§ 151.010 Establishment and personnel of survey
§ 151.020 Other departments of university to cooperate
§ 151.030 Duties and functions of survey
§ 151.035 Official repository for groundwater information
§ 151.040 Reports and publications
§ 151.100 Definitions for KRS 151.110 to 151.460 and 151.990
§ 151.110 Water resources policy — Duties of cabinet
§ 151.112 Planning process for management and development of water resources
§ 151.113 Kentucky Water Resources Board
§ 151.114 Long range water supply plans
§ 151.116 Administrative regulations
§ 151.118 Financing development of water supply plans
§ 151.120 Public water of Commonwealth, what constitutes
§ 151.125 Authority and powers of secretary
§ 151.140 Withdrawal of water from public waters, permit required — Exceptions
§ 151.150 Application for permit — Withdrawal of water from public waters
§ 151.160 Record and report of water withdrawn under permit — Effect of noncompliance
§ 151.170 Permits to be specific — Issuance — Amendment
§ 151.182 Notice of violation and hearing thereon — Demand for hearing on denial, modification or revocation of permit
§ 151.184 Hearing conducted by hearing officer — Final determination by secretary — Use of counsel — Subpoena power — Hearings to be public
§ 151.186 Appeals from final orders
§ 151.210 Use of water by landowner for domestic purposes — Impounding and conserving water, permitted when
§ 151.220 Water resources studies
§ 151.240 Surveys of project on behalf of state
§ 151.250 Plans for dams, levees, embankments, dikes, bridges, fill, or other obstruction to be approved and permit issued by cabinet — Jurisdiction of Department for Natural Resources
§ 151.260 Applications for permit — Time for approval or rejection — Emergency action plan administrative regulation
§ 151.280 Commencement of preparations for project without permit prohibited — Deviation from approved plans
§ 151.291 Responsibility for safety of water barriers owned by Commonwealth — Transfer of ownership of water barrier — Responsibility for safety after transfer — Approval of transfer
§ 151.293 Inspection reports — Requirement — Time periods — Modification — Administrative regulations
§ 151.295 Regular inspections of dams and reservoirs
§ 151.297 Orders for remedy — Action by cabinet — Contracts or agreements for required work — Hearings
§ 151.299 Liability for costs of cabinet emergency work — Action for recovery of costs — Foreclosure sale to satisfy judgment
§ 151.310 Deposits in water without permit prohibited
§ 151.320 Officers required to enforce law
§ 151.460 Actions for penalties and injunctions
§ 151.550 Community Flood Damage Abatement Program
§ 151.580 Negotiation with federal agencies for operation or maintenance of a navigable waterway within Kentucky — Approval of agreement — Appropriation
§ 151.600 Public information program for floodplain management and flood hazard mitigation programs
§ 151.601 County and multicounty water management planning councils
§ 151.603 Consistency of each council’s long-range water supply plan with other provisions of law — Contents of plan — Function of planning councils
§ 151.605
§ 151.607 Annual review and prioritization of planning councils’ plans
§ 151.610 Definitions for KRS 151.610 to 151.615
§ 151.611 Stream Restoration and Mitigation Authorities — Powers — Limitation on authority — Legislative preferences on funding uses
§ 151.612 Assistance in establishing Stream Restoration and Mitigation Authority
§ 151.613 Authority membership — Qualifications — Terms — Compensation — Officers
§ 151.614 Authority powers and duties — Reports
§ 151.615 Authority pilot projects permitted
§ 151.620 Legislative findings
§ 151.621 Definitions for KRS 151.620 to 151.629
§ 151.625 Establishment of long-term groundwater monitoring network — Duties
§ 151.629 Interagency Technical Advisory Committee on Groundwater — Duties and responsibilities
§ 151.630 Legislative finding — Cabinet’s duty to administer system capacity program — Authority to promulgate administrative regulations
§ 151.632 System capacity development strategy — Assistance to existing systems in plan development
§ 151.634 Requirement for system capacity for new community or nontransient noncommunity public water systems after October 1, 1999
§ 151.636 Cabinet’s requirement to conduct a source water assessment and delineation program
§ 151.650 Authority created — Purposes — Legislative findings
§ 151.652 Board of directors
§ 151.654 Powers, functions, and duties
§ 151.656 Dam and reservoir construction and operation
§ 151.658 Bonding authority and procedures
§ 151.660 Contributions by local governments — State appropriation requests
§ 151.662 Statement of objectives — Annual report — Accounting and auditing
§ 151.664 State agency cooperation
§ 151.700 Declaration of policy
§ 151.705 Kentucky River Authority — Functions — Public purposes — Management of authority
§ 151.710 Membership of Kentucky River Authority — Compensation — Meetings — Administrative regulations
§ 151.720 Powers of authority
§ 151.723 Water use fees
§ 151.725 Authority’s duty to bring action for penalties or injunctive relief — Venue
§ 151.727 Continuing study of water availability and needs of Kentucky River basin — Biennial estimate on costs of water supply needs of Kentucky River basin
§ 151.728 Preconstruction and construction reports — Long-range planning document — Execution of funded programs
§ 151.7282 Presession reports to legislative committees
§ 151.729 Authority’s involvement in requested transfer of drinking water between water utilities involving Kentucky River basin watershed
§ 151.730 Revenue bonds
§ 151.810 State geographer — Appointment — Duties
§ 151.990 Penalties
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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 151 - Geology and Water Resources

  • Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Animal: includes every warm-blooded living creature except a human being. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • any other state: includes any state, territory, outlying possession, the District of Columbia, and any foreign government or country. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Appropriation: means an authorization by the General Assembly to expend, from public funds, a sum of money not in excess of the sum specified, for the purposes specified in the authorization and under the procedure prescribed in KRS Chapter 48. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attorney: means attorney-at-law. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
  • Biennium: means the two (2) year period commencing on July 1 in each even- numbered year and ending on June 30 in the ensuing even-numbered year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Company: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Directors: when applied to corporations, includes managers or trustees. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Domestic: when applied to a corporation, partnership, business trust, or limited liability company, means all those incorporated or formed by authority of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Livestock: means cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, alpacas, llamas, buffaloes, or any other animals of the bovine, ovine, porcine, caprine, equine, or camelid species. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Treatment: when used in a criminal justice context, means targeted interventions
    that focus on criminal risk factors in order to reduce the likelihood of criminal behavior. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010