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Ky. Rev. Stat. § 183.133 (2026)

Purpose, duties and powers of the board -- Rules and regulations,

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publication -- Enforcement -- Promotion of facilities. (1) The purpose of the board shall be to establish, maintain, operate, and expand necessary, desirable or appropriate airport and air navigation facilities. It shall have the duty and such powers as may be necessary, or desirable to promote and develop aviation, including air transportation, airports and air navigation facilities. (2) The board shall establish and fix reasonable rates, charges and fees for the use of the landing area, ramps and other common aviation facilities. In fixing such rates, charges or fees the board may take into consideration, among other factors, the total capital investment by the board or other local or state governmental authority, the revenue needed properly to maintain such facilities, the revenue needed properly to expand the airport and its facilities, the portion of the facilities utilized by the licensee or contracting party and its customers and the volume and type of business conducted. Any party aggrieved by the rates, charges or fees may appeal from the action of the board to the Circuit Court of the county within which the board operates, within ninety (90) days from the date that the board finally publishes such rates, charges or fees and gives notice of same to the contracting party or licensee. The Circuit Court may hear evidence and determine whether or not the rates, charges or fees are, or are not, reasonable in amount. Appeal from the judgment of the Circuit Court may be prosecuted as any other civil appeal. (3) The board shall likewise have power, from time to time, to fix rates, charges or fees by contract, or by publishing general rates, charges or fees for commercial vendors, concessionaires or other persons for the use or occupancy of terminal or other ground use facilities, under such terms or conditions as it may deem to be in the best interest of maintaining, operating or expanding necessary airport or air navigation facilities, and the public use thereof. (4) The board may acquire by contract, lease, purchase, gift, condemnation or otherwise any real or personal property, or rights therein, necessary for establishing, operating or expanding airports and air navigation facilities. The board may erect, equip, operate and maintain on such property, buildings and equipment necessary, desirable or appropriate for airport or air navigation facilities. The board may dispose of any real or personal property, or rights therein, which, in the opinion of the board are no longer needed for operating or expanding the airport or air navigation facilities. (5) The board or any other governmental unit may by resolution reciting that the property is needed for airport or air navigation purposes direct the condemnation of any property, including navigation or other easements. The procedure for condemnation shall conform to the procedures set out in the Eminent Domain Act of Kentucky. (6) The board or any other governmental unit may from time to time make, adopt and enforce such rules, regulations and ordinances as it may find necessary, desirable or appropriate for carrying into effect the purposes of this chapter, including those relating to the operation and control of the airport, airport facilities or air navigation facilities owned or operated by such board or such other governmental unit. All rules, regulations and ordinances adopted pursuant to this section shall be published according to the provisions of KRS 424.130, and the board or other governmental unit adopting them shall keep a permanent record of such rules, regulations and ordinances available for public inspection, on the airport premises. Prosecution for a violation of any rule, regulation or ordinance adopted pursuant to this section shall be in the District Court of any county within which the airport is located. (7) Any board may engage in activities to promote, encourage or develop the use of airports or air navigation facilities under its control and any board which has members thereof appointed by the Governor shall be assisted in such activities by the state Cabinet for Economic Development if it requests such assistance from the cabinet. Effective: July 15, 1986 History: Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 347, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 171, effective January 2, 1978. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 140, sec. 86. -- Amended 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 244, sec. 1. -- Amended 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 134, sec. 6. -- Created 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 179, sec. 33.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 14 cases, 1966–2019 · leading case: Comair, Inc. v. Lexington-Fayette Urban Cnty. Airport Corp., 295 S.W.3d 91 (Ky. 2009).
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Comair, Inc. v. Lexington-Fayette Urban Cnty. Airport Corp., 295 S.W.3d 91 (Ky. 2009). · cites it 5× “1970) (“The [Airport] Board is a municipal corporation established pursuant to the enablements of KRS 183.133.”); Sawyer v. Jefferson County Fiscal Court, 438 S.”
Exec. Transp. Sys. LLC v. Louisville Reg'l Airport Auth., 678 F. Supp. 2d 498 (W.D. Ky. 2010). · cites it 5× “Perhaps they mean to concede the point, because KRS 183.133 and KRS 183.885 rather plainly permit airport boards to impose fees and regulate traffic and parking.”
City of Bowling Green v. Cooksey, 858 S.W.2d 190 (Ky. Ct. App. 1992). · cites it 4× “That decision requires expert evaluation with the final decision with the airport board which controls the purse strings (KRS 183.133). Case law recognizes the well settled rule that it is a legislative function to determine "[t]he necessity or expediency of taking private…”
Coppage Constr. Co. v. Sanitation Dist. No. 1, 459 S.W.3d 855 (Ky. 2015). “3d at 100 -01 (citing KRS 183.133(6)). As Coppage emphasizes, there is no comparable provision pertaining to sanitation districts in KRS Chapter 220.”
Gray v. Cent. Bank & Trust Co., 562 S.W.2d 656 (Ky. Ct. App. 1978). “For example, KRS 183.133 grants to the air board the power to adopt such ordinances as it may find necessary to effectuate the duties imposed by statute.”
Shipp v. Louisville & Jefferson Cnty. Air Bd., 431 S.W.2d 867 (Ky. Ct. App. 1968). · cites it 2× “It is conceded that appellees have a right under KRS 183.133 to condemn the obstructing trees as did K.”
Parking Auth. of River City, Inc. v. Bridgefield Cas. Ins. Co., 477 S.W.3d 598 (Ky. Ct. App. 2015). “” KRS 183.133(1). As argued by the Board and Corporation, this function is, in many ways, analogous to the provision of county roads and state highways.”
