To protect the lives and property of the users of the airport and the occupants of the territory adjacent to the airport, the joint airport zoning board may exercise those powers and duties granted legislative bodies under the Municipal Airport Zoning Law [3-39-16 to 3-39-26 NMSA 1978] in conformity with the provisions of the Municipal Airport Zoning Law or Sections 3-21-1, 3-21-2 and 3-21-5 through 3-21-11 NMSA 1978 insofar as it relates to compatible land use zoning around the airport. The area eligible for height, hazard and compatible land use zoning around the airport may not extend more than fifty thousand feet beyond any point on the perimeter of the area of land for the airport which is owned by the political subdivision which operates the airport.
History: 1953 Comp., § 44-2-12, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 308, § 2; 1979, ch. 324, § 1; 1989, ch. 365, § 2.
The 1989 amendment, effective June 16, 1989, added the second sentence.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 8A Am. Jur. 2d Aviation §§ 48, 54.
2A C.J.S. Aeronautics and Aerospace § 58.
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