deputy for assistant director; 1969 act substituted commissioner of transportation and deputy commissioner for aeronautics for director and deputy director of aeronautics and replaced department of aeronautics with bureau of aeronautics; 1972 act deleted reference to abolished aeronautics commission; P.A. 77-614 deleted references to deputy commissioner and to bureau of aeronautics and specified inspectors to be aeronautics inspectors of the department, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 15-192 replaced “commissioner” with “executive director” and “department” with “authority”, effective July 2, 2015; P.A. 23-135 added reference to special police officer appointed under Sec. 29-19 and made technical and conforming changes, effective July 1, 2023.
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Sec. 15-72a. Liability insurance required for aircraft. (a) No person shall operate, nor any owner permit operation of, an aircraft based or hangered in this state unless there is a liability insurance policy on such aircraft that covers the owner and pilot for claims by passengers or other persons for any injuries to such passengers or other persons or their property that might arise out of the operation of such aircraft.
(b) The liability insurance shall provide coverage of at least (1) five hundred thousand dollars for damages by reason of bodily injury or death or for property damages per accident, and (2) one hundred thousand dollars for damages by reason of bodily injury or death or for property damages per passenger seat.
(c) Each owner or operator of an air navigation facility in the state shall maintain a list of aircraft based or hangered at such air navigation facility. Such list shall include for each such aircraft: (1) The registration number, type and model of the aircraft, (2) the name and address of the owner or operator of the aircraft, (3) the period of time the aircraft has been based or hangered at the air navigation facility, (4) the liability insurance policy or binder number, (5) the name of the insurance company as shown on the liability insurance policy, and (6) the name of the liability insurance agent or broker.
(d) The owner or operator of an aircraft based or hangered in the state shall provide proof of aircraft liability insurance satisfying the coverage required pursuant to this section upon request of the executive director of the Connecticut Airport Authority, any official of the authority or a law enforcement officer.
(e) The provisions of this section shall not apply to aircraft regulated under 14 CFR 205, as amended from time to time.
(P.A. 23-135, S. 30.)
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Sec. 15-76. Abandoned aircraft. Lien for storage charges. Notice to executive director. (a) The executive director of the Connecticut Airport Authority, any employee of the authority, any officer attached to an organized police department, any state police officer or any constable, within his or her precinct, upon discovery of any aircraft apparently abandoned, whether situated within or without any airport or landing field in this state, shall take such aircraft into custody and may cause the same to be taken to and stored in a suitable place. All charges necessarily incurred by such person in the performance of such duty shall be a lien upon such aircraft. The owner or keeper of any hangar or other place where such aircraft is stored shall have a lien upon the same for storage charges. If such aircraft has been so stored for a period of ninety days, such owner or keeper may sell the same at public auction for cash, at such owner's or keeper's place of business, and apply the avails of such sale toward the payment of such owner's or keeper's charges and the payment of any debt or obligation incurred by the person who placed the same in storage, provided such sale shall be advertised three times in a newspaper published or having a circulation in the town where such hangar or other place is located, such advertisement to commence at least five days before such sale; and, if the last place of abode of the owner of such aircraft is known to or may be ascertained by such hangar owner or keeper by the exercise of reasonable diligence, notice of the time and place of sale shall be given such owner by mailing such notice to the owner in a registered or certified letter, postage paid, at such last usual place of abode, at least five days before the time of sale. The proceeds of such sale, after deducting the amount due such hangar owner or keeper and all expenses connected with such sale, including the expenses of the officer who placed such aircraft in storage, shall be paid to the owner of such aircraft or the owner's legal representatives, if claimed by such owner or representatives, at any time within one year from the date of such sale. If such balance is not claimed within such period, it shall escheat to the authority.
(b) If the owner of such aircraft placed in storage in accordance with the provisions of this section fails to claim such aircraft within sixty days, the owner of such hangar or other place of storage shall, within thirty days thereafter, send a written notice to the executive director, stating the make, type, engine number and identification number of such aircraft and the date such aircraft was left with such owner for storage and by whom, which notice shall be placed on file by the executive director and shall be subject to public inspection. Any sale under the provisions of this section shall be void, unless the notice required by this section has been given to the executive director.
(1949 Rev., S. 4821; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 131; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 187; 1972, P.A. 134, S. 5; 207, S. 5; P.A. 77-614, S. 555, 610; P.A. 00-99, S. 52, 154; P.A. 01-195, S. 19, 181; P.A. 15-192, S. 42; P.A. 23-135, S. 25.)
History: 1961 act substituted deputy director for assistant director in Subsec. (a); 1969 act replaced “commission” and “director”, referring to aeronautics commission and director, with “commissioner”, referring to commissioner of transportation and replaced “deputy director” with “deputy commissioner for the bureau of aeronautics”; 1972 acts deleted references to commission members and to aircraft registrations; P.A. 77-614 deleted reference to deputy commissioner, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 00-99 deleted reference to sheriff in Subsec. (a), effective December 1, 2000; P.A. 01-195 made technical changes in Subsec. (a) for the purposes of gender neutrality, effective July 11, 2001; P.A. 15-192 replaced “commissioner” with “executive director” and “department” with “authority” and made technical changes, effective July 2, 2015; P.A. 23-135 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “state” with “authority” re escheatment of balance and making technical changes, effective July 1, 2023.
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Sec. 15-90. Airport approach plan. Each publicly owned airport owner or operator shall formulate and adopt, and revise as necessary, an airport approach plan. Each such plan shall indicate the circumstances in which structures or trees or both are or would be airport hazards, the area within which measures for the protection of the airport's aerial approaches should be taken and what the height limits and other objectives of such measures should be. In adopting or revising any such plan, such owner or operator shall consider, among other things, the character of the flying operations expected to be conducted at the airport, the nature of the terrain, the height of existing structures and trees above the level of the airport, the practicability of lowering or removing existing obstructions and all other material matters. Such owner or operator may obtain and consider the views of the agency of the federal government charged with the fostering of civil aeronautics as to the aerial approaches necessary to safe flying operations at the airport.
(1953, S. 2415d; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 189; P.A. 15-192, S. 44; P.A. 23-135, S. 26.)
History: 1969 act replaced “commission”, referring to aeronautics commission, with “commissioner”, referring to commissioner of transportation; P.A. 15-192 replaced references to commissioner with references to executive director of the Connecticut Airport Authority, effective July 2, 2015; P.A. 23-135 replaced references to executive director with references to publicly owned airport owner or operator and made technical and conforming changes.
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