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67.030 Dividing county or striking off territory.
(1) When a petition, describing a particular territory of a county and signed in person by
not less than a majority of the voters living in that territory, is filed with the county
judge/executive, asking for an election on the proposition of dividing the county or
striking the described territory from the county and attaching it to an adjoining
county, the county judge/executive, by order entered of record, shall call an election
on that proposition to be held on the day of any regular election held in the county
for other than county officers if the order is filed with the county clerk not later than
the second Tuesday in August preceding the day of the regular election. No order
calling such an election shall be legal unless it contains a specific description of the
territory proposed to be stricken or divided.
(2) The county judge/executive, by order entered of record, shall direct the sheriff to
advertise the election and its object by publication pursuant to KRS Chapter 424,
and by printed handbills posted at the courthouse door and at not less than four (4)
places in each precinct.
(3) The proposition shall not be adopted unless a majority of all the legal voters of the
county voting on the question vote in favor of it.
(4) Any portion stricken off and added to another county as a result of the election shall
be bound for all costs expended.
Effective: July 15, 1996
History: Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 195, sec. 32, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended
1978 Ky. Acts ch. 384, sec. 140, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1966 Ky. Acts
ch. 239, sec. 13. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1,
1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 919, 921.