Title IX, Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units

government. (1) Except as provided in KRS 67C.111(2), proceedings to incorporate a city shall be commenced by a petition being filed with the circuit clerk of the county in which the area to be incorporated is located. The petition shall contain: (a) The signatures and addresses …

Certification to Secretary of State. (1) At the hearing the court shall, if the proper notice has been given or publication made, and no defense is interposed, enter a judgment establishing a city as requested by the petition, filed pursuant to KRS 81.050, if the court finds as a…

Administrative dissolution -- Exemptions -- Appeals -- Debts of city -- Effect of dissolution on operating utility. (1) In order to update the record of incorporated cities listed in the Secretary of State's office, every city operating as a public corporation and a unit of local…

Cities bounded in part by the Ohio River shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the Commonwealth over the waters of the river opposite to the city. If the boundary between a city and one (1) or more other cities, or between a city and a county other than that in which the city i…

(1) If any city fails for one (1) year to maintain a city government by both the election or appointment of officers and the levying and collection of necessary taxes, it shall be dissolved by judgment of the Circuit Court on petition filed by a bona fide resident of the city. (2…

of State. (1) Defense to the petition for dissolution may be made by any voter or resident of the city. (2) Judgment dissolving a city may not be entered until: (a) Notice has been published pursuant to KRS Chapter 424 by order of the court fixing a date by which motion for inter…

first class may be submitted to fiscal court -- Action by fiscal court -- Election - - Time within which fiscal court must act. In any county containing a city of the first class, the mayor of the city of the first class with the approval of the board of aldermen, may submit to t…

(1) Any such plan shall define the area within the county wherein density of population, land use, or other similar factors require municipal-type services for the residents thereof. (2) Any such plan shall name the various governmental services which will be rendered in the coun…

The votes on the plan shall be tabulated in the following manner: (1) The total votes cast within the city of the first class shall be tabulated as a separate total. (2) The total votes cast in the affected area as described pursuant to KRS 81.310, but lying outside of the city o…

Result -- Liability of city of first class. (1) If more than half of the votes cast within the city of the first class and more than half of the votes cast in the affected area outside of the city of the first class are in favor of the plan, then it shall be effected and the boun…

The plan described in KRS 81.300 shall be advertised by the clerk of the fiscal court by publication pursuant to KRS Chapter 424.

The question submitted to the qualified voters in the affected area under KRS 81.300 to 81.360 shall be in substantially the following form: "Do you favor the proposed Plan for the Improvement of Local Government in .......... County submitted by the fiscal court calling for (1) …

boundaries and consolidating governmental services. The method of extending the boundaries of cities of the first class, and of consolidating governmental services described in KRS 81.300 to 81.360 shall be considered as alternative to any other existing means under the law for a…

a city of the first class or consolidated local government -- Effects of relocation -- Filing with Secretary of State -- Renaming of relocated or relocating city. (1) Any city, located in a county containing a city of the first class or a consolidated local government, which is l…

(1) Any two or more contiguous cities in the Commonwealth may merge or consolidate into one (1) city by a majority vote of each city at elections called for such purpose. (2) The legislative bodies of each of the cities desiring to merge or consolidate shall enact ordinances prop…

(1) Elections shall be held at the next regular election if the ordinances of the legislative bodies of the cities desiring merger or consolidation have been filed with the county clerk not later than the second Tuesday in August preceding the regular election. The qualifications…

(1) The members of the legislative bodies of the merging cities shall continue to hold their offices in the new city, until their respective terms of office expire, and shall constitute a combined legislative body of the new city. (2) At the expiration of the terms of office of t…

A merger or consolidation shall not impair contractual obligations of either of the combined cities. Tax levies authorized for the payment of interest and the retirement of bonds or to create sinking funds for such purposes shall continue to be levied and collected over the same …

(1) When two (2) cities of the home rule class have a common boundary and it is determined that a specified area within one (1) city can be better served by the adjoining city, the specified incorporated area may be transferred to the adjoining city upon enactment of identical or…