as introduced - 82nd Legislature (2001 - 2002) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am
A bill for an act relating to reliever airports; requiring the metropolitan airports commission to provide equivalent funding for all Federal Aviation Administration designated reliever airports; amending Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 473.608, by adding a subdivision. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 473.608, is amended by adding a subdivision to read: Subd. 27a. [FUNDING RELIEVER AIRPORTS.] The commission shall provide funding on an annual basis to a non-commission-owned airport that is designated by the Federal Aviation Administration as a reliever airport for the Minneapolis-St.Paul International Airport. The funding must be equivalent to the amount of funding that the reliever airport would have received from the commission to subsidize the airport's operations and maintenance if the reliever airport had been owned by the commission. Sec. 2. [APPLICATION.] Section 1 applies in the counties of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington.