Chapter 3. POWERS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AS TO AIR FACILITIES  


Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 2. POWERS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AS TO AIR FACILITIES

REFS & ANNOS

TITLE 6 Chapter 3 NOTE

JUDICIAL DECISIONS
 
BROAD POWERS CONFERRED. --This chapter is a general law and confers broad and comprehensive powers upon municipalities, counties, and other political subdivisions to acquire (either separately or jointly) lands for construction and expansion of airports. City of Atlanta v. Murphy, 206 Ga. 21, 55 S.E.2d 573 (1949) (see O.C.G.A. Ch. 3, T. 6).
 
CHAPTER TO BECOME PART OF CHARTER OF ALL MUNICIPALITIES. --This chapter applies to all municipalities, counties, and other political subdivisions of the state, and would, in effect, become a part of the charter of all municipalities of the state. City of Atlanta v. Airways Parking Co., 225 Ga. 173, 167 S.E.2d 145 (1969) (see O.C.G.A. Ch. 3, T. 6).
 
NO CAUSE OF ACTION STATED WHEN NO SHOWING OF ARBITRARY ABUSE OF POWERS. --Petition by residents and taxpayers for injunction, which shows that closing and relocation of a section of state highway is for purpose of extending a municipal airport, fails to state a cause of action, when an arbitrary abuse of powers granted by this chapter is not shown. City of Atlanta v. Murphy, 206 Ga. 21, 55 S.E.2d 573 (1949) (see O.C.G.A. Ch. 3, T. 6).
 
CITED in Thrasher v. City of Atlanta, 178 Ga. 514, 173 S.E. 817 (1934); Miree v. United States, 526 F.2d 679 (5th Cir. 1976); Southern Airways, Inc. v. City of Atlanta, 428 F. Supp. 1010 (N.D. Ga. 1977).
 
RESEARCH REFERENCES
 
ALR. -- Air navigation, 69 ALR 316.
   Power to establish or maintain public airport, or to create separate public airport authority, 161 ALR 733.
   Validity, construction, and operation of airport operator's grant of exclusive or discriminatory privilege or concession, 40 ALR2d 1060.
   Liability of municipality for torts in connection with airport, 66 ALR2d 634.