2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 74 - WATER DISTRICTS 74.012 Water district -- Creation -- Application to Public Service Commission -- Hearing -- Conditions.
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74.012 Water district -- Creation -- Application to Public Service Commission
-- Hearing -- Conditions.
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Prior to the establishment of any water district as provided by KRS 74.010, and
prior to the incorporation or formation of any nonprofit corporation, association
or cooperative corporation having as its purpose the furnishing of a public
water supply (herein referred to as a "water association"), a committee of not
less than five (5) resident freeholders of the geographical area sought to be
served with water facilities by the proposed district or the proposed water
association shall formally make application to the Public Service Commission
of Kentucky in such manner and following such procedures as the Public
Service Commission may by regulation prescribe, seeking from the
commission the authority to petition the appropriate county judge/executive for
establishment of a water district, or to proceed to incorporate or otherwise
create a water association. The commission shall thereupon set the application
for formal public hearing, and shall give notice to all other water suppliers,
whether publicly owned or privately owned, and whether or not regulated by
the commission, rendering services in the general area proposed to be served
by said water district or water association, and to any planning and zoning or
other regulatory agency or agencies with authority in the general area having
concern with the application. The commission may subpoena and summon for
hearing purposes any persons deemed necessary by the commission in order
to enable the commission to evaluate the application of the proponents of said
proposed water district or water association, and reach a decision in the best
interests of the general public. Intervention by any interested parties, water
suppliers, municipal corporations, and governmental agencies shall be freely
permitted at such hearing.
The public hearing shall be conducted by the commission pursuant to the
provisions of KRS 278.020. At the time of the hearing, no employment of
counsel or of engineering services shall have been made to be paid from water
district funds, water association funds, or made a charge in futuro against
water district or water association funds, if formation of such water district or
water association is permitted by the commission.
Before the Public Service Commission shall approve any application for
creation of a water district or water association, the commission must make a
finding and determination of fact that the geographical area sought to be
served by such proposed water district or water association cannot be feasibly
served by any existing water supplier, whether publicly or privately owned, and
whether or not subject to the regulatory jurisdiction of the commission. If it shall
be determined that the geographical area sought to be served by the proposed
water district or water association can be served more feasibly by any other
water supplier, the commission shall deny the application and shall hold such
further hearings and make such further determinations as may in the
circumstances be appropriate in the interests of the public health, safety and
general welfare.
Any order entered by the commission in connection with an application for
creation of a water district or water association shall be appealable to the
Franklin Circuit Court as provided by KRS 278.410.
Effective:June 17, 1978
History: Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 384, secs 19 and 180, effective June 17,
1978. --Created 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 310, sec. 2.
Legislative Research Commission Note. This section was amended by two
sections of a 1978 act which do not appear to be in conflict and have been
compiled together.
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