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76.274 Sanitation tax district -- Creation, powers -- Area included.

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76.274 Sanitation tax district -- Creation, powers -- Area included. In the interest of the public health and for the purpose of providing adequate sanitation <br>and drainage facilities in each county containing a city of the first class, there may be <br>created and established therein one or more sanitation tax districts, under the provisions <br>of KRS 76.005 to 76.295, having the powers, duties and functions prescribed in KRS <br>76.005 to 76.295, and to be known by and under the name of .... (name) sanitation tax <br>district. Such a district under its name shall be a public body corporate and political <br>subdivision, with power to adopt, use and alter at its pleasure a corporate seal, sue and be <br>sued, contract and be contracted with, and in other ways to act as a natural person, within <br>the purview of KRS 76.005 to 76.295. Such district may encompass any territory within <br>the county except: <br>(1) Territory in the district area of a metropolitan sewer district, <br>(2) Sewered areas which are connected to the district facilities of a metropolitan sewer district, and (3) Sewered areas which have paid a capital investment recovery fee, or are paying the same, to a metropolitan sewer district to reimburse the metropolitan sewer district <br>for that portion of its capital expenditures equitably allocable to the sewered area. Effective: July 15, 1980 <br>History: Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 188, sec. 64, effective July 15, 1980. -- Created 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 33, sec. 39.