PUNTA GORDA – The political imbroglio that temporarily grounded the Charlotte County Airport Authority’s election last August because of a local official’s conclusion that authority members must run in nonpartisan elections would never happen again, under draft legislation proposed by Pam Seay, authority member.

Seay briefed the authority Thursday on her draft, which would consolidate all prior authority enabling acts into one document, with a new clause specifying that authority elections would be partisan.