Port Agency or Port Authority

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-021639",
  "term": "Port Agency or Port Authority",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. A government entity. A port authority may own facilities in one or more ports, and a port authority’s domain may include both seaports and airports. It may be difficult to tell visually where the control of a port authority ends. For example, port authorities do not control private terminals (except in as much as landlord ports can impose lease-based controls on private terminal tenants), military operations and industrial facilities located in or around port facilities.\n\n2. Autonomous (independent) port authority: a self-sustaining, self-governing public body.\n\n3. Semi-autonomous (semi-independent) port authority: a public body subject to certain state controls.\n\n4. Bi-state or regional port authorities: a public body created by agreement between two or more states.\n\n5. Port authorities with limited agency or power: a public body limited to certain actions such as bonding.\n\n6. Divisions of state, county or municipal government: a government department.\n\n7. Independent port or navigation districts: entities that function as \"special purpose\" political subdivisions of a state with defined geographic boundaries over which they have authority.",
  "subject": "Air",
  "references": [
    "Ports Primer for Communities Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/port-agency-or-port-authority/"
}