Montana Code Annotated 1999

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     67-4-203. Development of criteria for regulation of influence area. (1) The local government shall devise criteria and guidelines for regulation of the airport influence area.
     (2) The criteria and guidelines for noise regulations shall be designed to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare, and the criteria and guidelines for height and land use regulations shall be designed solely to promote the public safety. The criteria and guidelines shall, at the minimum, give reasonable consideration to, among other things:
     (a) the safety of airport users and persons and property in the vicinity of the airport;
     (b) the character of the flying operations conducted or expected to be conducted at the airport;
     (c) the magnitude and duration of noise produced by aircraft and the number of aircraft flybys;
     (d) the nature of the terrain;
     (e) the future development of the airport;
     (f) the views and mandates of the federal agency charged with the fostering of civil aeronautics as to the aerial surfaces necessary for safe flying operations.

     History: En. 1-728 by Sec. 5, Ch. 551, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 1-728.

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