KRS 161.810: Continuance of status in case of annexation or consolidation of schools.

If an entire school district or that part of a school district which comprises the territory in

which a school or schools are situated is transferred to any other district, or if the schools

in an independent or county school district are consolidated or c entralized, the teachers in

such consolidated or centralized schools employed on continuing contracts immediately

prior to such transfer, consolidation, or centralization shall, subject to the limitations

imposed by KRS 161.800, have continuing service sta tus in the newly centralized or

consolidated school, or in the district to which the territory is transferred.