KRS 216.323: District board -- Membership -- Number, how determined -- Removal of

members.

(1) Where there is only one (1) participating county in the district, the county

judge/executive, with the approval of the fiscal court of the participating county

shall app oint five (5) members of the district board. Where there are two (2) or

more counties participating in the district the board shall consist of at least one (1)

but not more than four (4) persons from each participating county, the total

membership of the b oard to consist of not less than five (5) persons. Where a

participating county in a district in which more than one (1) county is participating

has a population of seventy -five thousand (75,000) or less, that county shall be

allowed one (1) board member. Where a participating county in a district in which

one (1) or more county is participating has a population in excess of seventy -five

thousand (75,000) the county shall be allowed a board member for each forty

thousand (40,000) or a portion thereof, of po pulation in excess of seventy -five

thousand (75,000) of population, but not to exceed four (4) members in all.

(2) Where, after each county in the district has appointed the number of board members

that it is allowed to appoint, the board consists of fewer than five (5) members the

secretary shall recommend a number of persons from the district at large suitable for

appointment to the board equal to twice the difference between the number already

appointed and five (5). The board members appointed by the co unty

judges/executive shall elect to the membership on the board one -half (1/2) of those

recommended by the secretary. The length of the term of no member shall be

determined as required by KRS 216.325 until the full membership of the board has

been appointed. The successors of the members from the district at large shall be

appointed in the same manner as the original members from the district at large.

Population shall be determined by the most recent decennial report of the United

States Census Bureau.

(3) A member of the board may be removed from office as provided by KRS 65.007.