The Town Board of the Town of Islip declares
its intent to fix reasonable fees, rules, regulations and procedures
for off-airport rental car businesses desiring access to airport property
for business purposes. The Town Board deems it necessary to enact
this chapter in order to raise funds to help support the operation
of airport facilities, to help pay for airport equipment, to protect
the public, to preserve order, to provide for the public health, safety
and welfare, to enhance and govern the airport and provide for its
good order and peace and to regulate entrances to property and buildings
at the airport and the egress and ingress to such property and buildings.
The Town Board finds that off-airport rental care companies desiring
access to the airport for business purposes constitute a specific
class of business operations on airport property and further finds
that the fees and regulations contained in this chapter are reasonable
and uniform for the same class of privilege. In adopting this chapter,
the Town Board has given due regard to the property and improvements
used and the expenses of operation of the airport and has found that
the obligations imposed by this chapter are reasonable compensation
from users to the Town of Islip for use of airport facilities and
are required to help defray the cost of such facilities.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
GROSS AUTOMOBILE RENTAL RECEIPTS
Time charges, mileage charges and other sums received by
a car rental company from its customers by reason of the customers'
acceptance of personal accident insurance pursuant to the rental contract.
NONTENANT RENTAL CAR BUSINESS
A rental car business not having a rental car concession
agreement or ground lease with the Town of Islip for the privilege
of conducting rental car business at the airport but nevertheless
desiring the privilege of picking up customers and supplying car rental
services at the airport.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, association, firm, corporation
or any and all combinations of the foregoing operating in concert.
Any person operating a nontenant rental car business as defined in this chapter without first obtaining a permit pursuant to §
3C-3 or without complying with the regulations contained in §
3C-4 shall be guilty of a violation punishable by a fine of one hundred dollars ($100.) for the first offense, a fine of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.) for the second offense, two hundred dollars ($200.) for the third offense and four hundred dollars ($400.) for each offense thereafter, or by imprisonment for a term not exceding fifteen (15) days, or both.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section
or part of this chapter shall be adjudged by any court of competent
jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair
or invalidate the remainder of this chapter but shall be confined
in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part
thereof directly involved in the litigation in which such judgment
shall have been rendered.
This chapter shall take effect ten (10) days
after posting and publication as provided by law.