Title XVIII, Public Health

If the board of directors finds, prior to completion of the sanitary works already begun, that the bonds originally authorized will be insufficient to accomplish the purpose desired, additional bonds of like standing with the original issue may be authorized and issued subject to…

Any sanitation district acquiring any works pursuant to the provisions of KRS 220.010 to 220.520 may, at the time of issuing the bonds for such acquisition, authorize the issuance of additional bonds for extensions and permanent improvements to be placed in escrow and to be negot…

A sanitation district acquiring any sanitary works under the provisions of KRS 220.010 to 220.520 may provide for the extension, addition or improvement of the works by an additional issue or issues of bonds, in the same manner as for the original bonds. Such bonds shall be junio…

service if sewer service charges not paid -- Contracts with large users -- Administration of revenue. (1) The board of directors shall, by resolution, determine the rates and compensation or rentals to be charged for the use of the sanitary works. The board of directors may provi…

facilities. The district may establish a surcharge or other rate, fee, or charge to be made applicable to users in areas where facilities are to be acquired, constructed, or established, and to amortize part or all of the costs thereof, in addition to the charge authorized by KRS…

The reasonable cost and value of any services rendered to a city, county, school district or other municipal corporation by the district may be charged to the city, county, school district or other municipal corporation and shall be paid for monthly, as the service accrues, from …

Where a city having existing sewers constructed and maintained by general tax funds of the city annexes an entire sanitation district, the city shall be bound for all the debts and liabilities, and be the owner of all the property and rights, of the district, the users of sewers …

When the board of directors of a district in a county not containing a city of the first class desires to annex territory to the district, it shall cause to be filed with the commissioner a petition setting forth a reasonably accurate description of the territory proposed to be a…

city -- Notice to residents of territory -- Annexation by multicounty district. (1) When a petition for annexation of territory to a district is filed with the commissioner, he shall investigate at once the boundary of the territory proposed to be annexed, and may, at the cost of…

Owners of real property in the territory proposed to be annexed who wish to object to the annexation of the territory to the district shall, within thirty (30) days after the giving of notice by the commissioner, file a petition, signed by twenty-five percent (25%) of the freehol…

No proceedings except as provided in KRS 220.010 to 220.530 shall be required for the acquisition of sanitary works or the issuance of bonds under those sections, notwithstanding any contrary provision in the general laws of the state or the charter of any city that may be includ…

fewer than 10,000 customer accounts exempted. (1) If the rate increase in a service charge, rate, or user fee is greater than five percent (5%) of the previous charge, rate, or user fee, then the increase shall be subject to the provisions of subsections (2) and (3) of this secti…

district -- Monthly updates -- Exemption -- Registration with Department for Local Government -- Application of KRS 65A.010 to 65A.090 for fiscal periods beginning on or after July 1, 2014. (1) By January 1, 2012, each district board of directors of a district shall provide publi…

review. (1) The district may establish a construction subdistrict when twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the freeholders of land sought to be included in the construction subdistrict file their petition with the district. The petition shall describe the territory intended to b…

The construction subdistrict shall not include the whole or any part of any incorporated city, sanitation district, sewer construction district, or that part of a water district in which the water district has exercised its power to establish sanitary sewage facilities pursuant t…

Notice. (1) The district board shall, before entering upon any construction work in any construction subdistrict or any contracts therefor, have an engineering survey made of the territory within the construction subdistrict and report to the district board as to plans for sewer …

The report described in KRS 220.555 shall be made and filed within one (1) year of an order made under KRS 220.553 which establishes the construction subdistrict or the order made under KRS 220.553 shall be deemed to have been one dismissing the petition and it shall be deemed to…

(1) When the report described in KRS 220.555 is prepared, a copy shall be filed with the secretary-treasurer of the district who shall, within forty (40) days, cause notice of the filing of same and a notice of where the report is available for public inspection to be published p…

Within sixty (60) days after the final publication of an order made under KRS 220.553, which dismisses a petition for creation of a construction subdistrict or within sixty (60) days after final publication of an order made under KRS 220.561 any person who would have been qualifi…

until assessment final. The district may carry out the plan itself or contract with others for construction of the sewerage facilities. The district shall incur no debts or obligations, aside from engineering study and administrative costs, on account of the construction subdistr…

