2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 65 - GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO COUNTIES, CITIES, AND OTHER LOCAL UNITS 65.660 Creation of single-county emergency services board -- Replacement of existing fire, ambulance, and rescue squad boards -- Boundaries -- Taxing powers -- Dissolution or alteration of boundaries.
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65.660 Creation of single-county emergency services board -- Replacement
of existing fire, ambulance, and rescue squad boards -- Boundaries -Taxing powers -- Dissolution or alteration of boundaries.
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A fiscal court in a county with a county-wide fire protection district formed
under KRS Chapter 75 that has entered into an interlocal agreement to provide
fire service to the largest city in the county may, through the adoption of an
ordinance in accordance with KRS 67.075 and 67.077, merge the boards of the
following special districts that are wholly contained within the county:
(a) Ambulance districts created under KRS 108.080 to 108.180;
(b) Fire protection districts created under KRS 75.010 to 75.260; and
(c) Local rescue squad districts created under KRS Chapter 39F.
Once the fiscal court has merged any of the boards listed in paragraphs (a) to
(c) of subsection (1) of this section, no additional special districts listed in
paragraphs (a) to (c) of subsection (1) of this section shall be permitted to be
created whose board of directors and taxing authority are not transferred to the
emergency services board, and no boundary of a district shall exceed the
boundary of the county that the emergency services district represents.
An emergency services board's jurisdiction shall encompass the boundaries of
the special districts whose boards and taxing authority it is replacing.
An emergency services board shall have the powers that constitute a taxing
district within the meaning of Section 157 of the Constitution of Kentucky.
If an emergency services board chooses to levy the tax allowed in KRS
65.670, a certified copy of the ordinance levying the tax shall be filed with the
county clerk who shall add the levy to the tax bills of the county. For taxing
purposes, the effective date of the tax levy shall be January 1 of the year
following the certification of the creation of the emergency services board.
An emergency services board may be dissolved or the boundaries of the
districts it represents may be altered if the procedures under KRS 65.164 to
65.176 are followed. If the emergency services board is dissolved, then the
boards of the special districts of which it assumed the board duties shall be
reappointed according to statute within thirty (30) days of the emergency
services board's dissolution, and the original taxing protocol applicable to the
specific special district shall apply. Each special district shall assume that
portion of the debt attributable to its service. Any unattributable debt shall be
assumed by the fiscal court.
Effective:July 14, 2000
History: Created 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 429, sec. 2, effective July 14, 2000.
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