77.065 County officers are ex officio officers and other personnel of district -- Exception for county containing city of first or second class or consolidated local government -- Effect of compact -- - Kentucky Statutes

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77.065 County officers are ex officio officers and other personnel of district -- Exception for county containing city of first or second class or consolidated
local government -- Effect of compact -- Employees of district upon
establishment of consolidated local government. (1) 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. (2) 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. (3) The provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall not be applicable to any county containing a city of the first or second class or a consolidated local
government. (4) 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 secretary-
treasurer 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: July 15, 2002
History: 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.