Title 14, Local Government

(a) This chapter shall be construed liberally. (b) The enumerating of any object, purpose, power, manner, method, or thing shall not be deemed to exclude like or similar objects, purposes, powers, manners, methods, or things.

(a) When resolutions proposing creation of a regional wastewater collection and treatment district are passed by the councils or other governing bodies of two (2) or more municipalities, a petition to establish a regional wastewater collection and treatment district may be submit…

(a) (1) Upon the filing of the petition in the office of the circuit court for the county, or any one of the counties, where the district is to be located, in whole or in part, the clerk shall prepare a certified copy of the petition and transmit the copy to the Division of Envir…

(a) Upon the date and at the time and place named in the notice, the circuit court shall meet, and shall hear all persons who wish to appear and advocate or resist the establishment of the district and, if the court, after being satisfied as to the sufficiency of the petition and…

(a) All powers granted a district created under this chapter shall be executed by a board of directors. The board shall equal a total of nine (9) directors, which members shall be ascertained by the circuit court according to the population of each entity which is enumerated in t…

(a) Immediately upon the appointment of the board of directors, the directors shall meet and organize and shall elect a president, vice president, and secretary-treasurer from their membership and shall adopt bylaws which shall govern their proceedings. (b) (1) Regular meetings o…

(1) Each wastewater district shall have power:(1) To sue and be sued, and complain and defend, in its corporate name;(2) To adopt a seal, which may be altered at pleasure, and to use it, or a facsimile thereof, as required by law;(3) To construct, erect, lease as lessee, purchase…

Service may be extended to any person upon majority vote of the board if the extension will not cause injury to any person already served and if the costs for the service are calculated and billed in an equitable manner.

(a) Wastewater districts formed pursuant to this chapter shall be operated without profit, but the rates, fees, rent, or other charges for wastewater disposal and other facilities, supplies, equipment, or services furnished by the wastewater district shall be sufficient at all ti…

Districts formed pursuant to this chapter shall be exempt from all excise taxes of whatsoever kind or nature and, further, shall be exempt from payment of assessments in any general or special taxing district levied upon the property of the water district, whether real, personal,…

(a) Any person aggrieved by the service furnished or rates charged by a district shall have, as a matter of right, the right to petition the grievance from the decision or action of the district to the circuit court of the county in which the district was formed. (b) Upon the pet…