Title IX, Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units

Requirements governing disbursal of funds. During any time when incremental revenues have been pledged pursuant to a local participation agreement or local development area agreement, or that increment bonds are outstanding, the city, county, or issuer, as the case may be, shall …

revenues superior to other pledges of revenues. (1) A local participation agreement shall be executed among the agencies and taxing districts involved in administering or providing financing or pledging incremental revenues to support the implementation of a development plan in a…

agreement -- Liens, priority, validity, enforceability, and termination. (1) A city, county, or issuer may enter into a service payment agreement. (2) The service payment agreement may provide that the city, county, or issuer shall have a lien on property described in the service…

moratoriums under KRS 99.600. Real property located within a development area shall not be eligible for participation in a program granting property assessment or reassessment moratoriums pursuant to KRS 99.600.

duties -- Annual report. (1) The State Tax Increment Financing Commission is hereby created as an independent agency of the state within the meaning of KRS Chapter 12. The commission shall be composed of the following members: (a) The secretary of the Finance and Administration C…

districts and Department of Revenue. (1) Any agency that enters into a local participation agreement or local development area agreement for the release of incremental revenues during the period of a local participation agreement or local development area agreement shall, after e…

In order to enable cities and counties to fulfill their obligations regarding the public health, safety, and welfare, the General Assembly does hereby allow cities and counties to contract with private persons, partnerships, or corporations for providing ambulance service to the …

No provisions of KRS 65.710 shall be construed as to limit the power of any city or county to contract for services under requirements which are stricter than those listed in KRS 65.710 and 65.720, or to require insurance or bonding of contractors, provided such provisions are no…

As used in KRS 65.750 to 65.760: (1) "911 emergency service" means a system that provides the end user of a service connection with emergency services by using the digits 9-1-1, directs emergency calls to the appropriate public safety answering points based on the geographic loca…

The General Assembly hereby finds and declares that: (1) The general welfare and safety of the citizens of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in emergency situations depend in large measure upon a fully functional 911 emergency services system; (2) It is in the best interests of the Co…

information. (1) Any DPTS located in an area that has adopted enhanced 911 emergency service shall within three (3) years of the date of its adoption, or if already adopted within three (3) years after July 15, 1998, be able to: (a) Operate effectively within an enhanced 911 syst…

(1) Any owner, employee, or agent of a DPTS that knowingly or wantonly violates the provisions of KRS 65.752(2) shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200) or imprisoned in the county jail for not more than ninety (90) days, or …

Every telephone company within the Commonwealth shall reserve the initial digits 9-1-1 for use as an emergency telephone number. The company shall assign this number within an exchange only to a public body or other applicant for the establishment of 911 emergency service.

Sources and disposition of revenues -- Funding. (1) Any local government may establish 911 emergency service upon approval of the governing body of the city, county, or urban-county government and may adopt regulations concerning the provision of this service by ordinance. (2) An…

As used in KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Administrator" means the person who serves as the state 911 coordinator, the executive director of the Kentucky 911 Services Board, and the state administrator of CMRS emergency telecommunications unde…

Advisory council. (1) There is hereby created the Kentucky 911 Services Board, the "board," consisting of seven (7) members as follows: (a) The executive director of the Office of Homeland Security; (b) The secretary of the Public Protection Cabinet; (c) One (1) elected city offi…

service emergency telecommunications. (1) The executive director of the Office of Homeland Security shall appoint a state administrator of commercial mobile radio service emergency telecommunications. The executive director of the Office of Homeland Security shall set the adminis…

There is established the commercial mobile radio service emergency telecommunications fund, the "CMRS fund," an insured, interest-bearing account to be administered and maintained by the Kentucky 911 Services Board. The CMRS service charges levied under KRS 65.7629, 65.7634, and …

The board shall administer the provisions of KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643, and shall have the following powers and duties: (1) To review, evaluate, and approve or disapprove the plans or plan modifications that are submitted to the board for complying with the wireless E911 service req…

communications funding and costs -- Annual report to board by agencies and providers -- Administrative regulations -- Information subject to disclosure under Open Records Act and information subject to confidentiality -- Report to Legislative Research Commission. (1) The board sh…

(1) The moneys in the CMRS fund shall be apportioned among the approved uses of the fund as specified in this section. The board shall make individual disbursements from the fund upon such terms and conditions necessary in view of the amount of revenues on deposit at the time eac…

(1) The Kentucky 911 Services Board shall implement the provisions of KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643 through the promulgation of administrative regulations in accordance with the provisions of KRS Chapter 13A. (2) The board shall promulgate regulations: (a) Establishing procedures for th…

