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 Bridgeport
 Code of Ordinances
 CHARTER OF THE CITY OF BRIDGEPORT
 Chapter 12. PUBLIC FACILITIES

  § 7. Airport.  

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  • (a)

    There shall be in the city of Bridgeport an airport commission which shall consist of the mayor, the director or finance/comptroller, the city clerk and the president of the city council, all acting ex officio, which commission shall have the care, management, control, operation and administration of, and the use of, all airports, and all buildings and real and personal property used in connection therewith, owned or controlled by said city, both within and without the corporate limits of said city, and the maintenance, operation and use of such airports and of all buildings and real and personal property used in connection therewith shall be an essential governmental function of said city, both as to said city and as to its servants and agents. In all matters relating to the care, management, control, operation, administration and use of the Bridgeport Municipal Airport located in the town of Stratford, the administrative head of said town, acting ex officio, shall be a member of said airport commission, and said airport commission shall consist of the above indicated officials of the city of Bridgeport and said administrative head of the town of Stratford.

    (b)

    The city council is authorized, from time to time, to prescribe by ordinance the powers and duties of said airport commission and to enact such ordinances as may be needful or proper for the use, care, management, control, operation and administration of and for the maintenance of safety and the preservation of order and property at any such airports, whether such airports be within or without the corporate limits of said city, and to provide fines and affix penalties for the violation or disobedience of such ordinances.

    (c)

    Said airport commission shall have the power to make and enforce rules and regulations governing said airports and their use, and governing all buildings and real and personal property used in connection therewith, not inconsistent with any ordinance of said city or any general statute or special act, which rules and regulations shall have the force and effect of ordinances of the city of Bridgeport; provided no such rule or regulation shall be of any effect unless it shall have been first approved by the city council, and then published in full in a newspaper published in Bridgeport and printed copies thereof posted in conspicuous places within the limits of the airport to which such rule or regulation is intended to apply. For the purpose of enforcing such rules and regulations and the ordinances authorized in subSection (c) of this section, and the penalties prescribed thereby, all such airports and property, whether within or without the corporate limits of said city, are placed under the police jurisdiction of the city of Bridgeport; and complaints for violations of such rules, regulations or ordinances may be made by the prosecuting attorney to the superior court of said city. Any member of the police department of said city may arrest without warrant in or upon any such airport, whether within or without the corporate limits of the city of Bridgeport, any person who has violated or failed to comply with any such rule, regulation or ordinance, or committed an offense in or upon said airport; and the superior court of said city of Bridgeport shall have jurisdiction of all offenses and violations of such rules, regulations and ordinances committed within the limits of said airport, in the same manner and to the same extent as if they had occurred within the corporate limits of said city.

    (d)

    The powers, duties and functions of the city engineer, the director of public facilities, the director of parks and recreation and the board of park commissioners and of all other officers, boards, commissions and agencies of said city shall, respectively, extend and apply to municipal airports of the city of Bridgeport, whether within or without the corporate limits of said city, so far as the services, facilities and equipment of such officers, boards, commissions and agencies are or may be required for or in connection with the care, use, operation, maintenance and construction thereof or any part thereof.

    (e)

    The terms of any general statue, or any part thereof, inconsistent with any of the terms of this act, shall not apply to the city of Bridgeport, but nothing herein contained shall impair or abrogate any rights of the town of Stratford under Section one thousand one hundred and fifty-five of the general statutes.