2021 Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 65 - General provisions applicable to counties, cities, and other local units 65.243 Status and authorities of interlocal agency created by interlocal agreement -- Interlocal agreement controls if more restrictive than KRS 65.210 to 65.300 -- Status and authorities are cumulative -- No statutory power to tax granted to interlocal agency -- Interlocal agency deemed a public agency.
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65.243 Status and authorities of interlocal agency created by interlocal agreement - Interlocal agreement controls if more restrictive than KRS 65.210 to 65.300 -Status and authorities are cumulative -- No statutory power to tax granted to
interlocal agency -- Interlocal agency deemed a public agency.
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An interlocal agency created by the interlocal agreement shall constitute an agency
and instrumentality of the public agencies party to the interlocal agreement for the
purpose of performing the essential governmental functions and the public purposes
authorized by the interlocal agreement.
Unless restricted, limited, or otherwise conditioned under the terms of the interlocal
agreement, an interlocal agency is authorized to exercise any powers not in conflict
with local, state, or federal law or in conflict with the interlocal agreement that are
necessary and convenient to accomplish the purposes for which the interlocal
agency was created.
To the extent that any of the provisions of the interlocal agreement are more
restrictive, or limit the powers, privileges, or authority of the interlocal agency that
are otherwise allowed by KRS 65.210 to 65.300, the provisions of the interlocal
agreement shall control.
The status and authorities of an interlocal agency granted in this section, unless
limited by the interlocal agreement, is cumulative and in addition to the powers and
authority of an interlocal agency that may otherwise exist and that are granted or
implied under any other laws of the Commonwealth to a specific type of public
body that may also function as an interlocal agency under KRS 65.210 to 65.300.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to grant an interlocal agency the ability to
levy a tax.
An interlocal agency created by an interlocal agreement shall be deemed to be a
public agency as defined in KRS 61.805 and 61.870, and as such shall be subject to
KRS 61.800 to 61.850 and 61.870 to 61.884.
Effective: July 15, 2020
History: Created 2020 Ky. Acts ch. 98, sec. 7, effective July 15, 2020.
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