2012 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 2 — Aeronautics
RS 2:703 — Definitions

§703. Definitions

As used in this Chapter, the following definitions shall have the following meanings:

(1) "Act" means Chapter 6 of Title 2 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, comprised of R.S. 2:701 through 710.

(2) "Airport facility" means:

(a) Any facility used, available for use, or designed for use to aid in the safe taking off and landing of aircraft; for the safety, storage, and maintenance of aircraft; for the comfort and accommodation of the users of air transportation; for the air and related ground transportation of persons, property, and mail; for the safe and efficient operation and maintenance of an airport; and any combination of such facilities.

(b) Any airport rapid transit system or airport rapid transit project.

(3) "Airport rapid transit project" means any transportation project which may contribute to the development or operation of an airport rapid transit system.

(4) "Airport rapid transit system" means a transportation system the primary function of which is to provide a mass transportation service to and from other vehicular and pedestrian traffic, a secondary function of which is to provide a feeder-type mass transportation service to and from an airport, and an incidental function of which is to provide facilities necessary thereto and other facilities for the comfort, safety, and convenience of its passengers.

(5) "Authority" means the Southeast Regional Airport Authority.

(6) "Board" means the board of commissioners of the authority, the governing authority of the authority.

(7) "Bonds" means bonds, notes, certificates, obligations for the payment of borrowed money, or other evidences of indebtedness.

(8) "Public entity" means a parish, municipality, and any other unit of local government, including a special district, or any combination thereof, authorized by law to perform governmental functions.

(9) "Revenues" means the income, revenues, and receipts derived or to be derived from the properties and facilities owned, leased, mortgaged, or pledged to, maintained, or operated by the authority or received by the authority from these properties and facilities, or from contracts or agreements relating to these properties and facilities, including but not limited to lease or sublease agreements, sale agreements, loan agreements, pledge agreements, or other financing agreements, between the authority and the state or any public entity, or from any other sources whatsoever, including but not by way of limitation, monies generated by way of contract, pledge, donation, or bequest and monies generated by taxes of a public entity which are authorized to be levied by the legislature or any electorate.

(10) "State" means the state of Louisiana.

(11) "Transportation project" means any unit, structure, facility, or undertaking in any combination which may be a component part of a transportation system.

(12) "Transportation system" means all property, immovable or movable, useful for the public ground transportation of passengers for hire, including but not limited to power plants, substations, terminals, garages, bridges, tunnels, subways, elevated rails, aerial structures, monorails, high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, rail motive power, trains, railroad passenger cars and equipment, belt conveyors, inclines, carbarns, streetcars, buses, rails, lines, poles, wires, stations, concessions, off-street parking, and other facilities for the comfort, safety, and convenience of transit passengers, and rights and licenses therefor.

Acts 2008, No. 927, §1, eff. July 14, 2008.