265-5. Ground Rules.
(a) Aircraft shall be parked in areas owned and operated by the County, areas rented to commercial operators or in hangars operated by them. Aircraft owners or operators may also park aircraft in privately owned hangars erected on land leased by the owner from the County of Humboldt.
(b) Fixed base operators may charge such reasonable fees for use of his/her leased facilities as he/she may deem proper. Appeals to such charges may be made to the Director.
(c) For special events, aircraft shall be parked only in areas designated by the Director for this purpose.
(d) No aircraft shall be parked in areas not under lease without special written permission of the Director, who may authorize such parking as a temporary measure or as an interim measure pending the execution of a lease or contract.
(e) Taxiway areas shall be maintained open to taxiing aircraft at all times, and no aircraft shall be parked in such taxiway areas or left unattended in such a manner as to interfere with the free flow of traffic.
(f) No aircraft shall be unattended on any County airport unless properly secured in a tie-down or within a hangar. Owners of aircraft shall be responsible for damages resulting from failure to comply with this section.
(g) The designated area of airline terminal apron at the Arcata Airport shall be maintained for the parking of air carrier aircraft only. All other aircraft shall remain clear of said apron except that:
(1) Passengers may be picked up or discharged from private, corporate or military aircraft, when such activity does not interfere with a scheduled airline arrival or departure.
(2) Private, corporate, or military aircraft may be temporarily parked if pilot attended and such temporary parking does not interfere with scheduled airline arrival or departure.
(h) Aircraft engines shall be started or warmed up only in the places designated for such purposes. At no time shall engines be run up when hangars, shops, other buildings or persons in the observation area are in the path of the propeller slipstream.
(i) No persons except airmen/airwomen, duly authorized personnel, passengers or other persons going to or from aircraft, personally conducted by airmen/airwomen or airport attendants, shall be permitted to enter the area of aircraft activity or parking, or on the apron. Any person or persons so excepted do not have the privilege or unrestricted use of the apron. These privileges are confined to the necessary use of such space in connection with flights or routine duties.
(j) Aircraft owned and their agents and pilots shall be responsible for prompt disposal of disabled aircraft and their parts, unless required or directed to delay this action pending investigation of an accident. Damaged, disabled or unworthy aircraft shall not be tied down or stored at an airport without the express permission of the Director. (Ord. 1603, § 2, 7/12/1983; Ord. 2609, § 2, 8/28/2018)