KRS 67.060: County commissioners -- Election, term, qualifications.

(1) If a majority of the votes cast at an election held under KRS 67.050 are in favor of

the fiscal court being composed of the county judge/executive and three (3)

commissioners, the county judge/executive shall, no later than the first Monday in

January in the year of the regular election for county officers, divide the county into

three (3) districts as nearly equal in population as practicable, and shall establish the

boundary lines of each of the three (3) commissioner districts so that each district is

an unbroken area and not split or divided by another commissioner district. At the

next regular election for county officers, and every four (4) years thereafter, there

shall be elected by the voters of the entire county three (3) commissioners, one (1)

from each district who, with the county judge/executive, shall constitute the fiscal

court.

(2) (a) In any county containing a city of the first class, which county has heretofore

voted in favor of a fiscal court composed of the county judge/executive and

three (3) county commissioners, the county judge/executive shall divide the

county into three (3) districts as provided in subsection (1) of this section, the

districts to be designated for identification purposes by the letters A, B and C,

respectively.

(b) The three (3) commissioners shall be elected by the qualified voters of the

county at large at regular elections held every four (4) years. One

commissioner shall represent District A and shall be elected at the regular

election in the year 1973, and two (2 ) commissioners who shall represent

Districts B and C, respectively, shall be elected at the regular election in the

year 1975.

(3) Persons seeking the nomination of a political party as candidate for the office of

county commissioner shall, where a primar y election is required for such political

party, be voted upon exclusively by the eligible voters of the district in which the

person resides and seeks to represent. Persons seeking the nomination of a minor

political party persons who file as independent candidates or persons seeking the

nomination in counties containing a city with a population equal to or greater than

eight thousand (8,000) as determined by the most recent federal decennial census

but not a city of the first class shall not be subject to the provisions of this

paragraph. They shall be nominated by the voters of the entire county.

(4) To be eligible for election as a commissioner representing one of the three (3)

districts, a person shall have been a bona fide resident of the district he p roposes to

represent for at least one (1) year immediately preceding the election, and, upon

election, shall continue to reside within the district he was elected to represent for

the duration of his term of office, under penalty of forfeiture of the office.

(5) Commissioners elected under this section shall take the oath of office and enter

upon the discharge of their duties on the first Monday in January after their election,

and shall serve for terms of four (4) years and until their successors are elect ed and

qualify, or until the effective date of a return to a fiscal court composed of justices

of the peace and the county judge/executive.

(6) No person is eligible to be a county commissioner unless he is at least twenty -four

(24) years of age and has be en for two (2) years next preceding his election a

resident of the county and a citizen of Kentucky.