Title XVII, Economic Security and Public Welfare

As used in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Home" means the institution to be established and maintained in any county having a city of the first class, in conformity with the provisions of this chapter. (2) "Board" means the body created by KRS 201.020.

(1) In each county containing a city of the first class there shall be a bipartisan board known as the "Board for (name of city) and (....) County Children's Home." (2) The board shall be composed of fourteen (14) members, at least two (2) of whom shall be women, appointed jointl…

(1) Upon appointment of the members, the board shall organize and elect officers. At the time of organization and annually thereafter, the board shall elect a chairman from its members. (2) The board may select a superintendent for the home, and may fix his compensation in cash, …

(1) The board shall be a corporation with the usual corporate powers, and may do all things reasonable or necessary to effectively carry out the work and perform the duties contemplated in this chapter. (2) The board may make all rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the l…

(1) The board may acquire by lease, purchase, gift or condemnation, all property necessary or suitable for establishing the home, and may erect, equip, operate, and maintain such suitable buildings as may be necessary for the care, custody, maintenance, education, and training of…

The title to all property acquired for the purposes of this chapter, shall be in the name of the board, and the board may exchange or sell for the benefit and use of the home, any of the property conveyed to, or owned or held by the board. All such sales or exchanges of real esta…

Whenever the board finds that property anywhere within the county is needed for any of the purposes contemplated in this chapter, the board may, by resolution reciting such need, order the condemnation of such property. Proceedings for condemnation shall be in the Circuit Court o…

The board may receive into and maintain in the home's care, children under eighteen (18) years of age who are residents of the county and who are: (1) Duly committed to the home's care; and (2) Such other children of the county as the board, or the superintendent or such other of…

The board may file a petition and proceed as provided in KRS 201.100, whenever it has probable cause to believe that any child under eighteen (18) years of age: (1) Is abandoned, neglected or cruelly treated by its parents; (2) Is habitually sent out or permitted to beg in public…

(1) When a child comes under any of the provisions of KRS 201.090, the board may file a petition in the juvenile session of the District Court setting forth the facts in regard to the child. The court shall thereupon issue a writ for the custody of the child, and the writ shall b…

(1) All children received into the home's care by commitment of any court or officer having jurisdiction shall remain under the home's care for the period of their commitment, not to exceed their minority, unless sooner paroled or discharged. (2) The board may discharge any child…

(1) The board may provide for such schools and forms of instruction in branches of useful practical knowledge as may be proper or necessary for the education of the children in the home's care, and for the acquirement and practice of useful labor or trades, as may be suitable to …

The board shall exercise care to protect children with less severe behavioral problems from children who are seriously patterned delinquents by means of the most practical use of the facilities and programs available.

(1) The board may, with the approval of the county judge/executive, appoint, to serve at the pleasure of the board, one (1) or more persons, of more than twenty-one (21) years of age, as parole officers. The parole officers shall apprehend or arrest, and take into custody whereve…

(1) No person shall aid or abet any child to escape from any home established under the provisions of this chapter or harbor or conceal any such child, knowing that the child has so escaped. (2) The board shall reclaim and bring back to the home any escaped children, and the peac…

(1) In order to provide money for the purchase of property and the construction and equipment of buildings for the home, the fiscal court of the county may make an annual appropriation from the general fund of the county, and the legislative body of the city of the first class ma…

In order to provide money for maintaining the home and for carrying out the purposes of this chapter other than those named in KRS 201.160, the fiscal court of the county in which the home is established may make an annual appropriation from the general fund of the county, and th…

supplied. (1) The fiscal year of the board shall begin on the first day of July in each year and end on June 30 next following. During the month of May of each year the board shall prepare and certify two (2) financial statements to the fiscal court and the city legislative body.…

(1) When the fiscal court of the county and the city legislative body make the appropriations authorized by KRS 201.160 and 201.170, the board shall prepare and certify to the fiscal court of the county and the legislative body of the city for their approval: (a) A revised budget…

(1) The board shall not in any one (1) year, expend for the maintenance of the home and the carrying out of the purposes of this chapter, more than the total sum derived through the appropriations for the year as provided in KRS 201.170, as supplemented by funds given to the boar…

Within sixty (60) days after the close of each fiscal year, the board shall make to the county judge/executive and to the mayor of the city of the first class, for transmission to the fiscal court of the county and to the legislative body of the city, respectively, a report of th…

Any person who violates subsection (1) of KRS 201.150 shall be fined not less than one hundred ($100) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200), or imprisoned for not less than thirty (30) days nor more than six (6) months, or both.