Title IX, Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units

(1) Upon appointment and qualification of the members of the board, they shall meet within the thirty (30) days following the creation of the board and elect their chairman and vice chairman and adopt such rules and regulations and bylaws not inconsistent with KRS 78.400 to 78.48…

(1) All police officers of whatever rank and title, and all employees, except civilian employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement, of every county police force affected by KRS 78.400 to 78.460 and 78.990 are covered by the provisions hereof, except probationary office…

(1) The provisions of KRS 78.400, 78.405, and 78.425 shall not apply to the chief of police, assistant chiefs, and any officers above the rank of captain of county police forces in counties having a population of 600,000 or more. Said officers shall be appointed by the county jud…

(1) Within ten (10) days after the creation of any board under KRS 78.400 to 78.460, the county judge/executive shall certify to the board the names, rank, rate of pay, the seniority of every officer and employee on the police force as of the effective date of the fiscal court or…

(1) No officer or employee covered by the provisions of KRS 78.400 to 78.460 shall directly or indirectly solicit or receive or be in any manner whatever concerned in receiving, soliciting or publicizing any assessment, gift, subscription or contribution to or for any political p…

Qualifications -- Requirements for promotion. (1) Every county police force merit system board created hereunder shall make, promulgate, and when necessary, amend rules for the qualifications, original appointment, probation, promotion, demotion, transfer, lay-off, reinstatement,…

(1) Any officer or employee may be removed, suspended, laid-off, reduced in grade, or fined by the chief for any cause which will promote the efficiency of the service, but before any such action is taken by the chief against any officer or employee, the chief shall furnish the o…

(1) The board shall also have the right to remove, reduce, suspend, lay-off, fine or discipline any officer or employee covered by the provisions hereof on written charges of misconduct preferred on its own initiative or the initiative of any citizen, but only after reasonable no…

In all cases provided for in KRS 78.445 and 78.450, the action of the chief or of the board shall be final except in the following cases: (1) Every action in the nature of a dismissal, suspension, reduction, or fine made by the chief, shall be subject to review by the board at th…

subpoenas, compel attendance of witnesses, and compel production of documents. Procedural due process shall be afforded to all police officers by the board. The board shall inform any officer, promptly and in writing, of any charges brought against the officer by the board. The o…

Except as provided in KRS 336.130, in any county in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, which has a population of 300,000 or more and which has adopted the merit system, the county employees in the classified service as police may organize, form, join or participate in organizations in…

Except as provided in KRS 336.130, in any county in the Commonwealth of Kentucky which has a population of 300,000 or more and which has adopted the merit system for its police force, the fiscal court may contract with representatives of the police employed by said county with re…

As used in KRS 78.510 to 78.852, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "System" means the County Employees Retirement System created by KRS 78.510 to 78.852; (2) "Board" means the board of trustees of the system as provided in KRS 78.782; (3) "County" means any county, or no…

There is hereby created and established: (1) A retirement system for employees to be known as the "County Employees Retirement System" by and in which name it shall, pursuant to the provisions of KRS 78.510 to 78.852, transact all of its business and shall have the powers and pri…

in local government systems -- Hazardous duty coverage option. (1) (a) Each county and school board, as defined in KRS 78.510, will participate in the system by appropriate order authorizing such participation which has been entered and duly recorded in the records of the governi…

(1) Any county attorney who employs persons paid from the county attorney's delinquent tax fees, from federal or state grant funds received for the county attorney's delinquent child support collection responsibilities, or from any other funding source not subject to the control …

or urban-county governments. (1) Any member of a retirement system created pursuant to KRS 67A.320, 67A.340, 67A.360 to 67A.690, 79.080, 90.310 to 90.410, 95.290, 95.520 to 95.620, 95.621 to 95.629, 95.767 to 95.784, 95.852 to 95.884, and KRS Chapter 96, notwithstanding any provi…

of employees and members after cessation -- Administrative regulations -- Commonwealth held harmless -- Actions to ensure compliance. (Effective April 1, 2021) Notwithstanding any other provision of KRS 78.510 to 78.852 to the contrary: (1) For purposes of this section: (a) "Acti…

Membership in the system shall consist of the following: (1) (a) All persons who become employees of a participating county after the date the county first participates in the system, except that: 1. Mayors and members of city legislative bodies may decline prior to their partici…

same manner as for Kentucky Employees Retirement System -- References to Kentucky Retirement Systems to include County Employees Retirement System. The following matters shall be administered for the County Employees Retirement System in the same manner subject to the same limita…

Any person who is an employee on the date his county first participates in the system, either in service or on leave from service, who does not elect within the time set forth in KRS 78.510 to 78.852 to become a member and thereby make contributions required of him by KRS 78.510 …

participating before January 1, 2014, with service in nonhazardous positions -- Eligibility for retirement allowance. (1) The provisions of this section shall only apply to members of the County Employees Retirement System who began participating in the system prior to January 1,…

who began participating on or after January 1, 2014, and for members who make election under KRS 61.5955. (1) A member of the County Employees Retirement System who is participating in a nonhazardous position and who began participating in the system on or after January 1, 2014, …

participating before January 1, 2014, with service in hazardous positions -- Eligibility for retirement allowance. (1) The provisions of this section shall only apply to members of the County Employees Retirement System who began participating in the system prior to January 1, 20…

began participating on or after January 1, 2014, and for members who make election under KRS 61.5955. (1) A member of the County Employees Retirement System in a hazardous position covered by this section, who begins participating in the system on or after January 1, 2014, or a m…

