(1) No provision of this chapter shall preclude a city from providing solid waste management services pending implementation of the approved solid waste management plan submitted by a county or district pursuant to KRS § 224.43-340. Any county or waste management district that includes the provision of solid waste management services to a city in its approved solid waste management plan shall provide the city with written notice at least one (1) year prior to the date it intends to provide such service to the city.
(2) A city may be delegated the responsibility for providing solid waste management services by a county where it is mutually advantageous to do so, and both the city and county agree to the delegation of authority. Upon delegation of responsibility, a city acting by and through its legislative body may plan, initiate, acquire, construct and maintain solid waste management facilities and promulgate rules and regulations with respect thereto in accordance with this chapter.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 109.260

  • City: means an existing city of any class. See Kentucky Statutes 109.012
  • 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
  • solid waste management services: means the administration of solid waste activities: collection, storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment, and disposal, which shall be in accordance with a cabinet approved county or multicounty solid waste management plan of the cabinet. 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
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

(3) Any solid waste management plan submitted by a county or district pursuant to KRS § 224.43-340, that includes any city that has made a financial commitment for a solid waste management system, shall include provisions for insuring sufficient revenues to the city to retire the debt on said system in accordance with the financial obligations incurred by the city.
Effective: July 13, 1984
History: Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 398, sec. 3, effective July 13, 1984. — Created
1982 Ky. Acts ch. 74, sec. 15, effective July 15, 1982.