2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 164 - STATE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES -- REGIONAL EDUCATION -- ARCHAEOLOGY 164.360 Appointment and removal of president, faculty, and employees.
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164.360 Appointment and removal of president, faculty, and employees.
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(a)
Each board of regents for the universities may appoint a president, and
on the recommendation of the president may, in its discretion, appoint all
faculty members and employees and fix their compensation and tenure of
service, subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of this section.
(b) The board of regents for the Kentucky Community and Technical College
System shall appoint a president, and on the recommendation of the
president may, in its discretion, appoint all faculty members and
employees and fix their compensation and tenure of service, subject to
the provisions of subsection (2) of this section.
No person shall be employed for a longer period than four (4) years. No person
shall be employed at an institution where his relative serves on the board of
regents for that institution.
Each board may remove the president of the university or Kentucky
Community and Technical College System, and upon the recommendation of
the president may remove any faculty member or employees, but no president
or faculty member shall be removed except for incompetency, neglect of or
refusal to perform his duty, or for immoral conduct. A president or faculty
member shall not be removed until after ten (10) days' notice in writing, stating
the nature of the charges preferred, and after an opportunity has been given
him to make defense before the board by counsel or otherwise and to
introduce testimony which shall be heard and determined by the board.
Charges against a president shall be preferred by the chairperson of the board
upon written information furnished to him, and charges against a faculty
member shall be preferred in writing by the president unless the offense is
committed in his presence.
Effective:July 1, 2006
History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 173, Pt. I, K.1.(11), sec. 1, effective March
20, 2005, until July 1, 2006. -- Amended 1997 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1,
sec. 104, effective May 30, 1997. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 10, sec. 14,
effective July 1, 1992. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 386, sec. 32. -- Recodified
1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat.
secs. 4527-44, 4527-46.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/1/2006). Because of the Governor's
partial veto #9 of 2005 HB 267, the amendment to KRS 164.360 which was
made by 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 173, Pt. I, K.1.(11), sec. 1, was only effective until
July 1, 2006. The version that was last amended by 1997 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky.
Acts ch. 1, sec. 104, and that became effective on May 30, 1997, has been
reinstated.
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