278.170 Discrimination as to rates or service -- Free or reduced rate services.

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(1)No utility shall, as to rates or service, give any unreasonable preference or

advantage to any person or subject any person to any unreasonable prejudice or

disadvantage, or establish or maintain any unreasonable difference between

localities or between classes of service for doing a like and contemporaneous

service under the same or substantially the same conditions.

(2)Any utility may grant free or reduced rate service to its officers, agents, or

employees, and may exchange free or reduced rate service with other utilities for the

benefit of the officers, agents, and employees of both utilities. Any utility may grant

free or reduced rate service to the United States, to charitable and eleemosynary

institutions, and to persons engaged in charitable and eleemosynary work, and may

grant free or reduced rate service for the purpose of providing relief in case of flood,

epidemic, pestilence, or other calamity. The terms "officers" and "employees," as

used in this subsection, include furloughed, pensioned, and superannuated officers

and employees, and persons who have become disabled or infirm in the service of

the utility. Notice must be given to the commission and its agreement obtained for

such reduced rate service except in case of an emergency, in which case the

commission shall be notified at least five

(5)days after the service is rendered.

(3)Upon obtaining commission approval of a tariff setting forth terms and conditions

of service the commission deems necessary, a utility as defined in KRS

278.010(3)(d) may grant free or reduced rate service for the purpose of fighting fires

or training firefighters to any city, county, urban-county, charter county, fire

protection district, or volunteer fire protection district. Any tariff under this section

shall require the water user to maintain estimates of the amount of water used for

fire protection and training, and to report this water usage to the utility on a regular

basis.

(4)The commission may determine any question of fact arising under this section.