Ordinance Concerning South Bend Municipal Airport & Establishing a Department of Aviation

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�� ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE SOUTH BEND ;•:iricIPAI, AIRPORT MID ESTABLISHING A DEPARTYENT OO AVIATION. WHEREAS , the Common Council of the City of South Bend has been authorized by "AN ACT AUTHORIZING. CITIES OF THE SEC= CUSS TO ACQUIRE, ESTABLISH, CONSTRUCT, II;I=ROVE, EQUIP, NAINTAIN AND OPERATE AIRPORTS AND LANDING FIELDS AND ESTABLISH A DEP_'PT3:ENT OF AVIATION IN CITIES OF THE SECOND CLASS, DEFINING ITS POWERS AND DUTIES ; CON- FERRING CERTAIN POWERS UPON THE COMMON COUNCIL JTT) MAYOR OF SUCH CITIES MID DECLARING AN EMERGENCY-;°-passed by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana at its seventy-sixth regular session and approved March 16, 1929, being Chapter 57 of the Acts of the State of Indiana; as published for the year 1929, to adopt an ordinance in favor of the acquisition, improvement, operation and/or maintenance of an airport under the provisions of said Act ; and :7T REAS, under previous grant of authority, the City of South Bend has acquired and does operate a municipal airport ; and ';fn REAS , there is a necessity for the continuance of said airport and for its operation under the provisions of the above said Act, :and this Council is in favor thereof; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana: SECTION 1 . That the acquisition, improvement , operation and/or maintenance of a municipal airport of the City of South Bend and any airport or airports, landing field or landing fields, be- longing to, operated and/or maintained by said City and all other matters pertaining thereto be done (subject .to the authority and under the provisions of the above said Act, and that there be established as one of the executive departments of said City, a department of aviation, which shall be under the control of a board of four (4) members, to be known as the Board of Aviation Commissioners and to be i