Drafter
Clerk 11/12/2004
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AN ORDINANCE eliminating the bulk rate discount for aircraft tie-downs at the King County International Airport, which is also known as B.F.I., increasing the fuel field use fee collected from oil companies or fuel distributor companies or both selling and delivering fuel to B.F.I., and increasing the landing fee paid by aircraft operators of revenue generating flights and non-revenue generating flights not based at B.F.I.; amending Ordinance 1159, Article XIV, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 15.56.010, and Ordinance 1159, Article XVI, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 15.64.020 and repealing Ordinance 1159, Article XIII, Section 10, as amended, and K.C.C. 15.52.100.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. A. Section 2 of this ordinance eliminates the bulk rate discount for four or more aircraft tie-downs. The rate will go from fifty dollars forty cents to seventy-two dollars per month, as provided in K.C.C. 15.52.060.
B. These fees are authorized by K.C.C. chapter 15.52.
SECTION 2. Ordinance 1159, Article XIII, Section 10, as amended, and K.C.C. 15.52.100 are each hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. A. Section 4 of this ordinance increases the fuel field use fee collected from oil companies or fuel distributor companies or both selling or delivering aviation fuel to B.F.I. from five cents to six and one-half cents for aviation turbine fuels used by jet and turbo-prop engine aircraft (JetA). The fee for aviation gasoline used by piston type engine aircraft (AvGas) will remain at five cents per gallon.
B. These fees are authorized by K.C.C. 15.56.010.
SECTION 4. Ordinance 1159, Article XIV, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 15.56.010 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
Charge on company selling or delivering fuel - ((M))monthly report. Oil companies or fuel distributor companies or both engaged in the business of selling or delivering aviation fuel to any individual, business firm, ((U.S.)) United States government or organization on B.F.I., or selling aviation fuel to any individual, business firm, ((U.S.)) United States government or organization to be used in aircraft located on or being serviced to take off from B.F.I., shall pay a fuel field use fee charge of six and one-half cents for JetA type fuel and five cents per gallon for AVGas type fuel. This charge shall be collected by the oil ((company)) companies or fuel distributor companies, or both, making the sale or delivery and reported in a form prescribed by and acceptable to the airport manager with remittance made to the airport on or before the twentieth of each month.
SECTION 5. A. Section 6 of this ordinance increases the landing fees paid by aircraft operators of revenue generating flights and non-revenue generating flights not based at B.F.I. from thirty-five cents to sixty-five cents per thousand pounds of gross landed weight.
B. These fees are authorized by K.C.C. 15.64.020.
SECTION 6. Ordinance 1159, Article XVI, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 15.64.020 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
Landing fee. Aircraft operating ((pursuant to)) in accordance with this chapter ((will be)) are subject to a landing fee of ((thirty-five cents)) sixty-five cents per thousand pounds of the aircraft's gross landing weight as published in leading aviation journals, computed to the nearest five cents, with a minimum of two dollars and fifty cents per
landing plus outside storage charge on all aircraft parked on county property ((pursuant to
Section)) in accordance with K.C.C. 15.52.060.
SECTION 7. This ordinance takes effect January 1, 2005.