---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 151.86"
title: "14"
number: "151.86"
heading: "Lighting and electrical work: General."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/151.86"
---

# §151.86. Lighting and electrical work: General.

- (a) The installing of lighting facilities and related electrical work, as provided in [§ 151.87](/cfr/14/151.87.md), is eligible for inclusion in a project only if the Administrator determines, for the particular airport involved, that they are needed to ensure—
  - (1) Its safe and efficient use by aircraft under [§ 151.13](/cfr/14/151.13.md); or
  - (2) Its continued operation and adequate maintenance, and it has a large enough volume (actual or potential) of night operations.
- (b) Before the Administrator makes a grant offer to the sponsor of a project that includes installing lighting facilities and related electrical work under [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section, the sponsor must—
  - (1) Provide in the project for removing, relocating, or adequately marking and lighting, each obstruction in the approach and turning zones, as provided in [§ 151.91(a)](/cfr/14/151.91.md?p=a);
  - (2) Acknowledge its awareness of the cost of operating and maintaining airport lighting; and
  - (3) **Agree to operate the airport lighting installed—**
    - (i) Throughout each night of the year; or
    - (ii) **According to a satisfactory plan of operation, submitted under paragraph (c) of this section.**
- (c) The sponsor of a project that includes installing airport lighting and related electrical work, under [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section, may—
  - (1) Submit to the Administrator a proposed plan of operation of the airport lighting installed for periods less than throughout each night of the year;
  - (2) Specify, in the proposed plan, the times when the airport lighting installed will be operated; and
  - (3) Satisfy the Administrator that the proposed plan provides for safety in air commerce, and justifies the investment of Program funds.
- (d) [Paragraph (b)(3)](#b-3) of this section also applies to each sponsor of a project that includes installing airport lighting and related electrical work if that sponsor has not entered into a grant agreement for the project before September 5, 1968.
- (e) If it agrees to comply with [paragraph (b)(3)](#b-3) of this section, the sponsor of a project that includes installing airport lighting facilities and related electrical work that has entered into a grant agreement for that project before September 5, 1968, may—
  - (1) Surrender its air navigation certificate authorizing operation of a “true light” issued before that date; or
  - (2) **Terminate its application for authority to operate a “true light” made before that date.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[Amdt. 151-24, 33 FR 12545, Sept. 5, 1968]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113, 47151, 47153.

### Source

Source: Docket 1329, 27 FR 12357 Dec. 13, 1962, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Amdt. 151-24, 33 FR 12545, Sept. 5, 1968]