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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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