This chapter or any other law shall not be construed as prohibiting, restricting, or permitting the prohibition of the operation or landing in populated areas of helicopters and similar aircraft capable of approximately vertical ascent and descent, subject to such reasonable rules affecting the public safety as the department may promulgate. The department shall adopt rules and regulations, effective January 1, 1989, for the conditions under which helicopters may make temporary use of a landing site.
Ca. Pub. Util. Code § 21006