Title IX, Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units

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…

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…

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 …

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…

(1) The elections herein authorized shall, in the case of any individual public body, be called and held by the particular public officials of said public body responsible for the calling and holding of general elections. All ad valorem tax receipts, occupational tax receipts and…

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…

Having the powers of the city of the highest class at the time of the creation of an urban- county government, the provisions of KRS 96.350 to 96.510 are hereby affirmed to be possessed by urban-county governments. Any reference to a city, mayor, city legislative body, or agency …

of more than 50,000 other than counties containing a consolidated local government or urban-county government. (1) The city council of cities in a county containing a population of more than fifty thousand (50,000) other than a county containing a consolidated local government or…

waterworks system -- Police protection for waterworks system located outside city limits. (1) The legislative body of any city of the home rule class may by ordinance: (a) Provide the city with water; establish, regulate and control public cisterns, hydrants and reservoirs, toget…

Election. (1) One (1) or more waterworks, owned by one (1) or more persons, may be acquired as a single enterprise, and the city legislative body may agree with the owner as to the value of the waterworks and purchase it at such value, after giving forty-five (45) days' notice by…

Not less than annually any transit authority for the benefit of which a mass transportation program has been approved by the electorate of any public body, or by the electorate of its transit area in the event all public bodies comprising the membership of such transit authority …

transportation agreements. (1) In addition to all other powers and rights granted by KRS Chapter 96A, public bodies are expressly authorized and empowered to enter into joint agreements and multimunicipal compacts with transit authorities, and all other units of government, both …

For the purpose of defraying the cost of acquiring any such waterworks and appurtenances or extensions thereto, either by purchase or construction, the city may borrow money and issue negotiable bonds, but only after an ordinance has been adopted specifying the proposed undertaki…

Bonds may be issued bearing interest at a rate or rates or method of determining rates, payable at least annually, and shall be executed in a manner and be payable at times not exceeding forty (40) years from the date of issue and at the place or places as the city legislative bo…

revenues. Bonds issued pursuant to KRS 96.370 shall be negotiable and shall not be subject to taxation. If any officer whose signature or countersignature appears on the bonds or coupons ceases to be an officer before delivery of the bonds, his signature or countersignature shall…

All moneys received from the bonds shall be applied solely for the purchase, establishment or erection of the waterworks and extensions and appurtenances thereto, or to advance the payment of the interest on the bonds during the first three (3) years following the date of the bon…

The waterworks so acquired, together with the extensions and appurtenances, shall remain subject to the statutory lien until the payment in full of the principal and interest of the bonds. Any holder of the bonds or coupons may, by action at law or in equity, protect and enforce …

If there is any default in the payment of the principal or interest of any bond, any court having jurisdiction of the action may appoint a receiver to administer the waterworks on behalf of the city, with power to charge and collect rates sufficient to provide for the payment of …

At or before the issuance of bonds the city legislative body shall, by ordinance, set aside and pledge the income and revenue of the waterworks into a separate and special fund to be used and applied in payment of the cost thereof and in the maintenance, operation and depreciatio…

If a surplus is accumulated in the operating and maintenance funds equal to the cost of maintaining and operating the waterworks during the remainder of the calendar, operating or fiscal year and during the succeeding like year, any excess over such amount may be transferred at a…

The funds accumulating to the depreciation account shall be expended in balancing depreciation in the waterworks or in making new constructions, extensions or additions thereto. Any such accumulations may be invested as the city legislative body may designate, and if invested the…

The reasonable cost and value of any service rendered to the city by the waterworks may be charged against the city and shall be paid for monthly as the service accrues from the current funds or proceeds of taxes which the city shall levy in an amount sufficient for that purpose.…

The city may issue new bonds to provide funds for the payment of any outstanding bonds, in accordance with the procedure prescribed by KRS 96.350 to 96.510. The new bonds shall be secured to the same extent and shall have the same source of payment as the bonds refunded.

If the city legislative body finds that the bonds authorized will be insufficient to accomplish the purpose desired, additional bonds may be authorized and issued in the same manner.

Any city acquiring any waterworks pursuant to the provisions of KRS 96.350 to 96.510 may, at the time of issuing the bonds for such acquisition, provide for additional bonds for extensions and permanent improvements to be placed in escrow and to be negotiated from time to time as…

The city legislative body may provide by ordinance such provisions and stipulations for the administration of the income and revenues of the waterworks and for the security of the bondholders as it deems necessary.

The ordinances required by KRS 96.370 and 96.430 may set apart a fund equal to the amount of any secured debt or charge subject to which a waterworks is acquired, and shall set aside to that fund, from the balance of the income and revenues of the waterworks remaining after setti…

operate electric light, heat, and power plants -- Regulation of provision of telecommunications services or municipal telephone service -- Interconnection agreements with utilities or utility affiliates -- Bonds. (1) Any city of the home rule class or urban-county government may …