Title IX, Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units

If any provision of KRS 79.310, KRS 81A.005, or KRS 79.315 to 79.330 is held to be unconstitutional or invalid, that provision shall not be severable but KRS 79.310, KRS 81A.005, and KRS 79.315 to 79.330 shall be invalidated, because it is the intention of the General Assembly th…

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 …

(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…

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…

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…

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, …

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…

(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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

(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 …

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…

(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…

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 …

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…

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.

(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…

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…

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…

(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 …

(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…

A housing authority may contract with the federal government to manage or operate any low-income housing erected or owned by the federal government.

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…

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…

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…

(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…

The board of each authority shall comply with the provisions of KRS 65A.010 to 65A.090.

(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…

(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…

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…

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…

(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…

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…

(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…

The board of each authority shall comply with the provisions of KRS 65A.010 to 65A.090.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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 …

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…

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…

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…