Connecticut · statute · Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 266 · 50 active provisions
For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) “Aeronautics” means transportation by aircraft; the operation, repair or maintenance of aircraft, aircraft engines or unmanned aircraft except by a manufacturer, including the repair…
The executive director of the Connecticut Airport Authority shall issue to any salaried aeronautics inspector credentials which shall be carried upon the person of such inspector while in the discharge of official duties.
Section 15-40 is repealed.
The executive director may perform such acts, issue and amend such orders, and make and amend such reasonable general or special regulations and procedures and establish such minimum standards, consistent with the provisions of this chapter, as the executive director deems necessary or appropriate, and which are commen…
The executive director may participate as party plaintiff or defendant, or as intervenor on behalf of the state or any municipality or citizen thereof, in any controversy having to do with any claimed encroachment by the federal government or any foreign state upon any state or individual rights pertaining to aeronauti…
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 chap…
The executive director may hold investigations, inquiries and hearings concerning matters covered by the provisions of this chapter, aircraft accidents, unmanned aircraft accidents or orders, regulations and procedures of the executive director.
No person whose right to operate any aircraft in this state has been suspended or revoked shall operate any aircraft during the period of such suspension or revocation. No person shall operate or cause to be operated any aircraft of which the right to operate has been suspended or revoked. Any person who violates any p…
Section 15-53 is repealed.
The executive director is authorized to revoke or suspend temporarily or permanently the right to operate aircraft, when the executive director determines that any aircraft is not airworthy, or that any airman is not qualified, has wilfully violated the provisions of this chapter or the regulations prescribed pursuant…
The federal license, certificate or permit, and the evidence of registration in another state, if any, required for an airman shall be kept in the personal possession of the airman when he or she is operating within this state and shall be presented for inspection upon the demand of any passenger, any peace officer of…
In any case in which the executive director of the Connecticut Airport Authority refuses to issue a certificate of approval of, or license or renewal of license for, an airport, restricted landing area, heliport, vertiport or other air navigation facility, or in any case in which the executive director issues any order…
An appeal may be taken from any decision of the executive director rendered under the provisions of this chapter. The procedure in such appeal shall be the same as that provided in section 14-134 concerning appeals from decisions by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. No appeal taken from the order of a court in a crim…
Section 15-68 is repealed.
Any person who operates or uses, or causes to be operated or used, or tampers or interferes in any way with any aircraft without the consent of the owner, or who obtains the consent of the owner to the use of his aircraft by false and fraudulent means, statements or representations, shall be fined not more than one tho…
(a) Any person who interferes or tampers with any airport, heliport, vertiport, landing field or airway or the equipment thereof or who interferes or tampers with or circumvents, attempts to circumvent or thwart any security device or equipment installed or who circumvents, attempts to circumvent or fails to comply wit…
Any pilot, whether resident or nonresident, of a civil aircraft involved in an aircraft accident and any operator, whether resident or nonresident, of an unmanned aircraft involved in an unmanned aircraft accident shall immediately notify the executive director or the state police of such accident. If the pilot, pilots…
As used in sections 15-45 and 15-71a and chapter 267: (1) “Aircraft accident” means an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until such time as all such persons have disembarked, in which any person suffers…
No person shall operate any aircraft or unmanned aircraft carelessly, negligently or recklessly, or in such a manner as to endanger the property, life or limb of any person, having regard to the proximity of other aircraft or other unmanned aircraft, weather conditions, field conditions and, while in flight, the territ…
(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…
(a) As used in this section, (1) “unmanned aircraft” has the same meaning as provided in section 15-34; (2) “armed forces of the United States” has the same meaning as “armed forces” in section 27-103; (3) “armed forces of the state” has the same meaning as described in section 27-2; (4) “firefighter” has the same mean…
Where necessary in order to provide unobstructed air space for the landing and taking-off of aircraft, in the case of airports, heliports, vertiports and restricted landing areas acquired or operated by the authority, the executive director or, if a taking is required, the Commissioner of Transportation, and, in the ca…
(a) The executive director shall notify the owner or person responsible for the existence of any obstacle so located as to constitute a hazard to aerial navigation or to the efficient or safe use of any airport, requiring such owner or other person to remove such obstacle within such reasonable time as is fixed by said…
Terms used in this section and sections 15-74b and 15-74c shall be construed as follows, unless another meaning is expressed or is clearly apparent from the language or the context: “public service company” has the same meaning as provided in section 16-1; “public airport” means any state or municipality owned airport,…
(a) No public service company shall construct or maintain any overhead line or facility within the limits of a clear zone. (b) (1) Immediately upon July 6, 1971, the executive director shall establish clear zones, in accordance with regulations adopted by the executive director, for all public airport runways, and shal…