2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 67 - COUNTY GOVERNMENT (FISCAL COURTS AND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS) 67.705 Qualifications -- Vacancy -- Salary -- Minimum annual compensation -- Exception -- Duties and salaries of judge/executive and magistrates or commissioners in county containing a consolidated local government.
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67.705 Qualifications -- Vacancy -- Salary -- Minimum annual compensation -Exception -- Duties and salaries of judge/executive and magistrates or
commissioners in county containing a consolidated local government.
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Each county shall have a chief executive officer known as the county
judge/executive. Only a resident of the county shall be eligible for election as
county judge/executive. He shall be nominated and elected by the qualified
voters of the county in the manner provided by law for the election of county
officers. In case the office of county judge/executive becomes vacant by
reason of death, resignation, or removal, it shall be filled with a person
appointed by the Governor, in accordance with Section 152 of the Constitution,
for the unexpired term. The Governor shall appoint a person to fill a vacancy in
the office of county judge/executive not later than thirty (30) days after the date
on which the vacancy occurs. If a vacancy occurs in the office of county
judge/executive, the remaining members of fiscal court shall elect one (1) of
their members to serve as temporary county judge/executive until the Governor
fills the vacancy in the office, notwithstanding the provisions of KRS 61.080(2)
to the contrary.
The county judge/executive shall receive an annual salary pursuant to the
salary schedule in KRS 64.5275, except in counties that contain an
urban-county form of government or a consolidated local government, where
the county judge/executive shall receive the salary set by the legislative body.
Except in counties containing a consolidated local government, in no event
shall the county judge/executive, justice of the peace, magistrate, or
commissioners who serve on the fiscal court holding office on January 2, 1978,
receive less than the total annual compensation received by that official during
calendar year 1976.
In a county containing a consolidated local government, the county
judge/executive and magistrates or commissioners may have those duties as
determined by ordinance of the consolidated local government and shall
receive a salary as set by the legislative council of the consolidated local
government for those duties.
Effective:July 15, 2002
History: Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 346, sec. 41, effective July 15, 2002. -Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 592, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998; and ch. 610,
sec. 6, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 384, sec. 1,
effective July 15, 1982. -- Created 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 20,
sec. 2, effective January 2. 1978.
Legislative Research Commission Note. Section 10 of Acts 1976 (Ex. Sess.), ch.
20, as amended by 4 of Acts 1982, ch. 384 provided that: "This section and
KRS 67.710 to 67.720 shall not apply in counties having an urban county form
of government. In such counties, the duties of the county judge/executive shall
be as prescribed by the comprehensive plan of such government and his salary
shall be fixed by the legislative body of such government."
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