KRS 179.020: County road engineer or supervisor.

(1) The county judge/executive of each county, with the consent of the fiscal court, may

employ a county road engineer. Any person so employed shall be either a civil or

highway engineer licensed in accordance with KRS Chapter 322, or a person who

successfully passed an examination for county road engineer under this section prior

to March 24, 1950, and who qualified and served as such.

(2) If the fiscal court does not provide for a county road engineer, the duties of the

county road engineer, except insofar as they may be in conflict with the provisions

of KRS Chapter 322, shall be performed by a county road supervisor, who shall be

employed by the county judge/executive with the consent of the fiscal court, and

who may be removed in the same manner provided fo r county road engineers. No

person shall be employed as county road supervisor unless he meets the following

requirements:

(a) He has at least three (3) years' practical road building experience of a nature

satisfactory to examining authorities selected by the Department of Highways

for the Commonwealth of Kentucky; and

(b) He has passed an examination, either oral or written, or both, given by the

examining authorities, and has received a certificate of qualification from the

authorities.

(3) The county su rveyor may be employed as county road engineer, if qualified under

subsection (1) of this section, or as county road supervisor if qualified under

subsection (2) of this section, and for his services as engineer or supervisor he shall

receive a salary in a ddition to fees allowed by law for his services as county

surveyor.

(4) When no qualified applicant who is acceptable to the fiscal court is available for

employment, the county judge/executive, with the consent of the fiscal court, may

employ a temporary supervisor not qualified under subsection (2) of this section for

a period of three (3) months, but in no event shall a temporary supervisor be used

for more than three (3) months during any one (1) term of a county judge/executive.

(5) This section shall not be construed to prohibit the supervision of the construction

and maintenance of roads, without additional compensation, by the county

judge/executive, or by committees of the fiscal court, in counties where the position

of road engineer or road supervisor has not been established by the fiscal court.

(6) Two (2) or more counties, by a contract approved by order of the fiscal court of

each of the counties, may authorize the county judges/executive of the contracting

counties to employ the same employee a s county road engineer or county road

supervisor to serve in all counties so contracting, and for the apportionment of the

amount of his salary to be paid by each county.

(7) The period of employment for any county road engineer or county road supervisor

shall be two (2) or four (4) years, in the discretion of the fiscal court, beginning with

the second Tuesday in January of an odd -numbered year. Other terms of

employment, and the salaries of all persons employed under the provisions of this

section, shall be fixed by the fiscal court.

(8) Those persons serving as a county road engineer or supervisor on July 15, 1998,

shall continue to serve in that capacity until the second Tuesday in January of 1999,

at which time the position of county road engineer or su pervisor shall be

reappointed for a period of employment as provided in subsection (7) of this

section.