Title IX, Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units

vacancies, removal, compensation -- Effect of compact -- Membership of board upon establishment of consolidated local government. (1) Except in counties containing a consolidated local government, the business, activities, and affairs of such district shall be managed, controlled…

The fiscal year of the district shall begin on July 1 of each year and end on June 30 next following.

(1) Regular meetings of the board shall be held at least once in each calendar month, the time and place of which shall be fixed by the board. (2) A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum, and the affirmative vote of at least three (3) members of the board…

(1) The board shall, in July of each year, elect from its members a chairman and a vice chairman, who shall be of different political party affiliation. It shall employ a secretary-treasurer and a chief engineer, neither of whom is a member of the board. The secretary-treasurer a…

functions. (1) When the district created under KRS 76.010 to 76.210 has organized, thereupon and by virtue of KRS 76.010 to 76.210, the existing sewer and drainage system and facilities of the city forming a district pursuant to KRS 76.010, together with all contracts, books, map…

The district created under the provisions of KRS 76.010 to 76.210 is empowered: (1) To have jurisdiction, control, possession, and supervision of the existing sewer and drainage system of the city forming a district pursuant to KRS 76.010; to maintain, operate, reconstruct, and i…

(1) Any person or corporation, public or private, in the county in which such district is located submitting for approval plans and designs of sanitary sewers or storm water drainage facilities, or both, to be constructed by such person or corporation, private or public, pursuant…

and water service to delinquents. (1) The district may establish a schedule of rates, rentals, and charges, to be collected from all the real property within the district area served by the facilities of the district, and prescribe the manner in which and the time at which the ra…

Contracts -- Contractors' bonds. It shall be the duty of the district as promptly as possible, to rehabilitate, construct, improve, and extend, any sewer and drainage system taken over and controlled by it, which shall include, but is not limited to, disconnection of storm water …

(1) The district shall have the power to acquire by purchase, gift or eminent domain proceedings, the fee or such right, title, interest or easement, in such lands as may be deemed by the district necessary for any of the purposes mentioned in KRS 76.010 to 76.295, whether within…

replacing -- Entering upon or damaging public way or place. Where railroad tracks, street railroad tracks, gas or water pipes, telephone wires, telegraph wires, electric light or power lines, or conduits, for carrying telephone or telegraph or electric wires, or poles, or other s…

All moneys of the district, from whatever source derived, shall be paid to the secretary- treasurer. Such moneys shall be deposited in the name of the district by the secretary- treasurer, in one or more banks or trust companies, situated in the county in which said city is locat…

The district shall not have power to levy ad valorem taxes upon any property for any purpose whatsoever.

(1) Subsections (2) through (4) have no application to construction subdistrict bonds or obligations. All references to revenues, rates, rentals, charges, or collections in subsections (2) and (3) exclude those derived from or made on account of construction subdistricts. Distric…

(1) Subsections (2) and (3) have no application to construction subdistrict bonds or obligations. All references to revenues, rates, rentals, charges, or collections in subsections (2) and (3) exclude those derived from or made on account of construction subdistricts. District fa…

of boundaries. (1) The initial unit of the district embraces the area that is coterminous with the boundaries of the city forming a district pursuant to KRS 76.010. The district also embraces the district area as defined in KRS 76.005. When territory which is part of a constructi…

class city. Where adequate sanitary sewers, combined sewers, drains, appurtenances, or property service connections have not been constructed in any territory annexed to a city of the first class since July 1, 1946, the city legislative body may, by ordinance, on recommendation o…

Notice. (1) The ordinance providing for the construction of sewerage or drainage facilities and appurtenances shall describe the nature and kind of facilities to be furnished and shall describe the particular area benefited by said sewerage or drainage facilities. (2) The costs o…

When completed any sewers or drains described in KRS 76.171 or 76.172 shall become a part of the district area's sewer and drainage system, subject to charges for service the same as from other parts of the system within the district area.

