2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 74 - WATER DISTRICTS
74.415 Commissioners may consider installation of fire hydrants on new or extended water lines.
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<![CDATA[74.415 Commissioners may consider installation of fire hydrants on new or
extended water lines.
(1)
(2)
The commissioners of a water district, or the governing body of a water
association referred to in KRS 74.012(1), in order to provide adequate means
of fire protection, may consider the installation of fire hydrants on new or
extended water lines within their area. They may investigate the availability of
supplementary funding to pay the incremental costs of line sizing and hydrant
installation. The commissioners or governing body shall not eliminate fire
hydrants from new or extended water lines unless they determine that hydrants
are not feasible. Their analysis shall include consideration of the incremental
costs of adequately sized pipe and associated pumps and towers, and the
benefits of real estate development, water sales, the availability of fire
protection insurance, and the reduced fire insurance premiums which may
result from the installation of hydrants at specified intervals.
If a private real estate subdivision developer has not included adequately sized
pipe and fire hydrants in his development plan, the commissioners of a water
district or the governing body of a water association which has the capacity to
supply adequate water for fire hydrants shall require, at the time the developer
applies for permission to hook into the district's water lines, an analysis by the
developer of the incremental cost of hydrants and piping adequately sized for
hydrants, the effect of hydrants on the cost and availability of fire protection
insurance, and conclusions as to why the installation of hydrants is not
feasible.
Effective:July 14, 1992
History: Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 122, sec. 2, effective July 14, 1992. -Created 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 146, sec. 1(2).
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