For purposes of this article, all of the following apply:
(a) The following terms have the following meanings:
- (1) “Aircraft” has the same meaning as specified in Section 5303.
- (2) “Fleet” means all aircraft operated by a manager of a fractional ownership program.
- (3) “Fleet type” means aircraft classified by make, model, and series operated by a manager of a fractional ownership program.
- (4) “Fractionally owned aircraft” or “aircraft operated in fractional ownership programs” means those aircraft registered with the Federal Aviation Administration as fractionally owned aircraft.
- (5) “Landing” means physical contact involving the embarking or disembarking of crew, passengers, or freight, and that physical contact did not arise unintentionally as the result of an emergency.
- (b) Revenues derived from the taxation of fractionally owned aircraft under this article shall be distributed in accordance with Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 5451) of Part 10 of this division.
- (c) Fractionally owned aircraft shall be assessed under this article only if a lead county assessor accepts a designation as lead county assessor under Section 1162.