WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1015

fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500. 00) in the dis-
cretion of the court.

26. (Licensing of Airports. )

(a) (Site Approvals—Regulations, Issuance of Certificates,
No Fees, Standards, Effective Period, Revocation, Existing
Airports. ) Except as provided in subsection (d) of this sec-
tion, the Commission is authorized to provide for the approval
of airport sites and the issuance of certificates of such ap-
proval. No charge shall be made for any such approval, and
certificates of such an approval shall be issued without charge
to all persons requesting them. Upon the promulgation of a
rule or regulation providing for such approvals, any munici-
pality or person desiring or planning to construct or establish
an airport may, prior to the acquisition of the site or prior
to the construction or establishment of the proposed airport,
make application to the Commission for approval of the site.
The Commission shall with reasonable dispatch grant ap-
proval of a site if it is satisfied: (1) that the site is adequate
for the proposed airport; (2) that such proposed airport, if
constructed or established, will conform to minimum stand-
ards of safety, which shall not be more rigid than those
recommended by the Civil Aeronautics Administration for
comparable airports; and (3) that safe air traffic patterns
could be worked out for such proposed airport and for all
existing airports and approved airport sites in its vicinity.
An approval of a site may be granted subject to any reason-
able conditions which the Commission may deem necessary
to effectuate the purposes of this section, and shall remain in
effect, unless sooner revoked by the Commission, until a
license for an airport located on the approved site has been
issued pursuant to subsection (b) of this section. The Com-
mission may, after notice and opportunity for hearing to
holders of certificates of an approval, revoke such approval
when it shall reasonably determine (1) that there has been
an abandonment of the site as an airport site, or (2) that
there has been a failure within the time prescribed, or if no
time was prescribed, within a reasonable time, to develop the
site as an airport or to comply with the conditions of the
approval, or (3) that because of change of physical or legal
conditions or circumstances the site is no longer usable for
the aeronautical purposes for which the approval was granted.

(b) (Licenses — Regulations, Issuance of Licenses, Re-
newals, Fees, Standards, Revocation, Unlawful Operation. )
Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, the Com-
mission is authorized to provide for the licensing of airports
and the annual renewal of such licenses. It may charge