§ 22-87. Landing fees.

(a)

Landing fees shall be assessed on all aircraft operations at the airport. The landing fees shall be payable to the city or its duly authorized representatives immediately upon landing at the airport, unless other arrangements have previously been made with the city in writing. Aircraft landing weights are gross weights as defined in section 22-56.

(b)

The amount of the nonsignatory landing fee shall consist of a basic landing fee of $0.19 and an airfield improvements landing fee of $0.63 for a total landing fee of not less than $1.52 per 1,000 pounds based on the maximum certificated gross landing weight of the aircraft.

(c)

Unless prior credit arrangements are established with the aviation general manager or host lessee, all landing fees and all other charges shall be payable to the city or host lessee prior to the departure of the aircraft concerned. If prior credit arrangements are made only with host lessee without the approval of the aviation general manager, the host lessee may be held responsible for the collection of the landing fee. When prior credit arrangements are established with the host lessee or the aviation general manager, the aircraft owner or operator shall be provided an invoice at a later date based upon the information submitted by the aircraft owner or operator or the host lessee. The aviation general manager shall determine what procedures and forms shall be used for billing purposes.

(d)

Because the host lessee is performing a service for the city in collecting the landing fees and in so doing is incurring certain expenses, the host lessee shall be entitled to retain 15 percent of the gross landing fees collected in order to defray these expenses.

(e)

If the operator of any aircraft required by this section to pay landing fees shall fail or refuse to do so, the aviation general manager is authorized to serve such operator or the owner of the aircraft with a notice that the city claims a lien upon the aircraft or any other aircraft of the owner or operator for the landing fees. Following the service of such notice, it shall be an offense against the city for the operator or owner of such aircraft to remove the aircraft from the airport or to move the aircraft to any point on the airport.

(Code 1977, §§ 12-6011—12-6015; Ord. No. 1995-64, § 1, 10-7-95; Ord. No. 2001-1, § 1, 1-8-01; Ord. No. 2002-48, §§ 1, 2, 6-10-02; Ord. No. 2003-91, §§ 1, 2, 9-23-03; Ord. No. 2006-95, § 1, 12-13-06)

Editor's note

Section 2 of Ord. No. 2003-91, adopted Sept. 23, 2003, states: That the above increase in the non-signatory landing fee [subsection (b)] shall be effective on the 31st day after the date on which the Mayor of the City of Atlanta approves this ordinance, Sept. 23, 2003].