Title IX, Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units

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.…

The retirement allowance account shall be the account in which shall be accumulated all employer contributions and amounts transferred from the members' account, and to which all income from the invested assets of the system shall be credited. From this account shall be paid the …

There is created and established: (1) An excess benefit plan to be known as the County Employees Retirement System Excess Benefit Plan. The plan is created for the purpose of providing the retirement allowances payable from the retirement systems under KRS 78.520 to 78.852 that w…

elected membership, vacancies, compensation, duties, and meetings -- Board granted powers and privileges of corporation -- Chief executive officer and general counsel -- Annual Comprehensive Financial Report -- Expenses -- Action for damages -- Appeals -- Transparency -- Limitati…

(1) (a) As soon as practicable after its organization, the County Employees Retirement System board shall adopt the actuarial tables, assumptions, and methods necessary for the administration of the system and for the annual determination of actuarial assets, actuarial liabilitie…

Unitized managed custodial account -- Cap on amount of assets managed by any one investment manager -- Investment procurement policy -- Proxy voting guidelines. (1) (a) The board shall be the trustee of funds pertaining to the County Employees Retirement System created by KRS 78.…

participating before January 1, 2014 -- Exceptions -- Amendment of benefits and rights -- Employers' funding responsibility -- Authority of board when employer fails to meet funding requirements. (1) For members who begin participating in the County Employees Retirement System pr…

Any person who shall knowingly violate any of the provisions of KRS 78.400 to 78.460 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment for a term not…

hospitalization benefits for employees and elected officers -- Participation in state health insurance coverage program for state employees -- Termination of participation -- Coverage provided in County Employees Retirement System after August 1, 1988. (1) The term "health mainte…

The provisions of KRS 79.080 shall be in addition to any other authority of cities, counties and their agencies to provide retirement and disability benefits for their employees, and shall not repeal or modify any acts except those that may be in conflict with KRS 79.080.

county. Notwithstanding any existing means provided by law for joint functions by any political subdivisions of this state, the governing bodies of any two (2) or more political subdivisions within the same county, which may include the fiscal court, may enter into contractual ar…

Any contractual arrangement entered into under KRS 79.110 shall: (1) Name the service or services to be performed and clearly define same; (2) State which subdivision of government shall render the service or services; (3) Define the area within which the service or services cont…

services under agreement -- Positions not incompatible. Insofar as is necessary to effect the purpose of KRS 79.110 to 79.180, officers, agents, servants and employees of the subdivision of government providing the service shall be sworn in and authorized to act within the area c…

The governing body of any other political subdivision within the boundaries of the county, which may include the fiscal court, may, with the mutual consent of the governing body of each political subdivision constituting a party thereto, become a party to and beneficiary of a con…

(1) The governing body of any city electing to render or to receive governmental services under a contract authorized by KRS 79.110 to 79.180 may, by ordinance, abolish any office rendered unnecessary thereby, or may, by ordinance, declare any such office vacant during the term o…

(1) When the governing bodies of any two or more political subdivisions within the same county, which may include the fiscal court, enter into a contract for the rendering of governmental services the contract shall make such provision for the transfer of employees from the depar…

Any contract entered into under the provisions of KRS 79.110 to 79.180 shall be for a term of at least two (2) years and not more than four (4) years. At least one (1) year before the termination date of any such contract, each contracting party shall in writing notify the other …

Employees transferred, under the provisions of KRS 79.110 to 79.180, to a governmental department which has pension rights and benefits for its employees shall not be entitled to participate in those rights or benefits. Employees transferred to a governmental department shall not…

for. Any two (2) cities or a city and a county having any part of a public street as a common boundary line may contract to share the cost of construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance of the street or sidewalk along the common boundary or any portion thereof.

that city -- Term -- Amendment -- Termination -- Renewal. (1) Within one hundred and twenty (120) days of July 15, 1986, there shall be entered into by each city of the first class and a county containing such city of the first class a cooperative compact pursuant to this section…