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Clerk 11/15/2005
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AN ORDINANCE increasing the aircraft tie-downs monthly rental rate from seventy-two dollars to eighty dollars 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 10500, Section 1, and K.C.C. 15.52.060, Ordinance 1159, Article XIV, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 15.56.010 and Ordinance 1159, Article XVI, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 15.64.020.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. A. Section 2 of this ordinance increases the monthly rental rate for aircraft tie-downs. The rate will go from seventy-two dollars to eighty 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 10500, Section 1, and K.C.C. 15.52.060 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
Charges. The following ((charges)) tie-down rates will be ((made)) charged for storage of aircraft on county property (Note: Gross weight shall be that weight for the aircraft as published in leading aviation journals):
POUNDS RATES
Daily Monthly
0 - 12,500 $5.00 $((72.00)) 80.00
12,501 - 60,000 6.00 97.00
60,001 - 115,000 10.00 149.00
115,001 - 210,000 15.00 231.00
210,001 - 350,000 23.00 343.00
350,001 - 600,000 36.00 539.00
600,000 - up 61.00 920.00
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 six and one-half cents to seven cents per gallon 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 - 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, United States government or organization on B.F.I., or selling aviation fuel to any individual, business firm, 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)) seven cents per gallon for JetA type fuel and five cents per gallon for AVGas type fuel. This charge shall be collected by the oil 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 sixty-five cents to seventy 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 in accordance with this chapter are subject to a landing fee of ((sixty-five)) seventy 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 in accordance with K.C.C. 15.52.060.
SECTION 7. This ordinance takes effect January 1, 2006.
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