Title IX, Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units

(1) Charter county governments may exercise the constitutional and statutory rights, powers, privileges, immunities, and responsibilities of counties and cities of the home rule class within the county: (a) In effect on the date the charter county government becomes effective; (b…

Urban-county government may exercise ad valorem property taxing powers pursuant to the Kentucky Constitution, Section 157, to the limits authorized therein for the class of city to which the largest city in the county belonged on the day prior to the date the urban- county govern…

obligations after adoption of charter county government. (1) All contracts, bonds, franchises, and other obligations of a participating city and the county in existence on the effective date of a charter county government, including but not limited to collective bargaining agreem…

(1) Charter county governments may enact and enforce within their territorial limits the tax, licensing, police, sanitary, and other ordinances not in conflict with the Constitution and general statutes of this state now or hereafter enacted, required for the health, education, s…

The territory of a charter county government may be divided into service districts. Each service district shall constitute a separate tax district within which the charter county government shall levy and collect taxes in accordance with the kind, type, level, and character of th…

(1) The chief executive officer of the urban-county government shall notify each property owner by certified mail, of the urban-county government intention to extend urban services which may result in a tax increase to the property owner. (2) The notice by the chief executive off…

valorem tax rates. The provisions of KRS 68.245, 132.010, and 132.017 shall apply to ad valorem tax rates levied by charter county governments.

(1) If a comprehensive plan adopted pursuant to KRS 67.830 requires the implementation of a merit or civil service system for the employees of a charter county government, the system shall be implemented by the charter county government to guarantee the substantive and procedural…

(1) No person shall be appointed to any position in a charter county government because of political, partisan service rendered by him or his family, or because of political sentiment or affiliation nor shall any person be dismissed, suspended, or reduced in grade or pay because …

As used in KRS 67A.872 to 67A.894, the following words or terms shall have the respective meanings indicated, unless a different meaning is clearly indicated by the context: (1) "Assessed value basis" means the plan for the levying of improvement benefit assessments upon benefite…

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky finds and determines as a fact that in urbanized areas of the Commonwealth, where industrialization and commercialization have progressed at a high rate, attended by rapid residential development, there is a particular public n…

Urban-county governments created pursuant to this chapter are authorized to provide for, construct and finance wastewater collection projects according to the financing plan set forth in KRS 67A.871 to 67A.894. The authority hereby conferred upon urban-county governments is not i…

In undertaking the planning, design, institution, authorization and financing of wastewater collection projects under KRS 67A.871 to 67A.894, urban-county governments shall be vested with exclusive authority to plan, design, initiate, finance and carry out construction of such pr…

A charter county government may provide a retirement system for its employees only by participating in the County Employees Retirement System pursuant to KRS 78.510 to 78.852.

Ordinance of initiation. (1) Any urban-county government which determines that the public health, safety, and general welfare requires construction of a wastewater collection project and which proposes to undertake, authorize, construct, and finance a wastewater collection projec…

The urban-county government shall cause notice of the public hearing ordered to be held by the ordinance of initiation to be afforded to all owners of property proposed to be benefited by the project and to be assessed for the costs thereof. The notice shall be published pursuant…

(1) The properties to be benefited by construction of a wastewater collection project shall consist of all real properties which are thereby afforded a means of draining wastewater from such properties, whether such real properties consist of unimproved land or contain improvemen…

A public hearing shall be held at the time and place designated in the ordinance of initiation. Any person qualifying under the provisions of KRS 67A.875(7) shall preside and conduct the hearing. The presiding officer shall cause reasonable notes or minutes of the proceedings to …

determination. At a subsequent regular meeting of the urban-county council of the government, the written report of the public hearing shall be publicly received and considered by the urban-county council. At the meeting, or any subsequent, properly convened, regular, adjourned o…

(1) Any owner of property to be benefited by the wastewater collection project may, within thirty (30) days after passage and publication of the ordinance of determination: (a) File an action in the Circuit Court of the county in which the urban-county government is situated seek…

If the ordinance of determination authorizes the undertaking of the project and the financing thereof according to the plan of financing enacted by the ordinance of initiation, and if owners of benefited properties do not institute action as permitted by KRS 67A.880, or if such a…

funding -- Refunds by urban-county government. (1) Proposals for the construction of the project shall be solicited upon the basis of submission of sealed, competitive bids after advertisement by publication pursuant to KRS Chapter 424, following adoption of the ordinance of dete…

(1) Following compliance with the foregoing provisions of KRS 67A.871 to 67A.882, the urban-county council of the government may adopt an ordinance known as the ordinance of bond authorization. The ordinance of bond authorization shall make provision, for the following: (a) Deter…

When any bonds are delivered and the proceeds are received by the government, they shall be deposited in a bank or trust company or combined bank and trust company, and to the extent the deposit may exceed insurance provided by federal deposit insurance corporation, the same shal…

Each of the bonds shall bear on its face the statement that it has been issued under the provisions of KRS 67A.871 to 67A.894 and that it does not constitute an indebtedness of the government within the meaning of the Constitution of Kentucky. The bonds and the receipt of interes…

