96.189 Acquisition of transportation system by city of the second or third class.
(1)
(2)
Any city of the second or third class 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 city, improve and extend a
system so acquired or installed upon the terms and conditions as may be provided
by ordinance and by the terms of the contract by which the system is acquired or
installed. Any city of the second or third class may acquire, establish, and install a
street omnibus or taxicab system, and operate it upon the terms and conditions as
are prescribed by ordinance.
To provide for the financing of the streetcar system or street omnibus or taxicab
line, the city may issue bonds at not less than par and accrued interest, to bear
interest at a rate or rates or method of determining rates as the city determines,
payable at least annually, and to mature at any time not exceeding twenty (20) years
after their date, and may provide for a sinking fund to meet the bonds at their
maturity. No bonds shall be issued except in compliance with the general law in
reference to the amount of indebtedness that may be incurred by cities of the second
or third class, nor until after a vote is taken as required by law to authorize the
incurring of indebtedness.
Effective: July 15, 1996
History: Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 274, sec. 19, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended
1968 Ky. Acts ch. 29, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective
October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 3290-43.
Formerly codified as KRS 96.180, and renumbered as KRS 96.189, effective 1946.
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