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KRS Chapter 220.00

Sanitation Districts

.010   Definitions for KRS 220.010 to 220.540.

.020   Commissioner of sanitation districts -- Power to establish districts.

.030   Purposes for which sanitation district may be established.

.035   Powers of fiscal court to be stated in ordinance -- Powers of county judges/executive in districts governed by KRS 220.135 -- Service charges, rates, and user fees in districts with more than 10,000 customer accounts governed by KRS 220.542.

.040   Petition necessary to establish district -- Requisites.

.050   Contents of petition.

.060   Defects in petition may be corrected -- Joint petitions.

.070   Security for costs of establishment proceedings.

.080   Boundary of proposed district -- Investigation -- Change -- Inclusion of city property restricted.

.090   Publication of application to create district.

.100   Objection to establishment of district -- How made -- Trial -- Appeal.

.110   Declaration and certification of organization -- Status and powers of district -- Corporate name.

.115   Fiscal court procedure for alteration or dissolution of district.

.120   Conclusiveness of certificate.

.130   Office and records of district.

.135   Boundaries of multicounty districts -- Assumption by district of city systems effective July 1, 1995 -- City's option not to be assumed -- Dissolution of municipal subdistricts -- Effects of assumptions and dissolutions -- Uniformity of district rates.

.140   Board of directors -- Management of district -- Qualifications -- Appointment -- Terms -- Vacancies.

.150   Oath and bond of directors.

.160   Quorum -- Action to be by resolution -- Votes to be recorded.

.170   Officers of board -- Seal -- Records -- Powers -- Compensation -- Regulations -- Resolution of complaints.

.180   Duties of secretary -- Certified copies of records.

.190   Duties of treasurer -- Bond.

.200   Employees of district -- Supplies and equipment.

.205   Group insurance for employees may be provided.

.210   Duties of chief engineer.

.220   Board to prepare plan for improvements.

.230   Other surveys may be used.

.240   Plan must be approved by Energy and Environment Cabinet.

.250   Plan to be accepted and financing fixed by resolution -- Alterations.

.260   Other persons not to install sanitation improvements without approval -- Violation is nuisance.

.270   Power to carry out plan by direct labor or contract.

.280   Powers of board limited -- Private connections -- Type of improvements authorized -- Rights as to public corporations -- Annual audit.

.285   Power to provide sewer service outside district.

.290   Contracts for work, material and supplies -- How let.

.300   Real property may be acquired by district.

.310   Condemnation.

.320   Regulations as to use and construction of works and improvements -- Enforcement -- Penalties and damages.

.322   Disconnections, reconnections, and relocations of water inflows -- Powers of board -- Use of funds -- Fees -- Responsibility of property owner.

.330   Removal or adjustment of obstructions.

.340   Stream and rain gages -- Surveys and scientific examinations.

.350   Contracts for assistance with governments, governmental agencies and others -- Operations in adjoining states.

.360   Taxes for preliminary expense.

.370   Borrowing money for preliminary expense.

.380   Bonds may be issued by district -- Applicability of KRS 107.010 to 107.220.

.390   Interest rate on bonds -- Time and place of payment.

.400   Negotiability of bonds -- Tax exemption -- Signature -- How sold -- Not a debt.

.410   Use of proceeds of bonds.

.420   Bondholders' lien -- Enforcement.

.430   Receiver in case of default.

.440   Sinking, operating and depreciation funds to be provided.

.450   Use of surplus in operating fund.

.460   Use of depreciation fund -- Investment.

.470   Refunding bonds.

.480   Additional bonds to complete original project.

.490   Original issue may include bonds for additions and improvements.

.500   Subsequent issue of bonds for additions and improvements.

.510   Charges for sewer service -- Collection by action -- Cutting off water service if sewer service charges not paid -- Contracts with large users -- Administration of revenue.

.515   Charges to users for acquisition, construction, or establishment of facilities.

.520   Governmental units may be charged for service.

.530   Annexation of district or part of district by city.

.535   Petition for annexation of territory to district.

.536   Investigation and establishment of territorial boundaries -- Inclusion of city -- Notice to residents of territory -- Annexation by multicounty district.

.537   Procedure for protest against proposed annexation.

.540   Effect of sanitation district law on other statutes.

.542   Procedure for increase in service charge, rate, or user fee -- Districts with fewer than 10,000 customer accounts exempted.

.544   Web site to provide public access to expenditure records of sanitation district -- Monthly updates -- Exemption.

.550   Renumbered as KRS 224.190.

.551   Renumbered as KRS 224.195.

.552   Renumbered as KRS 224.200.

Construction Subdistricts

.553   Construction subdistrict established -- Petition -- Procedure -- Judicial review.

.554   Construction subdistrict not to include nonconsenting city or district.

.555   Engineering survey of construction subdistrict -- Assessment of benefits -- Notice.

.557   Engineering report filed, when.

.560   Renumbered as KRS 224.205.

.561   Notice of hearing -- Publication -- Order of construction and assessment.

.563   Appeal from order of establishment or assessment -- Procedure.

.565   District may construct or contract for construction -- No debts incurred until assessment final.

.567   Combined methods of financing.

.570   Renumbered as KRS 224.210.

.571   Assessment of costs -- Lien -- Payment -- Effect of nonpayment.

.573   Priority of construction subdistrict assessment liens -- Enforcement.

.575   Bonds if assessments not paid -- Term -- Payment of assessments in installments.

.577   Revenue bonds of construction subdistrict -- Procedure -- Contents.

.580   Renumbered as KRS 224.010.

.581   Refunding of bonds secured by assessments.

.583   Financing may be arranged as in cities -- Construction of terms from KRS Chapter 107.

.585   Financing by apportionment warrants.

.587   Financing methods temporarily inadequate -- Procedure -- Contracts.

.590   Renumbered as KRS 224.020.

.591   Default on revenue bonds -- Trustee appointed -- Actions by trustee, receiver, powers.

.593   Rate schedule for construction subdistrict -- Notice -- Objections -- Purposes -- Trust fund for revenue bonds.

.595   Cut off of water supply of user in construction subdistrict.

.597   Operating and maintenance costs of subdistrict system, how paid.

.600   Renumbered as KRS 224.030.

.601   Property of district, bonds and income therefrom exempt from tax.

.603   Procedure for annexation to subdistricts.

.605   Sewage systems may become construction subdistricts, when -- Incorporated in district, when.

.607   Winding up of construction subdistrict affairs, when, effect.

.610   Renumbered as KRS 224.040.

.611   Bonds of several construction subdistricts -- Purposes, effect.

.613   Revenue bonds alternate method of financing.

.620   Renumbered as KRS 224.050.

.630   Renumbered as KRS 224.060.

.640   Renumbered as KRS 224.080.

.650   Renumbered as KRS 224.100.

.660   Renumbered as KRS 224.130.

.990   Renumbered as KRS 224.990.

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