The sum necessary to be raised annually for the sinking fund and consequent amortization of the outstanding bonds, whether all authorized bonds have been issued or not (together with the sum of any amounts required annually to pay trustees' fees, paying agents' fees, cost of admi…

assessments. The annual improvement benefit assessment for the project shall be levied by the government against benefited properties, except such properties for which lump-sum payment of the improvement benefit assessment has been made pursuant to KRS 67A.882(3), when the levy f…

Each annual improvement assessment, with any penalty or interest incident to the nonpayment thereof, shall constitute a lien upon the lot or parcel of benefited property against which it is assessed. The lien shall attach to each lot or parcel of benefited property as the same is…

The proceeds received by the government from each annual improvement assessment levy made in connection with the project, as authorized by KRS 67A.871 to 67A.894, shall be segregated from and kept always separate and apart from all other receipts of the government from all other …

All sums received and deposited in the sinking fund shall be held inviolate and applied by the government, or the trustee in respect of the bonds solely for the payment of the principal of, and interest on, the bonds issued for the financing of the identified project. The amount …

If, by reason of miscalculation or the happening of unforeseen events or conditions, the total proceeds of the lump-sum payments and bonds authorized by the ordinance of bond authorization should prove to be insufficient to provide for the completion of the project and the paymen…

In the interests of the health, safety, and welfare of the general public and for the protection of the public health, the government is authorized and empowered, by ordinance, to mandatorily require the owners of all benefited properties to cause any improvements capable of the …

If an urban-county government has taken any steps under KRS 67A.871 to 67A.893 to provide for, construct or finance any project, and for any reason the project cannot be completed according to the provisions of KRS 67A.871 to 67A.893, the government shall return all improvement b…

In order to promote efficient and economical management of the affairs of local government and prevent the duplication of services, the voters of any county, except a county containing a consolidated local government, an urban-county government, or a charter county government, ma…

As used in KRS 67.900 to 67.940: (1) "Citizen member" means a person who is neither an elected nor an appointed official or employee of the county or a participating city; (2) "Participating city" means a city that has filed an ordinance with the county clerk and has been named i…

review commission. The unification process shall be initiated in the following manner: (1) The legislative body of one (1) or more cities within the county and the county fiscal court may enact ordinances proposing that a commission be formed to study the question of unifying the…

vacancies. (1) The county judge/executive and the mayor of the participating city with the greatest population shall jointly determine the size of the unification review commission which shall be composed of not less than twenty (20) nor more than forty (40) members. (2) The memb…

Unless otherwise agreed upon by the county and the participating cities, the unification review commission shall be funded by the fiscal court and each participating city in proportion to their relative population. For purposes of this section, the population of the county shall …

commission. (1) The unification review commission shall study matters relating to the feasibility of forming a unified local government and, if unification is proposed, develop a unification plan consistent with the provisions of the Kentucky Constitution and KRS 67.900 to 67.940…

(1) It is hereby found and declared that there now exists in urban counties in this Commonwealth a lack of parking space for automobiles in main business and professional areas including but not limited to those areas commonly referred to as "downtown". It is further found that p…

duties, and salary of CEO. (1) The legislative authority of a unified local government shall be vested in a legislative council elected in the manner provided by the unification plan. (2) The executive authority of a unified local government shall be vested in a chief executive o…

As used in this chapter unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Authority" means a local parking authority as created by KRS 67A.914. (2) "Commissioner" means a person appointed to serve on the governing body of a local parking authority. (3) "District" means an area designat…

The unification review commission shall hold at least one (1) public hearing prior to finalizing its plan to combine county government with one (1) or more cities within the county into a unified local government. The commission may hold additional public hearings as determined b…

The local legislative body of any county governed under urban-county statutes may, by resolution, create and establish an agency to be known by the name of the largest city in such county and the name of the county itself, separated by the word "and" and the words "parking author…

Following its final public hearing, the unification review commission shall vote on the proposed unification plan as presented or as modified by the commission. A unification plan approved by a majority vote of the commission members shall be submitted to the registered voters in…

(1) Upon adoption of the resolution creating a parking authority as set out in KRS 67A.914, the mayor shall within three (3) days appoint, with the approval of a majority of the legislative body, five (5) residents of the urban-county area as commissioners of the local parking au…

The board of commissioners shall: (1) Study the need for new parking facilities within the urban-county and report the results of such study to the legislative body. (2) Study the need for parking space to be provided without charge to certain classes of users within one or more …

plan after approval -- Prohibition against placing rejected plan on ballot for five years. (1) The question whether the unification plan shall be adopted shall be filed with the county clerk not later than the second Tuesday in August preceding the day of the next regular electio…

(1) If the unification plan of a unified local government provides for election of legislative council members by legislative district, the legislative council may defer redistricting of legislative districts, subsequent to each decennial census by the United States Bureau of Cen…

(1) Each parking authority created under the authority of KRS 67A.914 shall constitute a public body, corporate and politic, and shall have the following powers in addition to the others granted: (a) To sue and be sued; to have a seal; to make and execute contracts and other inst…