KRS 67.240: Certification of results of election -- Appointment of commissions to lay off

justices' districts and select choice of names and county seats.

(1) The result of the election in each county shall be certified by the county election

commissioners to the county judge/executive in each county. If a majority of the

voters of each county, voting on the proposition, approve the consolidation, the

county judge/executive of each county shall, within thirty (30) days after the

election, appoint a commission to be composed of three (3) voters of the county for

the purpose of dividing the area of the new county into districts for the election of

members of the fiscal court for the new county. The said commissions representing

the two (2) counties shall meet together within fifteen (15) days after their

appointment and proceed to divide the area of the new county into three (3)

districts, each to be as nearly equal in area and population as possible. The

commissions also shall select not less than two (2) and not more than three (3)

names for the new county, and shall select not less than two (2) nor more than three

(3) sites for the county seat of the new county. The report of the commissions,

which shall act jointly, shall be filed with the county judge/executive of each county

not less than ninety (90) days after the appointment of the commissions.

(2) If, at the expiration of ninety (90) days after the six (6) commissioners have been

appointed as provided for herein, a majority of said commissioners have failed to

agree upon the selection of three (3) names for the proposed county or three (3)

places for the county seat to be submitted to the voters of the county as provided for

in KRS 67.260, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky shall appoint a

seventh perso n to act as chairman of said board of commissioners and said

chairman shall not have a vote on any question except in case of a tie vote. The

report of the commissions, when a chairman is appointed, shall be filed with the

county judge/executive of each co unty not less than thirty (30) days after

appointment of the chairman.