96A.020 Creation of authority -- Which governmental units may form or join -- General powers and purposes. - Kentucky Statutes

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96A.020 Creation of authority -- Which governmental units may form or join -- General powers and purposes. (1) A transit authority may be created and established under the provisions of this chapter by proceedings or joint proceedings, and the name thereof shall be "Transit
Authority of ....." If established by a city alone, or by a county alone, the name shall
be completed by identification of the city or county. If created and established by
joint proceedings, the name may be completed by inserting words generally
identifying the area intended to be served, in such manner as the public bodies may
determine by concert or agreement in their joint proceedings. Such transit authority
shall constitute an agency and instrumentality for accomplishing essential
governmental functions of the public body or public bodies creating and
establishing the same, and shall be a political subdivision and a public body
corporate, with power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to
establish, alter and enforce rules and regulations in furtherance of the purposes of its
creation, to adopt, use and alter a corporate seal, and to have and exercise,
generally, all of the powers of private corporations, as enumerated in KRS 271B.3-
020, except to the extent the same may be inconsistent with this chapter. An
authority shall be authorized to promote and develop mass transportation in its
transit area and adjoining areas, including acquisition, operation and extension of
existing mass transit systems; and an authority shall have and may exercise such
powers as may be necessary or desirable to carry out such purposes. Subject to
proof of public convenience and necessity as required by KRS Chapter 281, it may
provide service outside its transit area and its adjoining areas. (2) Subsequent to the creation and establishment of a transit authority, one (1) or more additional public bodies may be permitted to join therein, in such manner and
subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the board of the authority with
the concurrence and approval of all public bodies which have theretofore
participated in the establishment or previous enlargement of the authority. Effective: January 1, 1989
History: Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 23, sec. 174, effective January 1, 1989. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 160, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1980
Ky. Acts ch. 324, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1980. -- Amended 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 274,
sec. 145. -- Created 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 243, sec. 3.