Title IX, Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units

(1) At least six (6) months before the expiration of any franchise acquired under or prior to the present Constitution, the legislative body of each city shall provide for the sale of a new franchise to the highest and best bidder on terms that are fair and reasonable to the city…

(1) Each person desiring to bid for the franchise offered for sale under KRS 96.010 shall first deposit, with the proper officer of the city, cash or a certified check equal to five percent (5%) of the fair estimated cost of the plant required to render the service. The deposit s…

city of the first class. No exclusive privilege shall be acquired through the sale of a franchise under KRS 96.010 by a consolidated local government or a city of the first class. The sale of a franchise to one (1) person by a consolidated local government or a city of the first …

utility plant. (1) If a city of the first class or a consolidated local government desires to own or operate a utility being operated under a franchise, and the city or consolidated local government takes the necessary steps within two (2) years before the expiration of the franc…

(1) No municipality, in which there is located an existing electric, water or gas public utility plant or facility shall construct or cause to be constructed any similar utility plant or any similar public utility facility duplicating such existing plant or facility or to obtain …

The legislative body of any authorized city may, by ordinance: (1) Direct and control the laying and construction of railroad or street railway tracks, bridges, turnouts and switches, poles, wires, apparatus and appliances in the streets and alleys of the city, and the location o…

- Conditions. (1) The legislative body of any city with a population equal to or greater than eight thousand (8,000) but less than twenty thousand (20,000) based upon the most recent federal decennial census may, by ordinance, grant the right of way in streets, alleys and public …

The legislative body of any city may grant rights-of-way over the public streets or public grounds of the city to any utility company, on such conditions as seem proper, shall have a supervising control over the use of same, and shall regulate the speed of cars and signals and fa…

Any person constructing, maintaining or operating waterworks or pipelines for the supply of water to a municipality may condemn lands and materials necessary to carry out those purposes, in the manner prescribed in the Eminent Domain Act of Kentucky.

(1) Any city of the first class that owns stock in a gas company carrying on business within its boundaries may dispose of the stock upon such terms as may be prescribed by ordinance, but the stock shall not be sold for less than par. (2) The proceeds of the sale of the stock sha…

The legislative body of a city of the first class may, on terms prescribed by ordinance, authorize the mayor to consent, on behalf of the legislative body, to such amendments to the charter of any gas company, in which the city owns stock, as are approved by the board of director…

Any city may, with funds provided from the general levy or from the sale of bonds, purchase stock in any corporation owning or operating or organized for the purpose of owning or operating a waterworks within the corporate limits of the city.

Powers to contract with other city and construct and maintain apparatus. (1) Any city that owns and operates its own water or light plant may acquire a franchise to furnish water and light to any other city, in the same manner that any private corporation or individual may acquir…

Limitation -- Consideration of installation of fire hydrants on extended lines. (1) Any city that owns or operates a water supply or sanitary sewer system may extend the system into, and furnish and sell water and provide sanitary sewers to any person within, any territory contig…

The legislative body of any city may, by ordinance: (1) Provide the city with water; establish and regulate public cisterns, hydrants and reservoirs, within or beyond the limits of the city, for the extinguishment of fires and the convenience of the inhabitants; prevent the unnec…

The legislative body of any city may, by ordinance, provide the city and its inhabitants with water, light, power, and heat, by contract or by works of its own, located either within or beyond the boundaries of the city, make regulations for the management thereof, and fix and re…

The governing body of any municipality now or hereafter owning an electric and water system and operating them as one (1) combined system or plant may elect to operate under the provisions of KRS 96.172 to 96.188, in which case, from the time of the exercise of such election and …

of combined electric and water plant -- Electric and water plant board -- Appointment -- Qualifications -- Corporate powers -- Prohibition of nepotism - - Bond of board members -- Oath -- Term -- Removal. (1) Any municipality now or hereafter owning and operating an electric syst…

expenses payable from revenues of plant. (1) The salary of each member of the board shall be fixed by the board, and shall not exceed two thousand four hundred dollars ($2,400) per annum. (2) Such salaries, as well as the salary of the secretary-treasurer of such board, shall con…

A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum and the board shall act by vote of a majority present at any meeting attended by a quorum. Vacancies in the board shall not affect its power or authority so long as a quorum remains. Within ten (10) days after appointment and qual…

Any board operating under the provisions of KRS 96.171 to 96.188 shall have the legal power and capacity to perform any act not repugnant to law and shall have the express power and capacity to do any and all acts or things necessary or convenient for the carrying out of the purp…

Contract. (1) Upon and after a board has been appointed and qualified, the said board shall have charge of the exclusive supervision, management and control of the operation, maintenance and extension of the electric and water plant. (2) All powers of the municipality to operate,…

The board shall charge the municipality and all departments and works thereof for any electric and water service furnished to them at the rate applicable to other customers taking service under similar conditions. Revenues derived from such service shall be treated as other reven…

Any board proceeding under KRS 96.171 to 96.188 shall have the right to acquire by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, all lands, easements, rights of way, either upon or under or above the ground, reasonably necessary or desirable in connection with the operation, maint…

