2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 278 - PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION 278.015 Water district; combined water, gas, or sewer district; or water commission a public utility subject to Public Service Commission -- Exceptions.
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278.015 Water district; combined water, gas, or sewer district; or water
commission a public utility subject to Public Service Commission -Exceptions.
Notwithstanding any of the provisions of KRS Chapter 74, any water district;
combined water, gas, or sewer district; or water commission, except a joint
commission created under the provisions of KRS 74.420 to 74.520, shall be a public
utility and shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission in the
same manner and to the same extent as any other utility as defined in KRS 278.010,
except:
(1) As provided in KRS 278.023; or
(2) When a wholesale supplier selling water or providing sewage treatment to a
water district; combined water, gas, or sewer district; or water commission
increases its rates, the water district or combined water, gas, or sewer district
shall have the authority to increase its rates commensurate with the wholesale
supplier without prior approval by the commission.
Within twenty (20) days after any such increase in rates, the district shall file its
revised tariffs with the commission, together with a copy of the notice from its
wholesale supplier showing the increase in the rate charged to the utility, and a
statement of the volume of purchased water used or sewage treated to calculate the
increase in rates. The commission shall approve the filing or establish revised rates
by order no later than thirty (30) days after the above documents are filed with it.
Prior to or at the time of the first billing of the new rates, the district shall give notice
to its customers of the increase.
Effective:July 15, 1996
History: Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 122, sec. 10, effective July 15, 1996. -Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 276, sec. 1, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended
1988 Ky. Acts ch. 12, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1988. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts
ch. 495, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 82,
sec. 3, effective July 15, 1982. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 379, sec. 3,
effective April 1, 1979. -- Created 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 195, sec. 2.
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