2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 67A - URBAN-COUNTY GOVERNMENT
67A.028 Legislative finding of fact -- Correctional services division permitted -- Duties of sheriff and jailer.
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-- Duties of sheriff and jailer.
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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky determines as a
legislative finding of fact that the needs of large urban areas in the field of
detention, institutionalization, and rehabilitation of offenders and public wards
are more specialized, acute, and distinct than the needs of smaller
communities, and require programs peculiarly suited to the needs of large,
urban areas, and that in order to protect, enhance, and maintain the public
safety, health, and general welfare, it is necessary that legislative bodies of
counties containing an urban-county government, where the constitutional
offices of sheriff and jailer have been consolidated, be empowered to create
correctional services divisions which shall be divisions of urban-county
government, and which will be vested with the duty, responsibility, and power
to maintain and operate all of the correctional, detention, and rehabilitative
facilities of these counties in a professional and competent manner.
A correctional services division may be established by ordinance of the
legislative body of any county containing an urban-county government in which
the constitutional offices of sheriff and jailer have been consolidated as
provided in Section 105 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
A division shall, upon its creation, have all of the duties, responsibilities, and
liabilities of the sheriff and jailer as set forth and contained in the Kentucky
Revised Statutes, with reference to the operation and maintenance of the
county jail and all county correctional facilities. The sheriff and jailer shall,
notwithstanding any other statutory provision to the contrary, have no further
responsibility, duty, and liability for the performance of statutory duties on a
personal basis. The sheriff shall be required to annually inspect all county
correctional facilities and render a written report to the urban-county
government legislative body and to the commissioner of the Department of
Corrections regarding the general operation of all correctional facilities. The
report shall furnish, in detail, information regarding the number of prisoners,
detainees, and public wards who are inmates of each correctional facility; the
offenses or causes for their incarceration; the length of stay; and further reports
regarding rehabilitative programs instituted and being carried on by the division
as may be required for a complete accounting and report.
The correctional services division shall, subject to the approval and
authorization of the legislative body of the urban-county government, generally
administer, operate, and maintain all county correctional facilities, and
formulate and implement necessary correctional and rehabilitative programs.
All employees of the division, including the director, shall be members of the
classified civil service system established pursuant to KRS 67A.210 et seq.
Effective:January 3, 1994
History: Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 211, sec. 14, effective July 14, 1992. -Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 138, sec. 1, effective January 3, 1994.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/14/92). The amendment of this section
by 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 211, sec. 14, did not operate to accelerate the effective
date of this section. See KRS 446.320.
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