Title IX, Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units

(1) It is the intention of KRS 67A.360 to 67A.690 that the fund herein created shall supersede and take the place of the pension fund established under KRS 95.851 to 95.884 inclusive, for cities becoming urban-county governments, which sections shall be without force and effect, …

employee contributions. Each member shall, by virtue of the payment of contributions to the fund, receive a vested interest in such contributions, and in consideration of such vested interest, shall be conclusively deemed to undertake and agree to pay the same and to have the amo…

The right to a retirement annuity, disability annuity, survivor's annuity or benefit, death benefit, or any other benefit under the provision hereof, by whatever name called, or refund, is personal with the recipient thereof, and the assignment, garnishment, execution, or transfe…

Any service retirement annuity, disability retirement annuity, or any other annuity provided herein shall be payable in equal monthly installments as life annuities, and shall not be increased, decreased, revoked, or repealed, except for error, or except where specifically otherw…

It is the intention of KRS 67A.360 to 67A.690 that the payment of the required contributions by the government shall include all allowances, annuities, benefits, and administration expenses and shall be the obligation of the government.

boundaries. The territory of a county may, as permitted by Section 172A of the Constitution, be divided into service districts by the fiscal court. Each service district shall constitute a separate tax district within which the county government may, upon receipt of a petition si…

coverage. Any government covered by KRS 67A.360 to 67A.690, which may subsequently change its form of government or its class or other status, shall continue to be covered by KRS 67A.360 to 67A.690.

The legislative body in an urban-county government may issue the appropriate order, pursuant to KRS 78.530(1), directing participation for policemen and firefighters in the County Employees Retirement System. All new employees who would have been granted membership in the fund sh…

After a determination has been made on any application by the board, any interested person may, within twenty (20) days after notice of the determination or finding of the board, apply for a rehearing with respect to any of the matters determined by the board. The application sha…

(1) The order or determination of the board upon the rehearing shall be conclusive and binding, but any interested party may, within twenty (20) days after the rendition of the order of the board, by petition appeal to the Circuit Court of the county in which the urban-county gov…

(1) The judgment of the Circuit Court shall be subject to appeal to the Court of Appeals. The scope of review by the Court of Appeals shall include all matters subject to review by the Circuit Court and also errors of law arising in the Circuit Court and upon appeal made reviewab…

(1) A county acting under authority of this section may by ordinance create a county cemetery board that may apply to the Department for Local Government for grants to restore and maintain nonprofit cemeteries that do not receive perpetual care funds pursuant to KRS 367.952. (2) …

cemetery board. (1) The Department for Local Government shall establish a county cemetery fund to receive appropriations, gifts, grants, federal funds, revolving funds, and any other funds from public and private sources. (a) Moneys deposited in the fund shall be disbursed by the…

(1) (a) The increase in retirement annuities provided and authorized by paragraphs (b) and (c) of this subsection shall be provided when: 1. A member who retired prior to July 1, 2013, has been retired for one (1) year or attained forty-seven (47) years of age, whichever is later…

As used in KRS 67A.6901 to 67A.6911: (1) "Secretary" means the secretary of the cabinet; (2) "Corrections personnel" means an employee of an urban-county government permanently assigned to a detention facility and working in any capacity in that detention facility; (3) "Cabinet" …

(1) Police officers, firefighter personnel, firefighters, and corrections personnel of an urban-county government shall have, and shall be protected in the exercise of, the right of self-organization, to form, join, or assist any labor organization, to bargain collectively throug…

The urban-county government and the labor organization that has been designated as the exclusive representative of police officers, firefighter personnel, firefighters, or corrections personnel in an appropriate unit, through appropriate officials or their representatives, shall …

(1) Except as provided in KRS 336.130, urban-county governments and their representatives and agents are prohibited from: (a) Interfering, restraining, or coercing police officers, firefighter personnel, firefighters, or corrections personnel in the exercise of the rights guarant…

(1) Whenever, in accordance with administrative regulations that may be promulgated by the cabinet, a petition has been filed: (a) By a police officer, group of police officers, firefighter personnel, a firefighter, group of firefighters, a corrections officer, group of correctio…

Expenses. Violations of the provisions of KRS 67A.6904 shall be deemed to be unfair labor practices remedial by the cabinet in the following manner. (1) Whenever it is charged by an urban-county government or a labor organization that any person has engaged in or is engaging in a…

Expenses. (1) If, after a reasonable period, but in no event less than thirty (30) days, of negotiations over the terms of a new collective bargaining agreement or modifications to an existing agreement, the parties to the negotiations are deadlocked, either party or the parties …

(1) Any agreement reached by the negotiators shall be reduced to writing and shall be executed by both parties. (2) An agreement between the urban-county government and a labor organization shall be valid and enforced under its terms when entered into in accordance with the provi…

bargaining unit. Subject to the requirements set forth in KRS 336.135, upon the written authorization of any police officers, firefighter personnel, firefighters, or corrections personnel within a bargaining unit, the urban-county government shall deduct from the payroll of the p…

and labor organizations not to participate in strike. No police officer, firefighter personnel, firefighter, or corrections officer of an urban- county government shall engage in, and no police officer labor organization, firefighter personnel labor organization, firefighter labo…

67A.6911. Notwithstanding any provision of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to the contrary, the provisions of KRS 67A.6901 to 67A.6911 shall not be construed or interpreted to apply to volunteer firefighters.

