Title IX, Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units

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…

If a housing authority is created for a county, the governing body of that county shall appoint five (5) persons as members of the housing authority. Three (3) of the five (5) members who are first appointed shall be designated to serve for terms of one (1), two (2) or three (3) …

(1) The governing body of each county included in a regional housing authority shall appoint one (1) person as a member of such authority, and each such member to be first appointed by the governing body of a county may be appointed at or after the time of the adoption of the res…

Members not to be county officers or employees -- Term -- Compensation. (1) A certificate of the appointment of any member shall be filed with the clerk (provided, that in the case of appointment of a member of a regional housing authority by its other members, as provided in KRS…

Appointment of secretary upon establishment of consolidated local government. (1) The members shall constitute the housing authority. A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of conducting business and exercising powers and for all other purposes. Actio…

Meetings of the members of a housing authority (including any housing authority created pursuant to KRS 80.010 to 80.250) may be held anywhere within the perimeter boundaries of the area of operation or territorial jurisdiction of an authority or within any additional area where …

No member or employee of an authority shall acquire any interest direct or indirect in any housing or in any property included or planned to be included in any project, nor shall he have any interest direct or indirect in any contract or proposed contract for materials or service…

establishment of consolidated local government. (1) For inefficiency or neglect of duty or misconduct in office, a member may be removed by the authority appointing him, but a member shall be removed only after he or she has been given a copy of the charges against him or her at …

(1) If the governing body of each of two (2) or more cities (whether or not contiguous) by resolution declares that there is a need for one (1) housing authority to be created for all of such cities to exercise in such cities the powers and other functions prescribed for a consol…

An authority shall constitute a public body corporate and politic, exercising public and essential governmental functions, and having all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of KRS 80.320 to 80.610, including the following po…

County housing authorities, city-county housing authorities, and regional housing authorities are specifically empowered and authorized to borrow money, accept grants and exercise their powers to provide housing for farmers of low income. In connection with such projects, any suc…

"Farmers of low income," as used in KRS 80.510 and 80.530, shall mean persons or families who at the time of their admission to occupancy in a dwelling of a housing authority: (1) Live under unsafe or unsanitary housing conditions; (2) Derive their principal income from operating…

Except with regard to housing for farmers of low income, a housing authority shall be subject to the same limitations and restrictions on rentals and tenant selection which are applicable to housing authorities created for cities under KRS 80.010 to 80.250.

An authority shall have the right to acquire by condemnation any real property which it may deem necessary for its purposes under KRS 80.320 to 80.610 after the adoption by it of a resolution declaring that the acquisition of the real property described therein is necessary for s…

(1) An authority shall have power to issue bonds from time to time in its discretion, for any of its corporate purposes. An authority shall also have power to issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying or retiring bonds previously issued by it. (2) An authority may issue suc…

Neither the members nor any person executing the bonds shall be liable personally on the bonds by reason of the issuance thereof. The bonds and other obligations of an authority (and such bonds and obligations shall so state on their face) shall not be a debt of the city, the cou…

(1) Bonds of an authority shall be authorized by its resolution and may be issued in one (1) or more series and shall bear a date or dates, mature at a time or times, bear interest at a rate or rates or method of determining rates, be in a denomination or denominations, be in a f…

In addition to its other powers, a housing authority created for a city pursuant to KRS 80.010 to 80.250 may exercise any or all of its powers within the territorial boundaries of any other city for the purpose of planning, undertaking, financing, constructing and operating a hou…

Any two or more authorities (including any housing authority created under KRS 80.010 to 80.250) may join or cooperate with one another in the exercise, either jointly or otherwise, of any or all of their powers for the purpose of financing (including the issuance of bonds, notes…

In addition to the powers conferred upon an authority by other provisions of KRS 80.320 to 80.610, an authority is empowered to borrow money or accept contributions, grants or other financial assistance from the federal government for or in aid of any housing, to take over or lea…

In any contract or amendatory or superseding contract for a loan and annual contributions heretofore or hereafter entered into between a housing authority (including any housing authority created under KRS 80.010 to 80.250) and the federal government with respect to any housing u…

(1) Cities shall be organized into two (2) classes based on the form of their respective government. The two (2) classes of cities shall be: (a) First class, which shall include cities organized and operating under the mayor-alderman plan of government in accordance with KRS Chap…

with its county. (1) When a city of the first class, which has in effect a compact with the county pursuant to KRS 79.310 to 79.330, desires to annex unincorporated territory, the legislative body of the city shall enact an ordinance stating the intention of the city to annex. If…

federal decennial census. (1) If the General Assembly establishes a population requirement for cities and bases that population requirement upon the most recent federal decennial census, a city may file a petition with the circuit clerk of the county in which the city, or the lar…