KRS 224A.180: Enforcement powers of authority in the event of default.

(1) In order to protect the public health, safety, and welfare, and in order to assure the

prompt and necessary payment to the authority of all monetary requirements arising

from assistance agreements entered into by and between the authority and the

governmental agencies, and thereby assure the financial integrity of the authority,

and the prompt payment of principal of and interest on revenue bonds and notes

issued by the authority, the authority is specifically authorized, if any governmental

agency which is a party to an assistance agreement fails to promptly and duly

perform all of the terms and conditions of the assistance agreement, to directly

impose, in the authority's name and for the authority's benefit, service charges upon

all users of the eligible project constructed pursuant to such assistance agreement,

and to proceed to directly enforce and collect such service charges, together with all

necessary costs of the enforcement and collection, in the name of the authority and

for the benefit of the authority.

(2) In addition to the powers conferred by subsection (1) of this section, the authority

may, upon the occurrence of any event of default by such governmental agencies,

mandatorily require the owner, tenant, or occupant of each and every lot or parcel of

land which abuts upon a street or other public way containing a sanitary sewer or

drinking water facility, and upon which lot or parcel of land an improvement exists

for residential, commercial, or industrial use, or where a sanitary sewer or drinki ng

water facility is reasonably available to serve such improved lot or parcel of land, to

forthwith connect such improvement to the sanitary sewer or drinking water facility

and to cease to use any other means for the disposal of sewage, sewage waste, or

other pollutants.

(3) In the implementation of its enforcement authority, the authority shall have and

possess all of the powers of incorporated municipalities which are granted by KRS

96.930 to 96.943, providing for the termination of water services to an y premises

where the bill for sewer services is delinquent.

(4) The authority is further expressly authorized and empowered by suit, action,

mandamus, or other proceedings, to compel performance by governmental agencies

of all of the terms and conditions o f assistance agreements, including, inter alia, the

adjustment and increase of service charges as required to meet the needs of any

assistance agreement, and the enforcement and collection of such service charges.

(5) In addition to the powers conferred by subsection (1) of this section, the authority

may upon the occurrence of any event of default by such governmental agency, and

without the consent of the governmental agency, place a system in receivership.