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65.117 Notice to state local debt officer required before any financial obligation
entered into -- Administrative regulations.
(1) No city, county, urban-county, consolidated local government, charter county,
special district, or taxing district shall enter into any financing obligation of any
nature, whether evidenced by note pursuant to KRS 65.7701 to 65.7721 or
otherwise, by lease pursuant to KRS 65.940 to 65.956, under which the lease price
exceeds two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), by bond issuance pursuant to
KRS Chapter 66, or any long-term debt obligation of any sort without first notifying
the state local debt officer in writing. The Department for Local Government may
promulgate administrative regulations to develop the forms for the notification that
shall contain the relevant financial terms of the obligation, including the interest
rates or method of determining rates, the date of issue, the maturity dates, term of
obligation, renewal periods, and the trustee or paying agent, if any. No approval of
the state local debt officer shall be required, unless otherwise required by law.
(2) Any financing obligation entered into prior to July 15, 2008, shall be considered in
compliance if that notification is provided to the state local debt officer no later than
one (1) year after July 15, 2008.
Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 117, sec. 50, effective July 15, 2010. -- Created
2008 Ky. Acts ch. 35, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2008.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/2008). The phrase "prior to the passage
of this section" in subsection (2) of this section as it appears in 2008 Ky. Acts ch. 35,
sec. 1, has been codified to read "prior to July 15, 2008," the date on which the Act
became effective and the date of a corresponding reference in that same section.