Title IX, Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units

(1) Board members shall serve without compensation, but may be reimbursed for their reasonable and necessary expenses out of the earnings of the fund. (2) The board shall at its first meeting select one (1) of its number to serve as chairman, and such other officers as it may dee…

The board shall employ one (1) or more qualified investment managers, who shall invest and reinvest the assets of the fund. The qualified investment managers may make any investments which are allowed, at the time of making the investment, to fiduciaries in this state, except tha…

(1) The board shall employ a single custodian for the assets held by the fund. The custodian shall be responsible for: (a) Physical safekeeping of all securities; (b) Collection of all income; (c) Effecting all principal and income transactions; (d) Maintenance of a complete set …

The board may employ other persons to perform appropriate services for the fund, and may prescribe their responsibilities and compensation out of the earnings of the fund.

The board may create various investment pools within the fund, restricted to certain types of investments, or combining various investments in order to offer different levels of return and risk. Each participant may choose those pools in which it will invest, and the degree of in…

The board shall arrange for an annual audit of the fund and pools thereof, and a copy of the audit report shall be given to each participant.

The board shall require the qualified investment manager, custodian, or any person who has charge of, handles or has access to any of the moneys or other assets of the fund to be bonded in an amount of not less than the amount of fund assets normally in his possession or control.

(1) Charges for investment and custodial or other services which by nature benefit all fund participants shall be allocated by general rules over all fund participants enjoying those services: (a) Charges for investment services shall be allocated among the participants in direct…

As used in KRS 95.951 to 95.964, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Police officer" means a person who is employed as a sworn law enforcement officer by a city, urban-county, or charter county government law enforcement agency, excluding sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, consta…

As of July 14, 1992, no person shall be originally appointed or employed as a police officer or an auxiliary police officer by a city, urban-county, or charter county government in the Commonwealth unless he: (1) Is at least twenty-one (21) years of age; and (2) (a) Is a high sch…

(1) All police officers and auxiliary police officers originally appointed or employed by a city, urban-county, or charter county government after July 14, 1992, shall, within one (1) year of their appointment or employment, successfully complete a basic training course as establ…

Funds in the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund may be utilized by the Department of Criminal Justice Training to reimburse cities, urban-counties, or charter counties with regular police departments of ten (10) or fewer officers for the cost of the base salary for …

(1) The provisions of KRS 95.951 to 95.960 shall be in addition to the requirements of KRS 61.300 or any other statute. (2) The provisions of KRS 95.951 to 95.960 shall not be construed as limiting any city, urban-county, or charter county in the Commonwealth which appoints or em…

(1) Any person who is at least twenty (20) years of age shall be eligible to be employed by an urban-county government police force for the purpose of attending a basic training course as defined in KRS 15.310 if he or she will be twenty-one (21) years of age at the time of becom…

between city police chief and local school district encouraged. (1) The chief of police in each city is encouraged to receive training on issues pertaining to school and student safety and shall be invited to meet annually with local superintendents to discuss emergency response …

Any person who knowingly or willfully makes any false or fraudulent statement or representation in any record or report to the commission under KRS 95A.280 shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or imprisoned for not les…

Any person who knowingly makes any false statement, or falsifies, or permits to be falsified, any record or records of the fund defined by KRS 95.851, in any attempt to defraud the fund, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than $500 or imprisoned in the county…

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following words or terms shall mean as follows: (1) "City" means any incorporated city in the Commonwealth; (2) "County" means any county in the Commonwealth wherein there is located an incorporated city and for …

(1) At least six (6) months before the expiration of any franchise acquired under or prior to the present Constitution, the legislative body of each city shall provide for the sale of a new franchise to the highest and best bidder on terms that are fair and reasonable to the city…

General powers and purposes. (1) A transit authority may be created and established under the provisions of this chapter by proceedings or joint proceedings, and the name thereof shall be "Transit Authority of ....." If established by a city alone, or by a county alone, the name …

(1) Each person desiring to bid for the franchise offered for sale under KRS 96.010 shall first deposit, with the proper officer of the city, cash or a certified check equal to five percent (5%) of the fair estimated cost of the plant required to render the service. The deposit s…

A transit authority created and established under the provisions of this chapter shall become a corporate entity: (1) In the case of an authority created and established by a single public body, upon the effective date of the proceedings of the governing body thereof, and (2) In …

city of the first class. No exclusive privilege shall be acquired through the sale of a franchise under KRS 96.010 by a consolidated local government or a city of the first class. The sale of a franchise to one (1) person by a consolidated local government or a city of the first …

establishment of consolidated local government. (1) The business, activities, and affairs of a transit authority shall be managed, controlled, and conducted by a board consisting of members appointed as follows: (a) If the authority is established by one (1) city alone, or by a c…

utility plant. (1) If a city of the first class or a consolidated local government desires to own or operate a utility being operated under a franchise, and the city or consolidated local government takes the necessary steps within two (2) years before the expiration of the franc…

(1) No municipality, in which there is located an existing electric, water or gas public utility plant or facility shall construct or cause to be constructed any similar utility plant or any similar public utility facility duplicating such existing plant or facility or to obtain …

The legislative body of any authorized city may, by ordinance: (1) Direct and control the laying and construction of railroad or street railway tracks, bridges, turnouts and switches, poles, wires, apparatus and appliances in the streets and alleys of the city, and the location o…

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…

- Conditions. (1) The legislative body of any city with a population equal to or greater than eight thousand (8,000) but less than twenty thousand (20,000) based upon the most recent federal decennial census may, by ordinance, grant the right of way in streets, alleys and public …

The legislative body of any city may grant rights-of-way over the public streets or public grounds of the city to any utility company, on such conditions as seem proper, shall have a supervising control over the use of same, and shall regulate the speed of cars and signals and fa…

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,…

Any person constructing, maintaining or operating waterworks or pipelines for the supply of water to a municipality may condemn lands and materials necessary to carry out those purposes, in the manner prescribed in the Eminent Domain Act of Kentucky.

(1) Any city of the first class that owns stock in a gas company carrying on business within its boundaries may dispose of the stock upon such terms as may be prescribed by ordinance, but the stock shall not be sold for less than par. (2) The proceeds of the sale of the stock sha…

(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 …

The legislative body of a city of the first class may, on terms prescribed by ordinance, authorize the mayor to consent, on behalf of the legislative body, to such amendments to the charter of any gas company, in which the city owns stock, as are approved by the board of director…

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…

Any city may, with funds provided from the general levy or from the sale of bonds, purchase stock in any corporation owning or operating or organized for the purpose of owning or operating a waterworks within the corporate limits of the city.

Powers to contract with other city and construct and maintain apparatus. (1) Any city that owns and operates its own water or light plant may acquire a franchise to furnish water and light to any other city, in the same manner that any private corporation or individual may acquir…

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…