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A city that owns or runs water or sewer systems may extend service into contiguous territory, but not into territory already served by a district unless that district requests the extension.
A city legislative body may, by ordinance, provide water and lighting services and regulate related infrastructure and service details.
This section was repealed in 2015.
A city legislative body may, by ordinance, supply water, light, power, and heat to the city and its inhabitants and set rules and prices for those services.
A municipal governing body may choose to operate its combined electric and water system under KRS 96.172 to 96.188.
A qualifying municipality may adopt an ordinance to operate its electric and water systems as a combined plant, then have the mayor or chief executive appoint a five-member board subject to approval by the governing body.
The board sets each member’s salary, but it cannot exceed $2,400 per year; related salaries and liabilities must be paid from the board’s revenues, not by the municipality.
The board must have a quorum, act by majority vote at quorum meetings, meet within 10 days after member qualification to elect officers, hold public meetings monthly, and adopt its own bylaws and procedure unless another section says otherwise.
Boards operating under KRS 96.171 to 96.188 have broad powers to run electric and water systems, set rates, make contracts, acquire property, and borrow money.
After a board is appointed and qualified, it controls the electric and water plant, sets employee duties and pay, sets rates, and manages contracts and records.
The board must charge the municipality and its departments and works for electric and water service at the same rate used for similar customers.
A board proceeding under KRS 96.171 to 96.188 may acquire needed land and related property rights by eminent domain for its electric and water plant.
The board may each year make a tax-equivalent payment to each school district and municipality where its property is located.
The board may create and administer a pension plan for employees, but after August 1, 1988 it may not create a new fund except as allowed by KRS 65.156.
Money from the board’s electric, water, or other operations must be deposited in separate board accounts, records must be kept, and withdrawals must be approved and signed by specified board officers.
The board must use operating funds for required expenses and debt-related uses, and any surplus revenues must go to the sinking fund and be used only for specified purposes unless later conditions allow broader use.
A municipality’s governing body may end the board’s operation of the electric and water plant only after following the section’s steps, including voter submission, notice, and a possible transfer back to the municipality.
The board may issue and sell revenue bonds, but bond sale and use-of-proceeds rules apply, and bondholders cannot force the municipality to use taxing power to pay them.
The board must keep complete and accurate records, allow the city’s governing body to inspect them at any time, get an annual audit by a certified public accountant, pay for that audit, and provide the audit to the common council on request.
A board running an electric and water plant under KRS 96.171 to 96.188 must not build new facilities or expand existing ones in competition with a rural electric cooperative’s facilities.
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