2021 Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 77 - Air pollution control 77.065 County officers are ex officio officers and other personnel of district -- Exception for county containing city of first class or consolidated local government or county where largest city has population of 20,000 or more -- Effect of compact -- Employees of district upon establishment of consolidated local government.
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77.065 County officers are ex officio officers and other personnel of district -Exception for county containing city of first class or consolidated local
government or county where largest city has population of 20,000 or more -Effect of compact -- Employees of district upon establishment of consolidated
local government.
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(2)
(3)
(4)
The members of the fiscal court of a county shall be, and they are hereby designated
as, and empowered to act as, ex officio the air pollution control board of the air
pollution control district in such county.
All county officers, their assistants, clerks, deputies, and employees, and all other
county employees shall be ex officio officers, assistants, deputies, clerks, and
employees respectively of the air pollution control district in the county in which
they are employed. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, they shall perform
respectively the same various duties for the air pollution control district as for the
county without additional compensation, in order to carry out the provisions of this
chapter.
The provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall not be applicable to
any county containing a city of the first class, or a consolidated local government, or
to a county where the largest city in that county contains a population equal to or
greater than twenty thousand (20,000) based upon the most recent federal decennial
census.
Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, whenever a city of the
first class and a county containing such city have in effect a compact under KRS
79.310 to 79.330, the county shall provide all staff support, including a secretarytreasurer and an air pollution control officer, to the air pollution control board
through county officers, assistants, clerks, deputies and employees. In such case, the
staff of the air pollution control board, including the secretary-treasurer and the air
pollution control officer, shall be deemed county employees and shall be subject to
the control of fiscal court. At the time the compact takes effect, the employees of
the air pollution control district shall be transferred to the service of the county
government; provided that all such employees who are in the classified service at
such time shall be continued in the classified service administered by county
government. Upon the establishment of a consolidated local government in a county
where a city of the first class and a county containing that city have had in effect a
cooperative compact pursuant to KRS 79.310 to 79.330, the employees of an air
pollution control district shall be deemed to be employees of the consolidated local
government and the provisions of this subsection shall be applied to the
consolidated local government.
Effective: January 1, 2015
History: Amended 2014 Ky. Acts ch. 92, sec. 67, effective January 1, 2015. -Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 346, sec. 79, effective July 15, 2002. -- Amended 1986
Ky. Acts ch. 77, sec. 12, effective July 15, 1986. -- Created 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 53,
sec. 15, effective March 14, 1952.
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