2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 269 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS AS TO DITCHES, DRAINAGE, AND RECLAMATION 269.270 County surface water drainage districts.
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269.270 County surface water drainage districts.
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The county judge/executive in each county of this Commonwealth, wherein the
fiscal court has requested it, is hereby authorized to establish a countywide
surface water drainage district for the entire county including all municipalities.
The cost of procuring the necessary rights-of-way and the construction and
maintenance of such countywide drainage district shall be paid by the fiscal
court out of the annual levy for county taxes. When the fiscal court undertakes
such a project it may acquire for the county by contract or condemnation any
land necessary to carry out the project. If condemnation proceedings are
necessary they shall be conducted in the manner provided in the Eminent
Domain Act of Kentucky.
The administration of this district shall be exclusively by or within the fiscal
court of said county, and the fiscal court is hereby authorized and empowered
to employ such assistants, including commissioners or superintendent, and
other employees as may be necessary for the construction, maintenance and
continued operation of said system, and shall fix the salaries of all employees
to be paid as other county employees are paid.
In the construction and maintenance of such drainage system the fiscal court is
authorized and empowered, as a part of the cost of construction and
maintenance of said system, to build or construct such bridges and culverts
over and across the ditches or canals of this system as in the opinion of the
fiscal court are necessary.
Nothing herein contained shall authorize or empower the construction or
maintenance of a sanitary sewer system or sanitary sewers.
Effective:June 17, 1978
History: Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 384, sec. 430, effective June 17, 1978. -Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 140, sec. 108. -- Created 1954 Ky. Acts ch. 45,
secs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, effective June 17, 1954.
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