Title IX, Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units

(1) The board may fix the respective salaries of its members on a per meeting basis not to exceed twenty-five dollars ($25) per meeting and not to exceed one (1) meeting per month. (2) The board shall meet at least once a month at a time and place designated by the board and all …

As used in KRS 75.400 to 75.460, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Commission" means the Kentucky Fire Commission, attached to the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. (2) "Fire department" includes all of the officers, firefighters, and clerical and mainten…

Authority for administrative regulations. (1) The commission shall promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with KRS Chapter 13A to create a program for recognition and annual certification of volunteer fire departments. The criteria for recognition and certification s…

(1) The commission shall recognize all fire departments which comply with the provisions of KRS 75.410 and regulations promulgated in compliance therewith. Applications for recognition shall be made on forms provided by the commission. The department shall attach to the applicati…

fire departments -- Submission of financial information. The governing body of each recognized and certified fire protection district or volunteer fire department district operating under KRS Chapter 75 which, for the year in question, receives from all sources or expends for all…

responsibilities of department -- Fire chief. (1) Only fire departments recognized and certified by the commission shall be eligible to receive volunteer fire department aid pursuant to KRS 95A.262(2), to receive low interest loans pursuant to KRS 95A.262(14), or to participate i…

required -- Mission statement -- Inclusion of fees on property tax bills -- Collection and distribution -- Collection fee for sheriff. (1) A fire department which collects membership charges or subscriber fees for combatting fires or serving in other emergencies shall base its an…

department -- Property owner's responsibility. (1) If a property owner who is not a member or subscriber of the fire department which charges membership or subscriber fees experiences a fire, incident, or emergency that the department responds to, he may provide his insurance com…

named agencies. Nothing in KRS 75.400 to 75.460 shall be construed to conflict with or supersede the authority of the Natural Resources and the Environmental Protection Cabinet, pursuant to the provisions of KRS Chapter 149, over management of forestry areas, and KRS Chapter 224,…

As used in KRS 76.010 to 76.295 unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "District" means a metropolitan sewer district authorized by KRS 76.010 to 76.210. (2) "Board" means the board described in KRS 76.030. (3) "District area," "within the district," "corporate limits of the …

The board of the district shall comply with the provisions of KRS 65A.010 to 65A.090 for both the district and any subdistrict established pursuant to KRS 76.241 to 76.273.

20,000 or more and counties containing such cities -- Corporate powers. In the interest of the public health and for the purpose of providing adequate sewer and drainage facilities in and around each city with a population equal to or greater than twenty thousand (20,000) based u…

Whenever by ordinance passed by the legislative body of any such city and approved by the mayor thereof, it is declared for the best interests of such city and the inhabitants thereof, that such district be created under the provisions of KRS 76.010 to 76.210, the clerk of the le…

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…