Dbt Yuma, L.L.C., an Arizona Limited Liability Company Dbrt Yuma Fbo, LLC, an Arizona Limited Liability Company Dbrt…

Summary

The court held that the statute's description of a nonprofit airport authority as an agency or instrumentality performing an essential governmental function does not, by itself, create a principal-agent relationship with the county or impose vicarious liability for the authority's contractual breach. Reading the statutory scheme as a whole, the court gave effect to the authority's separate status as a body politic and corporate and affirmed summary judgment for Yuma County. The court vacated specified paragraphs of the court of appeals' opinion.