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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2023 | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO AERONAUTICS -- AIRPORTS AND LANDING FIELDS | |
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Introduced By: Representatives McNamara, Bennett, Vella-Wilkinson, Shanley, and | |
Date Introduced: January 27, 2023 | |
Referred To: House Municipal Government & Housing | |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
1 | SECTION 1. Section 1-2-17 of the General Laws in Chapter 1-2 entitled "Airports and |
2 | Landing Fields" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
3 | 1-2-17. Payment for compensation for municipal services to the city of Warwick. |
4 | The Rhode Island airport corporation, from a parking surcharge at the Rhode Island T.F. |
5 | Green International Airport as defined by a 1988 agreement between the state acting by and through |
6 | the director of transportation and the city of Warwick, shall pay to the city of Warwick out of the |
7 | parking revenue received at Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport as compensation for |
8 | municipal services provided at Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport a sum of not less than |
9 | two hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($275,000) for fiscal year 1994 payable quarterly; for |
10 | each fiscal year after 1994, this sum may be reviewed or renegotiated, or both, by the mayor of the |
11 | city of Warwick and the airport corporation, but in no event will the sum be less than five hundred |
12 | thousand dollars ($500,000) in any fiscal year beginning after 1993 and before 2005, or less than |
13 | seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) in any fiscal year beginning after 2004, or less |
14 | than one million four hundred thousand dollars ($1,400,000) in any fiscal year beginning after |
15 | 2022, provided any payments provided or any portion of these payments is not disapproved by the |
16 | FAA. In the event that the FAA disapproves this payment from the airport corporation, the state |
17 | shall pay to the city of Warwick the sums of money required to insure that the city of Warwick |
18 | receives five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) one million four hundred thousand dollars |
19 | ($1,400,000). |
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1 | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO AERONAUTICS -- AIRPORTS AND LANDING FIELDS | |
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1 | This act would increase the amount of reimbursement funds required to be paid by the |
2 | Rhode Island airport corporation to the city of Warwick for municipal services from five hundred |
3 | thousand dollars ($500,000) to one million four hundred thousand dollars ($1,400,000). |
4 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
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