Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 266a - Bradley International Airport Improvements and Financing
Section 15-101m. - Management of airport.

(a) Commissioner to establish rates, rents, fees and charges. Exception. Subject to the provisions of the general statutes and resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds pursuant to subsection (a) of section 15-101l, the Commissioner of Transportation is authorized to fix, revise, charge and collect rates, rents, fees and charges for the use of and for the services furnished or to be furnished by the facilities of Bradley International Airport and to contract with any person, partnership, association or corporation, or other body, public or private, in respect thereof except that, the commissioner shall not impose any fee, charge or commission on the gross revenues of off-airport parking operators for the right to access said airport that exceeds five per cent of such gross revenues for calendar quarters commencing on or after July 1, 1997, and prior to July 1, 1998, and four per cent of such gross revenues for calendar quarters commencing on or after July 1, 1998. Such rates, rents, fees and charges shall be fixed and adjusted in respect of the aggregate of rates, rents, fees and charges from the operation of Bradley International Airport so as to provide funds sufficient with other revenues or moneys available therefor, if any, (1) to pay the cost of maintaining, repairing and operating the facilities of Bradley International Airport and each and every portion thereof, to the extent that the payment of such cost has not otherwise been adequately provided for, (2) to pay the principal of and the interest on any outstanding revenue obligations of the state issued in respect of the project as the same shall become due and payable and (3) to create and maintain reserves and sinking funds required or provided for in any resolution authorizing, or trust agreement securing, such bonds. A sufficient amount of the revenues as may be necessary to pay the cost of maintenance, repair and operation and to provide reserves and for renewals, replacements, extensions, enlargements and improvements as may be provided for in the resolution authorizing the issuance of any bonds or in the trust agreement securing the same, shall be set aside at such regular intervals as may be provided in such resolution or trust agreement in a reserve, sinking or other similar fund which is hereby pledged to, and charged with, the payment of the principal of and the interest on such bonds as the same shall become due, and the redemption price or the purchase price of bonds retired by call or purchase as therein provided. The use and disposition of moneys to the credit of such reserve, sinking or other similar fund shall be subject to the provisions of the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds or of such trust agreement.

(b) Designation of fiscal year. Annual operating budget. Personnel. The Department of Transportation shall designate the beginning and ending dates of the fiscal year for the operation of Bradley International Airport. Each year, within ninety days prior to the beginning of the next ensuing fiscal year, the Department of Transportation shall prepare and submit to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management an annual operating budget for Bradley International Airport for such fiscal year, providing for (1) payment of the costs of maintaining, repairing and operating the facilities of Bradley International Airport and each and every portion thereof during such fiscal year, to the extent that the payment of such costs has not otherwise been adequately provided for, (2) the payment of the principal of and interest on any outstanding revenue obligations of the state issued in respect of the project and becoming due and payable in such fiscal year and (3) the creation and maintenance of reserves and sinking funds required or provided for in any resolution authorizing, or trust agreement securing, such bonds. Such annual operating budget shall include an estimate of revenues from the rates, rents, fees and charges fixed by the Department of Transportation pursuant to subsection (a), and from any and all other sources, to meet the estimated expenditures of Bradley International Airport for such fiscal year. Within thirty days prior to the first day of such fiscal year the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall approve said annual operating budget, with such changes, amendments, additions and deletions as shall be agreed upon prior to that date by the Department of Transportation and the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management. The annual operating budget of Bradley International Airport as so approved shall take effect as of the date of its approval. On or before the twentieth day of each month, including the month next preceding the first month of the fiscal year to which the annual operating budget applies, the Treasurer or the trustee under any trust indenture securing the bonds issued under subsection (a) of section 15-101l shall pay to the Department of Transportation out of the funds available for such purpose such amount as may be necessary to make the amount then held by said department for the payment of operating expenses of Bradley International Airport equal to such amount as shall be necessary for the payment of such operating expenses during the next ensuing two months, as shown by the annual operating budget for such fiscal year. Except as otherwise provided in sections 15-101k to 15-101p, inclusive, either expressly or by implication, all provisions of the general statutes governing state employees and state property, and all other provisions of the general statutes applicable to Bradley International Airport, shall continue in effect. All pension, retirement or other similar benefits vested or acquired at any time before or after July 1, 1981, with respect to any state employees shall continue unaffected and as if the salaries and wages of such employees continued to be paid out of the general funds of the state.
(c) Operating budget submitted to General Assembly committee. On the day the Department of Transportation submits an annual operating budget for Bradley International Airport to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, the department shall submit a copy of such budget to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies, through the legislative Office of Fiscal Analysis. Upon the approval of the annual operating budget, the department shall submit a copy of the budget as so approved to said joint standing committee, through the Office of Fiscal Analysis.
(P.A. 81-406, S. 5, 10; P.A. 91-334, S. 1, 3; P.A. 97-269, S. 1, 2.)
History: Section effective from date of first issuance of bonds or notes pursuant to Sec. 15-101l or 15-101n; P.A. 91-334 added Subsec. (c) re submittal of airport's annual operating budget to general assembly committee, through office of fiscal analysis; P.A. 97-269 amended Subsec. (a) to add exception re access fees for off-airport parking operators at Bradley International Airport, effective July 1, 1997.

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