KRS 154.40-020: Eastern Kentucky Exposition Center Corporation.

(1) The Eastern Kentucky Exposition Center Corporation is created and established as

an independent, de jure municipal corporation and political subdivision of the

Commonwealth that shall be a public body corporate and politic. The corporation

shall develop, operate, and manage the Eastern Kentucky Exposition Center funded

by 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 549, Part II, Section F, Item 1(e) and Part II, Section S, Item

2(a)236. The corporation shall be attached to the Tourism, Arts and Heritage

Cabinet for administrative purposes.

(2) The corporation shall be a participating agency in the Kentucky Employees

Retirement System. Its employees shall be considered state employees for the

purpose of participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System and shall be

entitled to the requirements and benefits provided to other system participants.