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220.140 Board of directors -- Management of district -- Qualifications -Appointment -- Terms -- Vacancies.
Within twenty (20) days after the commissioner certifies to the county clerk of each
county in which the district is located that the district is incorporated, there shall be
appointed a board of directors for the district, consisting of three (3) members, which
shall control and manage the affairs of the district. If the district lies wholly within a
single county, the county judge/executive of that county shall appoint all of the
directors. If the district lies within two (2) counties, the county judge/executive of the
county in which the greater portion of the population of the district resides may
appoint two (2) directors and the county judge/executive of the other county shall
appoint the third. If the district lies within more than two (2) counties, the county
judges/executive of all the counties shall jointly select the directors, but each one so
appointed must reside in a different county. Not less than two (2) of the directors
shall be freeholders, and not more than two (2) of them shall belong to or be
affiliated with the same political party. If the district is coextensive with the
boundaries of two (2) or more counties, four (4) directors shall be appointed by the
county judge/executive of the most populous county and two (2) shall be appointed
by the county judge/executive of each remaining county. All appointments by county
judges/executive shall be subject to the approval of the respective fiscal courts. In a
district which is coextensive with the boundaries of two (2) or more counties, not less
than two-thirds (2/3) of the directors shall be freeholders. No director shall be in any
way associated or connected with the ownership, operation or control of any
privately owned public utility operating within the district. The terms of office of the
first board of directors shall be two (2), three (3), and four (4) years, respectively,
from the date of their appointment, the length of the term of office of each member to
be determined by lot at their first meeting, but the individual holding such office shall
do so at the pleasure of the county judge/executive by whom he is appointed, and
he may be removed without cause, with the approval of the respective fiscal court,
by the county judge/executive by whom he was appointed and his unexpired term
filled by another appointee of such county judge/executive. After the expiration of the
respective terms of office of the first board, each director shall be appointed for a
term of four (4) years, subject to the will of the county judge/executive making the
appointment. Vacancies resulting from any cause other than expiration of term shall
be filled only for the unexpired term. The county judge/executive of the county
whose director has completed his term of office or whose office has otherwise been
vacated shall fill the vacant office, except that when the district lies within more than
three (3) counties, if each county is not represented, vacancies resulting from
expiration of term shall be filled in rotation by the county judges/executive of those
counties not represented by a director at the time a vacancy occurs. The directors
shall at all times be residents of the district, and the office of any director who moves
his residence outside the district shall automatically be vacated.
Effective:July 14, 2000
History: Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 150, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000. -Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 330, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1988. -- Amended
1956 Ky. Acts ch. 39, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1,
effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2062g-13.
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