(1) Any county or waste management district, if authorized by all the counties that comprise the district, may levy an annual tax, not to exceed ten cents ($0.10) on each one hundred dollars ($100) of assessed valuation of real property within the area subject to taxation for county purposes. The proceeds of such tax shall be used for solid waste management expenses of the area and for redemption of any bonds issued.
(2) The county or waste management district, if authorized by the counties that comprise the district, may in lieu of the tax provided in subsection (1) of this section or in addition thereto finance the maintenance, operation, and capital acquisition costs of the area by fees to be collected from all persons receiving services from the area. The charges shall be fixed in amounts as can be reasonably expected to yield revenues not in excess of the cost of operation and maintenance of the system and for an adequate depreciation fund and amortization of capital acquisition costs.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 109.056

  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • area: means any geographical area established or, designated by the cabinet in accordance with the provisions of KRS Chapter
    224. See Kentucky Statutes 109.012
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Solid waste: means any garbage, refuse, sludge, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining (excluding coal mining waste, coal mining by-
    products, refuse and overburden), agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include those materials including but not limited to sand, soil, rock, gravel, or bridge debris extracted as part of a public road construction project funded wholly or in part with state funds, recovered material, post-use polymers or recovered feedstocks as those terms are defined in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 109.012
  • Waste management district: means any county or group of counties electing to form under the provisions of KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 109.012

(3) The service charges authorized by subsections (1) and (2) of this section may be collected by the area directly or the area may enter into an agreement with other utilities either public or private to collect such charges.
Effective: February 26, 1991
History: Amended 1991 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 12, sec. 32, effective February
26, 1991. — Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 74, sec. 11, effective July 15, 1982. — Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 115, sec. 13, effective June 17, 1978. — Created 1966
Ky. Acts ch. 66, sec. 18.
Formerly codified as KRS § 109.180
Legislative Research Commission Note. A technical correction has been made in this section by the Reviser of Statutes pursuant to KRS § 7.136.