{"id":97584,"date":"2019-10-18T12:04:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/this-new-drone-bill-would-make-the-airspace-over-peoples-homes-private-property"},"modified":"2019-10-18T12:04:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:04:39","slug":"this-new-drone-bill-would-make-the-airspace-over-peoples-homes-private-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/this-new-drone-bill-would-make-the-airspace-over-peoples-homes-private-property","title":{"rendered":"This New Drone Bill Would Make the Airspace Over People\u2019s Homes Private Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-new-drone-bill-would-make-the-airspace-over-peoples-homes-private-property3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/dronelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/maxresdefault-3-e1569342741552.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-new-drone-bill-would-make-the-airspace-over-peoples-homes-private-property2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>A new proposal scheduled to be released from the office of Senator Lee (R-Utah) tomorrow would put the airspace up to 200 feet in altitude over private property under the control of the property owner \u2013 and would restrict the FAA\u2019s right to regulate airspace below 200 feet in altitude, making any zoning or regulatory decisions the right of the state or tribal entity governing the land.<\/p>\n<p>DRONELIFE received a summary of the bill from Senator Lee\u2019s office. We may not quote from the summary, as the bill is due to be released tomorrow. In essence, the bill seeks to clarify and control two significant legal issues that remain unresolved: 1) Establish the airspace to 200 feet in altitude above private property as under the exclusive control of the property owner; and 2) Establish state, tribal and local governments as having exclusive and absolute rights to regulate that airspace.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, the bill would propose that the altitude between 200 and 400 feet be designated for the use of civilian drones \u2013 although it wouldn\u2019t prohibit the FAA from allowing drones above 400 feet. The area under 200 feet would be under the jurisdiction of state, local and tribal governments \u2013 and the bill would call for a redefinition of \u201cnavigable airspace\u201d to make that clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new proposal scheduled to be released from the office of Senator Lee (R-Utah) tomorrow would put the airspace up to 200 feet in altitude over private property under the control of the property owner \u2013 and would restrict the FAA\u2019s right to regulate airspace below 200 feet in altitude, making any zoning or regulatory [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,15,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-habitats","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}