Title IX, Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units

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…

assistance permitted. An authority created and established under this chapter, together with its ownership, financing, operation, rates and charges for use of its services and facilities, rules and regulations, routes, schedules, size and character of its equipment and quality of…

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…

An authority shall provide insurance, or may provide for self-insurance and establish for that purpose such reserves as it deems prudent, for its properties, and for workers' compensation, and for public liability, and may provide for the insuring of its officers or employees, an…

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…

(1) Each authority shall employ a certified public accountant, or firm thereof, to make an annual audit of the authority's financial accounts and affairs, and to make a report thereof, including comments of the auditor regarding whether or not the authority is in compliance with …

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 …

If an authority acquires an existing transit system, the authority shall assume and observe all existing labor contracts and pension obligations. All employees of such system who are necessary for the operation thereof by the authority shall be transferred to and appointed as emp…

Counties and cities of this state abutting upon the boundary line between this state and any other state are hereby authorized separately, jointly with each other, or jointly with any other county, municipality or political subdivision of any such abutting state to form a transit…

A transit authority may conduct such surveys and studies, gather such information, and institute such programs and plans as may be reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. If necessary, it may make application for subpoenas, or subpoenas duces tecum to any …

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…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Kentucky Transit Authority Act."

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 General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky hereby finds and determines as a legislative finding of fact that the institution, acquisition, preservation and continuation of mass transportation facilities to serve the general public is vital to the health, safety and mate…

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…

financing. (1) As used in KRS 96A.310 to 96A.370, the term "mass transportation program" shall mean the provision of necessary funds by public bodies to transit authorities created pursuant to KRS Chapter 96A with which to acquire, operate, and preserve mass transportation facili…

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…

elections in transit area -- Notice. (1) Any transit authority created pursuant to the provisions of KRS Chapter 96A may, by resolution duly adopted by its board in the manner prescribed by KRS 96A.060, request one (1) or more of the public bodies which, upon the date of adoption…

required -- Status of voted levies. (1) The resolution or ordinance of each public body determining that a proposition for the establishment of a mass transportation program be submitted to the electorate of such public body or to the electorate of the transit area of such transi…

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…