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220.170 Officers of board -- Seal -- Records -- Powers -- Compensation -Regulations -- Resolution of complaints.
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The board of directors shall, upon taking oath, elect one (1) of their members
as president of the board, and shall select some suitable person as secretary,
who need not be a member of the board. The secretary shall serve as
treasurer of the district, or the board may select a treasurer. The selection of
the secretary and treasurer shall be evidenced on the minutes of the board,
with their compensation. They shall serve at the pleasure of the board.
The board shall adopt a seal, and shall keep in a well-bound book a record of
all proceedings, minutes of meetings, certificates, contracts, bonds given by
employees, and all corporate acts, which shall be open to the inspection of any
owner of property in the district as well as all other interested persons.
The board of directors shall be the governing body of the sanitation district and
shall exercise all the powers and manage and control all the affairs and
property of the district. If the board of a multicounty district governed by the
provisions of KRS 220.135 has an executive committee, each county shall
have a member on the committee.
The board of directors may prescribe the duties and fix the compensation of all
the officers of the district, subject to the limits fixed in this section. No member
of the board of directors, except the president, shall receive more than thirty-six
hundred dollars ($3,600) per annum. The president shall receive not more than
six hundred dollars ($600) per annum in addition to his compensation as a
director. The treasurer shall receive not more than nine hundred dollars ($900)
and the secretary not more than three hundred dollars ($300) per annum.
The board may adopt all necessary rules and regulations for the proper
management and conduct of the business of the board and of the corporation,
and for carrying into effect the other objects for which the district was formed.
All such rules or regulations shall become effective only upon posting in at
least ten (10) public places within the district.
The board of directors of an established district shall develop a procedure to
hear, review, and resolve customers' complaints and grievances on any matter
for which there is otherwise no requirement in this chapter for a hearing. Upon
written request setting forth the basis of the complaint or grievance by the
customer, mailed or delivered to the principal office of the district, the secretary
of the board of directors shall schedule a hearing for the next regular board of
directors' meeting if the meeting is not held within fourteen (14) days of the
date of receipt of the request, and shall give the customer at least ten (10)
days' written notice of the hearing by mail. If the receipt of the request is within
fourteen (14) days of the next regularly scheduled meeting of the board of
directors, the hearing shall be held at the regular meeting following the next
scheduled meeting. The board of directors shall provide a written response to
the customer concerning his complaint within seven (7) days after the
conclusion of the hearing unless the customer waives his right to a written
response or agrees to a delay.
Effective:July 15, 1994
History: Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 307, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1994; and
ch. 490, sec. 6, effective July 15, 1994. -- Amended 1956 Ky. Acts ch. 211,
sec. 1, effective May 18, 1956. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1,
effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 2062g-16, 2062g-18, 2062g-19,
2062g-20.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/94). This section was amended by
1994 Ky. Acts chs. 307 and 490 which do not appear to be in conflict and have
been codified together.
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