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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
2023 SENATE BILL 867
January 5, 2024 - Introduced by Senator TOMCZYK, cosponsored by Representatives
GUSTAFSON, PENTERMAN, PALMERI and SCHMIDT. Referred to Committee on
Transportation and Local Government.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to create 114.002 (21), 114.105 (5) and 114.41 of the statutes; relating
to: operation of vertiports.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill defines and regulates vertiports, which the bill defines as
“infrastructure or a system with supporting services and equipment intended for
landing, ground-handling, and takeoff of crewed or uncrewed vertical takeoff and
landing aircraft.”
Under the bill, no person may operate a vertiport that is available for public use
by an advanced air mobility operator to engage in service in interstate commerce
unless the vertiport layout is approved by the Federal Aviation Administration, and
the vertiport is operated in accordance with FAA rules or guidance pertaining to
vertiport design and performance.
Under the bill, counties, cities, villages, and towns must use zoning and land
use authority to promote reasonable access to advanced air mobility operators at
public vertiports and may not grant or permit an exclusive right of operation to one
or more vertiport owners or operators.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 114.002 (21) of the statutes is created to read:
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SECTION 1 SENATE BILL 867
114.002 (21) “Vertiport” means infrastructure or a system with supporting
services and equipment intended for landing, ground-handling, and takeoff of
crewed or uncrewed vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
SECTION 2. 114.105 (5) of the statutes is created to read:
114.105 (5) (a) A political subdivision shall exercise its zoning and land use
authority to promote reasonable access to advanced air mobility operators at public
vertiports within its jurisdiction.
(b) A political subdivision may not exercise its zoning and land use authority
to grant or permit an exclusive right of operation to one or more vertiport owners or
operators.
SECTION 3. 114.41 of the statutes is created to read:
114.41 Vertiports. No person may operate a vertiport that is available for
public use by an advanced air mobility operator authorized by the U.S. department
of transportation or federal aviation administration to engage in scheduled or
nonscheduled service carrying passengers or cargo in interstate commerce unless all
of the following apply:
(1) The person has submitted a vertiport layout plan to the administrator of
the federal aviation administration, in the form and manner determined by the
administrator, and the layout plan has been approved by the administrator.
(2) The operation of the vertiport complies with all rules and advisory circulars
promulgated or published by the federal aviation administration that contain
standards for vertiport design and performance characteristics.
(END)
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