KRS 164.027: Occupational qualification development program -- State payments to

participating municipal junior colleges.

(1) The Council on Postsecondary Education shall have authority to provide for a

program of occupational qualification development in the Comm onwealth. The

program may be provided for by contract with any recognized and accredited

municipal junior college located within the Commonwealth. The contract shall

provide that the college shall admit to its course of instruction, up to such

percentage of its full teaching capacity as may be fixed by contract, residents of the

Commonwealth who make application to pursue the course of study of the college;

provided, however, that the persons shall be classified as residents according to

council administrative regulations and shall be eligible for admissions to the junior

college.

(2) The Council on Postsecondary Education shall pay to the college not more than two

hundred dollars ($200) per school year for each student enrolled. The payments

shall be additional to the annual tuition fees paid by each student. The council shall

have authority to provide by contract that it pay the expense of specific research

projects or programs conducted by the college. The council shall make an annual

report of its occupat ional qualification development program after June 30 of each

year, including an accounting of all moneys received and disbursed. The council

shall have no authority to incur any obligation in excess of the sums that have been

appropriated to it.