KRS 212.040: Establishment for one county by fiscal court -- Appropriation.

The fiscal court of any county may by resolution at a regular session declare that the

county shall be a district for the creation, establishment and maintenance of a county

health department. Upon the resolution being passed, the fiscal court shall at onc e, out of

the funds of the county, appropriate a sufficient amount for the creation, establishment

and maintenance of the county health department. If there are not sufficient funds on hand

for such appropriation at the time the resolution is adopted, the fiscal court shall, at the

next succeeding county levy, make a levy sufficient to produce the necessary amount of

tax for the creation, establishment and maintenance of the county health department. The

fiscal court shall annually thereafter make a levy su fficient to pay the annual expense of

maintenance of the county health department. After the resolution creating the department

is entered, any twenty (20) legal voters may, within thirty (30) days, file with the county

judge/executive a petition signed by them requesting that the establishment of the county

health department be done by the vote of the people of the county as provided in KRS

212.080, in which case it shall be so done.