KRS 67A.230: Civil service commission -- Membership -- Terms -- Rule-making and

enforcement powers.

(1) Any urban-county government shall operate under KRS 67A.230 to 67A.350, and,

by comprehensive plan or ordinance, create a civil service commission, which shall

hold culture-fair, open examinations or evaluations to determine the relative fitness

of applicants for municipal employment within the urban -county government that

are designated by comprehensive plan or ordinance. The urban -county government

shall, by or dinance, create civil service classifications for all employees consistent

with the actual work to be performed by such employees.

(2) The mayor, or other appointing authority, as determined by the comprehensive plan,

subject to the approval of the urban -county government legislative body, shall

appoint five (5) persons who shall constitute the civil service commission of that

urban-county government. No appointee shall be related by either blood or marriage

to the mayor or any member of the urban -county legislative body. The appointees

shall originally be appointed, two (2) for a term of two (2) years and three (3) for a

term of four (4) years, and the successors to these appointees shall be appointed in

like manner, each for a period of four (4) years and until his successor is appointed

and qualified. A vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner

as original appointments. There shall be chosen by the commission a secretary of

the commission. The secretary shall be an employee of the u rban-county

government who is covered by the provisions of KRS 67A.220 to 67A.310. Each

appointee shall qualify by taking an oath of office as required by law. The salaries,

if any, of the members of the commission may be fixed by the urban -county

government legislative body in accordance with its comprehensive plan.

(3) If the appointing authority of any urban -county government fails to appoint a civil

service commission within ninety (90) days after he has the power to so appoint or

after a vacancy exists , the vice mayor, or the second ranking elected executive

officer of the urban -county government, however designated, shall make the

appointment and the appointee shall hold office until the expiration of the term and

until his successor is appointed and qualified.

(4) The civil service commission shall make and enforce culture -fair rules, not

inconsistent with the provisions of KRS 67A.220 to 67A.310, or the comprehensive

plan or the ordinance of the urban -county government, for examinations and

registrations therefor.