Title IX, Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units
58 chapters · 2,528 sections in this title.
KRS § 80.010 Definitions for chapter
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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Housing" means a building or buildings containing rooms to be provided as living quarters, together with shops, stores, garages, laundries, doctors' and dentists' offices, and other facilities and appurtenances …
KRS § 80.020 Housing developments and authorities -- Purposes -- Powers
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(1) Cities of all classes may acquire, establish, and operate, within their limits, housing, under the provisions of this chapter, for the purpose of providing adequate and sanitary living quarters for individuals or families, such housing to be for individuals or families with l…
KRS § 80.030 City housing authority, composition -- Acceptance by authority of another city's public housing program
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city's public housing program. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, a city housing authority shall consist of the mayor, ex officio, or his designee, and four (4) persons appointed by him with the approval of the city legislative body. (2) If a city housing a…
KRS § 80.040 Qualifications and terms of members of housing authority -- Political affiliations
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affiliations. (1) (a) Each person appointed to a city housing authority shall be at least twenty-five (25) years of age and a bona fide resident of the city for which he was appointed for at least one (1) year preceding the appointment. No officer or employee of the city, whether…
KRS § 80.050 Corporate powers -- Officers
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The persons appointed as provided in KRS 80.030 and 80.040 shall constitute a body corporate in the name of Housing Authority of ...., with power to contract and be contracted with, to sue or be sued, and to adopt a seal and alter it at will. Each authority may establish bylaws, …
KRS § 80.060 Compensation of housing authority's members and officers -- Interlocal agreements
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agreements. (1) Each member of a housing authority, except an ex officio member, may receive compensation either as a salary or as payment for meetings attended. The compensation of members of a housing authority shall be fixed by the legislative body of the city. The housing aut…
KRS § 80.070 Employees
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(1) An authority may employ technical experts and attorneys, and any other employees that it deems necessary. The authority shall fix the compensation of its employees. The legislative body of a city may prescribe limitations to the compensation of employees of the city authority…
KRS § 80.080 Member or employee not to be interested in project
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No member or employee of a housing authority shall acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in any project or in any property including or planned to be included in any project, nor shall he have any interest, direct or indirect, in any contract or proposed contract for material…
KRS § 80.090 Removal of member for incompetency, neglect or malfeasance
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Whenever it appears to the appointing officer that a member of a housing authority appointed by him is incompetent or guilty of neglect of duty or malfeasance, the appointing officer shall require the member to appear before him to show cause why he should not be removed from off…
KRS § 80.095 Technical assistance by authority
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An authority may provide technical assistance to other authorities in consideration of appropriate fees therefor. An authority may also provide technical assistance to public and private developers and other builders of low-income and moderate-income housing stock if such technic…
KRS § 80.110 Projects subject to building, zoning and sanitary laws
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All low-income housing projects are subject to the planning, zoning, sanitary and building laws, ordinances, and regulations applicable to the locality in which the project is situated. In a city of the first class, the housing authority shall submit to the city planning and zoni…
KRS § 80.120 Plans -- Contracts -- Surveys -- Maps -- Right of access
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(1) The authority shall: (a) Prepare the proper plans and specifications for the construction of low-income housing; (b) Select the location and determine the size, type, and method of construction; (c) Make the necessary estimates of the probable cost of construction and of the …
KRS § 80.130 Advertisement for bids -- When required
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No contract or agreement with any contractor for the construction of low-income housing exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000) shall be made without advertising for bids. The bids shall be opened publicly and an award made to the best bidder, with power in the authority to reje…
KRS § 80.140 Authority may acquire land and housing stock
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(1) An authority may acquire by gift, devise, bequest, lease, grant, or purchase lands, structures, or interests in land necessary for the building of housing, upon terms, prices, or considerations considered reasonable by the authority and agreed upon between the authority and t…
KRS § 80.150 Condemnation authorized -- Procedure
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If it becomes necessary to condemn property for the purpose of constructing any housing that an authority may be permitted to acquire, establish, and operate under KRS 80.020(1), or securing rights of way leading thereto, the authority may, by resolution reciting the need, order …
KRS § 80.160 Removal of obstructions to low-income housing
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All persons having buildings, structures, works, conduits, mains, pipes, tracks, or other physical obstructions in, under, over, or upon the public ways, that interfere with or impede the progress of low-income housing when in process of construction and establishment, shall, upo…
KRS § 80.170 Authority must restore damaged public works
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Any public ways or public works damaged or destroyed by reason of the building of low- income housing shall be restored or repaired by the authority and placed in their original condition as nearly as practicable.
