Kentucky Revised Statutes

Ky. Rev. Stat. § 76.010 (2026)

Joint metropolitan sewer district authorized in cities with population of

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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 facilities 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. Effective: January 1, 2015 History: Amended 2014 Ky. Acts ch. 92, sec. 47, effective January 1, 2015. -- Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 152, sec. 50. -- Created 1946 Ky. Acts ch. 104, sec. 1. Legislative Research Commission Note (1/1/2015). The Reviser of Statutes has altered the numbering of this statute from the way it appears in 2014 Ky. Acts ch. 92, sec. 47, under the authority of KRS 7.136(1)(c).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 17 cases, 1946–2020 · leading case: Louisville & Jefferson Cnty. Metro. Sewer Dist. v. Simpson, 730 S.W.2d 939 (Ky. 1987).
Louisville & Jefferson Cnty. Metro. Sewer Dist. v. Simpson, 730 S.W.2d 939 (Ky. 1987). · cites it 6× “The District was created pursuant to KRS 76.010 which provides: In the interest of the public health and for the purpose of providing adequate sewer and drainage facilities in and around each city of the first and second classes and in each county containing such city, there may…”
Calvert Investments, Inc. v. Louisville & Jefferson Cnty. Metro. Sewer Dist., 805 S.W.2d 133 (Ky. 1991). · cites it 2× “KRS 76.010. The statute constitutes its charter.”
Coppage Constr. Co. v. Sanitation Dist. No. 1, 459 S.W.3d 855 (Ky. 2015). “Under KRS 76.010, a sewer district is designated as a: ‘[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[.”
Jefferson Cnty. ex rel. Hollenbach v. South Cent. Bell Tel. Co., 555 S.W.2d 629 (Ky. Ct. App. 1977). · cites it 4× “Metropolitan sewer districts are governed by the provisions of KRS 76.010 to 76.281. KRS 76.120 provides: “Where railroad tracks, street railroad tracks, gas or water pipes, telephone wires, telegraph wires, electric light or power lines, or conduits, for carrying telephone or…”
Rash v. Louisville & Jefferson Cnty. Metro. Sewer Dist., 217 S.W.2d 232 (Ky. Ct. App. 1949). “” KRS 76.010. The statute constitutes its charter.”
Gnau v. Louisville & Jefferson Cnty. Metro. Sewer Dist., 346 S.W.2d 754 (Ky. Ct. App. 1961). “” KRS 76.010. In Fawbush v. Louisville & Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District, Ky.”
Louisville & Jefferson Cnty. Metro. Sewer Dist. v. City of Louisville, 451 S.W.2d 172 (Ky. Ct. App. 1970). · cites it 4× “In 1946, by reason of KRS 76.010 et seq., the City and Jefferson County were grant *174 ed the right to establish a joint MSD and “a board to manage, control, and conduct the business, activities, and affairs of such district * * Pursuant thereto by Ordinance No.”
Veail v. Louisville & Jefferson Cnty. Metro. Sewer Dist., 197 S.W.2d 413 (Ky. Ct. App. 1946). “The petitioners seek a declaration of rights between them and those for whom they sue, and the defendants, members of the Board of Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District, City of Louisville, its Mayor, its Director of Works, and the Judge of the Jefferson…”
Fawbush v. Louisville & Jefferson Cnty. Metro. Sewer Dist., 240 S.W.2d 622 (Ky. Ct. App. 1951). “210, under the section title, tax exemptions, reads as follows: “It is hereby found and declared that the creation of the district and the carrying out of its corporate purposes is in all respects in the interest of the public health and is a public purpose; that the *624…”
Hornsby v. Hous. Auth. of Dry Ridge, 566 S.W.3d 587 (Ky. Ct. App. 2018). “020 (transit authority); KRS 76.010 (sewer district); KRS 160.160 (board of education).”
Louisville & Jefferson Cnty. Metro. Sewer Dist. v. Barker, 212 S.W.2d 122 (Ky. Ct. App. 1948). “The question we have is the existence or nonexistence of power to exact payment of charges for services being rendered currently to public property or to collect what are called sewer rentals from that property. The instrumentality is operated and the service is rendered by an…”
Louisville & Jefferson Cnty. Metro. Sewer Dist. v. Mark D. Hill (Ky. 2020). · cites it 4× “” MSD 6 concedes that it is a political subdivision but argues that it is not a political subdivision of the Commonwealth so as to bring it within the ambit of the Whistleblower Act’s definition of “employer.”
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