Directional Signs Denoting Certain Airports

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  2. Tennessee Code
  3. Highways, Bridges and Ferries
  4. State Highways
  5. Directional Signs
  6. Directional Signs Denoting Certain Airports

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The department is directed to implement a directional signing program on the state's section of the national system of interstate and defense highways denoting airports located not more than ten (10) miles from the highway as follows:

  1. All such airports providing service to five thousand (5,000) commercial passengers per day if the airport is located in a county having a population of more than one hundred thousand (100,000), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census;
  2. All such airports providing service to three thousand (3,000) commercial passengers per day if the airport is located in a county having a population of less than one hundred thousand (100,000), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census; and
  3. All such airports that are regional airports:
    1. Having at least a six thousand foot (6000') runway with at least two thousand three hundred feet (2,300') of approach lead in strobe lights;
    2. Having at least fifty-eight (58) hangars;
    3. Complying with all federal design/safety standards;
    4. Having an instrument landing system with distance measuring equipment (ILS/DME);
    5. Serving as the prime staging area for regional disaster preparedness and relief; and
    6. Providing full-time trauma hospital flight access service.


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