KRS § 80.180 Authority to have full control of housing and housing stock
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(1) The authority shall, itself, or through agreements with other public or private entities, operate, manage, and control housing, fix the rate of rentals, and establish bylaws, rules, and regulations for the use and operation of the projects not inconsistent with the provisions…
KRS § 80.190 Housing not to be operated for profit -- Authority to make payments in lieu of taxes
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of taxes. The authority shall manage and operate its housing in an efficient manner so as to enable it to fix the rentals for dwelling accommodations at the lowest possible rates consistent with its providing decent, safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations, and no authority sha…
KRS § 80.200 Rentals and tenant selection -- Participation in private and public developments
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developments. (1) An authority may rent or lease the dwelling accommodations in a housing development only for housing purposes under this chapter. (2) An authority may rent or lease to a tenant dwelling accommodations consisting only of the number of rooms that it deems necessar…
KRS § 80.230 Issuance of bonds by city authorities
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(1) Cities of all classes may provide funds for carrying out the purposes of this chapter by the issuance of revenue bonds pursuant to a resolution of the housing authority. The bonds or other obligations of a housing authority shall not constitute an obligation of the city. The …
KRS § 80.240 Application of receipts of city housing authority
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(1) The rents and other revenues of a city housing authority shall be applied: first to pay the interest and principal of the bonds issued under KRS 80.230 as payments fall due; next, to pay the costs of maintaining, repairing, improving and operating its developments; next, to c…
KRS § 80.250 Authority may contract to manage
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A housing authority may contract with the federal government to manage or operate any low-income housing erected or owned by the federal government.
KRS § 80.255 Validation of creation of municipal housing authorities
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The creation and establishment of housing authorities pursuant to the provisions of the Housing Authority Act (KRS Chapter 80) together with all proceedings, acts and things heretofore undertaken, performed or done with reference thereto, are hereby validated, ratified, confirmed…
KRS § 80.256 Validation of contracts and undertakings
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All contracts, agreements, obligations and undertakings of housing authorities heretofore entered into relating to financing or aiding in the development, construction, maintenance or operation of any housing or to obtaining aid therefor from the United States Housing Authority a…
KRS § 80.257 Validation of notes and bonds
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All proceedings, acts and things heretofore undertaken, performed or done in or for the authorization, issuance, execution and delivery of notes and bonds by housing authorities for the purpose of financing or aiding in the development or construction of housing and all notes and…
KRS § 80.262 Formation of city-county housing authority
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(1) If the governing body of a city and of a contiguous county by resolution declare that there is a need for one (1) housing authority to be created for the city and county to exercise in that city and county the powers and functions prescribed for a city- county housing authori…
KRS § 80.263 Compliance with KRS 65A.010 to 65A.090
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The board of each authority shall comply with the provisions of KRS 65A.010 to 65A.090.
KRS § 80.264 Legal effects of creation of city-county authority
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(1) On the day set in the resolutions of the city and contiguous county governing bodies: (a) Any housing commission in said city and any housing commission in the contiguous county shall cease to exist as a body politic and corporate; (b) All property, real and personal and mixe…
KRS § 80.266 Membership of authority -- Compensation -- Interlocal agreements
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(1) (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection, the city-county housing authority shall be composed of eight (8) members. The mayor shall appoint four (4) members, and the county judge/executive shall appoint four (4) members. No more than four (4) appointees on a…
KRS § 80.270 Public body may aid housing authority -- Declaration of policy
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It is hereby declared that there exist in Kentucky unsafe and unsanitary housing conditions and a shortage of safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations for persons of low income; that these conditions necessitate excessive and disproportionate expenditures of public funds for cri…
KRS § 80.280 Resolution or ordinance of public body for aid to authority
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The exercise by a public body of the power to aid a housing authority may be authorized by resolution or ordinance of the legislative body of the public body adopted by a majority of the members of the legislative body present at a meeting of the legislative body, which resolutio…
KRS § 80.290 Manners in which public body may aid authority
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(1) For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of housing projects located within the area in which it is authorized to act, any public body may, upon such terms, with or without consideration, as it may determine: (a) Dedica…
KRS § 80.300 Loans to housing authority by county or city
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Any city or county located in whole or in part within the area of operation of a housing authority may from time to time lend or donate money to a housing authority or agree to take such action. The housing authority, when it has money available therefor, shall make reimbursement…
KRS § 80.320 Creation of county and regional housing authorities
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(1) If the governing body of a county by resolution declares (upon findings prescribed in this section and KRS 80.330 to 80.610) that there is a need for a housing authority to be created for such county to exercise therein powers and other functions prescribed for a housing auth…
KRS § 80.322 Compliance with KRS 65A.010 to 65A.090
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The board of each authority shall comply with the provisions of KRS 65A.010 to 65A.090.
