KRS 266.100: Board of levee commissioners -- Appointment -- Terms -- Removal of

members.

(1) The county judge/executive shall, upon the creation of a levee district as provided in

KRS 65.182 and 266.010 and every four (4) years thereafter, appoint five (5)

resident landowners of the vicinity of the levee to be known as the board of levee

commissioners. The commissioners shall serve for a term of four (4) years and until

their successors are appointed. The county judge/executive shall fill any vacancies

in the board. All appointments to the board shall be subject to the approval of the

fiscal court.

(2) Members of the board of levee commissioners may be removed from office as

provided by KRS 65.007.

(3) When a multicounty levee district is established the board shall be appointed by the

county judges/executive of the counties involved. Appointme nts shall be

apportioned among the counties in ratio to the portion of the levee to be constructed

within each county.

(4) The board of levee commissioners is a body politic, with the status of a corporation,

and in its corporate name may do everything aut horized by law with reference to

public levees.