KRS 160.048: Transfer of area containing school outside district.

(1) The General Assembly hereby finds that from time to time various school boards, in

the exercise of their administrative discretion, have determined that their school

districts would be most efficiently administered if one (1) or more of the district's

schools were constructed and operated on land located outside the school districts'

boundaries. The General Assembly further finds that this has been desirable and in

furtherance of an efficient system of common schools. As urbanization increases,

and school d istricts throughout the Commonwealth become more densely

populated, available school sites within such districts will proportionately diminish,

and it will with increasing frequency be necessary to construct schools on land not

within the district of the s chool board constructing such schools. When a school is

so located, it is more efficient for the school district constructing the school, but it is

less efficient for the statewide system of common schools and for the children

residing in the immediate neighborhood of the new school, who reside in a different

school district, and therefore must be transported to other, more distant schools.

This situation results in an inefficient utilization of state and local school funds and

school facilities, and is a r esult of the artificially -drawn school district boundary

lines. The General Assembly further finds that the discretionary method of transfer

presently provided by KRS 160.045 is not adequate to assure an efficient operation

of the common schools, and that it is desirable to provide for mandatory transfer of

such areas. Pursuant to section 183 of the Kentucky Constitution, the General

Assembly declares that such situations are special situations and require special

treatment. It is the intent of the General Assembly to provide by this statute a

special method whereby such areas may be transferred to the school district

operating the school or schools.

(2) If seventy-five percent (75%) of either the registered voters or property owners in an

area adjacent to a school district other than the district in which such area is located

and in which area there is located a school owned and operated by such adjacent

school district petition the school board of the school district which owns and

operates such school and the school board of the school district in which such area

is located for the transfer of such area from the school district in which it is located

to the school district which owns and operates such school, then such area shall be

so transferred.

(3) The effective date of such transfer shall be sixty (60) days after the date on which

the petition is filed with the two (2) school boards; personal delivery of said petition

to any member of the school board or to the superintendent of the school district

shall constitute "filing" for purposes of this section. Provided, that if such effective

date falls during a term of the school district in which such area is located, the two

(2) school boards involved may, by agreement, defer the effective date of such

transfer until the end of said term.

(4) The terms and conditions of such transfer shall be determined in the manner

provided for the determination of the terms and conditions of transfer under KRS

160.045, except that the chief state school officer, the Kentuc ky Board of

Education, and the respective reviewing courts shall have no power to disapprove

such transfer.

(5) Upon such transfer, the recipient district shall assume a portion of the bonded

indebtedness of the losing district, as provided in KRS 160.065; such bonds shall

remain the obligation of the issuing agency, and shall not be affected in any way by

such transfer, except that each year the recipient district shall pay to the losing

district a sum of money sufficient to make the payments on the portio n of such

indebtedness assumed by the recipient district, and such annual payments shall

continue until all of the bonded indebtedness outstanding at the time of the transfer

is paid in full.

(6) The method of transfer provided in this section shall be an alternative method to

that set forth in KRS 160.045, and this section shall have no effect whatsoever on

KRS 160.045.