KRS § 220.140 — KY Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 220 / Section 220.140
220.140 Board of directors -- Management of district -- Qualifications -- Appointment -- Terms -- Vacancies
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220.140 Board of directors -- Management of district -- Qualifications --

Appointment -- Terms -- Vacancies.

Within twenty (20) days after the commissioner certifies to the county clerk of each

county in which the district is located that the district is incorporated, there shall be

appointed a board of directors for the district, consisting of three (3) members, which

shall control and manage the affairs of the district. If the district lies wholly within a

single county, the county judge/executive of that county shall appoint all of the directors.

If the district lies within two (2) counties, the county judge/executive of the county in

which the greater portion of the population of the district resides may appoint two (2)

directors and the county judge/executive of the other county shall appoint the third. If the

district lies within more than two (2) counties, the county judges/executive of all the

counties shall jointly select the directors, but each one so appointed must reside in a

different county. Not less than two (2) of the directors shall be freeholders, and not more

than two (2) of them shall belong to or be affiliated with the same political party. If the

district is coextensive with the boundaries of two (2) or more counties, four (4) directors

shall be appointed by the county judge/executive of the most populous county and two (2)

shall be appointed by the county judge/executive of each remaining county. All

appointments by county judges/executive shall be subject to the approval of the respective

fiscal courts. In a district which is coextensive with the boundaries of two (2) or more

counties, not less than two-thirds (2/3) of the directors shall be freeholders. No director

shall be in any way associated or connected with the ownership, operation or control of

any privately owned public utility operating within the district. The terms of office of the

first board of directors shall be two (2), three (3), and four (4) years, respectively, from

the date of their appointment, the length of the term of office of each member to be

determined by lot at their first meeting, but the individual holding such office shall do so

at the pleasure of the county judge/executive by whom he is appointed, and he may be

removed without cause, with the approval of the respective fiscal court, by the county

judge/executive by whom he was appointed and his unexpired term filled by another

appointee of such county judge/executive. After the expiration of the respective terms of

office of the first board, each director shall be appointed for a term of four (4) years,

subject to the will of the county judge/executive making the appointment. Vacancies

resulting from any cause other than expiration of term shall be filled only for the

unexpired term. The county judge/executive of the county whose director has completed

his term of office or whose office has otherwise been vacated shall fill the vacant office,

except that when the district lies within more than three (3) counties, if each county is not

represented, vacancies resulting from expiration of term shall be filled in rotation by the

county judges/executive of those counties not represented by a director at the time a

vacancy occurs. The directors shall at all times be residents of the district, and the office

of any director who moves his residence outside the district shall automatically be

vacated.