96.911 Definitions for KRS 96.910 to 96.927.

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As used in KRS 96.910 to 96.927, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1)"City" means an incorporated municipality of any class and a county that has

adopted an urban-county government, except those communities served by a

metropolitan sewer district, under the provisions of KRS Chapter 76;

(2)"Governing body" means the municipal legislative body of a city;

(3)"Cabinet" means the Energy and Environment Cabinet;

(4)"Sewer" means any structure or installation for the drainage of liquid wastes, but

only insofar as they relate to sanitation and the control of water pollution, as

distinguished from the drainage of storm or surface waters; however, where both

functions are carried out by the same system, it is to be construed as a sewer;

(5)"Natural drainage area" means any geographical area within which liquids flow by

gravity to a common point, which is necessary, reasonable, or practicable from the

standpoint of sewage treatment and disposal, as approved by the cabinet.