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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2017

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO AERONAUTICS -- THEODORE FRANCIS GREEN STATE AIRPORT

     

     Introduced By: Representatives Vella-Wilkinson, McNamara, Solomon, Shanley, and
Shekarchi

     Date Introduced: April 27, 2017

     Referred To: House Finance

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

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     SECTION 1. Section 1-2-17 of the General Laws in Chapter 1-2 entitled "Airports and

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Landing Fields" is hereby amended to read as follows:

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     1-2-17. Payment for compensation for municipal services to the city of Warwick.

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     The Rhode Island airport corporation, from a parking surcharge at the T.F. Green state

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airport as defined by a 1988 agreement between the state acting by and through the director of

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transportation and the city of Warwick, shall pay to the city of Warwick out of the parking

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revenue received at T.F. Green state airport as compensation for municipal services provided at

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T.F. Green state airport a sum of not less than two hundred seventy-five thousand dollars

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($275,000) for fiscal year 1994 one million four hundred thousand dollars ($1,400,000) payable

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quarterly; for each fiscal year after 1994 2016, this sum may be reviewed and/or renegotiated by

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the mayor of the city of Warwick and the airport corporation, but in no event will the sum be less

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than five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) one million two hundred fifty thousand dollars

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($1,250,000) in any fiscal year beginning after 1993 and before 2005, or less than seven hundred

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fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) in any fiscal year beginning after 2004, provided any payments

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provided or any portion of these payments is not disapproved by the F.A.A. In the event that the

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F.A.A. disapproves this payment from the airport corporation, the state shall pay to the city of

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Warwick the sums of money required to insure that the city of Warwick receives five hundred

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thousand dollars ($500,000) one million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($1,250,000).

 

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     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

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RELATING TO AERONAUTICS -- THEODORE FRANCIS GREEN STATE AIRPORT

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     This act would increase the yearly amount of money the state airport corporation pays to

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the city of Warwick as payment for the municipal services it provides to them from five hundred

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thousand dollars ($500,000) to one million four hundred thousand dollars ($1,400,000).

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     This act would take effect upon passage.

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