KRS 278.0154: Water district or water association may assess customer a late payment

charge of 10% of amount billed -- How charge assessed and applied --

Commission without power to affect late payment charge -- Waiver of late

payment charge.

(1) Any water district or water association formed for the purpose of furnishing water

or sewer services to the general public for compensation pursuant to KRS Chapter

74 or 273 may assess a customer who fails to pay a bill for rendered services by the

due date shown on the bill a late payment charge of ten percent (10%) of the amount

billed.

(2) A late payment charge or fee shall not be assessed more than once per billing cycle

or on any part of the late payment charge.

(3) Any payment received by a water district or water association shall first be applied

to the portion of the bill for service rendered.

(4) The commission shall not modify, reject, discontinue, abolish, or suspend the

operation of a late payment charge that is provided for currently, or has been

provided for in the past, in a water district or water association tariff.

(5) A water district or water association shall not be required to demonstrate to the

commission that the late payment charge is required to recover customer -specific

costs incurred that would otherwise result in a monetary loss to the utility or

increased rates to other customers to whom no benefits accrue from the service

provided or actions taken.

(6) Any late payment charge imposed by a water district or water association shall be

waived for any bill or portion of a bill for which a customer has received third -party

billing assistance through the Low -Income Household Drinking Water and

Wastewater Emergency Assistance Program or from another public or charitable

source.