Nevada Revised Statutes Title 44. Aeronautics § 496.130. Municipality may adopt reasonable ordinances and regulations for airport management and operation; enforcement of ordinances or regulations; airports outside municipal limits subject to state and federal law

1. A municipality that establishes or acquires an airport or air navigation facility may adopt, amend and repeal such reasonable ordinances, resolutions, rules, regulations or orders as it deems necessary for the management, government and use of the airport or air navigation facility under its control, whether situated within or outside of the territorial limits of the municipality.

2. For the enforcement thereof, the municipality may, by ordinance or resolution, as appropriate, appoint airport guards or police with full police powers which must be performed in compliance with the provisions of NRS 171.1223, and fix penalties, within the limits prescribed by law, for the violation of the ordinances, resolutions, rules, regulations and orders. Penalties must be enforced in the same manner in which penalties prescribed by other ordinances or resolutions of the municipality are enforced.

3. A rule, regulation or ordinance must not be adopted, amended or repealed under this chapter, except by action of the governing body of the municipality after a public hearing in relation thereto at which public utilities owning facilities in the areas involved, and other interested persons, have an opportunity to be heard. At least 15 days' notice of the hearing must:

This subsection does not apply to ordinances adopted pursuant to NRS 350.579.

4. All ordinances, resolutions, rules, regulations or orders which are issued by the municipality must be kept in substantial conformity with the laws of this State, or any regulations adopted or standards established pursuant thereto, and, as nearly as possible, with the federal laws governing aeronautics and the rules, regulations or standards duly issued thereunder.

5. To the extent that an airport or other air navigation facility controlled and operated by a municipality is located outside the territorial limits of the municipality, it is subject to federal and state laws, rules or regulations, and under the jurisdiction and control of the municipality controlling or operating it. No other municipality has any authority to charge or exact a license fee or occupation tax for operations thereon.