AI-assisted research summary: This chapter prohibits placing obstacles or causing damaging surface conditions on public use airports and extends those rules to temporary airports or runways on frozen streams or lakes. It also allows law enforcement officers to enforce the chapter and sets penalties for violations.
Chapter 20. Landing Field Obstructions. Secs. 02.20.010 02.20.040. Registration of aircraft; registration of pilots; inspection of emergency equipment; flight plans. [Repealed, § 14 ch 56 SLA 2001.] Sec. 02.20.050. Obstructing airports and runways. (a) A person may not place an object on the surface of a public use airport that because of its nature or location might cause injury or damage to an aircraft or person riding in the aircraft. (b) A person may not dig a hole or make any kind of excavation, or drive a sled, tractor, truck, or any kind of vehicle upon the surface of a public use airport that might make ruts, or tracks, or add to an accumulation of tracks so as to cause sufficient roughness of the surface to endanger aircraft using the airport. (c) All acts prohibited in (a) and (b) of this section also apply in their entirety to a temporary airport or runway that has been marked out on the frozen surface of a stream or lake for the use of aircraft. (d) Unless closed for public safety reasons by a notice to airmen (NOTAM) provided to the Federal Aviation Administration or by publication in the appropriate aeronautical charts and publications published by the Federal Aviation Administration, unless closed or restricted under the authority provided in AS 16.05.050 , 16.05.251, 16.05.255, 16.05.270, AS 16.20.010 16.20.162, or 16.20.500 16.20.690, or unless closed or restricted under authority consistent with AS 38.04.200 or AS 41.21.020 (e), navigable water in the state or a suitable landing site on public land that is not subject to a surface lease, easement, or permit issued by the Department of Natural Resources is presumed open for operation of aircraft. Sec. 02.20.060. Enforcement and penalties. (a) Federal, state, and municipal law enforcement officers may enforce the provisions of this chapter and regulations adopted under this chapter. (b) A person who violates this chapter, or a regulation adopted under this chapter, is punishable, upon conviction, for each offense by a fine of not more than $500, or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both. Sec. 02.20.070. Department defined. [Repealed, § 14 ch 56 SLA 2001.]