Wadsworth Elec. Mfg. Co. v. Kenton Cnty. Airport Bd., Inc., 509 S.W.2d 270 (Ky. Ct. App. 1974). · cites it 6× “Section 33 of that Act became KRS 183.133. A minor amendment was made to subsection (4) in 1964 (Chap.”
Bowling Green-Warren Cnty. Airport Bd. v. Bridges Aircraft Sales & Serv., Inc., 460 S.W.2d 18 (Ky. Ct. App. 1970). · cites it 2× “The Board is a municipal corporation established pursuant to the enablements of KRS 183.133. On April 13, 1963, the Board and Bridges subscribed an agreement and lease, having minimal duration of ten years, by the terms of which Bridges covenanted to pay the Board $400 per month.”
Watkins v. Reed, 557 F. Supp. 278 (E.D. Ky. 1983). · cites it 2× “Ky.Rev.Stat.Ann. § 183.133 (Baldwin’s 1982).”
Stillpass v. Kenton Cnty. Airport Bd., Inc., 403 S.W.2d 46 (Ky. Ct. App. 1966). “This is an attempt by the defendant landowners in a condemnation proceeding instituted under the provisions of KRS 183.133 (5) and KRS 177.081 et seq. to appeal from an order and amended order of the circuit court determining that the condemnor has the right to take the property…”
Bernard v. Russell Cnty. Air Bd., 718 S.W.2d 123 (Ky. 1986). “The Russell County Air Board must comply with those procedures, because of the language in KRS 183.133(5). That section states: (5) The board or any other governmental unit may by resolution reciting that the property is needed for airport or air navigation purposes direct the…”
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— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 183.133(1) — 2 cases
Comair, Inc. v. Lexington-Fayette Urban Cnty. Airport Corp., 295 S.W.3d 91 (Ky. 2009). “1970) (“The [Airport] Board is a municipal corporation established pursuant to the enablements of KRS 183.133.”); Sawyer v. Jefferson County Fiscal Court, 438 S.”
Parking Auth. of River City, Inc. v. Bridgefield Cas. Ins. Co., 477 S.W.3d 598 (Ky. Ct. App. 2015). “” KRS 183.133(1). As argued by the Board and Corporation, this function is, in many ways, analogous to the provision of county roads and state highways.”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 183.133(2) — 2 cases
Comair, Inc. v. Lexington-Fayette Urban Cnty. Airport Corp., 295 S.W.3d 91 (Ky. 2009). “1970) (“The [Airport] Board is a municipal corporation established pursuant to the enablements of KRS 183.133.”); Sawyer v. Jefferson County Fiscal Court, 438 S.”
Rodericka Bryant v. Louisville Metro Hous. Auth. (Ky. 2019).
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 183.133(3) — 1 case
Exec. Transp. Sys. LLC v. Louisville Reg'l Airport Auth., 678 F. Supp. 2d 498 (W.D. Ky. 2010). “Perhaps they mean to concede the point, because KRS 183.133 and KRS 183.885 rather plainly permit airport boards to impose fees and regulate traffic and parking.”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 183.133(4) — 2 cases
City of Bowling Green v. Cooksey, 858 S.W.2d 190 (Ky. Ct. App. 1992). “That decision requires expert evaluation with the final decision with the airport board which controls the purse strings (KRS 183.133). Case law recognizes the well settled rule that it is a legislative function to determine "[t]he necessity or expediency of taking private…”
Wadsworth Elec. Mfg. Co. v. Kenton Cnty. Airport Bd., Inc., 509 S.W.2d 270 (Ky. Ct. App. 1974). “Section 33 of that Act became KRS 183.133. A minor amendment was made to subsection (4) in 1964 (Chap.”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 183.133(5) — 1 case
Bernard v. Russell Cnty. Air Bd., 718 S.W.2d 123 (Ky. 1986). “The Russell County Air Board must comply with those procedures, because of the language in KRS 183.133(5). That section states: (5) The board or any other governmental unit may by resolution reciting that the property is needed for airport or air navigation purposes direct the…”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 183.133(6) — 4 cases
Comair, Inc. v. Lexington-Fayette Urban Cnty. Airport Corp., 295 S.W.3d 91 (Ky. 2009). “1970) (“The [Airport] Board is a municipal corporation established pursuant to the enablements of KRS 183.133.”); Sawyer v. Jefferson County Fiscal Court, 438 S.”
Exec. Transp. Sys. LLC v. Louisville Reg'l Airport Auth., 678 F. Supp. 2d 498 (W.D. Ky. 2010). “Perhaps they mean to concede the point, because KRS 183.133 and KRS 183.885 rather plainly permit airport boards to impose fees and regulate traffic and parking.”
Coppage Constr. Co. v. Sanitation Dist. No. 1, 459 S.W.3d 855 (Ky. 2015). “3d at 100 -01 (citing KRS 183.133(6)). As Coppage emphasizes, there is no comparable provision pertaining to sanitation districts in KRS Chapter 220.”
Bowling Green-Warren Cnty. Airport Bd. v. Bridges Aircraft Sales & Serv., Inc., 460 S.W.2d 18 (Ky. Ct. App. 1970). “The Board is a municipal corporation established pursuant to the enablements of KRS 183.133. On April 13, 1963, the Board and Bridges subscribed an agreement and lease, having minimal duration of ten years, by the terms of which Bridges covenanted to pay the Board $400 per month.”
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