KRS 278.027: Application for certificate -- Publishing notice of hearing.

When application required by KRS 278.020 is made to the commission for a certificate

that public convenience and necessity require the construction of a new electric

transmission line of four hundred (400) kilovolts or more, during the thirty (30) days

immediately preceding the public hearing on such application provided for in KRS

278.020(1), the commission shall, on at least four (4) days, publish notice of such hearing

in a newspaper or newspapers of general circulation in the counties and municipalities

within which such transmission facility is proposed to be located in whole or in part. The

commission shall not issue such a certificate for a new electric transmission line of four

hundred (400) kilovolts or more unless the commission shall first determi ne that the

proposed route of the line will reasonably minimize adverse impact on the scenic and

environmental assets of the general area concerned, consistent with engineering and other

technical and economic factors appropriate for consideration in deter mining the route of

the line. At the said public hearing provided for in KRS 278.020(1), all persons residing

on or owning property affected by the proposed transmission facility may be heard.