Polk County amends airport and emergency management code sections

Polk County commissioners on April 2 approved two ordinance-related updates: amendments to Chapter 55 (Airport Rules and Regulations) to revise hangar storage language and add a definition for “derelict aircraft,” and an update to Chapter 14 (Emergency Management and Emergency Services), Section 14-24 to bring the organizational chart current.

The airport changes were presented as clarifying storage and enforcement language and to add a new definitional term. The Emergency Management update stemmed from a March 18 directive to modernize the county’s organizational chart for emergency operations; the county code had not been updated since 1993.

Both measures were forwarded by committee and approved by the full board by unanimous vote after motions from Commissioner Chuck Thaxton and seconding by Commissioner Ray Carter (airport rules), and a committee-stated motion for the emergency management amendment.