Title IX, Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units

Each authority shall operate for an initial fiscal period ending on June 30 next following the effective date of its creation as a corporate entity; and shall thereafter operate on a fiscal year basis beginning each July 1 and ending on the next ensuing June 30.

(1) Regular meetings of the board shall be held at least once in each calendar month, at such time and place as may be fixed by the board as a matter of record. Special meetings of the board may be called by the chairman or any two (2) members of the board upon oral or written no…

compact -- Appointment of executive director or secretary-treasurer upon establishment of consolidated local government. (1) The board shall, within sixty (60) days after the appointment of its entire initial membership, and thereafter in July of each year, elect from its members…

Subsidies. (1) A transit authority may establish mass transportation within its transit area and adjoining areas, but may not inaugurate service in direct competition with any existing certificated carrier. (2) In addition to the power conferred upon an authority by this chapter,…

(1) No transit authority established or created under and pursuant to this chapter shall be vested with any power to levy taxes of any nature or in any amount. (2) The governing body of any public body participating in the creation and establishment of an authority, or in the sub…

promotion of, development of, and provision of capital for mass transit services and human service transportation delivery -- Authority to promulgate administrative regulations. (1) The Transportation Cabinet may receive and accept from the Commonwealth or any of its agencies, in…

There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the "Kentucky Public Transportation Development Fund." All moneys deposited or paid into this fund are appropriated and shall be available to the cabinet for the purposes of KRS 96A.095. All moneys in this fund …

An authority may operate any mass transit system which it establishes or acquires; or instead of operating the same in its own name, an authority may enter into one (1) or more management contracts for operating the same or any part thereof, under such terms and conditions as it …

An authority shall be responsible for over-all planning of mass transit in its transit area. An authority must consult, cooperate and coordinate with any other state, local or federal planning agency or department, having responsibilities and/or authority in the same transit area…

For the purposes of acquiring or otherwise establishing one (1) or more transit systems, or parts thereof, or for the purpose of adding to, extending, operating, or improving one (1) or more mass transportation systems owned or to be acquired or established, or for any combinatio…

Bonds issued by an authority, or by public bodies for the benefit of an authority, under the provisions of this chapter, are hereby made securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the state and its political subdivisions, all insurance companies, trust companies…

Revenue bonds and mortgage bonds of an authority, together with interest thereon, shall be exempt from ad valorem and income taxation by the Commonwealth and all of its political subdivisions. The properties, moneys and other assets of an authority, and all revenues or other inco…

When an authority has made a determination, as a matter of record, that it will authorize and issue in its own name revenue bonds under authority of subsection (2) of KRS 96A.120, or mortgage bonds under authority of subsection (3) of KRS 96A.120, such authority may obtain interi…

Any department or agency of the United States or state government or any county, municipality, or other public agency may sell, lease, grant, transfer, or convey to an authority, with or without consideration, any facilities or any part or parts thereof or any real or personal pr…

assistance permitted. An authority created and established under this chapter, together with its ownership, financing, operation, rates and charges for use of its services and facilities, rules and regulations, routes, schedules, size and character of its equipment and quality of…

An authority shall provide insurance, or may provide for self-insurance and establish for that purpose such reserves as it deems prudent, for its properties, and for workers' compensation, and for public liability, and may provide for the insuring of its officers or employees, an…

(1) Each authority shall employ a certified public accountant, or firm thereof, to make an annual audit of the authority's financial accounts and affairs, and to make a report thereof, including comments of the auditor regarding whether or not the authority is in compliance with …

If an authority acquires an existing transit system, the authority shall assume and observe all existing labor contracts and pension obligations. All employees of such system who are necessary for the operation thereof by the authority shall be transferred to and appointed as emp…

Counties and cities of this state abutting upon the boundary line between this state and any other state are hereby authorized separately, jointly with each other, or jointly with any other county, municipality or political subdivision of any such abutting state to form a transit…

A transit authority may conduct such surveys and studies, gather such information, and institute such programs and plans as may be reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. If necessary, it may make application for subpoenas, or subpoenas duces tecum to any …

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Kentucky Transit Authority Act."

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky hereby finds and determines as a legislative finding of fact that the institution, acquisition, preservation and continuation of mass transportation facilities to serve the general public is vital to the health, safety and mate…

financing. (1) As used in KRS 96A.310 to 96A.370, the term "mass transportation program" shall mean the provision of necessary funds by public bodies to transit authorities created pursuant to KRS Chapter 96A with which to acquire, operate, and preserve mass transportation facili…

elections in transit area -- Notice. (1) Any transit authority created pursuant to the provisions of KRS Chapter 96A may, by resolution duly adopted by its board in the manner prescribed by KRS 96A.060, request one (1) or more of the public bodies which, upon the date of adoption…

required -- Status of voted levies. (1) The resolution or ordinance of each public body determining that a proposition for the establishment of a mass transportation program be submitted to the electorate of such public body or to the electorate of the transit area of such transi…

(1) The elections herein authorized shall, in the case of any individual public body, be called and held by the particular public officials of said public body responsible for the calling and holding of general elections. All ad valorem tax receipts, occupational tax receipts and…

Not less than annually any transit authority for the benefit of which a mass transportation program has been approved by the electorate of any public body, or by the electorate of its transit area in the event all public bodies comprising the membership of such transit authority …

transportation agreements. (1) In addition to all other powers and rights granted by KRS Chapter 96A, public bodies are expressly authorized and empowered to enter into joint agreements and multimunicipal compacts with transit authorities, and all other units of government, both …