(1) Beginning January 1, 2017, a CMRS prepaid service charge shall be imposed at a flat rate of ninety-three cents ($0.93) on each retail transaction involving the purchase or sale of: (a) Cellular phones preloaded with a set dollar amount for minutes or units of air time, or sol…

agents for postpaid service charges for fund -- Procedure for collection of service charges before and after January 1, 2017. (1) Each CMRS provider shall act as a collection agent of the CMRS postpaid service charge for the CMRS fund. From its customers, the provider shall, as p…

charge to board -- Enforcement of service charge collection -- No impact on CMRS fees imposed prior to January 1, 2017 -- Prohibited use of moneys received. (1) As used in this section, "Lifeline provider" means a CMRS provider that the Kentucky Public Service Commission has deem…

service providers, and 911 or next generation 911 system services or equipment providers. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no CMRS provider, service supplier, provider of Interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol service as defined in KRS 65.750, or entity that provi…

information. Each CMRS provider shall provide customer mobile handset telephone numbers and names to PSAPs when required by the board. Each CMRS provider may be required to provide a quarterly report to the board of the number of subscribers receiving bills in each zip code serve…

Notification of service provider about errors -- Correction and refund -- Exhaustion of remedies. As it relates, under KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643, to mobile telecommunications services as defined in 4 U.S.C. sec. 124: (1) The provisions of 4 U.S.C. secs. 116 to 126 are hereby adopted…

Wireless emergency telephone service shall not be used for personal use but shall be used solely for the purpose of communications by the public in emergency situations. Any person who knowingly uses or attempts to use wireless emergency telephone service for a purpose other than…

Act of 1934. KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643 shall not be construed as enabling the Commonwealth of Kentucky, including the Public Service Commission of Kentucky, to regulate CMRS in contravention of Section 332(c)(3) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. sec. 332(c)(3)…

As used in KRS 65.7703 to 65.7721, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Governmental agency" means any county, urban-county government, consolidated local government, city, taxing district, special district, school district, or other political subdivision of the Commonweal…

be payable only by appropriation. A governmental agency shall have power and authority, by legislation duly adopted, to borrow moneys from time to time in any fiscal year in anticipation of the receipt of current taxes or revenues, or both, to evidence the obligation by notes, ap…

No governmental agency shall authorize or issue notes in any one (1) fiscal year which in the aggregate shall exceed seventy-five percent (75%) of: (1) In the case of notes payable solely from and secured by a pledge of taxes, the amount of taxes levied and to be collected for th…

Notes payable shall mature on a date determined by the governing body which shall be no later than the last day of the fiscal year in which the notes are issued. Interest on notes from the date thereof shall be payable at their maturity or payable in installments at earlier dates…

Notes shall be dated as of a date not more than thirty (30) days after the effective date of the legislation authorizing the notes. Notes shall be issued in the denominations, shall be subject to the rights of prior redemption, shall have the privileges of exchange and registrati…

retirement fund. Notes issued in a single fiscal year, shall be equally and ratably secured by the pledge of, security interest in, and a lien and charge on, the taxes or revenues, or both, of the governmental agency specified in the authorizing legislation which are in the proce…

The holder of the notes may enforce a pledge of, security interest in, and lien and charge on, the taxes or revenues, or both, of the governmental agency against all state and local public officials in possession of any of the taxes or revenues at any time which may be collected …

Prior to each authorization of notes, authorized officers of the governmental agency shall make an estimate of the taxes or revenues, or both, whichever is to secure the payment of the notes, which are estimated to be received during the period when the notes will be outstanding.…

Notes may be sold at public, private, or invited sale as the governing body of the governmental agency may determine. Any public sale shall be advertised and conducted in the manner and subject to the conditions provided for a public sale of bonds pursuant to KRS Chapter 424. The…

KRS 65.7701 to 65.7721 may be cited as the Short-term Borrowing Act.

As used in KRS 65.810 to 65.830, unless the context otherwise requires, the word "district" shall mean, and the provisions of KRS 65.810 to 65.830 shall apply to, any special district governed by the following statutes: KRS 74.010 to 74.415, 108.010 to 108.070, 184.010 to 184.300…

Except as otherwise provided by state law, the sole method of creating a district shall be in accordance with the following: (1) Persons desiring to form a district shall present a petition to the fiscal court clerk and to each member of the fiscal court, meeting the criteria of …

(1) A valid petition for the creation of a district shall be in substantially the following form: "The following registered voters of (insert name of county) hereby petition the fiscal court of each county concerned to form a (insert type of district) for the following reasons: (…

(1) Any city containing all or any portion of the service area or any state agency with jurisdiction over the district or any citizen living in the proposed area of the district may, within thirty (30) days of the decision of the fiscal court, appeal the decision of the fiscal co…

The fiscal courts of two (2) or more counties may create a district that includes the area of two (2) or more counties by following the procedures of KRS 65.810 to 65.830.

1984. The amendment or repeal by 1984 Acts, Chapter 64 of a section authorizing the creation of a district shall not be construed as limiting or changing the power or organization of districts created prior to July 13, 1984.