population of less than 3,000 located in county containing consolidated local government -- Procedure -- Appeals. The board of the district may annex any unincorporated area in the county, or any area of the county containing all or any part of a city with a population of less th…

(1) The district shall have power to make and promulgate all rules and regulations proper or necessary to regulate the use, operation, and maintenance of property and facilities under its control, and to carry into effect the powers granted the district by KRS 76.010 to 76.295. T…

In order to promote and protect its activities and facilities, and in furtherance of the public health, the district may enter into contracts with, and thereunder it may permit other cities, towns, municipalities, sewer and drainage districts, located in the same county as the ci…

The district is authorized to enter into negotiations with the federal government and the Commonwealth of Kentucky, or either of them, or the agencies of both or either, and apply and obtain from them or either or both of them, any and all grants-in-aid that may be available.

It is hereby found and declared that the creation of the district and the carrying out of its corporate purposes is in all respects in the interest of the public health and is a public purpose; that the district is performing a governmental function in the exercise of the powers …

(1) As an alternative to establishing a metropolitan sewer district pursuant to KRS 76.010, any city with a population equal to or greater than twenty thousand (20,000) but less than one hundred thousand (100,000) based upon the most recent federal decennial census, together with…

20,000 to less than 100,000 with county or sanitation district -- Powers -- Administration. (1) A city with a population less than twenty thousand (20,000) based upon the most recent federal decennial census together with the county in which it is located or together with the san…

Any city with a population of less than one hundred thousand (100,000) based upon the most recent federal decennial census and the county in which it is located which have established a joint sewer agency pursuant to KRS 76.231 may authorize the issuance of revenue bonds pursuant…

The board shall comply with the provisions of KRS 65A.010 to 65A.090.

Waiver of notice and hearing. (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 t…

The construction subdistrict shall not include the whole or any part of any incorporated city with a population equal to or greater than three thousand (3,000) based upon the most recent federal decennial census, or any sanitation district or sewer construction district, or that …

Notice. (1) The 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 or draina…

abolished, when. (1) The report described in KRS 76.243 shall be made and filed within one (1) year of an order made under KRS 76.241 which establishes the construction subdistrict or the order made under KRS 76.241 shall be deemed to have been one dismissing the petition and it …

(1) When the report described in KRS 76.243 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 pu…

Within sixty (60) days after the final publication of an order made under KRS 76.241 which dismisses a petition for creation of a construction subdistrict or within sixty (60) days after final publication of an order made under KRS 76.246 any person who would have been qualified …

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 76.251, 76.253, 76.254, 76.257, 76.258 and 76.259 which are fair and equitable to the residents and freeholders of the construction subdistrict and which protect and pr…

For facilities designed to serve the construction subdistrict the district may, pursuant to KRS 76.243, 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 owner affected in accordance …

(1) Assessment liens imposed by KRS 76.005 to 76.295 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 revenue pledged by KRS 76.262 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 76.251 to 76.257, 76.261 to 76.267 and 76.271 to 76.273 and such bonds are redeemed prior to maturity, bonds to refund same may be issued…

(1) In the financing of a construction subdistrict the district may use the authority and procedures 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 mean the fo…

After the creation of a construction district under the provisions of KRS 76.241 to 76.246, the board may, if the board deem it feasible, instead of issuing bonds as provided in KRS 76.253, issue apportionment warrants, using the procedures after assessment set out in KRS 184.150…

(1) If the district finds as a fact that the methods of financing sewer facilities within a construction subdistrict provided for in KRS 76.005 to 76.295 will be inadequate, uneconomic, or unduly burdensome to the residents to be initially served, the district may contract with o…

receiver, powers. (1) The holders in aggregate principal amount of twenty percent (20%) of any class of construction subdistrict bonds authorized by KRS 76.254 may ex parte move a judge of the Circuit Court of the county containing the construction subdistrict to appoint a truste…

Purposes -- Subdistrict fund, uses. (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 addition to …