KRS 76.010: Joint metropolitan sewer district authorized in cities with population of

20,000 or more and counties containing such cities -- Corporate powers.

In the interest of the public health and for the purpose of providing adequate sewer and

drainage facili ties in and around each city with a population equal to or greater than

twenty thousand (20,000) based upon the most recent federal decennial census and in

each county containing a city with a population equal to or greater than twenty thousand

(20,000) based upon the most recent federal decennial census, there may be created and

established a joint metropolitan sewer district under the provisions of KRS 76.010 to

76.210, having the powers, duties and functions as herein prescribed, to be known by and

under the name of .... (Name of city) and .... (Name of county) metropolitan sewer

district, which district under that name shall be a public body corporate, and political

subdivision, with power to adopt, use, and alter at its pleasure a corporate seal, sue and be

sued, contract and be contracted with, and in other ways to act as a natural person, within

the purview of KRS 76.010 to 76.210.