65.662 Creation of multicounty emergency services board -- Replacement of existing fire, ambulance, and rescue squad boards -- Boundaries -- Taxing powers -- Dissolution or alteration of boundaries. - Kentucky Statutes

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Page 1 of 1 65.662 Creation of multicounty emergency services board -- Replacement of existing fire, ambulance, and rescue squad boards -- Boundaries -- Taxing
powers -- Dissolution or alteration of boundaries. (1) Two (2) or more fiscal courts of which one (1) county shall have a county-wide fire protection district formed under KRS Chapter 75 that has entered into an interlocal
agreement to provide fire service to the largest city in the county may, through the
adoption of concurrent ordinances in accordance with KRS 67.075 and 67.077,
merge the boards of the following special districts that are wholly contained within
their counties:
(a) Ambulance districts created under KRS 108.080 to 108.180;
(b) Fire protection districts created under KRS 75.010 to 75.260; and
(c) Local rescue squad districts created under KRS Chapter 39F. (2) Once the fiscal courts have merged any of the boards listed in paragraphs (a) to (c) of subsection (1) of this section, no additional special districts listed in paragraphs
(a) to (c) of subsection (1) of this section shall be permitted to be created in any of
the member counties whose administration and taxing authority are not transferred
to the emergency services board, and no boundary of a district shall exceed the
boundaries of the counties that the multicounty emergency services district
represents. (3) A multicounty emergency services board's jurisdiction shall encompass the boundaries of the special districts within the member counties whose boards and
taxing authority it is replacing. (4) A multicounty emergency services board shall have the powers that constitute a taxing district within the meaning of Section 157 of the Constitution of Kentucky. (5) If a multicounty emergency services board chooses to levy the tax allowed in KRS 65.670, a certified copy of the ordinance levying the tax shall be filed with the
county clerk of each member county who shall add the levy to the tax bills of the
county. For taxing purposes, the effective date of the tax levy shall be January 1 of
the year following the certification of the creation of the emergency services board. (6) A multicounty emergency services board may be dissolved or the boundaries altered if the procedures under KRS 65.164 to 65.176 are followed. If the emergency
services board is dissolved, then the boards of the special districts of which it
assumed the board duties shall be reappointed according to statute within thirty (30)
days of the emergency services board's dissolution, and the original taxing protocol
applicable to the specific special district shall apply. Each special district shall
assume that portion of the debt attributable to its service. Any unattributable debt
shall be assumed equally by each fiscal court formerly participating in the
multicounty emergency services board. Effective: July 14, 2000
History: Created 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 429, sec. 3, effective July 14, 2000.