KRS 173.800: Procedure for dissolution of district.

A district may be dissolved in the following manner:

(1) Upon filing of a duly -certified petition of fifty -one percent (51%) of the number of

qualified voters who voted in the last general election in the district, the fiscal court

of each county in the district shall adopt a resolution to dissolve a library district.

(2) The petition shall be in substantially the following form: "The following qualified

voters in (insert name of county or counties) favor dissolving the (insert name of

district) Public Libr ary District." It shall be presented to the fiscal court within

ninety (90) days after having been signed by the first petitioner.

(3) A certified copy of the order of the fiscal court shall be filed with the county clerk.

(4) The county clerk or clerks in the district will thereupon remove the tax levy from

the tax bills of the property owners of the district and the district shall be dissolved.

(5) A petition for dissolution will not be considered of any legal effect if, at any time

prior to the filing of such a petition for dissolution, either:

(a) Contractual obligations have been assumed by pertinent contracting parties in

connection with said subject library, which contractual obligations would be

adversely affected by any such dissolution; or

(b) If, as of the time of filing of such a petition for dissolution, the board of such

district shall have arranged for the financing of a library in that district

pursuant to a plan of financing involving a lease of that library to the board

under which lease the board is not bound for more than one (1) year at a time

without exercising an annual option to renew the lease and such lease remains

effective and has not been terminated; or

(c) If less than three (3) years have passed since the certified copy of the or der of

the fiscal court ordering the levy of the tax was filed with the county clerk.

(6) After all contractual obligations, existing prior to the time of the attempted filing of

such petition for dissolution, have been satisfied, then, at such time, a pet ition for

dissolution may be effectively filed under this section, provided that other

provisions of this section are complied with.