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67.020 Removal of county seat.
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When a petition, signed in person by a number of legal voters of the county
equal to twenty-five percent (25%) of the number of votes cast in the county at
the last general election for county officers, is filed with the county
judge/executive, asking for an election on the proposition of removing the
county seat, the county judge/executive, by orders entered of record, shall call
an election on that proposition to be held on the day of the next general
election for county officers that does not occur within less than ninety (90) days
from the filing of the petition. No order calling such an election shall be legal
unless the place to which the county seat is proposed to be removed is
specified in the petition and in the order calling the election.
The county judge/executive, by order entered of record, shall direct the sheriff
to advertise the election and its object by publication pursuant to KRS chapter
424.
If two-thirds (2/3) of all legal voters who vote at the election vote for removal,
the fiscal court shall provide for the removal of the county seat.
Elections under this section shall not be held oftener than once every ten (10)
years in the same county.
Effective:June 17, 1978
History: Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 384, sec. 139, effective June 17, 1978. -Amended 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 239, sec. 12. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208,
sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 915, 917.
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