Section 4-10-4 - Award of Grants

(a) The director or his or her designee may award grants to general aviation and commercial service airports to fund improvements, pay debt service for improvements, or fund efforts to grow and expand commercial aviation service in Alabama.(b) Awards made under subsection (a) shall comply with the following:(1) Forty percent of the amount appropriated to the program in a fiscal year shall be awarded to general aviation airports.(2) Sixty percent of the amount appropriated to the program in a fiscal year shall be awarded to commercial service airports. Grants to commercial service airports shall be allocated based on the pro rata share of entitlement funds received by each airport under the federal Airport Improvement Program for the preceding fiscal year.(3) The total amount of the grants awarded under this chapter in any fiscal year may not exceed the amount appropriated for the program for that fiscal year.(c)(1) The director or his or her designee shall establish a process to ensure that the grants are awarded pursuant to subsection (a).(2) The director or his or her designee shall ensure that the grant funds awarded by the program are used solely

l establish a process to ensure that the grants are awarded pursuant to subsection (a).(2) The director or his or her designee shall ensure that the grant funds awarded by the program are used solely for the purposes specified in Section 4-10-3.(Act 2022-180, §4.)