KRS 162.020: Transfer of property from one district to another -- Title not affected --

District may own school in another district.

(1) The title to school property in territory transferred from one (1) school district to

another shall not be affected by the tr ansfer. In case of the sale of such property the

board of education to which the property belongs may allow a credit on the sale

price of the property in proportion to the ratio which the school population of the

transferred territory is to the total schoo l population of the district from which the

territory was transferred before the transfer was made.

(2) A board of education owning and operating a school plant in another district on

June 14, 1934, may continue to own and operate the plant, and a county b oard of

education may establish and maintain a school in an independent school district.

Any independent school district may purchase school sites and establish and

maintain schools outside the limits of the independent district, but independent

districts containing cities of the first class or designated cities shall not purchase

school sites or establish or maintain schools outside the county in which the

independent district is located.

(3) As used in this section, "designated city" means a city classifi ed as a city of the

second class as of January 1, 2014, under the city classification system in effect

prior to January 1, 2015. The Department of Education shall, on or before January

1, 2015, create an official registry listing the cities that qualify as a "designated city"

under this section and shall publish that registry on its Web site.