KRS § 67.240 Certification of results of election -- Appointment of commissions to lay off justices' districts and select choice of names and county seats.
AI-assisted research summary: County election commissioners must certify election results to each county judge/executive, and if consolidation is approved, county and state officials must appoint commissions and complete county-organization filings on set deadlines.
67.240 Certification of results of election -- Appointment of commissions to lay off justices' districts and select choice of names and county seats. (1) The result of the election in each county shall be certified by the county election commissioners to the county judge/executive in each county. If a majority of the voters of each county, voting on the proposition, approve the consolidation, the county judge/executive of each county shall, within thirty (30) days after the election, appoint a commission to be composed of three (3) voters of the county for the purpose of dividing the area of the new county into districts for the election of members of the fiscal court for the new county. The said commissions representing the two (2) counties shall meet together within fifteen (15) days after their appointment and proceed to divide the area of the new county into three (3) districts, each to be as nearly equal in area and population as possible. The commissions also shall select not less than two (2) and not more than three (3) names for the new county, and shall select not less than two (2) nor more than three (3) sites for the county seat of the new county. The report of the commissions, which shall act jointly, shall be filed with the county judge/executive of each county not less than ninety (90) days after the appointment of the commissions. (2) If, at the expiration of ninety (90) days after the six (6) commissioners have been appointed as provided for herein, a majority of said commissioners have failed to agree upon the selection of three (3) names for the proposed county or three (3) places for the county seat to be submitted to the voters of the county as provided for in KRS 67.260, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky shall appoint a seventh person to act as chairman of said board of commissioners and said chairman shall not have a vote on any question except in case of a tie vote. The report of the commissions, when a chairman is appointed, shall be filed with the county judge/executive of each county not less than thirty (30) days after appointment of the chairman. Effective: June 17, 1978 History: Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 384, sec. 151, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 20, sec. 6, effective January 2, 1978. -- Created 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 48, sec. 6.