The district may adopt any combination of the financing methods for construction subdistricts authorized by KRS 220.571, 220.575, 220.577, 220.583, 220.585 and 220.587, which are fair and equitable to the residents and freeholders of the construction subdistrict and which protect…

For facilities designed to serve the construction subdistrict the district may, pursuant to KRS 220.555, adopt a method of assessment of benefited property on the basis of acreage or any other equitable basis set forth in the order and notify property owners affected by one (1) p…

(1) Assessment liens imposed by KRS 220.553 to 220.613 are prior to all other liens except liens for taxes and other assessment liens already attached. (2) Assessment liens may be enforced pursuant to KRS 426.005 and 426.006.

installments. (1) If all construction subdistrict assessments are not paid in full by thirty (30) days after notice of assessments, the district may issue bonds for the amount of the unpaid assessment, and shall give notice that it proposes to issue bonds, giving the amount of bo…

(1) The district is authorized and empowered to issue negotiable, interest bearing, construction subdistrict bonds which shall not be an obligation of the district; construction subdistrict revenue bonds shall be secured solely by the revenues pledged by KRS 220.593 and by moneys…

If bonds have been issued for any construction subdistrict secured entirely or partially by the right to levy an assessment as provided by KRS 220.571 to 220.583, 220.591 to 220.601, and 220.607 to 220.613 and such bonds are redeemed prior to maturity, bonds to refund same may be…

Chapter 107. (1) In the financing of a construction subdistrict the district may use the authority and procedure granted to incorporated municipalities by KRS 107.010 to 107.220. When applied to construction subdistricts, terms used in KRS 107.010 to 107.220 shall be construed to…

After the creation of a construction district under the provisions of KRS 220.553 to 220.561, the board may, if the board deems it feasible, instead of issuing bonds as provided in KRS 220.575, issue apportionment warrants, using the procedures after assessment set out in KRS 184…

(1) If the district finds as a fact that the methods of financing sewer facilities within a construction subdistrict provided for in KRS 220.553 to 220.613 will be inadequate, uneconomic, or unduly burdensome to the residents to be initially served, the district may contract with…

receiver, powers. (1) The holders in aggregate principal amount of twenty percent (20%) of any class of construction subdistrict bonds authorized by KRS 220.577 may ex parte move a judge of the Circuit Court of the county containing the construction subdistrict to appoint a trust…

Purposes -- Trust fund for revenue bonds. (1) The district is authorized to establish a schedule of rates, rentals, and charges to be collected from all real property within a construction subdistrict served by construction subdistrict facilities. This schedule shall be in additi…

The district is granted the same authority relative to the cutting off of the water supply of its delinquent users within a construction subdistrict as is contained in KRS 220.510 relative to other territory under the jurisdiction of the district. Delinquents include persons or u…

Sewers constructed by construction subdistricts shall be operated and maintained by the district and payment for the actual cost, including overhead and administrative costs, shall be paid by the district from funds of the construction subdistricts. Where sewer systems constructe…

The establishment, financing and operation of a construction subdistrict by the district are in all respects in the interest of public health and for a public purpose. In so doing the district performs a governmental function in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it, and i…

After the creation of a construction subdistrict under the provisions of KRS 220.553 to 220.613, the board of the sanitation district may, if it deems it advisable, use the authority and procedures granted to sanitation districts by KRS 220.535 to 220.537 to annex territory to a …

Incorporated in district, when. A sewage system owned by any municipality, political subdivision, or any other entity, public or private, may be made a construction subdistrict or incorporated into the district area by the board under the conditions of this section. (1) Any such …

The district shall wind up the affairs of a construction subdistrict and incorporate it into the district area only when: (1) The board finds that such action would best serve the policy of KRS 220.010 to 220.540. (2) There is not outstanding any bonds issued pursuant to KRS 220.…

(1) The district may issue for one (1) or more construction subdistricts bonds to finance construction of trunk, main, connecting sewers and any other facilities necessary to which, directly or indirectly, connect one (1) or more of such construction subdistricts to either the di…

The provisions of KRS 220.577, 220.581 and 220.611, providing for financing with revenue bonds, shall not repeal nor reduce any existing rights or duties of the district, but shall constitute an additional and alternate method of financing.