KRS 220.060: Defects in petition may be corrected -- Joint petitions.

No petition with the requisite number of valid signatures shall be declared void on

account of alleged defects, but the commissioner may at any time permit the petition to be

amended in form and substance to conform to the facts, by correcting any errors i n the

description of the territory or in any other particular, but shall not add or deduct area

except as provided in KRS 220.080. Several similar petitions or duplicate copies of the

same petition for the organization of the same district may be filed and shall together be

regarded as one (1) petition. All such petitions filed shall be considered the same as

though filed with the first petition placed on file.