15-23-401. Definitions. The following words and phrases when used in this part, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
     (1) "Air commerce" means the transportation by aircraft of persons or property for hire in interstate, intrastate, or international transportation on regularly scheduled flights.
     (2) "Aircraft" means any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used, or designed for navigation of or flight in the air.
     (3) "Equated plane hours" means hours spent by aircraft in flight or on the ground weighted according to the cargo capacity of each aircraft.
     (4) "Flight property" means aircraft fully equipped, ready for flight used in air commerce.
     (5) "Operating" or "operated" means landings or takeoffs during interstate flight.
     (6) "Scheduled airline company" means any person who undertakes directly or indirectly to engage in the business of scheduled air commerce.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 249, L. 1955; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 367, L. 1969; amd. Sec. 22, Ch. 52, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 84-6401.