Title IX, Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units

Every resolution or ordinance adopted by the governing body of any municipality under the provisions of KRS 96.550 to 96.900 shall become effective from and after its passage, and no such resolution or ordinance shall be the subject of any referendum or election except as express…

extension of service -- Bonds do not require approval. (1) It shall not be necessary for any municipality proceeding under KRS 96.550 to 96.900 to obtain any certificate of convenience and necessity, license, permit, or other authorization, from any board, commission, or other ag…

forbidden -- Cooperative agreements. No municipality or board operating an electric plant under the provisions of KRS 96.550 to 96.900 shall enter into competition with, or construct, maintain, or operate, any facilities or service in competition with any rural electric cooperati…

book value among the state, counties, cities, and school districts -- Regional development agency assistance fund -- Portion of TVA payment received by state to be transferred to fund for distribution to regional development agencies in fund-eligible counties -- Annual report. (1…

Any municipality or board exercising any of the powers granted under KRS 96.550 to 96.890 or any person accepting benefits conferred thereby shall be estopped to question the validity of any provision of KRS 96.550 to 96.890.

participate in group purchasing program. (1) A municipal utility that owns or operates an electric utility under KRS 96.550 to 96.900 may authorize: (a) Membership and participation in a group purchasing program when the municipal utility deems that the purchase of power through …

economic development and job creation activities -- Annual reports -- Certification of proper use of funds. (1) A Regional Development Agency Assistance Program is established to consist of a system of grants to agencies designated by fiscal courts of counties designated in KRS 9…

The public health, safety and welfare require that new and alternative measures be authorized to encourage, promote, and make more feasible the provision of facilities for the collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage by cities, by sewer service charges established with due c…

As used in KRS 96.910 to 96.927, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "City" means an incorporated municipality of any class and a county that has adopted an urban-county government, except those communities served by a metropolitan sewer district, under the provisions of K…

The governing body of any city may classify sewer users upon any reasonable basis and may establish different service rates for each class, provided such rates are uniform as to all sewer users in the same class. Such classifications may be of limited or indefinite duration.

In determining and defining special classes, the governing body of a city shall have as its objectives the interests of public health, safety, and general welfare of the entire community, and reasonable ultimate quality of financial burden to users similarly situated.

A city may establish a basic sewer service charge or basic schedule of graduated charges, applying to all sewer users alike, and may, in its discretion, establish and apply to one or more special classes of users additional service charges.

In prescribing schedules of charges, and in determining the aggregate of revenues required to be raised, the governing body shall consider the cost and value of existing, planned and foreseeably needed sewer facilities, the cost of operation and maintenance, repairs, replacements…

The governing body of any city desiring to establish special classes of sewer users shall initiate proceedings by adopting an ordinance to be known as the "First Ordinance," which shall state: (1) The special classes of sewer users proposed to be created, the reasons and justific…

The first ordinance shall be published pursuant to KRS Chapter 424. A certified copy of the first ordinance shall be delivered to the county judge/executive or county clerk of each county in which any area affected by the ordinance outside the city may be situated, and the county…

If a city contemplates annexation of areas outside its corporate limits when the First Ordinance is published, or if annexation is then in progress, it may state that its proposed establishment of special classes of sewer users will be applicable to such areas, and is conditioned…

The First Ordinance shall provide for a public hearing at a time and place to be specified therein not less than one (1) week after publication. Such hearing shall be presided over by a person or persons designated by the governing body of the city. Written minutes of the meeting…

Any sewer user, or prospective sewer user, within any of the proposed special classes of sewer users may appear at the public hearing in person or by a representative and may submit in writing a statement of any reasons for advocating, or objecting to, any matter set forth in the…

At any subsequent regular meeting of the governing body the written report of the public hearing concerning the first ordinance shall be submitted. At such meeting, any sewer users, or prospective sewer user, may again be heard, in person or by representative. The governing body …

(1) Any sewer user, or prospective sewer user, affected by the Second Ordinance may, within thirty (30) days after publication of the Second Ordinance, file an action in the Circuit Court of the county in which the city is situated attacking the validity of the Second Ordinance f…

Proceedings under KRS 96.910 to 96.927 are purely discretionary. KRS 96.910 to 96.927 is not intended to be in derogation of any other law, and does not repeal or amend any other law.

The General Assembly hereby recognizes and declares that the use of water in any manner tending to contaminate it, raises a correlative public duty to provide for the proper disposition thereof according to the highest public health standards, and that such public duty includes f…

As used in KRS 96.930 to 96.943, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "City" means an incorporated municipality of any class; (2) "Governing body" means the body vested by law with the legislative power of a city; (3) "Sewer body" means the body vested with responsibility f…

In the interests of the public health, safety, and general welfare, cities may enforce collection of lawful rates and charges for the use of municipal sewer facilities by requiring that water service, whether provided publicly or privately, be discontinued until payment is made o…

(1) If a city is also the water supplier, the governing body may provide that rates for water service and sewer service be billed simultaneously and that water service shall be discontinued upon failure to pay any part of such charges, including penalties, interest, and reasonabl…

(1) A water supplier may in writing served upon the city clerk, set forth (a) reasonable fees or charges for disconnecting and reconnecting water service connections, and (b) whether or not it will require that an authorized agent of the sewer body accompany its own agent or empl…

No payment of the bill for sewer service charges disputed by the sewer user shall be deemed a waiver by the sewer user of any right thereafter to claim and recover from the sewer body any and all sums improperly included in the bill. In the event of such dispute, the authorized a…

Any sewer body and any water supplier may enter into a contract relating to any of the provisions of KRS 96.930 to 96.943. Such contract may provide that the water supplier shall furnish to the sewer body copies of its records, or that the water supplier will compute sewer charge…

No water supplier who discontinues water service pursuant to an order from the sewer body as provided in KRS 96.930 to 96.943, shall incur any liability by reason thereof, except to the extent of its own negligence or other improper conduct.

