KRS 210.380: Community board programs for mental health or individuals with an

intellectual disability -- Establishment -- Membership.

Every combination of cities and counties establishing a regional community services

program for mental health or individuals wi th an intellectual disability shall, before it

comes within the provisions of KRS 210.370 to 210.460, establish a community board for

mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability consisting of at least nine (9)

members. When a nonprofit cor poration is the administrator of such a program not

established by a combination of either cities or counties, such corporation shall select a

community board for mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability which

shall be representative of the groups herein enumerated, but the number of members need

not be nine (9). When any combination of cities and counties establishes a regional

community services program for mental health or individuals with an intellectual

disability, the chief executive officer of each participating city or county shall appoint two

(2) members to a selecting committee which shall select the members of the board.

Membership of the community boards for mental health or individuals with an

intellectual disability shall be representative of the elected chief executives of county

governments, local health departments, medical societies, county welfare boards, hospital

boards, lay associations concerned with mental health and intellectual disabilities as well

as labor, business and civic groups, and the general public.