KRS 67B.020: Definitions.

As used in this chapter, the following words or terms shall have the respective meanings

indicated, unless a different meaning is clearly indicated by the context:

(1) "Department" means a metropolitan correctional services department created or

maintained by a consolidated local government or the fiscal court of a county

containing a city of the first class, where the constitutional offices of sheriff and

jailer have been consolidated, pursuant to this chapter.

(2) "Fiscal court" means the county judge/exe cutive and justices of the peace of a

county, or the county judge/executive and three (3) county commissioners elected

pursuant to KRS 67.050 and 67.060, which exercises the legislative functions of a

county as provided by the provisions of the Kentucky Revised Statutes.

(3) "Correctional facility" means the county jail and all other detention and penal

facilities of a county or consolidated local government, whether for juvenile or adult

offenders and public wards, together with all rehabilitative faciliti es of such a

county or consolidated local government for juvenile or adult offenders and for

public wards, including facilities operated by private agencies under contract with

the consolidated local government or fiscal court, as such facilities may be

designated from time to time by the consolidated local government or fiscal court.

(4) "Sheriff" means the sheriff of a county or the sheriff in a county containing a

consolidated local government who has been duly elected by the qualified voters as

provided in Section 99 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

(5) "Jailer" means the jailer of a county or the jailer in a county containing a

consolidated local government who has been duly elected by the qualified voters of

a county as provided in Section 99 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of

Kentucky.

(6) "Governmental agency" means any incorporated city, division of a city, or

consolidated local government, including the United States of America, and its

agencies and instrumentalities, sit uated within, or conducting public operations

within, a county in which a metropolitan correctional services department has been

duly established.

(7) "Consolidated local government" means a local government established pursuant to

KRS Chapter 67C.