[Code 1969, § 2-99]
The airport commission is hereby established.
[Code 1969, § 2-101]
The members of the airport commission shall meet in the City
Council chamber each year within 10 days following the appointment
of new members and shall organize by electing one of their members
as president, and one as secretary, and by the election of such other
officers as they may deem necessary. They shall make and adopt such
bylaws, rules and regulations for the management, maintenance and
operation of the Butler Municipal Airport as they shall deem expedient.
[Code 1969, § 2-102]
The construction, maintenance, operation and management of the
Butler Municipal Airport are hereby declared to be functions of the
City government, and all officers and members of the airport commission
are hereby relieved of any and all legal liability which may arise
from construction, operation and maintenance of the Butler Municipal
Airport, and the airport commission shall be protected from claims
by adequate insurance and legal counsel provided by the City. Any
insurance needs shall be procured by action of the City Council. The
foregoing shall not relieve airport commission members of fiscal honesty
and responsibilities.
[Code 1969, § 2-104]
The airport commission is hereby empowered to act in the name
of the City to enter into and obtain such options, contracts, deeds
and other legal instruments as may be necessary for the management,
maintenance and operation of the Butler Municipal Airport, subject
to the needs and fiscal resources of the airport commission. The airport
commission may utilize other City-owned equipment and City personnel
utilities as may be available, the costs of such being charged against
the Butler Municipal Airport as a book charge.
[Code 1969, § 2-105]
The Butler Municipal Airport shall be self-sustaining insofar
as finances are concerned, and the airport commission shall so operate
the municipal airport so as to provide for the upkeep, maintenance
and operation thereof from the revenue received from the operations
of the airport.