2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 96 - UTILITIES IN CITIES 96.060 City with population of 8,000 to 19,999 may grant rights-of-way to utilities -- Conditions.
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96.060 City with population of 8,000 to 19,999 may grant rights-of-way to
utilities -- Conditions.
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The legislative body of any city with a population equal to or greater than eight
thousand (8,000) but less than twenty thousand (20,000) based upon the most
recent federal decennial census may, by ordinance, grant the right of way in
streets, alleys and public grounds of the city to any railway, street railway, gas,
water, steam heating, telephone or electric light or power company for a term
not exceeding twenty (20) years. Before granting such privilege, the city shall,
after advertising by publication pursuant to KRS Chapter 424, receive bids
publicly, and award the privilege to the highest and best bidder, having the right
to reject any and all bids.
The city shall reserve the right to regulate and control the tracks, pipes and
wires of such companies, and the public ways in which they are laid or
constructed, and shall reserve the right to require any such company to
conform to any changed grades of the streets and public grounds, to pay the
cost of improving between its rails and for a reasonable distance on either side
of its rails, to make culverts beneath them for the free flow of water, to change
its rails, or mode of construction or operation, to suit public convenience, to
raise or lower its pipes, or to take down its wires and lay them underground, as
the public good requires.
The city shall not be liable for the cost or damage occasioned by such
changes, or for any damage for delay in the operation of the business of any
such company occasioned by any street improvement or repairs, or the
constructing, bursting or repairing of any sewer or pipe in or across any street,
alley or public ground, or for injury by any mob or other violence.
All such grants shall expire and become voidable, at the option of the city,
although a consideration has been paid, unless a bona fide organization has
taken place and business has been commenced and prosecuted under the
grant in good faith within one (1) year from the date of the grant. The legislative
body may impose other conditions and terms in addition to and not inconsistent
with those enumerated in this section. The provisions in this section as to
advertisements and bids, and limitation of the grant to twenty (20) years, shall
not apply to the grant of the right of way to a trunk railway.
Effective:January 1, 2015
History: Amended 2014 Ky. Acts ch. 92, sec. 151, effective January 1, 2015. -Amended 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 239, sec. 89. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208,
sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 3290, 3290-35.
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