(1) Effective August 1, 1996, to July 1, 2008, a recipient of a retirement allowance under KRS 78.510 to 78.852 shall have his or her retirement allowance increased on July 1 of each year by the percentage increase in the annual average of the consumer price index for all urban c…

(1) For purposes of this section: (a) "Hazardous position" for employees who began participating in the County Employees Retirement System prior to September 1, 2008, means any position whose principal duties involve active law enforcement, including the positions of probation an…

in nonhazardous position. The disability retirement provisions contained in this section shall apply to a person whose last date of paid employment was in a nonhazardous position. (1) Any person may qualify to retire on disability, subject to the following conditions: (a) The per…

in hazardous position. The disability retirement provisions contained in this section shall apply to a person whose last date of paid employment was in a hazardous position. (1) (a) For purposes of this section: 1. "Total and permanent disability" means a disability which results…

review forms -- Duty of Authority to assist in obtaining records -- Investigation of fraud. (1) Once each year following the retirement of a person on a disability retirement allowance, except for persons who become totally and permanently disabled as a direct result of an act in…

Discontinuance -- Determinations by medical examiner or vocational expert -- Hearings and appeals -- Early retirement upon discontinuance of disability allowance for member who began participating before January 1, 2014. (1) (a) The Authority may contract for the services of one …

by disability recipient. Notwithstanding any other provisions of KRS 78.510 to 78.852, a maximum disability benefit is hereby established which shall apply, upon disability retirement, to any disabled employee's account to which service credit is added to determine disability ben…

Injuries connected with performance of duty. (1) If a member dies prior to the first day of the month in which the member would have received his or her first retirement allowance, the member's beneficiary shall be eligible for the benefits provided by this section if the member …

Payments to surviving spouse, dependent children, and designated beneficiaries -- Election -- Receipt of benefits under KRS 78.5532 pending final determination. The provisions of this section shall apply to members in a hazardous position. (1) If a member dies as a direct result …

Reimbursement plan -- Employer contributions -- Payment of premiums -- Contribution rates -- Exemption from premium tax -- Administrative regulation. (1) For purposes of this section: (a) "Hospital and medical insurance plan" may include, at the board's discretion, any one (1) or…

Assignment of benefit. (1) (a) Upon the death of a retired member of the system, who was receiving a monthly retirement allowance based on a minimum of forty-eight (48) months of service, a death benefit for the beneficiary of five thousand dollars ($5,000) shall be paid. (b) If …

Combination of accounts -- Employment within 12 months of retirement date - - Independent contractors and leased employees -- Reemployment on or after September 1, 2008 -- Voided retirement -- Absence of prearranged agreement - - Volunteer services -- Mayors and members of city l…

account with another system. The provisions of KRS 61.680 are hereby recognized and shall be followed in computing benefits of any member of the County Employees Retirement System who also has an account with the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, the State Police Retirement S…

Recalculation of benefits. (1) Upon retirement, a noncertified employee shall have his service credit earned after July 1, 1998, recalculated in accordance with KRS 78.615 except that the employee shall receive service credit determined by dividing the actual number of contracted…

contributions. (1) Each employee shall contribute, for each pay period for which he or she receives compensation: (a) 1. Five percent (5%) of his or her creditable compensation if the employee is participating in a nonhazardous position; or 2. Eight percent (8%) of his or her cre…

report -- Picked-up employee contributions. (1) Employee contributions shall be deducted each payroll period from the creditable compensation of each employee of an employer participating in the system while he or she is classified as regular full-time as defined in KRS 78.510 un…

to participate -- Accumulated sick leave added to employee's service credit -- Payments by employer and employee -- Alternative compensation -- City of first class -- Statute not applicable to employees who began participation on or after January 1, 2014. (1) Any employer partici…

reimbursements, and reports -- Penalties for delinquency -- Audit of employer. (1) Except as provided by subsection (6) of this section, the employer shall prepare the reporting records necessary for the system to administer the provisions of KRS 78.510 to 78.852 and, from time t…

Except as provided by KRS 61.701, all of the assets of the system shall be held in the county employees' retirement fund and credited, according to the purpose for which they are held, to one (1) of three (3) accounts, namely, the members' account, the retirement allowance accoun…

on annual increase of employer contribution rate -- Notification of rate change. (1) (a) Except as provided by subsection (4) of this section, each employer participating in the County Employees Retirement System as provided for in KRS 78.510 to 78.852 shall contribute annually t…

allowance account. (1) The members' account shall be the account to which: (a) All members' contributions, or contributions picked up by the employer after August 1, 1982, and interest allowances as provided in KRS 78.510 to 78.852 shall be credited, except as provided by KRS 78.…