Subject to a like provision being made by the county by proper order duly promulgated and entered on its minutes, and as authorized by the provisions of Tex. Transportation Code chapter 22, there is hereby created a joint airport board to be known as the Giddings-Lee County Joint Airport Board (hereinafter referred to as “joint board”), which shall have the powers and duties of joint boards as set forth in Tex. Transportation Code chapter 22 as enacted and as may hereafter be amended, subject to the limitations set out herein.
(1999 Code, sec. 30.10)
The joint board shall be composed of a total of seven members, three members each appointed by the governing bodies of the city and the county plus one additional member appointed by the six members, said additional member to be approved by the respective governing bodies. The seventh member so chosen shall be the chairman of the joint board. Said chairman shall not vote on any matters except to break a tie vote. Each member appointed by the governing bodies of the city and the county shall serve two-year terms. Members may serve more than one consecutive term. Board members shall not receive any compensation for service on the board. The joint board shall organize, select officers, and adopt rules for its own procedures.
(1999 Code, sec. 30.11)
The joint board shall have the power to plan, acquire, establish, construct, improve, equip, maintain, operate, regulate, protect, and police an airport, air navigation facility or airport hazard area jointly acquired, controlled and operated. The joint board may also realign, alter, acquire, abandon, or close a portion of a roadway or alleyway without a showing of paramount importance if the portions to be realigned, altered, acquired, abandoned or closed are in the geographic boundaries of the airport at the time of or after the realignment, alteration, acquisition, abandonment, or closing. A taking of a right-of-way that occurs in the exercise of this power shall be compensated at fair market value.
(1999 Code, sec. 30.12)
(a) 
Expenditures.
The total expenditures to be made by the joint board for any purposes in any budget year shall be determined by a budget approved by the governing bodies of its constituent public agencies on or before October 1 each year. The joint board shall file with each agency on or before July 1 of each year the proposed budget for airport operating purposes for the next calendar year. Such board shall have its membership available for budget hearings and discussions upon request by the constituent agencies when adoption of such budget is being considered.
(b) 
Acquisitions beyond sums allotted.
No airport, air navigation facility, airport hazard area or real or personal property, improvement, maintenance and operation, the cost of which is in excess of sums therefor fixed by the joint agreement or allotted in the annual budget, may be acquired or expended by the joint board without the approval of the governing bodies of its constituent public agencies.
(c) 
Eminent domain proceedings.
Eminent domain proceedings under this division may be instituted only by authority of the governing bodies of the constituent public agencies of the joint board. If so authorized, such proceedings shall be instituted in the names of the constituent public agencies jointly and the property so acquired shall be held by said public agencies as tenants in common until conveyed by them to the joint board.
(d) 
Disposal or conveyance of real property.
The joint board shall not dispose or convey any airport, air navigation facility or real property under its control except with the consent of the governing bodies of its constituent public agencies, provided that the joint board may, without such consent, enter into the contract, lease or other arrangements contemplated by section 4 of the Municipal Airports Act.
(e) 
Leases and contracts for airport property.
A joint board may, without the consent of the board’s constituent agencies, enter into a contract, lease, or other arrangement for the use and occupancy by another of airport property on the terms approved by the joint board, including the amounts of rental, revenue, and payments, the periods of years, and the options of renewal; provided, however, that the joint board shall not have the authority, without the consent of each governing authority of the board’s constituent agencies, to enter into a contract, lease, or other arrangement for the use and occupancy by another of airport property for a term of more than 40 years, including renewals or options to renew.
(1999 Code, sec. 30.13)
Any resolutions, rules, regulations, or orders of the joint board dealing with subjects authorized by Tex. Transportation Code sections 22.014–22.016 shall become effective only upon approval of the governing bodies of the constituent public agencies; provided that, upon such approval, the resolutions, rules, regulations or orders of the joint board shall have the same force and effect in the territories or jurisdiction involved as the ordinance, resolutions, rules, regulations, or orders of each public agency would have in its own territory or jurisdiction. The joint board and its constituent governing bodies shall have the authority to enforce airport rules and regulations and establish a penalty for the violation of an ordinance, rule, or order within the limits prescribed by law.
(1999 Code, sec. 30.14)
The financing of construction and acquisition of said airport has been heretofore provided by the state, county, and city, and no additional sums will be authorized by the joint board unless approved by the city and the county for such purposes.
(1999 Code, sec. 30.15)
(a) 
For the purposes of providing the joint board with monies for the necessary expenditures in carrying out the provisions of the joint airport agreement, the county and the city through their respective governing bodies agree to share airport expenses fifty-fifty, that is, equally. Each constituent agency shall deposit in a joint fund created and maintained by the board its pro-rata share of the operating budget as approved by the commissioners’ court of the county and the city council to provide the joint board with money for approved expenditures. The joint board shall furnish the county commissioners’ court and the city council monthly itemized statements showing expenditures incurred and income received in the preceding month.
(b) 
Federal, state, or other contributions for the control, maintenance or operations of any airport or air navigation facility under the jurisdiction of the joint board shall be deposited to the credit of the joint airport fund. All revenues derived from airport properties including fees, leases, rentals, farm rental, royalties, grants, or otherwise shall be deposited into the fund created by the board.
(c) 
Disbursements shall be made by order of the joint board, subject to the limitations as set forth herein.
(1999 Code, sec. 30.16)
(a) 
Upon a majority vote of the members present of either the commissioners’ court of the county or the city council, joint board actions shall be reviewed by a joint meeting of the joint board and the constituent agencies.
(b) 
The joint board shall report to each constituent agency on or about July 1 of each year for the purpose of proposing a budget for the succeeding year and to review programs and operations of airport facilities. The joint board shall report to the constituent agencies at any other times requested by said agencies.
(1999 Code, sec. 30.17)