KRS 76.325: Powers of commission.

The powers of the commission shall be:

(1) To construct, operate and maintain a sewerage and/or drainage system and sewers

and drains within the boundaries of the sewer construction district, or to contract

with a metropolitan sewer district for such construction, operation and/or

maintenance;

(2) To provide for disposition of the sewage and/or drainage, and for treatment of

sewage, either through its own facilities or by contract with the metropolitan sewer

district;

(3) To clean out, straighten, alter, deepen, fill up or otherwise improve any st ream,

watercourse receiving sewage, liquid wastes or drainage, located in or out of the

district;

(4) To construct, operate and maintain trunk sewers, intercepting sewers, laterals,

siphons, pumping stations, sewage treatment and disposal works necessary for the

purposes of the district, through its own facilities or by contract with the

metropolitan sewer district;

(5) To hold, control, acquire by purchase, donation or condemnation any real or

personal property necessary for location, construction, opera tion or maintenance of

its works and improvements and easements for rights of way;

(6) Upon completion of construction of any integral part of the sewer or drainage

system, to contract for the operation and maintenance of its works and

improvements or easements for rights of way;

(7) Upon completion of construction of any integral part of the sewer or drainage

system, to contract for the operation and maintenance of, and extensions to, such

part of the system, with the metropolitan sewer district on a ser vice basis for the

users, or, with the approval of the court, to have the territory in such part of the

sewer construction district incorporated into the metropolitan sewer district for

service as provided to other property within said metropolitan sewer district; and

(8) To enter into agreements with another entity or entities to acquire by purchase or

lease, any real or personal property, or any interest, right, easement, or privilege

therein, outside of the district's jurisdictional boundaries, in connec tion with the

acquisition, construction, operation, repair, or maintenance of any sewage,

wastewater, or storm water facilities, notwithstanding any other provision of the

Kentucky Revised Statutes restricting, qualifying, or limiting their authority to do

so, except as set forth in KRS Chapter 278.