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ORDINANCE NO. 2802
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 3, "AIRCRAFT AND AIRPORTS,"
OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES TO ALLOW USE OF HELICOPTERS
AT PLACES WITHIN THE CITY OF BAYTOWN OTHER THAN ESTAB-
LISHED LANDING FIELDS OR AIRPORTS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAYTOWN:
Section 1: That Chapter 3 of the Code of Ordinances of
the City of Baytown is hereby amended by the repeal of
Section 3 -1, Definitions, as presently constituted and by
the adoption of a new Section 3 -1 that shall read as follows:
Sec. 3 -1. Definitions.
(a) Aircraft. Any aeroplane, airplane, gas bag, balloon,
or any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used or
designed for navigation or flight in the air, except a
helicopter or other vehicle whose support is the air is
normally derived from the verticle component of force
produced by airfoils mechanically rotated about an approx-
imately verticle axis.
(b) Acrobatic flying. The performance of tailspins,
loops, rolls, or any intentional or unnecessary maneuver
involving an abrupt change in the altitude of an aircraft or
performing stunt flying.
Section 2: All ordinances or parts of ordinances
inconsistent with the terms of this ordinance are hereby
repealed; provided, however, that such repeal shall be only
to the extent of such inconsistency and in all other respects
this ordinance shall be cumulative of other ordinances
regulating and governing the subject matter covered by this
ordinance.
Section 3: If any provision, section, exception, sub-
section, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this
ordinance or the application of same to any person or set of
circumstances, shall for any reason be held unconstitutional,
void or invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the valid-
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ity of the remaining provisions of this ordinance or their
application to other persons or sets of circumstances and to
this end all provisions of this ordinance are declared to be
severable.
Section 4: This ordinance shall take effect from and
after its passage.
INTRODUCED, READ, and PASSED by the affirmative vote of
the City Council of the City of Baytown, this the 10th
day of January 1980.
ATTEST:
EILEEN P. HALL, City Clerk
APPROVED:
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SCOTT BOUNDS, City Attorney
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or
ATTEST:
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