§ 22-114. Picketing, marching, demonstrations and handbilling.

(a)

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this section, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this subsection, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Aviation general manager means the designated manager of the airport or that official's representative.

Demonstration includes but is not limited to picketing, sit-ins, protest marches, speeches and acts ordinarily associated with demonstrating, such as parading, singing and display of placards.

Picket includes any person who induces, informs or attempts to induce or inform anyone not to enter the airport or patronize a tenant therein or to observe the premises in question so as to ascertain who enters or patronizes the premises or who by any means follows employees or patrons of the airport so as either to observe them or attempt to persuade them to cease entering or patronizing the airport or tenants therein.

Picketing includes the stationing or posting of one's person or of others to induce or inform anyone not to enter the airport or patronize a tenant therein or to observe the premises so as to ascertain who enters or patronizes the premises or to follow employees or patrons of the airport or tenants therein to observe them or attempt to persuade them to cease entering or patronizing the picketed premises. This section also applies to informational picketing conducted inside or outside the terminal buildings and concourses and handbilling conducted outside the terminal buildings and concourses.

Restricted area includes the following:

(1)

Any space exclusively leased to a tenant of the airport;

(2)

Locations within 30 feet of any security checkpoint; or

(3)

Any space reserved for particular uses, such as restaurants, restroom facilities, parking areas and baggage claim areas.

(b)

Places where authorized. Picketing, marching and demonstrating at the airport shall be conducted only in the nonsecured public use areas which are authorized in writing by the aviation general manager. No such activity shall be conducted in any restricted areas at the airport.

(c)

Permit. Any person or group of persons intending to picket or to demonstrate at the airport shall apply to the aviation general manager for a permit no less than 48 hours or more than 30 days in advance of the time picketing is scheduled to begin. The application shall include the dates and hours during which the activities are proposed to be carried out and the expected duration of the proposed activities. The aviation general manager shall respond to the application in a manner timely enough to accommodate the intended purpose of the picketing, but shall not respond later than 24 hours after entry of the application. In the review of the permit application, the aviation general manager shall exercise no judgment regarding the purpose or content of the proposed activities. However, the aviation general manager shall grant permits so as to ensure the proper and orderly functioning of the airport, as well as the safety and welfare of its patrons and employees. Each permit shall be issued for a period of 30 days.

(d)

Number of persons allowed.

(1)

The total number of persons engaged in picketing or demonstrating at any given time in each concourse shall not exceed two persons.

(2)

If the number of persons desiring to picket or demonstrate in any given concourse at any one time exceeds the number specified in subsection (c)(1) of this section, the aviation general manager may impose such reasonable and equitable restrictions as to allowable dates or hours for the conduct of such activities as may reasonably be required to provide as fair and as equal an opportunity as possible for all persons desiring to conduct such activities, while ensuring the safe and efficient operation of the airport.

(3)

The aviation general manager may move such permitted activities from one concourse to another and among the different concourses upon reasonable written notice to each affected person when, in the judgment of the aviation general manager, such move is necessary to ensure the safe and orderly operation of the airport.

(e)

Restrictions. No picket line, picketing, demonstration or other assemblage shall be permitted in areas determined by the aviation general manager to be restricted areas nor shall it form any obstacle to the free ingress to or egress from any entrance to the airport or to any restricted area nor shall any portion of such entrance be barricaded, obstructed or interfered with in any manner as will prevent free ingress to or egress from the airport or any restricted area.

(f)

Conduct of participants.

(1)

All participants in any picket line, picketing, demonstration or other assemblage shall conduct themselves in an orderly manner. No participant shall indulge in any shouting, screaming or yelling or emit noise loud enough to disturb the patrons and employees in the safe and proper function of the airport. No participant shall engage in any abusive or threatening language or conduct, physical harm, molestation, harassment of persons, breach of peace or other unlawful conduct. Use of sound-amplifying or voice-amplifying apparatus or noise-making devices on the premises of the airport is prohibited.

(2)

It shall be unlawful for any person, singly or in concert with others, by the use of insulting, threatening or obscene language, to interfere with, hinder, obstruct or intimidate another in the exercise of the other's lawful right to work or to enter upon the premises for the performance of any lawful vocation or to freely enter or leave any premises.

(g)

Size of signs. Placards or signs shall not exceed the body width of the person carrying the sign or be no longer than two feet by two feet by four inches, whichever is larger. Placards or signs may be worn or carried but shall not be affixed to any wooden, plastic or other type of support. No signs shall be draped or affixed to any airport property.

(h)

Storage of materials. Persons shall not store any literature or any other materials in any public use area or in any parking area, restroom facility, terminal door, stairway, vestibule or storage area used by the airport and its lessees where such materials will be an obstruction to persons using the airport facilities, or create a health, safety or security risk. Persons may store literature or other materials in a carry bag which must be carried or harnessed so as not to extend beyond the holder's body width.

(i)

Conduct. Any activities conducted as prescribed by this section shall be conducted in a peaceful and orderly manner, without hinderance to or interference with the safe, orderly and efficient operation of the airport as set forth and enforced by and pursuant to the authority granted the aviation general manager.

(Code 1977, § 12-3006)