Oklahoma § 3-512 - Definitions

§ 3-512. Definitions

As used in the Oklahoma Space Industry Development Act:

1. “Authority” means the Oklahoma Space Industry Development

Authority as authorized to be created by the Oklahoma Space Industry

Development Act;

2. “Board” or “Board of Directors” means the governing body of

the Authority as authorized to be created in Section 5207 of this

title;

3. “Bonds” means revenue bonds or other obligations issued by

the Authority for the purpose of financing its projects;

4. “Commission” means the Oklahoma Aerospace and Aeronautics

Commission;

5. “Complementary activity” means any space business incubator,

space tourism activity, or space-related research and development;

6. “Cost” means all costs, fees, charges, expenses, and amounts

associated with the development of projects under the Oklahoma Space

Industry Development Act by the Authority;

7. “Department” means the Oklahoma Department of Aerospace and

Aeronautics;

8. “Federal aid” means any funding or other financial

assistance provided by the federal government to the Authority for

its projects;

9. “Financing agreement” means a lease, lease-purchase

agreement, lease with option to purchase, sale or installment sale

agreement, whether title passes in whole or in part at any time

prior to, at, or after completion of the project, loan agreement, or

other agreement forming the basis for the financing under the

Oklahoma Space Industry Development Act, including any agreements,

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guarantees, or security instruments forming part of or related to

providing assurance of payment of the obligations under such

financing agreement;

10. “Landing area” means the geographical area designated by

the Authority within or outside any spaceport territory for or

intended for the landing and surface maneuvering of any launch or

other space vehicles;

11. “Launch pad” means the launch pad or pads or spacecraft

launch structure used by the spaceport or spaceport user for

launching of space vehicles;

12. “Payload” means all property and cargo to be transported

aboard any vehicle launched or flown, by or from any spaceport;

13. “Person” means individuals, children, firms, associations,

joint ventures, partnerships, estates, trusts, business trusts,

syndicates, fiduciaries, corporations, nations, federal, state, or

local governments, government or other agencies, subdivisions of the

state, municipalities, counties, business entities, and all other

groups or combinations;

14. “Project” means any development, improvement, property,

launch, utility, facility, system, works, road, sidewalk,

enterprise, service, or convenience sponsored or promoted by the

Authority and conducted or performed from any spaceport territory;

15. “Range” means the geographical area designated by the

Authority or other appropriate body as the area for the launching of

space vehicles, rockets, missiles, launch vehicles, shuttles,

satellites, and other vehicles designed to reach high altitudes,

suborbital and orbital, or possessing space flight capacity;

16. “Recovery” means the recovery of space vehicles and payload

or payloads which have been launched from or by any spaceport;

17. “Spaceport” means any area of land or water, or any manmade object or facility located therein, developed by the Authority

under the Oklahoma Space Industry Development Act and located within

spaceport territory, which area is intended for public use, or for

the launching, takeoff and landing of spacecraft and aircraft; such

areas may include appurtenant areas which are used or intended for

public use, for spaceport buildings or other spaceport facilities or

for rights-of-way, or any space facility, space propulsion system,

or station of any kind possessing space flight capacity;

18. “Spaceport system” means the organizations and

infrastructure developed by the Authority for the development of

spaceports and the commercialization of the space industry;

19. “Spaceport territory” means the site of any launch pad and

the geographic area contiguous thereto as determined by the

Authority to be necessary to protect the area from health and safety

hazards from the operation of the spaceport, but not to exceed the

geographic areas designated in Section 5213 of this title and as

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amended or changed in accordance with Section 5220 of this title;

and

20. “Spaceport user” means any person that uses the facilities

or services of any spaceport. For the purposes of any exemptions or

rights granted hereafter, the spaceport user shall be deemed a

spaceport user only during the time period in which the person

actually uses any spaceport, and such rights and exemptions shall be

granted with respect to transactions relating to spaceport projects

only.

Added by Laws 1999, c. 164, § 2, eff. July 1, 1999. Amended by Laws

2025, c. 274, § 2, eff. July 1, 2025. Renumbered from § 5202 of

Title 74 by Laws 2025, c. 274, § 19, eff. July 1, 2025.