KRS § 80.330 Area of operation of county and regional authorities
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The area of operation of a housing authority created for a county shall include all of the county for which it is created and the area of operation of a regional housing authority shall include (except as otherwise provided in KRS 80.320 to 80.610) all of the counties for which s…
KRS § 80.340 Increasing area of operation of regional authority
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The area of operation of a regional housing authority shall be increased from time to time to include one (1) or more additional contiguous counties not already within a regional housing authority if the governing body of each of the counties then included in the area of operatio…
KRS § 80.350 Decreasing area of operation of regional authority
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The area of operation of a regional housing authority shall be decreased from time to time to exclude one or more counties from such area if the governing body of each of the counties in such area and the members of the regional housing authority each adopt a resolution declaring…
KRS § 80.360 Facts justifying exclusion of counties from area of regional authority
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The governing body of each of the counties in the area of operation of the regional housing authority and the members of the regional housing authority shall adopt a resolution declaring that there is a need for excluding a county or counties from such area if: (1) Each of the go…
KRS § 80.370 Disposition of property in excluded counties
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Any property held by a regional housing authority within a county or counties excluded from the area of operation of such authority, as herein provided, shall (as soon as practicable after the exclusion of said county or counties respectively) be disposed of by such authority in …
KRS § 80.380 Prerequisites to creation of authority for city, county or region
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No governing body of a city or county shall adopt a resolution under KRS 80.320 to 80.610 declaring that there is a need for a housing authority to be created, or to exercise its powers within such city or county, or that there is a need to include such city or county within the …
KRS § 80.390 Factors to be considered in determining need for authority
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In determining under KRS 80.320 to 80.610 whether dwelling accommodations are unsafe or unsanitary, a governing body shall take into consideration the safety and sanitation of dwellings, the light and air space available to the inhabitants of such dwellings, the degree of overcro…
KRS § 80.400 Public hearing with regard to creation or area of regional authority
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The governing body of a county shall not adopt any resolution authorized by KRS 80.320, 80.340, 80.350 or 80.360 with regard to a regional housing authority unless a public hearing has first been held. The clerk of that county shall give notice of the public hearing by publicatio…
KRS § 80.410 Resolution creating authority -- Form -- Effect -- Use in evidence
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In any suit, action or proceeding involving the validity or enforcement of or relating to any contract of an authority, the authority shall be conclusively deemed to have become created as a public body corporate and politic upon proof of the adoption of the resolution or resolut…
KRS § 80.420 Appointment and term of county authority -- Vacancies
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If a housing authority is created for a county, the governing body of that county shall appoint five (5) persons as members of the housing authority. Three (3) of the five (5) members who are first appointed shall be designated to serve for terms of one (1), two (2) or three (3) …
KRS § 80.430 Appointment and term of regional authority members -- Vacancies
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(1) The governing body of each county included in a regional housing authority shall appoint one (1) person as a member of such authority, and each such member to be first appointed by the governing body of a county may be appointed at or after the time of the adoption of the res…
KRS § 80.440 Certificate of appointment of member to be filed -- Use in evidence -- Members not to be county officers or employees -- Term -- Compensation
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Members not to be county officers or employees -- Term -- Compensation. (1) A certificate of the appointment of any member shall be filed with the clerk (provided, that in the case of appointment of a member of a regional housing authority by its other members, as provided in KRS…
KRS § 80.450 Quorum -- Officers and employees -- Legal services -- Effect of compact -- Appointment of secretary upon establishment of consolidated local government
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Appointment of secretary upon establishment of consolidated local government. (1) The members shall constitute the housing authority. A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of conducting business and exercising powers and for all other purposes. Actio…
KRS § 80.460 Place of meetings -- Residents of area eligible as members
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Meetings of the members of a housing authority (including any housing authority created pursuant to KRS 80.010 to 80.250) may be held anywhere within the perimeter boundaries of the area of operation or territorial jurisdiction of an authority or within any additional area where …