§ 3-33. Purpose.

The Scholes Field Airport is owned, managed, operated and maintained by the City of Galveston, Texas. The requirements for policing the airport are necessarily distinct and different from those for other city owned property. Strict control, particularly of the air operations areas and other working areas must be exercised, and must be based on a city ordinance to be enforceable. It is the purpose of this article to create such rules and regulations as are necessary to provide this control.

The management and administration of those portions of the airport, to which access by the public is limited, must necessarily be the responsibility of the airport manager. The airport manager must have assistance available from the Galveston police department to process complaints of violations thereof. The policing of those areas of the airport, open to the public for general use, will be the responsibility of the Galveston police department.

Areas of the airport, to which the general public cannot be allowed free access, for reasons of public safety and interference with aircraft operations, must obviously be distinguished from those areas to which the public has unrestricted access, such as the airport streets, public vehicular parking areas and the airport terminal. Reference herein to certain areas to which the public has, or does not have access for general purposes, is not to be construed as limiting or qualifying the public access of the airport.