Any water supplier which wrongfully fails or refuses to discontinue water service pursuant to an order properly made to it by a sewer body and continues such failure or refusal for a period of thirty (30) days after receipt of the notice, shall be liable to the sewer body for any…

(1) The acquisition, development, maintenance and operation of parks, playgrounds and recreation centers, which may include but is not limited to zoos and museums, is a proper municipal purpose for all cities and counties. The legislative body of any city or the fiscal court of a…

The legislative body of any city or the fiscal court of any county may establish a park, playground and recreation system and may vest the power to provide, maintain and conduct parks, playgrounds and recreation centers in a park board, board of education, playground and recreati…

If the legislative body of any city or fiscal court of any county determines that the power to provide, conduct and maintain parks, playgrounds and recreation centers shall be exercised by a playground and recreation board, or a parks, playground and recreation board, the legisla…

Effect of compact -- Effect on joint department upon establishment of consolidated local government. (1) If two (2) or more political subdivisions determine to jointly establish, maintain, and conduct a park and recreation system or systems, which may include but shall not be lim…

Any authority in which is vested the power to provide, conduct and maintain parks, playgrounds, and recreation centers under KRS 97.030 or 97.035, may accept any grant or devise of real estate or any bequest or gift of money or any donation, the principal or income of which is to…

Whenever the legislative body of any city or the fiscal court of any county or one (1) of them in conjunction with a school district establishes a supervised park, playground and recreation system as provided in KRS 97.010 to KRS 97.040, or jointly, as provided in KRS 97.035, the…

For the purpose of establishing or acquiring parks, playgrounds and recreation centers, and appurtenances thereto, a playground and recreation board or a board, as provided in KRS 97.030 or 97.035, shall have the same authority to issue revenue bonds granted to cities by KRS 97.1…

The city may, by ordinance, prescribe admission, fees, rentals, concessions and other charges for the use of any such area or its facilities, or may delegate such power to the commission.

-- Governing board -- Compliance with KRS 65A.010 to 65A.090. (1) For the purpose of acquiring, building, operating, and maintaining parks and green space, two (2) or more counties may form a regional park authority. (2) (a) The regional park authority may be established by a vot…

Definition. (1) In addition to any other method authorized by statute, a city of any class may, under the provisions of KRS 97.100 to 97.240, establish, acquire, maintain and operate municipal recreational projects and all necessary club houses, bathhouses, locker rooms, shower r…

Any city establishing or acquiring and desiring to maintain and operate a recreational project or projects under the provisions of KRS 97.100 to 97.240 shall by ordinance provide for the appointment of a city recreational commission to operate and control the project or projects.…

Vacancies -- Rules and regulations -- Revenues -- Fees -- Compliance with KRS 65A.010 to 65A.090. (1) In cities of the first class and in cities with populations equal to or greater than twenty thousand (20,000) based upon the most recent federal decennial census, the city recrea…

All property which a city acquires for the establishment and maintenance of a recreational project under KRS 97.100 to 97.240 shall be exempt from taxation to the same extent as other public property used for public purposes. All fees charged or collected for the admission to or …

Any city that establishes a recreational project may purchase solely from the funds provided under the authority of KRS 97.100 to 97.240, or may acquire by gift, devise, bequest or grant, lands, structures, rights of way, franchises, easements or other interests in land necessary…

For the purpose of defraying the cost of establishing, erecting, and acquiring any recreational project and necessary appurtenances, any city may borrow money and issue bonds. The bonds may be issued bearing interest at a rate or rates or method of determining rates, payable at l…

The bonds issued pursuant to KRS 97.150 shall be negotiable and shall not be subject to taxation. If the officers whose signatures or countersignatures appear on the bonds or coupons cease to be officers before delivery of the bonds, the signatures or countersignatures shall neve…

All money received from any bonds issued pursuant to KRS 97.150 shall be applied solely to the establishment, erection and acquisition of the recreational project and necessary appurtenances, except that the money may be used to advance the payment of interest on bonds during the…

There shall be a statutory mortgage lien upon the recreational project and necessary appurtenances acquired through the issuance of bonds, in favor of the holders of the bonds and the holders of the coupons. The project and appurtenances shall remain subject to the lien until the…

If there is a default in the payment of the principal or interest of any of the bonds, any court having jurisdiction may appoint a receiver to administer the project on behalf of the city, with power to charge and collect rates for the services rendered and for the use of or admi…

At or before the issuance of bonds the legislative body of the city shall, by ordinance, set aside and pledge the revenue of the project into a special fund to be used and applied in payment of the cost of the project and its maintenance, operation and depreciation. The ordinance…