Definitions for ORS 836.640 and 836.642.

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(1) "Airport boundary" includes the combined public and private properties that are permitted to have direct access to the airport runway by aircraft.

(2) "Customary and usual aviation-related activity" includes activities described in ORS 836.616 (2) and includes activities that a local government may authorize pursuant to ORS 836.616 (3).

(3) "Pilot site" means a rural airport identified to participate in the pilot program pursuant to ORS 836.642.

(4) "Rural airport" means an airport described in ORS 836.610 (1) that principally serves a city or metropolitan statistical area with a population of 500,000 or fewer.

(5) "Through the fence operation" means a customary and usual aviation-related activity that:

(a) Is conducted by a commercial or industrial user of property within an airport boundary; and

(b) Relies, for business purposes, on the ability to taxi aircraft directly from the property employed for the commercial or industrial use to an airport runway. [2005 c.820 §2; 2009 c.11 §100; 2009 c.398 §1; 2016 c.35 §1]


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