Aeronautics: airport authority; airport authority; exempt from certain funding restrictions, the official text

Act
No. 64

Public
Acts of 2025

Approved
by the Governor

December
23, 2025

Filed
with the Secretary of State

December
23, 2025

EFFECTIVE
DATE:  December 23, 2025

state of michigan

103rd Legislature

Regular session of 2025

Introduced by Senator Camilleri

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 269

AN ACT to amend 1945 PA 327,
entitled “An act relating to aeronautics in this state; providing for the development
and regulation of aeronautics; creating a state aeronautics commission;
prescribing powers and duties; providing for the licensing, registration, and
supervision and control of all aircraft, airports and landing fields, schools
of aviation, flying clubs, airmen, aviation instructors, airport managers,
manufacturers, dealers, and commercial operation in intrastate commerce;
providing for rules pertaining thereto; prescribing a privilege tax for the use
of the aeronautical facilities on the lands and waters of this state; providing
for the acquisition, development, and operation of airports, landing fields,
and other aeronautical facilities by this state, by political subdivisions, or
by airport authorities; providing for the incorporation of airport authorities
and providing for the powers, duties, and obligations of airport authorities;
providing for the transfer of airport management to airport authorities,
including the transfer of airport liabilities, employees, and operational
jurisdiction; providing jurisdiction of crimes, torts, and contracts; providing
police powers for those entrusted to enforce this act; providing for civil
liability of owners, operators, and others; making hunting from aircraft
unlawful; providing for a repair station operators lien; providing for appeals
from rules or orders issued by the commission; providing for the transfer from
the Michigan board of aeronautics to the aeronautics commission all properties
and funds held by the board of aeronautics; providing for a state aeronautics
fund and making an appropriation therefor; prescribing penalties; and making
uniform the law with reference to state development and regulation of
aeronautics,” by amending section 135 (MCL 259.135), as amended by 1982 PA 466.

The People of the State of
Michigan enact:

Sec.
135. (1) A political subdivision of this state may accept federal or other
assistance in the acquisition, construction, enlargement, improvement,
maintenance, equipment, or operation of airports, landing fields, and other
aeronautical facilities.

(2) A political subdivision of this state, whether acting
alone or jointly with another political subdivision or with the state, shall
not submit directly to the administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
or its successor agency any project application under the provisions of an act
of Congress for airport and airway systems, unless the project and the project
application have been first approved by the commission.

(3) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, a political
subdivision shall not directly accept, receive, receipt for, or disburse any
funds granted by the United States for the purpose of acquisition,
construction, enlargement, maintenance, equipment, or improvement of airports,
landing fields, or other aeronautical facilities, but it shall designate the
commission as its agent and in its behalf to accept, receive, receipt for, and
disburse the funds described in this subsection. A political subdivision shall
enter into an agreement with the commission which must prescribe the terms and
conditions of the agency in accordance with federal laws, rules, and
regulations and the applicable laws of this state. Money paid over by the
United States government for the acquisition, construction, improvement,
enlargement, equipment, or maintenance of airports, landing fields, or other
aeronautical facilities must be channeled through the state treasury and
disbursed for and in behalf of the political subdivision under the terms and
conditions of the respective grants. The disbursements must be made in
accordance with the accounting laws and procedures of this state. This
subsection does not apply to funds granted by the United States to a qualified
airport unless federal laws or regulations applicable to the funds prohibit the
direct acceptance or receipt by, or disbursement to, a qualified airport.

This
act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of
Representatives

Approved___________________________________________

____________________________________________________

Governor