2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 67 - COUNTY GOVERNMENT (FISCAL COURTS AND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS) 67.240 Certification of results of election -- Appointment of commissions to lay off justices' districts and select choice of names and county seats.
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67.240 Certification of results of election -- Appointment of commissions to
lay off justices' districts and select choice of names and county seats.
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The result of the election in each county shall be certified by the county
election commissioners to the county judge/executive in each county. If a
majority of the voters of each county, voting on the proposition, approve the
consolidation, the county judge/executive of each county shall, within thirty (30)
days after the election, appoint a commission to be composed of three (3)
voters of the county for the purpose of dividing the area of the new county into
districts for the election of members of the fiscal court for the new county. The
said commissions representing the two (2) counties shall meet together within
fifteen (15) days after their appointment and proceed to divide the area of the
new county into three (3) districts, each to be as nearly equal in area and
population as possible. The commissions also shall select not less than two (2)
and not more than three (3) names for the new county, and shall select not less
than two (2) nor more than three (3) sites for the county seat of the new county.
The report of the commissions, which shall act jointly, shall be filed with the
county judge/executive of each county not less than ninety (90) days after the
appointment of the commissions.
If, at the expiration of ninety (90) days after the six (6) commissioners have
been appointed as provided for herein, a majority of said commissioners have
failed to agree upon the selection of three (3) names for the proposed county
or three (3) places for the county seat to be submitted to the voters of the
county as provided for in KRS 67.260, the Governor of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky shall appoint a seventh person to act as chairman of said board of
commissioners and said chairman shall not have a vote on any question
except in case of a tie vote. The report of the commissions, when a chairman is
appointed, shall be filed with the county judge/executive of each county not
less than thirty (30) days after appointment of the chairman.
Effective:June 17, 1978
History: Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 384, sec. 151, effective June 17, 1978. -Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 20, sec. 6, effective January 2,
1978. -- Created 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 48, sec. 6.
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