New Jersey § 6:1-44

§ 6:1-44.

The commissioner shall provide for the licensing of airports, landing strips, or other

avigation facilities and temporary landing areas by rules, regulations and orders

adequate to protect the public health and safety and the safety of those participating

in aeronautical activities; provided, however, that the continued use and operation

of airports, landing strips, and other avigation facilities, in use and operation

on the effective date of this chapter, for which an application for a license shall

have been filed within the time fixed by the commissioner, shall be permitted, pending

the granting or rejection of such applications; and provided further, that the application

for a license for any airport, landing strip, or other avigation facility in use and

operation on the effective date of this chapter shall be granted, unless the commissioner

shall find that such airports, landing strips, or other avigation facilities are not

constructed, equipped and operated in accordance with the standards and requirements

fixed by the rules, regulations and orders of the commissioner. Whenever the commissioner or the Director of Aeronautics shall reject any application

for license under the provisions of this section, he shall state in writing the reasons

for such rejection. The commissioner may further determine it necessary and provide for the licensing

of specific aeronautical activities, fixed base operations, or persons engaged in

specific types of aeronautical activities, or operations by rules, regulations and

orders adequate to protect the public health, safety and welfare and the safety of

those participating in aeronautics.