ARTICLE VIII. OFF-AIRPORT MOTOR VEHICLE RENTAL AND/OR PARKING LOT BUSINESSES OPERATING ON THE BURLINGTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

8.1 Purpose.

This Article is enacted for the purpose of reasonably regulating the business use of public airport facilities by private motor vehicle rental businesses and/or parking lot businesses which are located off airport property; preserving good order and peace at the airport; providing for the public health, safety and welfare; helping to defray the costs of constructing, operating, maintaining and improving the public airport facilities through the imposition of reasonable user fees; and regulating the use of public facilities in the furtherance of private commercial activities.

(Reg. of 8-8-05, eff. 10-26-05)

8.2 Definitions.

(a)    Airport customer is any person who arrives at or departs from the airport by aircraft and who enters into a motor vehicle rental agreement with permittee within twenty-four (24) hours after such arrival, or who parks a vehicle in permittee’s vehicle parking lot, and is transported by permittee’s courtesy vehicle to or from the airport within twenty-four (24) hours of arrival or departure by aircraft.

(b)    Courtesy vehicle is a motor vehicle which carries permittee’s airport customers to or from the airport.

(c)    Off-airport motor vehicle rental business is an individual, corporation, partnership, or other entity or person offering and providing to the public rental motor vehicles, including without limitation, automobiles and other four-wheel passenger vehicles, to be driven by the lessee.

(d)    Off-airport vehicle parking lot business is an individual, corporation, partnership, or other entity or person offering and providing to the public for a fee the use of vehicle parking facilities.

(e)    Permittee is an individual, corporation, partnership, or other entity or person operating at, entering on or exiting from airport property under the required permit issued by the Airport Manager for the City of Burlington, pursuant to Section 8.3 below. Permittee includes the officers, employees, agents or anyone acting on behalf of or with permission of permittee.

(Reg. of 8-8-05, eff. 10-26-05)

8.3 Permit required.

No person engaging in an off-airport motor vehicle rental business or service and/or vehicle parking lot business or service shall operate at, enter upon or use airport property for the purpose of providing pickup or drop off service for airport customers except under an executed, written contract with the City specifically permitting the operation of such services at the airport. Without limiting the authority granted elsewhere in this article, the Airport Manager is authorized to enter into off-airport business permit agreements in the form of Appendix A annexed hereto, which authorize such permittees to conduct certain business operations on airport property in exchange for the payment of a reasonable user fee. Said agreements shall provide for the payment of annual user fees of six and one-half (6.5%) percent of the gross revenues from its airport customers.

(Reg. of 8-8-05, eff. 10-26-05)

8.4 Rules and regulations.

The Airport Manager may issue such rules and regulations as may be necessary to implement this section, such rules and regulations to be issued pursuant to Section 276 of the City Charter. Permittees shall comply with all existing applicable airport rules and regulations as they may be amended from time to time, including without limitation, mandatory minimum insurance requirements.

(Reg. of 8-8-05, eff. 10-26-05)