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KRS 76.005: Definitions.

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  1. KRS Chapter 76

As used in KRS 76.010 to 76.295 unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "District" means a metropolitan sewer district authorized by KRS 76.010 to 76.210.

(2) "Board" means the board described in KRS 76.030.

(3) "District area," "within the district," "corporate limits of the district" and similar

terms mean that area of a county containing a city of the first class which area was

on April 1, 1964, either inside the city of the first class or served by sanitary or

combined sanitary and storm water sewers which were under the immediate control

and custody of the district, that area of such a county which is added to the district

pursuant to KRS 76.170, and that area of such a county which may be annexed to

the city of the first class except that no constr uction subdistrict shall be construed to

be within the district area.

(4) "Construction subdistrict bonds and obligations" and like phrases mean any

obligation whatsoever that has been incurred by the district because of some

function or activity of a cons truction subdistrict. Such debts are not obligations of

the district, and such debts may be paid only from moneys received by the district

on account of the construction subdistrict, or from the funds, if any, in the

construction subdistrict reserve fund.

(5) "Construction subdistrict facilities" are all sewerage facilities within a construction

subdistrict, and all sewerage facilities in a county containing a district outside the

district area which:

(a) Are not a part of a sewer construction district orga nized pursuant to KRS

76.300 to 76.420 or a sanitation district organized pursuant to KRS 220.010 to

220.540 or a sewer system of a municipal corporation or a sewer system of a

water district organized pursuant to KRS 74.010 to 74.415; and

(b) Join togethe r two (2) or more construction subdistricts or lead from a

construction subdistrict to the district area or lead from a construction

subdistrict to a disposal plant or a treatment plant outside the construction

subdistrict and outside the district area.

(6) "District facilities" are all facilities of the district within the district area.

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