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KRS 220.010: Definitions for KRS 220.010 to 220.540.

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  1. KRS Chapter 220

As used in KRS 220.010 to 220.540, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Sanitary works," "improvements," "sanitary system" or "sanitary sewers," means

any works constructed by a sanitation district in accordance with the purposes of

KRS 220.010 to 220.540, as set forth in KRS 220.030.

(2) "Person" means any person, firm, copartnership, association or corporation other

than a public corporation.

(3) "Public corporation" means any county, city, school district, water district or

drainage district, and any other governmental agency or political subdivision

clothed with the power of levying general or special taxes or issuing bonds payable

from special funds.

(4) "Land" or "property" means real property.

(5) "Board of directors," "directors" or "board" me ans the governing body of a

sanitation district.

(6) "Sanitation commissioner" or "commissioner" means the commissioner of

sanitation districts, as provided for in KRS 220.020.

(7) "District" means a sanitation district authorized by KRS 220.010 to 220.540.

(8) "District area," "within the district," "corporate limits of the district" and similar

terms mean that area established to be within the district in accordance with KRS

220.020 to 220.540. No construction subdistrict shall be construed to be within t he

district area.

(9) "Construction subdistrict bonds and obligations" and like phrases mean any

obligation whatsoever that has been incurred by the district because of some

function or activity of a construction subdistrict. Such debts are not obligations of

the district, and such debts may be paid only from moneys received by the district

on account of the construction subdistrict, or from the funds, if any, in the

construction subdistrict, or from the funds, if any, in the construction subdistrict

reserve fund.

(10) "Construction subdistrict facilities" are all sewage facilities within a construction

subdistrict, and all sewage facilities outside the district area which join together two

(2) or more construction subdistricts or lead from a construction su bdistrict to the

district area or lead from a construction subdistrict to a disposal plant or a treatment

plant outside the construction subdistrict and outside the district area, and which are

not a part of a sewer system of a municipal corporation or a sewer system of a water

district organized pursuant to KRS 74.010 to 74.415.

(11) "District facilities" are all facilities of the district as provided for in KRS 220.020 to

220.540.

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