Kentucky Revised Statutes (Last Updated: May 10, 2014) |
TITLE XII. CONSERVATION AND STATE DEVELOPMENT |
CHAPTER 151. GEOLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES |
010. Establishment and personnel of survey. |
020. Other departments of university to cooperate. |
030. Duties and functions of survey. |
035. Official repository for groundwater information. |
040. Reports and publications. |
050. Repealed, 1966. [Repealed] |
100. Definitions. |
110. Water resources policy -- Duties of cabinet. |
112. Planning process for management and development of water resources. |
114. Long range water supply plans. |
116. Regulations. |
118. Financing development of water supply plans. |
120. Public water of Commonwealth, what constitutes. |
125. Authority and powers of secretary. |
130. Repealed, 1974. [Repealed] |
140. Withdrawal of water from public waters, permit required -- Exceptions. |
150. Application for permit -- Withdrawal of water from public waters. |
160. Record and report of water withdrawn under permit -- Effect of noncompliance. |
170. Permits to be specific -- Issuance -- Amendment. |
180. Repealed, 1980. [Repealed] |
182. Notice of violation and hearing thereon -- Demand for hearing on denial, modification or revocation of permit. |
184. Hearing conducted by hearing officer -- Final determination by secretary -- Use of counsel -- Subpoena power -- Hearings to be public. |
186. Appeals from final orders. |
190. Repealed, 1980. [Repealed] |
200. Temporary allocation of water supply among users -- Permit for transfer or diversion of water between streams or watersheds. |
210. Use of water by landowner for domestic purposes -- Impounding and conserving water, permitted when. |
220. Water resources studies. |
230. Minimum standards for flood plain management to be set by administrative regulation -- Local application and effect. |
232. Participation in development of administrative regulations. |
240. Surveys of project on behalf of state. |
250. Plans for dams, levees, etc. to be approved and permit issued by cabinet -- Jurisdiction of Department for Natural Resources. |
260. Applications for permit -- Time for approval or rejection. |
270. Repealed, 1974. [Repealed] |
280. Commencement of preparations for project without permit prohibited -- Deviation from approved plans. |
290. Repealed, 1974. [Repealed] |
291. Responsibility for safety of water barriers owned by Commonwealth -- Transfer of ownership of water barrier -- Responsibility for safety after transfer -- Approval of transfer. |
293. Certificates of inspection. |
295. Regular inspections of dams and reservoirs. |
297. Orders for remedy -- Action by cabinet -- Contracts or agreements for required work -- Hearings. |
299. Liability for costs of cabinet emergency work -- Action for recovery of costs -- Foreclosure sale to satisfy judgment. |
300. Repealed, 1974. [Repealed] |
310. Deposits in water without permit prohibited. |
320. Officers required to enforce law. |
330. Repealed, 1988. [Repealed] |
340. Repealed, 1988. [Repealed] |
350. Repealed, 1988. [Repealed] |
360. Repealed, 1988. [Repealed] |
370. Repealed, 1988. [Repealed] |
380. Repealed, 1988. [Repealed] |
390. Repealed, 1988. [Repealed] |
400. Repealed, 1988. [Repealed] |
410. Repealed, 1988. [Repealed] |
420. Repealed, 1988. [Repealed] |
430. Repealed, 1988. [Repealed] |
440. Repealed, 1988. [Repealed] |
450. Repealed, 1988. [Repealed] |
460. Actions for penalties and injunctions. |
550. Community Flood Damage Abatement Program. |
560. Repealed, 2007. [Repealed] |
570. Repealed, 2007. [Repealed] |
580. Negotiation with federal agencies for operation or maintenance of a navigable waterway within Kentucky -- Approval of agreement -- Appropriation. |
600. Public information program for flood plain management and flood hazard mitigation programs. |
601. County and multicounty 2020 water management planning councils. |
603. Consistency of each council's long-range water supply plan with other provisions of law -- Contents of plan -- Function of planning councils. |
605. Water service coordinators -- Supplemental funding -- Assistance by state agencies. |
607. Annual review and prioritization of planning councils' plans. |
Stream Restoration and Mitigation |
610. Definitions for KRS 151.610 to 151.615. |
611. Stream Restoration and Mitigation Authorities -- Powers -- Limitation on authority -- Legislative preferences on funding uses. |
612. Assistance in establishing Stream Restoration and Mitigation Authority. |
613. Authority membership -- Qualifications -- Terms -- Compensation -- Officers. |
614. Authority powers and duties -- Reports. |
615. Authority pilot projects permitted. |
Groundwater Monitoring |
620. Legislative findings. |
621. Definitions for KRS 151.620 to 151.629. |
625. Establishment of long-term groundwater monitoring network -- Duties. |
629. Interagency Technical Advisory Committee on Groundwater -- Duties and responsibilities. |
Improvement of Public Drinking Water Supplies |
630. Legislative finding -- Cabinet's duty to administer system capacity program -- Authority to promulgate administrative regulations. |
632. System capacity development strategy -- Assistance to existing systems in plan development. |
634. Requirement for system capacity for new community or nontransient noncommunity public water systems after October 1, 1999. |
636. Cabinet's requirement to conduct a source water assessment and delineation program. |
West Fork Drakes Creek Dam and Reservoir Interstate Authority |
650. Authority created -- Purposes -- Legislative findings. |
652. Board of directors. |
654. Powers, functions, and duties. |
656. Dam and reservoir construction and operation. |
658. Bonding authority and procedures. |
660. Contributions by local governments -- State appropriation requests. |
662. Statement of objectives --- Annual report -- Accounting and auditing. |
664. State agency cooperation. |
Kentucky River Authority |
700. Declaration of policy. |
705. Kentucky River Authority -- Functions -- Public purposes -- Management of authority. |
710. Membership of Kentucky River Authority -- Compensation -- Meetings -- Administrative regulations. |
720. Powers of authority. |
723. Water use fees. |
725. Authority's duty to bring action for penalties or injunctive relief -- Venue. |
727. Continuing study of water availability and needs of Kentucky River basin -- Biennial estimate on costs of water supply needs of Kentucky River basin. |
728. Preconstruction and construction reports -- Long-range planning document -- Execution of funded programs. |
7282. Presession reports to legislative committees. |
729. Authority's involvement in requested transfer of drinking water between water utilities involving Kentucky River basin watershed. |
730. Revenue bonds. |
State Geographer |
810. State geographer -- Appointment -- Duties. |
Penalties |
990. Penalties. |