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A city must pass an ordinance and prepare a cost estimate before acquiring, maintaining, or operating an artificial gas system; if revenue bonds are planned, the ordinance must say so.
Cities may issue negotiable bonds for the stated gas-system purpose only after an ordinance is adopted, and the bonds must be repaid only from system revenue.
Cities that acquire an artificial gas system may choose how it is operated, and the commission that runs it has several management duties and membership restrictions.
This section says KRS 96.541 to 96.545 create an additional, alternate method for acquiring the artificial gas systems mentioned in KRS 96.542.
A city utility has the same condemnation and eminent domain rights as corporations and partnerships, except where KRS 96.550 to 96.900 provides otherwise.
This section defines terms used in KRS 96.550 to 96.900.
This section says when KRS 96.550 to 96.900 does not apply, when municipalities may choose to operate under it, and that it is intended to be the complete law on municipal electric plants in the stated situations.
Boards for municipal electric plants have broad powers under KRS 96.550 to 96.900, but must follow listed limits and conditions.
Before condemning an existing electric plant, the board must notify the owner and follow a valuation process that can lead to appraisal, purchase, or condemnation.
A board acting under KRS 96.550 to 96.900 may condemn certain property needed for electric plants, but not certain utility facilities used mainly for power produced and transmitted outside the municipal service area.
If a municipal electric-plant board cannot agree with a property owner and wants to use eminent domain, it must condemn the property under Kentucky’s Eminent Domain Act, with special valuation rules.
This section was repealed in 1976.
This section was repealed in 1976.
This section was repealed in 1976.
A municipality may not build, buy, condemn, or finance a municipal electric plant unless the question is submitted to voters and approved by a majority.
A municipality may issue and sell revenue bonds through its board for an electric plant project, subject to KRS 96.550 to 96.900.
Revenue bonds issued under KRS 96.550 to 96.900 are valid if signed by officers in office when signed, even if those officers later leave office.
A challenge to the validity of certain ordinances or related election resolutions must be filed within 60 days, or it is barred.
Revenue bond holders cannot force a municipality to use taxing power to pay the bonds or interest, and each bond must state that it is payable only from pledged revenue and is not a municipal debt.
The board may issue and sell certain bonds, but must follow bidding and sale rules, including selling to the highest responsible bidder unless an exception applies.
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