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Kentucky · Snapshot 09/05/2026

KRS 224.18-715: Powers of commissions -- Duties of state agencies.

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    The interstate water sanitation control commissions created by compacts to which

    Kentucky is a party, which compacts are composed of states forming a river basin, shall

    have all the powers provided for in the respective compacts, and all the powers necessa ry

    or incidental to the carrying out of the compacts in every particular. All officers of this

    state shall do all things falling within their respective provinces and jurisdictions

    necessary or incidental to the carrying out of the compacts in every particular, it being the

    policy of this state to perform and carry out the compacts and to accomplish the purposes

    thereof. All officers, departments, cabinets and persons of and in the state government or

    administration of this state shall at convenient times a nd upon request of the respective

    commissions furnish the commissions with information and data possessed by them and

    aid the commissions by loan of personnel or other means lying within their legal powers

    respectively. The courts of general jurisdiction o f this state shall have the jurisdiction

    specified in the enforcement articles of the compacts, and the Attorney General or any

    other law-enforcing officer of this state shall have the power to institute any action for the

    enforcement of the orders of the commissions. Any powers granted to the commissions

    by this section shall be regarded as in aid of and supplemental to and not as a limitation

    upon any of the powers vested in the commissions by other laws of this state or by the

    laws of any of the states p arty to any of the compacts, or by Congress, or by the terms of

    the compacts.

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