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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