2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 65 - GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO COUNTIES, CITIES, AND OTHER LOCAL UNITS 65.662 Creation of multicounty emergency services board -- Replacement of existing fire, ambulance, and rescue squad boards -- Boundaries -- Taxing powers -- Dissolution or alteration of boundaries.
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65.662 Creation of multicounty emergency services board -- Replacement of
existing fire, ambulance, and rescue squad boards -- Boundaries -Taxing powers -- Dissolution or alteration of boundaries.
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Two (2) or more fiscal courts of which one (1) county shall have 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 concurrent ordinances in accordance with KRS 67.075
and 67.077, merge the boards of the following special districts that are wholly
contained within their counties:
(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 courts have 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 in any of the member counties whose administration and taxing
authority are not transferred to the emergency services board, and no
boundary of a district shall exceed the boundaries of the counties that the
multicounty emergency services district represents.
A multicounty emergency services board's jurisdiction shall encompass the
boundaries of the special districts within the member counties whose boards
and taxing authority it is replacing.
A multicounty emergency services board shall have the powers that constitute
a taxing district within the meaning of Section 157 of the Constitution of
Kentucky.
If a multicounty 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 of each member county 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.
A multicounty emergency services board may be dissolved or the boundaries
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 equally by each fiscal court
formerly participating in the multicounty emergency services board.
Effective:July 14, 2000
History: Created 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 429, sec. 3, effective July 14, 2000.
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