There shall be elected in nineteen hundred and seventy-seven (1977) and every four (4) years thereafter, in each county a county judge/executive who shall enter upon the discharge of the duties of his office on the first Monday in January after his election, and continue in offic…

Exception -- Duties and salaries of judge/executive and magistrates or commissioners in county containing a consolidated local government. (1) Each county shall have a chief executive officer known as the county judge/executive. Only a resident of the county shall be eligible for…

The county judge/executive shall be the chief executive of the county and shall have all the powers and perform all the duties of an executive and administrative nature vested in, or imposed upon, the county or its fiscal court by law, or by agreement with any municipality or oth…

(1) The term "assessed value basis" as used in KRS 67A.715 to 67A.825 means the plan for levying of improvement benefit assessments on the basis of the assessed land values of the benefited properties, as authorized by KRS 67A.715 to 67A.825. (2) The term "costs" as applied to an…

Compensation -- Powers and duties. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of KRS 67.710(7), the county judge/executive of any county may appoint a deputy county judge/executive, and a reasonable number of other assistants, secretaries, and clerical workers within the office of the co…

governments, including urban-county governments and consolidated local governments. (1) Whenever rights, powers, privileges, immunities, and responsibilities are granted to the county judge/executive in general statutes, the same shall be considered a grant in those counties in w…

(1) The county judge/executive may create, abolish, or combine any county department or agency or transfer a function from one department or agency to another, provided that he shall first submit plans for such reorganization to the fiscal court. If not disapproved within sixty (…

It is the purpose of KRS 67A.710 to 67A.825 to extend permissive authority of urban- county governments for assessment financing of public improvements.

Bonds for improvements authorized by the provisions of KRS 67A.710 to 67A.825 may be caused to mature as to principal in term or serial maturities not to exceed twenty (20) years from date of issue.

The county judge/executive shall execute a bond for the faithful performance of the duties of his office. The bond shall be a minimum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) with sureties approved by the fiscal court, which shall record the approval of sureties in its minutes. If the f…

Except in a consolidated local government, the county judge/executive shall receive an annual expense allowance of three thousand six hundred dollars ($3,600) for performing his duties and fulfilling his responsibilities in the administration of the local county road program. Pay…

For the purpose of KRS 67.730 to 67.745, the regular county judge/executive, the deputy county judge/executive, or other persons designated to serve in the line of succession during an emergency shall be deemed "absent" when he is outside the county at the time of the occurrence …

The assessment for any public improvement authorized by the provisions of KRS 67A.710 to 67A.825 shall be on an assessed land value basis.

If an urban-county government desires to authorize, construct, and finance an improvement pursuant to the provisions of KRS 67A.710 to 67A.825, its governing body shall initiate the proceedings by adopting an ordinance, herein called the "First Ordinance," in which announcement s…

When the absence or disability of the duly-elected county judge/executive of any county shall prevent his serving in office during an emergency involving national and state defense, the duties of the county judge/executive shall be administered temporarily by the deputy county ju…

In any county where no deputy county judge/executive has been appointed by the county judge/executive upon June 18, 1970, then the county judge/executive of such county shall appoint a deputy county judge/executive for the purpose of preparing for such an emergency as is set fort…

If at a subsequent meeting, the governing body of the urban-county government determines that the owners of more than fifty percent (50%) both in number of lots or parcels and in aggregate assessed value of the properties to be benefited by the project, object to the project, it …

Proposals for the construction of the project shall be solicited upon the basis of the submission of sealed competitive bids after advertisement, by publication pursuant to KRS Chapter 424. Upon or after the acceptance by the governing body of a bid, or combination of bids, the g…

If neither the county judge/executive nor the deputy county judge/executive is able to serve in the office by reason of absence or disability, then the duties of the county judge/executive shall be assumed temporarily by a member of the fiscal court selected for this purpose by t…

(1) When the total cost of the project has been established, the amount to be assessed against each parcel of property shall be determined. Property owners shall be notified by certified mail of the exact amount due for their portion of the project. They shall be given thirty (30…

Any of the persons designated herein to serve in the line of succession to the county judge/executive during such state of emergency shall occupy and serve in the office of county judge/executive: (1) Only until, if and when, the regular county judge/executive should return to th…

(1) Within thirty (30) days after notice provided in KRS 67A.745(1) any owner of property to be benefited by the proposed project, may file an action in circuit court, seeking relief by declaratory judgment, injunction, or otherwise. The owner may file in the office of the clerk …

As used in KRS 67.750 to 67.790, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Business entity" means each separate corporation, limited liability company, business development corporation, partnership, limited partnership, sole proprietorship, association, joint stock company, rec…

district. (1) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section, net profit or gross receipts shall be apportioned as follows: (a) For business entities with both payroll and sales revenue in more than one (1) tax district, by multiplying the net profit or gross receipts by a …

service reserve. An annual assessment on each parcel of property for which bonds are issued shall be levied according to the assessed value basis. The first such levy and each succeeding levy shall be made in advance and shall be sufficient to pay the principal and interest on th…