HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance Concerning South Bend Municipal Airport & Establishing a Department of Aviation ORDINANCE No. ,2 rt d
Passed by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana,
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Attest: or h ( City Clerk.
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Attest: . e / > ' President of Common Council.
Presented by me to the Mayor of the City of South Bend, Indiana
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Approved and signed by me Old 26 ----- 14211
Mayor
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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
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appointed by the Mayor of this City, as provided for in said Act, and
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with powers set forth therein, and/be governed by the provisions of
said Act, being chapter 57 of the Acts of 1929 .
SECTION 2. That the acquisition, improvement, operation
and/or maintenance of an airport for the City of South Bend under
the provisions of the Act above said is hereby declared necessary.
SECTION 3. That this ordinance shall be in full force and
effect after its passage and approval by the Mayor.
Q_ �4f Member o the Common Council.
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