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Old 08-01-2015, 01:14 PM  
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SB 142 Senate Bill - Bill Analysis

Other states are doing the same

Quote:
49 U.S. Code § 40103 (b)(2)(B)

(b) Use of Airspace.?
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(2) The Administrator shall prescribe air traffic regulations on the flight of aircraft (including regulations on safe altitudes) for?
(B) protecting individuals and property on the ground;...
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/40103
FAA regs are only administrative rules not law. I don't think that the states can control airspace -- the airspace is federal. This whole subject is going to the courts and that old 1942 SCOTUS case will be cited it's something you didn't learn in air controller school -- it is called precedent and it wins in court cases all the time.

I shouldn't even waste my time ....
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