2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 67 - COUNTY GOVERNMENT (FISCAL COURTS AND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS) 67.030 Dividing county or striking off territory.
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67.030 Dividing county or striking off territory.
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When a petition, describing a particular territory of a county and signed in
person by not less than a majority of the voters living in that territory, is filed
with the county judge/executive, asking for an election on the proposition of
dividing the county or striking the described territory from the county and
attaching it to an adjoining county, the county judge/executive, by order
entered of record, shall call an election on that proposition to be held on the
day of any regular election held in the county for other than county officers if
the order is filed with the county clerk not later than the second Tuesday in
August preceding the day of the regular election. No order calling such an
election shall be legal unless it contains a specific description of the territory
proposed to be stricken or divided.
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, and by printed handbills posted at the courthouse door and at not less
than four (4) places in each precinct.
The proposition shall not be adopted unless a majority of all the legal voters of
the county voting on the question vote in favor of it.
Any portion stricken off and added to another county as a result of the election
shall be bound for all costs expended.
Effective:July 15, 1996
History: Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 195, sec. 32, effective July 15, 1996. -Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 384, sec. 140, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended
1966 Ky. Acts ch. 239, sec. 13. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1,
effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 919, 921.
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