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96.190 Power of city of the fourth class to furnish utility services -- Regulation by Public Service Commission -- Power to regulate rates and service of utilities operating under old franchises.

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96.190 Power of city of the fourth class to furnish utility services -- Regulation by Public Service Commission -- Power to regulate rates and service of utilities <br>operating under old franchises. (1) The legislative body of any city of the fourth class may provide the city and all persons in the city with water, gas, electric power, light, and heat, by contract with <br>any person or by works and facilities owned or leased by the city and located within <br>or beyond the city boundaries. Telecommunication service may be provided by any <br>legislative body of any city of the fourth class by contract or by works of its own, <br>except that any city of the fourth class that establishes municipal telephone service <br>shall, for that service solely, be deemed a utility under KRS 278.010 and shall be <br>regulated as to the telephone service, by the Public Service Commission. (2) In all cases where the person furnishing the services is operating under a charter or franchise granted by the General Assembly prior to the adoption of the present <br>Constitution of Kentucky the city legislative body may make and enforce rules and <br>regulations for the furnishing and sale of such services, fix and regulate the quality, <br>character and standards of such services, and fix and regulate the rates charged <br>consumers for such services. Effective: July 14, 2000 <br>History: Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 101, sec. 3, effective July 14, 2000. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 3490-8, <br>3490-10, 3490-36.