Illinois Compiled Statutes 620 ILCS 15 — Aircraft Landing and Taking Off Restriction Act.

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Short title. This Act may be cited as the Aircraft Landing and Taking Off Restriction Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

For the purposes of this Act, the term: (a) "public airport" means any airport owned or operated by the State of Illinois, or by any municipal corporation or political subdivision of this state, which is used or intended for use by public, commercial and private aircraft and by persons owning, managing, operating or de…

Any agency, municipal corporation or political sub-division of this state which owns or operates a public airport is authorized to control the movement of aircraft upon the ground or surface of such public airport and forbid the taking off of aircraft from or landing at such public airport when, due to the existence of…

Except as otherwise provided in Section 5 of this Act, every individual charged with the responsibility of grounding aircraft shall have the power to control the movement of aircraft upon the ground or surface of a public airport and forbid the taking off of aircraft from or landing at such public airport to any person…

The Department of Transportation of this State may make, promulgate, and amend, change, abrogate or rescind such reasonable, general or special rules, rulings, regulations and procedure as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. (Source: P.A. 81-840.)

The provisions of this Act shall not apply to any certificated air carrier operating under an air carrier operating certificate or the equivalent thereof issued by authority of the United States Government, or to aircraft of the United States or any state, or to the military or naval forces of the United States, or to…

No individual charged with the responsibility of grounding aircraft shall be subjected to any civil liability by reason of any exercise or failure to exercise the power granted in this Act except for capricious or wilful misconduct in exercising such power. (Source: Laws 1957, p. 1294)

It shall be unlawful for any person who has been denied or forbidden to move any aircraft upon the ground or surface of a public airport or to take off from or land, except in a declared emergency, at a public airport under the provisions of this Act, and any person acting under the direction of such person, to move an…

Every person who is convicted of a violation of the provisions of Section 7 of this Act shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor

Every person who is convicted of a violation of the provisions of Section 7 of this Act shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. (Source: P.A. 77-2316.)