Kentucky Revised Statutes Title IX. Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units § 96.930.Declaration of policy of KRS 96.930 to 96.943

The General Assembly hereby recognizes and declares that the use of water in any manner tending to contaminate it, raises a correlative public duty to provide for the proper disposition thereof according to the highest public health standards, and that such public duty includes full responsibility for paying the cost of such disposition.