Title IX, Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units

installations. (1) The air pollution control board may contract with the county in which the air pollution control district is located, and may contract with any city within the district, and the county and any such city may contract with the air pollution control district, for t…

(1) The air pollution control board may provide by regulation a schedule of annual emission fees to cover all reasonable direct and indirect costs required to maintain authorization to develop and administer the district's permit program requirements under Title V of the Federal …

installations. A contract entered into pursuant to KRS 77.200 may provide that fees for permits shall be paid to the county or city, the officer, department, or agency of which county or city issues the permit, and may be retained by such county or city in whole or in part as the…

officer. The air pollution control officer may, at any time, require from any person who operates any plant or uses any article, machine, equipment, or other contrivance specified by the regulations of the air pollution control board or this chapter, the use or operation of which…

concerning installation -- Notice -- Reinstatement. (1) If the holder of any permit provided for by the regulations of the air pollution control board within a reasonable time willfully fails and refuses to furnish to the air pollution control officer information, analyses, plans…

(1) The air pollution control officer may request the hearing board to hold a public hearing to determine whether a permit should be revoked, or a suspended permit should be reinstated. (2) Within thirty (30) days after either the air pollution control officer or the permittee ha…

After a public hearing, the hearing board may: (1) Continue the suspension of a permit suspended by the air pollution control officer; or (2) Remove the suspension of an existing permit invoked by the air pollution control officer pending the furnishing by the permittee of the in…

It shall be considered a violation of this chapter for any person to: (1) Knowingly make any false statement in any application for a permit or in any information, analyses, plans, or specifications submitted either in conjunction therewith, or at the request of the air pollution…

Any violation of any provision of subsections (2), (3), (4), and (5) of KRS 77.235 may be enjoined in a civil action brought by the air pollution control board, the air pollution control officer, or any person aggrieved by such violation.

The provisions of this chapter do not prohibit the discharge of air contaminants to a greater extent or for a longer time, or both, than permitted by KRS 77.150 to 77.175 or by rules, regulations, or orders of the air pollution control board, if not of a greater extent or longer …

(1) The hearing board on its own motion or at the request of any person may hold a hearing to determine under what conditions and to what extent a variance from the requirements established by KRS 77.150 to 77.175 or by rules, regulations, or orders of the air pollution control b…

The air pollution control board may provide, by regulation, a schedule of fees which will yield a sum not exceeding the estimated cost of the administration of KRS 77.245 to 77.275, for the filing of applications for variances or to revoke or modify variances. All applicants shal…

(1) If the hearing board finds that because of conditions beyond control compliance with KRS 77.150 to 77.175 or with any rule, regulation, or order of the air pollution control board will result in an arbitrary and unreasonable taking of property or in the practical closing and …

(1) The hearing board may revoke or modify by written order, after a public hearing held upon not less than ten (10) days' notice, any order permitting a variance. (2) The hearing board shall serve, by personal service or by certified mail, return receipt requested, notice of the…

The hearing board in making any order permitting a variance may specify the time during which such order will be effective, in no event to exceed one (1) year, but such variance may be continued from year to year without another hearing on the approval of the air pollution contro…

If any local ordinance has provided regulations similar to those in KRS 77.150 to 77.175 or to any order, regulation, or rule prescribed by the air pollution control board, and has provided for the granting of variances, and pursuant to the local ordinance a variance has been gra…

KRS 77.280 to 77.305 applies to all hearings which KRS 77.180 to 77.275 provide shall be held by the hearing board.

(1) The hearing board shall select from its number a chairman. (2) The hearing board may hold a hearing en banc or may designate two (2) or one (1) of their number to hold a hearing. (3) If two (2) or three (3) members of the hearing board conduct a hearing the concurrence of two…

(1) Whenever the members of the hearing board conducting any hearing deem it necessary to examine any person as a witness at such hearing, the chairman of the hearing board shall issue a subpoena, in proper form, commanding such person to appear before it at a time and place spec…

(1) Whenever any person duly subpoenaed to appear and give evidence or to produce any books and papers before the hearing board neglects or refuses to appear, or to produce any books and papers, as required by the subpoena, or refuses to testify or to answer any question which th…

At any hearing the hearing board may require all or any witnesses to be sworn before testifying. Every member of the hearing board may administer oaths in every hearing in which he participates.

(1) Any person, being a party of record at such hearing, deeming himself aggrieved, including the air pollution control district, may maintain a special proceeding in equity in the Circuit Court of the county in which the district is located, to determine the reasonableness and l…

for a hearing on board orders or determinations -- Hearing officers. (1) If there is reason to believe that a violation of this chapter or of a regulation promulgated under this chapter has occurred within an air pollution control district, the district shall issue and mail to or…

(1) Appeals may be taken from a final order of the board rendered after a hearing. An appeal shall be taken within thirty (30) days from the rendition of an order to the Circuit Court of the county in which the district is located. A person affected by the order shall file in the…

consolidated local government -- Determination of need for program. (1) If by December 1 following the approval of a consolidated local government, the county containing the adopted consolidated local government has been notified by federal authorities of the attainment of the co…

applicable to any person or facility that performs an environmental audit under KRS Chapter 77. (1) As used in this section, "environmental audit" has the same meaning as in KRS 224.1-040. (2) Any person or facility subject to the requirements of this chapter or the rules, orders…

(1) A person who violates any provision of this chapter shall be liable for the assessment by the district of a civil penalty not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000). Every day or any portion thereof during which the violation occurs or continues shall constitute a separate …

As used in KRS 78.400 to 78.480 and KRS 78.990, unless the context otherwise requires the following words and terms shall have the following meaning: (1) "Board" means the county police force merit board or boards hereinafter created. (2) "Chief" means the chiefs of the county po…

(1) Any county of the Commonwealth of Kentucky may, by order of its fiscal court, duly made and entered of record, create a county police force merit system, and for that purpose, establish a county police force merit board, whose duties it shall be to classify and examine applic…

(1) The county judge/executive, subject to the approval of the fiscal court of the county, shall appoint four (4) persons, who shall constitute the county police force merit board of such county, who shall serve without compensation, and the county judge/executive shall be a memb…

(1) The board shall meet at least once every two (2) calendar months and minutes of the business of each meeting shall be kept. (2) The board shall employ a secretary who shall also conduct all examinations, prepare eligible lists, and keep all records and minutes of the board's …

(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…