174.205 Duties of Water Transportation Advisory Board. The Water Transportation Advisory Board shall: (1) Advise the Transportation Cabinet, the Cabinet for Economic Development, the Governor's Office, and the General Assembly on matters relating to water transportation; (2) Recommend action to enable the Comm onwealth to make best use of its waterways and riverports for future economic growth; (3) Assist in defining the duties and functions of positions within state government responsible for water transportation; (4) Recommend criteria for setting priorities f or funding riverport marketing initiatives; (5) Evaluate applications submitted by riverports for grants under the riverport marketing assistance trust fund and make recommendations to the granting authority on the disbursement of those funds; (6) Recommen d criteria for setting priorities for funding riverport improvements under the riverport financial assistance trust fund established in KRS 174.210; and (7) Evaluate applications submitted by riverports for grants under the riverport financial assistance t rust fund and make recommendations to the granting authority on the disbursement of those funds. 7) Evaluate applications submitted by riverports for grants under the riverport financial assistance t rust fund and make recommendations to the granting authority on the disbursement of those funds. Effective: June 29, 2023 History: Amended 2023 Ky. Acts ch. 75, sec. 36, effective June 29, 2023. -- Created 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 56, sec. 2, effective July 15, 2010. Legislative Research Commission Note (6/29/2023). Subsection (5) of this statute contains a reference to the riverport marketi ng assistance trust fund, which was established in 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 56, sec. 3, and codified in KRS 154.80 -140. Although KRS 154.80 -140 was repealed by 2023 Ky. Acts ch. 75, sec. 39, subsection (5) of this statute was not amended to conform to the repeal.
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