Amendment No. am_136_0868

H. B. No. 251

As Introduced

__________________________ moved to amend as follows:

Delete lines 11 through 78

After line 78, insert:

"Sec. 4561.01. As used in sections 4561.01 to 4561.27 of the Revised Code:

(A) "Aviation" means transportation by aircraft; operation of aircraft; the establishment, operation, maintenance, repair, and improvement of airports, seaplane bases, heliports, vertiports, spaceports, landing fields, and other air navigation facilities; and all other activities connected therewith or incidental thereto.

(B) "Aircraft" means any manned device used or intended for flight in the air. "Aircraft" does not include an ultralight vehicle as defined by 14 C.F.R. part 103.

(C) "Airport" means any location either on land or water which is used for the landing and taking off of aircraft.

(D) "Landing field" means any location either on land or water of such size and nature as to permit the landing or taking off of aircraft with safety, and used for that purpose but not equipped to provide for the shelter, supply, or care of aircraft.

(E) "Air navigation facility" means any facility used, available for use, or designed for use in aid of navigation of aircraft, including airports, landing fields, facilities for the servicing of aircraft or for the comfort and accommodation of air travelers, and any structures, mechanisms, lights, beacons, marks, communicating systems, or other instrumentalities or devices used or useful as an aid to the safe taking off, navigation, and landing of aircraft, or to the safe and efficient operation or maintenance of an airport or landing field, and any combination of such facilities.

(F) "Air navigation hazard" means any structure, object of natural growth, or use of land, that obstructs the air space required for the flight of aircraft in landing or taking off at any airport or landing field, or that otherwise is hazardous to such landing or taking off.

(G) "Air navigation," "navigation of aircraft," or "navigate aircraft" means the operation of aircraft in the air space over this state.

(H) "Airperson" means any individual who, as the person in command, or as pilot, mechanic, or member of the crew, engages in the navigation of aircraft.

(I) "Airway" means a route in the air space over and above the lands or waters of this state, designated by the Ohio aviation board as a route suitable for the navigation of aircraft.

(J) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock association, or body politic, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or other similar representative thereof.

(K) "Government agency" means a state agency, state institution of higher education, regional port authority, or any other political subdivision of the state, or the federal government or other states.

(L) "Heliport" means the area of land, water, or a structure that is used or intended to be used for the landing and takeoff of helicopters, including any appurtenant buildings and facilities.

(M) "Vertiport" means the identifiable ground or elevated areas, including the facilities thereon, that are designed to be used for the landing and takeoff of rotorcraft, tilt-rotor aircraft, or other powered lift aircraft.

(N) "Spaceport" means any facility in the state at which space vehicles may be landed or launched, including all facilities and support infrastructure related to the launch, landing, and payload processing.

(O) "Seaplane base" means a designated area of water used or intended to be used for the landing and takeoff of seaplanes including shore side access and any appurtenant buildings and facilities."

In line 184, after "(F)" insert "To operate in navigable airspace, in a physically nonintrusive manner, in order to observe what is otherwise visible to the naked eye;

(G)"

In line 229, after "flight" insert "and surveillance"

In line 232, after "data" insert "or surveillance data"

The motion was __________ agreed to.

SYNOPSIS

Outdoor surveillance

R.C. 4561.62

Exempts law enforcement use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for surveillance from the requirement to obtain a search warrant when the UAV is operated in navigable airspace in a physically non-intrusive manner in order to observe what is visible to the naked eye.

Public records

R.C. 4561.64

Specifies that surveillance data is a public record that is subject to the Public Records Law, unless an exemption under that Law applies to that data.

LSC technical change

R.C. 4561.01

Updates R.C. 4561.01 to reflect changes from the enactment of H.B. 77 of the 135th General Assembly.