76.274 Sanitation tax district -- Creation, powers -- Area included. In the interest of the public health and for the purpose of providing adequate sanitation and drainage facilities in each county containing a city of the first class, there may be created and established therein one or more sanitation tax districts, under the provisions of KRS 76.005 to 76.295, having the powers, duties and functions prescribed in KRS 76.005 to 76.295, and to be known by and under the name of .... (name) sanitation tax district. Such a district under its 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 76.005 to 76.295. Such district may encompass any territory within the county except: (1) Territory in the district area of a metropolitan sewer district, (2) Sewered areas which are connected to the district facilities of a metropolitan sewer district, and (3) Sewered areas which have paid a capital investment recovery fee, or are paying the same, to a metropolitan sewer district to reimburse the metropolitan sewer district for that portion of its capital expenditures equitably allocable to the sewered area. Effective: July 15, 1980 History: Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 188, sec. 64, effective July 15, 1980. -- Created 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 33, sec. 39.