Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session
Relating to: operation of vertiports.
Aviation Municipality — Planning Municipality — Taxation
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill defines and regulates vertiports, which the bill defines as
“infrastructure or a system with supporting services and equipment intended for
landing, ground-handling, and takeoff of crewed or uncrewed vertical takeoff and
landing aircraft.”
Under the bill, no person may operate a vertiport that is available for public use
by an advanced air mobility operator to engage in service in interstate commerce
unless the vertiport layout is approved by the Federal Aviation Administration, and
the vertiport is operated in accordance with FAA rules or guidance pertaining to
vertiport design and performance.
Under the bill, counties, cities, villages, and towns must use zoning and land
use authority to promote reasonable access to advanced air mobility operators at
public vertiports and may not grant or permit an exclusive right of operation to one
or more vertiport owners or operators.