In lieu of taxes, the board may each year pay to each school district and municipality in which its property is located an amount equivalent to an annual ad valorem tax on the fair cash value of the property of the board located in each such jurisdiction, determined upon the tax …

fund -- Liquidation and distribution of assets -- Report -- Coverage provided in County Employees Retirement System after August 1, 1988. (1) The board may, by proper order, provide a pension plan for its employees. In the event the board elects to provide a pension plan, it shal…

All moneys derived from the operation of the electric and water plant or any other operation of the board, shall be deposited to the credit of the board in a separate bank account or accounts, separate from all other municipal funds, and adequate records shall be kept of all such…

Subject to the provisions of outstanding bonds and contracts, the board shall apply all funds derived from operations: (1) to the payment of operating expenses, (2) to the payment of bond interest and retirement, (3) to sinking fund requirements, (4) to the maintenance of a fund …

The governing body of the municipality may terminate the operation and management of the electric and water plant by the board under the provisions of KRS 96.171 to 96.188 only by first complying with the following provisions, to wit: (1) The governing body of the municipality, u…

(1) The board at any time may issue and sell revenue bonds to finance improvements or extensions of the plant, or the board, after the original cost of the property shall have been fully paid and satisfied, may, in its sole discretion, issue, sell, and pledge its revenues to secu…

The board shall keep a complete and accurate record of all meetings and actions taken, and of all receipts and disbursements. Such records shall be open to inspection at any and all times to the governing body of the city. An audit of the board's records shall be made annually by…

No board operating an electric and water plant under the provisions of KRS 96.171 to 96.188 shall construct any facilities or extend its existing facilities in competition with any existing facilities of any rural electric cooperative corporation.

Any action challenging the validity of any ordinance electing to operate under KRS 96.171 to 96.188, or any bond resolution of the board, or any election resolution or election held hereunder, shall be brought within sixty (60) days from the date on which such ordinance, election…

Every ordinance or resolution adopted by the governing body of the municipality or board under the provisions of KRS 96.171 to 96.188 shall become effective from and after its passage, and no such resolution or ordinance shall be subject to any referendum or election except as ex…

(1) Any city may, pursuant to an ordinance so providing, acquire any streetcar system existing in the city, with all its appliances, or may establish and install a streetcar system, and may operate within and not more than ten (10) air miles beyond the corporate limits of the cit…

service of utilities operating under old franchises. (1) The legislative body of any city may provide the city and all persons in the city with water, gas, electric power, light, and heat, by contract with any person or by works and facilities owned or leased by the city and loca…

to electric power plants or waterworks. Municipal corporations in the Commonwealth of Kentucky which own and operate municipal electric power plants or waterworks are authorized to issue interest-bearing warrants in payment for extensions and improvements to electric power plants…

Except as otherwise provided in KRS 96.550 to 96.900, the legislative body of any city may, by ordinance, provide in what manner and for what purpose any profits, earnings or surplus funds arising from the operation of any public utility owned or operated by the city may be used …

waterworks. Whenever any city of the first class or consolidated local government owns, through its commissioners of the sinking fund or revenue commission, respectively, all the shares of capital stock in any corporation engaged in supplying water to its inhabitants, the city or…

The mayor of a consolidated local government which is formed upon the consolidation of a city of the first class with its county, and which receives upon the consolidation from the city of the first class the shares of capital stock in any corporation engaged in supplying water t…

The board of waterworks shall annually elect a president, treasurer, secretary and chief engineer, who shall hold their offices for one (1) year, or until their successors have been elected and qualified, and devote all their time to the duties of their respective offices. The me…

The board of waterworks shall be vested with all the authority and privileges, exercise all the franchises, and have possession, control, and management of all the property, of the corporation of which the consolidated local government or city owns all the stock. It may make cont…

- Apportionment warrants -- Liens. The board of waterworks may extend the waterwork corporation's facilities to provide water service to persons within and outside the city of the first class, including extensions into counties adjoining its county of origin. In extending service…

to be exempted from taxation. The consolidated local government shall have, through its board of waterworks, the use free of charge of all the water necessary for its fire department, police department, public buildings principally occupied by its employees, parks, parkways, its …

board. The legislative body of the consolidated local government may, by ordinance, fix reasonable conditions upon which the board of waterworks may cut into the public ways of the consolidated local government.

All the existing obligations of the waterworks corporation and all the obligations created by the board of waterworks in the management and operation of the properties and in the performance of its duties, shall be discharged out of the property and rents, earnings, and incomes o…

Limitation of indebtedness. The board of waterworks may borrow money for the purpose of meeting any of the obligations of the waterworks corporation and for current expenses of the board. In addition, the board may, after the commissioners of the sinking fund have by resolution c…

The board of waterworks may establish and enforce reasonable rules and regulations for its own government. The board shall make a quarterly financial statement, showing its liabilities, receipts, and expenditures, and deliver a copy to the consolidated local government legislativ…

Employees -- Reports. Cities that own a waterworks may operate such waterworks as a department of the city, or may appoint a commission to operate such waterworks. If such a commission is appointed, it may be styled "Commissioners of Waterworks," and shall be composed of from thr…

system may be joined. (1) Any city of the home rule class may, under the provisions of KRS 96.350 to 96.510, purchase, establish, erect, maintain and operate waterworks, together with extensions and necessary appurtenances thereto, within or without the corporate limits of the ci…