Kentucky Revised Statutes

Ky. Rev. Stat. § 278.016 (2026)

Commonwealth to be divided into geographical service areas

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It is hereby declared to be in the public interest that, in order to encourage the orderly development of retail electric service, to avoid wasteful duplication of distribution facilities, to avoid unnecessary encumbering of the landscape of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, to prevent the waste of materials and natural resources, for the public convenience and necessity and to minimize disputes between retail electric suppliers which may result in inconvenience, diminished efficiency and higher costs in serving the consumer, the state be divided into geographical areas, establishing the areas within which each retail electric supplier is to provide the retail electric service as provided in KRS 278.016 to 278.020 and, except as otherwise provided, no retail electric supplier shall furnish retail electric service in the certified territory of another retail electric supplier. History: Created 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 83, sec. 2.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 1985–1999 · leading case: City of Florence v. Owen Elec. Coop., Inc., 832 S.W.2d 876 (Ky. 1992).

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City of Florence v. Owen Elec. Coop., Inc., 832 S.W.2d 876 (Ky. 1992). · cites it 3× “Three sections, KRS 278.016, KRS 278.017 and KRS 278.018 comprise the certified territory statute and the purpose as set forth in KRS 278.”

Grayson Rural Elec. Corp. v. City of Vanceburg, 4 S.W.3d 526 (Ky. 1999). “Clearly, this decision avoids the wasteful duplication of distribution facilities sought to be promoted by KRS 278.016. Exclusive service areas are no more unstable when a municipality exercises that privilege than when an electric cooperative exercises it.”

Owen Cnty. Rural Elec. Coop. Corp. v. Pub. Serv. Comm'n, 689 S.W.2d 599 (Ky. Ct. App. 1985). · cites it 2× “KRS 278.016 reads in part that it is: ...”

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